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The Transmission of the \u3cem\u3eSomniale Danielis\u3c/em\u3e, from Latin to Vernacular Italian (Laurenziano Martelli 12 and Riccardiano 859) [PDF]
The Somniale Danielis is a dream manual widely circulated in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is structured through dream symbols and their concise explanation.
Cappozzo, Valerio
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Ruin lust in George Gissing's Veranilda
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*
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
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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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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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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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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Sobre la presència de Boccaccio en el Curial e Güelfa: la novella X.8 [PDF]
Resum: Les darreres investigacions sobre la novel·la cavalleresca catalana Curial e Güelfa subratllen de forma unànime la qualitat literària de l’obra i la riquesa de la cultura literària del seu autor, en especial en relació als autors clàssics i ...
Gros Lladós, Sònia
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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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