The Gelati Academy, the Gessi Family and Edgar Allan Poe

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_3377
dc.title	The Gelati Academy, the Gessi Family and Edgar Allan Poe
dc.contributor.author	Gardi Andrea
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/venezia-arti/2020/1/i-gelati-i-gessi-e-edgar-allan-poe/
dc.description.abstract	The article tries to exemplify the possible work of research and contextualization one can make on an isolated and not immediately understandable source: in this specific case, an encrypted ownership mark put on a sixteenth-century printed book. Starting with mark deciphering, the work reconstructs the writers’ biographic deeds, their social position and the cultural milieu in which they acted, trying to look both at the little-known mentality of a family from little Bolognese nobility between sixteenth and seventeenth century, and at the possible social spread (in a period thought to be characterised by conformism and mind control) of cultural elements bound to hermeticism, neoplatonism, qabalah, alchemy, magic, heterodoxy; a spread which was promoted by some academies and religious orders.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 29 \| December 2020
dc.issued	2020-12-11
dc.dateAccepted	2020-07-29
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-07-09
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-2720
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2020/01/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	)
dc.subject	)
dc.subject	Bologna, accademia dei Gelati
dc.subject	Bologna, accademia dei Gelati
dc.subject	Bologna, gentry (XVI-XVII cent
dc.subject	Bologna, gentry (XVI-XVII cent
dc.subject	Cryptography
dc.subject	Cryptography
dc.subject	Neoplatonism
dc.subject	Neoplatonism
dc.subject	Ownership marks
dc.subject	Ownership marks

Research Article
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Andrea Gardi Università degli Studi di Udine, Italia

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abstract

The article tries to exemplify the possible work of research and contextualization one can make on an isolated and not immediately understandable source: in this specific case, an encrypted ownership mark put on a sixteenth-century printed book. Starting with mark deciphering, the work reconstructs the writers’ biographic deeds, their social position and the cultural milieu in which they acted, trying to look both at the little-known mentality of a family from little Bolognese nobility between sixteenth and seventeenth century, and at the possible social spread (in a period thought to be characterised by conformism and mind control) of cultural elements bound to hermeticism, neoplatonism, qabalah, alchemy, magic, heterodoxy; a spread which was promoted by some academies and religious orders.

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Dec. 11, 2020

Accepted

July 29, 2020

Submitted

July 9, 2020

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Keywords: Bologna, accademia dei Gelati • Bologna, gentry (XVI-XVII cent • Ownership marks • Cryptography • Neoplatonism • )

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