Con il corpo e con l’anima, la sintassi ossimorica dell’impresa rinascimentale Il dialogo teorico tra Paolo Giovio e Girolamo Ruscelli (1555-1566)

Since its first reappearance in the ’30 of Quattrocento, the impresa is a Renaissance sign par excellence, representative and communicative of the specific individual virtues of the owner. The essay aims at highlighting how impresa is important by different points of view – conceptual, philosophical, historical-cultural, iconographic. Mainly interesting are the considerations of the first humanists who propose theoretical reflections on the issue: Paolo Giovio and Girolamo Ruscelli.