Miguel Mai and Antonio Sebastiano Minturno at the Court of Charles V

Abstract

This text describes the ways in which the Italian Renaissance cultural world penetrated, through the court of Carlos V, into Hispanic Kingdoms. It presents a case unknown until today, because the figures of Miguel Blai, Emperor’s chancellor, and Antonio Sebastiano Minturno, a prominent humanist bishop of the Naples of the first half of the 17th century, have never been linked  before. The paper aims at reconstructing, using the letters they had exchanged, the context of the days spent by the imperial court in the city of Naples during 1535 and 1536.