The International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture (, known as SISMEL) is an Italian non-profit cultural institute, based in

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. It promotes multi-disciplinary research into the history, art, literature and philology of the medieval Latin era.

Structure

SISMEL was founded by

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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

Santa Maria Novella Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated opposite, and lending its name to, the city's main railway station. Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city's principal Dominican church. The ch ...

train station and the river

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. 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 of

medieval 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 The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana or BML) is a historic library in Florence, Italy, containing more than 11,000 manuscripts and 4,500 early printed books. Built in a cloister of the Medicean Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze u ...

in Florence, and in "MIRABILE", a knowledge management system for researching medieval culture.Mirabile official website
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References

External links

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SISMEL at DGBIC (it)
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Structure

Publishing

Other projects

See also

References

Further reading

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