Matteo Soranzo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5919979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matteo Soranzo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matteo |
| FAMILY NAME | Soranzo |
| SIGNATURE | SORANZO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-6998-0869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In the Shadow of the Eclipse (2 June 1509)
This article provides a new interpretation of Giulio Campagnola’s 1509 engraving, The Astrologer, by situating its innovative punteggiato technique and enigmatic iconography within the precise astrological and political climate of Renaissance Venice. By identifying the numerical data on the astrologer’s disc as a reference to the lunar eclipse of 2 June 1509, the author argues that the composition—featuring a scholar, a monstrous reptile, and a d…
Edo da Pordenone, Pietro. Nova de miraculis disputatio
Edo da Pordenone, Pietro. Nova de miraculis disputatio: Un nuovo dibattito sui miracoli. Ed. Matteo Venier. Un article de la revue Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Special issue: Rethinking Conflict and Sexual Violence in Early Modern Europe) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Versimilitude and Factuality in the Humanist Debate. Giuliano Mori. Oxford-Warburg Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 252 pp. $100. - Volume 78 Issue 2
Lodone, Michele. I segni della fine. Storia di un predicatore nell’Italia del Rinascimento
When thinking of an apocalyptic preacher thundering from the pulpits of Florence at the turn of the sixteenth century, most Renaissance scholars would remember Girolamo Savonarola.The Dominican friar, his fearful sermons, and the gruesome end of his life are a consolidated, dark counterpoint to the grand narrative staging the Italian Renaissance as the luminous bedrock of secularization and modernity.Hidden in the shadows of conventional historio…
Beyond the Literary Sources of Augurello’s Chrysopoeia
In his Neo-Latin poem Chrysopoeia (1515), the Italian humanist Giovanni Aurelio Augurello often declares to be outdoing the ancients in writing the first alchemical poem in Latin. Is this simply an instance of what E. R. Curtius called outdoing a topos? Or is Augurello’s poem actually venturing onto a metaphorically untrodden path? Based on an analysis of Chrysopoeia, its genesis, and its sources, this article aims to assess the extent of this po…
Poetic matters
Historians of Renaissance art have long been familiar with Giovanni Aurelio Augurello’s interest in painting and sculpture, while historians of alchemy are aware of his lifelong dedication to the gold-making art immortalized in his masterpiece, Chrysopoeia (1515). Yet the problem of how these interests intersect in the poet’s work has either been disregarded or framed within outdated categories such as occultism and hermeticism. In a dialogue wit…
Dialogues, Volume 2
Dialogues, Volume 2: Actius. Giovanni Gioviano Pontano. Ed. and trans. Julia Haig Gaisser. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 91. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. xi + 464 pp. 29.95. - Volume 75 Issue 3
Writing Southern Italy before the Renaissance
Writing Southern Italy before the Renaissance: Trecento Historians of the Mezzogiorno. Ronald G. Musto. Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge. London: Routledge, 2019. xxxvi + 302 pp. $149.95. - Volume 74 Issue 1
Di Teodoro, Francesco Paolo. Lettera a Leone X di Raffaello e Baldassarre Castiglione
Di Teodoro, Francesco Paolo. Lettera a Leone X di Raffaello e Baldassarre Castiglione. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 43, Number 3, Summer 2020, pp. 9-355), on Érudit
Everyday Renaissances
Ross, Sarah Gwyneth. Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Piety and Conflict in the Early Reformation), on Érudit
Dialogus de adoratione
Pico della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco. Dialogus de adoratione. Ed. and intro. Alessia Contarino. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Utopia for 500 Years), on Érudit
Coniurationis commentarium
Being the Nação in the Eternal City
A New Look at Spirituality
The article examines the theme of spiritual transformation in three poets (Lazzarelli, Augurelli, Mantuanus) writing in the context of hermeticism, alchemy and monastic spirituality. Building on current scholarship on Western Esotericism and religious pluralism, the article argues that: 1) whether it occurs in hermetic, alchemical, or hagiographical contexts, spiritual transformation is characterized by recurring linguistic features and motifs co…
Un’identità religiosa nel primo Cinquecento
Il saggio si propone di offrire un primo esame degli Hymni Heroici di Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola mettendo in evidenza da un lato la relazione tra la scrittura in versi e le opere filosofiche dell’autore, e dall’altro il rapporto tra questo progetto letterario ed il contesto intellettuale del primo Cinquecento. Attraverso una lettura degli inni e dell’apparato esegetico con cui Gianfrancesco Pico volle accompagnare i suoi componimenti poet…
Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples
On Married Love. Eridanus
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A Companion to Early Modern Naples
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Words of Conversion
The essay examines three cases of poets (Baptista Mantuanus, Giles of Viterbo, Jacopo Sannazaro) who wrote texts about conversion in early modern Italy. Its goal is to illustrate the evolution of conversion before the Reformation and to explore the role of poetic writing in the construction of religious identities. More precisely, the essay investigates how members of mendicant orders used a so-called ‘language of experiential knowledge’ to defin…
‘Umbria pieridum cultrix’ ( Parthenopeus , I. 18)
This essay examines why and how Umbrian poet Giovanni Gioviano Pontano used his poetic collection Parthenopeus (written 1450–98; first printed 1505) as a tool to define his identity in relation to his co-workers at the court of Alfonso V of Aragon, and to his readers residing outside of Naples. Based on a comparison between the first versions of Pontano’s collection, as well as on a close examination of its programmatic texts, this essay argues t…
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429–1503) on Astrology and Poetic Authority
L'articolo esamina per quale ragione Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429–1503) ha spiegato in termini di causalità astrologica l'origine della sua autorità poetica, con lo scopo di illustrare un elemento di continuità tra Medioevo e Umanesimo. I testi presi in esame sono il poema Urania (scritto nel 1475–1494; stampato nel 1505), il dialogo Actius (scritto nel 1495–1499; stampato nel 1507), il commento al Centiloquio pseudotolemaico (scritto nel 1477…
Modernità dell'Umanesimo
Francesco Tateo. Modernità dell'Umanesimo. Nuovi Paradigmi. Collezione di Studi e Testi oltre i confini 1. Salerno: Edisud Salerno, 2010. 174 pp. index. €18. ISBN: 978–88–95154–84–8. - Volume 63 Issue 4
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Modernità dell'Umanesimo
Francesco Tateo. Modernità dell'Umanesimo. Nuovi Paradigmi. Collezione di Studi e Testi oltre i confini 1. Salerno: Edisud Salerno, 2010. 174 pp. index. €18. ISBN: 978–88–95154–84–8. - Volume 63 Issue 4
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429–1503) on Astrology and Poetic Authority
L'articolo esamina per quale ragione Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1429–1503) ha spiegato in termini di causalità astrologica l'origine della sua autorità poetica, con lo scopo di illustrare un elemento di continuità tra Medioevo e Umanesimo. I testi presi in esame sono il poema Urania (scritto nel 1475–1494; stampato nel 1505), il dialogo Actius (scritto nel 1495–1499; stampato nel 1507), il commento al Centiloquio pseudotolemaico (scritto nel 1477…
‘Umbria pieridum cultrix’ ( Parthenopeus , I. 18)
This essay examines why and how Umbrian poet Giovanni Gioviano Pontano used his poetic collection Parthenopeus (written 1450–98; first printed 1505) as a tool to define his identity in relation to his co-workers at the court of Alfonso V of Aragon, and to his readers residing outside of Naples. Based on a comparison between the first versions of Pontano’s collection, as well as on a close examination of its programmatic texts, this essay argues t…
Words of Conversion
The essay examines three cases of poets (Baptista Mantuanus, Giles of Viterbo, Jacopo Sannazaro) who wrote texts about conversion in early modern Italy. Its goal is to illustrate the evolution of conversion before the Reformation and to explore the role of poetic writing in the construction of religious identities. More precisely, the essay investigates how members of mendicant orders used a so-called ‘language of experiential knowledge’ to defin…
A Companion to Early Modern Naples
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A New Look at Spirituality
The article examines the theme of spiritual transformation in three poets (Lazzarelli, Augurelli, Mantuanus) writing in the context of hermeticism, alchemy and monastic spirituality. Building on current scholarship on Western Esotericism and religious pluralism, the article argues that: 1) whether it occurs in hermetic, alchemical, or hagiographical contexts, spiritual transformation is characterized by recurring linguistic features and motifs co…
Un’identità religiosa nel primo Cinquecento
Il saggio si propone di offrire un primo esame degli Hymni Heroici di Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola mettendo in evidenza da un lato la relazione tra la scrittura in versi e le opere filosofiche dell’autore, e dall’altro il rapporto tra questo progetto letterario ed il contesto intellettuale del primo Cinquecento. Attraverso una lettura degli inni e dell’apparato esegetico con cui Gianfrancesco Pico volle accompagnare i suoi componimenti poet…
Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples
On Married Love. Eridanus
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Coniurationis commentarium
Being the Nação in the Eternal City
Everyday Renaissances
Ross, Sarah Gwyneth. Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Piety and Conflict in the Early Reformation), on Érudit
Dialogus de adoratione
Pico della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco. Dialogus de adoratione. Ed. and intro. Alessia Contarino. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Utopia for 500 Years), on Érudit
Di Teodoro, Francesco Paolo. Lettera a Leone X di Raffaello e Baldassarre Castiglione
Di Teodoro, Francesco Paolo. Lettera a Leone X di Raffaello e Baldassarre Castiglione. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 43, Number 3, Summer 2020, pp. 9-355), on Érudit
Writing Southern Italy before the Renaissance
Writing Southern Italy before the Renaissance: Trecento Historians of the Mezzogiorno. Ronald G. Musto. Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge. London: Routledge, 2019. xxxvi + 302 pp. $149.95. - Volume 74 Issue 1
Poetic matters
Historians of Renaissance art have long been familiar with Giovanni Aurelio Augurello’s interest in painting and sculpture, while historians of alchemy are aware of his lifelong dedication to the gold-making art immortalized in his masterpiece, Chrysopoeia (1515). Yet the problem of how these interests intersect in the poet’s work has either been disregarded or framed within outdated categories such as occultism and hermeticism. In a dialogue wit…
Dialogues, Volume 2
Dialogues, Volume 2: Actius. Giovanni Gioviano Pontano. Ed. and trans. Julia Haig Gaisser. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 91. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. xi + 464 pp. 29.95. - Volume 75 Issue 3
Lodone, Michele. I segni della fine. Storia di un predicatore nell’Italia del Rinascimento
When thinking of an apocalyptic preacher thundering from the pulpits of Florence at the turn of the sixteenth century, most Renaissance scholars would remember Girolamo Savonarola.The Dominican friar, his fearful sermons, and the gruesome end of his life are a consolidated, dark counterpoint to the grand narrative staging the Italian Renaissance as the luminous bedrock of secularization and modernity.Hidden in the shadows of conventional historio…
Beyond the Literary Sources of Augurello’s Chrysopoeia
In his Neo-Latin poem Chrysopoeia (1515), the Italian humanist Giovanni Aurelio Augurello often declares to be outdoing the ancients in writing the first alchemical poem in Latin. Is this simply an instance of what E. R. Curtius called outdoing a topos? Or is Augurello’s poem actually venturing onto a metaphorically untrodden path? Based on an analysis of Chrysopoeia, its genesis, and its sources, this article aims to assess the extent of this po…
Edo da Pordenone, Pietro. Nova de miraculis disputatio
Edo da Pordenone, Pietro. Nova de miraculis disputatio: Un nuovo dibattito sui miracoli. Ed. Matteo Venier. Un article de la revue Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Special issue: Rethinking Conflict and Sexual Violence in Early Modern Europe) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Versimilitude and Factuality in the Humanist Debate. Giuliano Mori. Oxford-Warburg Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 252 pp. $100. - Volume 78 Issue 2
In the Shadow of the Eclipse (2 June 1509)
This article provides a new interpretation of Giulio Campagnola’s 1509 engraving, The Astrologer, by situating its innovative punteggiato technique and enigmatic iconography within the precise astrological and political climate of Renaissance Venice. By identifying the numerical data on the astrologer’s disc as a reference to the lunar eclipse of 2 June 1509, the author argues that the composition—featuring a scholar, a monstrous reptile, and a d…
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