Dans l’Italie du XVIe siècle, tout langage – entendu comme « système de signes » – est interrogé, remis en question, refondé. Cet ouvrage se propose de rendre évidents certains des parcours normatifs suivis par les écrivains et artistes en quête d’un code partagé. Les deux premières parties, dédiées à l’examen des choix linguistiques effectués [...]

Il volume è dedicato a uno dei uno dei più grandi nomi del firmamento artistico quattrocentesco, Andrea Mantegna, al cui corpus documentario ci si accosta per la prima volta con gli strumenti dell’analisi linguistica, nell’obiettivo principale di comprendere in che modo egli si pose rispetto agli istituti linguistici del tempo e dell’ambiente culturale in cui [...]

This paper joins the ongoing research area on Andrea Mantegna’s linguistic use. It presents the artist’s correspondence and its content, and it focuses on the palaeographic analysis of the different types of writing detected, as well as on their corresponding paragraphemic and punctuation systems. Such an analysis, along with some other “external” considerations, allows to [...]

The goal of this paper is to enhance our understanding of the language used by Michelangelo in his letters. All earlier scholars have insisted that his epistolary style was an excellent example of sixteenth-century Florentine writing and although the claims supporting this argument are well founded, more studies are needed. In this paper, I will [...]