Arezzo e Vasari. Vite e postille

The congress 'Arezzo and Vasari, Lives and Annotations', of which are here presented the proceedings, has revealed the results of a seminar organized by Antonino Caleca in the academic year 2004-5 within the School of Specialization in History of Medieval and Modern Art and of the School of Doctorate in History of Visual and of the Spectacle Arts at the University of Pisa (Department of History of Arts), that wanted to examine the special role that Arezzo and its artists have in the Lives of Vasari, from Margaritone to the same Vasari. Professor Caleca proposed this subject of study for the interest that he had dedicated, in his lessons of History of the Critic of Art, that by now for nearly a decade he has been holding at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of Arezzo of the University of Siena, to the manuscript of Anton Francesco de' Giudici, containing an unknown comment to the passages of Vasari about Arezzo. The manuscript had been published not a long time before, and so it seemed opportune to accompany the presentation of the publication of this new, conspicuous source for the artistic history of Arezzo with a reflection on the other annotations to the text of Vasari, that the scholars were now able to enrich with the indication and illustration of texts till now unknown or neglected. The idea of this seminar, that could not be held in any other place than in Arezzo, was immediately accepted with enthusiasm by the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of Arezzo and by the Department of Theory and Documentation of the Cultural Traditions of the University of Siena as well as the School of Specialization in History of Visual and of the Spectacle Arts of the University of Pisa, that cured its organization, jointly with the B.A.P.P.S.A.E. Superintendence of Arezzo and the Fraternita dei Laici. The manifestation was sponsored by the Culture Councillorships of the Municipality and of the Province of Arezzo, by the Petrarch Academy and by the Friends of the Monuments Brigade of Arezzo.