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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.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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Los dos polos de la biografía antigua y la hagiografía
Circe de Clásicos y Modernos, 2020 La biografía griega puede asociarse a dos polos principales: en uno predomina el eje sintagmático, con sucesión, y en el otro el paradigmático, sin sucesión.
Tomás Fernández
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 469-488, June 2026.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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La biografía literaria en el México contemporáneo
Secuencia, 2018 Según Georges Steiner, no existe una teoría de la biografía sino tan sólo una praxis, que es la mejor manera de pensar el género y de realizarlo. Aquí repaso mi propia experiencia biográfica atendiendo tres casos distintos: 1) la biografía de un ...
Fabienne Bradu
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Review of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT Public appointments shape the top‐level bureaucracy by serving as a gateway for professionals with different profiles, chosen based on different criteria. In general, the literature has been more interested in analyzing appointments based on merit or sponsorship, based on verification of loyalty to the government or technical competence ...
André Vaz Lopes +1 more
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 259-272, March 2026.Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Pushpin memoir: Making meaning out of murder
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 158-167, March 2025.Abstract In 2018, my brother Adam Colquhoun, nicknamed “Stretch,” was killed in a bar in Calgary, Alberta by a man he barely knew. Stretch was the kind of person society finds convenient to discard. His history of theft, illicit drug dealing, mental illness, addiction, and homelessness made his humanity “undesirable.” Nevertheless, lessons Stretch ...
Noelle Sullivan
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Biografía, historia biográfica, biografía-problema
Prismas, 2016 Lecturas Prismas 20 (2016)
Paula Bruno
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Politics &Policy, Volume 52, Issue 6, Page 1310-1330, December 2024.Abstract Before policy reform initiatives reach the agenda of national decision makers, such initiatives often start at a small‐scale, local level. The Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) emphasizes the importance of biographical connections to understand how a group of policy actors forms, and how it develops programs that may lead to decade‐long ...
Nils C. Bandelow +3 more
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