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Giulio II. Papa guerriero e mecenate, i due volti del Rinascimento, raccontato da Massimo Rospocher
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8° DVD
Giulio II
Il Papa guerriero e mecenate: i due volti del Rinascimento
Massimo Rospocher in questo dvd ci presenta Papa Giulio II.
Come sovrano pontefice, politico spregiudicato e sommo mecenate, Giulio II rimane uno dei personaggi che maggiormente condizionano l'immaginario collettivo del Rinascimento. Ma quale fu l'immagine che ne ebbero i contemporanei - non solo gli uomini di lettere, i prelati e i professionisti della politica, ma anche il popolo urbano del primo Cinquecento? Questo libro risponde a tale domanda ricostruendo l'immagine di Giulio II nella sfera pubblica e nella comunicazione politica in vari contesti italiani ed europei (Bologna, Ferrara, Roma, Venezia, Londra e Parigi). Intrecciando i racconti dei cantastorie con i dispacci dei diplomatici, le voci e le canzoni di piazza con i trattati degli umanisti, Rospocher delinea un ritratto inedito del "papa guerriero", una rappresentazione in perenne oscillazione tra laude e vituperio, tra guerra e beatitudine
The Battle for the Piazza: Creative Antagonism between Itinerant Preachers and Street Singers in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
No full textThis book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across all classes, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on the interrelationships between oral communication and the written word. The Introduction provides an overview of the topic as a whole and links the chapters together. Part 1 concerns public life in the states of northern, central, and southern Italy. The chapters examine a range of performances that used the spoken word or song: concerted shouts that expressed the feelings of the lower classes and were then recorded in writing; the proclamation of state policy by town criers; songs that gave news of executions; the exercise of power relations in society as recorded in trial records; and diplomatic orations and interactions. Part 2 centres on private entertainments. It considers the practices of the performance of poetry sung in social gatherings and on stage with and without improvisation; the extent to which lyric poets anticipated the singing of their verse and collaborated with composers; performances of comedies given as dinner entertainments for the governing body of republican Florence; and a reading of a prose work in a house in Venice, subsequently made famous through a printed account. Part 3 concerns collective religious practices. Its chapters study sermons in their own right and in relation to written texts, the battle to control spaces for public performance by civic and religious authorities, and singing texts in sacred spaces
An Evanescent Public Sphere: Voices, spaces, and publics in Venice during the Italian wars
No full textFor fifty years Habermas’s ideal-typical model of the public sphere has been the catalyst for historiographical debate about public opinion and been recognized as an interpretative paradigm of the development of Western society. Inspired by the fundamental question of the relationship between power and communication, historians of the Ancien régime are currently exploring avenues of research which go beyond the public sphere. In this book leading North American and European scholars engage critically with this fundamental concept of political modernity and present a new way of thinking about early modern politics
Book review: Il papa guerriero: Giulio II nello spazio pubblico europeo, by Massimo Rospocher
No full textReview of Massimo Rospocher, Il papa guerriero: Giulio II nello spazio pubblico europeo (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2015)</p
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