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Review of periodical articles [PDF]

, 2001
[First Paragraph] There is only one true city, wrote St Augustine, and it is not of this world. The pessimistic Christian response to the fall of Rome in AD 410, epitomized in Augustine's City of God, affected the development of the later medieval city ...
Jenner, M., Luckin, B., Rosser, G.
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The Fashioning of the Humanist Governor at the Dawn of a New Political and Cultural Era: Francesco Barbaro as Podestà of Venetian Vicenza

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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“Solo et pensoso” in the Latin poetry of the Italian Fifteenth Century

Humanist Studies & The Digital Age, 2011
The reception of Petrarch’s Rvf seems to have been very extensive even in the so-called “century without poetry” (Croce 209-238), above all in humanist Latin literature which wisely mixes the topoi of classical elegy with the ones of Romance poetry.
Andrea Severi
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A Critical Overview of Common Foodborne Toxicants and Methods for Their Reliable Detection

Food Frontiers, Volume 6, Issue 4, Page 1658-1700, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Food is an essential commodity for human health. However, toxicants such as mycotoxins, heavy metals, acrylamide, and pesticides can be present in food either naturally or through processing, packaging, or some anthropogenic activities. A thorough review of carefully selected studies revealed that climate change and pandemics have led to an ...
Betty Bowe Acquah, John‐Lewis Zinia Zaukuu   +1 more
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Cosmopolitan and Vernacular: Petrarch at Sea

Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2015
Casual readers and scholars alike celebrate Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (RVF) as an early masterpiece of vernacular lyric. Yet Petrarch directed most of his professional energies as writer to Latin composition, in the belief that Latin was the ...
Karla Mallette
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The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]

, 2016
(Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) Mīrzā Fatḥ 'Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European ...
Gould, Rebecca
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The Story of Romantic Love and Polyamory

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 795-813, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between romantic love and polyamory. Our central question is whether traditional norms of monogamy can be excised from romantic love so as to harmonize with polyamory's ethical dimensions (as we construe them).
Michael Milona, Lauren Weindling
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Axiological pessimism, procreation and collective responsibility

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 157-172, July 2025.
Abstract A form of pessimism can support the claim that we have a collective duty to prevent the creation of additional human beings. More specifically, I argue that axiological pessimism, which suggests that human existence is overall bad (for humans) because of a form of evil it causes, implies that we should end human procreation, provided that we ...
Andrea Sauchelli
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Rebound Effects as an Obstacle to Sustainable Housing Goals: How Green Features Lead to Larger‐Sized Homes

Sustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 3879-3887, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Global resource use and emissions continue to rise despite the widespread adoption of more energy‐efficient products and technologies. The current research addresses this green paradox by examining how the availability of rooftop solar panels and other energy‐saving green features leads to rebound effects that inadvertently increase the ...
Erik L. Olson
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Intention de l'auteur ou volonté du texte ? Petrarque et Boccace sur la poésie: vols de mots et mot attrapés au vol [PDF]

Parole Rubate, 2014
Although we usually look for quotations in written texts, it is also worth considering that words can be 'stolen' from the conversational flux, from those oral exchanges which, at least in antiquity, were not recorded. This seems to be the case of two of
Philippe Guerin
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