This article analyses Orazio Romano’s "Porcaria", one of the most significant literary works on Stefano Porcari’s conspiracy against pope Nicholas V (1453). The investigation is based on a new examination of the only manuscript of the poem still extant: Utrecht, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, ms. 826 (5 M 22). This important codex has now been identified as an autograph manuscript, which was put together by the author himself and offered to the pope’s close collaborator, Pietro Lunense. In light of the new thorough analysis of the codex and the text, this study reconstructs the circumstances of composition of the poem and delineate more accurately Orazio Romano’s intellectual profile and his professional ambitions in the cultural environment of the Curia. This analysis is combined with a contextualization of the poem in the historical scenario of the conspiracy and with an exploration of the political perspective of the text, which turns out to match and underpin the most pivotal ideological cornerstones of Nicholas V’s cultural politics.
Orazio Romano e la "Porcaria" nella Roma di Niccolò V: il poema nella politica culturale papale
Marta Celati
2021-01-01
Abstract
This article analyses Orazio Romano’s "Porcaria", one of the most significant literary works on Stefano Porcari’s conspiracy against pope Nicholas V (1453). The investigation is based on a new examination of the only manuscript of the poem still extant: Utrecht, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, ms. 826 (5 M 22). This important codex has now been identified as an autograph manuscript, which was put together by the author himself and offered to the pope’s close collaborator, Pietro Lunense. In light of the new thorough analysis of the codex and the text, this study reconstructs the circumstances of composition of the poem and delineate more accurately Orazio Romano’s intellectual profile and his professional ambitions in the cultural environment of the Curia. This analysis is combined with a contextualization of the poem in the historical scenario of the conspiracy and with an exploration of the political perspective of the text, which turns out to match and underpin the most pivotal ideological cornerstones of Nicholas V’s cultural politics.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
