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Dentro la bottega: impresa e mercato del lavoro in età moderna: (Padova, arte della lana, secc. XVI-XVII)
No full textThe Novelist and the Archivist. Fiction and History in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed
No full textThe book opens with an introduction by John Jeffries Martin on Alessandro Manzoni and his great novel I promessi sposi (The Betrothed). Martin stresses Manzoni’s brilliance as a novelist and a historian – both his sophisticated use of sources and his subtle blending of history and fiction in what is one of Europe’s most powerful works of historical writing.
Claudio Povolo’s book then examines the surprising coincidences between Manzoni’s great novel and a trial held between 1605-07 by order of an important Venetian magistracy for a series of violent acts and rapes committed against the population of a small village in the Veneto. As Povolo shows, the protagonists and the events found in the records of the trial follow the same narrative structure as the novel. These coincidences lead to the hypothesis that Manzoni must have been able to consult the records of this criminal trial, which along with many other documents had been transferred to the great archive of the Venetian Frari after the fall of the Serenissima. The comparison of the novel with the trial is illuminating, as it allows us to grasp the complex interrelations between history and narrative, and among reality, verisimilitude, and imagination. In the afterward the author takes into consideration other possible interpretations, but ultimately the initial thesis and the arguments brought forward to support it are, beyond any reasonable doubt, more convincing than the other hypotheses and explanations formulated up to now by literary critics
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No full textLa marina militare attraverso l’8 settembre 1943. Il senso dell’onore tra dimensione storica e dimensione retoric
Contaminazioni. Discorsi, pratiche, rappresentazioni
No full textThe essay examines the diverse social and cultural involvements of the concept of contamination in different historical periods and in the context of societies and groups characterized by the need of developing economic and social relationships, but also by the necessity to maintain their own peculiarities. The concept of contamination entails the distinction between holy and secular, internal and external, physical and symbolic, male and female. It reveals not only the notion of risk and the fears of the society, but also the relationships with food, hygiene, cleanness and, more generally, with the human body. The theme of contamination becomes especially relevant where it regards well identified social or ethnic groups. The inclusion of external subjects is perceived as contaminant and dangerous for the cohesion of the group
Furore. Elaborazione di un'emozione nella seconda metà del Cinquecento
Full text linkThe book deals with the relations between anger, emotions and trial rites in sixteenth century. After a general introduction on the values of emotions, justice and anger the book presents the story of Marcantonio Trissino, the grandson of Giangiorgio Trissino, the famous man of letters and humanist. In the year 1583 Marcantonio, abruptily and amazingly, killed Giulio Cesare Trissino outside Vicenza's dome while he was surrounded and protected by numerous friends and followers. Giulio Cesare Trissino was suspected by the public opinion being the mandant of Ciro Trissino's murder, the father of Marcantonio, killed in february 1576 in his palladian villa located in Cornedo, a Vicentine village, by a group of goons, masked and dressed in black suits. During the trial instructed in Padua by appointment of the Counsel of ten, Marcantonio Trissino defended his violent behavior advocating that his mind was run over by anger and furor. The trial rhetoric vehicles the great themes of vendetta and honor and introduce to the tensions between retributive and restorative justice. The second part of the book presents some of the documents which availed to the lawyers for preparing Marcantonio Trissino's defence
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