Architecture and the Language Debate: Artistic and Linguistic Exchanges in Early Modern Italy
Poetic language in the early Renaissance (volgare versus Latin)IntroductionLatin and the vernacularCouncil of FlorenceEloquence, rhetoric and grammarAlberto’s grammar of the Tuscan dialectCertame coronario and poetryDante, Florence cathedral and the Tuscan languageVoice and gesture in pictorial spaceCursive script and Roman inscriptionInscribing instaurataConclusionNotesResuscitative language in the late Renaissance (Antiquarianism)IntroductionThe accretions of ornamentFigurative sculpturePirro Ligorio’s antiquarianismThe Casino of Pius IVThe agoneConclusionNotesUniversal language in the Baroque (ethnography)IntroductionThe new Baroque sensibilityPropaganda Fide and the Society of JesusAthanasius Kircher and hieroglyphicsCharacteristica universalis and combinatoricsCollegio Romano and the four continentsAllegorical quadratureLa Sapienza and the Aristotelian disputeConclusionNotesPastoral language in the early eighteenth century (Arcadianism)Republic of LettersHistory and ethos of the ArcadiansDesign and iconography of the Accademia degli ArcadiThe Palazzo Corsini and the architecture of ‘buon gusto’St. Eustachio and the ethos of early Christian architectureArchitecture contests and theatre performances among the ArcadiansConclusionNotesSelect bibliography
