Renaissance

Words or Gestures? Marriage Rituals in Renaissance Italy: Continuity and Change, 1400-1600, in: Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150- 1600, Ed. Korpiola, M. (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 275-287.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Co-authored with Silvana Seidel Menchi

Formal Analysis of the Massacre of the Innocents (Francesco Caroto)

by Galven Lee

Renaissance Syntax and Subjectivity: Ideological Contents of Latin and the Vernacular in Scottish Prose Chronicles. John C. Leeds.

by Colette Gordon

Review published in Sixteenth Century Journal xlii no.4 Winter 2011

Montaigne's Two Plutarchs

by Alison CALHOUN

MONTAIGNE STUDIES, VOL. XXI, NO 1-2 (2009) - MONTAIGNE ET LES PHILOSOPHES

Redefining Nobility in the French Renaissance: The Case of Montaigne’s Journal de voyage

by Alison CALHOUN

MLN - Volume 123, Number 4, September 2008 (French Issue), pp. 836-854

Montaigne and the Comic: Exposing Private Life

by Alison CALHOUN

Philosophy and Literature, Volume 35, Number 2, October 2011, pp. 303-319

Between men of action, men of words, and men—like the philosophers—who find themselves curiously in between, Montaigne... more Between men of action, men of words, and men—like the philosophers—who find themselves curiously in between, Montaigne would ideally write like Epicurus and Seneca, in a style that unites his actions with his words. This union of "doings" and "sayings," of doctrine and daily activity, is also what Montaigne refers to as the wisdom of the philosophers. His new form of wisdom in the Essays unites his sayings and doings, but without losing touch with the paradox of making the private public, and the inevitability of being judged comic in his time for exposing his private life.

Marriage and Consent in Pretridentine Venice: Between Lay Conception and Ecclesiastical Conception, 1420-1545. In: The Sixteenth Century Journal, 39, 2008, 389-418.

by Cecilia Cristellon

The main sources of this article are 750 matrimonial trials discussed before the ecclesiastical court in Venice... more The main sources of this article are 750 matrimonial trials discussed before the ecclesiastical court in Venice (1420-1545). This article analyzes the differing conceptions of marriage held by the laity and by the ecclesiastical hierarchy as these ideas were expressed in a dialectical relationship in court. Central to this analysis is the concept of consent, since consent, with widely differing interpretations, formed the foundation and the essence of both canonical and lay customary marriage. In the pre-Tridentine ecclesiastical court, custom played a leading role in deciding matters related to the marriage bond. These sources allow access to aspects of marriage that are usually not recorded and make it possible to reevaluate social phenomena which have been defined from a post-Tridentine perspective as transgressive. Practices such as bigamy, concubinage, and stuprum appear not as deviant, but as part of socially accepted marital behavior that is much broader and more heterogeneous than historians have appreciated.

I processi matrimoniali veneziani. In: Tribunali del matrimonio (secoli XV-XVIII), Hg. Seidel Menchi, S., Quaglioni, D. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2006), 101-122.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Does the Priest Have to Be There? Contested Marriages Before Roman Tribunals. Italy, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 3, 2009, 10-30.

by Cecilia Cristellon

The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more... more The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more witnesses be present at the marriage (1563), but neglected to specify who the parish priest was. The decrees provoked confusion among both laymen and churchmen. Traces thereof can be found in the hitherto essentially unexplored documentation of The Congregation of the Council. This institution was founded in 1564 specifically to resolve the questions that arose all over the catholic world by the application of the decrees promulgated at Trent. The related records are held in the Vatican Secret Archive. Through an examination of this documentation, complemented by files of the Holy Office the author analyzes how the new rules were understood, experienced, used, circumvented, and manipulated both by laymen and churchmen in order to end an unwanted marriage, to facilitate a union that was socially transgressive, opposed by family, or even heterodox, and to respond to pastoral concerns.

"Io voleva tuor quello che mio padre me daria". Autorità parentale e scelte matrimoniali dei figli: Venezia XV e XVI secolo, in: D. Lombardi, I. Fazio (ed.), Generazioni: legami di parentela tra passato e presente, Roma: Viella, 2006, 205-221.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Public Display of Affection: The Making of Marriage in the Venetian Courts before the Council of Trent (1420- 1545). In: The Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy, Hg. Matthews- Grieco, S. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), 173-197.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Ritratto di una cortigiana del Cinquecento: Caterina de Medici da Verona e le sue vicende (1518-1582). In: Ritratti. La dimensione individuale nella storia (secc. XV- XIX), Hg. Seidel Menchi, S., Pierce, R. (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2008), 147-176.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Collezionare antichità al tempo di Gregorio XIII: il caso di Paolo Giordano I Orsini

by Barbara Furlotti

in Unità e frammenti di modernità. Arte e scienza nella Roma di Gregorio XIII Boncompagni, atti del convegno (Roma 2004), a cura di C. Cieri Via, I.D. Rowland, M. Ruffini (Pisa-Roma 2012), pp. 197-216.

Aristotele, Fisica - Giordano Bruno, De l'Infinito: confronto e commento.

by Stefano Ulliana

Scheda su Giordano Bruno

by Stefano Ulliana

Da editore Spazio Tre, Roma

Piccola bibliografia bruniana

by Stefano Ulliana

Jérémie Foa et Nicolas Vidoni, Catherine de Médicis. Un destin plus grand que la prudence, Paris, Garnier, 2012.

by Jérémie Foa

Proto-Renaissance

by louisa woodville

From the Myth to the Margins: The Patriarch's Piazza at San Pietro di Castello in Venice

by Areli Marina

Renaissance Quarterly , Vol. 64, No. 2 (Summer 2011), pp. 353-429.

This study analyzes the campo of San Pietro di Castello from its mythologized origins to the Renaissance, paying... more This study analyzes the campo of San Pietro di Castello from its mythologized origins to the Renaissance, paying particular attention to the architectural and political forces that shaped it. Although San Pietro was Venice's cathedral from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries, civic leaders marginalized the site, which incarnated the contentious relationship between the Roman Church and the Venetian republic. The essay places the campo at the center of inquiry because the episcopal complex's significance is best discerned through diachronic analysis of the urban landscape. The building activities of its medieval and Quattrocento patrons generated a heterogeneous campo that incorporated morphological elements from two Venetian urbanistic types: the parish campo and the monastic island. Its sixteenth-century patriarchs created a new architectural vision of the campo, contesting its slippage from the center of Venetian life and forging a distinctive ensemble that differs markedly from the better-known piazzas at San Marco and Rialto.

"Medicating with or without 'Scruples': The 'Professionalization' of the Apothecary in Sixteenth-Century Venice

by Michelle Laughran

Published in "Pharmacy in History" 45 (2003): 95-107