PAOLO RENZI
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Dipartimento di Studi Storico Sociali e Filosofici
Universitą di Siena
Via San Fabiano, 9
52100 Arezzo (Italy) - phone: 0575-379520 fax: 0575-21941
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Assistant Professor of Modern History at University of Rome
(1974-84), professor in charge of Modern History at the Universitą
di Lecce (1977- 85) and finally, assistant professor of Modern History
at the Dipartimento di Studi Storico Sociali e
Filosofici, Universitą di Siena. His interests started
with intellectual history of France at the University of Pisa
(Scuola Normale Superiore), where he graduated writing his thesis
on the political press campaign promoted by SOLDAT FRANCOIS
(1605) from the name of the most famous of the French pamphlets
which urged king Henry IV to declare war against the Habsburg
monarchy of Spain. A deal of questions aroused by these studies
have gradually grown up and transformed until to a more mature
decision to dedicate myself to study the history of intellectual
tradition through the lenses of education of the ruling classes,
especially to the formal curriculum of the Latin education viewed
as a Renaissance's puberty rite. Since 1972 I devoted myself to
the study of Marc-Antoine Muret, French humanist and professor at
the STUDIUM SAPIENTIAE in Rome since 1563 - first of Ethics,
later of Roman civil Law (Pandette) and finally of Eloquence: he
was in fact the official orator DU ROY TRES CHRESTIEN by the
Pope. Last, but not least, he had been private teacher of young boy
Michel, at the castle of Montaigne.
A major figure in the field of classical philology of the
ending Renaissance, his fame is mainly due to a brilliant stylistic
mastery of Ciceronian rhetoric - as Latin language of his
VARIARUM LECTIONUM LIBRI witnesses - and to the critical and
historical Commentary of the firs five books ot the Annales of the
Roman historian Tacitus. The monumental edition worked out in
almost forty years by Justus Lipisius - Muret's most brilliant but
not so much generous junior colleague - has cast the former's
Commentary in a shadowy corner. Through a series of particular
researches, published in different dedicated essays, I have tried t
throw some light on various issues arisen from the historical
context of Italian Universities in the late Renaissance. Finally, a
reading of the codex Vaticano latino 11562 containing the
manuscript catalogue of the BIBLIOTHECA MURETI from
BIBLIOTEHCA MAJOR of the old Jesuit Roman College, suggested me
the idea for a critical edition of a primary source that would have
enlarged my information about books, lectures, readings and
knowledge of the STUDIA HUMANITATIS from the historical point of
view of their LONGUE DUREE. My main project for the future is a
monograph of the teaching of history in the Italian Universities, as
a special form of education of the Renaissance Latin speaking
masculine elites.
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SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
1985 Taciti Annales,Mureti Schola. Note sulla didattica della
storia allo Studium romano del secondo Cinquecento, Annali
del Dipartimento di Scienze storiche e sociali, Lecce;
1986 Magna populi calamitas est uxorius princeps. Educazione
marziale e insegnamento della storia nel Cinquecento, in
B. Vetere- P .Renzi (eds.), Profili di Donne. Mito Immagine
Realtą fra Medioevo ed Etą Contemporanea, Lecce:
1991 I giovani. La cittą. Lo stato. Jean Bodin e la scelta
dell'educazione nella Francia del Cinquecento, Nuova
Rivista Storica;
Umanesimo e scuola in due recenti interpretazioni, Nuova
Rivista Storica;
Divagazioni storiografiche su educazione umanistica e
ambiente cittadino, Atti e Memorie dell'Accademia
Petrarca di Lettere, Arti e Scienze;
1993 Umanista e Gentiluomo: l'educazione maschile secondo
Montaigne, Nuova Rivista Storica;
Il palazzo e la soffitta. Res gestae, Historia rerum
gestarum, Studia Humanitatis, forthcoming on Atti e
Memorie della Accademia Petrarca di Scienze Lettere e
Arti;
Storia e Arti Liberali nell'Italia del Cinquecento. dai
cenacoli umanisti alle corti dei principi e dei signori
feudali, on Prometeo;
1994 I libri del mestiere. La Bibliotheca Mureti del Collegio
Romano, Firenze 1993;
- Jurare in verba magistri: Muret, Lipsio, Montaigne,
Nuova Rivista Storica, 1994
Paolo
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