Essays

Celio Calcagnini, Epitoma super Prometheo et Epimetheo
An unpublished humanist text on the myth of Prometheus (with translation and introductory essay by Alessandra Sandrolini)
We reproduce the original unpublished text Celio Calcagnini Epitoma super Prometheo et Epimetheo, together with a translation and an introductory essay in which we consider the critical fortune of the text and its function and content, and theorise whether there is a connection with a lost play by Niccolò da Correggio and Pietro di Cosimo's paintings entitled The Stories of Prometheus

Translating gold
The Greek and Latin incipits of the Iliad in a Renaissance illuminated manuscript (Monica Centanni)
An anaysis of the illuminated pages that accompany the Greek and Latin version of the Iliad in a Renaisssance codex reveals the learned work of translation carried out by the artist and the copyist from the Greek text, in which the Greco-Byzantine style represents 'antiquity' and the Roman-Renaissance style represents 'contemporaneity'

Schifanoia, an astrological or astronomical calendar? Gianluigi Magoni, Things not yet said about the Decades in Palazzo Schifanoia - an astronomical reading, Corbo Editore 1997
(Elena Trabucchi)

Images of Biblical women
Beatrice Masini, The sword and the heart - women from the Bible, Edizioni EL, Trieste 2003, illustrated by Octavia Monaco
(Ilaria Tontardini)

The stones of Pikionis
Between heaven and earth: the paths of Pikionis before the Acropolis in Athens, Treviso, Palazzo Bomben, Fondazione Benetton Iniziative Culturali, 8 November – 18 January 2004, extended to 8 February 2004