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Adolph Loewi e il commercio di tappeti orientali a Venezia fra Otto e Novecento
MDCCC 1800, 2012 The massive export of works of art that characterized the entire Italian peninsula, especially in the years bridging the nineteenth and twentieth century, included also the transfer abroad of Islamic art and products, even more specifically, of ...
Cecutti, Daniela
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The Topography of the Sacred. Rovigo: Between Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
In_Bo, 2021 Published in 1704, the suggestive view by Pierre Mortier of the small city of Rovigo on the border between the Papal States and the Republic of Venice shows the ordinary appearance of a centuries old rural-urban plain in the Po Basin as a crystallised ...
Andreina Milan
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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Quaderni Veneti, 2015 The present comparative essay suggests that Parise recalled Wedekind’s Frülings Erwachen (1891) in his novel Il ragazzo morto e le comete (1951). They both tell the story of a friendship, which ends when one of the main characters dies.
fardin, michelle
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BMC Zoology, 2021 Background Barbels are ray finned cyprinid fishes of the Old-World with partially unresolved, intricate taxonomy. Within the Barbus sensu lato paraphyletic assemblage, Barbus sensu stricto is a monophyletic tetraploid lineage of Europe, northern Africa ...
Giovanni Rossi +7 more
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Shell and glass beads from the tombs of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi, Lower Congo [PDF]
, 2014 The ancient Kingdom of Kongo originated in Central Africa in the 14th century. In the 15th century, the Portuguese organized tight contacts with the Bakongo.
Bostoen, Koen +5 more
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Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 51, Issue 3, March 2026.The study focusses on the morphological evolution of worldwide restored intertidal flats. These intertidal flats initially experience high sedimentation rates after the opening of the connection with open waters. The anthropogenic structures cause high morphological instability and are eroded, leading to a self‐cannibalisation of the system.
Riccardo Brunetta +4 more
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Quaderni Veneti, 2015 This article focuses on MS Seville Colombina 7-1-52, with particular attention to a corpus of seven Veronese didactic religious texts. The texts date from the end of the 13th to the beginning of the 14th century, while the manuscript was copied in ...
Zvonareva, Alina
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-20, March 2026.Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 59-83, March 2026.Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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