La presenza degli dèi

Raimondo Guarino

No. 26 (2005)
a. XIX, 2005

The Presence of the Gods

Publication Date: 2006-02-01

Raimondo Guarino

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Abstract

The paper focuses on the presence of pagan gods in some 15th century performances in Italy. The survival of ancient myths in courtly and civic performances is linked to the organisation, settings and symbolic values and to the general process of comparison between the modern Renaissance cities and classical Rome. Examples are chosen from Padua (a joust in 1466), Pesaro (a wedding feast in 1475) and a Venetian performance about the founding of Athens in 1493. A large part is dedicated to the crucial importance of humanistic sources in preserving the memory of the performances.

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