Papers by Tiziana Provvidera
Il pensiero politico, a. LVI, 3, pp. 335-347, 2023
Il contributo si propone di illustrare il problematico e ambiguo utilizzo di Machiavelli quale em... more Il contributo si propone di illustrare il problematico e ambiguo utilizzo di Machiavelli quale emerge nel pensiero politico di Giusto Lipsio, l’umanista fiammingo celebre presso i suoi contemporanei soprattutto per la realizzazione delle edizioni critiche delle opere di Tacito e di Seneca, cui egli dedicò la maggior parte della sua attività intellettuale. Ed è proprio in relazione al rapporto con lo stoicismo – in particolare con alcuni aspetti dottrinali di matrice socratica – e con il tacitismo, che Lipsio verrà via via elaborando la sua idea di prudenza mista, una prudenza capace, con buona pace dei moralisti intransigenti, di mescolare l’utile con l’onesto. Dai genuini elogi delle prime edizioni della Politica (1589-90), poi parzialmente ritrattati nell’edizione espurgata del 1596, fino alle critiche delle Annotazioni alla Poltica (1590) e degli Ammonimenti (1605), certamente più consone al clima culturale della Controriforma, la riflessione di Lipsio sul pensiero del Segretario fiorentino sembrerebbe scaturire da una concezione della virtù che, partendo dall’aristotelismo, si arricchisce di elementi stoici e ciceroniani in una sintesi solo all’apparenza ispirata al pensiero umanistico, ma più marcatamente orientata verso un pragmatismo dettato dall’urgenza delle turbolente circostanze storiche in cui veniva a maturarsi.
Consecutio rerum, a. VIII. n. 16, 2, pp. 375-398, 2023
Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) was among the most famed intellectuals in his time, and his thought st... more Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) was among the most famed intellectuals in his time, and his thought stood at an important crossroads, incorporating both humanist and late Renaissance traits and precursors of the early modern age. Through the analysis of some passages from the Politica (1589), the contribution aims to underline some significant connections with the tradition of early Renaissance writers, particularly Petrarch and Machiavelli. Although not a seminal thinker in the field of early international law, Lipsius’s ideas and works critically informed humanist approaches to peace and prosperity and the relative discipline of statecraft of later authors, among them Hugo Grotius.
Rinascite della modernità, n. 3, pp. 75-88, 2023
Il contributo intende soffermarsi su alcuni aspetti della riflessione petrarchesca sul tempo nel ... more Il contributo intende soffermarsi su alcuni aspetti della riflessione petrarchesca sul tempo nel tentativo di individuare i nuclei tematici che si andranno a configurare come caratteristiche peculiari della nuova scienza politica in età moderna. In particolare, prendendo in considerazione la matrice stoica che sottende l’elaborazione letteraria e filosofica di Petrarca sarà possibile comporre le apparenti antinomie su cui si fondano alcuni dei principali orientamenti del pensiero politico di Giusto Lipsio.
in Boteriana III. A trent’anni dal volume Giovanni Botero e la ‘Ragion di Stato’ a cura di Enzo A. Baldini (1992-2022) Bilanci e prospettive di ricerca, a cura di B. A. Raviola e C. Silvagni, Centro Studi Piemontesi, Torino, 2023, pp. 101-114.
Il contributo suggerisce un proficuo, quanto inedito confronto tra Botero e un suo stretto contem... more Il contributo suggerisce un proficuo, quanto inedito confronto tra Botero e un suo stretto contemporaneo, il fiammingo Giusto Lipsio, entrambi al crocevia politico tra Francia, Spagna e Paesi Bassi, entrambi cattolici, entrambi legati alla corte di Carlo Emanuele I di Savoia.
Heliopolis. Culture civiltà politica, 2023
The era of the wars of religion in Europe saw, as a counterpoint to the bloodshed and fanaticism,... more The era of the wars of religion in Europe saw, as a counterpoint to the bloodshed and fanaticism, the formulation of several major pleas for tolerance, starting with Sebastian Castellio's De haereticis an sint persequendi (1553), written in Geneva in response to the execution of the heterodox Servetus, to the Satanae Stratagemata (1563/4) by Jacob Acontius in England and Dirck Coornhert's Synodus van der Conscientien Vryheydt (1582) in the Low Countries, and culminating with Jean Bodin's Colloquium Heptaplomeres (1593) in France. Yet, the debate between Justus Lipsius and Dirck Coornhert on the issue and role of religion within the state and subjects' lives, alongside the question of true religion, might provide evidence about the limits of the concepts of "moderation", "concord" and "confessional pluralism" in the second half of the sixteenth-century Europe.
Culture del testo e del documento, 2023
Il contributo si propone di indagare, in linee generali, la presenza di strategie imprenditoriali... more Il contributo si propone di indagare, in linee generali, la presenza di strategie imprenditoriali e linee editoriali nella Roma della prima metà del Cinquecento allo scopo di individuare possibili relazioni di carattere letterario, religioso e politico quali si andavano costituendo nell'ambiente culturale interno o contiguo alla Curia sotto i due pontificati medicei di Leone 10. (1513-1521) e Clemente 7. (1523-1534). Entro questo quadro si cercherà di verificare se le figure di Erasmo e Machiavelli risultino in qualche modo funzionali all'intensa attività di propaganda ideologica pontificia al punto da ipotizzarne un possibile coinvolgimento nel delicato programma romano-mediceo di consolidamento del potere politico e religioso.
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, ed. by M. Sgarbi, Springer Nature, Switzerland, 2022
Between 1436 and 1440 a certain Johannes Gutenberg (ca. 1398-1468), a native of the German city o... more Between 1436 and 1440 a certain Johannes Gutenberg (ca. 1398-1468), a native of the German city of Mainz, used for the first time a movable-type printing press, an epochal invention that would completely revolutionise the spreading of knowledge and world literacy. The impact of the printing press in Europe entailed a huge increase in both the number and the rapidity of books produced, easier and cheaper access to the texts in demand, a consequent increase in literacy rates and in the use of the vernacular and the creation of public libraries. Notwithstanding the introduction of censorship and the control over book circulation that arrived in the second half of the sixteenth century, the wave of radical thinking released by the printing industry would alter the course of history, fuelling the Renaissance and the Reformation and paving the way both for the Enlightenment and for modernity as we know it today.
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, ed. by M. Sgarbi, Springer Nature, Switzerland, 2022
Fifteenth century Europe exhibited a transformation of political conditions leading to the coexis... more Fifteenth century Europe exhibited a transformation of political conditions leading to the coexistence of a large variety of regimes and institutional structures. They ranged from single to composite kingdoms, from elective to hereditary monarchies, from secular to ecclesiastical principalities, of major and lesser cities with differing constitutions, and even to city-states, or some other types of self-governing territorial entities. In such a shifting political scene, the literary genre of advice-books addressed to princes and rulers further developed in significant ways. Notably, by elaborating their political tracts, Renaissance political writers engaged with a definite project of creating an educated and virtuous ruling class. An important aspect of the political education they offered involved the transformation of the human person of the sovereign into a summa of qualities and obligations transcending it, thus paving the way towards that process of depersonalization of power that constitutes the crucial feature of the modern state.
Bruniana & Campanelliana , 2021
From 1595 to 1600 Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), the elder brother of philosopher Francis Bacon, was ... more From 1595 to 1600 Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), the elder brother of philosopher Francis Bacon, was at the heart of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex’s circle, fulfilling an ambiguously-defined role as the earl’s master of intelligence, and working closely with his salaried secretarial team. He also acted as Essex’s unofficial archivist, copying and filing letters to and from the earl and his secretarial staff. The discovery of a hitherto unpublished dispatch among the Anthony Bacon Papers preserved at Lambeth Palace reporting the death of Francesco Patrizi may shed new light on Bruno’s London stay (1583-1585), as well as on the equally important document on the execution of the Nolan philosopher, which found its way into a collection of papers belonging to the very Earl of Essex.
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, ed. by M. Sgarbi, Springer Nature, Switzerland, 2020
The Renaissance was a fundamentally political phenomenon, a period of time in which questions abo... more The Renaissance was a fundamentally political phenomenon, a period of time in which questions about the purpose of political life and the nature of political legitimacy were raised, and in which actual Renaissance regimes took the first steps towards the modern state. Although the most influential studies have insisted upon a break with the medieval tradition and world outlook, much recent work by both medieval-ists and Renaissance historians has emphasized the continuity of political thought from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. Yet, proper attention must be paid to the remarkable cultural change within the social and political context that occurred in fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Europe. By that time, constitutional revolutions, expansionist conflicts, and the long dispute between France and Spain brought about the end of the established political balance in Europe and at the same time a crisis in old concepts of politics and government.
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, ed. by M. Sgarbi, Springer Nature, Switzerland, 2020
The modern state is the new form of domestic and international political organization in the Euro... more The modern state is the new form of domestic and international political organization in the European system of relations between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its origin lies in the crisis of the medieval order and in the detachment of sovereignty from the earliest popular and territorial bases. While the formulation of the concept of sovereignty is conventionally associated with the emergence of the modern states-system culminating in its political formalization with the Westphalian settlement of 1648, it was in the late Middle Ages and definitely during the Renaissance that the word "state" acquired a meaning close to the modern sense. It was around this time that discussions about the state as a separate entity and its purpose and powers became widespread in the political language. A historic analysis of the word "stato" shows its multifarious meanings and the difficult process it went through from antiquity to Machiavelli before being accepted in its modern sense by scholars. Yet Bodin and Hobbes became the focal points for the birth and development of the modern state with the concept of sovereignty associated to it.
Bruniana & Campanelliana, 2019
Imbued with cosmopolitan, tolerant, skeptical and pacifist spirit, Erasmus of Rotterdam had exert... more Imbued with cosmopolitan, tolerant, skeptical and pacifist spirit, Erasmus of Rotterdam had exerted a considerable influence until the eighteenth century. Although quite neglected in the 19th century, the Dutch humanist provided a political and ethical framework that had permeated most thinking and writing of the 20th century European intellectuals. That Erasmus’s viewpoint retains vitality even today is illustrated by the interest in his works and thought lately displayed by Norberto Bobbio, who repeatedly emphasized the role of meekness, tolerance and dialogue as preconditions of political democracy.
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, ed. by M. Sgarbi, Springer Nature, Switzerland, 2019
This essay aims to investigate the reasons of the allegedly late reception of Justus Lipsius's po... more This essay aims to investigate the reasons of the allegedly late reception of Justus Lipsius's political thought in Counter-Reformation Italy. The efficacy of censorship in Catholic countries after the Council of Trent, together with the Church's distrust of pagan Stoicism and the anti-Machiavellianism that was taking hold in the 1590s, do not alone support the assumption of a lack of interest in Lipsius's political thought within the Italian cultural and publishing milieu. The contribution provides a short overview of both the publishers and booksellers, as well as the authors and editors, involved in the printing venture of Lipsius's political works in Italian translations in order to demonstrate that their reputation, literary distinction as well as their production in terms of both quantity and quality is far from being insignificant.
The essay analyses the historical context, circumstances and people involved in the writing of tw... more The essay analyses the historical context, circumstances and people involved in the writing of two Italian versions of Lipsius's Politica and Admiranda which went almost unnoticed and neglected by scholars.
Bruno, Charlewood and Munday: Politics, Culture and Religion during Bruno's Time in England, in Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology. Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti, ed. by M. McLaughlin, I. D. Rowland and E. Tarantino, Legenda, Oxford, 2015, pp. 137-156 The author approaches Bruno in England from a historical angle, outlining the Italian philosopher... more The author approaches Bruno in England from a historical angle, outlining the Italian philosopher’s links with the printer John Charlewood and teasing out the political and religious implications of the latter’s involvement with various patrons such as the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of Oxford. The malleability of Bruno’s political and religious positioning in this period reflects the wider kaleidoscopic shifts of alliances of Charlewood and the main author of the books he printed in the explosive decade of the 1580s, Anthony Munday. The chapter provides a detailed picture of the complex backdrop against which to contextualize Bruno’s activities and contacts in England. The contribution also shows convincingly how some of the changes made by Bruno in the second version of the Cena de le ceneri were motivated by the complex, shifting political and religious climate in 1580s England.
"Bruniana & Campanelliana", XX, 2, pp. 559-564, 2014
Bruniana & Campanelliana, XIX, 2, pp. 373-383, 2013
La tradizione pasquinesca nell'Inghilterra del Cinquecento: dal 'Pasquil the playne' (1533) ai Pasquill tracts (1589-1590), in C. Damianaki, P. Procaccioli, A. Romano (eds.), Ex marmore. Pasquini, pasquinisti, pasquinate nell’Europa moderna, Vecchiarelli, Manziana, 2006, pp. 429-459. Ex marmore. Pasquini, pasquinisti, pasquinate nell’Europa moderna, a cura di C. Damianaki, P. Procaccioli, A. Romano, Vecchiarelli, Manziana, pp. 429-459., 2006
Socrate in Occidente, a cura di E. Lojacono, Le Monnier, Firenze, pp. 91-102., 2004
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The book investigates Justus Lipsius’s attempt to bridge the gap between ethics and politics in order to help the ruler to ensure social stability and prosperity in his kingdom. Matters touched upon in a wide-ranging account of both philosophical and political issues include ways of governing, the power of the state and sovereignty, obedience of subjects, dissembling of princes, tyranny, the right to wage war and religious tolerance, together with – more generally – the relationship between politics and ethics as a matter of constant concern over the generations to come.
The book is a collection of all the letters between two of the most celebrated Italian figures of the Twentieth Century, Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004) and Eugenio Garin (1909-2004). While Bobbio was Italy’s leading legal and political philosopher, and one of the most authoritative figures in his country’s politics, Garin has been recognised as an authority on the cultural history of the Renaissance. The experience of fascism, the ideological divisions of the cold war, and the transformation of Italian society during the 1960s and 1980s clearly emerge from their passionate but disenchanted letters.
La fisionomia dell’ermetismo ha alimentato sin dalla sua origine un fecondo dibattito tra i sostenitori della cifra teorica di origine platonica, stoica e neoplatonica, e i partigiani di quella giudaico-cristiana e gnostica. Alla rappresentazione del carattere ermetico corrisponde un’immagine camaleontica, depositaria di profonde interazioni interculturali e di energiche dispute teosofiche e scientifiche. Essa è alimentata da una quantità di idee e dottrine, confluite in scritti realizzati in contesti geografici differenti e in varie lingue, in un arco temporale che procede dal III secolo a.C., attraversa il mondo medievale, giunge all’età rinascimentale e moderna. Gli specialisti coinvolti presenteranno lo stato di avanzamento delle ricerche sui testi ermetici.
Alla luce di una nuova collana dedicata alla Storia degli antichi Stati italiani diretta da M. Pellegrini per i tipi de il Mulino (UPM), le keynote lectures si propongono di riflettere su alcuni aspetti peculiari della statualità fra Medioevo e prima età moderna soffermandosi su alcuni esempi peculiari: una Repubblica, un ducato, lo Stato pontificio, un viceregno. Per ciascun caso si tratterà di discutere le linee guida della formazione degli antichi Stati italiani alla luce delle più recenti prospettive storiografiche rispetto a cronologie, economia, ceti, trattatistica, diplomazia (ma anche frontiere, ambiente e gender history). Una serie di testi e documenti selezionati fra i classici del pensiero politico coadiuverà le lezioni con approfondimenti di taglio laboratoriale.
Serie di seminari a cura di Tiziana Provvidera
Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
Napoli 22-24 ottobre 2018
ore 16.00
Interventi di: Amm. Sq. Giacinto OTTAVIANI - Presidente del Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa; Gen. Gualtiero IACONO - Direttore dell’Istituto di Ricerca e Analisi della Difesa; Mark SOMOS - Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law; Tiziana PROVVIDERA - University College London; Stefano VISENTIN - Università di Urbino; Ugo VILLANI - Università “Aldo Moro” di Bari; Alessandra GIANELLI - Sapienza Università di Roma; Alberto ODDENINO - Università di Torino.
SARANNO PRESENTI I CURATORI DEL VOLUME: Carlo GALLI - Università di Bologna e Antonio DEL VECCHIO - Università di Bologna
We are pleased to announce that the Boteriana III International Study Conference will take place on 11 and 12 November 2022, thirty years after the famous volume "Botero e la Ragion di Stato" edited by E. Baldini. In the attached program you can find the details of the conference programme. For those who cannot be present in person, we will communicate the link to assist remotely as soon as possible.
Il seminario si terrà in presenza presso l'Aula Chabod Dipartimento SARAS, Sapienza Università di Roma con obbligo di green pass e prenotazione alla mail [email protected]
online al link https://bit.ly/2OheRcz
mercoledì 24 novembre 2021, ore 15:00-17:00 Elisabetta Selmi (Università degli Studi di Padova), Tasso lettore di Erasmo: per la ritrattistica del "principe cristiano", Aula B sezione Storia moderna e contemporanea
lunedì 6 dicembre 2021, ore 17:00-19:00 Lucia Felici (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Realizzare un'utopia: la fondazione di Erasmo da Rotterdam nel Cinquecento. L'autrice discute con Ludovico Battista e Matteo Al-Kalak il suo volume: Senza frontiere. L'Europa di Erasmo (1538-1600) (Carocci, Roma 2021), Aula Paleografia
venerdì 10 dicembre 2021, ore 10 dicembre 2021, ore 10-13:00 Amedeo Quondam (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Le ruine di Roma: da studiare, collezionare, tutelare nell'età di Leone X. L'autore discute con Caterina Volpi e Alessandro Zuccari il suo libro: l Letterato e il Pittore. Per una storia dell'amicizia tra Castiglione e Raffaello (Viella, Roma 2021)
gli incontri si potranno seguire in streaming all'indirizzo: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/82781377244?pwd=TjBHdCs5N1A2SHdUcGRFbVFlTlNEQT09#success
26 febbraio, ore 17.00-18.30. Massimo Rospocher (ISIG Trento), Erasmo e il papa guerriero: fonti e frammenti di un discorso politico
5 marzo, ore 17.00. Virginia Lauria (Sapienza), Del mangiar pesce, una proposta di lettura
7 febbraio 2020, h. 15.00-18.00, AULA NUOVA BUONAIUTI
INFO: http://laboratorioerasmo.blogspot.com
Interventi di: Gianfranco Borrelli (Università di Napoli "Federico II"), Gennaro Maria Barbuto (Università di Napoli "Federico II"), Domenico Taranto (Università di Salerno).
Modera e introduce: Tiziana Provvidera (University College London)
Sarà presente la curatrice
Intervengono: Paolo Carta (Università di Trento) e Alberto Clerici (Università Unicusano).
Modera: Tiziana Provvidera (University College London)
Sarà presente l'autore
Intervengono: Felice Masi (Università di Napoli Federico II); Rosalia Peluso (Università di Napoli Federico II); Tiziana Provvidera (University College London). Introduce: Enrica Lisciani-Petrini (Università di Salerno). Coordina: Massimiliano Biscuso (IISF).