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Onko haarniskan sisällä elämää? : postmodernia hahmoanalyysia Orlando Furiososta
2012
Tutkimus esittelee Ludovico Arioston Suomessa vähän tunnetun renessanssirunoelman Orlando Furioson, ja keskittyy Orlandon hahmon sisäisen elämän havainnointiin. Taustalla vaikuttaa Aleid Fokkeman postmoderni hahmoanalyysi, jossa kuuden eri koodin avulla voidaan löytää hahmosta laajempia ulottuvuuksia kuin perinteinen jako litteisiin ja pyöreisiin hahmoihin sallii. Lisäksi esitellään suurpiirteisesti aiempaa kansainvälistä Ariosto-tutkimusta ja kritiikkiä. Lainaukset Arioston teoksesta esitetään sekä alkuperäiskielellä että tekijän suomentamina. The study introduces Orlando Furioso, which is in Finland quite unfamiliar Renaissance poem by Ludovico Ariosto, and focuses on observation of the i…
Talismaaneja, tulenliekkejä ja taivaallisen heijasteita : Marsilio Ficinon kuvamagian taustat ja hermeettinen perinne
2014
“Optime educatus” : Book historical perspectives on Prince Sigismund’s education in sixteenth-century Sweden
2022
The article analyses some aspects of writing in Prince Sigismund Vasa’s (1566-1632) education in the latter half of sixteenth-century Sweden. The focus is on the rare, hand-written material of his youth, which reflects the educational ideals, practices and strategies in the inter-confessional Jagiellon–Vasa family and at their court(s) in the context of a complex political situation. One example is young Sigismund’s salutation to the Pope included in her mother’s, Catherine Jagiellon’s (1526-1583), letter. In addition, two letters held at the Riksarkivet (Swedish National Archives), Stockholm, categorized as “royal autographs” are explored and transcribed for the first time. peerReviewed
Evil lords, benign historians: strongman politics in medieval India and Renaissance Florence
2019
Recent developments in Europe and the United States (US) attest to an increasing fascination with and nostalgia for the strong leaders of the past – especially those that emerged in the aftermath o...
I codici in scrittura latina di Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589) a Caprarola e al Palazzo della Cancelleria nel 1589
2016
This article analyses the contents of the manuscripts in Latin script found at the Villa Farnese of Caprarola and the Palazzo della Cancelleria of Rome at the death of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589). They were inventoried by Claudio Tobalducci, librarian to the Cardinal; the inventories were edited by Francois Fossier. Although the manuscript collections seem neither organic nor systematically constituted by the Cardinal (the volumes were mainly borrowed from the great Farnese library in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome), the manuscripts were used by the Cardinal in the last years of his life. They shed light on at least some of the personal interests of this important ecclesiastical, p…
"Iam nouus in terras alto descendit Olympo Iuppiter” : Patronage and propaganda in the time of Leo X (1513–1521)
2022
Giovanni de’ Medici (1475–1521), son of Lorenzo il Magnifico, was destined to a brilliant ecclesiastical career that eventually led him to the Holy See as pope Leo X (1513–1521). His reign, marked by wars and the emergence of protestantism, was also a period of intense artistic activity in Rome, with Raphael, Michelangelo, Sangallo as well as a plethora of humanist authors engaged in celebrating Leo’s feats. This article explores Leo’s patronage and propaganda, in particular through an analysis of one of the numerous poems dedicated to him by Giano Vitale Castalio of Naples (Ianus Vitalis Castalius, c. 1485–c. 1560) at the beginning of his pontificate. peerReviewed
The Historiae Florentini populi by Poggio Bracciolini. Genesis and Fortune of an Alternative History of Florence
2020
During the last years of his life, Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), former Apostolic Secretary and Chancellor of Florence, was working on a long text that he characterized, in a letter written in 1458, as lacking a well-defined structure. This was most probably his history of the people of Florence (Historiae Florentini populi, the title given in Jacopo’s dedication copy to Frederick of Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino), revised and published posthumously by Poggio’s son, Jacopo Bracciolini (1442-1478). Contrary to what is often assumed, Poggio’s treatise was not a continuation, nor even a complement, to Leonardo Bruni’s (1370-1444) official history of Florence. It concentrates on the most recent…
Niccolò de’ Conti in India : visioni filtrate di culture orientali nel Quattrocento romano
2020
Nel 1447-1448 uscì una delle opere più ampie e più importanti di Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), allora segretario apostolico alla curia di Niccolò V, il De varietate fortunae1. Oltre ad un trattamento spesso polemico della storia recente nei libri II e III, l’opera presenta una descrizione, documentata con citazione di iscrizioni, delle rovine di Roma all’inizio del libro I e un resoconto dei viaggi di Niccolò de’ Conti, Nicolaus Venetus, nell’Oriente, corredato da ulteriori informazioni sull’Africa, nel libro IV. La narrazione dei viaggi di Conti si contraddistingue per la sua sobrietà e l’assenza quasi totale del ‘meraviglioso’; si tratta tuttavia dell’elaborazione a cura di Poggio di in…