Marcello Garzaniti

• University of Florence

This volume brings together the balances of Italian Slavic studies carried out over the past thirty years and outlines the prospects for future ones, with reference to numerous thematic areas, starting with those of a more general nature such as the history of Slavistics, Slavic philology and linguistics, and moving on to those characterized by an...

The Republic of Letters was a network of scholars, scientists, artists, and other actors that emerged in Western Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries as a space for communication, dialogue, and debate. Gradually, an Eastern Republic of Letters also took shape, engaging in a multifaceted exchange with its Western counterpart. Due to the asymme...

La conversión de los príncipes, más bien que el principio, constituye el final de un proceso, el momento en el que se asume la conveniencia política de un cambio de religión oficial que integre el nuevo estado dentro del conjunto de los estados cristianos del entorno, hecho que permite al príncipe hablar de igual a igual con los príncipes vecinos....

The presence of westerners on the coasts of the Black Sea is widely documented for the closing centuries of the Middle Ages. Especially after the Fourth Crusade (1203- 1204), Genoa and Venice succeeded in ‘violating’ the Bosphorus, traditionally protect- ed by the Byzantine Empire, and established their emporia there, from the south to the north of...

The essays gathered in this volume are devoted to different aspects of the reception of Humanism and the Renaissance in Slavic countries. They mark the beginning of a dialogue among scholars of different Slavic languages and literatures, in search of the ways in which the entire Slavic world – albeit to varying degrees – has participated from the v...

Slavonic pilgrimage literature is an interesting example of the widespread knowledge of apocryphal literature not only through the written tradition, but also through the mediation of the Palestine liturgical tradition and oral legends. The collective memory of Slavia Orthodoxa was formed, therefore, not only on the basis of familiarity with the Ho...

In the popular series, Žizn' zamečatel'nych ljudej (Lives of Famous People) was published the biography of Sophia Palaiologina, a figure who has left a deep mark on Russian history and culture. The volume, edited by T. Matasova (2016), tells the story of the descendant of the Byzantine imperial family, married in 1472 to the great prince of Moscow...

The new edition of the Pilgrimage of Igumen Daniil, published in 2007 by a team of scholars under the leadership of G. M. Prokhorov, allows us to compare the oldest manuscript of the “first redaction” (RNB Q.XVII.88) with the evidence of the Velikie Minei Četii (RNB Sof. № 1322). The latter version transforms the pilgrimage tale into a devotional t...

The present book addresses a wide range of problems concerning the history of Eastern Slavic culture in its interaction with cultural models of Western Europe. This collective work is the final result of the French-Italian conference “Fratture e integrazioni tra Russia, mondo slavo orientale e Occidente. Storia e civiltà letteraria dal Medioevo all...

In the last fifteen years, research on the Slavic Gospel manuscript tradition have reached new and important achievements especially with the spread of computer technology and digitization process. Taking into account progress in the study of the Greek manuscript tradition, the author explains some basic guidelines: the textual structure of the Gos...

The Narration of the Battle with Mamai (Skazanie o Mamaevom poboišče), dedicated to the famous Russian military victory over the Tatars on the Kulikovo Field (1380), is generally considered the central work of the Kulikovo cycle. The anonymous author develops a consistent reinterpretation of the historical event in a liturgical and commemorative ke...

In Russia the figure of the Athonite monk Maximus was generally interpreted in relation to traditional Orthodox values and, in particular, to his anti-Renaissance position. This study aims to read his biography in the light of the reforms taking place during the sixteenth century in Europe, and to highlight his role as educator. The ecclesiastic hi...

The author discusses how M. Scarpa?s essay helps reconstruct Palamas? reception in the Slavic world in its earliest phase, a period still too neglected.

La ricostruzione della storia della comunità ortodossa russa a Firenze si è limitata finora allo studio della vita interna della comunità e delle sue relazioni con la Russia, mentre rimangono in ombra i rapporti con le comunità delle altre confessioni, a cominciare dal cattolicesimo, nel più ampio contesto della vita cittadina e delle vicende itali...

The author considers the extensive study of N. Trunte on the history of languages and cultures developed over centuries in the so called Slavia Latina (2012), identifying a series of issues still debated and taking up some keys to interpreting the cultural history of the Slavic world already presentin his own previous works.

The author discusses how M. Scarpa's essay helps reconstruct Palamas' reception in the Slavic world in its earliest phase, a period still too neglected.

Alberto Alberti, Marcello Garzaniti The Ivan Alexander Gospel in the Textual Tradition of the Slavic Gospels In this article, the Authors analyse the Slavic text of the Gospels in the light of the most recent developments in Greek New Testament studies. Particularly useful is the work carried out at the Institut für neutestamentliche Forschung (M...

Marcello Garzaniti Answers to Criticism The author answers to the critics of M. Capaldo and A.Giambelluca Kossova with the aim to bring the different proposed questions back into the sphere of scientifi c dialogue.

Odnos između grčke rukopisne tradicije i slavenske verzije Evanđelja zasigurno je jedno od najkompleksnijih, ali i najprivlačnijih pitanja slavenske fi lologije. Slavistika, koja je prije svega produbila analizu tekstovne strukture lekcionara, te naznačila karakteristike njihove tradicije, još se uvijek vraća, što se tiče grčkoga teksta, na istraži...

Slavia Latina and Slavia Orthodoxa. An Interpretation of Slavic Civilisation in the Medieval Europe The first part of the study focuses on the early centuries of Slavic cultural history and attempts to build up a picture of the gradual acculturation to the Mediterranean world. This process slowly gave rise to the distinct realities of Slavia lati...

Les recits de pelerinage en Terre sainte sont un des principaux moyens de diffusion de motifs apocryphes dans Ie monde slave. On trouve dans ces recits a la fois des citations precises et des allusions a la litterature apocryphe. La presente contribution dresse l'inventaire de ces citations et allusions (pour la periode allant jusqu'au XVe s.).