User:Tylosaurus1248/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Gioacchino Torriani


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article does not yet exist, so I cannot critique it. But based on my search for sources, I believe the article should exist and its creation would be useful to Wikipedia. Torriani was the Master of the Order of Preachers (the Dominicans) during the late 15th century. He was involved in the trial of the controversial Dominican preacher Savonarola, played an important role in the development of the Inquisition in Italy, and appears to have commissioned or supported the production of a dictionary / lexicon of ancient Greek. All of these aspects deserve discussion, I feel -- or at least further study to see whether notability is met (I believe it is).


 * Sources
 * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rest.12607
 * Fire in the City, Lauro Martines
 * https://brill.com/view/title/13204
 * http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10757/1/PhD_Thesis_-_James_Russell.pdf?DDD36+

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Niccolo de Niccoli


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is generally well-written and neutral in tone, and all its content is more or less relevant to Niccolo de Niccoli. However, as a warning at the top of the article notes, it relies almost entirely on a single source with very slight reliance on a second, which would raise questions about how notable this person is. Ideally, this article would be expanded with references to multiple scholarly or academic works that allow for a neutral, even-handed statement of de Niccoli's life, his works, and his influence.


 * Sources
 * https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198791089.001.0001/oso-9780198791089-chapter-6
 * The public library of Renaissance Florence: Niccolò Niccoli, Cosimo de' Medici, and the library of San Marco, Ullman and Stadter
 * The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460, Lauro Martines

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Vincenzo Bandello


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is written neutrally and the content that is there pertains to Bandello's life and actions. However, some information is missing - the article does not mention his having commissioned the Last Supper in Milan, or his service as an inquisitor in Bologna in the 1490s and the role he played in directing inquisitors as Master General in the 1500s (see first link). The article also briefly alludes to tensions between Bandello and Savonarola, but Bandello actually played a more involved role in working to curtail what he saw as Savonarola's dangerous influence (see second link). Bandello engaged in scholarly discussion with Marsilio Ficino and Lorenzo de Medici on the nature of intellect and the will, and Edelheit suggests this dialogue was very representative of Renaissance philosophical viewpoints, so this matter may deserve discussion as well (see third link).


 * Sources
 * https://brill.com/view/title/13204
 * Fire in the City, Lauro Martines
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/24336933

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Beatrice of Naples


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article covers most of the basics well - it gives the basic biographical outline of her upbringing, her rule as Queen with Matthias Corvinus and then with Vladislaus II, and her later life. It also appears to fill a content gap insofar as it discusses a medieval queen who exercised significant power during her reign. However, the references list - only two stated references - is somewhat short and raises some questions about notability - and there are almost no citations in the body of the text to allow readers to verify the facts presented. Ideally, this article would be expanded to give more detailed information about her actions (perhaps restructuring into more sections than just "Biography" as appropriate) and support this information with more sources.


 * Sources
 * https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9af0/292bd1a386265b93bee29fc6f628cad67d30.pdf
 * Art and humanism in Hungary in the age of Matthias Corvinus / by Rózsa Feuer-Tóth ; [translated by Györgyi Jakobi ; edited by Péter Farbaky] (Note: only on HathiTrust - not a PDF)
 * (I would like to cite The Raven King : Matthias Corvinus and the fate of his lost library / Marcus Tanner and Italy & Hungary : Humanism and art in the Early Renaissance / edited by Péter Farbaky and Louis A. Waldman but do not have PDF access to either - would need a scan and deliver).

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Alessandra Scala


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is mostly neutrally written, but it is extremely bare-bones and requires more filling in. For one, the article states that she was an Italian poet and Greek scholar but has more to say about who she married than her scholarly activity. There are certainly enough references to suggest that this topic is at least somewhat notable and worth a longer discussion - for example, one of the given references describes her performance in a medieval staging of Electra that prompted significant scholarly discussion and acclaim among prominent humanists such as Poliziano. Ideally, this article would draw more heavily upon the resources it has, as well as potentially finding other sources, to provide a more complete statement of her contributions to humanistic work in the Renaissance.


 * Sources
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=OQ8mdTjxungC&pg=PA332&lpg=PA332&dq=alessandra+scala&source=bl&ots=zxBIMusEx_&sig=ACfU3U1LkErBKfDozgpwaV8f-KhGouvJLg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwie5s6hob7wAhUbGVkFHYhoBU0Q6AEwEXoECA0QAw#v=onepage&q=alessandra%20scala&f=false
 * https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.9783/9781512805758-017/pdf (I do not have access to this content - this is just the landing page link)
 * https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1420374/1/S0018246X00005070a.pdf
 * (I also plan to inquire about the two articles Prof. Palmer mentioned.)