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Giovanni Pontano hears the street soundscape of Naples

Renaissance Studies
Abstract Giovanni Pontano’s dialogue Antonius can be read almost as a thick description of the soundscape of a Neapolitan street in the mid‐ to late‐15th century, complete with public announcements, street performers, domestic arguments, workers’ banter, charms and spells, processions, errand boys, bells, clocks, cockerels, and much more.
Tim Shephard
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La rappresentazione del nemico nel “De bello Neapolitano” di Pontano

CESURA, 2022
Il saggio propone una riflessione sulle modalità retoriche della rappresentazione del nemico adottate da Giovanni Pontano nel De bello Neapolitano, storia monografica sul conflitto seguito alla cosiddetta prima congiura dei Baroni.
Antonietta Iacono
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Les berceuses latines de Giovanni Pontano (1426-1503)

Textes & Contextes, 2023
L’œuvre du poète néo-latin Giovanni Pontano (Cerreto di Spoleto 1426 - Naples 1503) contient une série de douze berceuses latines (intitulées Naeniae) adressées à son propre fils au berceau et composées dans les années 1469-1471.
Aline Smeesters
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Experiencing gloomy Dis: Tombs, tunnels and the phenomenology of the Roman Underworld in the Phlegraean Fields

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 221-243, August 2023., 2023
Summary Recent work in landscape archaeology has emphasized the importance of considering the experience of moving through landscapes and examining the place of burials within wider landscape contexts. This work recognizes that burial placement was often intended to create and curate experiences and meaning.
Tim Penn
wiley   +1 more source

A “More Political” Commission? Reassessing EC Politicization through Language

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 1047-1068, July 2022., 2022
Abstract This article contributes to the study of the European Commission's (EC) politicization by examining this phenomenon from the angle of communication. We elaborate a novel approach based on two linguistic indicators – charisma and technicality – which we then apply through a content analysis of 8,947 speeches delivered by Commission members ...
Pamela Pansardi, Pier Domenico Tortola
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Women on top: Coital positions and gender hierarchies in Renaissance Italy

Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 638-657, September 2021., 2021
Abstract According to Christian theology, the ‘missionary’ position was the only proper way to have sex. Among clerical as well as secular authors, one of the most serious deviations from this prescription was the position with the woman on top of the man.
Marlisa Den Hartog
wiley   +1 more source

Guerre senza nome e altri fantasmi

CESURA, 2023
Ci sono eventi bellici trascurati dalla storia per ragioni non sempre facili da comprendere. È il destino della guerra combattuta nel Regno di Napoli dopo la morte di Alfonso il Magnanimo: un conflitto di notevole importanza a cui l’umanista Giovanni ...
Francesco Storti
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Dialogue by short stories in the Renaissance: From courtly practice to urban play

Шаги, 2022
The representation of oral narrative in Renaissance novella books involves not only references to literary sources, but also descriptions of social and cultural practices of the era. The framing model of The Decameron, converging with the Courtois Courts
I. K. Staf
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L'eloquenza del Re

CESURA, 2022
Il saggio mira a dimostrare il ruolo svolto dalla dottrina politica nella narrazione storica del De bello Neapolitano di Pontano, al fine di veicolare la posizione filoaragonese dell’autore, al di fuori degli schemi della propaganda ufficiale o dell ...
Guido Cappelli
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Modèles et contre-modèles de l’humanisme napolitain : Giovanni Pontano à la recherche d’une langue

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2012
Giovanni Pontano (1429–1503) is the major representative of Neapolitan humanism and is characterized by his work exclusively in Latin as a living language, i.e., able to express everyday realities, the lifelikeness of the spoken language and also all ...
Florence Bistagne
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