A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy. Lorenz Böninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story ...of one of its most important figures, Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna. After having worked for several years for a judicial court in Florence, Niccolò established his business there and published a number of influential books. Among these were Marsilio Ficino's De christiana religione, Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria, Cristoforo Landino's commentaries on Dante's Commedia, and Francesco Berlinghieri's Septe giornate della geographia. Many of these books were printed in vernacular Italian.Despite his prominence, Niccolò has remained an enigma. A meticulous historical detective, Böninger pieces together the thorough portrait that scholars have been missing. In doing so, he illuminates not only Niccolò's life but also the Italian printing revolution generally. Combining Renaissance studies' traditional attention to bibliographic and textual concerns with a broader social and economic history of printing in Renaissance Italy, Böninger provides an unparalleled view of the business of printing in its earliest years. The story of Niccolò di Lorenzo furnishes a host of new insights into the legal issues that printers confronted, the working conditions in printshops, and the political forces that both encouraged and constrained the publication and dissemination of texts.
In the following study the main point of discussion represents the roles of Manoil Grecul (the pârcălab of Hotin fortress between 1438-1455) and Teodoryk Buczacki (the castellan and starosta of ...Kamieniec between 1442-1455 and one of the most influent Polish nobles in Podolia) in the relationships between the Kingdom of Poland and the Moldavian Principality during the middle of 15th century. Both officials would become key-figures in the Polish-Moldavian contacts, because of the internal political struggle in Moldova and of the circumstances of Władysław III Warneńczyk‟s reign (1434-1444) and the following interregnum in Poland.The roles of the parkalab of Hotin and of the starosta of Kamieniec rose significantly during this phase of Polish-Moldavian relationships. In the case of Manoil Grecul, it happened after 1442, when he sided with Iliaș I and his sons, Roman II and Alexandru II (who secured their refuge in Podolia) and became one of the most important Moldavian officials of his time. He even managed to keep his new rank during the following reigns of Petru Aron and Ștefan cel Mare. In the case of Teodoryk Buczacki, the lowered interest of Polish Royalty towards the situation at the south-eastern borders of the Kingdom allowed the starosta of Kamieniec to become the main intermediary between the princes of Moldova and the Polish central authorities. This moment predetermined all interventions of Teodoryk Buczacki in the political fights for the Moldavian throne in the following years, collaborating with the pro-Polish factions and the pârcălab of Hotin.
This article deals with the topic of the problematic legal status of the town of Prachatice and its variable legal and property relation to the Lords of Rosenberg during the 15th century and the ...beginning of the 16th century. It inquires into the ways the Rosenbergs repeatedly gained the pledge of the town of Prachatice, how they acted there as the holders and what their intentions were in connection with the legal status of the town. The brief analysis of the charters, which Oldřich II and Petr IV of Rosenberg issued for the burghers of Prachatice, is integral to the article.
This study is focused on the issue of relations between the Czech nobility and the town of Cheb — a hereditary imperial pledge attached to the Kingdom of Bohemia. It examines both the issues of ...conflicts (so-called feuds — private wars) and non-conflict relations. In addition to confrontation and cooperation between the examined subjects, the study also raises the question of what form communication between the Czech nobility and Cheb took.
This book presents four case studies that interrogate how German fifteenth-century painted triptychs engage with, and ultimately blur various boundaries. Some of the boundaries are internal to the ...triptych format, for example, transgressed frames between narratives scenes on triptychs' interiors, or interconnections between imagery on triptychs' interiors and exteriors. Other blurred boundaries are regional ones between the Netherlands and Cologne; metaphysical ones between heaven and earth; and artistic distinctions between the media of painting and sculpture. The book's case studies, which shed new light on Conrad von Soest, Stefan Lochner, and the Master of the St Bartholomew Altarpiece, illuminate the importance of German fifteenth-century painting, while providing a fresh assessment of relations between German triptychs and their more famous Netherlandish counterparts' and demonstrating the value of probing Medialität , the implications of format and medium for generating meaning. The book's coda assesses the triptych in the age of Dürer.
This innovative and multi-layered study of the music and culture of Renaissance instrumentalists spans the early institutionalization of instrumental music from c.1420 to the rise of the basso ...continuo and newer roles for instrumentalists around 1600. Employing a broad cultural narrative interwoven with detailed case studies, close readings of eighteen essential musical sources, and analysis of musical images, Victor Coelho and Keith Polk show that instrumental music formed a vital and dynamic element in the artistic landscape, from rote function to creative fantasy. Instrumentalists occupied a central role in courtly ceremonies and private social rituals during the Renaissance, and banquets, dances, processions, religious celebrations and weddings all required their participation, regardless of social class. Instrumental genres were highly diverse artistic creations, from polyphonic repertories revealing knowledge of notated styles, to improvisation and flexible practices. Understanding the contributions of instrumentalists is essential for any accurate assessment of Renaissance culture.
The Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs, edited by Tess Knighton, offers a major new study that deepens and enriches our understanding of the forms and functions of music that ...flourished in late medieval Spanish society.
Castilrubio es una dehesa situada en el SW del término de Medellín. Hemos seguido su evolución a través fundamentalmente de unas ricas fuentes procesales que nos han permitido integrar toda la ...problemática relacionada con el mundo rural y las estructuras de poder. Hasta mediados del siglo XV se encuentra rodeada de una densa vegetación. El proceso de roturación, en un contexto de crecimiento agrario y conflictividad política, va a desencadenar un proceso de usurpación que refrenda posteriormente la justicia real. Se documenta una explotación a pasto y labor a mediados del XV, sustituida posteriormente en un contexto de subida de las hierbas por un aprovechamiento prioritariamente ganadero. En calidad de propietarios y luego de arrendatarios, labradores y élites rurales tienen un importante protagonismo.AbstractCastilrubio is a pastureland located south-west of Medellin (Extremadura). We have detailed its evolution essentially using rich judicial records that have allowed us to combine issues regarding rural society with power structures. Until the middle of the fifteenth century these lands were surrounded by dense vegetation. The process of clearing the land in a context of agricultural growth and political conflict will trigger a phenomenon whereby land will be illegally appropriated, but eventually legalized by royal authority. This land was used for agriculture and livestock by the mid fifteenth century, but later exclusively used for livestock grazing in the context of the rise in the price of pasture. Farmers and rural elites play an important role first as owners and then as tenants of this property.
Medici Gardens Giannetto, Raffaella Fabiani
03/2017
eBook
Medici Gardens: From Making to Designchallenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one ...client commissioned one architect or artist. The book reverses the usual belief that a garden is the practical application of theoretical principles extracted from garden treatises, and suggests that, in the case of the gardens in Florence, garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.
Drawing from Medici tax returns, inventories, and correspondence, Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto examines the transformation of these gardens from functional and pleasurable kitchen gardens to symbols of political power and family prestige. The Medici gardens of the fifteenth century were the result both of everyday living and of a poetic activity that was influenced by cultural expectations and societal demands.
Crossing disciplinary boundaries, the author compares the making of actual gardens to that of the literary pleasances described by Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Ficino. Although the fictional gardens appear "designed" in that their place within literary works is carefully thought through, their actual counterparts are the product of a modus operandi, indebted to horticultural knowledge handed down from one generation to another in a slowly evolving tradition.
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