Massimo Rospocher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3091318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Massimo Rospocher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Massimo |
| FAMILY NAME | Rospocher |
| SIGNATURE | ROSPOCHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4022-2508 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Carla Roth. The Talk of the Town
The Power of Space
This special issue focuses on the use of political and religious public spaces in early modern Europe and beyond, with a focus on Northern and Southern Italy, Germany, the Low Countries, and the Spanish and the Ottoman Empires. The case studies that make up this volume include different urban contexts and cultures: informal political sites such as the Ottoman port of Acre (Casale and Calcagni); urban spaces of religious conflict in the Low Countr…
Mobility, Print and Trade in Europe
This article focuses on the itinerant print trade that actively involved the Alpine Tesini pedlars for more than three centuries (between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries) and that profoundly influenced the cultural, social, and economic history of their home valley. The case study of the pedlars from the Tesino valley, in what is now the Trentino region of Northern Italy, offers a privileged perspective for analysing three interrelated b…
Politics in the street
In Renaissance Italy, the political power of authorities found one of its expressions in material symbols of sovereignty. The placing of inscriptions, sculptures and columns and the commissioning of frescoes in streets, piazzas and public spaces, for example, were essential ways of communicating political or spiritual authority to the populace. Sometimes perceived as representations of a top-down form of communication, in the urban context these …
Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures
This volume explores the challenges and possibilities of research into the European dimensions of popular print culture. Popular print culture has traditionally been studied with a national focus. Recent research has revealed, however, that popular print culture has many European dimensions and shared features. A group of specialists in the field has started to explore the possibilities and challenges of research on a wide, European scale. This v…
Urban voices
This essay aims to investigate from a combined historical and literary perspective the protean and elusive figures of early modern Italian street singers, or cantastorie , showing the advantages and challenges of an interdisciplinary approach. Both textual analysis and archival investigation, we argue, are of crucial importance in order to shed some light on their social identity as well as on their cultural background. Cantastorie are in fact so…
Murder in Renaissance Italy
Street Singers
Critical introduction to a special issue of the journal on 'The Cantastorie in Renaissance Italy: Street Singers between Oral and Literate Cultures
In Vituperium Status Veneti
Niccolò di Aristotile de' Rossi from Ferrara, known as lo Zoppino, was one of the most prolific and prominent vernacular publishers of the first decades of the sixteenth century. Although he based his business in Venice, he was highly mobile throughout the Italian peninsula and worked in Bologna, Ferrara, Milan, Pesaro, Ravenna, Ancona, Perugia, and Rome. Recently discovered archival evidence has proved that Zoppino was also a street singer; henc…
Street Singers in Italian Renaissance Urban Culture and Communication
Street singers were crucial figures in Italian Renaissance urban culture, mediating between printed, written and oral forms of communication. Performing in the central piazza, they offered entertainment, news, satire and commentary on current events to heterogeneous publics. But as the communicative capacities of the singers reached their peak, increasingly their presence in the city was seen as threatening and disruptive. The struggle for contro…
Metafore di un pontificato
Flavia Cantatore, Maria Chiabo, Paola Farenga, Maurizio Gargano, Anna Morisi, and Anna Modigliani, eds. Metafore di un pontificato: Giulio II (1503–1513) (Roma, 2–4 dicembre 2008). RR inedita saggi 44. With CD. Rome: Roma nel Rinascimento, 2010. x + 694 pp. €100. ISBN: 978–88–85913–31–8. - Volume 65 Issue 2
Politics in the street
In Renaissance Italy, the political power of authorities found one of its expressions in material symbols of sovereignty. The placing of inscriptions, sculptures and columns and the commissioning of frescoes in streets, piazzas and public spaces, for example, were essential ways of communicating political or spiritual authority to the populace. Sometimes perceived as representations of a top-down form of communication, in the urban context these …
Street Singers in Italian Renaissance Urban Culture and Communication
Street singers were crucial figures in Italian Renaissance urban culture, mediating between printed, written and oral forms of communication. Performing in the central piazza, they offered entertainment, news, satire and commentary on current events to heterogeneous publics. But as the communicative capacities of the singers reached their peak, increasingly their presence in the city was seen as threatening and disruptive. The struggle for contro…
Street Singers in Italian Renaissance Urban Culture and Communication
Street singers were crucial figures in Italian Renaissance urban culture, mediating between printed, written and oral forms of communication. Performing in the central piazza, they offered entertainment, news, satire and commentary on current events to heterogeneous publics. But as the communicative capacities of the singers reached their peak, increasingly their presence in the city was seen as threatening and disruptive. The struggle for contro…
Metafore di un pontificato
Flavia Cantatore, Maria Chiabo, Paola Farenga, Maurizio Gargano, Anna Morisi, and Anna Modigliani, eds. Metafore di un pontificato: Giulio II (1503–1513) (Roma, 2–4 dicembre 2008). RR inedita saggi 44. With CD. Rome: Roma nel Rinascimento, 2010. x + 694 pp. €100. ISBN: 978–88–85913–31–8. - Volume 65 Issue 2
In Vituperium Status Veneti
Niccolò di Aristotile de' Rossi from Ferrara, known as lo Zoppino, was one of the most prolific and prominent vernacular publishers of the first decades of the sixteenth century. Although he based his business in Venice, he was highly mobile throughout the Italian peninsula and worked in Bologna, Ferrara, Milan, Pesaro, Ravenna, Ancona, Perugia, and Rome. Recently discovered archival evidence has proved that Zoppino was also a street singer; henc…
Street Singers
Critical introduction to a special issue of the journal on 'The Cantastorie in Renaissance Italy: Street Singers between Oral and Literate Cultures
Murder in Renaissance Italy
Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures
This volume explores the challenges and possibilities of research into the European dimensions of popular print culture. Popular print culture has traditionally been studied with a national focus. Recent research has revealed, however, that popular print culture has many European dimensions and shared features. A group of specialists in the field has started to explore the possibilities and challenges of research on a wide, European scale. This v…
Urban voices
This essay aims to investigate from a combined historical and literary perspective the protean and elusive figures of early modern Italian street singers, or cantastorie , showing the advantages and challenges of an interdisciplinary approach. Both textual analysis and archival investigation, we argue, are of crucial importance in order to shed some light on their social identity as well as on their cultural background. Cantastorie are in fact so…
Politics in the street
In Renaissance Italy, the political power of authorities found one of its expressions in material symbols of sovereignty. The placing of inscriptions, sculptures and columns and the commissioning of frescoes in streets, piazzas and public spaces, for example, were essential ways of communicating political or spiritual authority to the populace. Sometimes perceived as representations of a top-down form of communication, in the urban context these …
Mobility, Print and Trade in Europe
This article focuses on the itinerant print trade that actively involved the Alpine Tesini pedlars for more than three centuries (between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries) and that profoundly influenced the cultural, social, and economic history of their home valley. The case study of the pedlars from the Tesino valley, in what is now the Trentino region of Northern Italy, offers a privileged perspective for analysing three interrelated b…
Carla Roth. The Talk of the Town
The Power of Space
This special issue focuses on the use of political and religious public spaces in early modern Europe and beyond, with a focus on Northern and Southern Italy, Germany, the Low Countries, and the Spanish and the Ottoman Empires. The case studies that make up this volume include different urban contexts and cultures: informal political sites such as the Ottoman port of Acre (Casale and Calcagni); urban spaces of religious conflict in the Low Countr…
Art (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · The Renaissance (4 works)