A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance

257 Pages·2022·7.375 MB·English

by  Alessandro Arcangeli

A CULTURAL HISTORY
OF SPORT
VOLUME 3
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A Cultural History of Sport
General Editors: Wray Vamplew, John McClelland, and Mark Dyreson
Volume 1
A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity
Edited by Paul Christesen and Charles Stocking
Volume 2
A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age
Edited by Noel Fallows
Volume 3
A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance
Edited by Alessandro Arcangeli
Volume 4
A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Rebekka von Mallinckrodt
Volume 5
A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Industry
Edited by Mike Huggins
Volume 6
A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age
Edited by Steven Riess
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A CULTURAL HISTORY
OF SPORT
IN THE
RENAIS SANCE
Edited by Alessandro Arcangeli
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CONTENTS
LI ST OF I LLUSTRATIONS vii
S ERIES PR EFACE xii
Introduction: Cultures of Sport in the Renaissance 1
Alessandro Arcangeli
1 The Purpose of Sport 23
Alessandro Arcangeli
2 Sporting Time and Sporting Space 43
Angela Schattner
3 Products, Training, and Technology 63
É lisabeth Belmas
4 Rules and Order 87
Christian Jaser
5 Confl ict and Accommodation 107
Diane Roussel
6 Inclusion, Exclusion, and Segregation 131
Matteo Casini
7 Minds, Bodies, and Identities 155
Laurent Turcot
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8 Representation 177
Antonella Fenech Kroke
BI BLIOGRAPHY 205
NO TES ON C ONTRIBUTORS 227
I NDEX 231
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
0.1 Johannes Stradanus (van der Straet, 1523–1605), H orse
Joust at the Piazza Santa Croce (1561–2). Fresco. Florence,
Palazzo Vecchio. Getty. 2
0.2 Woodcut from Everard Digby, D e arte natandi (London 1587). 13
0.3 Arcangelo Tuccaro, T rois Dialogues de l’art de sauter et
voltiger (Paris 1599), fol. between 142 and 143. 14
0.4 Henry II of France mortally wounded . France, sixteenth
century. Getty. 19
CHAPTER 1
1.1 Copperplate engraving from Camillo Agrippa, T rattato
di scientia d’arme (Rome 1553), f. 50. Private Collection.
Digitalized by the Centre d’É tudes Sup é rieures de la
Renaissance of the University of Tours within the
“Biblioth è ques Virtuelles Humanistes.” 29
1.2 Jousting tournament in the Belvedere Palace . Detail.
Italy, sixteenth century. Rome, Museo di Roma, Gabinetto
Comunale delle Stampe, Nr 2810. Getty. 37
CHAPTER 2
2.1 After Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fair of Saint George’s
Day (c. 1559). Etching and engraving. Houston, Museum
of Fine Arts. 52
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viii ILLUSTRATIONS
2.2 Adriaen van Ostade (1610–85), T avern games (1677). Drawing.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, RP-T-1886-A-621. 59
CHAPTER 3
3.1 Pieter Bruegel the Elder (d. 1569), T he Census at Betlehem
(1566). Oil on panel. Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine
Arts of Belgium. 74
3.2 Girolamo Mercuriale, D e Arte Gymnastica (1573),
Book II, fols 112–13. 76
3.3 Illustration from A lbum of Tournaments and Parades
in Nuremberg . Late sixteenth–seventeenth century. Alamy. 79
3.4 Crispijn de Passe the Younger (1597/98–1670), L ouis XIII
of France during tournament practice in the riding school ,
in Antoine de Pluvinel, Le man è ge royal (Paris 1623). Paris,
Biblioth è que nationale de France. AKG. 82
CHAPTER 4
4.1 Frontispiece of Antonio Scaino, T rattato del giuoco
della palla (Venice 1555). 92
4.2 Pallone Equipment (Alpine regions, sixteenth–seventeenth
century; Northern Italy, fi fteenth century). Munich,
Bavarian National Museum. 95
4.3 Cassone with a Tournament Scene. Italian, Florentine,
c. 1455. © The National Gallery, London, NG4906.
Bequeathed by Sir Henry Bernhard Samuelson, Bt, in
memory of his father, 1937. 102
CHAPTER 5
5.1 Races and competitions at the shooting competition
camps of Augsburg, 1509 . Universitä tsbibliothek
Erlangen, Cod. B 213, 175v–176r. 116
5.2 Crispijn de Passe the Elder (d. 1637), T ennis players and their
public (1608). Engraving. Paris, Bibliothè que nationale de
France, Dé partement des Estampes et de la Photographie. 122
5.3 Johannes Stradanus (van der Straet, 1523–1605), C alcio in
Santa Maria Novella . Fresco. Florence, Palazzo Vecchio,
Sala di Gualdrada. Getty. 125
5.4 Guerra dei Pugni a San Barnaba . Venice, Museo
Correr, Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, inv. L.V.1123. 126
ILLUSTRATIONS ix
5.5 Frontispiece of Philip Stubbes, T he Anatomie of Abuses ,
1583. London, The British Library. 129
CHAPTER 6
6.1 Nobility Hunting Fowl in the Venetian Lagoon in Winter .
From Giacomo Franco, H abiti d’huomeni et donne
venetiane (Venice 1610–11). Getty. 135
6.2 Start of Football Game in Santa Croce . From D iscorso
sopra il giuoco del calcio fi orentino, del sig. Giovanni de
Bardi de’ Conti di Vernio (Florence 1673). Venice,
Biblioteca nazionale Marciana. By permission of the
Italian Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il
turismo. Reproduction prohibited. 138
6.3 Tennis Court of the Louvre . From Antonio Scaino,
Trattato del giuoco della palla (Venice 1555), 164–5.
Venice, Museo Correr. By permission of the
Fondazione musei civici di Venezia. 140
6.4 Francesco del Cossa, P alio race (1469–70). Detail of
frescos at Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara. Getty. 141
6.5 Women Regatta . Detail of Gio. Matteo Alberti,
Giuochi festiui, e militari . . . (Venice 1686). Venice,
Biblioteca nazionale Marciana. By permission of the
Italian Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il
turismo. Reproduction prohibited. 143
CHAPTER 7
7.1 Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), V etruvian Man
(c. 1480–90). Getty. 156
7.2 Frontispiece of Baldassarre Castiglione, I l libro del
cortegiano (Venice 1528). Alamy. 165
7.3 Engraving (1628) from Thibault d’Anvers, A cad é mie
de l’Esp é e (Leiden 1630). 167
7.4 Jacques Callot, S oldier hitting a large drum; in the
background, crowd attending a game set on Piazza
Santa Croce, in Florence . Etching (c. 1621). British
Museum 1861,0713.1169. Alamy. 171
7.5 Frontispiece of Pietro Bini, M emorie del calcio fi orentino
(Florence 1688). From h ttp://data.onb.ac.at/rep/10A13E0B.
Digitalized by Google. 172