Open research questions in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
28 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 3,376 Renaissance and Early Modern Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.
What the literature leaves open
From the anxieties about mechanised men and women in Massimo Bontempelli's Minnie la candida (1927), to Primo Levi's probing of the golem myth in “Il servo,” twentieth-century Italian literature offers a Rich, if underexplored, array of cyborg characters which both echo those to be found in Anglophone texts and can be been seen to embody and exemplify concerns emanating from a specifically Italian cultural context.
Creating the Ideal Posthuman Body? Cyborg Sex and Gender in the Work of Buzzati, Vacca, and Ammaniti · 2023 · DOIIn the study in 1979, no typological distinction was made among the portraits of Domitia Longina and Domitia Longina portraits were limited to the Flavian Dynasty.
The patron has not been documented, but by 1603 the set was already included in an inventory of the collection of Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, 5th marquis of Denia and 1st duke of Lerma (1553–1625), and his wife, Catalina de la Cerda, daughter of the 4th duke of Medinaceli.
Collecting Sixteenth-Century Tapestries in Twentieth-Century America: The Blumenthals and Jacques Seligmann · 2015 · DOIDisruption in today’s world seems to spring from several sources—economic and financial disruptions such as those that have spread across Europe; pitched battles between forces demanding change and those desperate to hold onto a status quo of repression and autocracy; and above all, fear that their nation or their community is insufficiently isolated from or inoculated against the forces of chaos and uncertainty.
This rewriting process has naturally attracted the attention of critics and scholars, but the value of much of their discussion has been limited by an inadequate view of the publication history of the novel, caused in part by the difficulty one inevitably experiences in obtaining copies of texts which were printed in short runs and in cheap editions, and were not collected by Italian libraries.
108 are to be understood, and in particular no consensus on what is signified by the descriptive phrase referring to the river, ‘onde/ove 'l mar non ha vanto’.
73 [March-April 1988]: 318-320), I expressed the wish that in the future the Center of Asia Minor Studies might "offer us additional studies on Solomos from Octave Merlier's unpublished papers, prepared with the same exemplary care.
Professor Aquilecchia's arguments, very difficult to dismiss in themselves, perhaps await corroboration from further research on the precise political stance of the Intronati in the early 1530S (which mayor may not tally with the probable pro-Medici views of the putative authors): such research is proceeding apace, though it has so far borne more fruit in relation to slightly later periods, where the evidence is more plentiful.
From Sforza’s perspective (whose response to Botta’s report remains unknown), Botta’s enterprise was acceptable (he did not “recall” Botta).
Sabotaj al cruciadei antiotomane sau necesitate politică italiană? Un raport al lui Leonardo Botta din 27 iulie 1475 · 2024 · DOIHe was not characterized by steadiness of views, first a supporter of the superiority of the council over the pope, with time he changed his mind and recognized the primacy of the popes.
The article is devoted to little known and rarely appreciated late-Baroque Dominican Jan Alan Bardziński who was a keen preacher and translator of both secular and religious texts.
The present study focuses on the Della Robbia frames created for the altarpieces in the Marche – a largely understudied region of the Italian peninsula.
When he does venture into this territory by quoting brief paragraphs from Andrić’s works — which are intended to shed light on his life — the results are mixed, and some instances of this process are more convincing than others.
Not much is known about its author, a certain ‘Horatio Fusco Monfloreo d’Arimini’, which is why some scholars have speculated that, in the light of the pro-women ideas it contains, La vedova might have been written by a woman.
WIDOWHOOD AND CONDUCT IN LATE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY: THE ‘UNUSUAL’ CASE OF<i>LA VEDOVA DEL FUSCO</i>(1570) · 2015 · DOI1 Yet its very existence remains to be argued for and demonstrated—or rather, inaugurated as an opportunity to ask different questions about art and about psychoanalysis itself.
More than forty operas have been written that are derived from the Beaumarchais trilogy or its characters, but this study is limited to the consideration of five operas.
Realizing Rosina: Operatic Characterizations of Beaumarchais's Heroine · 2012Little is known about the man; he moved between many cities, from Turin, Milan, and Venice to as far south as Naples, and he may have been a secretary.
In its turn this is unlike the general eulogizing tenor of the anonymous writer of the Uomini singhularii in firenze whose critical vocabulary seems to be limited to the single term, maraviglioso.
Adorno was one of the keynote speakers; I delivered a lecture on Lukács's The Specificity of the Aesthetic, which then was still not well known.
Further, this phenomenon seems not to be limited to the seventeenth century, for it reappears once more in French realist art of the nineteenth century-in Courbet and Manet.
The diverse ways in which people have tried to make them into allegories, through reference to the Dying Prisoner in the Louvre, are scarcely convincing.
But while the practical value of this algorithm is limited to the Italian language, its theoretical value is general because it introduces in syntax a concept similar in function to the syllabic unit of phonology.
These interpretations strike us as silly because the analysts have their eyes-and noses-in their psychoanalytic guidebooks, and-unenlightened by the art historian or connoisseur-are talking to themselves in a language borrowed from Freud but not understood.
I have preferred to use for this survey only the Viaggio, rather than Brasca's diplomatic dispatches and letters as well, in order to have material limited to a single genre and to a single date.
In the early history of Roman civil procedure there is much that remains uncertain or obscure, and the inquirer must often be content with solutions which, on the evidence, are no more than probable.
Most-cited papers in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- Renaissance Florence and the Origins of Capitalism: A Business History Perspective · The Business History Review · 2020 · 20 citations
- Describe or Narrate? A Problem in Realistic Representation · New Literary History · 1976 · 13 citations
- Big Business for Firms and States: Silk Manufacturing in Renaissance Italy · The Business History Review · 2020 · 9 citations
- Lukacs and the Holy Family · Telos · 1984 · 8 citations
- A GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE ‘MULTIPLE RENAISSANCES’ · The Historical Journal · 2020 · 7 citations
- The First Plague Pandemic in Italy: The Written Evidence · Speculum · 2023 · 7 citations
- The occasion of the coming of the Normans to southern Italy · Journal of Medieval History · 1991 · 7 citations
- A ‘Magnificent’ military entrepreneur? The involvement of the Medici Bank in the arms trade (1482-1494) · Business History · 2021 · 6 citations
- Political Economy and the Medici · The Business History Review · 2020 · 6 citations
- Bonae Fidei Iudicia · The Cambridge Law Journal · 1965 · 5 citations
Most recent work
- San Bassiano nel Medioevo: novità filologiche e iconografiche · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
- 1815: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Christ on the Mount of Olives (c. 1603) · OpenEdition (OpenEdition) · 2026
- La congiura dei Pazzi · Italogramma · 2026
- The Charcoal-Burner of Nevers | Il Carbonaio di Niversa · Open MIND · 2026
- Machiavelli on Imperial Rule · History of European Ideas · 2026
- Monica Berté, Petrarca, i libri, le carte, Roma, Carocci, 2025 · Bibliothecae.it · 2026
- <i>Flesh and Fabric: The Raiment of the Passion in a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti</i> · Sixteenth Century Journal · 2026
- <i>Il tiranno fiorentino: Vita e leggenda di Alessandro de’ Medici</i> · Sixteenth Century Journal · 2026
- <i>A Cultural Symbiosis: Patrician Art Patronage and Medicean Cultural Politics in Florence (1530–1610)</i> · Sixteenth Century Journal · 2026
- <i>Ribera’s Repetitions: Paper and Canvas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Naples</i> · Sixteenth Century Journal · 2026
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