Translating the Crusades. William of Tyre and Matteo Maria Boiardo by Andrea Rizzi

“…This article considers Matteo Maria Boiardo’s contribution to the vernacular appropriation and transmission of William of Tyre’s late twelfth-century Chronicon in Renaissance Italy. It takes a necessarily long view of the source for Boiardo’s digression on the Crusades in his translation of the Historia Imperiale. …”
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Les contrats d’apprentissage et leurs alternatives dans la formation des organistes et des facteurs d’orgues italiens (1400-1550) by Hugo Perina

“…This article therefore exposes several non-contractual or extra-professional transmission channels to trace the training of organ-related craftsmen and musicians in Renaissance Italy (1400-1550): family background, clerical curriculum, or passage from another profession…”
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Prophétie féminine et autorité institutionnelle dans l’État de Savoie à l’époque moderne: hypothèses de recherche by Elisabetta Lurgo

“…Historians of Renaissance Italy have studied groups of women who were seen as prophetic visionaries in princely courts. …”
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Od polyarchií k autokraciím: Studium režimních transformací a jeho reflexe by Maxmilián Strmiska, Jaroslav Bílek

“…The authors seek to identify major arguments concerning theoretical backgrounds in the current agendas of research into the transitions from the polyarchic republican city-states to the authoritarian regimes of personal power in the Renaissance Italy and into the contemporary processes of autocratic reversals. …”
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The Iconography of Renaissance Ceremonials in the Early Modern World by Metin Mustafa

“…As a result of this inextricable cultural connection between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy, this article argues the Ottomans deserve a place in Renaissance discourse.…”
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Ce que révèle l’exil politique sur les relations entre les États italiens by Christine Shaw

“…The practice of political exile was particularly widespread in Renaissance Italy. The issues related to exiles were a major element of the official relationships between Italian states. …”
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True and False Liberty. Instructions for a Sovereign Pope (1589) : Camillo Paleotti's De Repubblica bononiensi by Angela De Benedictis

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La figure de l’exilé et la représentation de l’humaniste. Réflexions sur Hans Baron et Leonardo Bruni by Laurent Baggioni

“…Our understanding of political exile in Renaissance Italy is still largely reliant on a construction of the problem through German historiography and sociology carried out from the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. …”
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Quand le jardin révèle un imaginaire du paysage méditerranéen : les Colombières de Ferdinand Bac by Agnès du Vachat

“…Drawing inspiration from art, literature, and his travel experiences, he recreated in his garden landscape scenes evoking Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Spain under the Arabian and Catholic influences, and Renaissance Italy. By so doing, he contributed to enhancing the imaginary dimension of the Mediterranean landscape. …”
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Historian Engagé. Republicanism and oligarchy in Carlo Sigonio's Political Histories by Guido Bartolucci

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Official Sanctity alla Veneziana: Gerardo, Pietro Orseolo and Giacomo Salomani by Karen McCluskey

“…Throughout late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, pious men and women were recognized as saints during their own lifetime and accorded at least local veneration at the site of their tomb after death. …”
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Portia as Primavera: Cultural Memory in The Death of the Heart by Wendy B. Farris

“…I wish to argue that in this moment Bowen appropriates Botticelli's painting, Primavera, as a subtext for her novel and with it the grace and charm of Renaissance Italy. The virtual presence of Botticelli's Primavera, or, if not the painting, the Renaissance mythological portrait its name suggests, is perhaps one of the continuities that rule Bowen's text, seen or unseen by her. …”
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Revisiting Presentism by Jan Blanc, Thalia Brero, Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin, Marije Osnabrugge

“…Drawing on these cases, we reflect on the relation between crises and presentism and suggest that the manner in which time, and the present in particular, was experienced in north-western Europe seems to be distinctly different from the relation to time of people in Renaissance Italy. …”
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“Honore et utile”: vicende storiche e testimonianze private nelle lettere romane di Matteo Franco (1488-1492) “Honore et utile”: Historical Events and Private Evidences in Matteo F... by Giovanna Frosini

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Figures of love: amor from antiquity to the Italian middle ages by Bowen, R

“…Tracing the tendrils of tradition that link these figures into one history of 'amor', this thesis examines visual as well as literary culture to arrive at an overview of the many looks of Love from classical Rome to pre-Renaissance Italy. As well as canonical authors including Virgil, Ovid, and Dante, this thesis explores the depiction of love in works of lesser known late antique poets (Ausonius, Dracontius, Ennodius), various medieval sources (from the 'Roman d’Enéas' to the laude of Jacopone da Todi), a number of Christian exegetical traditions, and a broad spread of examples from visual culture, from Roman Imperial wall-painting to late antique silverware and thirteenth-century manuscript illuminations. …”

Waters and Welfare: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, 1549–1609 by Murphy, Caroline Elizabeth

“…Beyond revealing the much earlier legacies of improvement ideologies and projects for infrastructurally-enabled capitalist circulation most often associated with Enlightenment Europe and global modernity, this research demonstrates that early political economy, as it developed in Renaissance Italy, was conceived as a fundamentally architectural enterprise. …”
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An illustrious man and his uomini illustri by Manuali, T, Bastianich, Tanya

“…The discussion of the conceptual and artistic genesis of the <em>uomini illustri</em> genre creates an extensive time line, with some lacuna, that allows us to visualize the development of this theme right up to Renaissance Italy. A synopsis of the many <em>uomini illustri</em> cycles on the Italian peninsula is then given. …”

The reception of Ariosto's Orlando furioso (1532) by three Italian women writers of the sixteenth century by Waring, CIM

“…<p>The thesis aims to bridge a gap in the current re-evaluation of women’s contribution to the literature of Renaissance Italy, by focussing on the reception of Ariosto’s epic poem <i>Orlando Furioso</i> - published in its ‘final’ version in 1532 - by three female poets of the sixteenth century: Isabella di Morra (1516/18-45/46), Laura Bacio Terracina (c.1519-77) and Moderata Fonte (1555-92). …”

Count Freducci's Nautical Charts, Papal Cartography, and Trasmission: A Reply to Article by Chrt Van Duzer (2017) by Patrizia Li Cini De Romagnoli

“…Chet Van Duzer, in his BLJ article, 'Nautical Charts, Texts, and Transmission: The Case of Conte di OttomanoFreducci and Fra Mauro' (pp. 1-4), points out the inherent biases one encounters in interpreting descriptive legends on non-traditional nautical charts, and he reiterates a point I made: namely, that the recondite nature of some of the new information that nautical charts by Count Freducci include are of particular interest to shed light on the process of commissioning and creating nautical charts in Medieval and Renaissance Italy…”
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Chivalric Poetry between Singing and Printing in Early Modern Italy by Luca Degl'Innocenti

“…The paper aims to survey the most relevant evidence, thus reassessing the importance of orality in fostering and disseminating one of the prominent literary genres of Renaissance Italy…”
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