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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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Parlando di libri. Recensioni, introduzioni, prefazioni, postfazioni e schede bibliografiche pubblicate da Umberto Eco dal 1953 al 1968 [PDF]
OculaThe present paper serves as a first systematic study on one of the lesser-known aspects of Umberto Eco's work, namely the one concerning his paratextual production.
Michele Marmo
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 10, Page 1411-1427, October 2025.Abstract Classification schemes are a key way of organizing bibliographic knowledge, yet the way that classification schemes communicate their information to classifiers receives little attention. This article takes a novel approach by exploring the visual aspects contained within classification schemes.
Deborah Lee
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La profezia politica nella letteratura italiana da Alfieri a d’Annunzio
Laboratoire Italien, 2018 In the period between the creation and the crisis of the bourgeois liberal state, between the French Revolution and World War I, the figure of the Poet-Prophet, who accompanied the process of national unification with his song and committed to ...
Vincenza Perdichizzi
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Why Engineers Should Read More Novels
Chemie Ingenieur Technik, Volume 97, Issue 8-9, Page 852-859, September 2025.What do engineers do? And what should they work on? A surprising answer is outlined in this essay, which argues that reading novels holds the key for addressing both questions. Novels train the imagination as well as our ethical abilities – skills that are essential for developing future‐proof technologies.
Michael Kuhn
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Conrad Gessner's Paratexts [PDF]
, 2017 Throughout his prolific publishing career Conrad Gessner composed abundant paratexts which offer valuable insight into his methods of working. Gessner wrote many dedications, only a minority of which were addressed to major patrons of his day. Instead he
Blair, Ann
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025.Short Abstract This paper addresses the geography of translation by exploring the re‐scripting of Indian spirituality into and through consumerism. More specifically, it examines the interplay between ‘Indian’, ‘modern’, and ‘Western’ in the advertising language deployed by the company Patanjali.
Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett
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Enacting music through paratexts : a shifting politics of interpretation [PDF]
, 2017 I engage with paratextual mediation of music through the lens set by Gérard Genette in Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation (1997). I theorize some of the ways different systems of paratexts shape acts of interpreting a musical text through a series ...
Koike, Tatiana Rose Daub
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Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 423-436, August 2025.Abstract The article discusses the complex relationship between publishers and literary prizes in terms of production, marketing, and the value of literary prizes. The main argument is that publishers are instrumental not only in the creation process of literary fiction receiving prizes but also in using the values adhered to awards and nominations for
Ann Steiner
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