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Memoria e identità di un’istituzione. Note sulla fisionomia della textual community degli scritti francescani di Terra Santa
Get PDFITALIANO: A partire dai più importanti risultati del lavoro di Campopiano, il contributo evidenzia come i destinatari della memoria culturale messa in forma dai frati del Sion siano una cerchia molto più ampia rispetto ai “pellegrini” che si recavano in Terra Santa. Esso discute quindi tre questioni principali. Innanzitutto, considera la variegata fisionomia sociale e politica dei pellegrini europei, le diverse aspettative di chi visitava il convento del Sion, di coloro che sostenevano col denaro i Luoghi Santi, di chi, dalle cancellerie d’Europa, si adoperava con attività politiche e diplomatiche per garantire lo status della Custodia. In questa prospettiva è analizzata la molteplicità di fattori che spingono i frati del XIV secolo a configurare la centralità geografica e culturale della Terra Santa risacralizzandola in chiave esclusivamente francescana, rafforzandola ulteriormente nei tre secoli successivi. Da ultimo si propone un allargamento delle fonti da esaminare e correlare con quelle, fondamentali, studiate dall’autore. In particolare, dovrebbero essere considerati i testi redatti dagli stessi Francescani della Custodia che consentono di verificare l’organizzazione della loro vita economica e politica all’interno di territori musulmani dominati prima dai Mamelucchi e poi dai sultani ottomani. / ENGLISH: Starting from the most important results of Campopiano's work, the contribution highlights how the recipients of the cultural memory shaped by the friars of Mount Sion were a much wider circle than the “pilgrims” who went to the Holy Land. It then discusses three main issues. Firstly, it considers the different social and political profiles of the European pilgrims, the variety of expectations of the people who visited Mount Sion, supported with money these places, sustained the status of the Franciscan Custody with political and diplomatic activities carried out in the European chancelleries. Within this framework it is examined the multiplicity of factors that urge the friars of the 14th c. to build the geographical and cultural centrality of the Holy Land entirely re-sacralised in Franciscan terms, implementing it during the next three centuries. Finally, it is proposed the enlargement of the texts that must be examined and correlated with the fundamental sources analysed by the author. Above all, the texts produced by the Franciscans of the Custody should be investigated, in order to organize their economic and political life within the Muslim territories dominated first by the Mamluks and then by the Ottoman sultans
Civiltà sotto assedio. Il volto della barbarie dall’antichità a oggi
Get PDFIn tempi recenti sono fiorite analogie tra l’Impero Romano, nel suo rapporto con le invasioni barbariche, e l’odierna situazione occidentale, a ribadire un medesimo senso di angoscia verso quella che pare un’inarrestabile fase di decadenza. Si tratta di diverse letture dell’attualità con lo stesso denominatore: l’associazione diretta tra la barbarie del V secolo d.C. e la situazione che si trova oggi ad affrontare la civiltà occidentale. Un contesto in cui la barbarie, protagonista indiscussa del primo Medioevo, serve a rappresentare un tormento universale. Nel momento in cui il senso di angoscia viene meno, i barbari si caricano invece di un nuovo ruolo, che li presenta come imponenti paladini contro i tentativi di limitare verità e giustizia e li proietta in un’epoca atemporale, mitica, aspirando nelle intenzioni a liberarla da qualsivoglia condizionamento storico. La stessa ciclicità di interessi e sensibilità pubbliche viene confermata dall’attualità. Non è un caso infatti che, con il bombardamento mediatico in atto, si assista oggi al ritorno in auge di narrazioni, letterarie e/o cinematografiche, che hanno il proprio fulcro tematico nel rapporto tra Roma e i barbari, nelle dinamiche civiltà-inciviltà, nel Medioevo evocativ
Lothar’s manuscripts, manuscripts for Lothar, manuscripts of Lothar’s time
Get PDFThis paper aims to give an account of some of the manuscripts related to Lothar. In its first section
an attempt is made at retracing a set of books that could have belonged to Lothar’s library, nowadays known only from secondary sources. In the second section some display codices are discussed, either commissioned by Lothar, or dedicated to him, such as Lothar’s Gospel Book MS Par. lat. 266 or those traditionally referred to as the Lothar-Gruppe, whose actual connection both to Lothar and to each other is questioned here. The third and last part of the paper
contains some considerations on the manuscripts produced during the years of Lothar’s government in Italy, that essentially coincide with the second quarter of the ninth century
Cassiodorus’ Variae in the 9th Century
Get PDFThe fate of Cassiodorus’ Variae during the Early Middle Ages is largely unknown, since the manuscript tradition begins with the eleventh century, and long quotations taken from them are attested only from that period. However, words or expressions reminiscent of the Variae occur more than once in Charlemagne’s letters to Byzantium, in the works of Paschasius, and in the Donation of Constantine. The author of the epistles sent by Charlemagne to the East Roman em-
peror was aware of the ideological context of Variae I, 1, and the same is true for the Donation of Constantine. At the same time, Paschasius used Cassiodorus as a source of elegant words and expressions, thereby treating him like a classical author. It is impossible to ascertain whether
Carolingian writers had access to all books of the Variae, or only to a substantial selection of letters (similar for instance to the manuscript containing the Epistolae Austrasicae), but there is a high degree of likelihood that they knew quite a few epistles of Cassiodorus, and were able
to appreciate the political messages conveyed by them
Representations of Lothar I in the Liber pontificalis Ravennatis
Get PDFLothar looms large in the Liber pontificalis of Ravenna, an episcopal gesta composed after 846 by a local cleric of that city named Agnellus. In its prefatory verse, Lothar was tied to the memory of his grandfather Charlemagne, and afterwards was presented as an ally of the city and its church, a relationship sealed by the service of the bishop George (837-846) as godfather to Lothar’s daughter Rotruda. Furthermore, upon the death of Louis the Pious, as part of an embassy attempting to resolve the conflicts between Lothar and his brothers, George sought to affirm Ravenna
privileges on the eve of the battle of Fontenoy, an event described quite differently from other sources. Completed following these struggles, the Liber pontificalis of Ravenna used this image of Lothar to further claims of the special status of the city, especially in its independence from Rome and longstanding imperial connections, and actively sought to legitimize Lothar’s own position through a juxtaposition with Charlemagne. Although preserved in the accounts of
the bishops of Ravenna, the singular efforts to elevate and memorialize Lothar differ from other contemporary institutional chronicles, and underscore the tension inherent in the narrative
La statua di Teoderico ad Aquisgrana. Potere, arte e memoria tra antichità e medioevo
Get PDFITALIANO: Sulla strada del ritorno da Roma dopo l’incoronazione imperiale, Carlo Magno ordinò che la statua equestre in bronzo collocata davanti al palatium di Ravenna e raffigurante il re ariano Teoderico fosse trasferita ad Aquisgrana – una scelta che è sembrata a molti difficilmente compatibile con il ruolo di sovrano cattolico e difensore della Chiesa di Carlo, e che è stata spesso spiegata facendo riferimento quasi esclusivamente alle qualità artistiche del monumento. Tuttavia, le ragioni che spinsero il nuovo imperatore a un gesto così sorprendente furono essenzialmente politiche e riconducibili in primis ai molti significati che il monumento equestre di Teoderico permetteva di esprimere. Trasferendo ad Aquisgrana l’effigie del grande re ostrogoto, Carlo Magno volle pertanto mostrare – dentro e fuori i suoi domini – in che modo egli intendesse la sua nuova dignità imperiale. / ENGLISH: On his way back to Austrasia after the imperial coronation in Rome (800), Charlemagne ordered to transfer to Aachen the bronze equestrian statue depicting the Arian king Theodoric that was placed in front of the palatium in Ravenna. Scholarship argued that this choice does not seem coherent with Charles' role as a Catholic ruler and defender of the Church of Rome, and that it should be solely explained with the emperor’s appreciation for the monument's aesthetic qualities. By pursuing a different approach, this essay argues that the transfer of the statue from Ravenna to Aachen should be considered as an essentially political decision, which in turn is to be interconnected with the various meanings of Theodoric's equestrian monument
Ovidio Capitani lettore di Dante (1961-2007)
Get PDFITALIANO: Il saggio studia il percorso di studi danteschi dello storico Ovidio Capitani (1930-2012). Lo storico del medioevo infatti iniziò fino da laureando a interessarsi di Dante Alighieri, sotto l’impulso di Bruno Nardi a Roma. In seguito, Capitani selezionò una piccola antologia dantesca personale (soprattutto tratta dalla "Monarchia", e meno dalla "Commedia") sulla quale continuò a studiare fino al termine della sua carriera. Ugualmente, anche gli interlocutori bibliografici di Capitani studioso di Dante furono rigidamente selezionati dallo storico. Tra il 1961 e il 2007 quindi l’attività dantesca di Ovidio Capitani rappresentò un singolare e intricato circolo ermeneutico; con al centro, forse, più lo storico che il Poeta. / ENGLISH: The essay studies the course of Dante studies of the historian Ovidio Capitani (1930-2012). The historian of the Middle Ages in fact began his interest in Dante Alighieri as an undergraduate under the impulse of Bruno Nardi, in Rome. Later, Capitani selected a small personal Dante anthology (mostly from the "Monarchia", and less from the "Commedia") on which he continued to study until the end of his career. Likewise, Capitani’s bibliographical interlocutors as a Dante scholar were strictly selected by the historian. Between 1961 and 2007, therefore, Ovidio Capitani’s Dante activity represented a singular and intricate hermeneutic circle; with, perhaps, the historian rather than the Poet at its centre
Proyecto de innovación pedagógica Creando Sinergia: planteamientos novedosos para actividades habituales
No full textUn planteamiento metodológico novedoso para reforzar competencias en la enseñanza musicalCreando Sinergia is a pioneering pedagogical innovation project in clarinet teaching in Spain, which reinforces the skills acquired by the student with practices in line with the reality of the labor market imposed by society. It highlights the importance of implementing training in the teaching systems through projects that promote creativity, cooperative work between students of different ages and educational levels, enthusiasm for musical learning, interpretative skills and the ability to adapt to different concert formats. The activity is built on a large Ensemble of more than 100 clarinets from different centers and institutions, structured as a symphonic group where each member fulfills the artistic and management role assigned in different activities.
The project encourages motivation, coexistence and interaction between teachers and students from different educational communities.Creando Sinergia es un proyecto de innovación pedagógica en la enseñanza del clarinete pionero en España, que refuerza las competencias adquiridas por el estudiante con prácticas acordes a la realidad del mercado laboral impuesta por la sociedad. Remarca la importancia de implementar en los sistemas de enseñanza la formación a través de proyectos que impulsan la creatividad, el trabajo cooperativo entre alumnado de diferentes edades y niveles educativos, la ilusión por el aprendizaje musical, la capacidad interpretativa y de adaptación a diferentes formatos de concierto. La actividad se construye sobre un numeroso Ensemble de más de 100 clarinetes de distintos centros e instituciones, estructurado como una agrupación sinfónica donde cada miembro cumple con el rol artístico y de gestión asignado en distintas actividades.
El proyecto fomenta la motivación, convivencia e interacción entre profesorado y alumnado de diferentes comunidades educativas
