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Revisiting Gendered Representations of Humility: An Examination of Sources from Late Medieval Italy
Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 881-897, October 2023., 2023 Abstract During the Middle Ages, gender‐neutral representations of humility as a quality linked to spiritual love and voluntary service competed with representations according to gendered patterns, such as those related to the naked and dressed body in terms of its biological and social functions and its appearance.
Silvia Negri
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History, Volume 108, Issue 382, Page 365-387, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article analyses some examples of historical narratives that, long before the emergence of so‐called postmodern history, had a specific narrative character: the reconstructions of ‘missed revolutions’ taking into account a possible alternative history and tracing back the reasons for a social, political, and economic crisis to an ...
PATRICIA CHIANTERA‐STUTTE
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Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy
American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 3, Page 546-558, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The concept of transparency is now an unescapable reference in public, professional, and private life. As transparency‐making has recently transmuted from a progressive instrument to counter corruption into a new universal ideological formation, it is time to problematize the concept of transparency and its uses.
Alexander Koensler
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 166-191, April 2023., 2023 Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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On Sanctitatis nova signa: A provisional case against Celano's authorship
New Blackfriars, Volume 103, Issue 1108, Page 745-760, November 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper advances a provisional case denying the attribution of the medieval liturgical sequence Sanctitatis nova signa, written in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, to Thomas of Celano (died c. 1260), who is best known for writing the earliest biography of the saint.
Jose Isidro Belleza
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A Donatello for Rome, a Memling for Florence. The maritime transports of the Sermattei of Florence†
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 658-674, September 2021., 2021 Abstract This article deals with the maritime transports of a little known but not unimportant Florentine merchant family. On the basis of previously unknown archival source material, we address questions of family history, mercantile networks, maritime trade connections, and merchandise (including some famous artworks), shedding new light not only on ...
Tobias Daniels, Arnold Esch
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Due recenti traduzioni italiane di Ivan Sollertinskij
Enthymema, 2018 Recensione di Sollertinskij, I.I. Musica e letteratura al tempo dell’Unione Sovietica. Saggi. Eds. S. Manzoni. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2016; Sollertinskij, I.I. Berlioz. Eds. S. Manzoni e S. Nicoli.
Giuseppina Larocca
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Travel, Expertise and Readers: Francesco Ottieri (1665–1742) and the Writing of Modern History
History, Volume 106, Issue 371, Page 384-408, July 2021., 2021 Abstract This article analyses Francesco Ottieri's historical work, his authority as historian, and his book's eighteenth‐century readers. During the seventeenth century, books concerning recent events and early newspapers informed an expanding European readership.
Guido G. Beduschi
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Al di qua dell’Avanguardia: i 'Nuovi racconti' italiani di Ettore Mazzali
Prassi Ecdotiche della Modernità Letteraria, 2020 Il saggio prende in analisi l'antologia dei Nuovi racconti italiani curata da Antonio Baldini e pubblicata dalla Nuova accademia editrice nel 1962. Della casa editrice non si conserva un archivio, ma essa fu impresa meritoria nella Milano degli anni ...
Maria Villano
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