The Dawn of the Renaissance, namely the Sweet New Style

The cultural event foresees fully immersive experiences through guided visits to the exhibition of the Cavallini Sgarbi Collection, in the magnificent setting of Castel Caldes. Representatives of the business world and Trentino communities will be present. The exposition runs from June to early November.

At the end of the tour will take place outside the museum the presentation of the book ‘L’alba del Rinascimento ovvero il Dolce Stil Novo’ by Paolo Erasmo Mangiante. Published by Solfanelli; Italian literary criticism.

In this publication, the author addresses the all-Italian complex phenomenon of the premature awakening of literature and arts in the Italian peninsula since the time of the decline and fall of the Italic Kingdom and Byzantine dominance. It was the expression of that aristocratic-merchant society, which gave rise to the birth of the city-states across the peninsula. They stretched from central-northern Italy to the enlightened state of Frederick II, then Angevin in southern Italy. This era may be named Early Renaissance or Dolce Stil Nuovo.

In a word, in the aftermath of the demographic and artistic crisis, due in the mid-fourteenth century to the devastating effects of the black plague, history created the prelude of the second great Flowering of the Renaissance. As of today, it is considered as the real Renaissance, which basically is nothing but the pursuance of a renewal process begun and developed two centuries earlier.

It is stressed in particular the fundamental importance of Byzantine and classical art as matrices of Italian renewal. As Vasari assumed indeed, the Gothic style from cross-border had a minor and not always a decisive role. However, as is the case with Giovanni Pisano and later in the courtly art, an artistically significant contribution of the Gothic style is acknowledged.

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Biography

Paolo Erasmo Mangiante was born in Genoa in 1937. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery. As a full professor of surgery maxillofacial, he served as Director of the Institute of Dental Clinic and then of the Department of Biophysical, Medical and Odontostomatological Sciences of the University of Genoa. He achieved significant scientific-clinical results, internationally recognized.

In spite of its commitment to the health industry, he carried out an intense journalistic and literary activity. It includes the publication of two novels, L’albero del barbagianni and Per amore e per rabbia, gaining a notable public and critical success, and winners of numerous Awards literary.

As an art critic he has published in Italy and Spain the following monographs: Goya e l’Italia (1992); Goya e Italia (2008); and Goya attraverso i suoi autoritratti (2015).

He was the promoter of art exhibitions of modern and contemporary artists and organizer and curator of the “Festival of Genoese classical music, its places, and fine art commissions” (2005, 2006, 2007).

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Tota Pulchra is an association of social promotion. It was born on 8th May 2016 from an idea of Monsignor Jean-Marie Gervais, President of the same Association and Prefect Coadjutor of The Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican’.

It is intended to host and give room to artists, particularly to younger applicants as well as those in need.

It allows them to act individually to express their art and, at the same time, organizing and promoting events (exhibitions, parties, performances, and competitions) also in collaboration with other bodies, organizations, and associations.

The scope covers both international and national actors that share and support the same targets.   

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