Popular Participation in Renaissance Siena’s Romanitas Program

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Samantha Perez
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Abstract With no clear textual or physical proof of an ancient Roman settlement, Siena faced considerable challenges to its assumed antiquity in the trecento and quattrocento. The damaging insistence by Giovanni Villani, Leonardo Bruni, and Flavio Biondo, among others, of Siena’s Gallic—and thus non-Roman—origins prompted the Sienese state to develop an elaborate civic program in defense of its antiquity and Roman-ness, or Romanitas . Building upon expanding literature of the republic’s endeavor to manufacture evidence of a Roman foundation, this paper examines the ways in which the general Sienese population engaged this state-endorsed effort to promote classical origins and participated in communal performances that popularized Siena’s Roman identity. Through the celebration of the she-wolf as a symbol of Siena, the continuation of key Roman practices, and spiritual devotion to patron saints selected from the early centuries of the church, the Sienese public proved critical to the success of the Renaissance city’s claim to antiquity.
文艺复兴时期锡耶纳罗曼尼塔计划的大众参与
由于没有明确的文本或物理证据证明一个古罗马定居点,锡耶纳面临着相当大的挑战,其假定的古代在三世纪和四世纪。Giovanni Villani, Leonardo Bruni和Flavio Biondo等人坚持认为锡耶纳的高卢血统——因此是非罗马血统——促使锡耶纳政府制定了一项精心设计的公民计划,以捍卫其古老和罗马性(Romanitas)。建立在共和国努力制造罗马基础证据的扩展文献的基础上,本文考察了一般锡耶纳人口参与国家认可的努力以促进古典起源并参与推广锡耶纳罗马身份的公共表演的方式。通过庆祝母狼作为锡耶纳的象征,延续罗马人的主要习俗,以及对早期教会选出的守护神的精神奉献,锡耶纳公众证明了这座文艺复兴时期城市的成功至关重要。
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