Palaeography, Manuscript Illumination and Humanism in Renaissance Italy: Studies in Memory of A. C. de la Mare
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Palaeography, Manuscript Illumination and Humanism in Renaissance Italy: Studies in Memory of A. C. de la Mare
Albinia de la Mare (1932–2001), OBE, FBA, Professor of Palaeography at King’s College London, was one of the last century’s outstanding palaeographers and the world’s leading authority on Italian Renaissance manuscripts. In November 2011 a conference was held at King’s College and the Warburg Institute to honour her memory, and this volume offers revised versions of most of the papers read on that occasion, as well as three additional contributions. Tilly de la Mare had exceptionally wide interests, including key individuals involved in manuscript and literary production, as represented here by studies on Vespasiano da Bisticci, Sozomeno da Pistoia, Matteo Contugi da Volterra, Lorenzo di Francesco Guidetti, Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, Bartolomeo Sanvito, Bartolomeo Varnucci, Francesco Petrarca, Pier Candido Decembrio, Leonardo Bruni and Marsilio Ficino. Important themes in the history of palaeography – the emergence of humanist script; the relationship between script and illumination; the competing methods of palaeography and philology; the social, political, academic, geographical and cultural contexts of manuscript copying and production; and the role of palaeography in the transmission of classical texts – were also in the compass of her scholarship and are treated in this collection. The volume concludes with sixteen colour plates and indices of manuscripts, incunabula and names.
488 pages | 6.6875 x 9.625 | © 2016
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Table of Contents
Contents I. Albinia C. de la Mare Vincenzo Fera: L’umanesimo di Albinia C. de la Mare Concetta Bianca: Albinia C. de la Mare (biblioteche senza inventario) II. Vespasiano da Bisticci Luca Boschetto: Letteratura, arte e politica nella Firenze del Quattrocento. La collaborazione tra Vespasiano e Manetti per l’Oratio funebris di Giannozzo Pandolfini Wi-Seon Kim: Vespasiano da Bisticci: un cartolaio dissenziente nella Firenze del Quattrocento III. Palaeography Teresa De Robertis: I primi anni della scrittura umanistica. Materiali per un aggiornamento Irene Ceccherini: Codicologia dei manoscritti della prima età umanistica: i libri di Sozomeno da Pistoia Stefano Zamponi: Aspetti della tradizione gotica nella littera antiqua Gabriella Pomaro: Copisti stranieri in Italia nei sec. XIV e XV in Codex – Inventario dei Manoscritti Medievali della Toscana Giliola Barbero: Manoscritti e scrittura in Lombardia nel secondo quarto del secolo XV IV. Scribes David S. Chambers: Matteo Contugi of Volterra (d. 1493): Scribe and Secret Agent Lorenz Böninger: The Ricordanze of Lorenzo di Francesco Guidetti: Manuscript Production and Circulation Karl Schlebusch: Giorgio Antonio Vespucci: 1434–1514 Xavier van Binnebeke: Additions to the Latin Library of Giorgio Antonio Vespucci Laura Nuvoloni: Bartolomeo Sanvito and Albinia C. de la Mare V. Manuscript Illumination Jonathan J. G. Alexander: Scribes and Illuminators in Italian Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts: Cooperation and Overlaps Giordana Mariani Canova: La dimensione accademica della miniatura del Rinascimento a Padova Angela Dillon Bussi: Albinia C. de la Mare, Vespasiano da Bisticci e la miniatura: il caso di Bartolomeo Varnucci VI. Humanism Silvia Rizzo: Il copista di un codice petrarchesco delle Tusculanae: filologia vs paleografia Stephen Oakley: The ‘Puccini’ Scribe and the Transmission of Latin Texts in Fifteenth-Century Florence Mirella Ferrari: Umanisti italiani nel fondo Burney della British Library: autografi di Pier Candido Decembrio James Hankins: Latin Autographs of Leonardo Bruni Sebastiano Gentile: Nuove considerazioni sullo ‘scrittoio’ di Marsilio Ficino: tra paleografia e filologia