Per una lettura iconografica del frontespizio miniato da Reginaldo da Pirano "Monopolitanus"

An iconographic study of the illuminated frontispiece by Reginaldo da Pirano "Monopolitanus". The illuminated page that opens the Register of the members of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament of Monopoli, signed by Reginaldo da Pirano in 1524, is the clear starting point for further research on the artist, already known to the scholars for producing two sheets of Viennese Cod. phil. gr. 4 with the "Nicomachean Ethics" by Aristotle, one of the most prestigious examples linked to the commission of duke Andrea Matteo III Acquaviva d'Aragona, humanist and bibliophile, a prominent figure of the Southern-Italian Renaissance. The illuminated frontispiece is a one of a kind artifact and, in particular, in the field of Apulian religious confraternal statutes, it has been little studied in iconographic terms, that is just about that aspect that distinguishes on a typological basis its strictly devotional character. The 'cryptic' set of the illuminated scene and the peculiar iconographic choices provide new food for thought, and help to explain the genesis of the frontispiece, but also to expand the knowledge about the artist, specifying certain aspects of his elaborate language.