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PEASANTS, BRIGANDS, AND THE CHRONOPOLITICS OF THE NEW LEVIATHAN IN THE MEZZOGIORNO
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 24-44, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The image of a backward, archaic South whose barbarian population had remained at a low tier of civilization was a child of Italian unification. Not unlike the Orientalist East, the South that meridionalist discourse brought forth was a “chronotopos”—that is, a time‐space that had supposedly remained in the past.
FERNANDO ESPOSITO
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History, Volume 108, Issue 381, Page 303-327, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Tracing patterns of letter interception across the Alps provides a new geography of Habsburg communications, espionage, and counter‐espionage in seventeenth‐century Europe. Using the correspondence of the Tassis family of imperial and Spanish postmasters, this article demonstrates that despite increasingly martial rhetoric, battles in ...
RACHEL MIDURA
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 223-237, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The Anglo‐Venetian Giustiniana Wynne, Countess of Rosenberg Orsini, best known for her novel Les Morlaques (1788), had epistolary relations with friends from the Veneto as well as across Europe and is therefore part of the network of the European Republic of Letters.
Rotraud von Kulessa
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Parliamentary History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 184-201, February 2022., 2022 Abstract To the representatives of Italian states in London, early 18th‐century Britain often remained a puzzle. The Revolution Settlement presented them with the problem of identifying the real source of power, both in order to send home reliable information and to try to secure support for the interests of their princes, who were sometimes desperate ...
Ugo Bruschi
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Travel, Expertise and Readers: Francesco Ottieri (1665–1742) and the Writing of Modern History
History, Volume 106, Issue 371, Page 384-408, July 2021., 2021 Abstract This article analyses Francesco Ottieri's historical work, his authority as historian, and his book's eighteenth‐century readers. During the seventeenth century, books concerning recent events and early newspapers informed an expanding European readership.
Guido G. Beduschi
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Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 94-110, March 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT The feminisation of religion in the nineteenth‐century has been broadly discussed by historians and sociologists. Considering the main contributions of that debate from a critical perspective, this article defends the hypothesis that the Catholic Church identified itself with the same characteristics with which it defined femininity in the ...
Raúl Mínguez‐Blasco
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 473-492, September 2025.Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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‘De voluptate aurium’: The sounds of heaven in a 1501 sensory treatise on the afterlife
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 595-629, September 2024.Abstract In his De gloria et gaudiis beatorum, printed in 1501, the clergyman Zaccaria Lilio explores a popular topic in the religious life of Renaissance Italy: what is heaven like and what kind of experience awaits the blessed there? And his answer represents a snapshot of a characteristic manner in which heaven was imagined in the period, both in ...
Laura Ștefănescu
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Reseña del libro de Sergio Chaple (comp., estudio introductorio y notas) Epistolario. Carpentier-Fernández de Castro, La Habana, Ediciones Unión, 2009. [PDF]
, 2013 Reseña del liro de Sergio Chaple (comp., estudio introductorio y notas) Epistolario.
SAGANOGO, BRAHIMAN, SAGANOGO, BRAHIMAN
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La labor periodística de Rafael Altamira (II). Catálogo descriptivo y antología de las colaboraciones en La Ilustración Ibérica, Revista La España Regional, La Ilustración Artística y Álbum Salón [PDF]
, 2011 Este trabajo está integrado en el proyecto de investigación financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, titulado «Rafael Altamira: su vida, su obra y su tiempo.
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