During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Franciscan regular Observance and its milieu produced a series of hagiographical portraits of its greatest and most renowned preachers:1 Bernardino da Siena, Giovanni da Capestrano, Giacomo della Marca, and Bernardino da Feltre.2 This biographical material has been long disregarded by scholars or used only partially, and has rarely been compared in its entirety.3 The majority of these texts are virtually unknown, written by anonymous or little-known authors, and the goals and audiences of these (...) biographies remain equally shadowy.All of these vitae stand in a tradition that began during the fifteenth century, but.. (shrink)

L’informatique de la domination s’est non seulement emparée de l’utopie de la transparence, elle l’a radicalisée. Nouveau « code » civil, assorti d’une injonction à une visibilité intégrale, la transparence innerve aujourd’hui le code-source des plates-formes numériques, sur la trame desquelles se tisse désormais un nombre toujours croissant de nos interactions. Par un démontage en règle de nouvel outillage idéologique de l’asservissement, ces onze « thèses » plongent au cœur de l’alliance un peu trop heureuse entre logique du capital et (...) devenir-numérique du monde. (shrink)

This article introduces the little-known humanist Pompeo Pazzaglia of Bologna. Drawing on the evidence of two collections of his works preserved in miscellaneous manuscripts, it not only reconstructs his biography, but also showcases a selection of his Neo-Latin poems, published and translated here for the first time. Moreover, it publishes some letters and writings which provide new information about book history as well as social, cultural and political events in mid-fifteenth-century Italy, especially in the ambit of Pomponio Leto’s Roman Academy, (...) the papal curia and the court of Naples. Pompeo’s previously unstudied writings yield unique insights into such diverse subjects as the decoration and symbolism of the Roman Pantheon and the Palazzo di San Marco, the marriage of Ippolita Maria Sforza and King Ferrante in Naples, the death of Jacopo Piccinino and the fall of Negroponte to the Ottomans. This study therefore makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on early Renaissance humanism in Rome and Aragonese Naples. (shrink)