Project description
Popular poems reveal how Dati shaped the Pope’s global authority
In Renaissance Italy, cantari – anonymous vernacular poems – were recited or sung in public squares, bringing epic tales to the lower and middle classes. Giuliano Dati, a Florentine cleric, adapted this to include written, printed works. Replacing legendary epics with contemporary news, didactic history and images, Dati sought to promote the idea of global papal authority to the masses. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the POV project aims to conduct the first complete examination of Dati’s overlooked works. With lenses including Renaissance political theology and preaching, iconography and Dati’s role in lay-Catholic organisations, POV aims to shed new light on cultural identity formation in early modern Europe.
Objective
At the dawn of the Modern Age, Italian squares resound with vernacular poems, weaving tales of wonder and memory. One of the most renowned voices belongs to Giuliano Dati (1445–1524), a Florentine, canon penitentiary of St. John Lateran in Rome, an active member of Roman confraternities, and a figure close to the papal Curia. Unlike most popular literature, Dati’s works are autograph, deliberately crafted to make contemporary events accessible to a broad audience. Merging a chivalric poetic style with preaching, these poems are not only sung but also printed and sold with vivid xylographs. His poems recount Atlantic discoveries, revive legendary figures such as Prester John, and reflect on politics and devotion. A single, precise aim unites all these diverse topics: to translate curial ideology into language understood by the people, making the theological concepts of papal power familiar and straightforward through a combination of poetry, preaching, and images. Dati advocates for a vision of a global papacy, where the Pope can exercise spiritual and temporal authority extending from Italy to the shores of the New World.
Through an interdisciplinary approach combining the History of Christianity, Philology, Iconography, and engagement with current debates in Global Renaissance scholarship, POV examines for the first time as a whole the overlooked works of Dati and how he constructed the notion of papal power through popular literature, preaching, and images. By contextualising Dati’s corpus within Renaissance political theology (O1) and preaching (O2), analysing the iconological structure of the images (O3), and considering his role within the Roman confraternities (O4), POV sheds new light on cultural diversity, identity formation, and the circulation of ideas in early modern Europe and beyond.
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