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Parchment is the primary writing medium of the majority of documents with cultural importance. Unfortunately, this material suffers of several mechanisms of degradation that affect its chemical‐physical structure and the readability of text. Due to the unique and delicate character of these objects, the use of nondestructive techniques is mandatory. In
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L’innovazione tecnologica ha profondamente influenzato la lessicografia, aprendo nuove prospettive per la redazione e la consultazione dei vocabolari. Questo contributo si propone di indagare il ruolo dell’intelligenza artificiale generativa, attraverso
Claudia Palmieri
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Les traduccions catalanes del Decameró
L’autor d’aquest text —que reprèn, una mica revisada, la conferència que donà al Museu de Sant Cugat en motiu de les celebracions del setè centenari del naixement de Giovanni Boccaccio— comenta algunes qüestions referents a les traduccions catalanes del ...
Francesc Vallverdú
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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Boccaccio, Machado e Pirandello: a condição humana
Machado de Assis pode não ser um escritor cético, nem pessimista. No conto Jogo do Bicho, encontramos um narrador que faz rir, muito. Próximos a ele, estão Giovanni Boccaccio e Luigi Pirandello, nos contos Constança ao sabor das ondas e Sol e Sombra ...
Ildo Carbonera
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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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Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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Il sogno raccontato nel Filocolo di Giovanni Boccaccio
The goal of this contribution is to isolate the narrative microtexts referred to dream or sight in such an emblematic work as Il Filocolo, the first great novel by Giovanni Boccaccio, by going into a deep analysis of some aspects like the spatial and ...
Carmen F. Blanco Valdés
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Boccaccio in America. «Passaggi»: tra passato e futuro
Il 2013 anno delle celebrazioni del Settimo centenario della nascita di Giovanni Boccaccio è stato testimone di un animato numero di convegni ed eventi in Nord America, in Canada e negli Stati Uniti. In quest’articolo, partendo dai convegni e seminari
Roberta Morosini
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