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The Spanish and the Russian Quevedo: Difficulties in translating a conceptist sonnet
Although Francisco de Quevedo’s sonnets, unlike, for example, Shakespeare’s, have not become a fact of Russian culture and literature, the existing experience of translating them is of interest from the point of view of the very possibility of conveying ...
M. B. Smirnova
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Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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The development of poetic Petrarchism in the first decade of the 16th century entailed the flourishing of Petrachism in music. During the transformation of poetic and musical composition due to the development of madrigal, musicians resorted to ...
Elena V. Pankina
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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction
ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
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«Esteban G. de Nájera y Juan Coloma»
Resumen: Se examinan algunos aspectos de la producción de Esteban G. de Nájera, antólogo y editor muy activo a mediados del siglo xvi en Zaragoza, donde publica en rápida sucesión una serie afortunada de colecciones cancioneriles; se considera además el
Giovanni Caravaggi
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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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Petrarquismo en octosílabos: del Cancionero de Urrea al de Pedro de Rojas.
This article deals with Italian influence over Spanish octosyllables. It brings into focus three kinds of images: those related to mythology, to descriptio puellae and to witty Petrarchism.
Álvaro Alonso
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Slovak poems of the Fanchali Codex and Petrarchism [PDF]
Despite several cases ofresearching Slovak poems ofthe Fanchali Codex it is still unclear to what literary influences these poems responded. In this article we have endeavoured to solve this question from the most general point of view, i.e. to show what
Pavol Koprda
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