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    Isaac Casaubon’s Observationes_ and His Lost Treatise _De Critica.Paul Botley - 2022 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 85:113-143.
    Isaac Casaubon’s treatise De critica was apparently completed, but it was never published, and no manuscript of the work has come to light. Since it appears to have been a substantial work on textual criticism by one of the most eminent and capable scholars of the period, its loss is tantalising. This article uses new manuscript evidence to throw light on its content and purpose. Five pieces of manuscript evidence are presented here. Three of these are documents which Casaubon himself (...)
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  2. The Horoscopes of the Anonymous Commentary on Ptolemy’s ‘Tetrabiblos’.Raúl Caballero-Sánchez - 2022 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 85:1-23.
    In this article, I demonstrate that, of the two horoscopes transmitted by the Anonymous Commentary on Ptolemy’s ‘Tetrabiblos’, edited by Hieronymous Wolf, Basel, 1559, pp. 98 and 112, the first (H1) corresponds to an actual birth that took place in Lower Egypt on 25 June 448 AD, while the second (H2) is the same horoscope, slightly modified to fit the specific example for which it provides the illustration. The new date proposed here for H1 is important for establishing a more (...)
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    Late Antiquities in Early Modernity: Rome’s ‘Last Pagans’ in Early Modern Classical Scholarship.Frederic Clark - 2022 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 85:213-248.
    Scholarship of the last half century has transformed approaches to paganism and Christianity in the late Roman world. Much as the paradigm of late antiquity has replaced traditional narratives of ‘decline and fall’, expounded systematically in the eighteenth century by Edward Gibbon, so recent scholarship has also challenged older narratives of pagan / Christian conflict, particularly heroic narratives of the resistance mounted by Rome’s ‘last pagans’. This article locates a crucial—although often neglected—prehistory and parallel to these debates in the world (...)
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  4. Joseph Eckhel (1737–1798) in Florence and the Making of the Systema Eckhelianum: A New Foundational Text for Ancient Numismatics. [REVIEW]Bernhard E. Woytek - 2022 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 85:249-281.
    Joseph Eckhel was the most influential numismatic scholar of the Enlightenment. Eckhel’s key contribution was the creation of the ‘system’ named after him: a novel arrangement of ancient Greek and Roman coins that was swiftly adopted in major international collections and publications and largely still stands today. This article presents and discusses a previously unknown manuscript in Latin written by Eckhel in 1775, the Animadversiones in methodum, secundum quam nunc digestum est Museum numismaticum Magni Ducis (‘Observations on the Method according (...)
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  5. A Florentine Looks at Florence: Piero Cennini on the Baptistery and the Feast of St John.Anthony Grafton & William Theiss - 2022 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 85:25-69.
    In 1475, the Florentine humanist Piero Cennini sent a friend a letter in Latin, in which he described in detail both the Florentine baptistery and the yearly celebration of the feast of St John in late June. This article presents a full text and English translation of the document, with an introduction and notes. Cennini, a scribe and scholar, belonged to a distinguished family of Florentine goldsmiths, with whose members he collaborated on an edition of the commentaries of Servius on (...)
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  6. A Castle Hanging by a Thread: Antichrist, His Miracles and the Topsy-Turvy World.Sergey Ivanov - 2022 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 85:283-292.
    This article considers late additions to the miracles of Antichrist as found in fifteenth-century manuscripts such as Wellcome Library, MS 49 and the Antichrist-Bildertext. One of these miracles—a castle hanging by a thread—has a parallel in the German nonsense poetry tradition. The poem ‘Sô ist diz von lügenen’ from a fourteenth-century manuscript depicts a topsy-turvy world where Rome and the Lateran also hang by a thread. Subsequently the same motif occurs in the Emblemata of Théodore de Bèze (1580). A tense (...)
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    A Captive History of Sculpture: Abducting Italian Fountains in the Early Modern Spanish Mediterranean.Fernando Loffredo - 2022 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 85:165-212.
    This article explores the transformative power of art circulation by analysing surprising narratives of abducted fountains across the early modern Mediterranean area under the political influence of the Spanish Empire. The object of this study will be the stories of Italian fountains stolen by Spanish viceroys or rescued during naval skirmishes between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire. These narratives reveal a widespread desire for fountains throughout the Mediterranean, which generated a sequence of geographical relocations and cultural translations. My (...)
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    Burying Mountjoy and Penelope Rich: King James, the Heralds and a Counter-statement from the Poet Samuel Daniel.John Pitcher - 2022 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 85:71-112.
    Bourdieu’s concept of ‘symbolic capital’ has been used to study various kinds of elites. This article shows how it can help us understand the status and privileges of early modern English courtiers—and how these could be won and lost. The discussion focuses on the funeral, burial and commemoration of the most successful of contemporary generals, Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, 8th Baron Mountjoy (1563–1606), and sets these in the context of the Jacobean court’s concern with symbolic capital. It demonstrates (...)
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    Isaac Barrow, Ali Ufki and the Epitome Fidei et Religionis Turcicae: A Seventeenth-Century Summary of Islam in the European Republic of Letters.Thomas Matthew Vozar - 2022 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 85:145-163.
    Published among the posthumous Opuscula of Isaac Barrow in 1687, the Epitome fidei et religionis Turcicae offers an exposition of the main tenets and practices of Islam that is unusually accurate for its time. The Epitome has been noted in passing by Barrow’s biographers and by scholars of seventeenth-century Oriental studies; but it is here firmly identified as the work of the Polish-born Ottoman dragoman and musician Ali Ufki, known in Latin as Albertus Bobovius (Wojciech Bobowski). As the Epitome has (...)
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