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Irony, historiography, and political criticism : The Porcaria coniuratio [PDF]

, 2020
This article examines Leon Battista Alberti’s 'Porcaria coniuratio', the historical epistle on Stefano Porcari’s conspiracy against Nicholas V, which was discovered by the pope before the conspirators could carry out the plot, in January 1453.
Celati, Marta
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Da diáspora judaica no Caribe (séculos XVII e XVIII): desafios e revelações a partir da (re)descoberta da sua correspondência epistolar

Ler História, 2019
The presence of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in several Caribbean locations, such as Barbados, Curaçao, Suriname and Jamaica, has been studied by numerous scholars.
Ana Leitão
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Korespondencja Lwa Sapiehy do Radziwiłłów (w latach 1586–1622). Przyczynek do postrzegania na Litwie Stefana Batorego i Zygmunta III Wazy

Meluzyna: dawna literatura i kultura, 2015
The topic of this paper is the representation of the two kings of Poland – Stephen Báthory andSigismund III Vasa – emerging from the correspondence of Lew Sapieha addressed to the Radziwiłłsof Birża: Krzysztof ‘the Thunder’
Dominika Fesser
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Exchanging logoi for aloga: cultural capital and material capital in a letter of Michael Psellos [PDF]

, 2011
In a letter to his friend Iasites (Sathas 171), Michael Psellos proposes that he give the letter itself in exchange for a horse. Exploiting the polysemy of alogon and logos in Greek, Psellos is able to frame this playful representation of a gift exchange
Bernard, Floris
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Writing the Self-at-War: World War I Popular Writings as \u201cTechnologies of the Self\u201d [PDF]

, 2017
Based on the analysis of more than 150 diaries and memoirs, this article highlights the rhetorical strategies used to define the self and shape the idea of war that characterized a specific peasant community, the Italian-speaking soldiers from the ...
Mazzini, F
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„Miłość jest w zasadzie chorobą”. Intymność w listach miłosnych Aliny Szapocznikow do Ryszarda Stanisławskiego

Napis, 2022
The topic of the article is the interpretation of selected letters from the correspondence of Alina Szapocznikow and Ryszard Stanisławski. The suggested reading aims at taking a closer look at codes of intimacy, activated in the specific life ...
Monika Ładoń
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Networking in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Younger

Journal of Historical Network Research, 2020
Living during the heyday of the Roman Empire, the senator Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61/62 – 113/114) was in contact with the social and political elite of his time: several Emperors, fellow senators like Cornelius Tacitus, Sosius Senecio, and Arulenus ...
Fabian Germerodt
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A representação do tempo na carta das Esperanças de Portugal, Quinto Império do mundo (1659)

Revista da Faculdade de Letras. Série de História, 2018
Considering the relations developed in the seventeenth century between history, time and Divine Providence, this paper aims to investigate the representation of time in the letter sent by priest António Vieira to the also Jesuit André Fernandes on April ...
Ana Elisa Arêdes
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Adapting to New Contexts. Cuneiform in Anatolia [PDF]

, 2011
This article focuses on cuneiform and scribal education in Anatolia. It attempts to trace some of the developments in the corpus of knowledge and training when it let the confines of its initial area of relevance and was received in Anatolia by the ...
Weeden, Mark
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Review to Pedro Martín Baños, El arte epistolar en el Renacimiento Europeo 1400-1600, Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, 2005 [PDF]

Talia dixit, 2006
Review to Pedro Martín Baños, El arte epistolar en el Renacimiento Europeo 1400-1600, Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, 2005.
Guadalupe Morcillo Expósito
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