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Contributors: Emanuela Prinzivalli, Veronika Hrůšová, Miklós Gyurkovics, Edward Creedy, Marco Rizzi, Annewies van den Hoek, Vít Hušek, Léon-Ferdinand Karuhije, Lenka Karfíková, Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Riemer Roukema, Jana Plátová, Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch, Dawn LaValle Norman, Carlo Perelli.
Contributors: Emanuela Prinzivalli, Veronika Hrůšová, Miklós Gyurkovics, Edward Creedy, Marco Rizzi, Annewies van den Hoek, Vít Hušek, Léon-Ferdinand Karuhije, Lenka Karfíková, Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Riemer Roukema, Jana Plátová, Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch, Dawn LaValle Norman, Carlo Perelli.
In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process.
The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.
In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process.
The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.
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Secondo le testimonianze disponibili (soprattutto epistolari), il rapporto fra l’umanista camaldolese Ambrogio Traversari (1386–1439) e Cosimo de’ Medici (1389–1464) fu caratterizzato da una dinamica di tipo clientelare ed ebbe modo di manifestarsi sotto vari aspetti: da quello culturale a quello economico, da quello sociale a quello politico. Cosimo, infatti, attraverso le sue ingenti risorse e la sua influenza politica, sostenne Ambrogio tanto nella sua attività culturale di umanista, quanto nella sua azione di generale e riformatore dell’ordine camaldolese e di uomo di Chiesa. Per parte sua, anche Ambrogio si adoperò a favore del Medici quando fu necessario, ad esempio, durante la prigionia e l’esilio di Cosimo. Un’eccezionale testimonianza del rapporto fra i due è costituita, infine, dal ms. Laurenziano Strozzi 102, contenente la silloge epistolare traversariana realizzata dal monaco Michele su incarico e con l’aiuto di Cosimo qualche anno dopo la morte di Traversari. Infatti, l’operazione culturale alle spalle di tale silloge sembra finalizzata a ribadire da parte di Cosimo l’appartenenza della figura dell’umanista e riformatore Traversari al milieu mediceo.
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This article introduces and discusses the ideological program of a motif identified by the author in humanistic mournful poetry. The motif was intended to commemorate the deceased eminent poet and referred to the epic tradition of introducing heroes into a special place in the Elysian Fields, hence the proposed name for it is amicitia elysea. The article focuses on what is presumed to be the first example of the motif, i.e., Carlo Marsuppini’s epicedium for Leonardo Bruni. The description of the Elysium inhabited by successive generations of scholars and poets here turns into a praise of Florence, which under the Medici rule resembled Paradise. First, the stages in the development of both the idea itself and the poetic form it took are discussed, starting from Greek literature through Roman and Medieval vernacular (Dante) to the form it assumed in the Elegia de morte Leonardi Aretini. This form of the motif was soon developed by the followers. Then, the exploitation of the amicitia elysea motif for political purposes is addressed. It is argued that the motif served to consolidate the power of the Medici and the position of the humanists as a professional group with a specific intellectual formation based on Classical education.
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La nozione di ‘barocco’ nella produzione neolatina ha dato luogo a un vivace dibattito teorico fin dagli anni Settanta, ma è tuttora scarsamente indagata in sede testuale. Si propone qui un breve sondaggio del ‘barocco’ neolatino su base linguistica. Il caso di studio è fornito da tre descrizioni neolatine dell’arsenale di Venezia: il confronto tra le due versioni seicentesche di Ottavio Ferrari e di Francisco Macedo permette di individuare strategie diverse in seno alla medesima corrente stilistica; il raffronto con la descrizione settecentesca di Emmanuel de Azevedo dà la misura dello scarto verificatosi nel Settecento con il ritorno in auge dei modelli tardorepubblicani e augustei.
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Maffeo Vegio is well-known for writing a thirteenth book of the Aeneid, yet, the rest of his substantial literary production has received little to no scholarly attention. This paper examines Vegio’s earliest known poems – the epigram Orator Ciceronis and the hexameter poems Pompeiana and De hirundine – in order to explore the techniques and literary devices used by a neophyte poet to promote himself among the community of Neo-Latin scholars and poets of the early Quattrocento. An analysis of these poems, together with a study of the extra-textual circumstances surrounding their composition, reveals that the young Vegio was aware of contemporary fashions and preoccupations among Italian humanists and – employing certain rhetorical fig