People's Names, People's Nature. Notes on Some Lombard Chronicles (c. 1494-1530)
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During the three decades of the early Italian Wars (c. 1494-1530) kings and peoples (or rath- er armies) belonging to different ethnic groups came into the Peninsula, and especially into Lombardy, thus fostering comparative reflections on the forms of government, fiscal systems, institutions, customs and «nature» among intellectuals, diplomats, statesmen, historians and scholars. This contribution aims to assess if, and how, these issues circulated at a lower and less-specialized cultural and social level. For this purpose, six Lombard chronicles and historical works written in the vernacular are scrutinized here. The authors (in chronological order Giovan Pietro Cagnola, Bernardino Corio, Ambrogio da Paullo, Antonio Grumello, Giovanni Andrea Prato, Gian Marco Burigozzo) did not share the same cultural level, nor did they be- long to the same social milieu, and none of them was a “professional” intellectual. Out of these authors at least two of the most learned and better connected to the court, that is Cagnola and Corio, show a clearer leaning to the naturalization of politics.
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