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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.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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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 375-392, September 2026.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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Orbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 1, Page 1-10, February 2026.Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag untersucht Formen und Wege des Kulturtransfers zwischen Frankreich und Österreich, bzw. Deutschland, im Bereich der Pantomime, insbesondere unter dem Blickwinkel der „Texttheatralität“ (Poschmann). Bei vielen deutschsprachigen Pantomimenautoren ist die Begegnung mit der Pariser Pantomime, die 1888 mit der Gründung des ...
Catherine Mazellier‐Lajarrige
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Rhetorik und Schriftbildlichkeit von literarischen Pantomimen
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 619-628, December 2025.Zusammenfassung Da sich die Pantomime als sogenannte „wortlose Kunst“ ihrer Verschriftlichung eigentlich entzieht, sind einige Texte der Pantomime um 1900 bezüglich ihrer Darstellungsverfahren besonders erfinderisch. Sie enthalten Notationen, Bilder, Zeichnungen und generieren rhetorische Figuren, um die Bewegung des Körpers auf der Bühne in den Texten
Nina Tolksdorf
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La disarmonia originaria: epopea, tragedia e commedia
Enthymema, 2013 Richiamandosi alla distinzione delle tre figure letterarie dell’estetica hegeliana presenti nella Fenomenologia dello spirito, il saggio riconduce l’interpretazione del soggetto della filosofia ricoeuriana ad una forma di triplice disarmonia. Il soggetto
Olivier Abel
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, 2012 "Commedia" is a poetry manuscript focused on etymology and cosmogony viewed through stock characters from traditional Commedia dell'arte improvisational theater. The text focuses on the characters ability to dream a new world into reality, pulling from the traditions of several ancient creation myths (Welsh, Norse, Greek, and Roman, among others) as ...
Jordan, Kirstin Britt, author +3 more
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Sites of Contact and Models of Change: Introduction
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 391-398, November 2025.This Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society grew out of a Symposium held in November 2023 at St John's College, Cambridge, in honour of our friend and colleague, Peter Matthews, who died on 7 April 2023. Both the Symposium and the Special Issue were commissioned by the Council of the Philological Society in his memory.
Sylvia Adamson, Nigel Vincent
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AOQU, 2023 Indagini ormai “classiche” (Segre, Blasucci, Ossola) e importanti studi successivi (Zatti, Jossa, Geyer, Stierle e altri) hanno mostrato la pervasività dell’influsso della Commedia sul Furioso, sia a livello linguistico, stilistico e metrico, sia in ...
Christian Rivoletti
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Commemorating Festive Performances in Popular Print in Sixteenth‐Century Italy☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 632-657, November 2025.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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«IN FORMA DI PAROLE». OSSERVAZIONI SUL LESSICO DELLA COMMEDIA
Italiano LinguaDue, 2023 Il principio della varietà è uno dei tratti che maggiormente definiscono la lingua di Dante e, specialmente, della Commedia: si tratta di un vocabolario estremamente ricco che spazia dai lessici tecnici delle scienze ai latinismi, dai vocaboli che ...
Chiara Murru
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