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  1. Notable men and women of our time

    Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552
    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

    Written in the aftermath of the catastrophic sack of Rome in 1527, the historian Paolo Giovio's dialogue provides an informed perspective on the event from an intimate friend of Pope Clement VII. The work is also remarkable for its discussions of literary style and the much-debated question whether the vernacular could rival or surpass Latin as a vehicle for literary expression. It discusses authors whom Giovio knew personally, such as Ariosto, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Sannazaro, and Vittoria Colonna. The dialogues also contain an extensive survey of Italian noblewomen, shedding new light on their careers and cultural achievements. This volume contains a fresh edition of the Latin text and the first translation of the work into English.

  2. Portraits of learned men

    Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552
    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023

    "The works for which Paolo Giovio is best known today are his two volumes of Elogia: one concerning notable literati (1546), the other surveying prominent military and political figures (1551). The first of these, entitled Portraits of Learned Men (Elogia veris clarorum virorum imaginibus), is here newly edited and translated. Taken as a whole, Portraits of Learned Men provides an insightful synopsis of the contours, mentality, and trajectory of humanistic culture in Italy and Europe from the fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century. As he watched the foreign invasions of the Italian peninsula and the conquests that ensued, Giovio came to believe that the high culture of the Italian Renaissance-in which he had participated not only in Rome but in Florence, Milan, Naples, and elsewhere-was in rapid decline, a perspective he had voiced nearly two decades before in Notable Men and Women. We may view the Portraits as a mature and more systematic effort than that dialogue to capture and commemorate a bygone period of efflorescence. Unlike others' catalogues, however, Giovio's Portraits of Learned Men was but an offshoot of a far more ambitious project of commemoration. At least since 1521, he had been collecting likenesses of learned men, and the following year he began procuring portraits of outstanding rulers and men of arms. Tireless in supplicating potential patrons, he rapidly expanded his collection, and in 1537 he began construction on the southwest shore of Lake Como of a villa custom-made to display what he called his musaeum (literally, a "home of the Muses," but here carrying something resembling the modern sense of "museum"). Initially, he had planned just to identify the subjects in brief; but in perhaps his most creative move, he decided to enlarge the inscriptions to the point that they became biographical sketches, many of them several hundred words in length. Few of the biographical sketches in Portraits of Learned Men are eulogies; many verge on character assassination. Most lie in between, mixing praise and blame in a way that resembles the oratorical genre of epideictic favored by humanists in their sermons before the popes. Giovio sought to impart an appreciation for each man as a flesh-and-blood human being whose foibles were integral to making him who he was, and who, each in his own distinct way, contributed to making the Republic of Letters what it was. Viewed collectively, these capsule biographies (as the Latin elogia may best be rendered) can be seen to trace the arc of the development of learned culture in the Renaissance"--

  3. Elogi degli uomini illustri

    Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552
    Torino : G. Einaudi, c2006.

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  1. Larii Lacus Vulgo comensis descriptio

    Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552, and Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589
    1570

    auct.Palio Jovio. Relief shown pictorially. Decorative border and cartouches, ships, sea monster, pictorial vignettes. Shows topography, vegetation...

  2. Theatrum orbis terrarum

    Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, Bruney, Robert, active 1602-1614, Vrients, Jan Baptista, 1552-1612, Méndez, Diego, Seco, Fernando Alvares, Jolivet, Jean, Surhon, Jacques, Bompar, Pierre, Boileau de Buillon, Gilles, Sgrooten, Christian, approximately 1525-1603, Deventer, Jacob van, -1575, Hoppers, Joachim, 1523-1576, Antoniszoon, Cornelis, approximately 1499-, Stella, Tilemann, 1525-1589, Dryander, Johann, 1500-1560, Mellinger, Johannes, approximately, 1538-1603, Scultetus, Bartholomäus, 1540-1614, Lazius, Wolfgang, 1514-1565, Secsnagel, Marcus, approximately 1520-1580, Reuwich, Erhard, active 1483-1486, Gadner, Georg, 1522-1605, Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552, Tschudi, Aegidius, 1505-1572, Gastaldi, Giacomo, approximately 1500-approximately 1565, Pinadello, Giovanni, Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552, Bellarmati, Girolamo, 1493-1555, Danti, Ignazio, 1536-1586, Ligorio, Pirro, approximately 1513-1583, Hirschvogel, Augustin, 1503-1553, Coppo, Pietro, 1469 or 1470-1555 or 1556, Jenkinson, Anthony, 1529-1611, and Teixeira, Luís, active 16th century
    1603

    First uniformly sized and systematically collected set of maps by different mapmakers (partial list below, in order of appearance); acknowledged as...

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