«... quae omnia memini me Ferdinando seniore vidisse»

Antonio Galateo: books, geography and politics between Kingdom and Viceroyalty

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https://doi.org/10.6093/2974-637X/11532

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Antonio Galateo, Medieval Geography, Monarchical Humanism

Abstract

The article offers a survey of some of Antonio Galateo’s geographical and political writings. What emerges is a portrait of a humanist who in many ways anticipated the scientific, cultural, and ethical-moral demands that would be taken up, redefined and clarified in later centuries; however, his writing sometimes proves ambivalent and incapable of fully nourishing the curiosity of modern man in an era marked by transformations and discoveries. From a scientific point of view, Galateo remains cautious of the new oceanic explorations, taking refuge in the solidity of the works of ancient authors; while from a political point of view, by the time the Aragonese dynasty had fallen, he stands out as the singer of the myth of the new prince, embodied by the Spanish king Ferdinand II the Catholic.

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Luca Ruggio, University of Salento

Luca Ruggio is Senior Researcher of Medieval and Humanistic Latin Literature at the University of Salento. He is a member of the scientific and editorial boards of “Class A” journals and publishing series and collaborates on important national scientific projects. He is a member of CoMUL (Consulta per il Medioevo e l’Umanesimo Latini) and a member of CESURA (Centro Europeo di Studi su Umanesimo e Rinascimento Aragonese) and SISMEL (Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino). The main lines of research in his scientific production are humanistic theatre, medieval and humanistic geography and humanistic epistolography, with a focus on the manuscript tradition and ecdotics.

Sondra Dall’Oco, University of Salento

Sondra Dall’Oco is a Researcher T.I. at the Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Salento (S.S.D. Medieval and Humanistic Latin Literature, L-FIL-LET/08). She has conducted and continues to conduct critical-textual, philological and literary investigations on Middle Latin texts, with particular reference to the Neapolitan-Aragonese area (on authors such as Bartolomeo Facio, Giovanni Albino Lucano, Antonio Galateo), to humanistic theatre (e.g. Enea Silvio Piccolomini’s Chrysis and Ugolino Pisani’s Philogenia), to thermal literature and treatises (in particular the epistle on the baths of Baden by Poggio Bracciolini and the Tractatus de balneis by Ugolino da Montecatini) and the transmission and fortune of authors and texts (including Facio’s De verborum proprietate, the Herodianus’s Historia in the Latin translation by Poliziano, the biographies on Antonio Galateo).

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2024-12-31

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Ruggio, L., & Dall’Oco, S. (2024). «. quae omnia memini me Ferdinando seniore vidisse»: Antonio Galateo: books, geography and politics between Kingdom and Viceroyalty. Cesura - Rivista, 3(2), 351–370. https://doi.org/10.6093/2974-637X/11532

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024): CESURA - Rivista, 3/2 (2024)

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