Hidden Florence App project by Fabrizio Nevola
Welcome to Hidden Florence. This website accompanies a free smartphone app that takes you on an u... more Welcome to Hidden Florence. This website accompanies a free smartphone app that takes you on an unique tour of the Renaissance city through the eyes of a “contemporary” guide, a 1490s wool worker called Giovanni. Following in Giovanni’s footsteps allows the visitor to engage imaginatively with Renaissance Florence as a lived experience, while going to places that most tourist guides tend to neglect.
With the app, you can navigate the streets of Florence in a novel way, using both a modern and a superbly detailed period map to hunt for statutes, shrines, piazzas and palaces. As you do this, Giovanni tells you vivid tales about his neighbourhood and the city centre. He also airs his views on everything from city politics to the taverns he plays dice in, and on everyone from Lorenzo de’ Medici to the apothecary on the street corner.
Papers by Fabrizio Nevola
Anabel Thomas, Garrisoning the Borderlands of Medieval Siena: Sant’Angelo in Colle, Frontier Castle under the Government of the Nine, 1287–1355. Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xix, 422; black-and-white frontispiece, 8 color plates, and 21 black-and-white figures. $124.95. ISB... Speculum, 2014
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2010
Nevola, F., 2008. “la piu gloriosa solemnità che a di de padri nostri giammai fusse veduta”: Fest... more Nevola, F., 2008. “la piu gloriosa solemnità che a di de padri nostri giammai fusse veduta”: Feste ed apparati urbani durante il pontificato di Pio II Piccolomini. In: Ricciardelli, F., ed. I luoghi del Sacro. Il sacro e la città fra medioevo ed età moderna, acts of the conference. Florence: ...
Nevola, F., 2006. “Più honorati et suntuosi ala Republica”: Botteghe and Luxury Retail along Sien... more Nevola, F., 2006. “Più honorati et suntuosi ala Republica”: Botteghe and Luxury Retail along Siena's Strada Romana. In: Blondé, B., Stabel, P., Stobbart, J. and Van Damme, I., eds. Buyers and Sellers: Retail Circuits and Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Belgium: ...
Burlington Magazine, 2006
Medievales Langues Textes Histoire, Jun 1, 2004
Nevola, F. and Clarke, G., 2010. Project website for AHRC funded 'Street Life and Street Cul... more Nevola, F. and Clarke, G., 2010. Project website for AHRC funded 'Street Life and Street Culture' research network, created with CI, Dr. Georgia Clarke (Courtauld Institute of Art, London). Bath: Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath.
Renaissance Quarterly, 2015
Renaissance Quarterly, 2013
Renaissance Studies, 2013
Renaissance Quarterly, 2010
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Hidden Florence App project by Fabrizio Nevola
With the app, you can navigate the streets of Florence in a novel way, using both a modern and a superbly detailed period map to hunt for statutes, shrines, piazzas and palaces. As you do this, Giovanni tells you vivid tales about his neighbourhood and the city centre. He also airs his views on everything from city politics to the taverns he plays dice in, and on everyone from Lorenzo de’ Medici to the apothecary on the street corner.
Papers by Fabrizio Nevola
With the app, you can navigate the streets of Florence in a novel way, using both a modern and a superbly detailed period map to hunt for statutes, shrines, piazzas and palaces. As you do this, Giovanni tells you vivid tales about his neighbourhood and the city centre. He also airs his views on everything from city politics to the taverns he plays dice in, and on everyone from Lorenzo de’ Medici to the apothecary on the street corner.
The website (follow link) provides access to a series of interviews we conducted with key scholars in the field.
Public Renaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space in Renaissance Europe
Organizers: Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter); Massimo Rospocher (Italian-German Historical Institute, Trent); Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (University of Ghent)
Town squares and the main urban public spaces in the Renaissance period are often represented and studied as ceremonial sites, as theatres of civic and religious rituals or as spaces controlled and regulated by the authorities. This series of panels aim to deconstruct the paradigm of the "ceremonial city" in order to reveal the dynamic nature of public space and everyday street life in Renaissance Europe. It wishes to demonstrate how public spaces were lived and used in ways that undermined or subverted official conceptions of order and control.
Defined by the everyday social actions of gender, work, family, politics, and religion enacted by individuals and groups, the Renaissance public spaces were "spaces in motion". We are seeking papers from across the disciplines which will examine how citizens appropriated spaces and rituals, re-elaborated them in autonomous and unforeseen ways, creating “practiced spaces”. Thus papers will explore the ambiguities and tensions between ceremonial/official and practiced/informal public spaces, as well as how formal ceremonial events might be met by local or popular acts of contestation (e.g. during the papal possesso or princely joyeuses entrées). Public Renaissance is a concept that evokes a non-elitist reading of Renaissance culture exemplified by an interest in ordinary people and the everyday.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- public staging of everyday governance (e.g. reading of proclamations)
- social gatherings in ‘semi-public’ spaces (e.g. tavern, street corner, parish church etc.)
- political uses of public spaces
- use of public space in performance and contestation
- visual and material culture of public spaces
- regulation and control of public space
Please send abstract (max. 150 words) and a brief CV (max. 250 words) to Massimo Rospocher ([email protected]) by the 27 of May 2016.