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While paying attention to ‘comic’ (literary, dramatic) texts from the past as well as from the present, this essay studies the relationship between epidemics – often interpreted, in the history of humanity and of literature, with the plague – and theater,
Piermario Vescovo
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Nikos Kazantzakis’ Unshot Adaptations of Don Quixote and Decameron
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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Women on top: Coital positions and gender hierarchies in Renaissance Italy
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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comparative study of women characters in "Decameron" and "Sindbad" and "Panchatantra" [PDF]
The woman and her features have long been a subject of interest to Writers and poets and many speakers and writers with regard to different aspects of women have expressed various topics In this regard, but for various reasons, such as the prevailing ...
ali jahanshahiafshar
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Pandemics: past, present, future
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
Niels Høiby
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Transformations of the Framing of Decameron in France of the 15th century: Antoine Verard’s Livre des Cent nouvelles [PDF]
This article studies the chages that Decameron’s framing construction underwent in the fi rst edition of its French translation, which was made in ca. 1414 by Laurent de Premierfait (Livre des Cent nouvelles).
Irina Staf
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Le «Decameron» dans la théorie du roman et de la nouvelle de Friedrich Schlegel
In this article, the author aims to show the role of Boccaccio’s Decameron as an exemplary model of literary fiction in the early critical theory of Friedrich Schlegel. In the first part, the article analyses Schlegel’s definition of the ‘novella’.
Antonio Sotgiu
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Decameron Web (DW) offers an online digital edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron both in Italian and English language. It is a comprehensive information portal about the Decameron and the cultural, historical context of the time in which it was written ...
Eleonora Peruch
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“Los dulces sones de los instrumentos infinitos” del Decamerón
La presencia de léxico, representaciones e imágenes musicales en el Decamerón de Boccaccio es un elemento conocido y recurrente en el desarrollo de la obra, tradicionalmente considerado como uno de los elementos decorativos de la trama. En este artículo
Chiara Cappuccio
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Introduction to clinical pharmacology at large
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Volume 87, Issue 8, Page 3026-3027, August 2021.
Emma F. Magavern, Serge Cremers
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