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Pandemics: past, present, future: That is like choosing between cholera and plague. [PDF]
APMIS, 2021 The major epidemic and pandemic diseases that have bothered humans since the Neolithic Age and Bronze Age are surveyed. Many of these pandemics are zoonotic infections, and the mathematical modeling of such infections is illustrated. Plague, cholera, syphilis, influenza, SARS, MERS, COVID‐19, and new potential epidemic and pandemic infections and their
Høiby N.
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 166-191, April 2023., 2023 Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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Everyday attentiveness: understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 595-612, June 2022., 2022 Abstract World‐wide, diabetes is taking on epidemic proportions. This is a debilitating disease that damages and destroys bodily systems unless blood sugar levels are kept close to normal, and patients are therefore urged to practise attentive self‐management.
Tine M. Gammeltoft
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Ruin lust in George Gissing's Veranilda
Literature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3-4, April 2022., 2022 Abstract Ruinenlust (‘ruin lust’) or ruin aesthetics is a prominent feature of George Gissing's unfinished historical novel, Veranilda (1904), which is set in sixth‐century Italy and contains many memorable images of ruins. Drawing on the work of Georg Simmel, Rose Macaulay, Brian Dillon, and others, this article argues that, by examining these images ...
Gareth A. Reeves
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How Gabriel Harvey read tragedy*
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 5, Page 757-787, November 2021., 2021 Abstract In 1579, Gabriel Harvey bound together in a composite collection a surprising group of texts: an Italian grammar, an Italian translation of Terence’s comedies, Lodovico Dolce’s Italian rifacimenti of Euripides’ Medea and Seneca’s Thyestes, and Euripides’ Hecuba and Iphigenia in Erasmus’ Latin.
Tania Demetriou
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Women on top: Coital positions and gender hierarchies in Renaissance Italy
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 638-657, September 2021., 2021 Abstract According to Christian theology, the ‘missionary’ position was the only proper way to have sex. Among clerical as well as secular authors, one of the most serious deviations from this prescription was the position with the woman on top of the man.
Marlisa Den Hartog
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Boccaccio, el Decamerón y la acuñación de un neologismo: la “novela” en el siglo XV
Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 2017 Se recuperan y analizan en este trabajo las primeras apariciones de la voz “novela” como denominadora de un nuevo modo narrativo. En el siglo XV, tanto la circulación de manuscritos del Decamerón de Boccaccio, como la lectura que muchos hombres de letras
David González Ramírez
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"Escribía / después de haber los libros consultado" : a propósito de Lope y los novellieri, un estado de la cuestión (con especial atención a la relación con Giovanni Boccaccio), parte I [PDF]
, 2011 Este trabajo ha sido realizado al amparo del Ministerio de Educación, mediante el Programa Nacional de Movilidad de Recursos Humanos del Plan Nacional de I-D+i 2008-2011.El estudio que sigue constituye la primera parte de un ensayo más amplio en el que ...
Muñoz, Juan Ramón
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La traducción castellana antigua del Decameron: de novelle a exempla
Carte Romanze, 2021 El estudio comparado de la traducción castellana antigua del Decameron muestra la adaptación de la obra de Boccaccio al nuevo público, que determinó su recepción y su proyección en las letras hispánicas de los siglos siguientes.
Mita Valvassori
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Introduction to clinical pharmacology at large
, 2021 British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Volume 87, Issue 8, Page 3026-3027, August 2021.
Emma F. Magavern, Serge Cremers
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