#italian illuminism

[theitcharchives]

Let’s play a lit game. Guess which of these 1700s/early 1800s Italian poets is who

The one who went to work abroad and refused to learn the language his whole life, forcing his imperial employer to learn his, writing all his work of 50+ years in Italian and keeping only a few select also Italian friends;

The one who founded a nowadays still existing academy for scholars and then ditched it when it started veering off path from what he intended;

The one who 99% of the time wrote poems about his imaginary muse, an older woman he supposedly had the hots for since he was a kid;

The one who chose violence and wrote about her emotionally cheating husband fixated on a past lover when everyone else liked to write about frivolous love and picnics;

The one who wrote such an important treatise on the justice system it was used as the basics to reform most European law codes but bailed on his first trip abroad to discuss it and refused to go see the tsarina because Saint Petersburg was too cold;

The three brothers–two who founded a lit circle whose discussions ended in fistfights, the older one paid n.5′s travel expenses and sent the middle one to make sure n. 5 didn’t make a fool of himself in front of the French senpais that had finally noticed them. Middle one failed and went on to England on his own. Youngest one is rumored to be the bio dad of the first Italian novelist, who’s also n.5′s grandkid;

The one who was born poor and worked as a preceptor, fought with his first employers and quit, wrote an extremely successful callout poem about nobility, tutored the guy who became the father figure of First Novelist Guy, and managed to keep his government job through two power shifts because he was just that good of an admin;

The one who was born filthy rich but fucking hated any power hierarchy and any stupid hypocritical enlightened monarch, wrote a fuck you for everyone he could manage including that sellout of n.1 who whored his poetry out to the Austrian tyrants, looked Frederick II the Great right in the eye and found him lacking, loved the French revolutionists at first but decided they’d become filthy tyrants themselves once they started killing everyone and made a mad escape from France, and wrote an autobiography that is frankly fucking hilarious;

N.8 and n.7 fanboy that never properly settled, changing city depending on the government, and preferred self exiling and dying in poverty abroad rather than work for the Austrian occupants that offered him a job;

 The one who stayed up at night to read n.8′s autobiography and then got so excited he wrote a sonnet about it even if he frigging hated sonnets and said he’d never write one. This poor sod was the most depressed sickly guy in the history of Italian literature, tried to run away from home but his overprotective dad busted his plan, had a thousands of pages long notebook, said poetry comes from pain and that half seen things are better than whole things because he was obviously biased by being a wet rag of a man that died young. I still love him;

“Fuck you, and fuck you, and fuck you, fuck you very popular organization, fuck you icon of literature, fuck you main cultural event of my century, and fu–no you’re cool actually–fuck you instead, and fuck you, and what’s this? Schadenfreude? For getting to say the ultimate fuck you to a very popular guy for criticizing my blorbo? Enjoyable. And fuck you. All my friends are important people. Fuck my family.”

[akiiame-blog]

Dude he is so.

I'm never going to get over him.

[upennmanuscripts]

Today's manuscript is LJS 473, a 15th century Italian treatise on ships and shipbuilding. It includes information on cartography, construction and use of the compass, types of ships, and meteorology and astronomy for use in navigation, and has two maps of the earth - one of the earth and the spheres surrounding it (representing the sky and the Zodiac), and the other that divides the earth into temperate zones (hotter around the middle and colder on the ends).

🔗:

[lionofchaeronea]

Map of Hell, Sandro Botticelli, 1480s

[didoofcarthage]

Initial G: Julius Caesar on Horseback (with detail of Caesar), from the beginning of a manuscript with De Bello Gallico

Italian (created in Florence), c. 1460-1470

tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink

J. Paul Getty Museum

[marioboyy]

Bowser: "DO PRINCESSES FIND HIM ATTRACTIVE?"

Luigi: "THEY DO IF THEY HAVE GOOD TASTE!"

[cuties-in-codices]

men's fashion

in a book of domestic and foreign costumes, bavaria, late 16th century

source: Munich, BSB, Cod.icon. 341, fol. 5v, 102v and 107v

[skf-fineart]

Master of the Murano Gradual (Italian, active about 1430 - 1460)

Saint Jerome Extracting a Thorn from a Lion's Paw

Cutting from a gradual, second quarter of 15th century

Tempera and gold leaf, 8 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.

[arthistoryanimalia]

A fine-looking friend for #TurtleTuesday, found on fol. 98v of British Library Sloane MS 4016 (Tractatus de Herbis), Lombardy, Italy, c.1440.

[rainbogen]

Fun fact:

In the German translation, Mario's father doesn't say this line.

Instead, he says "Was hat er denn?" meaning "What's his problem?"

[my-sacred-art]

Monica Bellucci (Italian, born Sept. 30, 1964). (At 60 y.o.)

Adaptation of The Three Dead and Three Alive (trois morts et trois vifs), before 1498. Master of the Alderman of Rouen, illuminator (French, active 1463-1498).

Illumination fom the breviary of Charles de Neufchâtel, Archbishop of Besançon (1442-1498). Ms. 69 p. 126, Bibliothèque Municipale.

[dailymanuscript]

The Crucifixion, the parting of the Red Sea, and the Harrowing of Hell, Monte Cassino Exultet Roll

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (1/10/24) Giulio Clovio (Croatian, 1498–1578 Adoration of the Shepherds and the Fall of Man (1546) Illumination on parchment, 10.9 x 17.3 cm. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

The "Farnese Hours," the last great Italian Renaissance manuscript, was highly praised in Vasari's "Lives of the Painters" (1568). Of Clovio, Vasari said that there "has never been … a more rare painter of little things," calling him a "new, if smaller Michelangelo." Here the bareness of the "Adoration of the Shepherds" is contrasted with the lushness of paradise. The dramatic light generated by Jesus derives from the "Revelations of St. Bridget," as does the motif of the Virgin exposing the Christ child —- the shepherds had not been told the child's gender. Many details from the "Fall of Man" are based on Dürer's famous engraving of 1504.

[upennmanuscripts]

WE UNBOXED THE PETRARCH

Watch!

It's a c. 1470s copy of Canzoniere and Trionfi, with Leonardo Bruni's Life of Petrarch. Made in the Workshop of Francesco di Antonio del Chierico. More information in the sales description.

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Manuscript Illumination with All Saints in an Initial 'V' (manuscript cutting from an Antiphonary) Artist: Cosmè (Cosimo) Tura (Italian, 1430-1495) Date: 1450s Genre: religious art Period: Italian Renaissance (Quattrocento) Movement: School of Ferrara Medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art

[frozenwolftemplar]

Look at this it’s incredible!!! My jaw literally dropped when I flipped to this page of my calendar. Illuminated manuscripts are just so cool and something we as a society need to bring back. 😁

Mariano Del Buono. (late 15th century). Manuscript Leaf with the Dedication of a Church in an Initial T. 

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/469047