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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 375-392, September 2026.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Passeri solitari. Giordano Bruno e Francesco Petrarca [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2020 This essay focuses on the poetic image of the solitary sparrow in Giordano Bruno’s works. In his sonnet "Mio pàssar solitario, a quella parte" (1584), the philosopher turns the image of the half-human and half-animal winged soul into the image of a mere ...
Pasquale Sabbatino
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Damnosa tarditas. Ślady lektury Biblii w listach Francesca Petrarki
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria, 2020 The following paper is dedicated to the topic of biblical motifs in Francesco Petrarca’s letters, which belong to an ubi leones sphere in historical literary research both in Poland and the whole of Europe.
Albert Gorzkowski
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 712-738, September 2026.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Die Welt – ein (virtuelles?) Lebensdorf
SCENARIO: Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, 2011 Im letzten Schuljahr begann für die Schüler/innen der Klasse 2E des Gymnasiums Francesco Petrarca in Triest in ihrem Deutschunterricht ein neues Abenteuer: Sie bekamen die Möglichkeit, ein Theaterstück in der Fremdsprache zu entwickeln. Aus ihren eigenen
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 469-488, June 2026.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Romanica Cracoviensia, 2023 Marco Mantova Benavides, friend and protector of the Poles, promoter of Latin translations of Petrarch The present paper aims to investigate the phenomenon of Latin translations of vernacular works
Magdalena Wrana
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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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Francesco Petrarca and the Parameters of Historical Research
Religions, 2012 Although scholars in the first two generations of humanism wrote the histories drawing heavily on ancient Roman sources, Petrarca was the first humanist historian to focuses on the history of ancient Roma.
Ronald Witt
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Peloro, 2020 L’articolo si occupa, nel contesto di una più ampia riflessione sulla vicenda compositiva del Bucolicum carmen meum di Francesco Petrarca anteriormente alla trascrizione autografa del 1357 (oggi Città del Vaticano, Bibl. Apostolica Vaticana, Vat.
Giovanni Cascio
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