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Ambrogio Leone's De Nola, Venice 1514
Humanism and Antiquarian Culture in Renaissance Southern Italy
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2018
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This volume offers the first comprehensive study of the De Nola (Venice 1514), a hitherto underappreciated Latin text written by the Nolan humanist and physician Ambrogio Leone. Furnished with four pioneering engravings made with the help of the Venetian artist Girolamo Mocetto, the De Nola is an impressively rich and multifaceted text, which contains an antiquarian (and celebratory) study of the city of Nola in the Kingdom of Naples. By describing antiquities, inscriptions, and buildings, as well as social and religious phenomena, the De Nola offers a precious window into a southern Italian Renaissance city, and constitutes a refined example of sixteenth-century antiquarianism. The work is analysed in a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing art and architectural history, antiquarianism, literature, social history, and anthropology.
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Bianca de Divitiis, Ph.D. (2006) is Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Naples Federico II. She has been PI of the ERC project HistAntArtSI (2011-2016). She has published several articles and is publishing a book entitled On Renaissance in Southern Italy.
Fulvio Lenzo, PhD (2004), IUAV University of Venice, is Associate Professor in History of Architecture. He has published monographs and articles on early modern and baroque architecture in Venice, Rome, Naples and Southern Italy.
Lorenzo Miletti, Ph.D. (2006), is Senior Lecturer in Classical Philology at University of Naples Federico II. He has published monographs and several articles on Greek historiography and rhetoric, and on the Renaissance reception of Greek and Latin authors.
Fulvio Lenzo, PhD (2004), IUAV University of Venice, is Associate Professor in History of Architecture. He has published monographs and articles on early modern and baroque architecture in Venice, Rome, Naples and Southern Italy.
Lorenzo Miletti, Ph.D. (2006), is Senior Lecturer in Classical Philology at University of Naples Federico II. He has published monographs and several articles on Greek historiography and rhetoric, and on the Renaissance reception of Greek and Latin authors.
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“There is much merit in this work: fixing its lens on De Nola, it presents a highly original picture of the period and cleverly plays with various aspects of cultural history, demonstrating in an exemplary manner the importance of portraying the Renaissance from hitherto little explored perspectives.”
Francesca Mattei, Università degli Studi Roma Tre. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Winter 2019), pp. 1430–1431.
Francesca Mattei, Università degli Studi Roma Tre. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Winter 2019), pp. 1430–1431.
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July 23, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789004375789
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256
eBook ISBN:
9789004375789
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All interested in Renaissance studies, early modern history, classical studies, archaeology, art and architectural history, anthropology, and history of the book. Its targeted readers are both graduate students and academic specialists.
