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Giovanni Pontano hears the street soundscape of Naples
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 ...
Tim Shephard, Melany Rice
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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
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A “More Political” Commission? Reassessing EC Politicization through Language
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
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
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Guerre senza nome e altri fantasmi
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
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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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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Il “De bello Neapolitano” di Pontano e la tradizione storiografica alla corte aragonese di Napoli
L’articolo traccia il percorso evolutivo della teoria storiografica umanistica elaborata alla corte aragonese di Napoli. È in quella cerchia intellettuale che la scrittura della storia diviene un genere letterario ben definito e governato da regole ...
Fulvio Delle Donne
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Modèles et contre-modèles de l’humanisme napolitain : Giovanni Pontano à la recherche d’une langue
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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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
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