Italia quattrocentesca e Impero ottomano. Motivi e pratiche di un rapporto controverso
15th-century Italy and the Ottoman Empire. Motives and practices of a controversial relationship
Abstract
Il dossier coglie le peculiarità del linguaggio rinascimentale della Guerra santa in testi umanistici e mercantili dell’Italia del Quattrocento. L’Impero ottomano contribuì enormemente alla costruzione delle strutture politiche, economiche e sociali dell’Europa medievale e moderna. Le storiografie occidentali tendono a rappresentare un altro, a descrivere un intruso, a costruire un nemico, da espellere o marginalizzare dal e nel contesto euromediterraneo. Le ricerche presentate restituiscono un’immagine più complessa, tra scontro e incontro, informazione e disinformazione, paura e seduzione.
The dossier captures the peculiarities of the Renaissance language of Holy war in humanistic and mercantile texts from 15th-century Italy. The Ottoman Empire contributed enormously to the construction of the political, economic, and social structures of medieval and modern Europe. Western historiographies tend to represent an other, to describe an intruder, to construct an enemy, to be expelled or marginalised from, and in the Euro-Mediterranean context. The research presented returns a more complex image, between clash and encounter, information and disinformation, fear, and seduction.

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