Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores the way in which René, French prince and exiled king of Naples (1409-80), sought, by means of his transnational network of agents and allies, to assert his Italian political agenda chiefly through a programme of cultural politics. It is a case study for a ‘diplomatic’ approach to culture, and provides a new take on mid-fifteenth-century Italian politics as well.René of Anjou was defeated in a war for Naples in 1442 by Alfonso V of Aragon, but he maintained his Italian connections in the hopes of a return to the throne. His Italian network was based on the once-powerful Guelph faction, and then also on his chivalric Ordre du Croissant, which counted amongst its members the mercenary captain and usurping duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza. A programme of cultural politics, sometimes involving the exchange of gifts, other times simply involving politically-affective language, was part of keeping this network together. It was at the heart of the relationship between King René and Jacopo Antonio Marcello, a Venetian patrician and Croissant knight who brokered René’s connection to a number of major Italian cultural figures: Giovanni Bellini, Guarino of Verona, Andrea Mantegna, and Janus Pannonius, among others. The works they produced were crucial to the development and aggrandizement of the network, which was the foundation of a power bloc intended to return René to power in Naples. René tried to exploit this network in the Lombard wars of the early 1450s, but the Italian League that emerged in 1454 actually worked against René and his Guelph allies, particularly those in Florence who posed a threat to the Medici regime. After René’s ultimate military failure in the 1458-64 Neapolitan war of succession, his network evolved into a faction opposed to the Italian League and the state system it sustained.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".