Latin Renaissance Rome descriptions

The project "Latin Renaissance Rome Descriptions" will treat a particular category of Neolatin travel literature: topographies of the in that time - as preserver of antiquities - newly arising city of Rome. Drawing the line from medieval pilgrim`s guides or the so called mirabilia literature to the first genuinely topographic works of the 14th century, which as the first took into consideration the pagan Rome as well, and to the great representatives of the Renaissance like Flavio Biondo, a special focus shall be laid on 16th century descriptions as they were composed by Andrea Fulvio, Giovanni Bartolomeo Marliani and Jean Jacques Boissard. On the one hand, by comparing dedication letters, prefaces and conclusions of their works, the concept of the respective author and his intended recipients shall be worked out, supposed to indicate whether different waves of writing Rome descriptions can be defined. On the other hand a not yet worked out comparison of selected, thematically correlating passages shall reveal in a new approach which (ancient) sources where used and which graphic data (maps as well as images of monuments) the writers were relying on or even (if not yet published) influencing in its evolution. Besides the significance of suchlike Rome descriptions for the propaganda of papal city planning shall be examined, as it was also projected in the late Renaissance or early baroque Salzburg, the "Rome of the North", in this case directed by the imperial archbishops like Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau - an item that will represent another specific focus of the project, regarding Salzburg`s local history and its probable city-structural influencing by Roman paragons. The intended publication deriving from this project shall outline the results of the examinations described above, presenting a scientifically new, surveying access to the development, mutual impact and outward appeal of Renaissance Rome descriptions as well as connecting them with a chapter of Salzburgian baroque history not yet examined in this way.

The project "Latin Renaissance Rome Descriptions" will treat a particular category of Neolatin travel literature: topographies of the in that time - as preserver of antiquities - newly arising city of Rome. Drawing the line from medieval pilgrim`s guides or the so called mirabilia literature to the first genuinely topographic works of the 14th century, which as the first took into consideration the pagan Rome as well, and to the great representatives of the Renaissance like Flavio Biondo, a special focus shall be laid on 16th century descriptions as they were composed by Andrea Fulvio, Giovanni Bartolomeo Marliani and Jean Jacques Boissard. On the one hand, by comparing dedication letters, prefaces and conclusions of their works, the concept of the respective author and his intended recipients shall be worked out, supposed to indicate whether different waves of writing Rome descriptions can be defined. On the other hand a not yet worked out comparison of selected, thematically correlating passages shall reveal in a new approach which (ancient) sources where used and which graphic data (maps as well as images of monuments) the writers were relying on or even (if not yet published) influencing in its evolution. Besides the significance of suchlike Rome descriptions for the propaganda of papal city planning shall be examined, as it was also projected in the late Renaissance or early baroque Salzburg, the "Rome of the North", in this case directed by the imperial archbishops like Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau - an item that will represent another specific focus of the project, regarding Salzburg`s local history and its probable city-structural influencing by Roman paragons. The intended publication deriving from this project shall outline the results of the examinations described above, presenting a scientifically new, surveying access to the development, mutual impact and outward appeal of Renaissance Rome descriptions as well as connecting them with a chapter of Salzburgian baroque history not yet examined in this way.