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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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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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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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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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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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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 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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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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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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Education towards a reasonable humanism
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 143-161, April 2025.Abstract Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists.
John Haldane
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