New Epistle Territories Between the 15th and 16th Centuries
Proceedings of the FIRB 2012 International Conference (Venice, 11-12 November 2014)
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abstract
This volume collects most of the contributions presented at the conference of the same name, organised as part of a broad research project on the figure of Francesco Filelfo, financed by MIUR within the framework of the Italian Fund for Basic Research (FIRB) 2012. Through the conference, the research unit present at Ca’ Foscari, directed by Filippo Bognini, aimed to provide further stimuli to the scientific debate on what the metaphor of the title evokes: i.e. the new spaces occupied, in the age of Humanism, by the fundamental genre of the epistle, not only in Filelfo (whose production in the vernacular and the intercurrent relations between epistles and Odes are investigated here), but also in other personalities who, in different contexts, made a significant contribution to the genre (from the Bolognese humanists up to Machiavelli, not excluding in-depth studies on only apparently minor figures, such as Bartolomeo Baldana or Girolamo Aliotti).
Rhetoric • Epistolarum libri • Bartolomeo Baldana • Metrics • Correspondences in vernacular language • Latin versus Vernacular language • Erudite letters • Angelo Poliziano • Seneca • Epistolography • Vernacular Exchanges of Letters • Fifteenth century • Autobiography • Giovanni Pico della M • Flavio Biondo • Latin at the Age of Humanism • Francesco Filelfo • Niccolò Perotti • Niccolò Machiavelli • Epistolary • Prosody • University of Bologna • Francesco Barbaro • Renaissance • Niccolò Volpe • Neo-Latin epistles • Theatre • Francesco Vettori • Lianoro Lianori • XVth Century Papal States • Giovanni Pontano • Humanism • Invectives • Monastic studies • Carmina • Francesco Guicciardini • Lyric collection, circulation • Tuscany • Intertextuality • Arezzo • Philology • Filippo Beroaldo • Commentaries • Lucio da Visso • Ars dictaminis • Epistolary theory • Authorial variants • Cicero