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Il Dante di De Sanctis è ancora attuale?
Lea, 2017 My aim is to show the contemporary relevance of the work of Francesco De Sanctis, which has been intensively researched, but is now relegated to our past.
Paolo Orvieto
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Boccaccio's Pisan Allegory of "Death" in Petrarch's Triumphus Mortis
California Italian Studies, 2022 From the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, viral contagions, such as the Black Death of 1348, disrupted many social, political, and economic parts of life, situating the idea and the reality of Death in mass numbers at the forefront of late medieval
Kristen Keach Muyo
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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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, 2012 Despite the high regard in which Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) held St. Augustine, scholars have been inclined to view Augustine’s impact on the content of Petrarch’s thought rather lightly.
LEE, Alexander
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Performing Papal Supremacy: Niccolò Cieco's Capitoli for Martin V and Eugenius IV
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses two poems performed by the blind oral poet (or canterino) Niccolò Cieco of Arezzo for the first two popes elected after the Great Schism, Martin V and Eugenius IV. It argues that Niccolò's characterisation of the papal office must be understood in relation to both medieval canon law and contemporary ecclesiological ...
Isaac Figliuoli
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: the perspective of the guest
, 2015 Petrarch's two contemplative works, De vita solitaria and De otio religioso, are often regarded as different, and even opposed visions of life that reveal the different existential choices of the sons of ser Petracco: Francesco's withdrawal to the ...
Unn Falkeid, Falkeid, Unn,
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Through the Wound, and What Petrarch Found There
, 2022 This chapter aims to be an inquiry into the meaning and the value of the images of the wound and of the scar as figurations of the working principle of memorising and remembering. Focusing on the Latin Works of Petrarch (above all Epistolary and Secretum)
Torre, Andrea, Andrea Torre
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TECAThis essay presents an initial survey of some unpublished medieval fragments and manuscripts preserved at the Biblioteca Comunale Manfrediana in Faenza.
Nicola Chiarini, Niccolò Gensini
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 838-852, November 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130: A Reconsideration
Acuity, 2020 How to know that a person is in love with someone else? It is usually through expressing one’s love towards the beloved. It will be considered a strong love towards a beloved but if not expressing it or exaggerating it.
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