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Commenting on music in Juvenal's sixth satire
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 541-562, September 2024.Abstract The satires of Juvenal were immensely popular in Renaissance Italy, printed in various forms over 70 times in the period 1469‐1520, and five times in 1501 alone. The satires contain a wealth of references to instruments, instrumentalists, and playing practices that are frequently used in double entendres connoting lewd acts and infidelity ...
Ciara O'Flaherty, Tim Shephard
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Early modern women philosophers and politics: Accommodating sphere restrictions
Philosophy Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2024.Abstract In his Politics, Aristotle decreed that human beings needed to take part in politics to flourish, but that women, despite being human, needed to stay at home and away from politics. This paper offers an overview of how early modern women philosophers worked to makes their lives more political despite being constricted to the domestic sphere ...
Sandrine Bergès
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The role of the Praenotamenta of Jodocus Badius Ascensius in shaping early modern dramatic criticism
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 416-434, June 2024.Abstract This article examines the profound and enduring legacy of the treatise on classical drama known as Praenotamenta ascensiana in shaping early modern dramatic poetics. Written by Flemish scholar Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462–1535) as a preface to his 1502 edition of the Classical plays of Terence, this work has been unjustly overlooked by the ...
Giulia Torello‐Hill
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TranScript, 2022 This paper analyses and publishes a diptych of texts on the origins of the Orsini family preserved in the manuscript Florence, BNC, II.VII.82. The texts are fully in line with the trend of ‘unbelievable genealogies’ developing in Italy during the 16th
Vaccaro, Giulio
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Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 21-45, January 2024.Abstract In this essay, I argue that ‘poetics’—defined as ‘poet‐criticism’, a practitioner’s firsthand reflection on poetic composition (poiēsis) and verse technique (technē)—makes possible for philosophical theology something that has heretofore been overlooked.
Steven Toussaint
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Can the knowledge give some joy? an interpretation of the "sadness i", by Albrecht Durer, from the ethics of Spinoza [PDF]
, 2014 This article seeks to interpret the engraving Melencolia I (1514), made by the German Renaissance’s painter Albrecht Dürer, according to the philosophical background of Spinoza’s thought.
Paula, Marcos Ferreira de
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Taddeo Ugoleto’s Marginal Notes on his Brand-new Crastonus Dictionary [PDF]
, 2011 Serving as royal librarian and tutor to János Corvinus, Matthias’ illegitimate son and heir, Taddeo Ugoleto played a key role in defining the general character and the actual holdings of Matthias’ library.
Bolonyai, Gábor
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Marsilio Ficino and the Religion of the Philosophers [PDF]
, 2008 This essay seeks to characterize the way Marsilio Ficino thought about the relationship of philosophical reason and religious belief. It argues that Ficino is conservative in his theological method but that his theory of the sources of religious ...
Hankins, James
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El cielo estrellado en la cosmología sacramental de Calderón
Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro, 2017 El cielo estrellado, desde los griegos, ha tenido una amplia repercusión en el pensamiento neoplatónico pero a partir de El sueño de Escipión, de Ficino y León Hebreo adquiere una importancia decisiva para la literatura posterior por la gran posibilidad ...
Ana Suárez Miramón
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Neoplatonism and English Gothic Architecture [PDF]
, 2013 A letter written by Robert Grosseteste, the first chancellor of Oxford University and later Bishop of Lincoln from 1235 to 1253, illustrates the role that Neoplatonism played in the creative process of the architect in the Middle Ages.
Hendrix, John S
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