Imprese (Renaissance)

Il libro contiene il primo studio documentato sull'impresa - cioè il contrassegno - dell'Accademia roveretana degli Agiati, nata nel 1750: un chiocciolino che si arrampica sul fianco di una piramide.
L'origine, il significato e la storia di questa immagine vengono per la prima volta ricostruite nel dettaglio sulla base di documenti per la maggior parte inediti, con un ricco corredo di illustrazioni.
Il volume cartaceo è disponibile gratuitamente presso l'Accademia roveretana degli Agiati: www.agiati.org.

L’Accademia degli Accesi, fondata a Trento nel 1629, adottò fin da subito quale proprio simbolo un’elaborata “impresa” formata da una combinazione di figure e parole, finora descritta e spiegata in modo piuttosto approssimativo. Attingendo alla testimonianza degli accademici stessi ne viene ora proposta una nuova lettura, smentendo l’esistenza di varianti rispetto al primo disegno originale e riconoscendo invece le altrimenti ignote “imprese” dei vescovi Carlo Emanuele Madruzzo (“il Movente”) e Francesco Alberti Poia (“l’Immutabile”). Attraverso la decifrazione del contrassegno, legato alle conoscenze astronomiche del tempo, viene anche ricostruito il giorno esatto di fondazione dell’Accademia, altrimenti ignoto.

Approfondimento sugli stemmi e sugli emblemi realizzati alla fine del XIX secolo per la cappella funeraria dei baroni Berlingieri di Crotone
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Deepening about coats-of-arms and emblems made at the end of the 19th century for the funerary chapel of barons Berlingieri in Crotone (Ionian Calabria, Italy)

In 1433, Lorenzo Valla attacked contemporary jurisprudence with a treatise attributed to the civilian lawyer Bartolus of Saxoferrato, the De insigniis et armis [On insignia and arms]. This was considered Europe's first treatise on heraldry or coats of arms, until a team of legal historians in recent years questioned its subject matter and authenticity: What was the tract really about, and di Bartolus himself even write it? Visual culture meanwhile has long been seen as peripheral to Valla's critical agenda as a humanist and a Latinist. This article proposes that Valla did engage with images, especially insofar as they manifested regimes of authority and the persistence of their malleability though historical time. Valla's epistle against the "medieval" jurist via his tract on insignia and arma participates in an intellectual history through humanist philology and antiquarianism to modern anthropologies of images, with their proposed readings or decodings of the visual languages of Others. Heraldry found its definition in this history as a feudal visual language, integral to that Other civilizational configuration that the humanist tradition first brought into view as the Middle Ages.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2019.376

L’uso nella decorazione dei palazzi gentilizi del Cinque-Seicento delle immagini di emblemi e imprese realizzate per l’editoria da maestri e incisori fu un fenomeno alquanto comune, tanto da far affermare a Mario Praz, un pioniere nello studio della letteratura del genere, che “non v’è palazzo dell’epoca manieristica e barocca, appartamenti di parata soprattutto italiani e tedeschi, che manchi di una decorazione di emblemi e imprese”

Maximiliano I de Austria (1459-1519), como otros nobles y caballeros de su tiempo, empleó divisas o empresas como forma de representación personal, al margen de su escudo de armas o blasón que lo identificaba como individuo miembro de una estirpe. En este artículo se analizan las divisas que, según testimonios textuales e iconográficos, sabemos que empleó el emperador a lo largo de su vida y se da una explicación del posible sentido de la combinación de las imágenes y los motes de cada divisa.  /  Maximilian I of Austria (1459-1519), like other nobles and knights of his time, used decives or imprese as a form of personal representation, apart from his coat of arms or blazon that identified him as a member of a lineage. This article analyzes the devices that, according to textual and iconographic testimonies, we know that were used by the emperor throughout his life, and offers an interpretation of the meaning of the combination of images and mottoes therein.

Se analiza la divisa del rey Fernando I de Nápoles (Fernando de Aragón, o Ferrante I), cuyo motivo es un armiño con el mote PROBANDA. Es uno de los artículos que forman la base de datos Symbola. Divisas o empresas históricas: https://www.bidiso.es/Symbola/
Sagrario López Poza, "PROBANDA", en Symbola: divisas o empresas históricas. - BIDISO (Biblioteca Digital Siglo de Oro), A Coruña (España) [en línea]. Publicación: 18-02-2021. Actualización: 18-02-2021. <https://www.bidiso.es/Symbola/divisa/170> [Consulta: 18-02-2021].

The article examines the role the interpretation and invention of imprese could play as a means of cultivating social relationships, through reference to a text which has received only passing attention from researchers hitherto: mario Equicola's De opportunitate (1507). This Latin dialogue is dedicated to an impresa used by Cardinal Ippolito d'Este (1479–1520) in his private letters. From a close reading of the passage describing the device, its original inventor emerges as Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). Focussing on Leonardo's relationship with the cardinal, I discuss the role played by the artist's invention of imprese as a means of winning the support of patrons. Similarly, Equicola's dialogue interpreting this device provides a case study for the ways in which letterati responded to the courtly fashion of imprese to smooth their way to patronage.

(Quaderno n° 3 di “Cronaca Numismatica”, n° 55, luglio-agosto 1994, pp. I÷XII; e n° 56, settembre 1994, pp. XIII-XXIV)
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Questo studio, dedicato agli stemmi che la dinastia sovrana dei Savoia utilizzò per oltre sei secoli in ambito numismatico, abbina il contenuto testuale a una nutrita serie di disegni originali a colori. Si tratta di uno dei primi rilevanti lavori curati dall'autore, nelle cui intenzioni vi è la prospettiva di curarne una futura nuova edizione, aggiornata e arricchita.
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This study, dedicated to the coats of arms used by the sovereign dynasty of Savoy for over six centuries in numismatic context, combines textual content with a host of original color drawings. It's one of the first important works taken by the author, in whose intentions there is the prospect of caring for a future new edition, updated and enriched.

RESUMEN: Maximiliano I de Austria (1459-1519), como otros nobles y caballeros de su tiempo, empleó divisas o empresas como forma de representación personal, al margen de su escudo de armas o blasón que lo identificaba como individuo miembro de una estirpe. En este artículo se analizan las divisas que, según testimonios textuales e iconográficos, sabemos que empleó el emperador a lo largo de su vida y se da una explicación del posible sentido de la combinación de las imágenes y los motes de cada divisa. ABSTRACT: Maximilian I of Austria (1459-1519), like other nobles and knights of his time, used decives or imprese as a form of personal representation, apart from his coat of arms or blazon that identified him as a member of a lineage. This article analyzes the devices that, according to textual and iconographic testimonies, we know that were used by the emperor throughout his life, and offers an interpretation of the meaning of the combination of images and mottoes therein.

ABSTRACT: This study provides a list of sources and resources available for the study and research of emblem books and other materials produced by emblematic culture (15th-18th centuries), with a special focus on the contributions that have been produced in recent years with the widespread use of the Internet, both in terms of primary and secondary sources, as well as electronic resources (digital libraries, databases, digital editions with text encoding inner markup, search engines, specialized portals, etc.).

RESUMEN: Este trabajo ofrece una relación de fuentes y recursos disponibles para el estudio y la investigación de los libros de emblemas y otros materiales producidos por la cultura emblemática (siglos XV-XVIII), poniendo especial interés en las aportaciones que se han producido en los últimos años con la generalización del uso de Internet, tanto en lo relativo a fuentes primarias como secundarias y recursos electrónicos (bibliotecas digitales, bases de datos, publicaciones con marcación, buscadores, portales especializados, etc.).