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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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Biografías breves de artistas imaginarios en Albacete [PDF]
Relatos breves de tono fantástico reconstruyen las biografías imaginarias de artistas, científicos y familias de Albacete y su provincia, donde lo cotidiano se mezcla con lo maravilloso: ingenieros aeronáuticos, farmacéuticas, melómanos con perros ...
Mayo Vega, Luis Manuel
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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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Las hagiografías, creadas antes o después del Concilio de Trento, contienen abundante información sobre la sociedad para la que estos textos fueron creados.
Ilzarbe López, Isabel [0000-0002-8689-9445]
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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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Para liberarse de las limitaciones del género biográfico y poder incluir a las personas, grupos y momentos de la vida menos documentados, la microhistoria (en particular Simona Cerruti) propone desarrollar una historia encarnada por medio de fragmentos ...
Evelyne Sanchez
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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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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
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