Recent studies on academic violence in the Modern age have been proved particularly interesting to better understand the relationships between city and university and between political and student power. In this research it has been chosen to investigate some episodes of violence happened in Bologna in the 1560s which involved students, both Italian and foreigners. The material sources examined were the documents belonging to the Bolognese archive of the Criminal Court called «Tribunale del Torrone», institution that worked from about 1535 until the Napoleonic era. This study highlighted a link between the increase in scholars’ disorders and the most relevant facts happened in that decade, such as the arrival in town of the vicelegato Pier Donato Cesi and the opening of the new «Palazzo dell’Archiginnasio». These conflicts were a tangible expression of the students’ discontent, due to the restriction of their freedom established in the Counter-Reformation background.
Negli ultimi anni gli studi sulla violenza studentesca in età moderna sono risultati particolarmente utili per comprendere meglio le dinamiche che hanno caratterizzato i rapporti tra città e università, tra potere politico e studentesco. Nel presente studio si è scelto di analizzare alcuni episodi di violenza che hanno visto coinvolti studenti, sia italiani che stranieri, avvenuti a Bologna negli anni ’60 del XVI secolo. La fonte privilegiata scelta per questa indagine è stata quella dell’archivio del Tribunale criminale del Torrone, magistratura attiva in città circa negli anni 1535-1796. Tale ricerca ha messo in luce il legame tra l’aumento nel numero dei disordini studenteschi e i fatti più rilevanti accaduti in quel decennio, quali l’arrivo in città del vicelegato Pier Donato Cesi e l’apertura del nuovo palazzo dell’Archiginnasio. Tali scontri erano espressione del diffuso malcontento generato dalla limitazione delle libertà studentesche, in pieno clima controriformistico.
"Tu ne menti per la gola": scontri tra scolari dello Studio bolognese nella seconda metà del XVI secolo
MAGGIULLI, ILARIA
2016
Abstract
Recent studies on academic violence in the Modern age have been proved particularly interesting to better understand the relationships between city and university and between political and student power. In this research it has been chosen to investigate some episodes of violence happened in Bologna in the 1560s which involved students, both Italian and foreigners. The material sources examined were the documents belonging to the Bolognese archive of the Criminal Court called «Tribunale del Torrone», institution that worked from about 1535 until the Napoleonic era. This study highlighted a link between the increase in scholars’ disorders and the most relevant facts happened in that decade, such as the arrival in town of the vicelegato Pier Donato Cesi and the opening of the new «Palazzo dell’Archiginnasio». These conflicts were a tangible expression of the students’ discontent, due to the restriction of their freedom established in the Counter-Reformation background.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
