Book chapters by Leonardo Giorgetti
In Lucrezia Marinella’s Works, Reconsidered. Edited by Maria Galli Stampino. Special issue of the journal “Women and Gender in Italy (1500-1900) Donne e gender in Italia (1500-1900).” Paris: Classiques Garnier., 2024
Within the continuously increasing body of scholarly publications produced in the last twenty yea... more Within the continuously increasing body of scholarly publications produced in the last twenty years on Lucrezia Marinella’s writings, her collection of religious verses has received marginal attention. And yet, when her 36 sonnets and 25 madrigals were first published in 1603 along with her brief poem in octaves about the sacred icon of the Bolognese Madonna of the Monte della Guardia, Marinella was already considered one of the finest female poets of seventeenth-century Venice, despite being still relatively young. The collection was reprinted in an abridged version in 1605 and integrally in 1693, and several of its poems appeared in important poetic anthologies of the time. This paper proposes to analyze the style and themes of Marinella’s Rime sacre to suggest that, within the author’s only work in the genre of lyrical poetry the distinctive presence of visual, hagiographic, Marian, and penitential motifs, intimately combined with the themes of imitatio Christi, stigmatization, and affective spirituality, is critical in highlighting the novelties of Marinella’s poetry. Indeed, if these motifs and themes appear typical of both Counter-Reformation spirituality and Venice’s eclectic cultural climate in the Baroque period, they also reflect the constant creative tension between engendered mysticism and pro-female stance visible across the entire production of Marinella’s religious writings, from her first hagiographic epic La Colomba sacra (1595) and her successful poem La vita di Maria Vergine Imperatrice dell’Universo (1602) to her long prose narrative on the life and miracles of Catherine of Siena (1624).
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Genealogìas. Re-Writing the Canon: Women’s Writing in XVI-XVII Century Italy, a cura di Stefano Santosuosso, Valencia, ArCiBel Editores, 2018: 193-217, 2018
In the early poetic production of Lucrezia Marinella (1571/79-1653) the glorification of the Virg... more In the early poetic production of Lucrezia Marinella (1571/79-1653) the glorification of the Virgin Mary empress of the universe symbolizes the empowerment of female physicality and agency in human redemption and epitomizes Marinella’s engendered spiritual poetry and her own authoritative voice as a woman writer.
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Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, 2018
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Letteratura Italiana Antica, 2021
Notes on the proemial sonnet in the Rime sacre by Lucrezia Marinella: between sapiential lacework... more Notes on the proemial sonnet in the Rime sacre by Lucrezia Marinella: between sapiential lacework and mannerist style · This paper consists of a thematic and formal analysis of the introductory sonnet in Lucrezia Marinella’s Rime sacre (Nato è ’l gran Re, nato è ’l gran Duce, oh sempre). Despite the author’s unlikely involvement in the editing for its editio princeps (Venice 1603), the Christological vibe of the collection feels in tune with the ideological conventions of Post-Tridentine spiritual poetry and the syncretistic nature of Marinella’s affective spirituality. This article offers a reading of the introductory sonnet about Christ’s birth at multiple inter-textual levels (scriptural, liturgical, literary, philosophical) and suggests that, with her grand and conceptually complex style, Marinella worked an amplificatio of the typical affective features of the formal patterns she drew on (Luke’s Gospel, Torquato Tasso, Celio Magno, Giovan Battista Marino) in the attempt to emphasize the notion of Christ as universal Logos and as the redeemer of man. In doing this, Marinella effectively managed to bring some potentially heterodox sapiential doctrines (such as harmonia mundi), which circulated in the eclectic cultural milieu of late 16th century Venice, back into a penitential and eschatological perspective.
Keywords · Post-Tridentine Spiritual Poetry, Affective Spirituality, Syncretism, Christ’s Nativity, Lucrezia Marinella.
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Rivista di letteratura storiografica italiana 1, 2017, pp. 47-81, 2017
This article explores a newly discovered documentary source for the study of fifteenth-century Fl... more This article explores a newly discovered documentary source for the study of fifteenth-century Florentine history: the diary of Lorenzo Guiducci, theologian, astronomer, and prior of the local Basilica of San Lorenzo from 1482 to 1496. The authors provide a complete edition of this diary according to MS. Ginori Conti 29/29 of the “Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze”. Also, they analyze the contents of this source within the broader contexts of both Florentine Renaissance historiography and Guiducci’s eclectic cultural background, especially his passion for astrology and prophecies. Blending realistic accuracy and moral restraint, Guiducci reveals new details about crucial, turbulent years of Florentine history (1492-1496) and their protagonists (Charles VIII, Lorenzo and Piero de’ Medici, and Savonarola).
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Viator 48 no. 3, 2017, pp. 293-331, 2017
This essay examines an unexplored episode of the Florentine humanistic reception of Aristotle’s m... more This essay examines an unexplored episode of the Florentine humanistic reception of Aristotle’s moral philosophy by focusing on the exegetical method of Lorenzo Guiducci da Cornia, prior of the basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence from 1482 to 1496. A detailed philological analysis of Guiducci’s annotations in his manuscript of the Latin translation of the Nicomachean Ethics (Plut. 79, 3 of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana) suggests the proximity of his model of philosophical exegesis to the legacy of the Byzantine professor John Argyropulos and his renowned student Donato Acciaiuoli at the Florentine Studium. By analyzing Guiducci’s reception of Aristotle’s moral philosophy in his still unpublished booklet De Deo, de angelis, de anima, de aeterna foelicitate (1482), this research ultimately intends to reaffirm the historiographical relevance of the so-called religious humanism as an essential critical tool to understanding the emergence of Florentine humanist theology in the second half of the Quattrocento.
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Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, serie 5, 2018, 10/1: 89-110, 2018
Within Lucrezia Marinella’s Rime sacre (Venice 1603), the sequence of four sonnets addressed to S... more Within Lucrezia Marinella’s Rime sacre (Venice 1603), the sequence of four sonnets addressed to St. Catherine of Siena plays a crucial ideological and aesthetic role. This paper critically analyzes the theological, iconographic, and literary models of these sonnets within their historical context, arguing that St. Catherine functions simultaneously as meditative visual model of imitatio Christi and spiritual mirror of the writer’s sinful soul. With the physical nature of her stigmata, and the intense suffering of her mystical body, St. Catherine perfectly harmonizes the ekphrastic and penitential elements permeating the Rime sacre with the engendered spirituality typical of Marinella’s religious writings. The author’s treatment of St. Catherine emphasizes the value of the stigmata and the marvel of miracles over the charismatic figure of writer and preacher, thus reflecting an ideological shift in the reception of the devotion to the saint of Siena in early modern Italy.
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Medioevo E Rinascimento Annuario Del Dipartimento Di Studi Sul Medioevo E Il Rinascimento Dell Universita Di Firenze, 2006
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Viator, 2017
This essay examines an unexplored episode of the Florentine humanistic reception of Aristotle'... more This essay examines an unexplored episode of the Florentine humanistic reception of Aristotle's moral philosophy by focusing on the exegetical method of Lorenzo Guiducci da Cornia, prior of the basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence from 1482 to 1496. A detailed philological analysis of Guiducci's annotations in his manuscript of the Latin translation of the Nicomachean Ethics (Plut. 79, 3 of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana) suggests the proximity of his model of philosophical exegesis to the legacy of the Byzantine professor John Argyropulos and his renowned student Donato Acciaiuoli at the Florentine Studium. By analyzing Guiducci's reception of Aristotle's moral philosophy in his still unpublished booklet De Deo, de angelis, de anima, de aeterna foelicitate (1482), this research ultimately intends to reaffirm the historiographical relevance of the so-called religious humanism as an essential critical tool to understanding the emergence of Florentine humanist theology in the second half of the Quattrocento.
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Medioevo E Rinascimento Annuario Del Dipartimento Di Studi Sul Medioevo E Il Rinascimento Dell Universita Di Firenze, 2004
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Book chapters by Leonardo Giorgetti
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Keywords · Post-Tridentine Spiritual Poetry, Affective Spirituality, Syncretism, Christ’s Nativity, Lucrezia Marinella.
Books by Leonardo Giorgetti
Papers by Leonardo Giorgetti
Keywords · Post-Tridentine Spiritual Poetry, Affective Spirituality, Syncretism, Christ’s Nativity, Lucrezia Marinella.