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Philosophy and economics. Some recent books on Hume’s political economy [PDF]
the essay proposes a survey of the works on Hume's economics ideas authored by economits and historians of political economy. La rivista raccoglie i saggi presentati nel corso del convegno internazionali cui hanno partecipato studiosi italiani e ...
Zanardi, Paola
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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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The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆
Abstract This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs.
Stuart Gillespie
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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Cicero’s seminal treatise, De Divinatione, demonstrates a nuanced approach that concurrently affirms and questions the significance and suitableness of divinatory practices.
Guoqiu Lü
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Fortune, long life, Montaigne [PDF]
Montaigne’s Essais end with a plea on behalf of old age - “Or la vieillesse a un peu besoin d’estre traictée plus tendrement.” - and the placing of old age under the protection of Apollo, god of the lyre, but also god of health, and the god whose oracle ...
Wygant, Amy
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Un tratado sobre la extranjería de lo propio (El uruguayo de Copi)
El uruguayo by Copi is a language treatise, a crazy description of a country, a sour political comment, an impious burlesque of cultural values, a personal nightmare, a theatre strike in which any version of reality becomes weak and changes at the beat ...
María Negroni
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The pineal gland as the hegemonikon of the microcosm: anatomical and philosophical interpretations in Descartes' works. [PDF]
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