Paper Eruptions. Four Centuries of Volcanoes in Print

Elisabetta Scirocco; Domenico Cecere; Philine Helas; Golo Maurer; Hanna Sophie Stegemann; Milena Viceconte; Annachiara Monaco; Antonio Antonio

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-197-0

Paper Eruptions. Four Centuries of Volcanoes in Print: Buch-Ausbrüche. Vulkanisches in historischen Drucken aus vier Jahrhunderten

Authors

Elisabetta Scirocco, Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History; Domenico Cecere, Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici; Philine Helas, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte; Golo Maurer, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte; Hanna Sophie Stegemann, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte; Milena Viceconte, University of Naples Federico II; Annachiara Monaco, University of Padova; Antonio Antonio, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-197-0

Synopsis

Publishers: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Storia e iconografia dell’architettura, delle città e dei siti europei

Pages: 334

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-29904

Abstract: Disasters have always been a key theme in artistic creation and visual language, as confirmed by the prevalence and persistence of images depicting the unleashing of the forces of nature and their consequences on cities and the landscape. In particular, volcanoes, the dispensers of death and desolation but also of sublime scenes, have constantly inspired painters and engravers, also soliciting the curiosity of those who wished to understand how flames, ash, and fiery stones could pour from the bowels of the earth. In the early modern age, the reactivation of volcanoes in the Phlegraean and Vesuvian areas, after long centuries of dormancy, marked the beginning of a new interest among European readers in the phenomena they produced. Having sensed that new spaces were opening up in the publishing market, both local and international, many bookseller-printers began to publish a large number of tales, treatises, collections of verse and pictures relating to eruptions, which were going to satisfy the tastes and interests of a varied public composed of naturalists, archaeologists, scholars, cultured and wealthy travelers who covered the Italian peninsula in the course of their grand tour, but also of more modest onlookers. On such varied production this volume, arising from the exhibition Eruzioni di carta. Four Centuries of Volcanoes in Print, offers multiple points of view through a body of works dating from the second half of the 16th to the early 20th century.

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Author Biographies

Elisabetta Scirocco, Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History

Elisabetta Scirocco is a researcher at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. After receiving her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Naples Federico II, she has carried out research projects at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – MPI, the University of Naples Federico II, and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Her research interests and publications focus on medieval art and architecture in Southern Italy, as well as the relationship between natural disasters and cultural heritage.

Domenico Cecere, Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici

Domenico Cecere is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Naples Federico II. He is the author of Le armi del popolo. Conflitti politici e strategie di resistenza nella Calabria del Settecento (2013) and has co-edited the volumes Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples (2018), Rischio, catastrofe e gestione dell’emergenza nel Mediterraneo occidentale e in Ispanoamerica in età moderna (2022) and Communication and Politics in the Hispanic Monarchy: Managing Times of Emergency (2023).

Philine Helas, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte

Philine Helas has since 2005 a permanent position in the library of the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. From 1993 to 1998 she was a scientific collaborator at the department of Art History at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, where she received her Ph.D in Art History in 1997. 2000–2002 she had been Postdoc fellow at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz; 2002–2005 collaborator in the research project “Strangers and Poor People: Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day”, at Trier University. Her research interests and publications focus on Italian Medieval and Renaissance art, cartography, the iconography of fortune, on Christ, poverty and charity, and on animals.

Golo Maurer, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte

Golo Maurer studied art history, history and classical archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna in 2014. In addition to his research into the architecture of the Italian Renaissance, the history of art history and German landscape painting in Italy, Golo Maurer is primarily concerned with topics such as travel to Italy, travel literature and German-Italian cultural history. Since October 2015, he has been Head of Library at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome.

Hanna Sophie Stegemann, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte

Hanna Sophie Stegemann graduated in 2020 with a double degree in European and Pan-American languages and literature from the Ruhr-University Bochum and the University of Bergamo. In her thesis, she studied Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Viaggio in Italia and the development of Neoclassicism in Germany. Since 2020, she has been working at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck Institute for Art History as assistant to the head of the library.

Milena Viceconte, University of Naples Federico II

Milena Viceconte obtained a PhD in History of Art in 2013, a joint degree between the University of Naples Federico II and the Universitat de Barcelona. She took part in several research groups focused on artistic circulation between Italy and Spain in the early modern period. From 2018 she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Naples Federico II in the framework of the DisComPoSE project, within which she deals with issues related to the imageries of disasters in the territories of the Spanish Monarchy through the analysis of figurative sources (16th-18th centuries).

Annachiara Monaco, University of Padova

Annachiara Monaco is a postdoctoral researcher in Italian Linguistics at the University of Padua and lecturer at the University of Naples Federico II. As a former member of the ERC project DisComPoSE (UniNa), she studied the linguistic representation of the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, to which she has dedicated a monograph currently in press. Her research interests include Italian vernacular historical writings and Primo Levi.

Antonio Antonio, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Antonio Perrone is a research fellow at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and a chercheur associé at the LER of the University Paris 8 Saint-Denis. His research areas include: the theory of baroque metaphor; contemporary poetry; the Novelle by Matteo Bandello (of which he is editing a DSE). Among his recent publications: Il palinsesto della catastrofe. La metafora tra lirica e scienza, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2023. Currently, he is focusing on nocturnes in Southern 16th-17th century poetry.