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Titian's Falconer: From Zorzone to Girolamo Cornaro
ABSTRACT The identity of the sitter in Titian's Falconer and the issue of its dating have been subject to a false, yet very influential assumption: that The Falconer should be dated to a point as late as 1537 in order to connect it to the identity of Zorzone Cornaro (1517–1571), son of Girolamo (1485–1551).
Rachel Healy
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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On May 28, 1494 the Venetian Senate ordered the destruction by fire of all copies of a printed pamphlet containing a defamatory 'frotula' against the Dominican Order written by the Neapolitan friar Domenico de Carpanis, who was previously a Dominican ...
Daniela Fattori
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Christian missions have been integral to the making of the modern world. Unsurprisingly, the rise of global history over the past two decades has been accompanied by a growing historiography of Christian missions. Yet several key milestones and dynamics in mission history remain insufficiently explored. The first aim of this article is to shed light on
Sante Lesti
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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Catasto, GPS, Archivio misure e sistemi di riferimento
L’evoluzione delle tecnologie al di fuori della Pubblica Amministrazione corre ad un ritmo inverosimile, se ad esempio si considera che c’è chi ha già pensato e realizzato una guida georeferenziata dei prodotti DOP (Denominazione d’Origine Protetta ...
Domenico Santarsiero
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Documents on Piero Sraffa at the Archivio Centrale Dello Stato and at the Archivio Storico Diplomatico [PDF]
Abstract This chapter provides a list and a brief description of files and documents where the name of Piero Sraffa is mentioned and are currently kept at the Archivio Centrale dello Stato and at the Archivio Storico Diplomatico. For each file or document we provide indication of the reference number where it is conserved and a transcription of one or
Nerio Naldi, Eleonora Lattanzi
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Islamophobia and Danish academia
Abstract This article investigates how Danish academics participate in, interpret, and reproduce debates on the legal and normative regulation of Muslims in Denmark since the early 2000s. Through a thematic analysis of journal articles and public dissemination outputs authored by Danish researchers, it explores the social production of legal knowledge ...
SOFIE AALTONEN
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Giovanni Parè, bookseller and publisher in the second half seventeenth-century Venice
The discovery of Giovanni Parè’s publishing and bookstore catalogues, a Venetian printer and bookseller at the end of the Seventeenth century, is an opportunity to reconstruct his activity as a book dealer and the close relationship he had had with ...
Francesca Nepori
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