Renaissance Historiography

Resumo
L’Antirinascimento, de Eugenio Battisti pertence a uma época de intensas manifestações culturais da vanguarda italiana o que nos leva a ponderar uma insurgente postura política inserida nesta obra frente os congelados esquemas teóricos de crítica e história da arte, ressaltando a vontade do autor da renovação dos paradigmas teóri- cos frente o conservadorismo da historiografia tradicional.

Abstract
Eugenio Battisti’s L’Antirinascimento belongs to a time of intense cultural manifestations of the Italian avant-garde which leads us to consider an insurgent political stance inserted in this work forward the frozen theoretical schemes of criticism and art history, highlighting the desire of the author of the renewal theoretical paradigm forward the conservatism of traditional historiography.

Edición del texto latino con el cotejo crítico de los 3 manuscritos y la edición de la Real Academia de la Historia (1780) enfrentada a la primera traducción anotada de los últimos 5 libros de la crónica latina de Carlos V de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, que aquí se realiza (pp. 1-165). Se incluyen también la edición y traducción de fragmentos de redacciones primitivas que los otros editores modernos habrían relegado a la somera constatación en aparato crítico, con lo que se ha abordado y culminado una tarea que no pudo asumir la comisión de académicos que llevó a cabo la mencionada edición príncipe de 1780, según reconocieron ellos mismos en la Praefatio con que se abría dicha obra. En la introducción se aborda un pormenorizado estudio de fuentes en el contexto de la historiografía de la época y se analizan las vicisitudes de la tradición manuscrita (pp. LXXV-CXCIII). El índice constituye un verdadero estudio prosopográfico de esta importante crónica carlina (pp. CXCII-CCXII).

This study deals with the perception of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary in Croatian historiography (1500–1660). The author studies the image which was formed in the historical works of some of the most important Croatian
clergy and noblemen and the role this image played in constructing the political identity of the Croatian lands. The main goal of this image was to create a sense of unity among the Croatian elite and to defend their position against Venetian, Ottoman, Habsburg and Hungarian influence.

The essay offers a critical overview of Cesare Vasoli’s contribution to the renewal of Bodin studies, focusing on three main aspects: 1) Vasoli’s understanding of Bodin as a rich and complex thinker, irreducible to his juridico-political theory of sovereignty; 2) his attempt to identify the properly philosophical nucleus of Bodin’s thought, and to situate the latter within a larger intellectual tradition; 3) his emphasis on the internal consistency and ‘harmony’ of Bodin’s thought, of which he particularly stresses the encyclopedic nature. After clarifying Vasoli’s position in the landscape of Bodinian scholarship, the article sheds light on both the merits and the potential limits of his historiographical approach: among the latter, in particular, the risk of overlooking the diachronic dimension of Bodin’s intellectual biography, so rich in shifts, adjustments, and spectacular contradictions.

L´articolo si propone di esplorare le modalità di rappresentazione che assume il Sacco di Roma del 1527 come massacro storico. Da un lato vengono tracciate le corrispondenze tra immagini e testi; dall´altro si cerca di identificare i codici retorici e estetici che hanno permesso ai protagonisti di raccontare il sacco come un caso limite, sia per il grado di violenza raggiunto, che per la quantità di morti. In questo senso si discuterà il lavoro di André Chastel in relazione a due aspetti: (i) l´intepretazione univoca delle rappresentazioni imperiali del sacco come trionfo militare e (ii) l´assenza, nel caso italiano, di immagini immediatamente contemporanee all´avvenimento

This paper deals with an episode from Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda's De bello Africo, which is only found in Lo de La Goleta y Túnez, año 1535, a work attributed to Luis de Ávila y Zúñiga. In this piece, an act of loyalty to enemy Barbarossa, which the Emperor however denied, is narrated. In order to explain this feat, some considerations on Charles V's ethical and political attitude as reflected in the chronicle of his exploits are given; among these, a critical commentary on a passage that Sepúlveda wrote against Machiavelli is offered.
https://personal.us.es/jsolis/CarlosVyMaquiavelo.htm
El larvado maquiavelismo de Carlos, Rey Emperador. Este artículo versa sobre un episodio del “De bello Africo” del cronista Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, que sólo se encuentra narrado en la relación “Lo de La Goleta y Túnez, año 1535”, atribuida en un principio al historiador Luis de Ávila y Zúñiga, pero en cuyo trasfondo también se encuentran implicados los poetas Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Garcilaso de la Vega. En este episodio se cuenta un acto de lealtad con el enemigo Barbarroja que el emperador, no obstante, desmintió, siendo eliminado en todas las redacciones de esta crónica latina de Carlos V. Para explicar este lance, se determina con precisión la fuente de la historiografía romana clásica con que glosó este episodio el docto cronista y se hacen algunas consideraciones sobre la actitud ética y política de Carlos V al respecto de la crónica de sus hechos, entre ellas, el comentario de un pasaje que el mismo Sepúlveda escribió contra Maquiavelo y que aquí se traduce por primera vez a partir de la edición crítica de la obra de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda donde se nos ha transmitido.
José Solís de los Santos, «La buena lid del césar Carlos o el panadero de Barbarroja», en Humanismo y Pervivencia del Mundo Clásico. Homenaje al profesor Juan Gil, V. 4, Alcañiz-Madrid: Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos - CSIC, 2015, 5 vols., IV, pp. 1785-1806. ISBN 978-84-00-09990-9, eISBN 978-84-00-09991-6.

This article analyzes the way in which Lope de Vega conceives in his theater the pre-battle harangue, the most characteristic speech in ancient and renaissance historiography. Having this
aim in mind, i have analyzed the role played by this type of speech in a group of plays dealing with historical and military subjects. these plays were written in a period when Lope was particularly
interested in historical issues: La Santa Liga (1598-1603), Arauco domado (1599), El asalto de Mas-
trique (1595-1606) and Los Guanches de Tenerife (1604-1606).

One of the four manuscripts preserving Mattia Palmieri’s Latin translation of Herodotus’ Histories, namely Florence, BML, ms. Acq. e Doni 130 (F), is fully annotated by its as-yet-unidentified scribe. While the marginal comments on the text cover a wide range of interests, there is a particular category of them consisting of references and allusions to classical literature, which are not to be found on the second annotated manuscript of the translation, namely Naples, BNN, ms. V.G.7. This group of scholia in F shows the established knowledge of the classical authors shown by its annotator. There are thirteen references to specific Greek and Latin authors and another seven that can be found and traced in them, including Aristotle, Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Valerius Maximus, Sallust, Juvenal, Cicero and Terence. The paper identifies these references and allusions in relation to Herodotus’ text, and examines the annotator’s preference to Livy as the Roman historian favoured also by Palmieri and matching Herodotus’ iucunditas and candor, as put by Quintilian in his Institutio Oratoria (10.1.101).

The following chapter explores how the defence of History’s epistemological value was carried forward by some Italian theorists of the artis storicae (Robortello, Patrizi y Speroni) who were compromised with philosophical scepticism in its different branches. The author continues with the fruitful line of research, initiated by R. Popkin y Ch. Scmitt, and argues that the recuperation of Ancient philosophical scepticism had interesting projections in European historiography in the second half of XVIth century.  This work challenges and proposes a revision of A. Momigliano’s influential interpretation, according to which anticuarism, due to the influence of scepticism, and religious and political controversies was considered until late XVIIth century as a kind of imperfect history, downgraded in favour of political history. On the contrary, through the strategies developed by these Italian theorists, Vidal founds that already in the XVIth century, scepticism had a positive appreciation.

""The unpublished work De rebus Dalmaticis (On Dalmatian History), (1602), by the Šibenik humanist and historian Dinko Zavorović (c. 1540-5 October, 1608), is often associated in histories of Croatian literature with a  literary scandal—the loss, under intriguing and unclear circumstances, of the first manuscript of this, the first history of Dalmatia.
Zavorović scholars who have dealt with this so-called scandal, however superficially, all reach the conclusion that the main culprit was a man named Robertus Bonaventura Britanus, thus agreeing with Zavorović’s own opinion.
Because of the scarce data on the aforementioned events,
our knowledge of what really happened to Zavorović’s manuscript remains limited, though the dearth of information does not justify the lack of any detailed scholarly analysis of Zavorović’s written testimony of his meeting with Robertus Bonaventura Britanus, and the basis of his accusation. Despite the crucial role Bonaventura undoubtedly played in
the events leading to the disappearance of the first version of the work De rebus Dalmaticis, the British priest remains almost completely unknown in the international and Croatian scientific community.
Although the main reason for this study is to present recent findings about Robertus Bonaventura Britanus, as well as to integrate the collected data into existing knowledge about the aforementioned literary scandal, the research itself will start with a detailed analysis of the text of two epistles Dinko Zavorović exchanged with Toma Suričević, the archpriest of Šibenik. The contents of these two short texts reveal details about the events that preceded the disappearance of the first version of Zavorović’s De rebus Dalmaticis. Taking into account the
above, this study has two main goals: first, to clarify at least partially the identity of Robertus Bonaventura Britanus and, second, to reconstruct the fragments of important and related events to shed new light on the disappearance of the first version of De rebus Dalmaticis. ""

Although his long-time companion and wife, Mary Costelloe Berenson, was Bernard Berenson’s most conspicuous female protégée, she was obligated to write under a pseudonym. She therefore focused a large share of her energies in assisting Bernard in his research and writing, as well as in shaping the reception of his school of connoisseurship through articles and reviews. Among the several sapphic women in their circle studying art — a group Mary dubbed the ‘Virgins of the Hill’ — Maud Cruttwell was perhaps the most outwardly successful. Having studied under the tutelage of both Mary and Bernard Berenson, she established an independent reputation by publishing a series of popular artist monographs in rapid succession. Though she eventually became disillusioned with the field of art history, her contributions, important for their popularization of Berensonian connoisseurship, long remained benchmark resources in, as well as models for, the study of Italian Renaissance art.

In an attempt to justify his translation of Herodotus for Cardinal Prospero Colonna and given the deep-rooted criticism against the Greek historian, Mattia Palmieri dedicates a brief part of his prooemium-dedicatory epistle to compose an encomium for Herodotus. He refutes the points that Herodotus’ critics attacked him for (unreliability, prejudice and fabrication of events), while he praises his writing style, the vastness of the material recorded and Herodotus’ thoroughness in organizing it as well as the universal appreciation of his work by his contemporaries. Palmieri’s encomium echoes references to the authors-critics of Herodotus, notably Thucydides and Plutarch, but also to his most valiant defender, Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Although a reflection of Cicero’s Laws 1.5-8 is also noticeable, this is only used to provide Palmieri with a background for expressing his own theory on historiography, preparatory for his engagement with recording his contemporary events in his De bello italico and De temporibus suis.

The Neapolitan humanist Girolamo Borgia was secretary to  Bartolomeo d'Alviano, the famous condottiere in the service of Venice. He accompanied Alviano in the war of 1508 against Maximilian I, which led to the temporary Venetian conquest of the lands of the Habsburg, Gorizia, Trieste and Fiume. Girolamo Borgia participated in the negotiations for the surrender of Trieste, after a short siege. This event was described by Borgia in a passage of his unpublished Historia de bellis italicis (one of the sources of Guicciardini), which is transcribed in the appendix.

Pour décrire sa situation à la cour de François Ier, Guillaume Budé s’est un jour dépeint comme un « singe » entouré d’« ânes ». Beaucoup d’humanistes exprimèrent un semblable mépris pour l’aristocratie française, jugée trop ignorante. Le présent article revient sur la publication de la première édition française de Thucydide, publiée en 1527 par Jacques Colin. L’analyse des dédicaces écrites à cette occasion par Colin et Marot met en évidence la dimension politique de cette entreprise éditoriale. Ceux-ci se font le relais de la volonté royale, tout en défendant des objectifs propres : défendre l’utilité politique de l’histoire, et encourager la noblesse à se former aux affaires d’État par la lecture des histoires. Les dédicaces éclairent ainsi le nouveau rapport de la monarchie française à l’historiographie après la défaite de Pavie (1525), les attentes des humanistes et la position inconfortable de la noblesse, sommée de s’éduquer à la prudence. Elles annoncent de nouvelles entreprises historiographiques et le dépassement, à partir des années 1530-1540, de l’opposition topique entre lettres et armes.

Lezione del 17 marzo 2021 presso la Scuola Superiore Meridionale, nell'ambito del Laboratorio di Analisi del testo letterario curato da A. Salvo Rossi.
Premessa. 1. La storiografia d’età aragonese: status quaestionis. 2. Legittimità, ‘nuovo’ e Antico.
I. Le “strategie della parola” d’età alfonsina e la fondazione dell’Umanesimo monarchico. 1. Il dibattito de historia conscribenda: Valla, Facio e Panormita. 2. La diffusione della storia antica nella prima età aragonese e la “via dei Cesari”.
II. Le strategie di legittimazione della regalità e la riflessione pontaniana. 1. I volgarizzamenti della storia antica: un panorama. 2. Pontano: l’Actius e il De bello Neapolitano.
III. Le strategie di legittimazione delle élites: i Seggi napoletani e la storiografia umanistica. 1. Antico e distinzione sociale. 2. I Seggi, il riuso politico di Livio e una proposta di repubblica per Napoli: Pietro Jacopo de Jennaro. 3. La ricerca del verum e l’immaginario dei Seggi: la storiografia nobiliare di Francesco Elio Marchese.

« Molinaeus noster. Charles Du Moulin (1500-1566), prince des juristes, praticien engagé et fondateur de l’école juridique française. Un modèle de jurisconsulte dans la France du XIXe siècle », dans Liber amicorum. Mélanges réunis en hommage au professeur Jean-Louis Thireau, Revue d’histoire des facultés de droit et de la culture juridique, 2019, hors série, p. 57-100