Schifanoia. 30-31. 2006

Schifanoia Palace was built in Ferrara in 1385, commissioned by Alberto V d'Este: the palace, willed and conceived as a place of refreshment and leisure, was called "Schifanoia" (literally: escape from boredom) to underline its character of divertissement. The journal, which takes the name from the palace, is published by the Institute for the Study of Renaissance in Ferrara and hosts literary, musical, figurative, architectural and urban researches about humanistic and rinascimental period, in Italy and in Europe. The Institute organizes seminars, academic conferences and, annually, the "Week of High Renaissance Studies", on specific topics and important themes of European culture and social life from the late fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century, whose Proceedings are often published in the journal.