Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino

Certosa di Firenze/Certosa del Galluzzo, in Florence, base of the Society

Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (known as SISMEL) (Eng: Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture) is an Italian non-profit cultural institute, based in Florence. It promotes multi-disciplinary research into the history, art, literature and philology of the medieval Latin era.

Structure

SISMEL was founded by Claudio Leonardi in 1978, formally recognized in 1984 and state approved as a Superior Graduate School by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali in 1997.

The Society is based in the former monastery of Certosa di Firenze, a Carthusian monastery located in the Florence suburb of Galluzzo.

Publishing

The Society runs the academic publishing house SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, specializing in editions of medieval literature and related subjects.[1] It also publishes seven research periodicals:

  • Documenti e studi sulla Tradizione filosofica medievale
  • Filologia Mediolatina
  • Hagiographica
  • Iconographica
  • Itineraria
  • Micrologus
  • Stilistica e Metrica Italiana

Other projects

SISMEL is a partner in the project to digitalize the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence,[2] and in "MIRABILE", a knowledge management system for researching medieval culture.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Official website of SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo
  2. ↑ BML online website
  3. ↑ Mirabile official website

Further reading

  • Emiliano Degl'Innocenti and Sabina Magrini, "Digitizing Cultural Heritage: the Digital Library of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana" in Electronic imaging & the visual arts. Eva 2009 Florence. Proceedings. Vito Cappellini, James Hemsley (eds). Bologna: Pitagora Editrice, 2009 (pp. 58–63). ISBN 9788837117726
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