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The Readers of 17th-Century English Manuscript Commonplace Book Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden [PDF]

open access: yesMulticultural Shakespeare, 2021
Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden is a 17th-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections. The readers of Hesperides generally combine reading and thinking, or reading and writing.
Tianhu Hao
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Il Giardino delle Esperidi. La Primavera di Botticelli riletta secondo Ovidio / The Garden of the Hesperides. An interpretation of “La Primavera” (The Spring) by Botticelli, reinterpreted according to Ovidio

open access: yesIl Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2015
La tavola di mano di Sandro Botticelli conservata agli Uffizi è stata la centro di un acceso dibattito storico artistico per circa cento anni di storia delle critica. Ciò che ha affascinato gli studiosi infatti è stato il provare a decifrare la complessa
Giacomo Montanari
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‘Not as a Poet, but a Pioner’: Fancy and the Colonial Gaze in William Davenant's Madagascar (1638)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 319-344, June 2023., 2023
Abstract In the late 1630s, the court poet William Davenant applied his literary energies to Madagascar, an island off the eastern coast of Africa: ‘Thus in a dreame, I did adventure out…/Betweene the Southern Tropick and the Line’. While previous scholarship has highlighted the poem's ambiguous attitude towards empire, focusing on the rising interest ...
Lauren Working
wiley   +1 more source

THE POZO MORO RELIEFS (CHINCHILLA, SPAIN): A MEDITERRANEAN HERO BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 250-267, August 2021., 2021
Summary At Pozo Moro, archaeologists discovered the oldest series of architectural and sculptural remains currently known in Iberian culture. It is traditionally assumed that they were part of a single ten‐meters‐high tower that was built – and immediately collapsed – in the late sixth century BC, some fifty years before an Iberian necropolis ...
Jorge García Cardiel   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Furtul merelor de aur – de la Idun la Sfânta Duminică (In search of the Golden Apple - from Sfânta Duminică to Idun) [PDF]

open access: yesIncursiuni în imaginar, 2016
The Golden Apple is a recurring theme in world cultures, be it mythology, tales or modern traditions. Stolen by Zmei, giants or magical birds, it is a symbol of immortality in Scandinavian mythology, an attribute of science, magic and revelation for the ...
Alexandra Gruian
doaj   +1 more source

The myth of the Hesperides’ golden apples in Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato and Giovanni Pontano’s De hortis Hesperidum sive de cultu citriorum

open access: yesPolilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2015
The myth of the Hesperides’ golden apples in Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato and Giovanni Pontano’s De hortis Hesperidum sive de cultu citriorum The eleventh Hercules’ labour was the conquest of the Hesperides’ golden apples.
Alicja Raczyńska
doaj   +1 more source

Citrus: From Symbolism to Sensuality—Exploring Luxury and Extravagance in Western Muslim Bustān and European Renaissance Gardens

open access: yesArts
This study delves into the multifaceted realm of citrus fruits, exploring their significance and socioeconomic implications from their early introduction to Western Muslim and Renaissance gardens, tracing their journey throughout history.
Diego Rivera   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Garden of the Hesperides - Female Futures in Rural Morocco

open access: yes, 2021
My thesis proposes a female community and maternal health care center, run by the local Kablas themselves, that is linked to the Tangier hospital in order to provide all necessary medical supplies and offer prosperous opportunities to the local commnunities traditional birth attendants and girls.Linked to this, my thesis proposes a maintained “garden ...
openaire   +1 more source

Where myth and archaeology meet: Discovering the Gorgon Medusa's Lair. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2021
Finlayson C   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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