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Pagan symbols in a 15th century manuscript on alchemyMino Gabriele Pagan symbols in a 15th century manuscript on alchemy 21th May 2010 Festival Fabbrica Europa 2010 Istituto Francese of Florence encounter within the project Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Commission An encounter dealing with methodological and interpretative issues on symbolism in alchemy handed down in an exceptional Renaissance code. Mino Gabriele, professor at the University of Udine, has for many years studied the subject of art and alchemy. He curated the 1986 edition of the Venice Biennale on Alchemy. Among his publications: Il giardino di Hermes (1986), Alchimia. La tradizione in Occidente secondo le fonti manoscritte e a stampa (1986), Le incisioni alchemico-metallurgiche di Domenico Beccafumi (1988), Questioni di iconologia biblica (in La Bibbia a stampa da Gutenberg a Bodoni, 1991), Il mito degli Argonauti e la guerra di Troia in un affresco tardomedioevale (in "Critica d'Arte", 5-1996), Alchimia e Iconologia (1997). Furthermore he has been responsible for the edition of unpublished texts on alchemy, among which De la trasmutatione metallica. Poema del XVI secolo di A. Allegretti and Le prÈcieux Don de Dieu. |