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FILOMENA VIVIANA TAGLIAFERRI
Ricercatore t.d. art. 24 c. 3 lett. A
Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali
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2023
- Candia – Daily Life in Venetian Crete in Zuanne Papadopoli’s L’Occio (1690s)
[Capitolo/Saggio]
Tagliaferri, FILOMENA VIVIANA
abstract
The 1669 loss of Candia, present-day Heraklion and Venice’s last stronghold on
Crete, was a decisive turning point in the Mediterranean political and military
balance of the early modern era in a context inherently traversed by intercon-
nections between Latins, Greeks and Muslims. Despite the strong elements of
continuity between life during Venetian and Ottoman rule, it is undeniable that
material and cultural practices related to political administration and religion in-
troduced new and rupturing elements to the cityscape. This chapter aims to ana-
lyse the perceived disruption of everyday life brought about first by the Ottoman
siege of the island and then by the exile status of one of its inhabitants, Zuanne
Papadopoli. An intriguing embodiment of Veneto-Cretan culture, Papadopoli
was a member of the local nobility of non-Venetian descent that had become
an integral part of the Venetian administration in Crete. His memoirs, which go
under the title L’Occio (Idleness), are the source employed in this paper, a valu-
able ‘micro-historical’ gateway to the author’s mindset and experience. Through
comparison and visualisation, the chapter shows how Papadopoli stands at the
intersection of micro- and macro-history, becoming a chronicler of excellence of
everyday life in Candia around the mid-seventeenth century.
2022
- Circo‐scrivendo il Kosmos nella Polis: pluralismo delle città portuali mediterranee e viaggiatori in epoca moderna (fine ‘600‐inizio ‘700)1/A kosmos in the polis: cultural pluralism of Mediterranean port cities in early modern travel accounts (late 17th – early 18th century)
[Articolo su rivista]
Tagliaferri, FILOMENA VIVIANA
abstract
L’articolo analizza il pluralismo culturale nei porti di Izmir, Valletta, Livorno, and Marseille tra ‘600 e ‘700 – partendo dai marcatori di identità materiale presenti nei racconti di viaggio del periodo – principalmente francesi. Lʹobiettivo è quello individuare come le differenze politiche abbiano influito sullʹequilibrio tra marcatura e ibridazione delle identità urbane. Partendo da una riflessione sulla natura dei resoconti di viaggio come fonti storiche, il capitolo propone di mostrare il ruolo svolto dalla gestione politica della diversità nel determinare la visibilità degli stranieri.
2021
- Domesticating the Turks, Staging Otherness.
The Tradition of Embodying the Turks, the
Parata dei Turchi of Potenza and Its Narration
in 20th-Century Folkloric Descriptions
[Articolo su rivista]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
The aim of the essay is to analyse the presence of Oriental characters in the patron
saint’s Feast of San Gerardo, taking place in the city of Potenza on 29 May. After offering
an insight into the integration of Oriental characters into Italian early modern
culture, the paper will first focus on the ‘historicity’ of the Parata dei Turchi and its
carnivalesque function. It will then move to the way in which the Turks were represented
between the 19th and 20th centuries — that is, the period from which sources
present it as an already long-established tradition — seeking to offer a contribution
to the interpretation of the tradition of the parading of Turkish masks on the annual
procession of San Gerardo.
2020
- Anastasia Stratigea and Dimitris Kavroudakis (eds.), Mediterranean Cities and Island Communities: Smart, Sustainable, Inclusive and Resilient (Cham: Springer, 2018)
[Recensione in Rivista]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
2019
- Routes of Daily Practices: Food, Clothing and Linguistic Choices in the Study of Pluralism in Premodern Mediterranean Port Cities
[Articolo su rivista]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
The aim of this article is to contribute to the rich and important Braudelian tradition in the study of the Mediterranean and how its One-Plural paradigm could be observed and analysed in daily behaviours involving tendencies towards the hybridisation and differentiation of foreign groups and individual material practices in different pre-modern Mediterranean port cities. After providing an overview of how scholarship has questioned the issue of the conceptual unity of the Mediterranean, the article focuses on the employment of material practices in the historical inquiry as a tool for highlighting meaningful behaviour in cultural identity’s negotiation and affirmation in plural environments. The aim is to expound how a comparison of the combination of these identitarian visual expressions in distant Mediterranean urban environments linked by maritime routes offers meaningful insights into how the political context, and not a global Mediterranean attitude, served to shape specific answers to the problem of cultural pluralism.
2018
- Francesca Trivellato, Il commercio interculturale. La diaspora sefardita, Livorno e i traffici globali in età moderna (Roma: Viella, 2016)
[Scheda bibliografica]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
2018
- Tolerance Re-Shaped in the Early-Modern Mediterranean Borderlands: Travellers, Missionaries and Proto-Journalists (1683-1724)
[Monografia/Trattato scientifico]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
This book explores perceptions of toleration and self-identity through an analysis of otherness’ real experience of Italian travellers, Catholic missionaries and Maltese proto-journalists within Mediterranean border-spaces. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, which integrates the analysis of original and unpublished archival documentation with early modern European travel literature, the book shows how fluid subjects and border groups adapted to new environments, often generating information that made the Ottomans and their system of values real and dignified to an Italian audience. The interdisciplinary combining of historical methodology with the tools of comparative literature, anthropology and folklore studies provides a fresh perspective on concepts of tolerance as experienced in the early modern Mediterranean.
2017
- Malta da crocevia del Mediterraneo a frontiera interna. Sugli “Avvisi” nella corrispondenza dell'Inquisitore di Malta al Segretario di Stato della Santa Sede (1683-1721)
[Articolo su rivista]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
The present paper highlights the process of circulation of information in the early modern Mediterranean (1683-1721), reconstructing the mentality of the time with respect to what news were considered to be important and how they were presented. Our original archival sources are the manuscript avvisi sent weekly from Malta to the Vatican Secretary of State, now in the Archivio Segreto Vaticano. The analysis on the production and dispatching of news from Malta is based on three parameters, i.e. the identification of the agent (the inquisitor of Malta), the island's key role as a news’ gathering point, and the nature of the transmitted information. The enquire allow us to point out how the choice of what was considered to be a meaningful information changed over time, together with Malta’s role in the Mediterranean balance of power. Furthermore, the change of the documentation’s literary register over time allows us to assume that, despite their confidential nature, the Maltese avvisi began to be meant for a wider audience.
2017
- «Passaggio a Nasso» (PERASMA STIN NAXO): I EIKONA TIS NAXOU TON 17o AIONA SE MIA ITALIKI TAXIDIOTIKI MARTIRIA GIA TO AIGAIO
[Articolo su rivista]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
This essay aims to offer a contribution in the way the island of Naxos was seen and
described in a travel narrative to Italian readers in the second half of the 17th century.
Firstly, it discusses the origin of the attraction of Eastern Mediterranean countries and
Greece for both European travellers and readers, focussing on the “teacher” role of
the writer-traveller and his capacity to reach a wider audience due to the boom of the
printed book market. Secondly, the essay considers the role of the Congregation De
Propaganda Fide in the stimulation of knowledge about the Aegean islands. This was
particularly due to the numerous reports sent by apostolic visitors and missionaries
from those areas to Rome, concerning the life of the local Catholic communities. It is
precisely one of these accounts, written by the monsignor Giuseppe Sebastiani, that
is analysed in the third part of this paper, looking for the way Naxos was experienced
and known. After describing the most characteristic features of the island, this last
part examines the crucial role of Naxos both in the balance of Mediterranean power
and in the Catholic Aegean Sea, where it represented one the highest example to be
followed in the management of Catholic-Orthodox environments.
2016
- Anthony Molho,
Ετεροδοξία, Πειθάρχηση, Απόκρυψη στις απαρχές των
Νεοτέρων χρόνων. Αναστοχασμοι για μια ευρωπαϊκη
παραδοση / Dissent, Discipline, Dissimulation in Early
Modern Europe: Reflections on a European Tradition
[Recensione in Rivista]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
2016
- Barbara Fuchs, Emily Weissbourd (eds.), Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean, (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2015)
[Recensione in Rivista]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
2016
- Evangelia Skoufari (a cura di), La Serenissima a Cipro. Incontri di culture nel Cinquecento (Roma: Viell, 2013)
[Scheda bibliografica]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
2016
- In the Process of Being Levantines. The
‘Levantinization' of the Catholic Community
of Izmir (1683–1724)
[Articolo su rivista]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
The purpose of this essay is to offer a contribution to the process of Levantinization of the Catholic community of Izmir, between the late seventeenth and the early eighteenth century. The first part of the paper is about the detection of how the term Levantine has been used, both historically and by historiography, while the second is focused on the Catholic missionaries of Izmir, depicted in their daily dealings with individuals and groups of different religions. Their responses to inter-religious coexistence as a process of adaptation, promote the idea of ‘functional tolerance’ not necessarily supported by a theoretical discourse about its value. The interaction of the missionaries and their Catholic parishioners sees the emergence of a new hybridized mentality, the actual agent that forms the basis of the Levantine identity. The original archival sources for this paper are the missionaries‘ letters from the Archivio Storico De Propaganda Fide
2016
- Kristjan Ahronson, Into the Ocean. Vikings, Irish, and Environmental Change in Iceland and the North (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2015)
[Recensione in Rivista]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
2014
- Giovanni Ricci, Appello al Turco. I confini infranti del Rinascimento (Roma: Viella 2011)
[Scheda bibliografica]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
2014
- Michael Franklin, Orientalist Jones: Sir William Jones, Poet Lawyer and Linguist 1746-1794 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
[Recensione in Rivista]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
2014
- Subjects in between: three different way of translating experience by Italian travelers in late 17th - early 18th century Ottoman space
[Articolo su rivista]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
The essay focuses on Italian travelers in the Ottoman Empire between the late seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. Through analysis of four works and the detection of three different ways of translating the “real act” of traveling into literature, we introduce experience as an epistemological tool. Impersonal narration, treatment of the act of knowing as a personal achievement and narration as a way of sharing a conscious encounter with the “other” convey a knowledge based on first-hand experience. Leaving behind the principle of authority based on tradition, a new dignity was given to authority that came from the physical act of the concrete experience of the author himself. The ability of authors to overcome prejudices in their narratives of their encounters with Turkish culture and society should not be given for granted. Nevertheless, there is greater articulation and sensitivity in the definition of diversity. The dissemination and editorial success of this kind of writings had also an impact on the mentality of these author’s readers in the Italian peninsula.
2012
- Boccadamo Giuliana, Napoli e l'Islam. Storie di musulmani, schiavi e rinnegati in età moderna (Napoli: D'Auria, 2010)
[Scheda bibliografica]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
2011
- Lucia Rostagno, Palestina: un Paese normale. Un toscano del Settecento in Levante (Edizioni Q, 2009)
[Scheda bibliografica]
Tagliaferri, F
abstract
2011
- Palestina: un Paese normale. Un toscano del Settecento in Levante
[Articolo su rivista]
Tagliaferri, FILOMENA VIVIANA
abstract
Scheda critica al volume di Lucia Rostagno
2010
- La cucina intermediterranea. Progetto per una taverna del gusto comune
[Monografia/Trattato scientifico]
Tagliaferri, FILOMENA VIVIANA
abstract
introduzione in lingua italiana e inglese al DVD allegato