418 research outputs found
Jacopo Sadoleto: De Laocoontis statua (1506) (FONTES 5)
No full textWhen the statue of Laocoon and his two sons in the clutch of the serpents was discovered near the Colosseum at the beginning of 1506 the excitement was great, and young Jacopo Sadoleto, later a cardinal, then a devoted humanist, composed a poem on this masterpiece based on classical verse. Sadoleto’s text is not without echoes of Vergil’s famous lines about Laocoon and his fate, and with an astonishingly independent judgment on the quality of the subject. This text has been printed in various modern publications on Sadoleto, respect to the Laocoon, but only the edition by the present author, produced in 1992, offered a critical text based on a comparison of all extant printed versions from the 16th and 17th centuries, along with a brief linguistic commentary. Since no other attempt to recover the original text and no more recent commentary have hitherto appeared, the text and commentary of the 1992 publication are here reprinted in a partly abridged, partly enlarged form in order to provide the interested scholar with a reliable text and some linguistic basics as materials for further interpretation
Recensone di “Le virtù del nazionalismo”, di Y Hazony; trad. it. Roma: Guerrini e Associati, 2019
No full textPlausibility or truth. Archival notes and reflections on the canvas of the ‘Militant and triumphant Church’ ascribed to Jacopo Zucchi
No full textWhile retracing the traditional history of the painting, which was fi rst ascribed to Federico Zuccari and later to
Jacopo Zucchi, the author hereby presents the long and painstaking research that has gradually confi rmed this
second hypothesis. The reader will, therefore, fi nd a synthesis of the history of this painting, which was surely
enough fi rst hosted in St Peter's Basilica, then moved to the Church of St Catherine of Alexandria and fi nally to
the Vatican Sacristy. Based on a number of inconsistencies which emerged during archival research, doubts still persist with regard to
the historicity of this historical-artistic tradition. Despite the fact that scholars are fi rmly inclined to ascribe the
painting to Zucchi, some unpublished documents tend to undermine this assumption, while still implying that the
painting might be by an artist of the Zuccari famil
Focusing on Volatile Organic Compounds of Natural Resins by Selected-Ion Flow Tube-Mass Spectrometry
No full textThe analysis of archeological artifacts, due to the high value of antique objects, is preferably performed by nondestructive, noninvasive, and in situ techniques. At present, the most common in situ protocols used for the analysis of organic materials are spectroscopic approaches. In this work, we tested selected-ion flow tube-mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS), a trans-portable mass spectrometry system for the characterization and discrimination of natural resins by the analysis of their volatile organic compounds profiles. We chose diterpenoid, triterpenoid, and aromatic resins as reference materials, focusing on the most identified in archeological artifacts. This work aims to create a SIFT-MS database of mass spectra suitable for characterizing archeological samples. The spectral data obtained by SIFT-MS were interpreted with the aid of chromatograms and mass spectra obtained by head space-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (HS-GC/MS). Finally, principal components analysis (PCA) was used to further underline the differences among the different materials and to investigate the possibility of discriminating different classes of resins based on their SIFT spectra
Il generale si candida. Élite militare e competizione elettorale nell'Italia liberale
No full textConsidering the military as an élite among the others that ruled the Italian liberal state, the author proposes an analysis of some election campaigns in which high-ranking army officers were involved as candidates. The social networks and the personal strategies implemented by the officers are shown through their private and family archives, in particular the one related to count Luigi Majnoni d’Intignano, a Lombard aristocrat who ran for a seat twice, and under very different conditions. In the end, the research allows a deep rethinking about the role and the representation of the relationship between Italian military élite and politics before the Great War
Francisco de Assis na Legenda Áurea de Jacopo de Varazze
No full textO objetivo deste artigo é propor uma análise da presença de São Francisco de Assis na Legenda Áurea e os recursos intelectuais de seu autor, Jacopo de Varazze, quase sempre utilizados com o fim de evangelizar e responder às novas necessidades espirituais dos séculos XII e XIII, nos sermões dos dominicanos. Para tanto será discutido o contexto histórico desse período como grande responsável, não apenas pela formação do clérigo Jacopo de Varazze e sua obra, mas também pelo surgimento das ordens mendicantes e seus idealizadores. The purpose of this article is to propose an analysis about the presence of Saint Francis of Assisi in the Golden Legend and the intelectual prowess of its author, Jacopo de Varazze, often used in order to evangelize and meet the spiritual needs of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, in the sermons of the domicians. To do so will discuss the historical context of this period as largely responsible, not only for the formation of Jacopo de Varazze and his work, but also by the emergence of the mendicant orders and their creators
Jacopo Sansovino a ca’ Tiepolo
No full textUsing unpublished documents of the Venetian State Archive, the author tries to reconstruct the history of the
former Tiepolo palace in the ward of San Felice as well as a precise chronology of the restoration works conducted
by Jacopo Sansovino in 1560 for Alvise Tiepolo, Procurator of Saint Mark’s. It appears that the architect
not only consolidated the foundations, but also divided the palace in two independent houses using a doubleramp
interior staircase according to a typical 16th century and remade the windows of the lower piano nobile
Quando crolla un’istituzione. Il corpo ufficiali della monarchia borbonica attraverso e oltre il 1860
No full textThe essay deals with one of the most controversial moments of contemporary Italian history: the downfall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1860, and the partial co-optation of its élites by the new Italian nation-state. The issue is addressed through the prism of the Neapolitan military institution. Overcoming the traditional representation of the Neapolitan officer corps, the author outlines the social, professional and ideological features of the men who fought Garibaldi during the crucial year 1860. The analysis of a huge prosopographic database allowed to retrace the choices and the strategies carried out by the Neapolitan officers during and after the collapse of their institution. In the end, the author proposes a fresh interpretation of the engagement of the Neapolitan officers in the subsequent Italian history
Quando crolla un’istituzione. Il corpo ufficiali della monarchia borbonica attraverso e oltre il 1860.
No full textThe essay deals with one of the most controversial moments of contemporary Italian history: the downfall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1860, and the partial co-optation of its élites by the new Italian nation-state. The issue is addressed through the prism of the Neapolitan military institution. Overcoming the traditional representation of the Neapolitan officer corps, the author outlines the social, professional and ideological features of the men who fought Garibaldi during the crucial year 1860. The analysis of a huge prosopographic database allowed to retrace the choices and the strategies carried out by the Neapolitan officers during and after the collapse of their institution. In the end, the author proposes a fresh interpretation of the engagement of the Neapolitan officers in the subsequent Italian history
The opacity of a system T.R. Malthus and the population in principle
No full textThis contribution analyses the scientific and political meaning of the concept of ‘population’ within Thomas Robert Malthus’ thought. It is here argued that by encapsulating ‘population’ in a scientific principle, the author not only aimed at contrasting radical and revolutionary theories of his time; he was also looking for a renovation of the role principles hold in scientific reasoning. He considered this crucial for delineating a plausible science for such an elusive political object as society. Through an examination of key passages of Malthus’ theoretical production – his critique of previous definitions of ‘population’, his reassessment of the natural history of society, and the use of selected metaphors to explain his political thought – it is possible to observe how the author attempted to naturalize society and the inequalities arising from its historical laws. As shown in the conclusions, Malthus’ scientific and political effort was directed towards questioning possibilities to reduce the history of social relations to a path of rational progress, which is consistent with the way he re-conceptualized ‘population’ as regarding the fate of the people and their chances to transform the future in the plausible outcome of their political action in the present
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