Umberto Cecchinato
University of Trento, Sociology and Social Research, Faculty Member
- Bruno Kessler Foundation, ISIG-ISR Library, Department MemberScuola Normale Superiore, Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali - Civiltà del Rinascimento, Department MemberUniversità degli studi Roma Tre, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Post-Docadd
- History of Venice, Music, Dance History, Liturgy, Sacred Music, Ritual Practices, Ritual, and 24 moreRitual (Anthropology), Sociology of Religion, Festivals and music, Holy Days, Patronage (History), Cult of Saints, Criminal Justice, Kinship (Anthropology), History of Violence, Cultural Studies, Cultural History, History, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance music, Renaissance drama, Italian Renaissance Art, Renaissance literature, Humanities, History of Humanities, Medieval History of Venice, Early Modern History, and Historiographyedit
- I am a social and cultural historian particularly interested in the connections between festival culture, musical per... moreI am a social and cultural historian particularly interested in the connections between festival culture, musical performances, and violence in Medieval and Early Modern Italy. I am also active in the critical edition of medieval normative texts. I am currently working on the project DAN-CRO "Dangerous Crowds in Renaissance Italy. Violence, Music and Street Festive Experiences in Public Spaces", funded by Unione europea – Next Generation EU, Azione 247 MUR Young Researchers – MSCA/SoE lines” (SOE_0000021) – CUP E63C22002940006.edit
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This article describes the walking tours realized for the app Hidden Trento within the project Public Renaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present (PURE, 2019-2022). The app, free of charge and... more
This article describes the walking tours realized for the app Hidden Trento within the project Public Renaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present (PURE, 2019-2022). The app, free of charge and available at www.hiddencities.eu, offers four different urban walks through the lesser-known places of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Trento.
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Between 1682 and 1731, the barber Zuanne Mestriner recorded many murders that occurred in Treviso. His Libro macaronico is a valuable account of the dynamics that led to a murder in modern times. This ego-document opens a glimpse into... more
Between 1682 and 1731, the barber Zuanne Mestriner recorded many murders that occurred in Treviso. His Libro macaronico is a valuable account of the dynamics that led to a murder in modern times. This ego-document opens a glimpse into everyday interpersonal violence, showing how members of any social class resorted to lethal violence in conflicts that stemmed from seemingly trivial motives. This paper provides the first quantitative and qualitative analysis of this data for the city, measuring the homicide rate and focusing on the characteristics of the clashes. It finds a cause for the high rates of violence in the natural disasters that made urban life precarious.
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The Republic of Venice had comparatively high rates of violence by early modern European standards. This article presents new archival evidence which details one facet of the problem-sacred space. Churches were not immune from violence... more
The Republic of Venice had comparatively high rates of violence by early modern European standards. This article presents new archival evidence which details one facet of the problem-sacred space. Churches were not immune from violence because of their social and political functions. The research explores the multiple uses of sacred space-as places of asylum, theatres for the display of honour, pickup joints and magnets for paid assassins-and points the way to further research. LA VIOLENZA E LO SPAZIO SACRO NELLA VENEZIA DELLA PRIMA ETÀ MODERNA SINTESI Secondo i criteri europei della prima età moderna, la Repubblica di Venezia regi-strava alti tassi di violenza. Il contributo presenta nuove testimonianze archivistiche che descrivono in dettaglio un aspetto del problema: lo spazio sacro. Data la loro funzione sociale e politica, le chiese non rimasero immuni dalla violenza. Il presente studio esplora i vari usi dello spazio sacro-come luoghi di rifugio, teatri per le prove d'onore, luoghi di "rimorchio" e calamite per sicari-, indicando la strada verso ulteriori ricerche.
The Republic of Venice had comparatively high rates of violence by early modern European standards. This article presents new archival evidence which details one facet of the problem – sacred space. Churches were not immune from violence... more
The Republic of Venice had comparatively high rates of violence by early modern European standards. This article presents new archival evidence which details one facet of the problem – sacred space. Churches were not immune from violence because of their social and political functions. The research explores the multiple uses of sacred space – as places of asylum, theatres for the display of honour, pick-up joints and magnets for paid assassins – and points the way to further research.
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This paper analyzes patterns of social contamination during public dances in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with particular reference to the province of Treviso, part of the Venetian mainland territories. The phenomenon of... more
This paper analyzes patterns of social contamination during public dances in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with particular reference to the province of Treviso, part of the Venetian mainland territories.
The phenomenon of public dances on holy days is documented throughout Europe. Social interaction and contamination favoured the creation of new encounters and, naturally, new marriages. On the other hand, it could also form the backcloth for conflicts and violence. The anthropological dynamics of these conflicts are here studied with reference to several fascicoli processuali.
In sixteenth-century Treviso, public dances were eyed by the Venetian authorities as a particular trigger for violence. As such, they required specific legislation. This attitude is evident in a number of terminazioni emanated by the secular authorities. Following the Council of Trent, prohibitive decrees were also issued by the ecclesiastical authorities. Successive bishops of Treviso viewed public dances as a source of contamination to be banned from sacred times and venues. Dances were considered to be particularly dangerous during outbreaks of plague.
The phenomenon of public dances on holy days is documented throughout Europe. Social interaction and contamination favoured the creation of new encounters and, naturally, new marriages. On the other hand, it could also form the backcloth for conflicts and violence. The anthropological dynamics of these conflicts are here studied with reference to several fascicoli processuali.
In sixteenth-century Treviso, public dances were eyed by the Venetian authorities as a particular trigger for violence. As such, they required specific legislation. This attitude is evident in a number of terminazioni emanated by the secular authorities. Following the Council of Trent, prohibitive decrees were also issued by the ecclesiastical authorities. Successive bishops of Treviso viewed public dances as a source of contamination to be banned from sacred times and venues. Dances were considered to be particularly dangerous during outbreaks of plague.
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Critical edition and translation of the latin codex of the statuto of Pula
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Nell'ambito del progetto MARE - Le Relazioni dei Rettori dello Stato da mar, si presentano le Relazioni di Costanzo Loredan 1595 e Marc'Antonio Erizzo, 1597, Provveditori sopra i sali in Istria; Girolamo Bragadin, Inquisitore in Istria... more
Nell'ambito del progetto MARE - Le Relazioni dei Rettori dello Stato da mar, si presentano le Relazioni di Costanzo Loredan 1595 e Marc'Antonio Erizzo, 1597, Provveditori sopra i sali in Istria; Girolamo Bragadin, Inquisitore in Istria 1651; Lorenzo Avanzago, Podestà e capitano in Istria 1630; Nicolò Loredan, 1545 e Marcantonio Trevisan, 1789, Capitani di Raspo; Danierle Domenico Ba.lvi, Provveditore di Pola, XVIII secolo.
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I Seminari RiVe – Centro studi sulla cultura figurativa del Rinascimento veneziano, gennaio-aprile 2024
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Comme la guerre et les épidémies, la fête revient. Production collective organisée, anticipée ou plus spontanée, elle est à la fois irruption d'un temps exceptionnel et événement cyclique marqué par le rite. Dans la Sérénissime, elle se... more
Comme la guerre et les épidémies, la fête revient. Production collective organisée, anticipée ou plus spontanée, elle est à la fois irruption d'un temps exceptionnel et événement cyclique marqué par le rite. Dans la Sérénissime, elle se signale par sa variété, son exceptionnelle vitalité quand sa longévité n'a pas débouché sur une forme standardisée. Célébrés depuis le Moyen Aĝe, la Sensa, le Carnevale, les processions des Scuole et fetes paroissiales seront rejoints aux XVI-XVIIe par les dévotions sacrées au Redentore, à la Salute dans une profusion d'inventions (vol de l'ange, régates...). La gouvernance du doge, la vocation commerciale et diplomatique de Venise imposent des mises en scène civiques urbaines (entrées...) où la pompe et l'apparat commémorent le pouvoir, l'ordre social, contribuent aux écritures de l'Histoire et au mythe de la cité. Manifestation d'union collective, outil de régulation et de contrôle, elle est aussi un événement privé, tant aristocratique que populaire, placé sous le signe du divertissement, du paraitre, des métamorphoses et de la transgression.
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Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86137106808?pwd=TjJMZHF3U2pCWk9pZlYwenVxWXpBUT09 No registration is required. This conference is part of the post-doctoral research project Z6-3223 (B) 'Plebeian Dispute Settlement in Baroque... more
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This conference is part of the post-doctoral research project Z6-3223 (B) 'Plebeian Dispute Settlement in Baroque Inner Austria: Between Feud and Criminal Law', funded by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS), and the research programme P6-0435 (A) 'Practices of Conflict Resolution Between Customary and Statutory Law in the Area of Today’s Slovenia and Its Neighbouring Lands', co-funded by ARIS.
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This conference is part of the post-doctoral research project Z6-3223 (B) 'Plebeian Dispute Settlement in Baroque Inner Austria: Between Feud and Criminal Law', funded by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS), and the research programme P6-0435 (A) 'Practices of Conflict Resolution Between Customary and Statutory Law in the Area of Today’s Slovenia and Its Neighbouring Lands', co-funded by ARIS.
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The Soundscape of the Venetian Terraferma in the Early Modern Era is an international conference organized by the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona on the occasion of the 475th anniversary of its foundation (23 May 1543), in collaboration... more
The Soundscape of the Venetian Terraferma in the Early Modern Era is an international conference organized by the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona on the occasion of the 475th anniversary of its foundation (23 May 1543), in collaboration with the University of Verona, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the University of St Andrews and the Conservatorio “E. F. Dall’Abaco” of Verona. Natural sequel to The Soundscape of Early Modern Venice (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 24-27 May 2017 – Visit the Venice conference web section ), this further initiative has the aim of increasing debate on the varied soundscape of the Venetian Terraferma in the early modern period. This territory, which stretched from Bergamo in the west to the Friulian Alps in the north-east and the river Po at the Republic’s southern extremity, formed one of the three subdivisions of the Serenissima; the others were the Dogado (Venice and surrounding area) and the Stato da mar (Venetian possessions in the eastern Adriatic and Mediterranean areas). The articulate system that regulates musical and non-musical sound in the Venetian territories prior to the fall of the Serenissima in 1797 is highly conducive to an interdisciplinary approach which draws on the new perspectives offered by urban history, humanistic geography and historical anthropology. Emblematic, in this sense, are the activities of the Accademia Filarmonica, which have dominated almost five centuries of local musical history.
http://www.accademiafilarmonica.org/filarmonica/en/convegno-internazionale-2018
http://www.accademiafilarmonica.org/filarmonica/en/convegno-internazionale-2018
Research Interests: Semiotics, History, Cultural History, Economic History, Cultural Studies, and 141 moreMusic, Church Music, Early Music, Music History, Media and Cultural Studies, Cultural Sociology, Early Modern History, Cultural Heritage, Performance Studies, Human Perception and Performance, Material Culture Studies, Catholic Studies, Liturgy, Industrial History, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Urban History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Renaissance, Music Theater, Cultural Semiotics, Opera, Ritual, Renaissance Art, Renaissance Literature (Renaissance Studies), Identity (Culture), Soundscape Studies, Sound studies, Cultural Transfer Studies, Oral Traditions, Urban Studies, Italian Cultural Studies, Cross-Cultural Studies, Sound, Cultural Economics, Cultural Identity, Cultural Musicology, Performance Studies (Music), Catholic Theology, Venetian History, Renaissance drama, Early Modern Church History, Urban Culture, Church History, Baroque Music, Social History, Dance History, Italian Renaissance Art, Urban Sociology, Early Modern Italy, Renaissance music, Renaissance literature, Baroque music theatre, Patronage (History), Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), Oral Traditions (Culture), Identity And Culture, Choral Music, Instrumental Music, Identity construction and cultural production, Cultural Anthropology, Critical Musicology, Music Perception, History of Dance, Early Modern Catholicism, Sacred Music, History of music, Renaissance Music (Music), Renaissance Drama (Theatre Studies), Eighteenth-Century Music, Theater History, Republic of Venice, Patronage and collecting, Cultural History of Music, Social History and Cultural Study of Music, Venetian Renaissance art, Venice and the Veneto, Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, Renaissance Verona, 16th century Venice, History of Venice, Pittura Rinascimento, Catholic Church History, Grand Tour, Rinascimento, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Padova, Liturgics, Counter-Reformation, Musicology/Cultural Studies, 16th Century Sacred Music, Soundscape Studies, music, embodiment, Performance Studies and Musical Theatre, Liturgy, Sacred Music, History of Venetian Republic, Musikwissenschaft, Monastic music (all periods), Sacred Music (XVII-XVIIIe siècles), Early modern venice, Italian Renaissance Studies, Catholicism and music, Theater and Performance Studies, Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music, Civic Ritual and Society, Baroque Instrumental Music, Catholic Church music, Terraferma veneta, Soundscape Studies Research, Counterreformation, Venezia E Terraferma Veneta (XV-XVIII), Italian Baroque Music, Urban musicology, History of Verona, History of the Venetian Republic, Renaissance and Baroque Music, Grand Tour Studies, 17th c Venetian Intellectual History, Musicology, Historical, Analytical and Cultural Study of Music, Venetian Renaissance Music, History of Serenissima Repubblica Di Venezia, History of the Theater, Theater Studies, Pittura veronese, 18th Century Grand Tour, Musicologia, Venetian Baroque Music, History of Grand Tours, Storia e estetica della musica, Choir Books, Liturgy and Sacred Music, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Italy, Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, History of Vicenza, Venetian Terraferma, History of the Venetian Terraferma, Early Modern Terraferma, Early Moedrn Age, Museo Lapidario Maffeiano, Monastic music, Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, and Soundscape of the Venetian Terraferma
In the last few decades, the problem of the celebration of Venice, of its myth and of its peculiar republicanism, has been investigated from various and fruitful perspectives. In the progressive definition of processional orders and... more
In the last few decades, the problem of the celebration of Venice, of its myth and of its peculiar republicanism, has been investigated from various and fruitful perspectives. In the progressive definition of processional orders and iconographic programs, of musical and urbanistic canons, of encomiastic and historiographical repertoires, a solid tradition of studies has seen the emergence of a complex celebratory system aiming to perpetuate, through its celebration, a peculiar image of republican sovereignty. Moving from these considerations, this conference aims to shift the focus of the analysis from politics to its public celebration and, in spatial terms, from institutional spaces – such as the Palazzo Ducale – to social and ceremonial spaces. The growing attention paid to the piazza, the city and, consequently, to its populus will enable us to identify the audience of this celebratory system and, finally, to question the role that the Venetian urban population may have played in the celebration of republican power and in its contestation.
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Tavola ovale di storia moderna Ciclo di seminari | 2020 Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico Fondazione Bruno Kessler | Trento Via Santa Croce 77, Sala piccola | Coordinamento Massimo Rospocher | Enrico Valseriati Iscrizione obbligatoria:... more
Tavola ovale di storia moderna Ciclo di seminari | 2020 Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico Fondazione Bruno Kessler | Trento Via Santa Croce 77, Sala piccola | Coordinamento Massimo Rospocher | Enrico Valseriati Iscrizione obbligatoria: segreteria.isig@fbk.eu | Info: www.isig.fbk.eu/it/eventi
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Des études récentes sur l’histoire de la « ludicità » dans l’espace européen ont montré dans quelle mesure ‘le jouer’ en tant qu’acte de parole et d’image représente un observatoire privilégiée permettant de s’interroger sur des questions... more
Des études récentes sur l’histoire de la « ludicità » dans l’espace européen ont montré dans quelle mesure ‘le jouer’ en tant qu’acte de parole et d’image représente un observatoire privilégiée permettant de s’interroger sur des questions primordiales dont la portée intellectuelle, politique et sociale a été largement sous-estimée par les historiens. Cette rencontre, organisée par la Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche, le Centre de recherche historique (CRH, EHESS) et l’University College Dublin se propose de fournir un parcours historiographique et une nouvelle interprétation critique de la culture éthique du jeu comme forme et norme du vivre social dans l’histoire de l’Europe entre moyen Age et modernité (XIVe-XVIIe siècle). L’histoire de la normalisation du jeu comme phénomène anthropologique et social, qui tient notamment une place fondamentale dans la genèse des sociétés de l’Ancien Régime, mérite en effet d’être inscrite dans le cadre d’un long parcours spécialement occidental, voué ‘à la recherche de la norme’ sous la forme d’un codex moral destiné à régler les conduites verbales et non verbales de l’homme en société. D’où la nécessité d’acquérir ici une perspective interdisciplinaire autour de l’histoire de la performativité des discours et des pratiques du jeu et sur le jeu par l’étude de plusieurs typologies de sources (scholastiques, normatives, littéraires, iconographiques, scientifiques), de méthodologies et d’approches historiographiques différents.
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The conference involves scholars from different disciplines to offer new perspectives on crowd research in history. It is divided into five sessions, dedicated to different aspects of the crowd: Images and representations, Law and... more
The conference involves scholars from different disciplines to offer new perspectives on crowd research in history. It is divided into five sessions, dedicated to different aspects of the crowd: Images and representations, Law and regulations, Emotions and experience, Politics, and Performance.
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Introduction: This text introduces a dossier of essays, resulting from an informal research group that has begun, and plans to continue, to work on the subject area and approach of a cultural history of gesture. The scope of the following... more
Introduction: This text introduces a dossier of essays, resulting from an informal research group that has begun, and plans to continue, to work on the subject area and approach of a cultural history of gesture. The scope of the following pages is twofold: firstly, to set a historiographical background of the main directions in which a cluster of disciplines have ploughed the field, and indicate some of the gaps that still need filling; secondly, to signal some specificities of the historical context of the Renaissance that makes it a particularly interesting territory to explore in this perspective.
Keywords: Gesture, Cultural History, Renaissance Italy.
Keywords: Gesture, Cultural History, Renaissance Italy.
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Sensi ed emozioni contribuiscono da anni ad arricchire la tavolozza della ricerca storica consentendo di rivisitare, con uno sguardo ispirato anche all’antropologia, l’esperienza di vita di donne e uomini del passato; un universo... more
Sensi ed emozioni contribuiscono da anni ad arricchire la tavolozza della ricerca storica consentendo di rivisitare, con uno sguardo ispirato anche all’antropologia, l’esperienza di vita di donne e uomini del passato; un universo percettivo e affettivo che non è una costante biologica, ma in una varietà di contesti apre a diversi paesaggi sonori o olfattivi, così come a passioni dell’animo.
Questo volume collettivo esplora tale campo per l’età moderna nello spazio italiano. Vi si esplorano la città come luogo di performance emotive, in occasioni rituali (come la festa o le processioni funebri) così come per le sollecitazioni sensoriali che la caratterizzano; le esperienze emotive di alcune figure chiave della modernità, quali condottieri, confessori, inquisitori; più specificamente per il Settecento, il vissuto degli autori di fronte a editoria e pubblico e il farsi strada dell’amicizia tra sessi in spazi non più confinati.
Il volume è corredato da un’introduzione di carattere storiografico e da una bibliografia ragionata intesa a orientare chi legge nella varietà di campi di studio incrociati.
Questo volume collettivo esplora tale campo per l’età moderna nello spazio italiano. Vi si esplorano la città come luogo di performance emotive, in occasioni rituali (come la festa o le processioni funebri) così come per le sollecitazioni sensoriali che la caratterizzano; le esperienze emotive di alcune figure chiave della modernità, quali condottieri, confessori, inquisitori; più specificamente per il Settecento, il vissuto degli autori di fronte a editoria e pubblico e il farsi strada dell’amicizia tra sessi in spazi non più confinati.
Il volume è corredato da un’introduzione di carattere storiografico e da una bibliografia ragionata intesa a orientare chi legge nella varietà di campi di studio incrociati.