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1 Prime Pagine Ok.Indd Indice 1 CXVI 2009 Dedicato a Domenico Maffei SIENA ACCADEMIA SENESE DEGLI INTRONATI 2009 Direttore responsabile: DUCCIO BALESTRACCI Comitato di redazione: ALESSANDRO ANGELINI, MARIO DE GREGORIO, ENZO MECACCI, STEFANO MOSCADELLI. Segretaria di redazione: ROBERTA MUCCIARELLI. Comitato scientifi co: Presidente: GIULIANO CATONI MARIO ASCHERI, MONICA BUTZEK, PAOLO CAMMAROSANO, GIOVANNI CHERUBINI, MONICA DONATO, GIANFRANCO FIORAVANTI, ROBERTO GUERRINI, FILIPPO LIOTTA, GIOVANNI MINNUCCI, PAOLO NARDI, LEOPOLDO NUTI, MARCO PIERINI, GIULIANO PINTO, COLLEEN REARDON, ROBERTO ROCCHIGIANI, BERNARDINA SANI, THOMAS SZABÓ. Collaborano con la redazione: MARTA FABBRINI, GIACOMO GANDOLFI, BARBARA GELLI, GIACOMO LUCHINI, RENATO LUGARINI, IRENE SBRILLI, VALENTINA TINACCI. La corrispondenza per la redazione e l’amministrazione va indirizzata all’Accademia Senese degli Intronati, Palazzo Patrizi-Piccolomini, Via di Città 75, 53100 Siena. E-mail: [email protected] I collaboratori alle sezioni Saggi e Note e documenti ricevono 5 estratti gratuiti dei loro contributi ed una copia in formato pdf. I contributi scientifi ci pervenuti alla rivista sono sottoposti alla lettura e al giudizio di referees di fi ducia del Comitato di Redazione. Il numero precedente della rivista è disponibile sul sito www.accademiaintronati.it . Questo volume è edito con il contributo della Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena. INDICE SAGGI JOHN KOENIG, Mary, sovereign of Siena, Jesus, King of Florence: siege religion and the ritual subsmission (1260-1637) II .................................. pag. 9 MICHELE CAMAIONI, Note su due episodi del periodo italiano di Bernardino Ochino ....................................................................................................... » 120 MARIA ANTONIETTA ROVIDA, La strada nuova di Provenzano: spazio urbano e architettura nella Siena di età barocca .................................................. » 149 FRANCESCA FANTAPPIÉ, «Angela senese» alias Angela Signorini Nelli. Vita artistica di un’attrice nel Seicento italiano: dal Don Giovanni ai libertini ...................................................................................................... » 212 FABIO SOTTILI, Una fabbrica ‘romana’ a Siena. Precisazioni ed analisi della ricostruzione settecentesca di Palazzo Chigi Zondadari e dell’attività di Pietro Hostini ........................................................................................ » 268 VIVIANA C ASTELLI, Ricordarsi del terremoto. Tracce senesi di una “memoria” sismica collettiva ....................................................................................... » 316 NOTE E DOCUMENTI PAOLO NARDI, Sull’epistola di Giovanni dalle Celle a Giovanni da Salerno in difesa di Caterina Benincasa ................................................................ » 349 ANGELA CINGOTTINI, Marietta Piccolomini. Una rivisitazione alla luce delle nuove acquisizioni dell’Archivio di Stato di Siena, di inediti all’Acca- demia Chigiana e di altri documenti ......................................................... » 358 PIETRO CLEMENTE, L’evento della voce che narra. Connettere due storie con una terza ............................................................................................. » 401 FABIO MUGNAINI, La storia della fi aba e delle altre storie .............................. » 414 FLORIO CARNESECCHI, Ciro Marzocchi ............................................................. » 439 6 Indice STEFANO CAMPANA - CRISTINA FELICI, Tra Orcia e Asso. Chiese e insedia- menti nei secoli di formazione dei paesaggi medievali: il caso della Pieve di Pava ............................................................................................. » 451 ROBERTA MUCCIARELLI, Il nome e la città: qualche divagazione sull’onoma- stica urbana ............................................................................................... » 475 ROBERTO BARZANTI, Una babelica lottizzazione ............................................. » 480 GUIDO BURCHI, Nascita e fortuna della Settimana Musicale Senese (1928-1939) .............................................................................................. » 486 NOTIZIARIO BIBLIOGRAFICO Segnalazioni Duccio Balestracci Giacomo Luchini Maura Martellucci Recensioni D. Luigi Pagliai (a cura di), Regesto di Coltibuono (DOMENICO PACE) ........... » 519 Alessia Zombardo (a cura di), Il Diplomatico del Comune di Montieri nell’Archivio di Stato di Siena (1236-1578) (STEFANO MOSCADELLI) ........ » 520 A. Bartoli Langeli, A. Giorgi, S. Moscadelli (a cura di), Archivi e comunità tra Medioevo ed Età moderna (MARIO ASCHERI) ....................................... » 522 Paolo Cammarosano, Siena (Il Medioevo nelle città italiane 1) (DUCCIO BALESTRACCI) .............................................................................................. » 526 Ettore Pellegrini, Alla ricerca di Montaperti. Mito, fonti documentarie e storiografi a (GIACOMO LUCHINI).................................................................. » 527 R. Mucciarelli, G. Piccinni, G. Pinto, (a cura di), La costruzione del dominio cittadino sulle campagne. Italia centro-settentrionale, secoli XII-XIV (PAOLO NANNI) ................................................................................ » 530 Adriano Peroni, Grazia Tucci (a cura di), Nuove ricerche su Sant’Antimo (DUCCIO BALESTRACCI) ................................................................................ » 536 Gerald Parsons, The Cult of Saint Catherine of Siena. A Study in Civil Religion (ROBERTO BARZANTI) .................................................................... » 538 Franco Franceschi, I “Ciompi” a Firenze, Siena e Perugia (RENATO LUGARINI) . » 541 Raffaello Razzi, Le chiese dei frati Minori di San Gimignano (GIOVANNI CHERUBINI) ................................................................................................. » 543 Indice 7 Beatrice del Bo, Mariano Vitali da Siena. Integrazione e radica- mento di un uomo d’affari nella Milano del Quattrocento (BARBARA GELLI) ......................................................................................................... » 546 Sandra dall’Oco, Antonio Casini, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini (per la storia di un rapporto epistolare) (BARBARA GELLI) .................................. » 548 Barbara Baldi, Pio II e le trasformazioni dell’Europa cristiana (1457-1464) (BARBARA GELLI) ........................................................................................ » 549 Mario Ascheri, Fabrizio Nevola (a cura di), L’ultimo secolo della Repub- blica di Siena. Arti, cultura e società (MARTA FABBRINI) ............................. » 552 Ettore Pellegrini, La “Sena vetus Civitas Virginis” di Francesco Vanni. Tra arte e scienza, (PETRA PERTICI) ...................................................................... » 554 Paolo Nardi, Maestri e allievi giuristi nell’Università di Siena. Saggi biografi ci (FLORIANA COLAO) ........................................................................ » 556 Cecilia Alessi, Marco Borgogni, Barbara Tavolari (a cura di), La colle- giata di Santa Maria in Provenzano (ALESSANDRO ANGELINI) .................... » 560 Matteo Sanfi lippo, Carlo Prezzolini (a cura di), Roberto de Nobili (1577- 1656) missionario gesuita poliziano (ALEXANDER KOLLER) ........................ » 566 Mario De Gregorio, Luigi De Angelis (1758-1832) con una lettera di Vincenzo Monti e la ristampa anastatica del ‘Discorso storico su l’Università di Siena’ (GIULIANO CATONI) ..................................................... » 570 Antonio Francesco Bandini, Notizie sulle contrade e sul Palio (1785-1838) (DUCCIO BALESTRACCI) ................................................................................... » 572 Giovanni Grottanelli de‘ Santi, Cronaca di famiglia, (GIULIANO CATONI) ...... » 575 Marino Bennati (a cura di), Tommaso Pendola (1800-1883). Tra apostolato, pedagogia e impegno civile (DUCCIO BALESTRACCI) .................................... » 577 Giuliano Catoni, Fra pirati e scolari. Il rettorato senese di Daniello Berlinghieri (1807-1829), (MAURA MARTELLUCCI) ...................................... » 578 Riccardo Pizzinelli, Duccio Pasqui, Antonio Sigillo, Rilievi ottocenteschi delle architetture rinascimentali di Montepulciano (CARLO PREZZOLINI) ... » 579 Felicia Rotundo, Rosario Pagliaro, Egisto Bellini (1877-1955). Disegni di architettura e di ornato (CARLO PREZZOLINI) ............................................... » 581 Paolo Nardi, L’Archivio di Stato di Siena e il mondo universitario tra Ottocento e Novecento (STEFANO MOSCADELLI) ......................................... » 584 Ezio Felici, Opere (a cura di Luigi Oliveto e Daniele Sasson) (ROBERTO BARZANTI) ................................................................................................... » 586 8 Indice Marcello Barbanera (a cura di), L’occhio dell’archeologo. Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli nella Siena del primo ‘900 (MAURA MARTELLUCCI) ... » 588 Maurizio Boldrini, Nicola Natili (a cura di), Lo sport a Siena. Un secolo di storia, vent’anni di gloria (STEFANO MOSCADELLI) ...................................... » 590 Claudio Cerretani, Roberto Guercio, Cesare Scarfò, Laura Vigni, Viva l’acqua del Vivo! Ad un secolo dall’inizio dei lavori per l’acquedotto di Siena (GIACOMO LUCHINI) ........................................................................... » 595 Cecilia Bello Minciacchi (a cura di), Spirale di dolcezza + serpe di fascino. Scrittrici futuriste (VALENTINA TINACCI) ...................................................
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