Una ghost story del XVI secolo: la leggenda sulla morte dell’umanista Carlo Valgulio

Name: Una ghost story del XVI secolo: la leggenda sulla morte dell’umanista Carlo Valgulio
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AEVUM

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AEVUM - 2023 - 3

Titolo

Una ghost story del XVI secolo: la leggenda sulla morte dell’umanista Carlo Valgulio

Autore

Marco Zanelli

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

Formato

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Online da

01-2024

Doi

10.26350/000193_000185

Issn

0001-9593 (stampa) | 1827-787X (digitale)

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The article investigates the origin of the legend about the death of the Brescian humanist Carlo Valgulio: a seventeenth-century biography by Ottavio Rossi states in fact that Valgulio would have died of fright after seeing a ghost. After examining four aspects (the humanists’ interest in the supernatural; the use of ghosts in the religious dispute between Catholics and Protestants; the content and construction of the story; a pamphlet written by Valgulio against the Dominicans of Brescia in defense of a municipal law against funeral expenses), the hypothesis suggested is that the legend was born as an instrument of defamation of the humanist by his opponents after his death.