Introduction: The Experience of the Street in Early Modern Italy
Introduction: The Experience of the Street in Early Modern Italy
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简介:近代早期意大利街道的经历
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10.1086/673481
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2013
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Clarke G
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ANTONIO MANETTI’S Novella del Grasso legnaiuolo, set in Florence in 1409, describes an elaborate trick played on the unlucky intarsia master Manetto Ammannatini, nicknamed “il Grasso,” by a brigata of his friends led by Filippo Brunelleschi. 1 The tale begins with il Grasso missing a dinner at which all his other friends are present. His friends hatch a plan to steal il Grasso’s identity by a complicated process that involves switching his name, residence, workplace, and friendship network. In the space of twenty-four hours, he is sent to jail for brawling with people who “misidentify” him, is released on bail, is brought to “his” house in Oltrarno (far from his own house, which was by the Duomo), and meets with a lawyer and a priest who both confirm his identity as “Matteo.” Doped by opiates, he is returned to his actual home, so that when he wakes up in the morning to the familiar sound of the “Ave Maria” bells of Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo), he is back in his own bed. 2 He picks up the key to his workshop near the baptistry and goes to work; confused and mesmerized by the elaborate beffa, Grasso was unable to work out how all this had happened and decided “to leave his workshop for a while and go to Santa Maria del Fiore, to have time to think of his own affairs, and to certify better if he were Grasso or Matteo, in the recognition on theContact Georgia Clarke at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (georgia. clarke@ courtauld. ac. uk), and Fabrizio Nevola at the University of Exeter, College of Humanities, Queen’s Building, The Queen’s Drive, Exeter EX4 4QH (f. nevola@ exeter. ac. uk). We would especially like to thank Nick Terpstra for kindly agreeing to write the postscript that closes this cluster of articles and offers an ideal extension of the introductory comments offered here.
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1999
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Diane Favro
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Diane Favro
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1999
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E. Weber;A. Corbin;Martin Thom
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Martin Thom