{"id":112,"date":"2026-02-09T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/?p=112"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:35:49","slug":"new-article-angelo-colocci-and-classical-inscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/2026\/02\/09\/new-article-angelo-colocci-and-classical-inscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"New article: Angelo Colocci and the Study of Classical Inscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"815\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/698\/2026\/04\/Ritratto_di_Angelo_Colocci-1-815x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/698\/2026\/04\/Ritratto_di_Angelo_Colocci-1-815x1024.jpg 815w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/698\/2026\/04\/Ritratto_di_Angelo_Colocci-1-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/698\/2026\/04\/Ritratto_di_Angelo_Colocci-1-768x965.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/698\/2026\/04\/Ritratto_di_Angelo_Colocci-1-1223x1536.jpg 1223w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/698\/2026\/04\/Ritratto_di_Angelo_Colocci-1-1631x2048.jpg 1631w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/698\/2026\/04\/Ritratto_di_Angelo_Colocci-1-1200x1507.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/698\/2026\/04\/Ritratto_di_Angelo_Colocci-1-1980x2487.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/698\/2026\/04\/Ritratto_di_Angelo_Colocci-1-scaled.jpg 2038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Accurimbono (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent article published in <em><strong>Aevum<\/strong><\/em>, Gerard Gonz\u00e1lez Germain&nbsp;examines <strong>the epigraphic activity of the humanist, collector, and antiquarian Angelo Colocci <\/strong>(1474-1549). The study draws on Colocci&#8217;s annotations in the printed books of his personal library, alongside his epigrammatic and antiquarian manuscripts. Newly identified materials discussed in the paper include&nbsp;a topographic description of ancient Rome, written circa 1500 and formerly owned by Bertrandus Vaqueras (d. 1507), as well as an excerpt from a previously unidentified treatise by the notorious forger Annius of Viterbo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">G. Gonz\u00e1lez Germain, \u00abAngelo Colocci and the Study of Classical Inscriptions\u00bb, <em>Aevum <\/em>99:3 (2025), pp. 487-525. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.26350\/000193_000270\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.26350\/000193_000270<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article published in Aevum, Gerard Gonz\u00e1lez Germain&nbsp;examines the epigraphic activity of the humanist, collector, and antiquarian Angelo Colocci (1474-1549). The study draws on Colocci&#8217;s annotations in the printed books of his personal library, alongside his epigrammatic and antiquarian manuscripts. Newly identified materials discussed in the paper include&nbsp;a topographic description of ancient Rome, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/renaissance-antiquarianism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}