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Books at San Giorgio

The book launch series dedicated to the latest Fondazione Giorgio Cini publications resumes in September.

The first presentation on 15 September will feature the recent volumes of Studi Veneziani, the prestigious journal edited by Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society. As usual, the journal includes articles on Venetian and Veneto culture, history, politics and art, including a long essay by François-Xavier Leduc on the Venetian aristocracy’s management of their property from the 14th century on.

On 7 October the latest issue of Arte Veneta will be unveiled. For the sixtieth anniversary of the creation of the Institute Art History, the journal, which was founded in 1947 under the presidency of Giuseppe Fiocco with Rodolfo Pallucchini as academic director, will have a revamped editorial and graphic look with more lavish colour illustrations to accompany the fascinating academic articles. The themes dealt with range from the Trecento to the Settecento, and include some important new findings. A very useful new feature, as of this issue, is the free downloadable e-book of the “Bibliography of Veneto Art”.

Lastly, on 29 October the highlighted book will be Luigi Squarzina. Studioso, drammaturgo e regista teatrale, the proceedings from an international conference held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini from 4-6 October 2012 in collaboration with the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Four years after Luigi Squarzina’s death, the writings collected in this book provide the opportunity to commemorate his life and art by exploring his various multifaceted aspects.

Historical Studies Seminar Macro-fears and micro-fears

Organised by the Fondazione Cini Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society,
in five half-days this seminar will address the theme of small and big fears, individual and
collective, implicit and explicit, repressed and uncontrollable. Fear is a constant presence in
collective psychology and frequently a disturbing intrusion in the psychology of individuals.
Fear is a monster that underlies all of life: fear of losing, of death, hunger, and illness; fear
of the plague, the arrival of barbarians, or the end of civilisation. Fear as the terror of hell,
systematically conjured up in sermons from pulpits threatening sinners and their indulgence
in carnivalesque follies; while Lent preachers evoke eternal suffering. These fascinating
ideas and points will be focused on by the speakers at the seminar coordinated by Aurelio
Cernigliaro, Franco Angiolini, Marcello Verga, Giorgio Chittolini, Giuseppe Trebbi and Giuseppe
Gullino.

«Studi Veneziani» N.S. LXII (2011)

a cura dell’Istituto per la Storia della Società e dello Stato Veneziano

Anno: 2012

Editore: Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa – Roma

Studi

Andrea Nanetti, Modone e Corone nello Stato veneto (1207-1500 e 1685-1715).

Indagine esemplare di esegesi delle fonti sulla Grecia veneziana

Piero Falchetta, Il mappamondo (scomparso?) di Fra Mauro

Matteo Casini, «The Company of the hose»: youth and courtly culture in Europe, Italy

and Venice

Fabrizio Biferali, Il tema della carità nella pittura di Iacopo Tintoretto

Gianna Gardenal, Gli Ebrei a Venezia nel XVI e XVII sec. La figura dell’Ebreo nelle

letterature europee tra i secc. XVI e XVII

Laura Mascarin, Filtri d’amore e pratiche magiche nei processi dell’Inquisizione di Aquileia

e Concordia (XVIII sec.)

Note e documenti

Katarina Mitrovi , Il culto di S. Marco nella Cattaro medievale

Angela Caracciolo Aricò, Il terzo visitatore nella biblioteca di Marin Sanudo il Giovane e

nelle sue camere

Lionello Puppi, A proposito di un ‘raro documento’ su Giorgione

Eleonora Stabile, La scomunica ebraica a Venezia

Giulio Zavatta, Andrea Palladio e i fratelli veronesi Federico e Antonio Maria Serego.

Documenti inediti sulle barchesse e sulla villa della Cucca

Francesca Bottacin, Marco Trevisan e Nicolò Barbarigo «amici eroi» nella ritrattistica

veneta secentesca: Tiberio Tinelli e Nicolò Renieri

Simona Bortot, Come l’acqua, fedeli nell’incostanza: gli Accademici Incogniti pro e contro

Arcangela Tarabotti

Carla Boccato, La crisi coniugale di un’ ebrea del ghetto di Venezia in atti notarili del Seicento

Cinzio Gibin, Scienza e coscienza nazionale nell’azione dei naturalisti veneti

Mauro Pitteri, Alcune considerazioni dopo la lettura di un saggio tardovenetista

Recensioni

Maria Pia Pedani, Venezia porta d’Oriente (G. Trebbi)

Lina Urban, Banchetti veneziani… (M. Zorzi)

Gli affreschi nei Palazzi e nelle Ville…, a cura di Filippo Pedrocco (B. Boccazzi Mazza)

Filippo De Vivo, Information and Communication in Venice… (D. Raines)

Valerio Vianello, La scrittura del rovesciamento… Paolo Sarpi…(M. Sarnelli)

Ugo Tucci, Un mercante veneziano del Seicento… (M. Pitteri)

Guido Candiani, I vascelli della Serenissima… (M. Pitteri)

Alvise Foscari… Dispacci, a cura di Fausto Sartori (S. Perini)

Carmelo Ferlito, Il Monte di Pietà di Verona… (M. Pitteri)

Luca Ciancio, La Fucina segreta di Vulcano… (C. Gibin)

Giovanni Catalani, La lumaca, la gallina… Lettere di G. Carli a S. Bettinelli (M. Pitteri)

Lettere di Alberto Fortis… a Giovanni Fabbroni…, a cura di Luca Ciancio (A. Candela)

Luigi D’Alpaos, Fatti e misfatti di idraulica lagunare… (S. Ciriacono)

Il pane e il companatico

As usual the traditional Historical Studies Seminar will be divided into fi ve sessions over three days. The morning of 8 May will be devoted to several speakers’ personal accounts of Vittore Branca. The topic has
been included in this year’s programme because Branca always supported the idea of these seminars during his time at the Foundation.
This year’s topic Il pane e il companatico (“Bread and something”),will be addressed from a number of points of view: the advent of maize, feeding the hungry peasants in the 17th and 18th centuries with
polenta, especially in the Veneto countryside, nutrition on ships and galleys, bread in Jewish festivities and stocking cereals and fl our. Bees and honey also put in an appearance in the explorations of further implications and metaphorical signifi cances.