Questo saggio offre una ravvicinata lettura retorica e stilistica dell'episodio lunare dell'Orlando furioso e, in particolare, dell'ottava, in cui al paladino Astolfo si offre per la prima volta un'immagine della luna (34. 72), in cui Ariosto inserisce un'imitazione tratta dall'Arcadia di Sannazaro. La pastorale ariostesca, compressa in una singola stanza, si dimostra cruciale per la comprensione delle premesse umanistiche del Furioso: le conclusioni dello studio argomentano l'importanza dell'allegoria dantesca, sia pure mediate attraverso un filtro dissacratorio, e la presenza di un cortocircuito gnoseologico alimentato dal cronòtopo arcadico e la sua inversione lunare nell'epos di Ariosto
This essay addresses printing and instrument making as crucial features in the accumulation and dissemination of cosmographical knowledge; as a corollary, it also frames the avalanche of data from the New World as a problem of ‘information management’. In this respect, while standard treatments of the topic emphasize the epistemological gathering directed by royal institutions, I maintain that armchair erudition and discovery were still coessential, if not overlapping. My discussion pursues a specific case study – the use of Pedro de Medina’s nautical tract in Seville, Venice and Antwerp – aiming to rewrite some aspects of network theory in terms of translation. Simultaneously, it tracks epistemological changes taking place within the cognitive jurisdictions of the printing house, and examines descriptions of instruments, woodcuts, and diagrams, to visualize how historical actors used to communicate with patrons, mathematicians, and craftsmen.
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