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The International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture ( it, Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, known as SISMEL) is an Italian non-profit cultural institute, based in
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SISMEL at DGBIC (it)
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The International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture ( it, Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, known as SISMEL) is an Italian non-profit cultural institute, based in Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...
. 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 was approved as a Superior Graduate School by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali in 1997. In December 2012 SISMEL inaugurated the premises of the new headquarters, in a portion of a historic building, built in 1873 and located in the center of Florence in Via Montebello n. 7, between the train station of Santa Maria Novella and the river Arno. All activities of SISMEL were transferred here in 2013 from the former Carthusian monastery of Certosa di Firenze, which was the first base of the Society. In the same building of Via Montebello there is also the Ezio Franceschini Foundation, with which SISMEL has shared the premises of the Certosa for 25 years.Publishing
The Society runs the academic publishing house SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, specializing in editions ofmedieval literature
Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of t ...
and related subjects. 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, and in "MIRABILE", a knowledge management system for researching medieval culture./ref>
See also
* Agostino Paravicini Bagliani * Fondazione Ezio Franceschini (FEF)References
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).External links
*SISMEL at DGBIC (it)
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