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Dolce sirena e femmina balba: figure femminili nel Purgatorio
Stuttering, one-eyed, crippled, maimed, and wan: this is how the so-called femmina balba appears in Dante’s sleep. A horrible and repulsive being who nonetheless, in the course of the dream narrated in Canto XIX of Purgatorio, undergoes an extraordinary,
Natascia Tonelli
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Dante's Comedy in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment [PDF]
The article is dedicated to the possible presence of Dante’s Comedy in Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. After a brief introduction dedicated to the existing research on the matter and to enumerate some of the macroscopical elements that are ...
Caterina Corbella
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Los tormentos del purgatorio barroco español
Este trabajo busca fundamentalmente la sistematización de todas aquellas opiniones que sobre los tormentos padecidos por las almas del purgatorio vertieron los teólogos y moralistas españoles a lo largo del siglo XVII.
Juan Cosme Sanz Larroca
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In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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Revisiting Gendered Representations of Humility: An Examination of Sources from Late Medieval Italy
Abstract During the Middle Ages, gender‐neutral representations of humility as a quality linked to spiritual love and voluntary service competed with representations according to gendered patterns, such as those related to the naked and dressed body in terms of its biological and social functions and its appearance.
Silvia Negri
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Computational constraints on the associative recall of spatial scenes
Abstract We consider a model of associative storage and retrieval of compositional memories in an extended cortical network. Our model network is comprised of Potts units, which represent patches of cortex, interacting through long‐range connections.
Kwang Il Ryom +3 more
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La Commedia, le litanie, la santità: alcune riflessioni tra il Purgatorio XIII e il Paradiso XXXIII [PDF]
The purpose of this contribution is to examine traces of the litanies in two of the three canticles of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Starting from a previous study of the presence of litany in the medieval poetry, and from a theoretical study dedicated both to ...
Magdalena Maria Kubas
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"Pedro Páramo", la infernalización del purgatorio y el llamado Milagro Mexicano
El objetivo de este artículo es interpretar el uso del imaginario infernal en Pedro Páramo¸ de Juan Rulfo. La hipótesis que se defiende sostiene que el ámbito simbólico de Comala es un purgatorio infernalizado, un purgatorio sin esperanza.
Diego Octavio Pérez Hernández
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El complemento artístico a las misas de difuntos en el Perú colonial
Este artículo trata de las obras de arte que se usaban en los templos andinos para fomentar el culto cristiano a los muertos durante la época colonial. Sostenemos que estas obras jugaron un papel importante en establecer el culto como reemplazo al culto ...
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
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