Lodone, Michele. I segni della fine. Storia di un predicatore nell’Italia del Rinascimento
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Abstract
(paperback) €29.When thinking of an apocalyptic preacher thundering from the pulpits of Florence at the turn of the sixteenth century, most Renaissance scholars would remember Girolamo Savonarola.The Dominican friar, his fearful sermons, and the gruesome end of his life are a consolidated, dark counterpoint to the grand narrative staging the Italian Renaissance as the luminous bedrock of secularization and modernity.Hidden in the shadows of conventional historiography, however, one finds lesser-known figures like Francesco da Montepulciano, the protagonist of Lodone's monographic study.This book is a microhistory in the style of Carlo Ginzburg.Following a variety of elusive traces and clues scattered through archival documents, Late Medieval treatises, early modern manuscripts, and ecclesiastical proceedings, Lodone sheds light on this Franciscan Conventual and reappraises his doomsday visions, which in 1513 left Florentines, including Nicolò Machiavelli, awe-struck and frightened.At the same time, the book also offers a stimulating reflection on historical research itself, pondering upon the scope and limits of this craft in a dialogue with disciplines such as anthropology, textual scholarship, and religious studies.The book comprises three main parts of three, four, and three chapters, respectively, followed by a scholarly edition of one of Francesco da Montepulciano's sermons.Starting from Machiavelli's passing mention of the preacher in a letter sent to Francesco Vettori in 1513, the first part (Voci) offers a broad overview of Florence at the beginning of the sixteenth century.Chronicles, diaries, letters, and ecclesiastical documents, Lodone explains, give evidence of a horizon of expectations profoundly shaped by the memory of Savonarola but prone to misunderstand the actual nature of Francesco da Montepulciano's sermons-a tendency these sources have transmitted to modern-day historiography.Hence the need to return to Francesco da Montepulciano's sermons, of which the second part (Letture) investigates manuscript and printed transmission, main themes, textual sources, and position in the context of Franciscan spirituality.Based on the latest trends in the study of manuscript miscellanies
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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