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Su alcuni riflessi della concezione bizantina del potere nella Vita di Pietro il Grande di Antonio Catiforo

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Abstract

The dense web of cultural, religious, and political relations linking Greek intellectuals and Tsarist Russia in the eighteenth century has been the subject of several recent studies. A distinct chapter of this story concerns the Greeks of Venice, many of whom were educated at the Greek College in Rome or the Flanginian School in Venice. Antonio Catiforo (1685–1763), author of a Vita di Pietro il Grande (1736) written in Italian and subsequently translated into Greek (as the Βίος του Πέτρου του Μεγάλου), belongs to this category. In the context of the longue durée of the Byzantine legacy in Eastern Europe, this contribution aims to illustrate the reaction of Catiforo to both the establishment of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721 and another significant aspect of the contemporary nature of centralised power in relation to the periphery, the representation of the rebel ataman Mazepa and the Ukrainian Cossacks at the time of the Battle of Poltava (1709).


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Submitted: July 5, 2024 | Accepted: Aug. 12, 2024 | Published Oct. 31, 2024 | Language: it

Keywords Greek Enlightenment • Peter the Great • Byzance après Byzance • Antonio Catiforo • Ivan Mazepa

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