By Samantha Kelly
This quantity analyses Robert of Naples' regulations and photo within the context of bigger shifts in rulership from the center a long time to the early glossy interval. Treating kingship as a joint company of king and court docket, it attracts on an interdisciplinary diversity of assets from chronicles, sermons, renowned poetry and artistic endeavors to diplomatic and archival files, to re-evaluate the key problems with his reign and underscore the significance of image-making and negotiation to his rule. the ultimate bankruptcy tracks the legacy of his photo as ''the Wise'', followed by means of later 14th-century kings of France, Bohemia and England earlier than its eclipse in favour of princely prudence within the Renaissance.
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This Bible contains some of the most interesting dynastic imagery to issue from Robert’s Naples, and the circumstances of its creation illustrate how even a “private” text could circulate among influential members of the court. It was long believed that the Bible was commissioned by Niccolò d’Alife, an official of Robert’s administration. His coat of arms appears at the start of the manuscript, and a colophon at the end, on folio 306, asserted that it belonged to him. Since a male figure is depicted presenting the codex to a female figure to the left of the colophon, it would appear that Niccolò gave the Bible to Joanna I, Robert’s successor—probably before her succession, since, as Ferdinando Bologna has observed, the Bible and its illuminations were certainly produced during Robert’s reign.
Giles of Rome, among the most celebrated scholars of the Augustinian order and Gerace; the relevant document is published in Camillo Minieri-Riccio, Saggio di codice diplomatico. Supplementum, vol. 2 (Naples, 1883), 69. Robert also ordered the restoration of synagogues in Gerace, Rossano, and Cotrone in the Regno. Robert’s boast about his kindness to the Jews is quoted by Caggese, Roberto d’Angiò, 1: 309. ,” Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge 21 (1954), 191. 30 Martin Grabmann, Methoden und Hilfsmittel des Aristotelesstudiums im Mittelalter (Munich, 1939), 78–84.
On individual illuminations, see Chapter Six at nn. 92, 121, and Plates 14–16. ” The comment comes from Gabrio de’ Zamorei, a Parmesan lawyer some twenty years younger than Robert who followed the Angevins closely enough to write a poem for Robert’s son’s death in 1328, and made these comments on Robert himself in the early 1370s. See Marco Vatasso, Del Petrarca e di alcuni suoi amici (Rome, 1904), 37–63 for Gabrio’s life and works; the citation appears at 22n. 33 he was associated with two of the greatest composers of the fourteenth century.