Bartolomeo Miniatore and the ’Vernacular Humanism’

Cristiano Amendola

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-150-5

Bartolomeo Miniatore and the ’Vernacular Humanism’: with critical edition of the “Formulario di esordi ed epistole missive e responsive per Giacomo Bolognini”

Authors

Cristiano Amendola

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9146-2224

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-150-5

Keywords:

Humanistic Epistolography, Vernacular Epistolography, Ars dictaminis, Bartolomeo Miniatore

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Texts. Antiquity, Middle Ages and Humanism, 6

Pages: 512

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-28888

Abstract: During the fifteenth century, the evolution of the structures of the Italian states and the stabilization of their diplomatic relations led to a hypertrophic increase in the use of the letters. In that context, the collections of exempla exordiorum composed by the Ferrarese treatise writer and illuminator Bartolomeo di Benincà (Ferrara, ca. 1420 - ?, before 1485) responded to the political élites who, speaking and writing in ancient vernacular Italian, wishing to represent themselves through the instruments of the language. As author and collector of texts, Bartolomeo recorded the best examples of these practices on refined parchment codes, offering a useful tool for anyone wishing to compose letters in vernacular similar in elegance to those of the then much more prestigious Latin models. By outlining a stylistic proposal for literary prose in ancient Italian vulgar, he carried out a refined critical operation. Furthermore, with his collections of models in vernacular, he profoundly innovated the characters of the ars dictaminis. This volume offers the critical edition of one of Bartolomeo's collections, preceded by an extensive study focussed on the historical and cultural context.

The volume was awarded as the best scientific work published in 2022 by a researcher active in the Dutch or Flemish academic world in the field of Italiaanse Taal- en Letterkunde by a jury composed of KNIR (Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome), W.I.S. (Werkgroep Italië Studies), and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura per i Paesi Bassi (Amsterdam).

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Author Biography

Cristiano Amendola, University of Naples Federico II

Cristiano Amendola is docteur in Langues et lettres (Université de Liège), and PhD in Humanistic Philology (Università della Basilicata). Currently, a research fellow at the University of Naples Federico II, his research focuses on early Italian poetry, on the Romance narratio brevis, and on Humanistic and Renaissance epistolography. He has also dedicated part of his research to reflecting on the potential offered by information technology in relation to philological work, also creating a critical and digital edition of the Formulario di petitioni, responsioni e repplicationi per Astorre II Manfredi, signore di Faenza (Potenza 2022), by the same author to whom this volume is dedicated.