Monica Azzolini
Biographic Data
| ID | 1180446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Azzolini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Azzolini |
| SIGNATURE | AZZOLINI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3311-7251 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aldrovandi’s planned history of marvels
This article looks at Ulisse Aldrovandi’s planned Historia admirandis (‘history of marvels’), a work that never came to fruition. Based on extensive archival research, the article reconstructs the efforts that went into the projected volume, which resulted in thousands of pages of notes and a much shorter work entitled Florilegium admirandorum, which Aldrovandi dedicated to his patron and relative Alberto Bolognetti. The article argues that the h…
Are the Stars Aligned? Matchmaking and Astrology in Early Modern Italy
This essay examines how early moderns used birth horoscopes (genitures) to assess the compatibility of prospective spouses before marriage. Astrologers could probe the horoscope of an individual to investigate his or her present and future physical and moral qualities or compare charts to reveal the personal compatibility of a couple and help establish the best time to consummate their marriage. These practices aimed at ensuring a fruitful marria…
Italian Renaissance Diplomacy
Azzolini, Monica, and Isabella Lazzarini, eds. Italian Renaissance Diplomacy: A Sourcebook. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2018, pp. 5-245), on Érudit
Talking of animals
The sixteenth century marks a watershed in the study of the natural world, and animals within it. Never before did so many Europeans devote so much ink to describing animals, their physical characteristics, their utility, and the environment in which they lived. Reading, observation, correspondence, illustration, and conversation represented key moments in this process of knowledge production. While the first four aspects have received sustained …
Eileen Reeves. Evening News
Scholarly study of the newspaper and its history seems to have started in the 1740s with a forgery by the hand of Philip Yorke, second Earl of Hardwicke. He and his circle of friends wrote five issues of a periodical newspaper and dated it to 1588. Years later, in The Life of Thomas Ruddiman (1794), the Scottish antiquary George Chalmers concluded with a certain sense of pride that Hardwicke's The English Mercurie provided evidence of the superio…
The Duke and the Stars
Azzolini, Monica. The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 36, Number 2, Spring 2013, pp. 5-205), on Érudit
Theaters of Anatomy
Cynthia Klestinec. Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. xix + 258 pp. $55. ISBN: 978–1–4214–0142–3. - Volume 66 Issue 4
The political uses of astrology
Making Women's Medicine Masculine
Mai sotto Saturno
Tommaso Duranti. Mai sotto Saturno: Girolamo Manfredi, medico e astrologo. Bologna medievale ieri e oggi 10. Bologna: CLUEB, 2008. 212 pp. index. illus. tbls. chron. bibl. 荤19. ISBN: 978–88–491–3129–1. - Volume 63 Issue 2
Discussion apologétique pour l'astrologie contre un certain médecin (review)
Not available
Natalie Zemon Davis
In this interview with Monica Azzolini and Martyn Lyons of the University of New South Wales, Natalie Zemon Davis talks about her passion for history, and forthcoming publications. These take her into such diverse contexts as early modern Islam, the eighteenth-century Caribbean and Rumanian-Yiddish literature.Natalie Zemon Davis began her career as a specialist in the history of Reformation France, and is well- known for her contribution to the s…
In praise of art
Leonardo da Vinci's Paragone is often taken as the first significant testimony of the newly acquired status of the Renaissance artist in society. It is not clear, however, how much input (if any) Leonardo had in its composition. It seems, in fact, that the work was largely compiled from Leonardo's notes by his pupil Francesco Melzi soon after his death. For this reason, a number of scholars have been reluctant to take it as fully representative o…
Plagues, Poisons and Potions
From its first appearance during the fourteenth century until well into the eighteenth century, Europe continued to be beset by epidemic waves of bubonic plague. Despite its lengthy cohabitation with human beings across all European nations, nothing was known of the epidemiology and etiology of the bubonic plague until as late as the 1890s. It is therefore hardly surprising to find out that none of the precautions taken across Europe was particul…
Doctors, Ambassadors, and Secretaries
Reviewed by: Doctors, Ambassadors, and Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy Monica Azzolini Douglas Biow . Doctors, Ambassadors, and Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii + 224 pp. $39.00, £25.00 (0-226-05171-4). This book investigates the relationship between humanism and the professions of doctor, ambassador, and secretary in the Italian Renaissance. I…
Anatomy of a Dispute
Historians have recently paid increasing attention to the role of the disputation in Italian universities and humanist circles. By contrast, the role of disputations as forms of entertainment at fifteenth-century Italian courts has been somewhat overlooked. In this article, the Milanese "scientific duel" (a courtly disputation) described in Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione is taken as a vantage point for the study of the dynamics of scientifi…
L'occhio delta lince
Irene Baldriga. L'occhio della lince: Iprimi lincei tra arte, scienza e collezionismo (1603-1630). Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2002. x + 340 pp. + 11 b/w pls. index, illus. bibl. 50. ISBN: 0-226-26147-6. - Volume 57 Issue 3
Are the Stars Aligned? Matchmaking and Astrology in Early Modern Italy
This essay examines how early moderns used birth horoscopes (genitures) to assess the compatibility of prospective spouses before marriage. Astrologers could probe the horoscope of an individual to investigate his or her present and future physical and moral qualities or compare charts to reveal the personal compatibility of a couple and help establish the best time to consummate their marriage. These practices aimed at ensuring a fruitful marria…
Anatomy of a Dispute
Historians have recently paid increasing attention to the role of the disputation in Italian universities and humanist circles. By contrast, the role of disputations as forms of entertainment at fifteenth-century Italian courts has been somewhat overlooked. In this article, the Milanese "scientific duel" (a courtly disputation) described in Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione is taken as a vantage point for the study of the dynamics of scientifi…
Talking of animals
The sixteenth century marks a watershed in the study of the natural world, and animals within it. Never before did so many Europeans devote so much ink to describing animals, their physical characteristics, their utility, and the environment in which they lived. Reading, observation, correspondence, illustration, and conversation represented key moments in this process of knowledge production. While the first four aspects have received sustained …
The political uses of astrology
Plagues, Poisons and Potions
From its first appearance during the fourteenth century until well into the eighteenth century, Europe continued to be beset by epidemic waves of bubonic plague. Despite its lengthy cohabitation with human beings across all European nations, nothing was known of the epidemiology and etiology of the bubonic plague until as late as the 1890s. It is therefore hardly surprising to find out that none of the precautions taken across Europe was particul…
Doctors, Ambassadors, and Secretaries
Reviewed by: Doctors, Ambassadors, and Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy Monica Azzolini Douglas Biow . Doctors, Ambassadors, and Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii + 224 pp. $39.00, £25.00 (0-226-05171-4). This book investigates the relationship between humanism and the professions of doctor, ambassador, and secretary in the Italian Renaissance. I…
Anatomy of a Dispute
Historians have recently paid increasing attention to the role of the disputation in Italian universities and humanist circles. By contrast, the role of disputations as forms of entertainment at fifteenth-century Italian courts has been somewhat overlooked. In this article, the Milanese "scientific duel" (a courtly disputation) described in Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione is taken as a vantage point for the study of the dynamics of scientifi…
L'occhio delta lince
Irene Baldriga. L'occhio della lince: Iprimi lincei tra arte, scienza e collezionismo (1603-1630). Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2002. x + 340 pp. + 11 b/w pls. index, illus. bibl. 50. ISBN: 0-226-26147-6. - Volume 57 Issue 3
Natalie Zemon Davis
In this interview with Monica Azzolini and Martyn Lyons of the University of New South Wales, Natalie Zemon Davis talks about her passion for history, and forthcoming publications. These take her into such diverse contexts as early modern Islam, the eighteenth-century Caribbean and Rumanian-Yiddish literature.Natalie Zemon Davis began her career as a specialist in the history of Reformation France, and is well- known for her contribution to the s…
In praise of art
Leonardo da Vinci's Paragone is often taken as the first significant testimony of the newly acquired status of the Renaissance artist in society. It is not clear, however, how much input (if any) Leonardo had in its composition. It seems, in fact, that the work was largely compiled from Leonardo's notes by his pupil Francesco Melzi soon after his death. For this reason, a number of scholars have been reluctant to take it as fully representative o…
Discussion apologétique pour l'astrologie contre un certain médecin (review)
Not available
The political uses of astrology
Making Women's Medicine Masculine
Mai sotto Saturno
Tommaso Duranti. Mai sotto Saturno: Girolamo Manfredi, medico e astrologo. Bologna medievale ieri e oggi 10. Bologna: CLUEB, 2008. 212 pp. index. illus. tbls. chron. bibl. 荤19. ISBN: 978–88–491–3129–1. - Volume 63 Issue 2
The Duke and the Stars
Azzolini, Monica. The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 36, Number 2, Spring 2013, pp. 5-205), on Érudit
Theaters of Anatomy
Cynthia Klestinec. Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. xix + 258 pp. $55. ISBN: 978–1–4214–0142–3. - Volume 66 Issue 4
Eileen Reeves. Evening News
Scholarly study of the newspaper and its history seems to have started in the 1740s with a forgery by the hand of Philip Yorke, second Earl of Hardwicke. He and his circle of friends wrote five issues of a periodical newspaper and dated it to 1588. Years later, in The Life of Thomas Ruddiman (1794), the Scottish antiquary George Chalmers concluded with a certain sense of pride that Hardwicke's The English Mercurie provided evidence of the superio…
Talking of animals
The sixteenth century marks a watershed in the study of the natural world, and animals within it. Never before did so many Europeans devote so much ink to describing animals, their physical characteristics, their utility, and the environment in which they lived. Reading, observation, correspondence, illustration, and conversation represented key moments in this process of knowledge production. While the first four aspects have received sustained …
Italian Renaissance Diplomacy
Azzolini, Monica, and Isabella Lazzarini, eds. Italian Renaissance Diplomacy: A Sourcebook. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2018, pp. 5-245), on Érudit
Are the Stars Aligned? Matchmaking and Astrology in Early Modern Italy
This essay examines how early moderns used birth horoscopes (genitures) to assess the compatibility of prospective spouses before marriage. Astrologers could probe the horoscope of an individual to investigate his or her present and future physical and moral qualities or compare charts to reveal the personal compatibility of a couple and help establish the best time to consummate their marriage. These practices aimed at ensuring a fruitful marria…
Aldrovandi’s planned history of marvels
This article looks at Ulisse Aldrovandi’s planned Historia admirandis (‘history of marvels’), a work that never came to fruition. Based on extensive archival research, the article reconstructs the efforts that went into the projected volume, which resulted in thousands of pages of notes and a much shorter work entitled Florilegium admirandorum, which Aldrovandi dedicated to his patron and relative Alberto Bolognetti. The article argues that the h…
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