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During the Renaissance, and particularly at the court of Urbino, categorical divisions of thought and learning were more fluid and hypothetical than we might expect: the pursuit of one mode of learning was perceived not as contrary to but rather to the enrichment of another. 14 While architecture, for example, represented a consummation of mathematics (as evident in Federico's patent), it served also as an educational model for memory building and oration.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Constructed between 1474 and 1483 for the military captain Federico da Montefeltro, of Urbino, the studioli may be described as treasuries of emblems, for they contain not things but images of things, rendered with remarkable perspectival exactitude.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Since Federico is described as duke, a title he had been invested with by Pope Sixtus IV on 21 August 1474, we may assert that the chamber's decorative program was commenced at least as early as 1474. back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

The presence of the virtues in Piero's diptych, in which Federico is accompanied by the cardinal virtues while Battista Sforza is attended by the theological virtues, reflects a figural tradition in which virtù and fortuna are represented at times as allies and at others as adversaries.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

25 In Dialectic, Duke Federico is shown genuflecting before the goddess while receiving (or returning) a closed book.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

80A key to apparent contradictions in Federico's world is reflected in the multifaceted character of virtù.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

52In the 1476 portrait of Duke Federico with Prince Guidobaldo, Federico is shown as the virtuous soldier-scholar, armed and reading, seated on a thronelike chair encrusted with pearls.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Cheever’s son Federico is a professor at the Sturm College of Law, where he teaches property and environmental law.

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Cheever’s son Federico is a professor at the Sturm College of Law, where he teaches property and environmental law.

June « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

*** Banking Unicredit is expected to name Federico Ghizzoni, a longtime senior executive with experience outside Italy, to run the bank, which ousted its CEO Alessandro Profumo last week, people familiar with the matter said.

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