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The volume is a collection of twenty innovative studies on Pietro Pomponazzi's philosophy written by the most important scholars worldwide. «Tradition» and «dissent» are the coordinates within which Pomponazzi’s thought has been framed:...

The catalogue describes all the 168 sixteenth century Mantuan printed works, conserved at the Biblioteca Comunale Teresiana in Mantua, with full title page and imprint transcriptions. Complete with numerous indices and illustrations the catalogue...

This anonymous work, composed in Padua in the early fourteenth century, is undoubtedly the masterpiece of the French-Italian literary tradition: by renewing the characteristics of the chanson the geste and the legend of Roland with intelligence and...

The Palermitana is a terza rima poem with a biblical theme composed by Teofilo Folengo around 1540, in the Benedictine monastery of San Martino delle Scale, near Palermo, where the poet from Mantua had arrived between 1539 and 1540. The narrator, who...

This volume gathers all the studies, published on different occasions, that Ghino Ghinassi (1931-2004) devoted to the ancient vulgar Latin spoken in Mantua between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and to the problems relating to the texts and...

Annotated critical edition of the recently discovered verse by the Mantua native Paride Ceresara (1466-1532), until now a somewhat «shadowy figure» (to use Dionisotti’s words) in the world of 15th & 16th century vernacular poetry of the Po Valley. He...

Federigo Follino was a prominent figure at the court of the Gonzaga in Mantua at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. He was the official recorder of feasts and entertainments and as Master of Ceremonies he conceived ideas and plots of comedies...

This opera aims to weave its way through various aspects of 16th century history and culture. The first tome is dedicated to Sicily, having Ferrante Gonzaga as viceroy in the critical years from 1535 to 1546. The second tome relates a story of the...