11. RICCARDO PIZZINATO
Information acquired: 2025
RICCARDO PIZZINATO is an academic who published a paper in 2020 entitled The Second Bible of Charles the Bald: Patronage and Intellectual Community at St. Amand. RICCARDO PIZZINATO published this work as part of a team: Pizzinato, Riccardo. Here is a description of this work: Abs,,ract: among the manuscripts produced for Charles the Bald, King of West Francia (843-77) and Holy Roman Emperor (875-77), the so-called Second Bible (Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 2) holds a special place. Illuminated in the scriptorium of the abbey of St. Amand between 870 and 873, the Bibleâ€"unlike all the other manuscripts presented to the king during this periodâ€"contains no human figures or royal portraits. It exhibits instead large initials patterned with geometric and zoomorphic designs. In addition, the volume opens with a long poem dedicated to Charles the Bald and written by Hucbald (ca. 840â€"930), master of the monastery school at St. Amand. Although Carolingian scholarship has investigated the manuscript's ornament, the relationship between Hucbald's poetry and the book's decorative program has never been systematica.