Beyond the Palio: Urbanism and Ritual in Renaissance Siena - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405155728 ISBN 13: 9781405155724

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

Beyond the Palio is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the components and importance of ritual events and ceremonies in Renaissance Siena.

• Brings together studies based upon diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches to a common theme.
  
• Provides specific case studies and useful comparisons to well-known monographic studies of ritual in Florence and Venice.
  
• Concentrates on a single city to emphasize the important function of public rituals to life during the early modern period.
  
• Looks at both local ritual life and the ways it was presented to and viewed by those outside the city.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Beyond the Palio is an interdisciplinary collection of essays documenting the ritual events and ceremonies of Renaissance Siena. In the past, scholarly accounts of the ceremonies that took place during Siena’s early modern history have been overshadowed by its most well-known and most studied event, the Palio; a dramatic horse race staged on the city’s central square. In this volume, each essay assumes the focus of the role of ritual events viewed in an urban context. Common themes addressed, such as the use of public space, the inclusive and exclusiveness of participants, ephemera produced for events, and the implications of ceremonial practice, explore the different components, and the importance, of ritual life within the context of the Italian Renaissance.

About the Author:

Philippa Jackson is completing research at the Warburg Institute in London on the patronage of Pandolfo Petrucci, the leading citizen of the Sienese republic at the beginning of the sixteenth century. She has written on the cult of Mary Magdalen under his regime and is currently preparing a book entitled Pandolfo Petrucci: Politics and Patronage in Renaissance Siena. Her major interests are in Renaissance cultural history and cardinals of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Fabrizio Nevola teaches at the Universitą degli Studi di Siena. He has held fellowships at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal) and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence) and was AHRB Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (2001-4). His research focus is on the architectural and urban history of Renaissance Siena. He has published numerous articles (e.g. Art Bulletin, 2000 and Renaissance Studies, 2003) and has a book forthcoming entitled Architecture and Government in Renaissance Siena: Fashioning Urban Experience (1400-1555).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405155728
• ISBN 13: 9781405155724
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Jackson Philippa, Nevola Fabrizio