Ambrogio Leone's de Nola, Venice 1514

Humanism and Antiquarian Culture in Renaissance Southern Italy
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37577-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 284, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Loffredo, Fernando

Imbriani, Eugenio

Parkin, Stephen

Vitale, Giuliana

de Divitiis, Bianca

Lenzo, Fulvio

Miletti, Lorenzo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Bianca de Divitiis, Fulvio Lenzo, Lorenzo Miletti

1 The Author. Ambrogio Leone

2 The Book. De Nola

3 De Nola in the European Humanistic Debate

1 Ambrogio Leone’s De Nola as a Renaissance Work: Purposes, Structure, Genre, and Sources

Lorenzo Miletti

1 The Title and the praefatio: History and Rhetoric

2 An Outline of Structure and Content

3 The Genre of the De Nola: Between Antiquarianism, Chorography, and Encomium

4 The De Nola as a Humanistic Work: Leone’s Use of Greek and Latin Sources

5 Conclusions

2 Leone’s Antiquarian Method and the Reconstruction of Ancient Nola

Bianca de Divitiis and Fulvio Lenzo

3 The Four Engravings. Between Word and Image

Fulvio Lenzo

1 The Territory: The Ager Nolanus

2 The Ancient City: The Nola Vetus

3 Comparing the Ancient City and the Modern One: The Figura Praesentis Urbis Nolae

4 The Glory of the Modern City: The Nola praesens

5 Leone and Mocetto: Problems of Method and Authorship

4 Architecture and Nobility: The Descriptions of Buildings in the De Nola

Bianca de Divitiis

1 Leone and Architecture

2 The Arx, the Regia and the Seggio

3 The Cathedral
4 The Nolan domus

5 Architecture and Nobility

5 Ambrogio Leone and the Visual Arts

Fernando Loffredo

1 Sculpture Appealing to Poetry: Beatricium

2 Caradosso’s Inkwell

3 Tracing Interconnections: De Nola, Girolamo Mocetto, Niccolò Orsini, and the League of Cambrai

6 A Civic Duty: The Construction of Civic Memory

Giuliana Vitale

1 Book III of the De Nola as a Source for Socio-political and Economic History

2 Social Topography and Types of Residential Dwelling

3 A Society Open to Social Mobility

4 Leone’s Cultural Model of Nobility

7 The Elegance of the Past: Descriptions of Rituals, Ceremonies and Festivals in Nola

Eugenio Imbriani

1 Disparities

2 Servant Nolani mores antiquos

3 Games

4 The Feast of St Paulinus

5 In Conclusion: Extreme Recycling

8 A Bibliographical Note on Ambrogio Leone’s De Nola (1514)

Stephen Parkin

Appendix

1 De Nola’s Table of Contents

2 Praefatio (f. ii recto–iii recto)

3 De Nola, bk. II, ch. 15: Quae sit figura aedium praesentis urbis et qualiter earum partes se habeant (xxxviii recto–xxxix verso)

4 Leone 1514, bk. III, ch. 3, f. xxxxix recto

5 Leone 1525, ch. 41


Illustration Section

Bibliography

A Editions of Works by Ambrogio Leone

B General Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.