- University of Minnesota, Center for Early Modern History, Department Memberadd
- Intellectual History, Early Modern Intellectual History, Print Culture, Circulation of Knowledge, Collecting and Collections, Transcultural Studies, and 119 moreHistory of Philosophy, Philology, History of philology, Historiography, Classical Reception Studies, Antiquarianism, Renaissance Humanism, Mediterranean Studies, History of Venice, Ottoman History, History of Science, Early Modern Drama, Urban Studies, History of the Senses, Comedy, Art History, Early Modern History, Roman Imperialism, Greek Hisoriography, Polybius, History of the Book, Early modern Ottoman History, Balkan Studies, Byzantine Studies, Lycophron, G.W. Bowersock, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Aldus Manutius, Basinio Da Parma, Epistolography, Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Knowledge Transfer, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Intellectual History of the Baroque Period, History of Library and Information Science, Justus Lipsius, Habsburg Studies, Soundscape Studies, Arabic Printing, Printing History, Aristotle, Early Modern Pamphlet Culture, Book History, Book trade History, E. R. Curtius, 17th Century & Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Baruch Spinoza, Renaissance Aristotelianism, Neoaristotelianism, Aristotle's Commentators, Marginalia, Petrus Ramus, Pseudo-Aristotle, Early Modern Philosophy, Reformation Studies, History of Science and Religion, Secularization, History of Religion, Science and Religion, Jacobos Diassorinos, Hebrew Manuscripts, Western Esotericism (History), Renaissance Philosophy, History, Humanities, Classics, Philosophy, History of Astrology, Natural Magic, Medieval Latin Literature, History of Medicine, Hieronymus Wolf, Reception of Antiquity, Oriental Studies, History of Scholarship, Christian-Muslim Relations, Confessionalization, Philipp Melanchthon and Astrology, Philipp Melanchthon, Rhetoric, Renaissance Studies, Bacon, Francis, Natural History, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Renaissance magic and astrology, Religious Studies, Stoicism, History of Cartography, History of Education, Seventeenth Century Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Paracelsus (Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus von Hohenheim), History of Anatomy, History of Colors, History of Meteorology, Aristotelianism, Statius' Silvae, History and theory of literary genres, Greek Palaeography, Byzantine Paleography and codicology, History of Translations, Philhellenism, Library Science, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Information Overload, History of Archives, Textual Criticism, Textual Scholarship, Memory Studies, Knowledge Management, Early Modern Science and Philosophy, Digital Humanities, History of Chemistry, History of Atomism, Peter Ramus, Magnetism, Pliny the Elder, Philosophy of Biology, and Evolutionary Biologyedit
- I am an intellectual historian and I received my PhD (2009) from Indiana University in Bloomington. After a few years... moreI am an intellectual historian and I received my PhD (2009) from Indiana University in Bloomington. After a few years in Bucharest and Warsaw, I have joined the faculties of History at the State University of Milan, and I also hold a research affiliation with the Center for Early Modern History at UMN. My present research expands on the dynamics of Aristotelian natural philosophy from antiquity to the seventeenth century, on humanist methods of reading, and on historical applications of network analysis related to collecting and print culture.
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Relying on Ambrosianus G 69 inf., a philosophical miscellany owned by the celebrated collector Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, this article examines an unpublished disputation about mathematical abstraction. In it, the Dominican theologian Tommaso... more
Relying on Ambrosianus G 69 inf., a philosophical miscellany owned by
the celebrated collector Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, this article examines an unpublished disputation about mathematical abstraction. In it, the Dominican theologian Tommaso Pellegrini defends traditional Aristotelian views on subalternate sciences; by contrast, Pompeo da Otranto offers a rebuttal anchored on Ockham’s theory of intellectual habits. The reconstruction of this epistemic debate sheds much needed light
on various forms of assembling Aristotle within the protocols of Pinelli’s scholarship and paperwork.
the celebrated collector Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, this article examines an unpublished disputation about mathematical abstraction. In it, the Dominican theologian Tommaso Pellegrini defends traditional Aristotelian views on subalternate sciences; by contrast, Pompeo da Otranto offers a rebuttal anchored on Ockham’s theory of intellectual habits. The reconstruction of this epistemic debate sheds much needed light
on various forms of assembling Aristotle within the protocols of Pinelli’s scholarship and paperwork.
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This paper tries to present a different view of Francesco Patrizi’s antiAristotelian philology such as it transpires in his masterful monograph of 1581, the Discussiones Peripateticae, the influence of which was widely felt in... more
This paper tries to present a different view of Francesco Patrizi’s antiAristotelian philology such as it transpires in his masterful
monograph of 1581, the Discussiones Peripateticae, the influence
of which was widely felt in seventeenth-century Europe. The book
is the product of a learned, Hellenizing, and deeply inspired
critique of a major doctrinal corpus from classical antiquity, and it
is usually taken as a stepping stone in a self-righteous fight by
“modern” philosophers to replace Aristotelianism as the dominant
academic system. This essay is revisionist on the second of these
accounts.
monograph of 1581, the Discussiones Peripateticae, the influence
of which was widely felt in seventeenth-century Europe. The book
is the product of a learned, Hellenizing, and deeply inspired
critique of a major doctrinal corpus from classical antiquity, and it
is usually taken as a stepping stone in a self-righteous fight by
“modern” philosophers to replace Aristotelianism as the dominant
academic system. This essay is revisionist on the second of these
accounts.
Research Interests: 17th Century & Early Modern Philosophy, Early Modern History, Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), Aristotelianism, Antiquarianism, and 9 moreRenaissance Aristotelianism, Doxography, Platon et le néoplatonisme, Francesco Patrizi, History of Philosophy, Ancient Wisdom, Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Francesco Patrizi Da Cherso), and Plato and Neoplatonism
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This paper looks at the carnival of 1513 in Urbino, when Castiglione served as a stage-manager and supervised the performance of Bibbiena’s Calandria. I place my study of comic business at the intersection of cognitive science and the... more
This paper looks at the carnival of 1513 in Urbino, when Castiglione served as a stage-manager and supervised the performance of Bibbiena’s Calandria. I place my study of comic business at the intersection of cognitive science and the history of the senses. I am interested in
embodiment and stage-subjugation, in environmental and phenomenological practice, and in the range of ways in which, through props and plot, a notion akin to Bourdieu’s habitus found its place. In this framework, the “greenery” invoked by Castiglione in his letter functions as an episode of sensorial control, not only visual, but also olfactory and aural—a suitable portal of cognition. By emphasizing the material effects of local places on the stage, I also argue that any study of Bibbiena’s Calandria gains a greater cultural interrelationship once it is set against an international backdrop; its geopolitical breadth is documented not only by
several revivals of the play in Venice, but also by its dialogic relations with at least two distinct traditions: the Celestinesque drama and Lucian’s utopic fiction.
embodiment and stage-subjugation, in environmental and phenomenological practice, and in the range of ways in which, through props and plot, a notion akin to Bourdieu’s habitus found its place. In this framework, the “greenery” invoked by Castiglione in his letter functions as an episode of sensorial control, not only visual, but also olfactory and aural—a suitable portal of cognition. By emphasizing the material effects of local places on the stage, I also argue that any study of Bibbiena’s Calandria gains a greater cultural interrelationship once it is set against an international backdrop; its geopolitical breadth is documented not only by
several revivals of the play in Venice, but also by its dialogic relations with at least two distinct traditions: the Celestinesque drama and Lucian’s utopic fiction.
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Quaderni Folenghiani, 6-7, 2010: 113-134
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The large collection assembled by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1503-1575) in his residence in Venice, a city that Charles V had the political imperative to keep within the Holy League, included an impressive range of objects: books and... more
The large collection assembled by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1503-1575) in his residence in Venice, a city that Charles V had the political imperative to keep within the Holy League, included an impressive range of objects: books and manuscripts, but also antiquities and paintings. By placing Hurtado de Mendoza in the context of specific Venetian trends of book-collecting and antiquarianism—with particular regards to the Greek library of Bessarion and its other public competitors of the time—this article argues that, rather than thinking of the archive as a collection of passive objects amassed and wielded by a sovereign agent or agents for the purposes of sociopolitical performance (rivalry, anticlericalism, etc), it makes more sense, both materially and historically, to think of the library as a networked assemblage of objects that are themselves mutable and "in motion" at all levels.
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Spanish, and 13 moreGlobalization, Early Modern History, Iberian Studies, Political History, Venetian History, History of Collections, Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), Sociology of Ideas, Early modern Spain, Books, Council of Trent, Monarquía Hispánica, and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
This paper focuses on the celebrated episode of the library of Saint-Victor in Rabelais’s Pantagruel (chap. VII), and of the edition of Giovanni Bartolomeo Marliani’s Topographia antiquae Romae.
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This essay proposes an exercise of detailed and contextual reading of the Erasmian adage Festina lente, which contains a cultural diagnosis of Aldus Manutius as a prominent historical actor within a motley Venetian cohort of printing... more
This essay proposes an exercise of detailed and contextual reading of the Erasmian adage Festina lente, which contains a cultural diagnosis of Aldus Manutius as a prominent historical actor within a motley Venetian cohort of printing personae ranging from humanists to street peddlers. While the central sections are taken, successively, by Roman antiquarian themes, bibliophilic assessment, and the epistemic problem of marginalia in a Byzantine lexicon consulted by Erasmus while in Venice, the introduction and conclusion further expand the results of this localized inquiry by raising the early modern problem of expertise and following the idea of Herculean printing in Erasmus as a pedagogical and philosophical model.
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Book Review of E.R. Truitt's monograph.
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This essay proposes an exercise of 'global microhistory' centered on Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (1591-1655), an itinerant Jewish alchemist and inventor, born in Candia, who was one of the student-lodgers at Casa Galileo in Padua between... more
This essay proposes an exercise of 'global microhistory' centered on Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (1591-1655), an itinerant Jewish alchemist and inventor, born in Candia, who was one of the student-lodgers at Casa Galileo in Padua between 1606 and 1613. Instead of asking primarily if or why this scholar was the first Jewish Copernican, Delmedigo's experience is framed against a stable background of trade, antiquarianism, and astronomical interests spanning from Padua to the Eastern Mediterranean. In light of this network of scholarly intermediation, which is also foreshadowed by the information system generated by Gianfrancesco Sagredo in his consular years in Syria, the managing of Galileo's experimental household is spatially de-centered; as a main result , the lone theoretician, or homo clausus, gives way to the artisanal epistemology of a homo faber.
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This essay addresses printing and instrument making as crucial features in the accumulation and dissemination of cosmographical knowledge; as a corollary, it also frames the avalanche of data from the New World as a problem of... more
This essay addresses printing and instrument making as crucial features in the accumulation and dissemination of cosmographical knowledge; as a corollary, it also frames the avalanche of data from the New World as a problem of 'information management'. In this respect, while standard treatments of the topic emphasize the epistemological gathering directed by royal institutions, I maintain that armchair erudition and discovery were still coessential, if not overlapping. My discussion pursues a specific case study – the use of Pedro de Medina's nautical tract in Seville, Venice and Antwerp – aiming to rewrite some aspects of network theory in terms of translation. Simultaneously, it tracks epistemological changes taking place within the cognitive jurisdictions of the printing house, and examines descriptions of instruments, woodcuts, and diagrams, to visualize how historical actors used to communicate with patrons, mathematicians, and craftsmen.
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... Paris: Gallimard, 1945. Martelli, Mario. "Una delle Intercenali di Leon Battista Alberti fonte sconosciuta del Furioso." La Bibliofilia 66 (1964): 16370. ... Segre, Cesare. "Nel mondo della luna, ovvero Leon Battista... more
... Paris: Gallimard, 1945. Martelli, Mario. "Una delle Intercenali di Leon Battista Alberti fonte sconosciuta del Furioso." La Bibliofilia 66 (1964): 16370. ... Segre, Cesare. "Nel mondo della luna, ovvero Leon Battista Alberti e Ludovico Ariosto." Id. Esperienze ariostesche. ...
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... in modo «forzatamente» coerente nello zibaldone Lauren-ziano Pluteo 29.8.30 E di qui alla fabula spagnola ... del confronto e della polarizzazione tra latino e volgare, tra la poetica delle humiles myricae e della lingua ... In De... more
... in modo «forzatamente» coerente nello zibaldone Lauren-ziano Pluteo 29.8.30 E di qui alla fabula spagnola ... del confronto e della polarizzazione tra latino e volgare, tra la poetica delle humiles myricae e della lingua ... In De Robertis la parola genus ha sempre il significato di stile ...
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Sixteenth Century Journal 48.4 (2017): 1186-1188
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La fama di Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601) è soprattutto legata alla sua biblioteca: circa 9.500 stampati e oltre 1.000 manoscritti, che egli riunisce e mette a disposizione degli studiosi. Alle conoscenze consegnate nei libri si... more
La fama di Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601) è soprattutto legata alla sua biblioteca: circa 9.500 stampati e oltre 1.000 manoscritti, che egli riunisce e mette a disposizione degli studiosi. Alle conoscenze consegnate nei libri si affiancano le informazioni raccolte attraverso la corrispondenza con gli eruditi di tutta Europa e attraverso le conversazioni intrecciate con amici e visitatori. La casa di Pinelli diventa così un importante crocevia culturale, in cui il sapere non solo è conservato, ma si arricchisce e permette la produzione di nuovo sapere. In questo libro si delineano la vita e la personalità di Pinelli, si mettono in luce i percorsi tramite cui si è costituita la collezione e i mezzi messi a punto per gestirla in maniera funzionale, se ne segue la storia fino alla sua parziale distruzione, si descrivono i testimoni manoscritti che ne permettono la ricostruzione e si analizza la composizione del fondo degli stampati in base alla distribuzione dei volumi per lingua, luogo di provenienza, datazione, formato, argomento.
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Upcoming lecture at Ca' Foscari (Feb. 21, 2019)
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Announcement of RSA panel (Dubin 2021)
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Scientiae Studies The major premise of the Scientiae Studies series is that knowledge during the early modern period was pre-disciplinary, and that, similarly, theories and practices, confronted with a rapidly growing body of new objects,... more
Scientiae Studies The major premise of the Scientiae Studies series is that knowledge during the early modern period was pre-disciplinary, and that, similarly, theories and practices, confronted with a rapidly growing body of new objects, had yet to be separated into their modern 'scientific' configurations. As a result of such premise, this is a forum ideally suited to innovative interdisciplinary discourses and strands of intellectual history pivoted around the circulation of knowledge, as well as deliberately global. By looking within and beyond European history, we would also like to accept proposals that respond to a foundational interest of Scientiae as an association, the institutionalization of knowledge, which in turn stimulates research on the history of universities and on the birth and evolution of early modern collections. Thus the series aims to bridge the gap between material culture and history of ideas.
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This workshop aims to revisit the relation between environmentalism and sustainability on the one hand, and historiography on the other; in particular, by building on the 'material turn', it seeks to reflect on subterranean knowledge as a... more
This workshop aims to revisit the relation between environmentalism and sustainability on the one hand, and historiography on the other; in particular, by building on the 'material turn', it seeks to reflect on subterranean knowledge as a way to conceptualize the role of distance and scale. While the deep time has obviously featured as a point of inquiry in the history of geology, our view is not limited to that discipline, but also relates to learned meteorology, Renaissance artists/engineers, early modern mining, and how Leibniz received the sciences of the Earth.
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La Sfera di Giovanni Sacrobosco fu uno dei libri di testo più utilizzati in Europa fra Medioevo ed età moderna per lo studio della Terra e del sistema solare. Per secoli venne commentato e stampato in centinaia di edizioni. Anche se... more
La Sfera di Giovanni Sacrobosco fu uno dei libri di testo più utilizzati in Europa fra Medioevo ed età moderna per lo studio della Terra e del sistema solare. Per secoli venne commentato e stampato in centinaia di edizioni. Anche se antiquata nei contenuti, che continuavano a proporre l'astronomia geocentrica di Tolomeo, la Sfera di Sacrobosco svolse un ruolo importante nel costruire le basi infrastrutturali di un sapere scientifico comune, condiviso e cosmopolita. Se il concetto di comunità scientifica viene abitualmente legato alla rivoluzione copernicana, le sue radici affondano invece proprio in questo testo della tradizione geocentrica. Schiere di commentatori, traduttori, editori, stampatori e lettori continuarono per secoli a plasmarne la forma e i sussidi didattici, creando collettivamente un network di saperi, precursore della moderna comunità scientifica. Evento digitale in diretta streaming.