It was the very moment, he explains, when elite
Paduan and Venetian culture (the university, young Venetian patrician males who made up the various Compagnie della Calza, aristocratic patrons such as Cornaro) displayed a persistent interest in popular forms such as the villanesca, buffonesca, and bulesca (the urban 'bravo', or 'bully-boy' play).
Urania is dedicated by Bigolina to Bartolomeo Salvatico, a
Paduan nobleman and lawyer, with whom the author declares she is in love.
The original eyewimess report of this first recorded violation of Petrarch's tomb was originally made by the early seventeenth-century
Paduan scholar Giacomo Filippo Tomasini who was much more solicitous of Petrarch's memory than today's
Paduan tomb-raiders [unless the whole matter of the reopening of the tomb is, as one suspects (hopes) a goliardic hoax].
Both
Paduan and Ferrarese schools (represented by works such as, respectively, Pietro Pomponazzi's De immortalitate animae and Alberto Lollio's Concio de animae immortalitate) read Aristotle in the light of works by Alexander of Aphrodisias, thus linking the intellective faculties of the human soul to the continuing presence of sense-data; such a view undermined the immortality of the soul as conceived by Christianity and was associated with heresy.
We find that the first discourse is actually addressed to Bartolomeo da Lendinara, a young
Paduan friar who had prepared a defense of poetry in the Boccaccian mode, based on what is generally referred to as the concept of theologia poetica.
Anne Hallmark explores the relationship between Johannes Ciconia and the
Paduan churchman and academic Francesco Zabarella, which she sees as crucial in the commissioning of a number of that composer's finest motets.
Felicis mart.') on the bone in the reliquary identifies it as belonging to the 9th-century
Paduan saint St Felicity (Fig.
Volume 2 of the work opens with seven studies grouped under the heading "I luoghi della vita." In "L'esperienza e l'opera di Leon Battista Alberti alla luce dei suoi rapporti con la citta di Padova," Silvana Collodo suggests a number of
Paduan cultural influences in Alberti's writings, including Marsilio of Padua.
Born into an aristocratic
Paduan family, probably in the second decade of the Cinquecento, Bigolina followed the traditional path of marriage, motherhood, and finally widowhood in the later 15508.
As early as 1732, the
Paduan maestro di cappella Francesantonio Calegari expounded his notion of a basso fondamentale that distinguished between chordal relationships within the octave (root, third, fifth, and seventh, which might variously be associated with the thoroughbass numbers 2, 4, and 6 through inversion), and suspension-type dissonances that dwelt conceptually outside the octave (ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth).
His statues of ephebes and his busts would have been inconceivable without the example of Mantegna's
Paduan frescoes and the Triumphs of Caesar, a brilliant demonstration of sculpture and architecture all'antica.
