Silvia iotti correggio biography

Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation

Petrarch connects multiply to the textual origins of interpretation. Perhaps at fi rst blush he connects most readily as an early humanist: he was an activist on behalf of the need to consider the textual origins of his beloved classical authors in order to interpret them-read them-aright. His activism in this domain led him to work as a cultural entrepreneur and disseminator, arranging for instance for the Calabrian Greek Leontius Pilatus to live with Boccaccio and to translate Homer, as well as to become a veritable adventurer in pursuit of texts, most famously of Cicero's letters to Atticus, which he discovered in Verona in 1345. In other words, Petrarch's humanism put him at the forefront of the movement to clarify the textual origins of interpretation, with at times revolutionary results: ninety-fi ve years after Petrarch's discovery in a Veronese

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The Drawings of Raffaellino Motta da Reggio, in "Master Drawings", 54, 2, pp. 147-204

The Drawings of Raffaellino Motta da Reggio MARCO SIMONE BOLZONI 1616, the Emilian scholar Bonifacio [Bonifazio] Fantini (dates unknown) published the first monohad accompanied his natural talent with study, he would graphic treatment of Raffaellino.3 This was folhave shaped the idea of perfection among practitioners, lowed by Baglione’s 1642 biography cited above and he would have been their only master.”1 (the longest in the first part of the Vite), and a few years later by that of Francesco Scannelli (1616– With these words Giovanni Baglione (1566–1643) 1663), who, in Il microcosmo della pittura (1657), ended his biography of Raffaellino Motta da celebrated the painter as a “secondo Raffaello,”4 a Reggio (1550/51–1578) in his Vite de’ pittori, scul- comparison reiterated by Carlo Cesare Malvasia tori, architetti ed intagliatori (1642). Baglione’s cele- (1616–1693) in his Felsina pittr

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Archive, Bibliotheken (Auswahl)

 

Archivio di Stato Mantova, Fondo Gonzaga (ca. 40.000 Briefe zwischen 1491 und 1539; Inventarlisten des studiolo und der grotta).

 

Archivio di Stato Modena, Fondo D’Este (Korrespondenzen mit Ferrareser Höfen).

 

Bayrische Staatsbibliothek München (Frottolenbücher 1-11 (Nr. 10 ist verloren) von Ottaviano Petrucci im Original und in Kopie).

 

Biblioteca Comunale di Mantova (Ms. okänt italienischen poesie musicale).

 

Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena (Ms. von weltlichen Kompositionen; ikonografische Genealogie der Fürsten d’Este).

 

Ikonografische Quellen

 

Palazzo Ducale Mantova: sala imperiale, besonders Grotta, Studiolo und geheimer Garten der Isabella d’Este Gonzaga in der corte vecchia, (Musikbezogene Intarsien, Wappen und Symbole; samstags Besichtigung möglich).

 

Ehemalige Ausstattung des studiolo:

 

Costa, Lorenzo: Krönung de