relatori invitati invited speakers
in_bo vol. 12, n° 16, 2021
ISSN 2036 1602
DOI 10.6092/issn.2036-1602/13929
© The Autor(s) 2021. This is an open access article distribuited under the term of the
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial Licence 3.0 (CC-BY-NC)
Denis Ribouillault
Université de Montréal | denis.ribouillault@umontreal.ca
KEYWORDS
city-views; drawing; Renaissance; diplomacy; exegesis
ABSTRACT
In the second half of the 16th century, Girolamo Righettino, a brilliant draughtsman and theologian
(a member of the Order of the Canons Lateran), produced city views with ornamental frames
characterised by their rich allegorical programme. The drawings earned him widespread fame
and were handsomely rewarded. A recently discovered autograph manuscript by Righettino sheds
precious light on his only surviving view – an elaborate plan of Turin (1583). This article offers an
introductory portrait of a personality forgotten to history and presents new research that allows
us to situate his unique output – at the intersection of art and science, theology and politics,
topography and allegory – in the wider context of Counter-Reformation Italy, when the ambitions
of absolutist rulers were stoked by the fear of Turkish advances in the Mediterranean.
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Girolamo Righettino’s
City Views:
Allegories of the
Christian Prince,
1583–85
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Translated from the French by Louise Rogers Lalaurie.
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5b
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engraving, 18x6 cm, private collection.
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Senato, Doge’s Palace, Venice, 1578, pen and ink and wash,
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, inv. E.509–1937.
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allegory of Natural Philosophy.
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1
Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna, Iscrizioni Veneziane :IRMGI Ɓ Xɸ JEWGɸ VI,
539–40. The meeting is also reported by a relative of Righettino, originally from Treviso,
in Bartolomeo Burchelati, Commentariorum memorabilium multiplicis historiae Tarvisinae
locuples promptuarium (Treviso: Angelum Righetinum, 1616), 57.
2
Sommario overo dichiaratione degli concetti posti per ornamento della città di Roma,
fatta a penna et consacrata al Santiss. et Beatiss. Padre Nostro da D. Gironimo Righettino
Veneziano Canonico Reg. Lateranense, per allegrezza della sua nova esaltazione (Rome,
1585); Ms. Federici 171. cart. XVI, Fano, Biblioteca Federiciana. The manucript is referred to
in Giuseppe Mazzatinti, Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d’Italia (Florence: Olschki,
ɸ?A XɸI am grateful to the staff at the Biblioteca Federiciana in Fano, who
greatly facilitated my access to, and consultation of the manuscript.
3
A few brief remarks on Righettino were published in Giovanni Musolino, Storia di Caorle
'ESVPI)HM^MSRM4YFFPM'ESVPI?A ERH%XXLI%VGLMZMSHM7XEXSMR:IRMGI
and the Archivio storico del Patriarcato di Venezia, the only references to Righettino I have
FIIREFPIXSƼRHEVIGSRXEMRIHMRXLIEHQMRMWXVEXMZIVIGSVHWSJXLITEVMWLSJ'ESVPIHYVMRK
his time as bishop. Archivio storico del Patriarcato di Venezia, Curia vescovile di Caorle,
“varia”’ (busta 1, a folder from 1592 for a collection of letters sent and received by the bishop
in 1591; and busta 2, folders 9, 13.2, 13.3 and 13.12); “atti diversi” (buste 1 to 3, containing
folders dated 1586, 1587 and 1589 and a collection of letters written in 1588).
4
Tommaso Garzoni, Piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo (Seravalle di Venetia:
?A ƈ(IƅGSWQSKVEƼIKISKVEƼI(MWWIKREXMʫ'SVSKVEƼI8STSKVEƼ(MWGSVWS
XXXVII”, 312 and 351.
5
See in particular, Carlo Promis, Storia dell’antica Torino: Julia Augusta Taurinorum, (Turin:
Stamperia Reale, 1869), 170; Il Tesoro del Principe. Titoli, carte, memorie per il governo dello
Stato%VGLMZMSHM7XEXSHM8SVMRSI\LGEX8YVMR%VGLMZMSHM7XEXS1E]Ɓ.YRIɸ
8YVMR %VGLMZMS HM 7XEXS Ɓ WGLIHEɸ ɸ %RHVIMRE +VMWIVM La Reggia di Venaria e i
7EZSME%VXIQEKRMƼGIR^EIWXSVMEHMYREGSVXIIYVSTIE, exh. cat., Turin, October 12 – March
8YVMR%PPIQERHM ƁɸWGLIHEɸ4.3 (Federica Paglieri); Anna Maria Bava
and Enrica Pagella, eds., 0I QIVEZMKPMI HIP QSRHS 0I GSPPI^MSRM HM 'EVPS )QQERYIPIɸ - HM
Savoia I\L GEX 8YVMR 1YWIM 6IEPM (IGIQFIV ɸ Ɓ %TVMP +IRSE 7EKIT
)HM^MSRM WGLIHEɸ 1EVME'EVPE:MWGSRXM
6
The digital publishing project is being carried out at the University of Montréal in association
with Emmanuel Château-Dutier, assisted by Fannie Caron-Roy and Joana Casenave.
7
Celso Rosino, Lyceum Lateranense 'IWIRE)\X]TSKVETLME2IVMM Xɸ-Ɓ
8
The essential work on the Order of the Canons Lateran remains Nicola Widloecher’s La
congregazione dei canonici regolari lateranensi +YFFMS7GYSPE8MTSKVEƼGE3HIVMWM
9
7II%PFIVX6ɸ.SRWIRERH7XITLIR8SYPQMR The Abuse of Casuistry. A History of Moral
Reasoning (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
10
Antonio Niero, I patriarchi di Venezia: da Lorenzo Giustiniani ai nostri giorni (Venice:
Studium Cattolico Veneziano, 1961), 100–02.
11
Rosino, Lyceum Lateranense, 399–400. I am grateful to Lise Otis for her help with the
Latin translation.
12
Charles Yriarte, La vie d’un patricien de Venise au XVIeɸWMʢGPI (Paris: Plon, 1874); Deborah
Howard, Venice disputed: Marc’Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, 1550–1600 (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).
13
Girolamo Righettino, De Numerorum Sophia algebraica ac mystica lib. VI (Venice: apud
Jolitos, 1586) (“Ad Marcantonium Barbarum equitem ac Divi Marci Procuratorem”). On this
work, see Rosino, Lyceum Lateranense, 401, and Salvatore Bongi, Annali di Gabriel Giolito
de’ Ferrari, da Trino di Mongerrato, stampatore in Venezia (Rome: Presso i Principali Librai,
Xɸ Ɓ [LMGL WYTTSWIW XLEX XLI [SVO [EW MRGPYHIH MR XLI Index librorum
prohibitorum. On this subject, a useful summary is Jean-Pierre Brach’s La symbolique des
nombres (Paris: PUF, 1994), 59–127.
14
Paola Modesti, Il convento della Carità e Andrea Palladio. Storie, progetti, immagini
(Verona: Cierre Edizioni, 2005), 143 and 146.
Franco Gaeta, “Barbaro, Marcantonio,” in (M^MSREVMSFMSKVEƼGSHIKPMMXEPMERM (Rome: Istituto
dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, 1964), vol.ɸ(http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marcantonioFEVFEVSC (M^MSREVMS&MSKVEƼGS
15
(Venice: Francesco De Franceschi & Johann Criegher, 1567). See Ilario Manfredini, “Le
relazioni culturali tra Torino e Venezia nella seconda metà del Cinquecento,” Studi Veneziani,
Ɓ LIVISRTEKIɸ
19
Richard Cocke, Paolo Veronese. Piety and Display in an Age of Religious Reform (Aldershot,
Ashgate, 2001) 66–9. See also Anna Maria Bava, ed., Il Veronese e i Bassano: grandi artisti
veneti per il Palazzo Ducale di Torino, exh. cat., Venaria Reale, October 12, 2013 – February
2, 2014 (Savigliano: L’Artistica Editrice, 2013), 60–2. On the strongly political aspect of
this episode in Venetian iconography, see for example Nicolai Kölmel, “The Queen in the
Pawnshop: Shaping Civic Virtues in a Painting for the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice,”
in Sites of Mediation. Connected Histories of Places, Processes, and Objects in Europe and
Beyond, 1450–1650, eds. Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart and Christine Göttler (Leiden:
Brill, 2016), 94–124.
20
On Righettino’s small stature, see Rosino, Lyceum Lateranense, 399. The object carried by
6MKLIXXMRSMJXLIƼKYVIMWMRHIIHLMQMWRSXIEWMP]MHIRXMƼIH-XQE]FIEWIXSJVSPPIHLERH
drawn parchments, or rolls of silk, which were often presented by Venetian ambassadors
to European monarchs.
21
On the devotional aspect of the work of monastic scribes, see for example the celebrated
text: Johannes Trithemius, De laude scriptorum manualium (Mainz: Peter von Friedberg,
1494). On the world map by Fra Mauro, showing the world and the cosmos, (simultaneously
a chorography and a cosmogony) see Angelo Cattaneo, Fra Mauro’s Mappa Mundi and
Fifteenth-century Venice (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011).
22
See especially Frank Lestringant, ed., Les méditations cosmographiques à la Renaissance
(Paris, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2009).
23
Rosino, Lyceum Lateranense, 401–2; Burchelati, Commentariorum. On the social, cultural
and psychological connotations associated with left-handed artists during the Renaissance,
see for example Carmen C. Bambach, “Leonardo, Left-Handed Draftsman and Writer,” in
Leonardo da Vinci. Master Draftsman, edited by Carmen C. Bambach, exh. cat., New York:
8LI1IXVSTSPMXER1YWIYQSJ%VX.ERYEV]Ɓ1EVGLɸ 2I[=SVO8LI1IXVSTSPMXER
Museum of Art, 2003), 31–58.
24
See La Reggia di Venaria e i Savoia. %VXIQEKRMƼGIR^EIWXSVMEHMYREGSVXIIYVSTIE, 70–1,
GEXɸ 2EHME3WXSVIVS[MXLTVII\MWXMRKFMFPMSKVETL] ERH4ESPE7IVIRSƈ'EVXSKVETL]MR
the Duchy of Savoy during the Renaissance,” in The History of CartographyXɸCartography
in the European Renaissance (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007), 831–53
(here, on page 846). Pingone’s work was published apud haeredes Nicolai Beuilaquae,
publishers located in both Turin and Venice. It is dedicated to Charles Emmanuel, who only
acceded to the ducal throne three years later. Both views show an identical street plan. A
few differences may be seen in individual houses, regarding the number of windows and
doors, and their position on each building. They suggest that Righettino took some liberties
in his work as a copyist.
25
Roberto Almagia, “I porti delle isole adriatiche,” in 1SRSKVEƼEWXSVMGEHIMTSVXMHIPPƅERXMGLMXʚ
nella penisola italiana 6SQI3ƾGMRE4SPMKVEƼGE-XEPMERE Ɓ LIVISRTEKIW
425–28).
26
Fabia Borroni Salvadori, Carte, piante e stampe storiche delle raccolte lafreriane della
Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze 6SQI-WXMXYXS4SPMKVEƼGSI>IGGEHIPPS7XEXS0MFVIVMEHIPPS
7XEXS Rɸ
27
See Juergen Schulz’s perennially useful study “Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice: Map
Making, City Views, and Moralized Geography before the Year 1500,” The Art Bulletin 60, n.
3 (septemberɸ :ɸ–74.
28
Robert Klein, “L’urbanisme utopique de Filarete à Valentin Andreae,” in La forme et
l’intelligible. Écrits sur la Renaissance et l’art moderne, edited by Robert Klein (Paris:
Gallimard, 1970), 310–26.
29
Hans Belting, “The New Role of Narrative in Public Painting of the Trecento: Historia and
Allegory,” Studies in the History of Art 16 (1985):ɸ–68 (here, on pageɸ
30
7II;SPJKERK;SPXIVWƈ>YIMRIQ[IRMKFIOERRXIR)RX[YVJHIW'VMWXSJIVS7SVXIJʳVHMI
Decke der Sala del Senato im Dogenpalast,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in
Florenz 10, n. 2 (Decemberɸ :ɸ–45 (here, on pageɸ .YIVKIR7GLYP^“Cristoforo
Sorte and the Ducal Palace of Venice,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in
FlorenzR .YRIɸ Ɓƈ2I[1ETWERH0ERHWGETI(VE[MRKWF]'VMWXSJSVS
Sorte,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz R ɸ Ɓ
Silvino Salgaro, Cristoforo Sorte e il suo tempo (Bologna: Pátron, 2012), 188. I am indebted
to Michel Hochmann for bringing this decorative scheme to my attention.
31
See especially (on the city of Milan): Patrick Boucheron, “Le passé mais pas exactement.
Mémoire urbaine et miroir princier à Milan au XVeɸWMʢGPI” in Le miroir et l’espace du prince
dans l’art italien de la RenaissanceIHMXIHF]4LMPMTTI1SVIPɸ 8SYVW4VIWWIWYRMZIVWMXEMVIW
François-Rabelais, 2012) http://books.openedition.org/pufr/7875.
32
7II SR XLMW TSMRX 7XʣTLERI +EPɸ Ɖ'LEVPIW)QQERYIPɸ -er ou l’appel à être plus que soimême,” Chrétiens et sociétésWTIGMEPIHMXMSRɸ--La vocation du Prince, 121-51, (here on
TEKIWɸƁ PEWXEGGIWWIH1EVGLhttp://chretienssocietes.revues.org/3459.
On Sixtus V’s projected crusade, see Pastor, Storia dei papi, 383–86.
16
On Francesco Barbaro and the Barbaro family’s pro-Roman politics, see especially
Giuseppe Trebbi, “Francesco Barbaro e la scelta romana,” in Una famiglia veneziana nella
storia. I BarbaroIHMXIHF]1MGLIPEɸ1EVERKSRMERH1ERPMSɸ4EWXSVI7XSGGLMɸ :IRMGI-WXMXYXS
Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 1996), 397–433. On the positive relations between
Sixtusɸ:ERH:IRMGIWII0YH[MKZSR4EWXSVStoria dei papi 6SQI(IWGPʣI Xɸ
383–88.
33
Righettino, Dichiaratione ?ƏA JSPɸ Z ƈEGGMʫ XYXXS MP QSRHS GSRSWGE GLI 7 7Xʚ ʢ
TSXIRXIʚZMRGIVIRSRWSPEQIRXIKPM8YVGLMIXEPXVMMRƼHIPMRSRFEXXI^^EXMQʚERGSVEKPM6ʢ
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di Spagna, che gli è à canto si potrebbe vincer’ Algieri, che è in Affrica dove; quel Rè è molto
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potrebbe rihavere Gierusalem, che già fù presa, et posseduta da Francesi”. On the notion
of Respublica christiana, see especially Denis Crouzet, “Chrétienté et Europe: aperçus sur
une sourde interrogation du XVIe siècle,” in L’ordre européen du XVIe au XXeɸWMʢGPI, edited
Francesco Barbaro, “Relazione della Corte di Savoja,” in Le relazioni degli ambasciatori
veneti al senato durante il secolo decimosesto, edited by Eugenio Albèri (Florence: Società
)HMXVMGIƼSVIRXMRE ndɸWIVMIWXɸ:Ɓ
18
I dieci libri dell’architettura di M. Vitruvio, Tradotti & commentati da Mons. Daniel Barbaro…
63
by Jean Béranger and George-Henri Soutouɸ Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne,
1998) 11–50.
50
“Le Cypres monstre en sa fueille, comment il fault traicter les siens egalement”. Emblemes
d’Alciat 0]SR+6SZMPPI ɸ
35
Étienne Gilson, Les Métamorphoses de la cité de Dieu (Paris: Vrin, 1952); Henri-Xavier
Arquillière, L’augustinisme politique. Essai sur la formation des théories politiques du Moyen
Age (Paris: Vrin, 1955); Michel Meslin and Jeannine Quillet, “Augustinisme,” in Encyclopædia
Universalis, http://www.universalis-edu.com/encyclopedie/augustinisme/.
51
We may also see the emblem as a reference to Righettino himself. According to
Rosino, Lyceum lateranense6MKLIXXMRS[EWSJXIRMHIRXMƼIH[MXLXLI&MFPMGEPƼKYVISJ
>EGGLEIYWHYIXSLMWWLSVXWXEXYVI>EGGLEIYWGPMQFIHMRXSEW]GEQSVIXVIIXSWII.IWYW
enter Jericho (Luke 19, 1–10). Righettino incorporated the tree into his personal coat of
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is drawn on the cover of the Dichiaratione (Fig. 1) and carved on the baptismal font of the
cathedral of Caorle (with three mountains and a star), where Righettino was bishop from
1585 until his death in 1593. I am grateful to members of the parish of Santo Stefano (in the
diocese of Caorle), who assisted my research.
36
On the Turin citadel and its pentagonal fortress, see especially Amelio Fara, “Geometrie
HIPPEJSVXMƼGE^MSRIIEVGLMXIXXYVEHE&SVVSQMRME+YEVMRMƉMitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen
Institutes in Florenz R Ɓ ɸ Ɓ LIVI SR TEKIWɸ Ɓ Two pivotal
monographs on this point are: Nadia Ragni, Francesco Paciotti, architetto urbinate
(1521–1591) (Urbino: Accademia Raffaello, 2001), and Alessandra Coppa, Francesco
Paciotto, architetto militare 1MPER )Hɸ 9RMGSTPM 3R XLI GSWQSPSKMGEP EWTIGX SJ
pentagonal Renaissance fortresses, see Paolo Marconi, “Una chiave per l’interpretazione
dell’urbanistica rinascimentale. La cittadella come microcosmo,” Quaderni dell’Istituto di
Storia dell’Architettura 15, n. 85-90 (1968): 53–94. More generally, on Turin, see Martha
(ɸ4SPPEOTurin 1564–1680: Urban Design, Military Culture and the Creation of the Absolutist
Capital (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
37
Righettino, Dichiaratione, fol. 35.
38
The principal Italian commentaries on Petrarch in the 15th and 16th centuries are by
Bernardo Licinio (1475 ff), Alessandro Vellutello (1525 ff) and Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo
(1533 ff). See -XVMSRƼHIP4IXVEVGLEGSRPEWTSWMXMSRIHM1+MSZERRM%RHVIE+IWYEPHSHE
Traetto (Venice: Per Domenico Giglio, 1553), fol. 68r–68v; Il Petrarca con l’espositione di M.
Alessandro Velutello (Venice: Gio. Antonio Bertano, 1573), fol. 206r.–208r.
%YKYWXMRI HIZIPSTW LMW XLMROMRK SR XMQI GLMIƽ] MR FSSO <- SJ LMW Confessions, a text
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récit, t. 1, together with a handful of classic commentaries, including Jean Guitton, Le
temps et l’éternité chez Plotin et St Augustin 4EVMW :VMR ?A .YPIW 'LEM\6Y]
Saint Augustin, Temps et Histoire (Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1956); Aimé Solignac,
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Frédéric Vengeon, “Un temps pour l’éternité. Le temps dans la pensée de St Augustin,” in Le
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39
40
See Gal, “Charles-Emmanuel Ier,” 140.
%HE 0EFVMSPE ƈ(E 4EHSZE E *MVIR^I PƅMPPYWXVE^MSRI HIM 8VMSRƼƉ MR Francesco Petrarca, I
8VMSRƼ'SQQIRXEVMS (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, ms. Strozzi 174), edited by Ida G.
Raoɸ Castelvetro di Modena: Artcodex, 2012), 59–115.
41
42
Righettino, DichiarazioneJSPɸZƈ'SRUYIWXIHSRUYIZSKPMSHMQSRWXVEVIGLI77tà
come Prencipe, pio generoso, et magnanimo, è atto, et pronto all’una, et all’altra. secondo che
segli rappresentarà l’occasione, et in questo è imitatore non pur della bontà degl’antecessori
del suo nome, i quali sempre in quanto à loro bramarono la pace, et felicemente quanto à se
la goderono, mà molestati poi da perturbatori di tanto bene accettavano così prontamente,
et intrepidamente la guerra, che col soggiogar quelli, et vincer’i regni loro, con prospera
facilità, et di nuovo ritornando à godere la pace dimostravano à tutto il mondo, questa loro
virtuosissima dispositione; mà ancora è imitatore dell’istesso Iddio, il quale ancora che sia
Iddio degl’eserciti, et delle vendette, non di meno protesta essere ancora padre amorevole,
et principe, e Dio di pace”. *SVEQSVITVIGMWII\TPEREXMSRSJXLIWMKRMƼGEXMSRSJ;EVERH
Peace, see the preceding fol. 29v..
43
For a study of Charles-Emmanuel and his territorial politics, see Stéphane Gal, CharlesEmmanuel de Savoie: La politique du précipice (Paris: Payot, 2012).
44
See Géraud Poumarède, “Deux têtes pour une couronne: la rivalité entre la Savoie et
Venise pour le titre royal de Chypre au temps de Christine de France,” (M\WITXMʢQIWMʢGPI
262, n. 1 (2014): 53–64.
45
This is only one of several interpretations of the acronym. It seems, however, to have
been widely accepted under the reign of Emmanuel Filibert and his successor Charles
Emmanuel. See also Guillaume Paradin, Chronique de Savoye (Lyon: Jean de Tournes,
ƈGIWQSXW*)68?ƏAUYMWMKRMJ]SMIRXJSVXMXYHSIMYW6LSHYQXIRYMXIRQIQSMVIIX
perpetuel moniment de la prouesse de son predecesseur Amé le Grand comte de Savoye,
qui avoit assisté aux chevaliers de la religion de St Jean de Jerusalem à la prinse de Rhodes,
IX WMKRMƼS]IRX GIW UYEXVI PIXXVIW GLEGYRI YR QSX IR GIWXI QERMIVI WE JSVGI LE SFXIRY
Rhodes”.
46
Agostino Bucci, Il Memorial del Prencipe, nel quale sotto un breve trattato di quattro capi
si discorre delle virtù piu principali, e necessarie a formare un buono e valoroso Prencipe,
8YVMR&MFPMSXIGE9RMZIVWMXEVME1W2:-ɸJ MR1EVME0YMWE(SKPMSƈ9RXVEXXEXSMRIHMXS
sul principe di Agostino Bucci,” Il Pensiero Politico, 1 (1968): 209–24.
47
Mariarosaɸ 1EWSIVS ƈ9RE Ƅ%QIHIMHIƅ MRIHMXE HM %KSWXMRS &YGGMƉ Studi piemontesi, 3
(1974): 357–68. For more on this work and its wider context, see Rosanna Gorris, “Sous le
signe des deux Amédée: l’Amedeide d’Alphonse Delbene et le poème dynastique à la cour de
7EZSMIWSYW'LEVPIW)QQERYIPɸ-er,” 2SYZIPPIVIZYIHY<:-I7MʢGPIǞ Ɓ
*VERʡSMWɸ -ƅW WEPEQERHIV ERH MXW EGGSQTER]MRK QSXXS Nutrisco et extinguo refer to his
capacity to nurture good and extinguish evil; as reported for example by Gabriele Simeoni
in his Sententiose imprese dedicated to Emmanuel Philibert (Lyon: appresso Guglielmo
6SZMKPMS ɸ
48
49
In this context, it is interesting to compare the iconographical programme of Righettino’s
paper cities with certain real-life projects such as the fortress and new city of Palmanova,
overseen by Marcantonio Barbaro from 1593. The cosmic ideal, the interest in mathematics,
the struggle against the Turks and numerous other themes connect these otherwise
WYTIVƼGMEPP] HMWTEVEXI [SVOW On Palmanova, see Howard, Venice Disputed, 193–212,
and studies collected by Francesco Paolo Fiore, ed., in L’architettura militare di Venezia in
terraferma e in Adriatico fra XVI e XVII secolo (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2014).
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Le vedute urbane di Girolamo
Righettino: Le allegorie del
principe cristiano, 1583–85
Denis Ribouillault
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ABSTRACT
Nella seconda metà del Cinquecento, Girolamo Righettino, geniale
disegnatore e teologo (membro della Congregazione del Santissimo
Salvatore lateranense), realizzò delle vedute di città contornate da ricami
ornamentali caratterizzati da ricche illustrazioni allegoriche. I disegni
affermarono la sua fama e furono fonte di generose ricompense.
Un manoscritto autografo del Righettino scoperto di recente fa luce
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Denis Ribouillault
Université de Montréal |
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Denis Ribouillault is a historian of art,
landscape and gardens, and a professor at
the Université de Montréal. He has been a
resident at the Villa Médicis in Rome, and
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Oaks. He is the author of numerous articles
and a monograph on the villas and gardens of Renaissance Rome (Rome en ses
jardins. Paysage et pouvoir au XVIe siècle,
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two volumes of essays (both with Leo S.
Olschki): Paysage sacré (2011, co-authored
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jardin (2016, co-authored with Hervé Brunon).
He is currently preparing several works on
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draughtsman in the landscape, and the Villa
Barbaro in Maser, together with a monograph
on the work of Girolamo Righettino.