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Did Down-Regulated Instincts Enable Human Gene-Culture Coevolution? [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT The unique intellectual and cultural attributes of Homo sapiens that arose during the Middle Stone Age are often ascribed to positive evolutionary development of novel physical or personality traits, but attempts to correlate cultural with genetic evolution have been unsuccessful.
Loeb GE.
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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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Between visual art and visual text. Intermediality and hypertext: A possible combination for twenty-first century philology [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2022 : The birth of digital writing, characterized by a process of correction that implies the omission of the preparatory editorial phases of a literary text, has brought about an epochal change in the author-text relationship, now characterized, for the ...
Teresa Nocita
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Per cacciar la malinconia delle femine: immaginazione e malattia d’amore nel Decameron di Boccaccio [PDF]
Noctua, 2023 The conceptions of lovesickness and of its remedies that emerge in the Decameron result from a medical tradition that in previous centuries was assimilated by the Latin culture.
Marilena Panarelli
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THE SUBMISSIVENESS MOTIF OF А WOMAN: THE GRISELDA TALE BY GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
Filolog, 2021 This paper presents the analysis of Griselda, the main female character of the last novella of Decameron. Tis novella has had different classical and feminist interpretations due to its central position and the violence caused to Griselda by her husband,
Сања Н. Кобиљ Ћуић
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A lesson on tolerance: reading the Decameron in the classroom
Italiano a scuola, 2021 The story of the three rings (Decam., I 3) has a long tradition in the West, from the early Middle Ages to Lessing. The Italian version, represented by Boccaccio and two other sources, seems to show an open attitude towards religions other than ...
Luca Serianni
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Boccaccio’s Decameron in Greek
Chronotopos, 2023 The article offers a brief historical overview of Boccaccio’s Decameron in Greek since the 16th century, focusing on the notion of Translation Agency. Intending to highlight the importance of this notion, I shall refer to key concepts, mainly Bourdieu’s
Stelios
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Nikos Kazantzakis’ Unshot Adaptations of Don Quixote and Decameron
Classica Cracoviensia, 2021 This article examines two of Nikos Kazantzakis’ unshot screenplays of the early 1930s: his adaptations of Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Boccaccio’s Decameron, kept in typed manuscripts at the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum Foundation in Iraklion, Crete.
Panayiota Mini
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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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Reminiscenze decameroniane in “Quelle signore” di Umberto Notari [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2022 This essay focuses on references to Boccaccio in Umberto Notari’s novel, “Quelle signore” (1904). Notari’s text achieved phenomenal and long-term success (eighty thousand copies in a few months and three hundred copies in 1920), owing to the scabrous ...
Milena Contini
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