ITALART · The Language of the Arts in Italy between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The re-editing of documents from the Milanesi corpus and the compiling of a Dictionary of Historical-Artistic Italian
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2018-10-01 → 2020-09-30
- EU contribution
- €168,277
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Results in brief
The Language of the Arts in Italy between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The re-editing of documents from the Milanesi corpus and the compiling of a Dictionary of Historical-Artistic Italian
The main objective of the ITALRT research project is to contribute effectively to tracing the linguistic and conceptual formation and development of an Italian language of the arts and architecture from the first examples in the Middle Ages (the mid-13th Century) till the end of the 16th Century and the close of the Renaissance period. A Marie Curie Standard Fellowship allowed me to start up a research project which is be very beneficial to study of the specialist lexicography of Italian and, more generally, of the history of the Italian language. In addition, it can also be useful in other fields. In fact, one of my medium to long term objectives (to be pursued through an ERC grant for which I intend to apply in the future) is to extend the scope of the research to the documentation available in those areas of Italy which have a particularly rich history of artistic production. This would counter the traditional Tuscan-centric vision of research studies and instead pay much deserved attention to the linguistic and cultural traditions which were geographically peripheral to the Tuscan traditions but were no less significant (it will suffice to recall the Humanistic-Renaissance centres of extraordinary artistic and cultural fervour such as Milan, Venice, Padua, Mantua, Urbino and, of course, Rome).
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Project objective
ITALART is a project for the creation of an Italian historical dictionary of the arts and architecture between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. As sources for the compilation it uses documents of a practical nature produced within the context of art workshops and architectural sites: contracts, surveys, payment notes, letters, corporation statutes, technical instruction manuals, etc. It is mainly these types of documents, providing examples of everyday use of language, otherwise unobtainable, which provide valuable information on the use and spread of a technical language in Vulgar Italian during the period under consideration.An important documental contribution can be found in the two XIX anthologies on historical-artistic topics: ""Documenti per la storia dell’arte senese"" (Siena, Porri, 3 voll., 1854-1856) and ""La scrittura di artisti italiani (secoli XIV-XVII)"" (Firenze, presso l’Editore Carlo Pini, 1876), published by Gaetano Milanesi (1813-1895), a scholar from Siena.Numerous unedited materials left unused in various archives found in Tuscany and several cities in central Italy will be added to the already edited materials contained in these anthologies. These materials, however, will need to be re-edited according to modern philological criteria.The completed dictionary will be produced both in a paper and digital version, the latter published online on a dedicated website. The text corpus, digitised in its entirety and fully searchable, will also be published on the same site. Along with each transcribed text of the corpus there will be a scanned reproduction of the original document, a codicological record, and a set of philological notes, as well as brief annotations for further historical and artistic study.""
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Participants
- CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · RomaCoordinatorItaly
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