BOOKS by Federico Botana
For the affluent merchant class of fifteenth-century Florence, the education of future generation... more For the affluent merchant class of fifteenth-century Florence, the education of future generations was a fundamental matter. Together with texts, images played an important role in the development of the young into adult citizens. In this book, Federico Botana demonstrates how illustrated manuscripts of vernacular texts read by the Florentine youth facilitated understanding and memorisation of basic principles and knowledge. They were an important means of acquiring skills then considered necessary to gain the respect of others, to prosper as merchants, and to participate in civic life. Botana focuses on illustrated texts that were widely read in Quattrocento Florence: the Fior di virtù (a moral treatise including a bestiary), the Esopo volgarizzato (Aesop's Fables in Tuscan), the Sfera by Goro Dati (a poem on cosmology and geography), and mathematical manuals known as libri d'abbaco. He elucidates, in light of original sources and medieval and modern cognitive theory, the mechanisms that empowered illustrations to transmit knowledge in the Italian Renaissance.
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Renaissance Quarterly, 2022
The books used by schoolchildren and adolescents often leave a lasting impression on young reader... more The books used by schoolchildren and adolescents often leave a lasting impression on young readers. At the same time, they can reveal to later eyes the information, tools, and values their teacher, parents, and others hoped to impart to their youth. Illustrations, important in many works for adults, often play a central role in books for children. Botana has composed a thoughtful and compelling study of the illustrations that appeared in standard vernacular manuscript textbooks used to educate fifteenth-century Florentines in morals as well as practical computational skills, arguing that they show a careful attention to theories of learning and memory...
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The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, 2024
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Manuscript Studies, 2022
Botana, Federico, 'Tammaro De Marinis, Vittorio Forti, and the Acquisition of Islamic Manuscripts... more Botana, Federico, 'Tammaro De Marinis, Vittorio Forti, and the Acquisition of Islamic Manuscripts for J. P. Morgan in Constantinople in 1913', Manuscript Studies, 7.2 (Fall 2022)
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BOOKS by Federico Botana
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES by Federico Botana
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Conference Papers and Seminars by Federico Botana