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WITH ITS PECULIAR WAY of
putting wit to the test, the impresa, or device, also contains
its own definition, a way of presenting itself in a determined
way, with a specific image and values. For these reasons, the
books of imprese quickly became the favored genre of the
Renaissance. Their proximity to emblems, the love of encoded
expression, the inclusion of erudite commentaries of varied
kinds and the practice of literary academies all help to explain
their success and widespread dissemination. They are books
crammed with news: from classical historiography to contemporary
events, including animalistic, astrological and poetic
curiosities, or even the relation of customs.
The importance of this CD does not reside
solely in the list of complete works published, but also in the
textual and iconographical indices, which can be used to locate
the materials cited time and time again throughout Europe, which have
nevertheless been difficult to trace, until now. Thus the reader
will find readilly available, for example, all of the mottoes
along with their sources, or the names of all the illustrious
personages who had imprese crafted for them: that is to say, an
editorial history of the genre.
We offer a critical edition — all
of the translations and commentaries, as well as our
philological annotation — of two fundamental works, those of
Claude Paradin and Paolo Giovio. In addition, we publish the
books of imprese that helped forge the genre, as well as some
titles from the beginning of the seventeenth century. Due to their
great volume, we leave for another CD the immense materials from
repertories and Baroque collections.
In preparation. |
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Titles included:
• Aleandro, Girolamo, Sopra l’impresa de gli Accademici Humoristi
(Rome 1611)
• Ammirato, Scipione, Il Rota, ovvero delle imprese (Naples 1562)
• Aresi, Paolo, Delle Sacre Imprese (Tortona 1630)
• Bargagli, Scipione, Dell’imprese (Venice 1594)
• Camilli, Camillo, Imprese illustri (Venice 1586)
• Caburaccio, Francesco, Trattato ... di fare le Imprese (Bologna
1580)
• Capaccio, Giulio Cesare, Delle imprese (1592)
• Contile, Luca, Ragionamento sopra le imprese (Pavia 1574)
• D'Amboise, Adrian, Devises royales (Paris
1621)
• D'Amboise, François, Discours,
ou traicté des devises (Paris
1620)
• Farra, Alessandro, Settenario dell’humana riduttione (1562)
• Fraunce, Abraham, Imprese (London 1588)
• Giovio, Paolo, Imprese —
critical edition of all Italian editions (1555, 1556, 1557, 1559,
1561, 1574), and of the Spanish, French and English translations;
Simeoni’s version in verse, and the books added by Domenichi,
Ruscelli and Simeoni.
• Locarini, Alcibiade (L’Offizioso Accademico Intronato), Imprese
(Siena 1629)
• Martini, Rolo, Overo cento imprese de gl’illustri Signori huomini
d’arme Sanesi (Bologna 1591)
• Palazzi, Giovanni Andrea, Discorsi (Bologna 1575)
• Paradin, Guillaume, Devises
heroiques — critical edition (all French editions, including the
augmented edition with commentary of 1614; and the English, Latin
and Dutch translations)
• Pietrasanta, Silvestro, De symbolis heroicis (Antwerp 1634)
• Ruscelli, Girolamo, Imprese (Venice 1574)
• Taegio, Bartolomeo, Il Liceo (Milan 1572)
• Tasso, Torquato, Dialogo dell’imprese (Naples ca. 1594)
• Tesauro, Emanuele, Il Cannocchiale Aristotelico, o sia Idea delle
Argutezze Heroiche vulgarmente chiamate Imprese, et di tutta l’arte
simbolica e lapidaria. (Venice, 1655)
• Trevisani, Cesare, La impresa ... ampiamente da lui stesso
dichiarata (Genova 1569). |
