Renaissance Rome Research Articles

:Music and Musicians in Renaissance Rome and Other Courts

Introduction - musicians, music and performance practice at the Papal Court musicians - archival sources - notes on some papal documents in Paris a note on the biography of Juan del Encina new archival data concerning the chapel of Clement VII from the diary of a 16th century papal singer a letter from Paolo Animuccia - a composer's response to the Council of Trent music notes on the biography and music of Bertrandus Vaqueras (ca. 1450-1507) the relationship between a Vatican source of the Gloria of Josquin's Missa de Beata Virgine and Petrucci's print Illibata dei virgo nutrix and Josquin's Roman style the Medici coat of arms in a motet for Leo X ceremonies for Holy Week, papal commissions, and madness(?) in early 16th century Rome performance practice - the singers of the Papal Chapel and liturgical ceremonies in the early 16th century - some documentary evidence speculations on repertory, performance practice, and ceremony in the Papal Chapel in the early 16th century performance practice in the Papal Chapel in the 16th century competence and incompetence in the papal choir in the age of Palestrina archival studies - other Renaissance courts and cities: Mantua - mecenatismo musicale a Mantova - le nozze di Vicenzo Gonzaga e Margherita Farnese Guglielmo Gonzaga and the castrati the publications of Guglielmo Gonzaga Florence-Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino, as a patron of music Verdelot in Florence, Coppini in Rome, and the singer La Fiore France - the membership of the chapels of Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne in the years preceding their deaths Loreto - a canon, a choirboy, and homosexuality in late 16th century Italy - a case study index 20 essays in English and 1 in Italian.

Book review. Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome. R Sherr

Book review. Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome. R Sherr

Richard Sherr, ed., Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, 1998. Pp. xxviii, 339 plus 22 black-and-white plates; black-and-white figures, tables, and musical examples. $95.

Richard Sherr, ed., Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, 1998. Pp. xxviii, 339 plus 22 black-and-white plates; black-and-white figures, tables, and musical examples. $95.

:The Art of Renaissance Rome: 1400-1600

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Beyond Joachim of Fiore: Pietro Galatino's Commentaria in Apocalypsim

BEYOND JOACHIM OF HORE: PIETRO GAIATINO'S COMMENTARIA IN APOCALYPSIM^ From research on the Middle Ages, especially the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, there emerges a picture of active and widespread Joachimism, much of it traceable to the Franciscan movement. The question of Joachim's influence, and the nature and extent of that influence in different periods and cultural spheres, has been addressed in an increasing number of studies. For the early sixteenth-century, the process really began with the writings of Reeves and has been continued by others. Its fruits are best summarized in the recent volume of essays on high Renaissance Rome.2 Many of these studies have searched primarily for Joachimism and hence have found it. To some extent, this has prevented us looking further or exploring beneath that Joachimism to the full variety of potential prophetic sources.3 It is time to look beyond Joachim. Recent research on the millennium in Renaissance Rome has cast new light on the issue of Joachimist influence. In this context many interesting texts and images have emerged but one of the most striking is the Commentaria in Apocalypsim of Pietro Galatino. This work, and its author, illuminate a number of themes relating not only to the nature of Joachimist influence but also to the broader question of medieval prophetic traditions in Renaissance apocalypticism, in particular the Franciscan tradition. My intention here is to focus on two closely related questions: the nature of 1THs paper is drawn from my doctoral thesis, Millenarian Thought in Renaissance Rome with special reference to Pietro Galatino and Egidio da Viterbo (Bristol, 1996) supervised by Dr A. V. Antonovics and funded by the British Academy, the British School at Rome, the University of Bristol and the Leverhulme Trust. Thanks are also due to Dr. Roger Middleton for reading an earlier draft of this paper. 2M. Reeves (ed.), Prophetic Rome in the High Renaissance Period (Oxford, 1992). See also G. Podestà, ed., // Profetismo gioachimita tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento (Genoa, 1991). important exceptions are R. Lerner, "Refreshment of the saints: the time after the antichrist as a station for earthly progress in medieval thought," Traditio 32 (1976): 97-144; and B. McGinn, "Influence and importance in evaluating Joachim of Fiore," in // Profetismo gioachimita, 15-36. Reeves has refined and defended her ideas in "The originality and influence of Joachim of Fiore," Traditio 36 (1980): 269-316. 137 Franciscan Studies, 55 (1998) 138SHARON LEFTLEY Joachim's influence on Galatino; and the extent to which Galatino was working within a Franciscan tradition. The Commentaria reveals not only the very diffuse nature ofJoachimist influences, but also, I would suggest, the influence of a specifically Franciscan tradition which extended into the sixteenth century. Galatino was born c. 1465 and educated in or around Galatina in Puglia, southern Italy.4 His family were humble and possibly Albanian refugees. He entered the Friars Minor at an early age in his home province of St Nicholas of Bari in the Observant monastery of St Caterina at Galatina. He was called to Rome c. 1511 and remained there apart from a short period for the rest of his life, living in the monastery of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli. As Chaplain to first Cardinal Lorenzo Pucci of SS. Quattro Coronad, from possibly 1516, certainly 1519, and then to Cardinal Francisco Quiñones (de Angelis) of Santa Croce after the death of Pucci in 1531, and an Apostolic Confessor in the Basilica of St Peter's from c.1523, he was attached to high levels of Roman ecclesiastical society. He also had contacts with scholars such as Egidio da Viterbo, Giorgio Benigno Salviati, and Reuchlin although probably not extensive ones. Details of his career are sparse (he rose no higher than a provincial minister) but most of his writings survive. His works were primarily concerned with the state of the Church and its prophetic future, although he also wrote on cabbalism and theology. It was as a cabbalist that he first aroused the interest of historians (because of his work De Arcanis and its role in the Reuchlin dispute) and then as a Joachimist.5 However, more recently his prophetic ideas have been given more serious consideration. Having...

Penitential Sermons in Renaissance Italy: Girolamo Seripando and the Pater Noster

The Catholic Historical Review VOL. LXXXIIIJANUARY, 1997No. 1 PENITENTIAL SERMONS IN RENAISSANCE ITALY: GIROLAMO SERIPANDO AND THE PATER NOSTER Francesco C. Cesáreo* The revival of interest in classical antiquity during the Renaissance had an important effect on the style and content of preaching. Thematic in structure, the medieval scholastic sermon, with its focus on abstract doctrine, had as its principal aim docere.1 During the Renaissance , preachers began to utilize and adapt the classical rhetorical form, thereby broadening the scope and content of the sermon. Not only was the sermon meant to teach doctrine to the listeners, but also move them to action through persuasion.2Among those responsible for this shift in emphasis was Erasmus, whose work on sacred oratory, the Ecclesiastes, was published in 1535. In this work Erasmus defines preaching as an act of teaching, but a different type of teaching from that found in the medieval sermon. "For Erasmus, truly Christian teaching is never dialectical or argumentative, never frigidly abstract, for it must always be persuasive of a godly life."3 Consequently, Erasmus located the sermon in the genre of deliberative oratory, giving it a greater *Mr. Cesáreo is an associate professor ofhistory inJohn Carroll University, Cleveland. 'John W. O'Malley, S. J., "Content and Rhetorical Forms in Sixteenth-Century Treatises on Preaching," in Renaissance Eloquence:Studies in the Theory and Practice ofRenaissance Rhetoric, ed. James J. Murphy (Berkeley, California, 1983), p. 240; reprinted in O'Malley, Religious Culture in the Sixteenth Century (Brookfield, Vermont, 1993), ??, 240. See also idem, Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome (Durham, North Carolina, 1979), p. 43. O'Malley,"Content and Rhetorical Forms,"p. 244. 2 PENITENTIAL SERMONS IN RENAISSANCE ITALY moralistic quality since it was most often addressed to a group of ordinary people.4 Given the moral tone of the sermon, by the middle of the sixteenth century the Gospel came to be linked in "preaching theory with a turning from vice and an embracing of virtue, under threat of punishment and the hope of reward."5 Preachers began to paint a picture of a religion based on sin and atonement where salvation was possible to those willing to alter their way of life.6 The way to salvation was taught by preachers in familiar, simple language so that the ordinary person could understand. Theological doctrines were taught through the use of images from family life and human relations. "The central theme of late medieval Catholic theology was that God gave man the ability to cooperate with grace, to do what was in him. The preachers did not demand the impossible, but insisted that man's creation in God's image allowed him to participate in the business of his own salvation."7 As a result, preachers were more concerned with moral reformation and penitence than condemnation. This emphasis gave rise to a series of treatises on preaching that contributed to a new understanding of the sermon. In 1543 Alfonso Zorilla published De sacris concionibus recteformandis, the first treatise on preaching printed in Italy that broke with the medieval style,which saw the sermon as an informal, familiar discourse between the preacher and the congregation.8 In 1576 Diego de Estella published his Modus concionandi ,which turned the teaching of the sermon to a moral purpose. The preacher, in de Estella's mind, focuses on the moral sense of scripture , aiming to move the audience away from sin and to a life of virtue and good works.9 Luis de Granada, following Erasmus' ideas on preaching , viewed the sermon as persuading individuals to live a life of justice and piety.10 4JoImW. O'Malley, S. J.,"Erasmus and the History of Sacred Rhetoric:The Ecclesiastes of 1535," Erasmus ofRotterdam Society Yearbook, 5 (1985), 14. 'John W O'Malley, S.J.,"Form, Content, and Influence ofWorks about Preaching before Trent: The Franciscan Contribution," in I Frati Minori tra '400 e '500.Atti del XII Convegno Intemazionale, Assist, 18-20 ottobre 1985 (Assisi, 1986), p. 49; reprinted in O'Malley, Religious Culture in the Sixteenth Century, IV, 49. 'Larissa Taylor, Soldiers of Christ: Preaching in Late Medieval and Reformation France (NewYork, 1992), p. 84. 7Ibid., p. 101. "O'Malley, "Content...

Roma Capitale (1447-1527) ed. by Sergio Gensini

(1447-1527). Edited by Sergio Gensini. [Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato, Saggi 29; Centro di Studi sulla Civilta del Tardo Medioevo San Miniato, Collana di Studi e Ricerche, 5.] (Rome: Ministero per i beni culturali, Ufficio Centrale per i beni Archivistici. 1994. Pp. xiv, 629. Paperback.) The twenty-two papers in this volume explore Renaissance Rome from a number of different angles, but the general theme around which they all revolve is the city, its culture and institutions under the papal prince. Written for a conference dedicated to the theme of Roma Capitale held at San Miniato in October, 1992, without exception the papers are characterized by superb scholarship and lively writing. Here I can only hope to give some idea of the breadth of learning and high quality of scholarship that mark these works. Humanism in Renaissance Rome is well represented in this volume by a number of contributions. Charles Stinger, for example, explores how humanists created an image of Rome consonate with the exalted spiritual and cultural claims of the resurgent popes. Humanists did this by celebrating the numerous sacred shrines and miracle-working sites that comprised the sacred geography of the city. The sacred marvels of Rome reinforced the image of Christ as savior and Rome as the perpetual seat of his priesthood. This rich legacy of Christian Rome led humanists to claim that Rome had a central role in the unfolding of Christianity Stinger also offers insights into how curial humanists reconciled the splendor of classical Rome with Christian Rome. A number of papers published in this work delve into the demographical and social changes that accompanied Rome's emergence as a dominant political and ecclesiastical center. Pierre Hurtubise analyzes the efforts of the transplanted Florentine merchant family of the Salviati to work its way into the elite ranks of the Roman nobility and church hierarchy. Members of the Salviati clan systematically acquired landed estates and aped the food and artistic tastes of the Roman elite, in order to leave their merchant class origins behind. However, the key to the rise of the Salviati in Rome was the privileged place they enjoyed because of their close ties to the Medici popes. Lucrezia de Medici, who married the paterfamilias of the clan, was the sister of Leo X. Christiane Schuchard's research documents the shrinking employment opportunities available to Germans in Rome. While Germans continued to hold a few positions within the Penitentiary and Rota, few if any were found working in the Camera or Chancery. Germans were increasingly replaced by Italians in the Curia, so that Italians comprised 58 of the curial workforce by 1527, whereas Germans only totalled 6 of the curial employees. Peter Partner explains the process by which the Roman Curia became Italianized. Under Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII, offices within the Datary went up for sale-and not cheaply. Because of the high price of a curial office, the financial support of an entire Italian family was drawn upon to subvent the cost. Once a family member was inside the Curia, he worked tirelessly to procure other lucrative curial offices for his kinsmen. Members of bureaucratic dynasties within the Curia tended to look upon their positions as private property and resisted any efforts at reform. Egmont Lee investigates the inhabitants of the district of Ponte and finds that the peculiar nature of the city as home to the papacy and as a great pilgrimage site distinctly shaped the neighborhoods of the area. The majority of the inhabitants of this quarter were non-Romans. While Lee finds numerous Florentine banking families living here, most of the inhabitants worked in the hospitality trade. …

The Renaissance revisited.

The Eastern Orthopaedic Association is very fortunate to have its twenty-sixth Annual Meeting in Rome. Rome! The very word brings vivid images to the mind. There is the grandeur of Imperial Rome with the Colosseum and the Forum. Christian Rome and its importance are exemplified by Saint Peter's and the Vatican. Renaissance Rome is noted for its masterpieces of art. Along with Florence and Venice, Rome cradled the Renaissance. No one person is more associated with the art of this period than Michelangelo. When thinking about my Presidential Address, I was certainly influenced by the fact that the meeting was in Rome. I have now practiced for enough years to have some perspective on the history of orthopaedic surgery. In my opinion, I have been fortunate to live through a period that represents the true rebirth, or renaissance, of orthopaedic surgery. Thus, my subject for today: the Renaissance revisited. When I was a medical student in the early 1960's, orthopaedics was very limited. The fourth edition of Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, copyright 1963, had one chapter on fractures, one on malunited fractures, and one on delayed unions and non-unions of fractures. In a similar fashion, traumatic affections of joints and miscellaneous affections of joints each were given one chapter. The discussion on poliomyelitis covered almost as many pages as the primary treatment of fractures. During that time, at the University of Pennsylvania, fracture treatment was divided between orthopaedic surgery and general surgery. Few adult reconstructive procedures were being done. Cup arthroplasty for hips was a notable exception. Other than this, resection arthroplasty and arthrodesis were more common procedures for chronic degenerative osteoarthrosis. Infection was also a major concern. The first clinically important resistance of any organism (coagulase-positive Staphylococcus aureus) to penicillin developed and struck fear in the hearts of surgeons. While …

Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates

Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates

Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy: Selected Articles by John Monfasani

BOOK REVIEWS95 sentiment and scolds him for ignoring die positive aspects of Mary's brief reign. Moreover, medieval Catholicism was not totally bankrupt. According to Duffy, "It has been one of the principal contentions of this book, however, diat into the 1 530s the vigour, richness, and creativity oflate medieval religion was undiminished, and continued to hold the imagination and elicit the loyalty of the majority of the population" (p. 479). Duffy presents his arguments is a convincing and intelligent manner and successfully chaUenges some accepted tenets of Reformation historiography. His description of traditional religion, especially the chapters on die Mass and die saints, is exceptionally good and shows the vitality of die pre-Reformation church. Keith Thomas's book on refigion and magic makes an excellent companion volume to Duffy's discussion on liturgy. The local or parish environment was the arena where the reforming policies touched the lives of the people, and the audior's description ofparish life, worship, and the opposition to the new Tudor policies is entertaining and informative. In addition to an impressive list of secondary sources, Duffy skUlfuUy uses wills, churchwardens' accounts, parish and gild records, primers, and a weakh of contemporary printed evidence to support his arguments. He does not rely exclusively on die printed word. The faithful also learned the fundamentals of their faith from paintings, carvings, and the glass in their churches, and die inclusion of photographs of ecclesiastical art which has survived gives important pictorial proof to Duffy's contention that parish life on the eve of the Reformation was not in decay. This is an important book and a significant contribution to Reformation studies. No serious student of the period can avoid confronting the arguments presented in uiis work. Rene Kollar St Vincent Archabbey Language andLearning in RenaissanceItaly: SelectedArticles. ByJohn Monfasani . [Variorum CoUected Studies Series, CS 460.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Company. 1994. Pp. xii, 338. Í8995.) John Monfasani himselfnotes diat this collection reflects two ofhis interests, Renaissance rhetoric and the cultural world of his earliest subject, George of Trebizond. Variorum has given him a chance to coUect these studies and to update them with Addenda et Corrigenda. Since some of these articles are very technical, it is well that he has placed die studies ofmost general interest at eidier end to frame the rest. Readers unwiUing to embark on discussions of topics like Anti-Quintilianism should, nonetheless, read the first study, "Humanism and Rhetoric." For the ecclesiastical historian, the pay-off comes at die end, where rhetoricians prove to have written on homiletics and where rhetoric plays a role in die earliest curriculum for Jesuit schools. On the way to die last article, readers might want to read the two reviews of editions of 96BOOK REVIEWS Lorenzo Valla, whose writings from his Neapolitan days challenged not just die pretensions of the religious but even the fllioque. (Interested scholars also should read Riccardo Fubini, "Lorenzo VaUa tra U Concilio di BasUea e quello di Firenze, e il processo deU'Inquisizione," in Conciliarismo, stati nazionali, inizi dell'umanesimo [Spoleto: Centro di Studi suU'Alto Medieoevo , 1990].) Also of importance are "A Description of the Sistine Chapel under Pope Sixtus IV," which helps us date die construction and the earlier works of art more accurately, and "Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in MidQuattrocento Rome," which casts light on "the Renaissance unmasking of the Dionysian corpus as apocryphal." I caU particular attention to the concluding study, "The Fraticelli and Clerical Wealth in Quattrocento Rome," because it highlights the tensions between the professed ideals of the vita apostólica, represented by the mendicants, and the curial ethos, "which differed little in its attitude toward wealth and display from the courts ofprinces. Anyone who has read Pius IPs unsympathetic account ofNicholas ofCusa's outburst against curial opposition to reform is aware of how this conflict of values helped undermine Rome in the period culminating in the Reformation crisis. (A bit more might have been done with die FraticeUi problem during die reign of Nicholas V, especiaUy the trial in Fabriano; see Charles Burroughs, From Signs to Design: Environmental Process and Reform in Early Renaissance Rome [Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1990].) Some of Monfasani's...

Book Reviews

Book review in this Article:Joanna E. Ziegler, Sculpture of Compassion. The Pieta and the Beguines in the Southern Low Countries c.1300‐C.1600Thomas V. Cohen and Elizabeth S. Cohen, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal MagistratesLyndal Roper, Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern EuropeWayne E. Franits, Paragons of Virtue: Women and Domesticity in Seventeenth‐Century Dutch ArtHilary Marland, The Art of Midwifery. Early Modern Midwives in EuropeSusan Brock and E. A. J. Honigman (eds) Playhouse Wills, 1558–1642. An Edition of Wills by Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in the London TheatreAmy Louise Erickson, Women and Property in Early Modern EnglandDavid Lindley, The Trials of Frances Howard: Fact and Fiction at the Court of King JamesLaura Levine, Men in Women's Clothing: Anti‐Theatricality and Effeminization 1579–1642Jean E. Howard, The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern EnglandMargaret J. M. Ezell, Writing Women's Literary HistoryRichard Braverman, Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660–1730Mona Scheuermann, Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to AustenN. H. Keeble (ed.) The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth‐Century Woman: A ReaderAnne Laurence, Women in England 1500–1760: A Social HistoryMerry E. Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Words and deeds in Renaissance Rome: trials before the Papal magistrates (review)

Reviews 157 Cohen, Thomas V. and Elizabeth S. C o h e n , Words and deeds in Renaissance Rome: trials before the Papal magistrates, Toronto/ Buffalo/London, University of Toronto Press, 1993; paper, pp. xx, 308; 1 map, 8 illustrations; R.R.P. CAN$19.95. These authors have recendy written articles that are excellent illustrations of the genre of microhistory. In fact, these are better than the microhistorical articles appearing in Quaderni storici and, accordingly I assign to m y students his 'Case of the mysterious coU of rope' and then 'Camtila the gobetween '. These articles, as do most books and articles in this genre, utilize records of court proceedings in an attempt toreconstruct,in the words of Piero Camporesi, 'thetenseand vibrant arc of... lived experience'. In then Words and deeds in Renaissance Rome the Cohens have produced do-ityourself microhistory. The book consists of then translated transcripts of eight trials before the Papal magistrates, each transcript followed by the Cohens' commentary. Camilla the go-between is here, with Camilla charged with procurement as a result of the adultery of her mistress, but the mysterious coU of rope is not. The other cases include: an abbot accused of hiring assassins, the lover of a courtesan for burning the door of one of her rivals and then fighting in the streets during the Vacant See and finally forcing his way into the courtesan's house, a music teacher for abducting one of his students, an apothecary whose accusations that his in-laws tried to kill him resulted in his trial for suborning a witness, a courtesan accused of using magic to gain the love of a Papal servant, a cobbler for attempting to exorcize demons from the wife of a saddler and the saddler's ex-mistress for bewitching his wife, and a group of vUlagers for staging a sacrilegious play during Carnival. The results make compelling reading. As one becomes engrossed in each case, one rashes to reach the denouement of the trial and the explanations contained in the commentary. The trials thus document abnormal and deviant behaviour in Renaissance Rome. They also document normal behaviour, for in the introduction and in then commentaries the authors demonstrate how the trials and the testimony 'illustrate general truths' about social norms and vernacular culture. The abbot's assassins were bound to him throughtiesof patronage, yet the clients' refusal to fulfil all the abbot's murderous plots indicate the limits of the system. The girl 'abducted' by the music teacher faced an uncertain future at home because sbe lacked the two things necessary, for marriage: a dowry and her virginity. The cobbler appropriated 158 Reviews the licit prayers of St Bernardino and liturgical formulae for the illicit purpose of exorcism, indicating the 'circularity', to use Carlo Ginzburg's term, of therelationshipbetween high and low culture. A recurrent element in most of the trials was the Roman heightened sense of honour, which was a cause of much violence and other 'deviant' behaviour. Included in the introduction is 'A note for teachers and students'. Instead of the students' re-enactment of the trials as suggested by the Cohens, a better pedagogical use of the material would be to provide students with the transcripts and ask them to provide the commentary, that is, to make sense of the trials and the testimony. A valuable lesson for students attempting this comes from Thomas Kuehn's article, 'Reading microhistory: the example of Giovanni and Lusanna', that appeared in volume 61 of The journal of modern history. According to Kuehn, legal documents such as these transcripts permit historians to reconstruct a narrative of the trials but not a narrative of what really happened. The Cohens are aware of this lesson and they likewise issue warnings: 'the truth behind those words is another matter. Suspects and witnesses had every reason to shape then versions of an event tofitthe politics of the moment'. The only criticism to be made of this book is that on occasion the Cohens fati to heed then own warnings and accept as truth matters that seem unproven. However, part of the joy and the fun of this book is the way i t permitsreadersto come...

Thomas V. Cohen and Elizabeth S. Cohen, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates, Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 308. $50.00 (ISBN 0-8020-7699-8).

Thomas V. Cohen and Elizabeth S. Cohen, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates, Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 308. $50.00 (ISBN 0-8020-7699-8). - Volume 13 Issue 2

Ghiberti on the Destruction of Art

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:Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates

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Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome. Trials before the Papal Magistrates

The social historian, searching for the basis of a culture, often turns to a study of ordinary people. Perhaps one of the most revealing places to find them is in a court of law. In this presentatoin of nine criminal trials of sixteenth-century Rome (1540-75), where magistrates kept verbatim records, Thomas and Elizabeth Cohen paint a lively portrait of a society, one that is reminiscent of Boccaccio. These stories, however, are true. Each trial transcript is followed by an essay that interprets the beliefs, codes, everyday speech, and personal transactions of a world that is radically different from our own. The people on trial include assassins, a spell-caster, an exorcist, an adulterous wife, several courtesans, and the peasant cast of a bawdy, sacrilegious play. Out of their often pognant troubles, and their machinations, comes a vivid revelation of not only the tumultuous street life of Rome but also rituals of honour, the power and weakness of women, and the realities of social and economic hierarchies. Like cinema-verite, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome gives us an intimate glimpse of a people and their world.

Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates, by Thomas V. Cohen and Elisabeth S. Cohen

<i>Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates</i>, by Thomas V. Cohen and Elisabeth S. Cohen

Words and deeds in Renaissance Rome: trials before the Papal Magistrates

Words and deeds in Renaissance Rome: trials before the Papal Magistrates

From Signs to Design: Environmental Process and Reform in Early Renaissance Rome. By Charles Burroughs. Cambridge, Mass.: The Massachusetts Instituteof Technology Press, 1991. xii + 344 pp. $45.00.

From Signs to Design: Environmental Process and Reform in Early Renaissance Rome. By Charles Burroughs. Cambridge, Mass.: The Massachusetts Instituteof Technology Press, 1991. xii + 344 pp. $45.00.

"Centro e Periferia": Guillaume de Marcillat and the Modernisation of Taste in the Cathedral of Arezzo

This article discusses Marcillat's role in disseminating the art of High Renaissance Rome to central Italy. On the basis of a prominent career at the papai court, Marcillat was attracted to Arezzo and given stained glass and fresco commissions in the Cathedral (1516-28). He clearly imitated the most up-to-date works of Michelangelo, Raphael and Sebastiano, and there is some evidence that this was at the request of his patrons and a large part of his appeal. As such this example challenges the dismissal of provincial patrons and artists by Enrico Castelnuovo and Carlo Ginsburg in their essay: Centro e Periferia.