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Ambrogio Leone's De Nola, Venice 1514
Humanism and Antiquarian Culture in Renaissance Southern Italy
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 284
This volume offers the first comprehensive study of the De Nola (Venice 1514), a hitherto underappreciated Latin text written by the Nolan humanist and physician Ambrogio Leone. Furnished with four pioneering engravings made with the help of the Venetian artist Girolamo Mocetto, the De Nola is an impressively rich and multifaceted text, which contains an antiquarian (and celebratory) study of the city of Nola in the Kingdom of Naples. By describing antiquities, inscriptions, and buildings, as well as social and religious phenomena, the De Nola offers a precious window into a southern Italian Renaissance city, and constitutes a refined example of sixteenth-century antiquarianism. The work is analysed in a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing art and architectural history, antiquarianism, literature, social history, and anthropology.
Bianca de Divitiis, Ph.D. (2006) is Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Naples Federico II. She has been PI of the ERC project HistAntArtSI (2011-2016). She has published several articles and is publishing a book entitled On Renaissance in Southern Italy.
Fulvio Lenzo, PhD (2004), IUAV University of Venice, is Associate Professor in History of Architecture. He has published monographs and articles on early modern and baroque architecture in Venice, Rome, Naples and Southern Italy.
Lorenzo Miletti, Ph.D. (2006), is Senior Lecturer in Classical Philology at University of Naples Federico II. He has published monographs and several articles on Greek historiography and rhetoric, and on the Renaissance reception of Greek and Latin authors.
Fulvio Lenzo, PhD (2004), IUAV University of Venice, is Associate Professor in History of Architecture. He has published monographs and articles on early modern and baroque architecture in Venice, Rome, Naples and Southern Italy.
Lorenzo Miletti, Ph.D. (2006), is Senior Lecturer in Classical Philology at University of Naples Federico II. He has published monographs and several articles on Greek historiography and rhetoric, and on the Renaissance reception of Greek and Latin authors.
âThere is much merit in this work: fixing its lens on De Nola, it presents a highly original picture of the period and cleverly plays with various aspects of cultural history, demonstrating in an exemplary manner the importance of portraying the Renaissance from hitherto little explored perspectives.â
Francesca Mattei, Università degli Studi Roma Tre. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Winter 2019), pp. 1430â1431.
Francesca Mattei, Università degli Studi Roma Tre. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Winter 2019), pp. 1430â1431.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
âBianca de Divitiis, Fulvio Lenzo, Lorenzo Miletti
â1âThe Author. Ambrogio Leone
â2âThe Book. De Nola
â3âDe Nola in the European Humanistic Debate
1 Ambrogio Leoneâs De Nola as a Renaissance Work: Purposes, Structure, Genre, and Sources
âLorenzo Miletti
â1âThe Title and the praefatio: History and Rhetoric
â2âAn Outline of Structure and Content
â3âThe Genre of the De Nola: Between Antiquarianism, Chorography, and Encomium
â4âThe De Nola as a Humanistic Work: Leoneâs Use of Greek and Latin Sources
â5âConclusions
2 Leoneâs Antiquarian Method and the Reconstruction of Ancient Nola
âBianca de Divitiis and Fulvio Lenzo
3 The Four Engravings. Between Word and Image
âFulvio Lenzo
â1âThe Territory: The Ager Nolanus
â2âThe Ancient City: The Nola Vetus
â3âComparing the Ancient City and the Modern One: The Figura Praesentis Urbis Nolae
â4âThe Glory of the Modern City: The Nola praesens
â5âLeone and Mocetto: Problems of Method and Authorship
4 Architecture and Nobility: The Descriptions of Buildings in the De Nola
âBianca de Divitiis
â1âLeone and Architecture
â2âThe Arx, the Regia and the Seggio
â3âThe Cathedral â4âThe Nolan domus
â5âArchitecture and Nobility
5 Ambrogio Leone and the Visual Arts
âFernando Loffredo
â1âSculpture Appealing to Poetry: Beatricium
â2âCaradossoâs Inkwell
â3âTracing Interconnections: De Nola, Girolamo Mocetto, Niccolò Orsini, and the League of Cambrai
6 A Civic Duty: The Construction of Civic Memory
âGiuliana Vitale
â1âBook III of the De Nola as a Source for Socio-political and Economic History
â2âSocial Topography and Types of Residential Dwelling
â3âA Society Open to Social Mobility
â4âLeoneâs Cultural Model of Nobility
7 The Elegance of the Past: Descriptions of Rituals, Ceremonies and Festivals in Nola
âEugenio Imbriani
â1âDisparities
â2âServant Nolani mores antiquos
â3âGames
â4âThe Feast of St Paulinus
â5âIn Conclusion: Extreme Recycling
8 A Bibliographical Note on Ambrogio Leoneâs De Nola (1514)
âStephen Parkin
Appendix
â1âDe Nolaâs Table of Contents
â2âPraefatio (f. ii rectoâiii recto)
â3âDe Nola, bk. II, ch. 15: Quae sit figura aedium praesentis urbis et qualiter earum partes se habeant (xxxviii rectoâxxxix verso)
â4âLeone 1514, bk. III, ch. 3, f. xxxxix recto
â5âLeone 1525, ch. 41
Illustration Section
Bibliography
âAâEditions of Works by Ambrogio Leone
âBâGeneral Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction
âBianca de Divitiis, Fulvio Lenzo, Lorenzo Miletti
â1âThe Author. Ambrogio Leone
â2âThe Book. De Nola
â3âDe Nola in the European Humanistic Debate
1 Ambrogio Leoneâs De Nola as a Renaissance Work: Purposes, Structure, Genre, and Sources
âLorenzo Miletti
â1âThe Title and the praefatio: History and Rhetoric
â2âAn Outline of Structure and Content
â3âThe Genre of the De Nola: Between Antiquarianism, Chorography, and Encomium
â4âThe De Nola as a Humanistic Work: Leoneâs Use of Greek and Latin Sources
â5âConclusions
2 Leoneâs Antiquarian Method and the Reconstruction of Ancient Nola
âBianca de Divitiis and Fulvio Lenzo
3 The Four Engravings. Between Word and Image
âFulvio Lenzo
â1âThe Territory: The Ager Nolanus
â2âThe Ancient City: The Nola Vetus
â3âComparing the Ancient City and the Modern One: The Figura Praesentis Urbis Nolae
â4âThe Glory of the Modern City: The Nola praesens
â5âLeone and Mocetto: Problems of Method and Authorship
4 Architecture and Nobility: The Descriptions of Buildings in the De Nola
âBianca de Divitiis
â1âLeone and Architecture
â2âThe Arx, the Regia and the Seggio
â3âThe Cathedral â4âThe Nolan domus
â5âArchitecture and Nobility
5 Ambrogio Leone and the Visual Arts
âFernando Loffredo
â1âSculpture Appealing to Poetry: Beatricium
â2âCaradossoâs Inkwell
â3âTracing Interconnections: De Nola, Girolamo Mocetto, Niccolò Orsini, and the League of Cambrai
6 A Civic Duty: The Construction of Civic Memory
âGiuliana Vitale
â1âBook III of the De Nola as a Source for Socio-political and Economic History
â2âSocial Topography and Types of Residential Dwelling
â3âA Society Open to Social Mobility
â4âLeoneâs Cultural Model of Nobility
7 The Elegance of the Past: Descriptions of Rituals, Ceremonies and Festivals in Nola
âEugenio Imbriani
â1âDisparities
â2âServant Nolani mores antiquos
â3âGames
â4âThe Feast of St Paulinus
â5âIn Conclusion: Extreme Recycling
8 A Bibliographical Note on Ambrogio Leoneâs De Nola (1514)
âStephen Parkin
Appendix
â1âDe Nolaâs Table of Contents
â2âPraefatio (f. ii rectoâiii recto)
â3âDe Nola, bk. II, ch. 15: Quae sit figura aedium praesentis urbis et qualiter earum partes se habeant (xxxviii rectoâxxxix verso)
â4âLeone 1514, bk. III, ch. 3, f. xxxxix recto
â5âLeone 1525, ch. 41
Illustration Section
Bibliography
âAâEditions of Works by Ambrogio Leone
âBâGeneral Bibliography
Index
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