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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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‘Missed Revolutions’: Historical Narratives During Italian Fascism (from Delio Cantimori to Camillo Pellizzi)

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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Recensione di Cecilia Schwartz, La letteratura italiana in Svezia. Autori, editori, lettori (1870-2020) (Carocci, 2021)

Enthymema, 2023
Recensione di Cecilia Schwartz, La letteratura italiana in Svezia. Autori, editori, lettori (1870-2020) (Carocci, 2021)
Andrea Palermitano
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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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“Educare il corpo per salvare l’anima”. Sullo Splanamento de li Proverbii di Salomone di Girardo Patecchio

Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie, 2020
Can the soul be saved by educating the body? The dynamic expansion of municipal civilization in Italy led to the affirmation of a kind of literature with a predominantly practical character and very clear moralistic purpose, all concentrated on didactic ...
Angelo Rella
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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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