Le présent fabriqué (Espagne/Italie – xv^e-xvii^e siècles). Tome I Expériences et poétiques du présent

At the turn of the sixteenth century, throughout the countries of the western Mediterranean, humanist attention paid to the distant past of antiquity conferred a form of autonomy upon current events. This new force of the present entails the construction of an unprecedented relationship between the old and the new.