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Elementi architettonici paleocristiani reimpiegati in due chiese di Creta: Aghios Ioannis Xenos in Alikianos e Aghia Episkopì
2012
Inquisitio Contra Haereticos. The Inquisition Trials of Witches, Heretics and Secret Societies
2022
By means of very rare manuscripts and precious historical sources (dating back even to the 16th century), this book aims to reconstruct the varied and complex phenomenon of the Inquisition, with particular scientific reference to the events that took place and unfolded in Sicily through the centuries. Based on primary ancient documents, it constitutes a monographic and reasoned catalogue of the international exhibition on the evolution of the Inquisition, curated in Palermo (Italy) by Francesco Callari and Antonio Scaglione. The exhibition, which was supported by an authoritative Scientific Board, was awarded important institutional recognitions and, in particular, the Medal of the Presiden…
Le site du monastère Saint-Pierre d'Ilovik (îlot Saint-Pierre, Croatie) : première étude archéologique du bâti
2011
Ce monastère, très mal connu, est situé dans une petite crique de l’îlot Saint-Pierre faisant face à l’île d’Ilovik, immédiatement au sud de Lošinj. L’îlot Saint-Pierre était occupé durant l’Antiquité par une grande villa, dont des vestiges (murs et sols) sont encore visibles sur la grève de la façade occidentale (fig. 1). Fig. 1 – Saint-Pierre d’Ilovik, sondages dans les enduits du mur sud : découvertes des baies (cl. S. Bully). Les photographies aériennes révèlent également plusieurs orga...
Catacomba di Villagrazia di Carini. Il cubicolo X20. Ricerche 2008-2013
2014
Il X20 è una camera funeraria quadrangolare preceduta da un dromos che deriva da un preesistente arcosolio bisomo. Al suo interno accoglie 29 sepolture: dodici arcosoli per adulti e per bambini, una tomba a nicchia, due tombe a cassa e quattordici fosse pavimentali. Si è potuto accertare che l’aspetto attuale del cubicolo è il risultato di quattro fasi costruttive. Alla prima fase appartiene la decorazione ad affresco con temi floreali e vegetali, che riveste la parete settentrionale. In un momento successivo l’estensione della camera viene raddoppiata e di fonte all’ingresso si crea una scenografica sistemazione di arcosoli e tombe a cassa; nelle due ultime fasi il pavimento viene interame…
El primer marqués del Cenete: cultura y coleccionismo bibliográfico de un noble del Renacimiento
2019
El título escogido para este estudio abarca todos los objetivos que en él se plantean: la cultura y el coleccionismo a través de la biografía de Rodrigo de Mendoza, por un lado, y mediante el análisis y el estudio de su biblioteca, por otro, contextualizándolo con la evolución de los cánones literarios hasta la eclosión del humanismo y comparándolo con otras bibliotecas que bien podrían haber sido un ejemplo paradigmático entre los nobles castellanos (o quizás no), con el objetivo final de conseguir una visión general de la figura del marqués del Cenete no sólo desde la perspectiva histórica sino también –y sobre todo– de la cultural y literaria como referente del mecenazgo que, posteriorme…
Commenting on Historical Writings in Medieval Latin Europe : A Reconnaissance
2015
Modern scholarship seems to undervalue medieval commentaries on historical writings. This article intends to bring this phenomenon to scholars’ attention by providing a preliminary overview of the forms and subjects of such commentaries. It examines various types of evidence including not only a few commentaries proper (Nicolas Trevet’s on Livy and John of Dąbrówka’s on Vincent of Cracow), but also different apparatus consisting of more or less systematic interlinear and marginal glosses and commentary-like additions to vernacular translations, mostly of Italian and French origin. It begins by considering various consultation-related signs and annotations, such as cross-references. Then, it…
Credit, Debt and FInances of the Queen's Household in the Crown of Aragon at the End of the Fourteenth Century. The Agreement between the Queen Viola…
2018
A finales del siglo XIV la tesorería de la reina Violante de Bar padecía de un fuerte endeudamiento que imposibilitaba prácticamente cualquier pago, por lo que se decidió cambiar la dirección de la gestión económica de la Casa de la reina. En el presente artículo analizaremos las estrategias para solucionar el problema del endeudamiento, mediante la edición y el análisis de los excepcionales capítulos y memoriales firmados por la reina Violante y su nuevo tesorero, Berenguer de Cortilles, uno de sus mayores acreedores privados. At the end of the Fourteenth century, Queen’s treasury in the Crown of Aragon suffered from a heavy debt that made virtually impossible any ordinary payment. As a re…
Pero Tafur and Bertradon de la Broquière in Constantinople: The Ceremonial Image of Mary of Trabzond and the Diplomatic Meetings around the Council o…
2019
After the fall of Constantinople (1453), Pero Tafur and Bertrandon de La Broquière make known their works, which are two of the most important travel books written in Europe during the fifteenth century. Both travellers had known, between fifteen and twenty years before, the emperor of Greece, John VIII Palaiologos, Pope Eugene IV and other protagonists of the councils of Basel (1431-1434) and Ferrara-Florence (1438-1439), which decreed the union between the Roman and Greek churches. The travellers were, thus, witnesses, but also informants and active diplomats for the attempts of religious and political union, which Pope Pius II tried to revive after the fall of Constantinople. Tafur and L…
Rewriting antiquity, renewing Rome. The Identity of the Eternal City through Visual Art, Monumental Inscriptions and the Mirabilia
2011
AbstractDuring the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Church began a process of renovation (renovatio) and the city of Rome was given new meanings. Antiquity is part of the identity of the Eternal City; the reuse or reframing of aspects of antiquity inevitably transformed the image of Rome. Public spaces, architecture and objects were given new Christian readings. Inscriptions, present both in sacred and secular settings, played an important role. A similar rewriting can also be found in travel literature and descriptions of the city, such as in the Mirabilia urbis Rome, where ancient monuments were re-interpreted to demonstrate the superiority of Christianity. Inscriptions were used as sym…
Marsilius of Padua and Isaac Abravanel on kingship : the medieval precedents of modern republicanism revisited
2020
Abstract This article offers a comparative investigation of Marsilius of Padua’s and Isaac Abravanel’s ideas on kingship. It looks at how these thinkers transform the “canonical” sources of their respective traditions of political theorizing, i.e., Aristotle’s Politics and the Bible, to articulate the notion that ultimate authority rests with the citizens/people. It also examines how these two writers’ positions on kingship relate to the political realities that prevailed in late medieval Italy. Finally, it illuminates the medieval precedents of modern republicanism in the Christian and Jewish political traditions.