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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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DNA Di Nulla Academia, 2020 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
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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Ira e compassione. Fonti aristotelico-tomiste di Decameron VIII 7 [PDF]
, 2020 This essay aims to examine the philosophic sources behind the representation of passions in Boccaccio’s tale of the scholar and the widow (Decameron VIII 7).
Pascale, Miriam, Miriam Pascale
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comparative study of women characters in "Decameron" and "Sindbad" and "Panchatantra" [PDF]
ادبیات تطبیقی, 2016 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
APMIS, Volume 129, Issue 7, Page 352-371, July 2021., 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
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]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2018 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
Griseldaonline, 2023 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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