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Dante, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Their Verbal/Visual Personae
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Dante Alighieri. The New Life (La Vita Nuova), published in The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo D’Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200-1300) (1847-48, published 1861) and the innumerable sketches, drawings, and paintings he ...
Paola Spinozzi
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
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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Since the times of Renaissance, Italian culture and arts had broadly reached the regions north of the Alps. To have poets, painters, singers and chapel masters from Italy at court became one of the main features of absolutism.
Thomas Hochradner
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Breaking Barriers: The History of Women's Education and the Training of Female Surgeons
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Medicine and surgery have been practised by women since the earliest of times, but as these activities became professionalised, they became excluded by various barriers. The aims of this review are to identify these obstacles and how they were overcome.
John P. Collins
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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This article aims to examine the translations into Ottoman Turkish of Italian literary work titles found in a book titled “İtalyan Tarih-i Edebiyatı”, the first work on the history of Italian literature in the Turkish cultural literary system.
Eshabil Bozkurt +1 more
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Curating the Unexpected: Stéphane Thidet's “Weeping Stones” Transformed During COVID‐19
ABSTRACT A monumental work by French artist Stéphane Thidet became the nexus for an unexpected interaction between an art installation and wildlife. “Weeping Stones,” which presents a desert‐like world, devoid of greenery, was featured in an exhibition we co‐curated at the Genia Schreiber University Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, in January 2020.
Tamar Mayer +3 more
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Prophètes et prophétie chez Giuseppe Mazzini
In this article, the authors intend to provide contextualization of Mazzini’s prophetic speech, in order to highlight its genealogy and originality and to describe thoroughly its argumentation and structure.
Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro +1 more
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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Vittorio Alfieri e i «Quattro Poeti»
During the most part of the XIXth. century the «four poets» canon was expanded, not only in Italy. Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto and Tasso were considered the highest point of italian poetry. In many editions of their masterpieces, Divina Commedia, Canzoniere,
Arnaldo Di Benedetto
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