Books for captains and captains in books: Italo-German conference on the training and image of the military leader during the Renaissance

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Books for captains and captains in books: Italo-German conference on the training and image of the military leader during the Renaissance

Veranstalter
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel; Leitung: Marco Faini, Valentina Lepri, Maria Elena Severini
Veranstaltungsort
Bibelsaal in der Bibliotheca Augusta
Ort
Wolfenbüttel
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
24.02.2014 - 25.02.2014
Website
Von
Volker Bauer

The aim of the conference is to address the subject of the training, political role and the image of army commander in the Renaissance period, with a view to casting light on the numerous artistic, literary and political expressions generated by this figure. Considerable changes took place on the stage of battle towards the end of the sixteenth century: the war of movement made way for static warfare, professionalism was consolidated, new types of weapons were introduced and specialised soldiers joined the ranks. In this context both new writers and new readers emerged, and there was an intensive flowering of artistic and literary.

The conference will concentrate on certain undervalued aspects of the relations between Italy and Germany in the Modern Age. Interrelations in both artistic and religious spheres have been extensively explored by scholars, but there is still much study to be done on the reciprocal influences of literary genres, editorial circuits and cultural exchanges between the two countries. Throughout the Modern Age both have experienced an endemic state of war: religious, social and political conflicts were the order of the day and became part of the collective imagination, with a massive influence on literature and the arts. In Italy as in Germany, the figure of the military commander played an important role in this process, and his Institutio knitted together military and civil virtues, assuming religious and political connotations.

The captain, who held not only military but also moral authority, was the subject of an extremely vast and largely unexplored cultural production which, from the second half of the sixteenth century and for at least the next hundred years, sought to describe and establish the traits of the good, perfect and even sacred commander.

The ultimate purpose of the conference is to focus the manifold universe of this phenomenon in Italy and Germany through the analysis of portraits, descriptions, institutiones, translations, biographies, treatises, and by presenting both representative examples and special cases.

Programm

Montag, 24.02.2014

1. COMPARISON OF ANCIENT AND MODERN MODELS: THE CLASSICAL SOURCES AND THEIR USES

09.30 Uhr Gastone Breccia (University of Pavia): Virtus Under Fire. Leadership in a deadlier battlefield, XVI-XVII c.

10.15 Uhr Wolfgang E. J. Weber (Institut für Europäische Kulturgeschichte): Analysis of Johann Nicolaus Flämitzer's "Politico-militärischer Staats-Minister oder Prudentia politico-militaris" (1688, 1730)

11.00 Uhr Coffee

2. THE LIBRARY OF THE ARMY COMMANDER: TREATISES, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND TECHNICAL MANUALS

11.30 Uhr Merio Scattola (University of Padova): Der militärische Führer in den Beichtvaterspiegeln des XVI. Jahrhundert

12.15 Uhr Lunch

14.00 Uhr Albert Schirrmeister (EHESS Paris): Remarks on historiographic and ethnographic representation of military leaders

14.45 Uhr Valentina Lepri (University of Warsaw): Military strategies versus „Humanae Litterae“: the rules of Domenico Mora, chief of the army in 16th-century Poland

15.30 Uhr Coffee

16.00 Uhr Maria Elena Severini (National Institute for Renaissance Studies, Florence): Marcantonio Gandino’s Italian Translation of Frontinus’ "Stratagemi militari"

Dienstag, 25.02.2014

3. LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MILITARY CHIEF

09.00 Uhr Marco Versiero (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane SUM, Napoli): „Risistere alla furia de' cavagli e degli omini d'arme“. A lost book for a „condottiere“ by Leonardo da Vinci

09.45 Uhr Marco Faini (University of Cambridge, UK): The holy captain. Military command and sacredness in early-modern age

10.30 Uhr Coffee

11.00 Uhr Teodoro Katinis (Johns Hopkins University): Goffredo and his Army. The Art of Leadership in Tasso’s "Gerusalemme liberata"

11.45 Uhr Vittorio Tranquilli (University of Urbino „Carlo Bo”): The heroism of jests in Francesco Andreini’s "Le bravure del Capitano Spavento"

12.30 Uhr Lunch

4. ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MILITARY CHIEF

14.00 Uhr Boris Djubo (Russische Akademie der Wissenschaften, St. Petersburg): Die Mitwirkung des Leiters des Kriegswesens Oxenstierna am deutschen Schulreformprogramm in der Zeit des Dreißigjährigen Krieges

14.45 Uhr Matthias Meinhardt (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): Battling Images. Representation and Perception of the Military Entrepreneur Christian of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in the Thirty Year’s War

15.30 Uhr Coffee

16.00 Uhr Ilario Manfredini (University of Pisa): The image of the „soldier prince“ at Florence and Turin in the second half of the sixteenth century

16.45 Uhr Markus Meumann (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): Commentary of the conference

Kontakt

Dr Volker Bauer

Herzog August Bibliothek Postfach 1364 38299 Wolfenbüttel

forschung@hab.de

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