TY  - BOOK
AU  - de Divitiis,Bianca
AU  - Lenzo,Fulvio
AU  - Miletti,Lorenzo
TI  - Ambrogio Leone's de Nola, Venice 1514: Humanism and Antiquarian Culture in Renaissance Southern Italy
T2  - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series
SN  - 9789004375789
AV  - DG975.N6 .A437 2018 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Leone, Ambrogio,--1525.-De Nola
KW  - Nola (Italy)-Civilization
KW  - Nola (Italy)-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 The Author: Ambrogio Leone -- 2 The Book: De Nola -- 3 De Nola in the European Humanistic Debate -- Chapter 1 Ambrogio Leone's De Nola as a Renaissance Work: Purposes, Structure, Genre, and Sources -- 1 The Title and the Praefatio: History and Rhetoric -- 2 An Outline of Structure and Content -- 3 The Genre of the De Nola: Between Antiquarianism, Chorography, and Encomium -- 4 The De Nola as a Humanistic Work: Leone's Use of Greek and Latin Sources -- 5 Conclusions -- Chapter 2 Leone's Antiquarian Method and the Reconstruction of Ancient Nola -- Chapter 3 The Four Engravings. Between Word and Image -- 1 The Territory: The Ager Nolanus -- 2 The Ancient City: The Nola Vetus -- 3 Comparing the Ancient City and the Modern One: The Figura Praesentis Urbis Nolae -- 4 The Glory of the Modern City: The Nola Praesens -- 5 Leone and Mocetto: Problems of Method and Authorship -- Chapter 4 Architecture and Nobility: The Descriptions  of Buildings in the De Nola -- 1 Leone and Architecture -- 2 The Arx, the Regia and the Seggio -- 3 The Cathedral -- 4 The Nolan domus -- 5 Architecture and Nobility -- Chapter 5 Ambrogio Leone and the Visual Arts -- 1 Sculpture Appealing to Poetry: Beatricium -- 2 Caradosso's Inkwell -- 3 Tracing Interconnections: De Nola, Girolamo Mocetto, Niccolò Orsini, and the League of Cambrai -- Chapter 6 A Civic Duty: The Construction of the Nolan Memory -- 1 Book III of the De Nola as a Source for Socio-political and Economic History -- 2 Social Topography and Types of Residential Dwelling -- 3 A Society Open to Social Mobility -- 4 Leone's Cultural Model of Nobility -- Chapter 7 The Elegance of the Past: Descriptions of Rituals, Ceremonies and Festivals in Nola -- 1 Disparities -- 2 Servant Nolani mores antiquos -- 3 Games -- 4 The Feast of St Paulinus; 5 In Conclusion: Extreme Recycling -- Chapter 8 A Bibliographical Note on Ambrogio Leone's De Nola (1514) -- Appendix of Texts -- 1 De Nola's Table of Contents -- 2 De Nola, Praefatio (f. ii recto-iii recto) -- 3 De Nola, bk. II, ch. 15 (xxxviii recto-xxxix verso) -- 4 De Nola, bk. III, ch. 3 (f. xxxxix recto) -- 5 De nobilitate rerum, ch. 41, (f. g viii verso-h i recto) -- Illustration Section -- Bibliography -- A Editions of Works by Ambrogio Leone -- B General Bibliography -- Index of Names
N2  - The first multidisciplinary study of the De Nola (Venice 1514), a Latin antiquarian work written by the Nolan humanist and physician Ambrogio Leone and dedicated to the description of the city of Nola, in the Kingdom of Naples
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