Leonardo e il Rinascimento nei Codici napoletani

Alfredo Buccaro; Maria Rascaglia

Leonardo e il Rinascimento nei Codici napoletani: Influenze e modelli per l’architettura e l’ingegneria

Authors

Alfredo Buccaro

University of Naples Federico II

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5348-0752

Maria Rascaglia

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: History and Iconography of European Architecture, Cities and Sites

Pages: 703

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-25855

Abstract: This book, edited by Alfredo Buccaro e Maria Rascaglia, with the collaboration of Daniela Bacca, Francesca Capano, Maria Gabriella Mansi, Maria Ines Pascariello, Massimo Visone, is a co-edition with CB Edizioni Grandi Opere (printed edition: ISBN 978-88-97644-65-2). The work is the catalogue of the recent exhibition organized by CIRICE - University of Naples Federico II, with the National Library of Naples (Royal Palace of Naples, Bourbon Apartment, December 12th 2019-March 13th 2020) with the patronage of the National Committee for the Celebrations of V Centenary of Leonardo's death. It is dedicated to the memory of the most illustrious scholar on Leonardo, Carlo Pedretti, who largely inspired these studies.

Authors: Daniela Bacca, Federico Bellini, Ciro Birra, Vincenzo Boni, Alfredo Buccaro, Francesca Capano, Salvatore Di Liello, Leonardo Di Mauro, Adriano Ghisetti Giavarina, Serenella Greco, Claudia Grieco, Orietta Lanzarini, Angelica Lugli, Emma Maglio, Luigi Maglio, Maria Gabriella Mansi, Pieter Martens, Paolo Mascilli Migliorini, Margherita Melani, Maria Ines Pascariello, Maria Rascaglia, Saverio Ricci, Renata Samperi, Anna Sconza, Daniela Stroffolino, Sara Taglialagamba, Carlo Vecce, Alessandro Vezzosi, Massimo Visone, Paola Zampa.

The exhibition has brought to public attention, for the first time, the traces of the diffusion of Leonardo lesson and of post-Leonardo Renaissance lesson in the context of architecture and engineering in the modern Southern Italy, analyzed through never known manuscript or printed testimonies.

Introduced by some general essays by important scholars on Leonardo and the Renaissance, the papers of the first part of the book, among other testimonies, deal with: the incunabula of the National Library relating to the treaties once present in Leonardo's library that inspired his training; the Codice Corazza, a seventeenth-century apograph published by Buccaro with the advice of Pedretti in 2011, together with manuscript from Corazza collection in the same library; the Codice Fridericiano, a sixteenth-century apograph from Leonardo's Treatise on Painting, acquired in 2016 by the Center for Libraries of University of Naples Federico II on a proposal by Buccaro and Vecce; the Foglietto del Belvedere of the Foundation Pedretti Archive, studied in detail by Buccaro; the Vari disegni by Giovanni Antonio Nigrone (BNN, Ms. XII.G.60-61, ab. 1598-1603), containing an unpublished project for a mechanical and hydraulic engineering treatise inspired by Leonardo’s studies.

In the second part of the book, the architecture and urban planning graphics contained in the two sixteenth-century albums of the unpublished Codice Tarsia (BNN, Mss. XII.D.1, XII.D.74) have been analyzed for the first time. It a real ‘Book of drawings’ dating back to the 16th century (ab. 1540-98), once belonging to the Prince Spinelli of Tarsia library. This rich documentary repertoire inspired, at the end of that century, the editorial project by Nicola Antonio Stigliola, a philosopher and engineer from Nola: this collection contains some beautiful drawings of Antiquities and architectural projects largely related to Vignola’s works for the Farnese family, as well as very interesting drawings of Italian and European fortified cities, in which the influence of Leonardo's studies about military engineering is evident. This Codex, carefully studied and digitally cataloged for Manus Online by scholras of CIRICE and of the National Library, is a precious testimony of the spread of Tuscan and Roman Renaissance in the Southern Italy.

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Author Biographies

Alfredo Buccaro, University of Naples Federico II

Alfredo Buccaro is Full Professor of Architecture History in the University of Naples Federico II Department of Architecture, and Director of the Interdepartmental Research Center on the Iconography of the European City (CIRICE).

He is Director of the magazine Eikonocity - History and Iconography of European Cities and Sites published by Federico II Open Access University Press, and of Series UrbsHistoriaeImago. History and Image of Territories, Urban Centers and Architectures, published by Federico II Open Access University Press, and History and Iconography of European Architecture, Cities and Sites, published by CIRICE.

PhD in Urban and Architecture History and specialist in Restoration of Monuments, his main studies deal with the history of Italian and European Architecture and Engineering in the Modern age, as well as the Urban History and Iconography. He has studied Leonardo's apographical sources and their influence on Architecture and Engineering in the Modern age, the public works policy in Naples and in the Southern Italy during the French and Bourbon government, the spreading of Vanvitellian language in the Russian context in the XVIII century, the evolution of Naples urban structure through the application of digital methodologies to documentary, iconographic and cartographic sources.

He has published, among many other books, papers and magazine articles: Istituzioni e trasformazioni urbane nella Napoli dell’Ottocento (Ediz. Scientifiche Italiane, 1985), Opere pubbliche e tipologie urbane nel Mezzogiorno preunitario (Electa Napoli, 1992), Architettura e urbanistica, in Storia e Civiltà della Campania. L’Ottocento (Electa Napoli, 1998), Napoli millenovecento. Dai catasti del XIX secolo ad oggi (with G.C. Alisio, Electa Napoli, 2000), Antonio Rinaldi architetto vanvitelliano a San Pietroburgo (con G. Kjučarianc e P. Miltenov, Mondadori Electa, 2003), Architettura e urbanistica dell’età borbonica. Le opere dello Stato, i luoghi dell’industria (with G. Matacena, Electa Napoli, 2004), Leonardo da Vinci. Il Codice Corazza nella Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli (CB Edizioni-Ediz. Scientifiche Italiane, 2011), L'immagine storica del paesaggio della città mediterranea e il ruolo dell'iconografia urbana, in «Città & Storia», a. X, n. 1; San Giovanni Maggiore. Architettura e arte alle porte della Napoli antica (with R. Ruggiero, Federico II University-FeDOA Press, 2016); La chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano in Napoli: ricerche e studi per il restauro (with R. Amore, C. Aveta, artstudiopaparo, 2016); The Codex Corazza and Zaccolini's Treatises in the Project of Cassiano dal Pozzo for the Spreading of Leonardo's Works, in C. Moffatt, S. Taglialagamba (eds.), Illuminating Leonardo. A Festschrift for Carlo Pedretti Celebrating His 70 Years of Scholarship, Koninkliike Brill, 2016; All’ingresso dei Campi Flegrei: fonti per un recupero del paesaggio storico di Nisida e dell’architettura del castello Piccolomini, in «Città & Storia», a. XI (2017), n. 2; Leonardo e «mag.° Antonio florentino». Cenni su codici vinciani perduti nel Foglietto del Belvedere dell’Archivio Pedretti, in «ArcHistoR», a. V (2018), n. 10.

He has edited, among many other volumes, Le città nella storia d’Italia. Potenza (Laterza, 1997), Scienziati-Artisti. Formazione e ruolo degli ingegneri nelle fonti dell’Archivio di Stato e della Facoltà di Ingegneria di Napoli (with F. De Mattia, Electa Napoli, 2003), Luigi Cosenza oggi. 1905-2005 (with G. Mainini, Clean Edizioni, 2006), Iconografia delle città in Campania. Napoli e i centri della provincia (with C. de Seta, Electa Napoli, 2006), Iconografia delle città in Campania. I centri delle province di Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Salerno (with C. de Seta, Electa Napoli, 2008), I centri storici della provincia di Napoli. Struttura, forma, identità urbana (with C. de Seta, Ediz. Scientifiche Italiane, 2009), Il Mezzogiorno e il Decennio. Architettura, città, territorio (with C. Lenza, P. Mascilli Migliorini, Giannini Editore, 2012); Città mediterranee in trasformazione. Identità e immagine del paesaggio urbano tra Sette e Novecento (with C. de Seta, Ediz. Scientifiche Italiane, 2014); Delli Aspetti de Paesi. Vecchi e nuovi Media per l'Immagine del Paesaggio / Old and New Media for the Image of the Landscape. Tomo primo: Costruzione, descrizione, identità storica /Construction, Description, Historical Identity (with A. Berrino, CIRICE-FedOA University Press, 2016); Leonardo e il Rinascimento nei Codici napoletani. Influenze e modelli per l’architettura e l’ingegneria (with M. Rascaglia, CB Edizioni/ CIRICE-FedOA University Press, 2020).

Maria Rascaglia

MARIA RASCAGLIA, graduated in Philosophy at Federico II University of Naples, was a scholarship holder at Italian Institute for Historical Studies and at Einaudi Foundation in Turin. From 1980 to 2018 she was a librarian officer at the Manuscripts Section in the Naples National Library; from 2007 to 2014 responsible for training placements and referent for cultural activities and since 2016 responsible for the Manuscripts Section and Deputy Director of the same National Library.

She devoted herself to the study and enhancement of autographs and manuscript sources concerning the Southern Italy cultural life during XVIII-XX centuries, particularly about the philosophical and scientific tradition. Among other studies, for Storia della Letteratura italiana (Rome, Salerno editrice) she wrote Le biblioteche italiane, vol. XIII: La ricerca bibliografica. Le istituzioni culturali (2005).