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    Il viaggio di Pedro Manuel de Urrea nell’Italia rinascimentale e la presenza della Peregrinación de las tres casas sanctas in una biblioteca di frontiera

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    The presence of the Peregrinación de las tres casas sanctas de Jerusalem, Roma y Santiago is registered in the collection of the noble Salvador Aymerich (1493-1563). This is a pilgrimage relationship written by Pedro Manuel de Urrea and printed in Burgos in 1523. The work describes the journey between Rome, Holy Land and Santiago de Compostela that Pedro did between 1517 and 1519. Along the way, the author described the characteristics (political, cultural, demographic, economic and religious) of the crossed countries: for this reason, the Peregrinación is an extraordinary source for the historian. This article analyses the information on the Italian part of the journey: in several cases, such as Cagliari, the Peregrinación provides valuable information and it results the first printed description of those cities and villages. Finally, the study allows to contextualize the presence of this book in the Aymerich’s library and in the intellectual environment of the Sardinian Renaissance

    Vicende e letture di studenti universitari del XVI secolo: studenti sardi nell'Università di Pisa

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    The article focuses on the aspects of student life in Pisa in sixteenth-century. The analysis of four letters written by don Jaime Aymerich casts a light on the education’s training, on the academic events, on the readings and on the problems of daily life that a student had to face in a foreign city. The experience of Aymerich, compared with those of other students from the Iberian world, allows us to study the presence of Sardinian students at the University of Pisa and to understand her actors and dynamics

    Libri e lettori in Sardegna. Tra tardo Medioevo e prima Età Moderna

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    This article focuses on the private libraries of Sardinia, and casts a light on the Sardinian intellectual landscape of the fifteenth and sixteenth-century. The analysis is based on notarial documentation, in particular on the post mortem inventories. This paper examines the methodological issues related to the documents it is based on library collections of significance. The libraries’ exam and classification allows us to underline their features and those social components who were more involved in the circulation of books. The paper also analyses what kind of books the libraries’ owners were interested in and therefore their cultural background

    Dalle Siete Partidas alle Cantigas de Santa María: Alfonso X el Sabio e la rappresentazione della monarchia castigliano-leonese

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    L’analisi congiunta di Siete Partidas e Cantigas de Santa Maria permette di evidenziare come Alfonso X rafforzò il carattere cristiano della monarchia castigliano leonese, comprovando un legame diretto con la divinità. Quest’operazione culturale e propagandistica può essere spiegata tenendo presente la situazione politica della Castiglia duecentesca e i forti contrasti cui dovette far fronte il monarca
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