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Mucius Scaevola and the Essence of Manly Patientia [PDF]
, 2015 Patientia, the virtue of enduring physiological pain, poses a problem for Roman elite masculinities. The male body is supposed to be unpenetrated, but when pain is inflicted the body is often cut and pierced.
Wildberger, Jula
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Hidden partnerships in the dark: Cold‐water coral–fish associations in Fiordland, New Zealand
Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract The ichthyofauna of the Fiordland ecosystems of southern Aotearoa New Zealand was documented during four remotely operating vehicle (ROV) dives between 100 and 350 m depth. A total of 26 fish species were documented within two fiord basins.
Alexander H. Knorrn +3 more
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Atalaya, 2015 A Renaissance piece such as Baldo features Aesopic fables and medieval tales which had been passed down throughout the years. The author uses this type of narrative as a direct and effective way of teaching readers how to behave.
Tomasa Pastrana Santamarta
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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AOQUNel proemio del canto diciottesimo dell’Hercole, Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinzio si rivolge alle «donne gentili». Le ottave che seguono raccontano un «lascivo amore, e fiamme scelerate»; ma l’intento, avverte l’autore, non è quello di macchiare la loro ...
Marco Verde
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L’Exemplum virgilien et l’Académie napolitaine à la Renaissance. Itinera Parthenopea, I [PDF]
, 2018 Dans l’académie napolitaine de la Renaissance, les poètes latins firent de l’imitation un principe d’écriture. Ils n’éludèrent donc pas celle de Virgile, exemplum de tout style, parfois plus virgiliens que le modèle qui les faisait naître à une ...
Germano, Giuseppe
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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A villain and a monster : the literary portrait of Richard III by Thomas More and William Shakespeare [PDF]
, 2013 The process of vilification of Richard III started at the end of the fifteenth century, when a well-planned policy of Tudor propaganda was set in motion by Henry VII himself, who commissioned a series of historiographical writings, mainly aiming at the ...
Relvas, Maria de Jesus
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 612-631, November 2025.Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth’s heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war’s calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth’s women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
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Doble ejemplaridad de la mujer en discursos religiosos novohispanos del siglo xvii
Edad de Oro, 2019 La presencia de la mujer en discursos religiosos es asunto bien estudiado, aunque se ha insistido más en los poderosos tópicos misóginos que guían su representación, y menos en sus valoraciones positivas. En este artículo se exponen los resultados de un
Manuel Pérez
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