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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 473-492, September 2025.Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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Lettere mercantili tra tracce di oralità e funzioni pragmatiche
Rhesis, 2023 Il presente articolo si prefigge di analizzare un insieme costituito da ventisei lettere di argomento mercantile prodotte in lingua catalana a Valenza tra il XV e il XVI secolo e spedite a Cagliari da parte di Pere Martí, mercante di stoffe e manufatti.
Maria Cristina Lo Baido
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Cosmological test of the Yilmaz theory of gravity
, 2007 We test the Yilmaz theory of gravitation by working out the corresponding Friedmann-type equations generated by assuming the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological metrics.
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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Aldus Manutius, the Gonzagas and a Lucky Frenchman. Some Examples from Aldus's Letters
TECAAmong the letters written and received by Aldus Manutius, the ones held in the Archivio di Stato in Mantua are very interesting and rich in rare Aldus’s autographs.
Stefano Cassini
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Reti Medievali Rivista, 2009 Le lettere di Enea Silvio Piccolomini sono largamente note; allo stesso tempo, si riconosce senz’altro una sorta di “predilezione” da parte di Piccolomini per il genere epistolare.
Barbara Baldi
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De sacra militia contra iconomachos : civic strategies to counter iconoclasm in the Low Countries (1566) [PDF]
, 2016 Although the iconoclastic scare must have been enormous and the actual impact of the attacks of summer and autumn 1566 can hardly be exaggerated, the Beeldenstorm was not as comprehensive as it seemed to contemporaries and subsequent historians.
Suykerbuyk, Ruben
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Reframing Gender‐Inclusive Language in German Education: Politics, Pedagogy, and Possibilities
Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 175-185, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT Recently in Germany the question of gender‐inclusive language has become another front in the culture wars. Headlines portray these linguistic innovations as disruptive and unnecessary while politicians across Germany have moved to ban or restrict certain types of inclusive language.
Maureen O. Gallagher
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