Re: VMs: Quattrocento Minor Characters...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rafal,

At 16:22 02/12/2003 +0100, Rafal Prinke wrote:
> Nick Pelling wrote:
> > I guess "anyone active in Northern Italy at any time during 1400-1500"
> > ought to fit the bill. :-)
> This would be too limiting, I am afraid. While I tend to agree
> (on Dec 2nd, 2003, at 16:11 - it may change any time!) that
> the VMS is of Northern Italian origin in the broad sense, it may have
> been actually produced anywhere else, where the Italian
> Renaissance became popular. And it certainly was very
> much in vogue in Prague or Cracow - the latter especially
> after Bona Sforza became the queen of Poland and brought
> artists, architects, diplomats etc. with her, even the
> vegetables one puts into soup - leek, parsley, carrot and
> celery, which are to this day collectively called "Italian stuff"
> in Polish.

The Quattrocento Minor Characters project was specifically triggered by 
discussions I'd had with early modern historians about the difficulties we 
all face when trying to cross-reference minor characters through the 
Quattrocento. So, while it happens to fit my own particular view of the VMs 
:-) , it would be a bit misleading to see it as a project centred purely on 
the VMs.

Bona Sforza was born in Vigevano [near Pavia] on 2nd February 1494, so I 
think it would be fair enough to include her (if there haven't been at 
least two biographies of her in the last 25 years). Though whether a Queen 
of Poland can really be called "minor" is another question entirely. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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