ATRA
Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism

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Mission

ATRA – Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism is a digital system that maps the circulation of antiquarian learning in Renaissance Europe.

Its purpose is to contribute to the promotion of new knowledge on antiquarian studies in the Renaissance and demonstrate how the antiquarian approach – that based the growth of thought on documented sources and empirical evidence – played a primary role in the evolution of the entire cultural/intellectual life of Early Modern times.

The ATRA database collects, confronts and interconnects published and unpublished letters of humanists and scholars who participated in spreading the antiquarian method. The content of each letter is recorded and studied; issues and debates of the time investigated and reconstructed. The materials considered are written in Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, German and English collected from all regions of Europe.

The assortment provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of Renaissance antiquarian learning and fills the present gap with a complete analysis on the subject.

Antiquarian erudition is by nature a crossroad of disciplines and, as such, many are the fields of study that emerge from the letters gathered: Archeology, Architecture, Arts, Astronomy, Botany, Collecting, Chronology, Education, Emblematics, Ethnology, Geography, Historiography, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine, Mnemonics, Music, Mythology, Numismatics, Oceanography, Paleography, Paleontology, Philology, Philosophy, Publishing, Theater, Theology, Zoology.

Database

This project develops an advanced online database that links the antiquarian information in one single coordinated system. The main intent is:

allow the interconnection of data that otherwise would probably never come into contact
bring to the surface issues not yet identified and categorized by modern scholars
enable the discovery of new cultural itineraries and convergences in Renaissance scholarship
trace the paths that led to parallel or independent ideas
uncover new trends of thought that can help better understand the evolution of Renaissance civilization and spirit

Innovative and revolutionary interpretative pathways will come to light, conferring a renewed awareness of the concept of Renaissance antiquarianism and offering to the entire academic community further instruments to investigate the History of Ideas.

ATRA database

Index

	Glossary	48 KB
	Senders and addressees	141 KB
	Manuscripts	169 KB
	Editions	190 KB
	Compilers	46 KB

Events

2021

	De re vestiaria. Antichità e moda nel Rinascimento [ITA] 24-25 May 2021	2 MB
	Da Simon Magus a Semo Sancus. CIL VI 567 in un dibattito antiquario della Controriforma [ITA] 28 April 2021	550 KB

Previous events

2020

	Letture antiquarie dell'Ultima Cena tra Rinascimento e Riforma [ITA] 18 February, 2020	1 MB
	Itineraries of Thought in Renaissance Antiquarianism: The Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism (ATRA) 1 October 2020 - 3:30 p.m. via Zoom	306 KB

2019

	Le grottesche degli Uffizi [ITA] 13 December, 2019	1 MB
	Collecting and Critical Thought in Renaissance Antiquarianism 20 June, 2019	2 MB
	Hermeneutics of Sources in Renaissance Antiquarianism 18 March, 2019	3 MB
	Adamic Language and Renaissance Lexicography: Influences in Theory and Translation 17 March, 2019	2 MB
	Paradigms of Renaissance Grotesques 17 March, 2019	5 MB
	Ideology of Representation During the Renaissance: The Grotesques 14 February, 2019	2 MB

2018

	Between Renaissance and Reformation. Grotesques and the Debate on Images 18 October, 2018	175 KB
	New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Knowledge and Authority in Renaissance Intellectual Culture 3 October, 2018	2 MB
	"De re vestiaria". Tradizione classica e moda nel Rinascimento [ITA] 13 June, 2018	2 MB
	Between Allegory and Natural Philosophy. New Perspectives on Renaissance Grotesques 22-24 March, 2018	2 MB
	Digital Humanities and Renaissance Italy 23 March, 2018	412 KB

2017

	Making Theological Sense of History in Early Modern Europe 29 October, 2017	5 MB
	Sense of Past and Perception of History: Interpreting Renaissance Antiquarianism 14 September, 2017	350 KB
	Reading the Symbols: Pathways in Renaissance Iconography 30 March, 2017	3 MB
	"Traduzioni Confessionali" tra Rinascimento e Riforma [ITA] 20 March, 2017	4 MB

Publications

2021

Renaissance Iconology of Fate O. Akopyan (ed.), "Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650", Leiden-Boston: Brill

9 MB

Previous publications

2020

	διειρωνόξενοι (Aristoph. Pax 623). Nota di lessicografia umanistica. Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica 148.2 (2020), 470-486 [ITA]	265 KB
	ATRA - Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism (database)	559 KB

2019

	Acciarino, Damiano. Il Discorso dell'essenza di Baccio Baldini, riflessioni a margine e testo. "Engramma" 162 [ITA]	1 MB
	Acciarino, Damiano (ed.). Paradigms of Renaissance Grotesques. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies	768 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. Minima philologica. Autenticità e falsificazione nell’antiquaria rinascimentale. “Officina” 25 [ITA]	2 MB

2018

	Acciarino, Damiano. Lettere sulle grottesche. Canterano (RM): Aracne [ITA]	1 MB
	Acciarino, Damiano. De re vestiaria. Renaissance discovery of ancient clothing. “Engramma” 154	465 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. The Renaissance Nomenclature of the Fasti Consulares. “Journal of Ancient History and Archeology” 5.2	321 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. Iconologia del Fato nel Rinascimento. “Iconocrazia” 16 [ITA]	1 MB

2017

	Acciarino, Damiano. Ecclesiastical chronotaxes of the Renaissance. “Renaissance and Reformation” 40.2	398 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. Semantics and ideology during the Renaissance: ‘confessional translations’ of the Greek word ἐπίσκοπος.“Reformation & Renaissance Review” 19.1	182 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. The key in the hand. Features of birth in the Renaissance Imagery of Lucina. L.Benedetti and G.Simonetti (eds.), “Nascere, Rinascere, Ricominciare.” L’Aquila: Edizioni L’Una	1 MB
	Acciarino, Damiano. La lettera intorno al Discorso del Fato di Vincenzio Borghini. “Lettere Italiane” 69. 2 [ITA]	433 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. The Nature of Renaissance Antiquarianism. “Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae” 57.4	259 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. The Renaissance editions of Festus: notes on the title. “Acta Classica” 60	375 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. La popolatione del mondo di Gabriele Simeoni (1556). “Rassegna Europea di Letteratura Italiana” 49-50 [ITA]	978 KB

2016

	Acciarino, Damiano. The Renaissance editions of Festus: Identifying Paulus Diaconus. “Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology” 3.4	276 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. Ancient Roman colonial coins in Renaissance Europe. “American Journal of Numismatics” 28	560 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. The Renaissance editions of Festus: Fulvio Orsini’s version. “Acta Classica” 59	1 MB
	Acciarino, Damiano. Per l’edizione delle Lettere sopra la pittura grottesca di Pirro Ligorio. "Venezia Arti" 25 [ITA]	140 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. Antipoetica delle grottesche: le Lettere sulla pittura di Ulisse Aldrovandi. "Schede Umanistiche" 30 [ITA]	934 KB
	Acciarino, Damiano. Le lettere sulle grottesche dell'Archivio Isolani nel pensiero artistico di Gabriele Paleotti. "Storia dell'arte" 143-145 [ITA]	275 KB

2014

Acciarino, Damiano. Antiquarian studies on ancient banqueting during the Renaissance: the role of Antiquitatum Convivialium libri tres by Johann Wilhelm Stucki (1542-1607). “Reformation & Renaissance Review” 16.2

162 KB

2012

Acciarino, Damiano. De’ Conviti degli Antichi. Opera adespota. Padova: Il Poligrafo [ITA]

2 MB

Staff

Editor

Damiano Acciarino

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Advisory Board

Team

Partners

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ATRA Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism

Mission

Database

Index

Events

2021

Previous events

2020

2019

2018

2017

Publications

2021

Previous publications

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2014

2012

Staff

Editor

Advisory Board

Team

Partners

ATRA
Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism