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Journal articles on the topic "Nobility – Italy"

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Papagna, Elena. "La nobiltÀ nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia durante il Decennio francese." SOCIETÀ E STORIA, no. 123 (June 2009): 31–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ss2009-123003.

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- In the first part of the essay the author examines the law on nobility enacted in southern Italy under French domination by linking it to measures taken by the Bourbon government in the second half of the Eighteenth Century. Two stages have been identified in Napoleonic legislation: the first deprives the ancient nobility of the Kingdom of its legal privileges maintaining only an honorary distinction; the second establishes a new nobility, intended to confer symbolic and material rewards on those who distinguished themselves in the service of the State and the Dynasty. An advisory board – the Consiglio de' majoraschi – was created and charged with carrying out the bureaucratic procedures provided for the establishment of entails. These were an essential requirement for the titles conferred upon the new nobles to become hereditary. In the second part the author performs a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the new nobility, involving the timing and social distribution of the new titles. Te relations between old and new Neapolitan aristocracy nobles are also investigated. The case of Southern Italy is set in the broader context of Napoleonic Europe, and the similarities and differences between the new nobilities of the French Empire and of the Kingdom of Italy are duly underlined.Keywords: Napoleonic Era; Southern Italy; Nobility; legislation on nobilityParole chiave: etÀ napoleonica; Mezzogiorno d'Italia; nobiltÀ; legislazione nobiliare
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Rolle, Andrew. "Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmont Nobility, 1861–1930." History: Reviews of New Books 27, no. 3 (January 1999): 123–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.1999.10528420.

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Bell, Rudolph M., and Anthony L. Cardoza. "Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930." American Historical Review 104, no. 3 (June 1999): 1032. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2651172.

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Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane. "Nobles or Pariahs? The Exclusion of Florentine Magnates from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Centuries." Comparative Studies in Society and History 39, no. 2 (April 1997): 215–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500020594.

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“It is one thing to be one of the Great; it is another to be noble.” The first are perhaps nobles as defined by locality, but they are not loved nor recognized by the People or by the Prince; the others are “well regarded and appreciated,” their nobility being linked not only to their birth but also to the recognition of their titles and merits. According to Bartolo, the Florentine jurist Lap da Castiglionchio attempted, around 1370, the difficult exercise of combining the rival definitions of nobility that circulated in the Italy of his times, and the justification of his own nobility. He wanted very much to be noble, but not “great”. Who then are these great people from whom these nobles mean to distinguish themselves?
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Vaillancourt, Pierre-Louis. "La noblesse hors d’elle-même." Renaissance and Reformation 36, no. 4 (January 1, 2000): 129–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v36i4.8666.

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In sixteenth-century France, the nobility held an unchallenged and unanimous view concerning its own superior status and quality. A more critical assessment had been expressed in Italy by several Quattrocento and Cinquecento humanists, namely Poggio, Machiavelli, Nenna, Guazzo and Tasso. The arguments against the superiority of the nobility were often simply based on some ironical survey of a handful of European aristocratic groups. But, when attacking the claims to excellence of some national aristocracy, more reasoned arguments could rely on Aristotle’s Politics and its notion of arete.
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Rose, Colin. "Plague and Violence in Early Modern Italy." Renaissance Quarterly 71, no. 3 (2018): 1000–1035. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/699602.

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AbstractFollowing the plague of 1630, which struck Northern Italy particularly hard, the erosion of social norms and hierarchies led to an outbreak of homicidal violence in the city and province of Bologna. In particular, urban nobility resumed practices of vendetta and revenge as politics that had lain dormant for some decades; while in the countryside, the heightened stresses of endemic rural poverty led to homicides over resources such as land, food, and employment. This article examines that outbreak of violence in the context of natural disaster, employing a selection of seventy-seven homicide trials prosecuted by the Tribunale del Torrone, the criminal court of Bologna, in 1632.
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Hills, Helen. "“Enamelled with the Blood of a Noble Lineage”: Tracing Noble Blood and Female Holiness in Early Modern Neapolitan Convents and Their Architecture." Church History 73, no. 1 (March 2004): 1–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000964070009781x.

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The stark antithesis between the secular and the religious has been effectively challenged by scholarship of early modern Italy, which has shown the degree to which these fields necessarily overlapped. Nevertheless, studies of early modern female devotion, especially within convents, often present women as caught between competing claims of kinship and clerical authority, a conflict between family and convent, an opposition between the secular and the divine. This paper argues that within Neapolitan conventual circles, at least, nuns' noble blood was regarded as enhancing the spiritual value of their convents, and that, on the whole, the way in which the Decrees of the Council of Trent were interpreted served to “aristocratize” convents. Something of a fusion occurred between nobility and spirituality in women. This paper relates this fusion to discourses on nobility and to the aristocratization of convent culture after enclosure at Trent, examining how it marked post-Tridentine Neapolitan convent architecture and urbanism. In short, I argue that nuns' nobility enhanced the spiritual value of Neapolitan convents after Trent, and that such status was communicated discursively, architecturally, and urbanistically.
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Prelipcean, Laura. "Dialogic Construction and Interaction in Lodovico Domenichi’s La nobiltà delle donne." Renaissance and Reformation 39, no. 2 (July 27, 2016): 61–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v39i2.26854.

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Lodovico Domenichi (1515–64), one of the major polymaths of sixteenth-century Italy, is currently enjoying a marked revival in the critical literature. Although he has been studied in the context of his contemporary printing and publishing activities, the dissemination of works in the vernacular, the promotion of women’s writings, and the religious crisis of that time, little attention has been devoted to him as a writer. In 1549 Domenichi published a dialogue on and for women, La nobiltà delle donne (The nobility of women). This work allowed him to contribute to the advancement of the women’s cause in Italy. This article investigates how Domenichi modelled the speakers, facilitated their dialogic interaction, and delivered his defence of women. Finally, it sheds light on the role that the female moderator, Violante Bentivoglia, played during the five-day conversations and how she influenced the intellectual and cultural environment dominated by men. Lodovico Domenichi (1515–1564), un des plus grands humanistes italiens et reçoit actuellement un intérêt renouvelé parmi la littérature critique. Bien que son œuvre ait été étudiée dans le contexte de ses activités simultanées d’impression et d’édition, de la circulation de ses ouvrages en langue vernaculaire, de la promotion des écrits féminins et de la crise religieuse de l’époque, très peu de chercheurs se sont penchés sur son travail d’écrivain. En 1549, Domenichi a publié un dialogue sur les femmes et à leur intention, intitulé La nobilità delle donne (La Noblesse des Femmes). Cet ouvrage lui a permis de faire avancer la cause de femmes en Italie. Cet article explore comment Domenichi a construit ses protagonistes et facilité leur dialogue, tout en présentant sa défense des femmes. Enfin, on y met en lumière le rôle modérateur que tient Violante Bentivoglia pendant ces cinq jours de conversation et comment elle influence un environnement intellectuel et culturel dominé par les hommes.
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Cameron, Alan. "Anician Myths." Journal of Roman Studies 102 (August 22, 2012): 133–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s007543581200007x.

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AbstractThis paper discusses the widely held view that politics in fifth- and sixth-century Italy were largely driven by rivalry between the two great families of the Anicii and the Decii, supposedly following distinctive policies (pro- or anti-eastern, philo- or anti-barbarian, etc.). It is probable that individual members of these (and other) families had feuds and disagreements from time to time, but there is absolutely no evidence for continuing rivalry between Decii and Anicii as families, let alone on specific issues of public policy. Indeed by the mid-fifth century the Anicii fell into a rapid decline. The nobility continued to play a central rôle in the social and (especially) religious life of late fifth- and early sixth-century Italy. Their wealth gave them great power, but it was power that they exercised in relatively restricted, essentially traditional fields, mainly on their estates and in the city of Rome. The quite extraordinary sums they spent on games right down into the sixth century illustrate their overriding concern for popular favour at a purely local level. In this context there was continuing competition between all noble families rich enough to compete. Indeed, the barbarian kings encouraged the nobility to spend their fortunes competing with each other to the benefit of the city and population of Rome.
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Britnell, R. H. "England and Northern Italy in the Early Fourteenth Century: the Economic Contrasts." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 39 (December 1989): 167–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3678983.

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We know almost as much about the operations of big Italian companies in England as about those in Italy itself during the early fourteenth century. Tuscan trade here engaged some of Europe's most celebrated businesses, attracted by the kingdom's fine wool and the credit-worthiness of her crown and nobility. Historians have some-times drawn an analogy with international lending from richer to poorer countries in the modern world, both to create a point of contact with their readers and to meet the need for deep-lying explanations. The analogy usually carries the implication that Italy had a more advanced economy than England, and there are authors who say so explicitly. Some use terms designed to describe international economic growth during the last two hundred years, and represent medieval Italy as a pole of development, or a core economy. Others, borrowing the language of power, describe Italy as a dominant economy. Professor Cipolla uses a number of these ideas at once in his observation that ‘in the early years of the fourteenth century Florence represented a dominant and developed economy, while England and the kingdom of Naples were two decidedly underdeveloped countries: the periphery, to use Wallerstein's expression’.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Nobility – Italy"

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Fernández, Aceves Hervin. "County and nobility in Norman Italy (1130-1189)." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19719/.

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This research offers a rounded account of the local ruling elite in mainland Southern Italy during the first dynasty of the Sicilian kingdom. It does so through a chronological, in-breadth exploration of the counts' activities, and an in-depth analysis of both the role the counts played during the development of the kingdom's nobility and government, and the function the county acquired in the establishment of social control on the mainland. This study is supported by an extensive and detailed survey of the vast relevant diplomatic material, both edited and unedited, combined with a comparison of the diverse available narrative sources, both local and external. The study has two central objectives. The first is to suggest the composition of the peninsular nobility and its continuities and discontinuities, by revealing how lordships were reorganised through the appointment and confirmation of counts, the total number of counties after this reorganisation, and the transactions and major events in which the counts were involved throughout the kingdom's Norman period. The second is to interpret how territorial leaderships operated between the upper echelon of the peninsular aristocracy and the other economic and political agents, such as lesser barons, royal officials, and ecclesiastical institutions. I argue that the creation of the Kingdom of Sicily did not hinder the development of the nobility's leadership in southern Italy, but, in fact, the Sicilian monarchy relied on the county as both a military cluster and an economic unit, and, eventually, on the counts' authority, in order to keep the realm united and exercise effective control over the mainland provinces - especially in Apulia and the Terra di Lavoro. Such a finding should encourage further revision of the traditional interpretation of the kingdom's social mechanisms for military mobilisation, administration of justice, and political stability. By emphasising the importance of the comital class and the changeability and endurance of the peninsular nobility, this study underlines the complexity of medieval, South Italian societies, and the multi-layered structures which allowed the Kingdom of Sicily to be a viable polity.
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Salamonik, Michał. "In Their Majesties’ Service : The Career of Francesco De Gratta (1613-1676) as a Royal Servant and Trader in Gdańsk." Doctoral thesis, Södertörns högskola, Historia, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32304.

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This study analyses the administrative and economic career of Francesco De Gratta (1613–1676) as Royal Postmaster, Royal Secretary, and trader within the postal and fiscal systems of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This investigation focuses mainly on his network and career strategies and is based on various sources from a number of European archives and libraries, mainly those situated in Italy, Poland and Germany. The study presents the family De Gratta and the familial social actions that Francesco used in order to root his children and family in the Polish-Lithuanian noble culture. Next, the analysis shows that the career of Francesco De Gratta was inextricably correlated with the establishment of the early modern royal postal system in Gdańsk (the city of Gdańsk fulfilled an important bridging role within the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth) as well as his close contacts with different Polish kings and queens. The career followed distinct stages, tying him ever closer with the Crown, the nobility as well as the merchants in Gdańsk. It all started with his position as Head Postmaster in Gdańsk, in 1654. In 1661, he became Postmaster General of Royal Prussia, Courland, Semigallia and Livonia. After these initial steps, Francesco immersed in creditor activities and close contacts with the Royal Prussian cities, royal authorities, and not the least different Polish mint masters. He also got involved in the potash trade with his later son-in-law Jan Wawrzyniec Wodzicki, first as his factor and later as a co-owner of Wodzicki’s company. The study finally traces his social and economic advancement by the analysis of Francesco De Gratta’s legacies and their importance for his heirs’ social status. The summary compares the career of Francesco De Gratta with that of other postmasters and mint masters of Italian origin in Poland-Lithuania.
Denna studie analyserar Francesco De Grattas (1613-1676) ekonomiska och administrativa karriär som kunglig postmästare, kunglig sekreterare och köpman i det polsk-litauiska samväldet. Denna undersökning är främst inriktad på nätverks- och karriärsanalys och bygger på olika arkivkällor från en rad europeiska arkiv och bibliotek, främst från Italien, Polen och Tyskland. Studien presenterar familjen De Gratta och de familjära sociala strategier som Francesco använde för att förankra sin familj i det polsk-litauiska samväldets adelskultur. Därefter visar analysen att De Grattas karriär kan förstås mot bakgrund av upprättandet av det tidigmoderna kungliga postsystemet i Gdańsk (Gdańsk hade en viktig överbryggande roll inom Polen-Litauen), liksom hans nära kontakter med olika polska kungar och drottningar. Hans karriär följde olika distinkta steg som möjliggjorde för honom att närma sig kronan, adeln och köpmännen i Gdańsk. År 1654 blev han huvudpostmästare i Gdańsk och 1661 fick han ämbetet som huvudpostmästare för Kungliga Preussen, Kurland, Semgallen och Livland. Senare utvecklade Francesco De Gratta sin kreditverksamhet parallellt med utbyggnaden av sitt kontaktnätverk med kungliga preussiska städer, kungliga myndigheter och inte minst olika polska myntmästare. Han blev också involverad i handel med pottaska (kaliumkarbonat) tillsammans med sin svärson Jan Wawrzyniec Wodzicki, först som hans agent och senare som delägare i Wodzickis företag. Slutligen spårar studien Francesco De Grattas sociala och ekonomiska framåtskridande genom en analys av hans arv och dess betydelse för hans arvingars sociala status. Sammanfattningsvis jämförs Francesco De Grattas karriär med andra postmästare och myntmästare av italienskt ursprung i Polen-Litauen.
Information Infrastructure in the Baltic Area. Nodes, News and News Agents, c. 1650 - 1700
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SABBADINI, Roberto. "Il patriziato parmigiano tra la citta e la corte dialettica tra principe e ceti dirigenti nei Ducati Farnesiani (secc XVI-XVIII)." Doctoral thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5965.

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Defence date: 21 April 1995
Examining board: Prof. Franco Angiolini, Università di Pisa (supervisore) ; Prof. Jean Boutier, E.H.E.S.S.-Marseille ; Prof. Gaetano Cozzi, Università di Venezia (co-supervisore) ; Prof. Gérard Delille, I.U.E. ; Prof. Cesare Mozzarelli, Università Cattolica Gemelli, Milano
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Adams, Geoff W. (Geoffrey William). "The nature of the villa suburbana in Latium and Campania : literary and spatial analysis of social and potential entertainment functions from the 2nd century BC to the 2nd century AD / Geoff Adams." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/22281.

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Bibliography: p. 294-339.
2 v. in 1 (xiv, 339 leaves, xxiv, 174 leaves) : ill. (some col.), plans ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2005
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LORENZETTI, Stefano. "La vita nostra simile agli stromenti musici : educazione alla musica, mentalita e immaginario nell'Italia del Rinascimento." Doctoral thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5885.

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Defence date: 23 February 2001
Examining board: Franco Angiolini, supervisor (Università di Pisa) ; Lorenzo Bianconi (Università di Bologna) ; Hans-Erich Bödeker (Max-Planck Institut, Göttingen e IUE ; Iain Fenlon (Università di Cambridge)
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ESPINOSA, Miguel Palou. "Alfonso Fontanelli (1557-1622), noble y compositor : un estudio socio-cultural sobre la nobleza y la práctica musical en el tardo-renacimiento italiano." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/40844.

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Defence date: 18 April 2016
Examining Board: Profesor Luca Molà, European University Institute, Florence; Profesor Stéphane Van Damme, European University Institute, Florence; Profesor Tim Carter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Profesor Carmen Sanz Ayán, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Many scholars have shown the importance of musical education for noblemen in late Renaissance Italy. For both individuals and groups, music could be used as a tool for process of self-identity, helping them to construct their aesthetical forma del vivere. In fact, along with a sum of literate and aesthetical knowledge, music was an integral element of the culture of la conversazione. Noblemen and noblewomen displayed a large variety of artistic and literary virtues in courtly, academic and private-exclusive gatherings, in order to create distinctive spaces of sociability and self-fashioning. However, could the printing of music, composed by noblemen, affect or contradict their socio-cultural rules of distinction, exclusiveness and discretion? To address this issue, my dissertation will focus on the period between 1570 and 1620, in the Italian peninsula; where there was a major accumulation of composers who identified themselves as nobili or gentiluomini on the covers of their books. Through the case of count Alfonso Fontanelli, from Reggio Emilia, the aim of this thesis is to explore the role of musical composition in nobles' cultural sociability (incorporated in friendly and patronage networks) and the processes of construction of Fontanelli's cultural selfprestige. Fontanelli's biography provides a variety of socio-cultural experiences and interactions in the three different cities where he displayed his musical virtues: Ferrara, Rome and Florence. Hence, this case study allows us to compare the diverse functions of music for the nobility of these three cities (considering their respective socio-political and cultural particularities) as well as to contrast Fontanelli with other noble composers of the time. Finally, the results of this thesis will offer interesting reflections about the plasticity of noble culture and its relation with music, the diversity of socio-cultural strategies through musical practices, and the complex social dynamics involved in the concept of "authorship" in printed music.
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Books on the topic "Nobility – Italy"

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Aristocrats in bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese nobility, 1861-1930. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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The age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman conquest. New York: Longman, 2000.

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Hibbert, Christopher. The Borgias and their enemies: 1431-1519. Orlando, Fla: Harcourt, Inc., 2008.

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Splendors of the Renaissance: Princely Attire in Italy (City University of New York 2004). Splendors of the Renaissance: Princely attire in Italy : reconstructions of historic costumes from King Studio, Italy. New York: Art Gallery of the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2004.

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Farnese: Pomp, power and politics in Renaissance Italy. Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2007.

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Gamrath, Helge. Farnese: Pomp, power and politics in Renaissance Italy. Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2007.

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Bradford, Sarah. Lucrezia Borgia: Life, love and death in Renaissance Italy. London: Viking, 2004.

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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, love and death in Renaissance Italy. New York: Viking, 2004.

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Nobiltà riflessa: La storiografia positivistica e la questione delle aristocrazie italiane dell'età moderna. Milano: EDUCatt, 2020.

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The Venetian patriciate: Reality versus myth. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "Nobility – Italy"

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Cooley, Mackenzie. "Marketing Nobility: Horsemanship in Renaissance Italy." In Animals and Courts, edited by Mark Hengerer and Nadir Weber, 111–28. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110544794-007.

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Loud, Graham A. "5. The Nobility of Norman Italy, c. 1085–1127." In Medieval Identities: Socio-Cultural Spaces, 139–61. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.miscs-eb.5.121960.

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Castelnuovo, Guido. "«Quel nome pernicioso di nobile»: Uberto Foglietta e la nobiltà di Genova fra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna." In Reti Medievali E-Book, 41–55. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-423-6.03.

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The present contribution aims at discussing the many late medieval and early modern interpretations elaborated in urban and (post)communal Italy on nobility. It does so by attentively analysing the first book of the La Repubblica di Genova, written around 1550 by Uberto Foglietta, a Genoese patrician and a future historian of the city. Foglietta’s libello therefore is a good starting point to reinterpret the vexata quaestio of being noble both in 16th century Genoa, and in the broader context of Renaissance Italian urban culture.
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Cast, David. "Poge the Florentyn: A Sketch of the Life of Poggio Bracciolini." In Atti, 163–72. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.12.

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Thanks to his part in the rediscovery of Lucretius in the Renaissance Poggio Bracciolini has been much in academic news recently. But he was always there as a part of the histories of that moment, in all its twists and turns, as an example of what it was to be a Renaissance humanist in the earlier part of the XVth century. He was born in 1380 and educated first in Arezzo. But he soon moved to Florence to become a notary and from his intellectual contacts there a little after 1403 he became a member of the entourage of Pope Benedict IX to remain all his life a member of the Papal court. But, in true humanist fashion, he was busy always with his writings, taking on a range of general subjects, nobility, the vicissitudes of Fortune and many others. Also, again in true humanist fashion, he was often involved in dispute with other scholars, most notably Lorenzo Valla. Yet, amidst all this activity, he had time to travel throughout Europe, scouring libraries to uncover, as with Lucretius, long neglected texts. But perhaps his most notable achievement was the design of a new script, moving away from the less legible texts of medieval copyists to provide one, far easier to read, that was to become the model in Italy for the first printed books – as it is a model still for publishers. Few scholars of that moment can claim to have had so profound and persistent an influence on the spread of culture in Europe and beyond.
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Falcucci, Beatrice. "“Rievocare certe nobili opere dei nostri maggiori”: the Istituto per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (IsMEO) and the “Myth” of Italian Travellers to the East." In Rereading Travellers to the East, 29–64. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0.04.

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This study aims to investigate the development of a shared sense of identity and community that occurred in Italy from its unification until the end of the colonial empire, and its traces in the republican period. This nation-building process will be examined by analysing Italy’s relationship with the early modern age of the Peninsula and its pre-unification travellers to the East. We will see how the production and dissemination of an Italian national consciousness and sentiment was based largely on the construction of a “mythical past” through exhibitions, collections, printed works, magazines and institutes dedicated to magnifying the “exploits” of travellers and explorers in the East, from Marco Polo to Giuseppe Tucci.
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"The making of the Piedmontese nobility: 1600–1848." In Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy, 13–54. Cambridge University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511585227.002.

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Dickerson, C. D. "Camillo Mariani and the Nobility of Stucco." In Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy, 137–66. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315091570-8.

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"Chapter Ten. The profession of arms and the nobility in spanish Italy: Some considerations." In Spain in Italy, 299–324. BRILL, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004154292.i-606.45.

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"Art in the Interstices: Hybrid Italian Panels and Cypriot Nobility." In Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean, 244–91. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009039055.007.

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Morton, James. "Monastic Nomocanons I." In Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy, 99–120. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198861140.003.0006.

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Chapter 5 explores how, following the restoration of relative peace and stability after the Norman conquest, several newly founded and important Italo-Greek monasteries developed their own independent legal jurisdictions on their own property. The chapter argues that the Normans’ opposition to papal and episcopal interference created a laissez-faire atmosphere in which Italo-Greek monks could continue to follow Byzantine canon law. Many such monasteries enjoyed the patronage of the Norman nobility throughout the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. These monasteries were responsible for producing the majority of surviving nomocanons from medieval southern Italy. It divides them into two broad categories: the royal archimandritates (monastic federations) of Rossano and Messina; and lesser archimandritates and autodespotic (independent) monasteries such as SS Elias and Anastasios of Carbone and St Nicholas of Casole. It observes that the production of a monastic nomocanon was closely linked to a monastery’s acquisition of legal privileges from the kings of Sicily, indicating that they were produced to meet a practical legal need and not simply out of academic curiosity. Lastly, the chapter asks how Italo-Greek monks under Norman rule perceived their relationship to papal jurisdiction, using the examples of Bartholomew of Grottaferrata’s comments on papal legislation and Neilos Doxapatres’ work on the Order of the Patriarchal Thrones to show that they still felt themselves to be a part of the legal sphere of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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