The work of the Paduan antiquarian Lorenzo Pignoria constitutes one of the most interesting examples of a general reflection on religion at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The short treatise analysed in this article, aims to insert a group of “deities” from Asia and the Americas within the project of the mythographic work of Vincenzo Cartari. Promoting an assimilation of these extra-European deities, Pignoria also proposes a singular visual theory of polytheism. In order to illustrate this innovative methodology, this work focuses on the complex narration through which the Paduan antiquarian manages to build an incorporation of a group of Mexican deities whom he had known by consulting pictographic documents in the Vatican Apostolic Library.

Il corpo universale degli dèi americani. Per una teoria visuale del politeismo nell’opera di Lorenzo Pignoria / Botta, Sergio. - In: CIVILTÀ E RELIGIONI. - ISSN 2421-3152. - STAMPA. - 3:(2017), pp. 39-73.

Il corpo universale degli dèi americani. Per una teoria visuale del politeismo nell’opera di Lorenzo Pignoria

Sergio Botta
2017

Abstract

The work of the Paduan antiquarian Lorenzo Pignoria constitutes one of the most interesting examples of a general reflection on religion at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The short treatise analysed in this article, aims to insert a group of “deities” from Asia and the Americas within the project of the mythographic work of Vincenzo Cartari. Promoting an assimilation of these extra-European deities, Pignoria also proposes a singular visual theory of polytheism. In order to illustrate this innovative methodology, this work focuses on the complex narration through which the Paduan antiquarian manages to build an incorporation of a group of Mexican deities whom he had known by consulting pictographic documents in the Vatican Apostolic Library.
2017
Pignoria; mesoamerica; politeismo; divinità
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Il corpo universale degli dèi americani. Per una teoria visuale del politeismo nell’opera di Lorenzo Pignoria / Botta, Sergio. - In: CIVILTÀ E RELIGIONI. - ISSN 2421-3152. - STAMPA. - 3:(2017), pp. 39-73.
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