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PERSPECTIVE Steno, Targioni and the Two Forerunners
dominici:ARGENTI 11/01/2010 11:40 Pagina 101 Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences 1 (2009), 101-110 doi:10.3304/JMES.2009.011 Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences JME S PERSPECTIVE Steno, Targioni and the two forerunners Stefano Dominici* Museo di Storia Naturale, Sezione di Geologia e Paleontologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze Via La Pira, 4 - 50121 Firenze, Italy ABSTRACT - The brief and enigmatic Forerunner written by Nicholas Steno after a two-year residence in Tuscany (1667- 1668) contains several basic intuitions of earth sciences. His work influenced contemporary natural philosophers through Europe, but was seemingly forgotten in the course of the next century. Only in Florence the naturalist and polymath Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti undertook a geological study of Tuscany and tested the validity of Steno’s hypothesis on the origin of mountains and hills. In relevant passages of his Travels (1751-1754), Targioni expressed a substantial agreement with Steno’s reconstruction, therefore planning a modernized version of Steno’s theory of the earth, which he published in his own Forerunner (1754). In this work he sets the agenda for the new disciplines of physical chorography and topography, wishing to complete their application to Tuscany in his own lifetime, so that Tuscany could be presented as a template of the earth. His fame as author of Travels and owner of one of the best natural history museums of Europe reached many savants who visited him and learned the results of his fieldwork and his geotheory. Some of the people who met with Targioni have influenced the development of geology, and important aspects of his ideas can be found in their writings. -
“Principessa Di Gran Saviezza”. Dal Fasto Barocco Delle Corti Al Patto Di Famiglia
STEFANO CASCIU “Principessa di gran saviezza”. Dal fasto barocco delle corti al Patto di famiglia A stampa in La Principessa saggia. L’eredità di Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici Elettrice Palatina (Catalogo di mostra, Firenze, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, 22 dicembre 2006-15 aprile 2007), a cura di Stefano Casciu, Livorno, 2006, pp. 30-57 ________________________________________________________ Distribuito in formato digitale da «Storia di Firenze. Il portale per la storia della città» <http://www.storiadifirenze.org> 30 “Principessa di gran saviezza”. Dal fasto barocco delle corti al Patto di famiglia Stefano Casciu Una triplice salva reale partita dalle due fortezze fiorentine salutò il 17 ottobre 1717 il ritorno a Fi- renze di Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, Elettrice Palatina. La guardia a cavallo ed i trabanti accom- pagnarono la principessa dalle porte della città alla basilica della SS. Annunziata, dove il padre, il granduca Cosimo III, l’attendeva trepidante dopo venticinque anni di separazione. Cosimo impedì alla figlia di inginocchiarsi davanti a lui: entrati in chiesa “si trattennero poco dall’eccesso della reciproca tenerezza d’affetto”1. Iniziava così, per la figlia del granduca Cosimo III e di Marguerite- Louise d’Orléans, l’ultimo, lungo periodo della sua vita, che si sarebbe conclusa venticinque anni più tardi, il 18 febbraio 1743, data che segna al tempo stesso l’estinzione della dinastia dei Medici. La mostra oggi allestita in Palazzo Pitti, la prima che viene dedicata all’Elettrice Palatina dai musei statali fiorentini, eredi dell’ultima dei Medici in virtù delle disposizioni espresse nell’articolo terzo della Convenzione di famiglia, stipulata col nuovo granduca Francesco Stefano di Lorena il 31 ottobre 1737, è un altro ‘ritorno’ nella città da lei tanto amata. -
Getman Virtual Rare Book Fair October 6-8, 2020
Getman Virtual Rare Book Fair October 6-8, 2020 John Howell for Books John Howell, member ABAA, ILAB, IOBA 5205 ½ Village Green, Los Angeles, CA 90016-5207 310 367-9720 www.johnhowellforbooks.com [email protected] THE FINE PRINT: All items offered subject to prior sale. Call or e-mail to reserve, or visit us at www.johnhowellforbooks.com. Check and PayPal payments preferred; credit cards accepted. Make checks payable to John Howell for Books. Paypal payments to: [email protected]. All items are guaranteed as described. Items may be returned within 10 days of receipt for any reason with prior notice to me. Prices quoted are in US Dollars. California residents will be charged applicable sales taxes. We request prepayment from new customers. Shipping and handling additional. All items shipped via insured USPS Mail. Expedited shipping available upon request at cost. Standard domestic shipping $ 5.00 for a typical octavo volume; additional items $ 2.00 each. Large or heavy items may require additional postage. We actively solicit offers of books to purchase, including estates, collections and consignments. Please inquire. This list contains 15 items offered for sale by John Howell for Books at the October 2020 Getman Virtual Book Fair, October 6-8. Items include 5 small books dated 1817 to 1848, both religious and children’s titles, a set of seventeenth-century Italian poetry, several Americana titles, and a Fine Press edition of works by H. P. Lovecraft. Prices range from $35 to $2,200. John Howell for Books 3 1 À KEMPIS, Thomas (circa 1380-1471). Imitation de Jésus-Christ. -
A History of Italian Literature Should Follow and Should Precede Other and Parallel Histories
I. i III 2.3 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY C U rar,y Ubrary PQ4038 G°2l"l 8t8a iterature 1lwBiiMiiiiiiiifiiliiii ! 3 1924 oim 030 978 245 Date Due M#£ (£i* The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030978245 Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: IV. Edited by Edmund Gosse Short Histories of the Literatures of the World Edited by EDMUND GOSSE Large Crown 8vOj cloth, 6s. each Volume ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE By Prof. Gilbert Murray, M.A. FRENCH LITERATURE By Prof. Edward Dowden, D.C.L., LL.D. MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE By the Editor ITALIAN LITERATURE By Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D. SPANISH LITERATURE By J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly [Shortly JAPANESE LITERATURE By William George Aston, C.M.G. [Shortly MODERN SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE By George Brandes SANSKRIT LITERATURE By Prof. A. A. Macdonell. HUNGARIAN LITERATURE By Dr. Zoltan Beothy AMERICAN LITERATURE By Professor Moses Coit Tyler GERMAN LITERATURE By Dr. C. H. Herford LATIN LITERATURE By Dr. A. W. Verrall Other volumes will follow LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN \AU rights reserved] A .History of ITALIAN LITERATURE RICHARD GARNETT, C.B., LL.D. Xon&on WILLIAM HEINEMANN MDCCCXCVIII v y. 1 1- fc V- < V ml' 1 , x.?*a»/? Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson &* Co. At the Ballantyne Press *. # / ' ri PREFACE "I think," says Jowett, writing to John Addington Symonds (August 4, 1890), "that you are happy in having unlocked so much of Italian literature, certainly the greatest in the world after Greek, Latin, English. -
Jan Kochanowski University Press
Jan Kochanowski University Press This is a contribution from Token: A Journal of English Linguistics Volume 8/2019. Edited by John G. Newman, Marina Dossena and Sylwester Łodej. Special Editors for volume 8: Giovanni Iamartino and Irma Taavitsainen. © 2019 Jan Kochanowski University Press. Token: A Journal of English Linguistics 8, 2019 Italy and the Royal Society: Medical papers in the early Philosophical Transactions Lucia Berti University of Milan ABSTRACT During the first years of the Royal Society’s existence, a whole network of natural philosophical exchanges was set up between the Fellows and foreign gentlemen interested in the study of nature. From the exchanges with Italy, medicine appears to be one of the major topics of interest; and a series of medical papers based on Italian researches appear in the Society’s journal, the Philosophical Transactions (PT). This article is a linguistic and socio-historical analysis of 25 medical papers published in the PT in the first fifty years of its existence. The selected articles were either translations of Italian writings or reports of Italian research. The purpose of the study is: (1) to illustrate from a linguistic and socio-cultural point of view the nature of Italian medical contributions to the early PT; and (2) to investigate Anglo-Italian relations through the Royal Society’s medical interaction with Italians by analysing the PT articles and further contextual resources from a critical perspective. Keywords: Anglo-Italian relations, medical writing, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, seventeenth century. And your own intelligence will spur you on, without the urging of others, to inform yourself about these matters; in the same way you will be led, without doubt, to encourage all the keen minds of Italy to employ their talents in advancing the sciences and the arts by observations and experiments faithfully and diligently performed. -
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Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga oil on wood, 52.50 x 37.30 cm Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, 1503 – 1504 ca. Like the painting depicting the Young Man with an Apple, this painting dates from Raffaello’s younger years, when he attended and served the court of Urbino. Raffaello was still just a child when his father Giovanni Santi, who under Duke Federico was the intellectual of the court and trusted on all matters artistic, held a theatrical play to celebrate the wedding of Guidobaldo, the Duke of Urbino’s heir, to Elisabetta Gonzaga. The painting arrived in the Medici collections, and thence to the Uffizi, as part of the dowry for Vittoria della Rovere’s wedding in 1631. It depicts the young woman dressed richly in clothes woven with gold, characterised by a refined, aristocratic elegance. A headdress in the portentous form of a scorpion rests on the lady’s forehead. The depiction of the landscape in the background is particularly poetic, with the light of the rising sun touching the strips of cloud in the sky and the rocky path over to the right. Young Man with an Apple painting on wood, 47.40 x 35.30 cm Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, 1503 – 1504 ca. Arriving in Florence from Urbino as part of Vittoria della Rovere’s dowry upon her marriage to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, this painting probably depicts a member of the Urbino court, perhaps the teenaged figure of Francesco Maria della Rovere himself. The boy is presented to us in the role of Paris. Like the hero in the myth, he holds the symbolic fruit in his right hand, destined for the most beautiful of the ladies who we must imagine competing before him. -
EUI Working Papers
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION EUI Working Papers HEC 2010/02 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION Moving Elites: Women and Cultural Transfers in the European Court System Proceedings of an International Workshop (Florence, 12-13 December 2008) Giulia Calvi and Isabelle Chabot (eds) EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE , FLORENCE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION Moving Elites: Women and Cultural Transfers in the European Court System Proceedings of an International Workshop (Florence, 12-13 December 2008) Edited by Giulia Calvi and Isabelle Chabot EUI W orking Paper HEC 2010/02 This text may be downloaded for personal research purposes only. Any additional reproduction for other purposes, whether in hard copy or electronically, requires the consent of the author(s), editor(s). If cited or quoted, reference should be made to the full name of the author(s), editor(s), the title, the working paper or other series, the year, and the publisher. ISSN 1725-6720 © 2010 Giulia Calvi and Isabelle Chabot (eds) Printed in Italy European University Institute Badia Fiesolana I – 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) Italy www.eui.eu cadmus.eui.eu Abstract The overall evaluation of the formation of political decision-making processes in the early modern period is being transformed by enriching our understanding of political language. This broader picture of court politics and diplomatic networks – which also relied on familial and kin ties – provides a way of studying the political role of women in early modern Europe. This role has to be studied taking into account the overlapping of familial and political concerns, where the intersection of women as mediators and coordinators of extended networks is a central feature of European societies. -
Nummer Toegang: 1.02.01 Inventaris Van Het
Nummer Toegang: 1.02.01 Inventaris van het archief van C. van Heemskerck [levensjaren 1646-1702]: Gezant te Wenen, te Brussel, te Madrid, te Altona, te Constantinopel en te Parijs, 1672-1701 Versie: 15-08-2019 Th.H.P.M. Thomassen Nationaal Archief, Den Haag 1994 This finding aid is written in Dutch. 1.02.01 Heemskerck 3 INHOUDSOPGAVE Beschrijving van het archief......................................................................................5 Aanwijzingen voor de gebruiker................................................................................................6 Openbaarheidsbeperkingen.......................................................................................................6 Beperkingen aan het gebruik......................................................................................................6 Materiële beperkingen................................................................................................................6 Aanvraaginstructie...................................................................................................................... 6 Citeerinstructie............................................................................................................................ 6 Archiefvorming...........................................................................................................................7 Geschiedenis van de archiefvormer............................................................................................7 Vrijwilliger op de vloot en bestuurder -
Gevaarlijke Kennis (Dangerous Knowledge, 2007, Sample Translation)
Sample Translation Dangerous Knowledge (Gevaarlijke kennis) by Luuc Kooijmans (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2007) Translated by Diane Webb LUUC KOOIJMANS – DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE III IN SEARCH OF A REPUTATION Niels Stensen and Jan Swammerdam faced an uncertain future. There were no paid positions for research scientists, and those wishing to indulge in observation and experimentation were forced to do so in their free time. To earn a living, Stensen and Swammerdam would have had to become practising physicians, but the idea did not appeal to them. Not only had almost all current medical theories been called into question – owing in no small part to their own work – but they also believed that the foundations of medical science were too shaky to sustain any serious practice. A great many anatomical and physiological issues had first to be resolved, and as physicians they would have far too little time for this. Even as university lecturers they could not be certain of continuing their research, for empirical study was not a generally accepted approach in academic medicine. Universities were primarily institutions for the dissemination of classical learning, with little attention being paid to new findings. The lack of any convincing alternative had led most European universities to cling to outmoded teaching material, and the spirit of Aristotle still prevailed. Students were given Galen and Hippocrates to read, and were instructed in the doctrine of the four humours. There were, however, outside the universities, various forms of private seminars, in which more widely ranging and controversial material could be handled than in university lectures, and where fresh insights therefore made faster inroads. -
Saturn Dispute”
An indirect convergence between the Accademia del Cimento and the Montmor Academy: the “Saturn dispute” Giulia Giannini, Università degli Studi di Milano Introduction The purpose of the present chapter is to examine an indirect (albeit significant) point of contact between the Florentine academy, later known as the Accademia del Cimento, and the so-called Montmor Academy: their role in the “Saturn dispute”. In particular, this essay intends to demonstrate how, despite fragmentary evidence and often interrupted exchanges, the issue of the planet’s strange appearances offers a unique standpoint from which to assess the interests and the ways in which the two societies operated, as well as the nature of their relations. The two academies were active between 1657 and 1666-7, in Florence and Paris, respectively. The first occasional meetings at the house of Henri Louis Habert de Montmor (1600-1679) can be dated back to the period between 1654 and 1656.1 However, it is only from 1657–when the academy approved its own statutes–that the beginning of the Parisian circle can be dated with certainty. The Cimento, on the other hand, never had official rules or statutes.2 The dating of its meetings can be determined thanks to the diaries kept by its academicians, and also through the only publication produced by the Florentine academy: the Saggi di naturali esperienze (1667). This book – signed by the “accademici del Cimento” and by the “Saggiato segretario”, Lorenzo Magalotti– attested that an ‘academy’, sponsored by Prince Leopoldo de’ Medici (1617-1675), was ‘founded in the year 1657’.3 Even less information is available regarding the cessation of their activities. -
Virtual Conference
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE Welcome to the 14th European Conference on TURBOMACHINERY Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics The European Turbomachinery Conference (ETC) is organized by the European Turbomachinery Society (Euroturbo) and is held every two years in a different European city. The 14th European Conference on Turbomachinery Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics (ETC 14) will be held in April 2021, beginning on Monday, April 12 and concluding on Friday, April 16. According to the Covid Restriction we have decided to have it fully virtual under the organization of Local organizer in Gdansk (Poland). The conference covers from a scientific and engineering perspective, the fluid dynamics and thermodynamics of turbomachines, as well as of turbomachinery based propulsion systems and power systems. The first conference was held in Erlanden (Germany) in 1995 with 58 papers and 155 attendees. This year we have more than 110 papers and we are expecting over 200 attendees despite the less appealing of the on line Conference. This conference booklet will provide you with all the practical information that you need during the conference. Chairman of the Committee General Secretary Paper Review Chairman Prof. Francesco Martelli Prof. Marcello Manna Prof. Antoine Dazin University of Florence University Of Naples “Federico II” Ecole Nationale Supérieure Italy Italy d’Arts et Métiers France Local Organizing Committee Local Organizing Committee Local Organizing Committee Chairman Co-Chairman Secretary Prof. Piotr Doerffer Prof. Dariusz Mikielewicz Prof. Pawel -
Medici Women. the Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany
RECENZJE I OMÓWIENIA 297 Medici Women. The Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany. Edited by Giovanna Benadusi and Judith C. Brown. Toronto: Cen- tre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2015 With ten richly documented essays and a contextual introduction by Judith C. Brown, Medici Women: The Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany, edited by Giovanna Benadusi and Judith C. Brown, highlights the central role of women in the dynastic ambitions of the Medici and in the creation and consolidation of Medici power after the decline of the Florentine repu- blic. If the formidable women of the Medici – wives and daughters moving between their natal and marital families, navigating the complex nuances of power – were long dismissed as footnotes to the “real story” of politics, mili- tary strategy, and diplomacy, this volume repositions them at the heart of a multidimensional courtly network that stretched throughout early modern Europe. The Medici women (some depicted in starkly negative terms in the influential but biased studies of the historians Jacopo Riguccio Galluzzi and Gaetano Pieraccini) are thoroughly reassessed in Benadusi and Brown’s volume, which in turn builds on recent work by scholars such as Konrad Eisenbichler (The Cultural World of Eleonora of Toledo, 2004), and Giulia Calvi and Riccardo Spinelli (Le donne Medici nel sistema europeo delle corti, XVI–XVIII secolo, 2008). The volume opens with Brown’s introduction, which offers an overview both of the historiographical tradition regarding Medici women and the political circumstances leading to the establishment of the Medici dukes in the mid-1530s. Setting the tone for the essays that follow, Brown argues that the women born or married into the Medici family wielded their influence in myriad ways, both direct and indirect: they gave political counsel to their spouses and children, they acted as regents, they were patrons of the arts and of charitable and religious institutions.