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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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Constantijn Huygens’ Pathodia Sacra et Profana. A Sentimental Journey

Mediterranea, 2017
Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) in 1620 traveled to Venice as a secretary of ambassador Van Aerssen: he was the only member of the legation who knew Italian.
Gandolfo Cascio
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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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The "Descriptio puellae" in the Italian and Spanish Petrarchism: the examples of Giusto de’ Conti and Garcilaso de la Vega

Revista de Filología Románica, 2018
Due to its aesthetic characteristics of perfection and harmony, but also of repetition and homologation, Renaissance love poetry has often been object of limited attention by the critics, who have briskly labelled it Petrarchism.
Matteo Trillini
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DIE ARBEIT DES ÜBERSETZENS: RILKE UND MICHELANGELO („SE ’L MIE ROZZO MARTELLO‘‘)

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 194-216, April 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay examines Rainer Maria Rilke's reception of the sculptor and poet Michelangelo in the context of interest in the Renaissance around 1900, focusing first on the Stundenbuch, the Florenzer Tagebuch and the story ʻVon einem, der die Steine belauschtʼ (from the prose collection: Geschichten vom lieben Gott).
Astrid Dröse, Jörg Robert
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Education towards a reasonable humanism

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 143-161, April 2025.
Abstract Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists.
John Haldane
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Lacanian realism: Literatura de la crisis and Ángel Zapata's aesthetic of failure

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 74-93, February 2025.
Abstract Since Spain's socio‐economic crisis of the 2010s, critical approaches have analysed the surge in literature which addresses the crisis's political and socio‐economic consequences. These approaches have largely assessed literature by its capacity to raise readers' awareness of capitalist exploitation.
Alejandro Veiga‐Expósito
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Le antiche versioni spagnole di S’amor non è, che dunque è quel ch’io sento? (Rvf CXXXII)

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2018
The sonnet S’amor non è, che dunque è quel ch’io sento? “dovette incontrare tanto favore fino al sec. XVIII”, because it showed, like others, “una tendenza agli artifici della vecchia lirica” and “nulla di tipicamente petrarchesco” (Mario Praz, 1935 ...
Marco Federici
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Venus förvisning och återkomst

Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2012
The Banishment and Return of Venus: Skogekär Bergbo’s Wenerid as Occasional Poetry This article deals with the Swedish sonnet sequence Wenerid, written by the pseudonym Skogekär Bergbo in the tradition of Petrarch.
Lars Gustafsson
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