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Architecture and the Language Debate: Artistic and Linguistic Exchanges in Early Modern Italy

Poetic language in the early Renaissance (volgare versus Latin)Introduction Latin and the vernacular Council of Florence Eloquence, rhetoric and grammar Alberto’s grammar of the Tuscan dialect Certame coronario and poetry Dante, Florence cathedral and the Tuscan language Voice and gesture in pictorial space Cursive script and Roman inscription Inscribing instaurata Conclusion Notes Resuscitative language in the late Renaissance (Antiquarianism)Introduction The accretions of ornament Figurative sculpture Pirro Ligorio’s antiquarianism The Casino of Pius IV The agone Conclusion Notes Universal language in the Baroque (ethnography)Introduction The new Baroque sensibility Propaganda Fide and the Society of Jesus Athanasius Kircher and hieroglyphics Characteristica universalis and combinatorics Collegio Romano and the four continents Allegorical quadrature La Sapienza and the Aristotelian dispute Conclusion Notes Pastoral language in the early eighteenth century (Arcadianism)Republic of Letters History and ethos of the Arcadians Design and iconography of the Accademia degli Arcadi The Palazzo Corsini and the architecture of ‘buon gusto’St. Eustachio and the ethos of early Christian architecture Architecture contests and theatre performances among the Arcadians Conclusion Notes Select bibliography

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