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    Christocentric Encyclopedism in the Long Fifteenth Century. From Nicholas of Cusa to Bernard de Lavinheta.Simon J. G. Burton - 2024 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 87:27-58.
    Bernard de Lavinheta is commonly recognised as a seminal figure in Renaissance and early modern encyclopedism. A Spanish Franciscan and close colleague of Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, Charles de Bovelles and the Fabrist circle in Paris, he published his Practica compendiosa in 1523, marking a major milestone in the Lullist tradition. Yet the focus on Lavinheta as a pioneer of early modern method has often served to obscure his connection to a long medieval tradition of encyclopedism. Drawing out his links to (...)
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    ‘V K IMP’. Further Elements Towards a Reappraisal of the Graffiti of the Sack of Rome.Henri de Riedmatten - 2024 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 87:213-228.
    By presenting new elements discovered during on-site research and comparing them to previous findings, this Note supports the view that the graffiti made by lansquenets in the Stanze of the Vatican Palace and in the Villa Farnesina in 1527 and 1528 during the sack of Rome should be seen in the context of an iconographic interaction with, rather than mere destruction of, the original artworks.
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    The Extracurricular Classroom. Student Groups in Early American Colleges.Theodore Delwiche - 2024 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 87:139-164.
    Students have been some of the least studied and most misunderstood historical actors in colonial America. This article seeks to reanimate the long since stagnated study of early American education. Focusing on student societies at colonial American colleges and digging into scores of overlooked manuscripts (in English, Latin, Greek and shorthand), this account offers a radically new understanding of early students as knowledge producers in a colonial world that respected and empowered their intellectual autonomy. Early American students needed neither a (...)
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    The Reappearance of Hermes in Fifteenth-Century Florence.Sebastiano Gentile - 2024 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 87:203-212.
    In 1463 Ficino translated the Corpus Hermeticum into Latin at the request of Cosimo de’ Medici, employing a Greek manuscript recently brought to Florence from Macedonia. Yet even earlier, in his youthful writings, Ficino had cited Hermes, drawing on the available late ancient and medieval Latin sources and treating him both as a forerunner of Plato and as a witness to the Trinitarian nature of God. Since the first half of the fifteenth century, other humanists had shown a particular interest (...)
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    Casaubon on Arabic and Turkish Coins. A European Network of Exchange.Federica Gigante & Andrew Burnett - 2024 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 87:95-137.
    This article presents some previously unpublished evidence of Isaac Casaubon’s studies of Islamic coins preserved in his notebooks. The notes show Casaubon’s attempts to decipher the coins, as well as the European-wide efforts of a group of scholars, including Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc in France, Thomas Erpenius in the Netherlands and John Selden in England, to make sense of Arabic epigraphic inscriptions, attributions and titles on coinage; and it reveals the contribution to these efforts of a former enslaved person and (...)
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    A Splinter of Petrarch’s Cupboard and Laura’s Finger Bone. The Making of a Historical Relic in the Age of Sentimentalism.Michał Mencfel - 2024 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 87:165-201.
    This article investigates the history of a reliquary containing objects associated with Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) and his legendary lover Laura. Originally part of the collection of Princess Izabela Czartoryska (1745–1831) in her Puławy residence in Poland, the reliquary now belongs to the National Museum in Cracow. In the first section, I reconstruct the circumstances surrounding the journey of a splinter of Petrarch’s cupboard and Laura’s finger bone to Puławy, from Arquà in 1818 and Avignon in 1820 respectively. The bulk of (...)
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    Forgotten Friars. The Visual Culture of Giovanni Colombini and the Apostolic Clerics of Saint Jerome (the Jesuati).John Osborne - 2024 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 87:1-25.
    A little-known mendicant order, the Apostolic Clerics of St Jerome, better known as the ‘Jesuati’, was founded by Giovanni Colombini of Siena in the mid-fourteenth century, receiving formal recognition from Pope Urban V at Viterbo in 1367. The congregation flourished, particularly over the course of the fifteenth century when it established conventual houses in most major cities of central and northern Italy, but was eventually suppressed in 1668. Known for their piety, penance and service to the sick and dying, the (...)
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    The Physicality of Early Modern Memory Spaces. Imagining Movement, Communicating Knowledge and Shaping Attitudes.Kimberley Skelton - 2024 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 87:59-94.
    Since antiquity, there had been close ties between imagined movement through built spaces and organising knowledge. Philosophers and rhetorical theorists had argued that one remembered most effectively by imagining a sequence of places, including built spaces, and storing images of what should be recalled in those places. Authors of medieval pilgrimage narratives had led their readers on tours of sacred sites beginning in the twelfth century. From the late fifteenth century, however, imagined movement became more insistently physical and increasingly deployed (...)
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