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    Visual Languages of the Renaissance:

    Emblems, Dreams, Hieroglyphs.


    Professor Nicola Cipani
    ITAL-UA 760/MEDI-UA 760/
    Spring 2015 - Thur 12:30PM-3:00PM
    Casa Italiana, Library (2nd floor).
    Office and office hours: Casa Italiana, 4th floor, Tue 3:30-4:30 or by appt.
    nc39@nyu.edu

    Making knowledge visible was one of the great Renaissance endeavors. Some of the period's
    most characteristic products were born out of the conviction that concepts could be systematically
    turned into images and that such images could be organized into a visual language, more
    profound and universal than discursive logic. Egyptian hieroglyphs and dream visions, in their
    mysterious graphic exuberance, were considered typical vehicles of this advanced mode of
    communication. The desire to emulate their symbolic density is reflected both in literature and in
    art, often in ways that challenge common distinctions between visual and verbal communication.
    In this course you will be introduced to an assortment of works representative of such interplay
    between text and image: emblem books, dream books and dream-centered works, hieroglyphic
    inventions and studies, collections of proverbs, iconology manuals, etc. Among the books
    examined are some widely considered as the finest examples of design in the history of printing.
    Early modern and recent theory of emblems will also be discussed. As a present-day counterpart
    of Renaissance emblems, the course will conclude with a survey of corporate logos and Russian
    criminal tattoos.
    Course materials
    - Required course readings are either posted on nyu classes in advance of due date or accessible
    online through nyu libraries (links are provided in the bibliography below).
    Additional notes
    - Grade: response papers 20%, midterm exam 25%, final 8pp. paper 35%, class participation
    20%.
    - Attendance at every lecture and section is mandatory. More than two missed lectures will
    result in a decreased participation grade.
    - Papers must include a bibliography and at least parenthetical citation to any author cited or
    used as a source of argument and/or information. Please review the university's policy on
    plagiarism, as it will be strictly enforced.
    - Students must submit their paper draft by Tuesday, April 22 and their final paper by Tuesday,
    May 6. Late submissions will negatively impact on the grade.

    Week 1

    Introduction - Hieroglyphs and the rediscovery of Horapollo


    Horapollo, Hieroglypica
    Boas 1993 (Hieroglyphics of Horapollo)
    Weiss 1969 (The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity)
    Allen 1970 (Mysteriously Meant)

    Week 2

    The Myth of Egypt in the Renaissance


    Andrea Mantegna, Triumphs of Caesar
    Albrecht Drer, Ehrenpforte
    Lorenzo Lotto, Choir of S. Maria Maggiore in Bergamo
    Dempsey 2000 (Renaissance Hieroglyphic Studies: an Overview)
    Iversen 1993 (The myth of Egypt and its hieroglyphs in European tradition)

    Week 3

    Andrea Alciato's Book of Emblems


    Andrea Alciato, Emblematum Liber
    Daly 1989 (Andrea Alciato and the Emblem Tradition)
    Russel 1986 (Emblems and Hieroglyphics)
    Tung 2012 (Alciato's Practices of Imitation)

    Week 4

    XVIth Century Emblem Books


    Geoffroy Tory, Champfleury
    Geoffrey Withney, Choice of Emblems
    Girolamo Ruscelli, Le Imprese Illustri
    Daly 2000 (Sixteenth-Century Emblems and Imprese as Indicators of Cultural Change)
    Calabritto 2007 (Women's Imprese in Girolamo Ruscelli)

    Week 5

    Ancient and Early Modern Dream Theory


    Synesius of Cyrene, On Dreams
    Marsilio Ficino, Platonic Theology.
    Schreier-Rupprecht 1993 (A Renaissance Contribution to the History of Dream)
    Schmidt-Biggemann 2007 (A Short History of Imagination)

    Week 6

    Dream Interpretation / Dream Representation


    Artemidorus, Oneirocritica
    Leo Hebraeus, Dialogues of Love
    Gerolamo Cardano, The Book of my Life
    Ruvoldt 2004 (The Sleep of Reason)
    MacPhail 1995 (Prophecy and Memory in Renaissance Dream Vision)

    Week 7

    A Venetian Dream-Hieroglyph: Colonna's Hypnerotomachia


    Greenhalg 1974 (The Monument in the Hypnerotomachia and the Pyramids of Egypt)
    Curran 1998 (The Hypnerotomachia Polophilii and Renaissance Egyptology)
    De Girolami Cheney 2007 (Colonna's Hypnerotomachia: A Garden of Neoplatonic Love)
    Midterm Exam

    Week 8

    March 16- March 23 Spring Recess

    Week 9

    Hieroglyphic Erudition: Valeriano and Kircher


    Pierio Valeriano, Hieroglyphica
    Athanasius Kirchner, Oedipus Aegyptiacus

    Curran 2007 (Hieroglyphic Studies in the High Renaissance)


    Stolzenberg 2013 (Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity)
    Week 10

    XVIth Century Imprese


    Paolo Giovio, Dialogo delle Imprese
    Daly 1998 (Literature in the Light of the Emblem)
    Maffei 2007 (Giovio's Dialogo and the Museum)
    Caldwell 2007 (The Sixteenth-Century Italian Impresa in Theory and Practice)

    Week 11

    Handbooks of Allegories
    Cesare Ripa, Iconologia
    Achille Bocchi, Symbolicarum Quaestionum De Universo Genere
    Seznec 1995 (Chapter V: The Influence of the Manuals)
    Watson 1996 (Achille Bocchi and the Emblem Book As Symbolic Form)

    Week 12

    Devotional Emblem Books


    Jacob Bosch, Symbolographia
    Hermann Hugo, Pia Desideria
    Jeremias Drexel, Aeternitatis Prodromus
    Dimler 2007 (Studies in the Jesuit Emblem)
    Daly 2014 (Jesuit Emblems)
    Final paper draft due

    Week 13

    The Proverb as Hieroglyph: Erasmus


    Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia
    Callahan 1995 (Erasmus's Adages)
    Margolin 1995 (Alciato, a Champion of Humanism in the Eyes of Erasmus)

    Week 14

    Literature in the Age of Emblems: Bruno and Marino


    Bruno, Heroic Frenzies
    Marino, Adonis
    Yates 1982 (The Emblematic Conceit in Bruno's De Gli Eroici Furori)
    Maggi 2007 ('L'uomo astratto'. Philosophy and Emblematic Rhetoric in the Furori)
    Caruso 2013 (Marino's Adone: From Pastoral to Epic Poem)

    Week 15

    Logos and Tattoos as Emblems.


    Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia
    Daly 2008 (The Nachleben of the Emblem in Some Modern Logos)
    Mderheim 2001 (Emblematics and Modern Tattoos)
    Final paper due in class

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    Assmann, Jan. Moses the Egyptian. The Menory of Egypt in Western Monotheism. Harvard University
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    Baldaev, Danzig, et al. Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia (3 volumes). London: FUEL, 20042010
    Boas, George. Hieroglyphics of Horapollo. Princeton University Press, 1993.
    Calabritto, Monica. "Women's Imprese in Girolamo Ruscelli's Le imprese illustri [1566]", The
    Italian Emblem: A Collection of Essays. Mansueto, Donato, and Elena Laura Calogero,
    eds. Geneve: Librairie Droz, 2007. 157-184.
    Caldwell, Dorigen Sophie. The Sixteenth-Century Italian Impresa In Theory And Practice. Vol. 17.
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    Callahan, Virginia W. "Erasmus's Adages. A pervasive Element in the Emblems of Alciato."
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    Bloomsbury, 2013.
    Cox Miller, Patricia. Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture. Princeton:
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    Web Resources / Digitization Projects
    OpenEmblem initiative (University of Illinois): http://media.library.uiuc.edu/projects/oebp/
    Memorial University of Newfoundland Alciato: http://www.mun.ca/alciato/
    Glasgow University Emblem Website: http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/
    Glasgow Centre for Emblem digitisation: http://www.ces.arts.gla.ac.uk/html/AHRBProject.htm
    Emblem Project Utrecht: http://www.let.uu.nl/emblems/html/index.html
    Bavarian State Library Project: http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~emblem/
    University of Bergamo, Biblioteca Emblematica: http://dinamico.unibg.it/cav/emblematica/login.htm

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