Writing the Cappella Gregoriana

Name: Writing the Cappella Gregoriana
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Architecture and Ekphrasis in the First Baroque Chapel

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Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early-Modern Texts and Anthologies

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This volume publishes for the first time Lorenzo Frizolio's Sacellum Gregorianum (Rome, 1582), Ascanio Valentino's Sacellum Gregorianum (Rome, 1583) and Robert Turner's Panegyrici sermones duo (Ingolstadt, 1583). These three Neo-Latin verse and prose works describe the first monumental Baroque chapel, the Cappella Gregoriana in St. Peter's in Rome, which was built in 1580 by Pope Gregory XIII. The chapel famously holds the relics of the theologian, poet and saint, Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 330 - c. 389), whose elaborate and classically inspired procession to the mausoleum was recorded by the three Renaissance writers of this book. In over 500 Virgilian hexameters, Lorenzo Frizolio refashioned the chapel in words, itemising its sculptures, marbles, and mosaics from floor to dome. Ascanio Valentino was then prompted to offer a prose parallel which analysed with meticulous detail and crafted rhetoric the chapel's furnishings and technologies. Lastly, Robert Turner wrote a detailed description of the relics. These three texts are accompanied by translations and commentaries, as well as individual introductions explaining the historical context.

Author Biography:

Fabio Barry is the Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington DC, USA. He is the author of the prize-winning book Painting in Stone (2020). Paul Gwynne is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The American University of Rome, Italy. He has authored many articles and book chapters on Neo-Latin poetry, as well books on Poets and Princes: The Panegyric Poetry of Johannes Michael Nagonius (2013), Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome: Francesco Sperulo (2015) and Francesco Benci's Quinque Martyres (2017).

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November 13th, 2025

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