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A Classification of High‐Risk Atmospheric Circulation Patterns for Italian Precipitation Extremes
By applying Self‐Organising Maps, we develop a comprehensive classification of the weather types associated with November 1984 to October 2024 extreme precipitation events in Italy. We identify six different weather types associated with different large‐scale dynamical drivers. Their relevance for different areas is evaluated, and their seasonality and
Cristina Iacomino +6 more
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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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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Performance as Exchange: Taxation and Jewish Theatre in Early Modern Italy [PDF]
In early modern Italy, an unusual form of exchange between Jewish and Christian communities materialized in Mantua: Jews in Mantua were required to perform an annual play as a tribute to their Gonzaga rulers.
Jaffe-Berg, E
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This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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Commemorating Festive Performances in Popular Print in Sixteenth‐Century Italy☆
Abstract The aim of this article is to show that the popular print sold and distributed during and after festive events, such as Carnival, had an impact on the commemoration and shaping of festive culture in early modern Italy. That is, the mass medium of print that had begun to shape European cultures, especially in Italy where Venice was one of ...
Rozanne Versendaal
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day for open science: ‘Viaggiatori in Toscana: personaggi e testimonianze’
The report reconstructs the lectures held on April 9 2021 during the open science day dedicated to Viaggiatori in Toscana: personaggi e testimonianze, organized by the ‘Festival di Pasqua’ of the Municipality of Montepulciano.
Elisabetta Angrisano +6 more
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ABSTRACT Mediterranean mountainous areas and their valuable natural resources have long been attractive to human societies. The Peloponnese (southern Greece), with its complex topographic and climatic variability, has been the scenery for the development of numerous human communities.
Katerina Kouli +11 more
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An index of all articles, divided by subject areas with titles, keywords and link to their full text, is now available at the following digital archive: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:459015.
Redazione, Annali Serie Orientale
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Political connections cause resource misallocation: Evidence from the fall of fascism in Italy
Abstract The fall of fascism in Italy in 1943–1944 was followed by the issuance of laws and decrees that made former fascist politicians ineligible for political office. This setting provides a unique quasi‐natural experiment that exogenously and permanently disrupted then prevalent corporate political connections.
Mara Faccio, John J. McConnell
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