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Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and ApplicationsThe delivery of peptides via non-invasive administration routes remains a challenge to be addressed. In this regard, chitosan nanoparticles (CS NPs) have shown promise.
Giorgia Maurizii +6 more
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 216-236, April 2025.Abstract This article discusses the relationship between women and their garments by examining written, visual, and material sources about dress drawn from the historical records of the Malatesta family. The objective of this research is to understand whether women of this House had any degree of autonomy regarding the garments that they chose to ‘self‐
Elisa Tosi Brandi
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Women Suppliers to Medieval Courts: Making Visible Ducal and Royal Power
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 33-49, March 2025.Abstract This article analyses under‐studied women suppliers to medieval courts, with a focus on Burgundian and French courts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through its archival research, it identifies over a hundred women involved in creating, supplying and repairing objects.
Katherine A. Wilson
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Giovanni Pontano hears the street soundscape of Naples
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 519-540, September 2024.Abstract Giovanni Pontano’s dialogue Antonius can be read almost as a thick description of the soundscape of a Neapolitan street in the mid‐ to late‐15th century, complete with public announcements, street performers, domestic arguments, workers’ banter, charms and spells, processions, errand boys, bells, clocks, cockerels, and much more.
Tim Shephard, Melany Rice
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‘De voluptate aurium’: The sounds of heaven in a 1501 sensory treatise on the afterlife
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 595-629, September 2024.Abstract In his De gloria et gaudiis beatorum, printed in 1501, the clergyman Zaccaria Lilio explores a popular topic in the religious life of Renaissance Italy: what is heaven like and what kind of experience awaits the blessed there? And his answer represents a snapshot of a characteristic manner in which heaven was imagined in the period, both in ...
Laura Ștefănescu
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Leon Battista Alberti, la geometria del Rinascimento
, 2022 Una nuova concezione delle arti e dell'artista. Leon Battista Alberti è sicuramente uno tra i più importanti umanisti del Rinascimento: matematico, filosofo, musicista, erudito, amante e cultore degli autori classici, fu pittore, scultore e ...
Luca Ribichini
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A question of genre: Philip Melanchthon's oratorical debut at Wittenberg University
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 363-378, June 2024.Abstract The speech Philip Melanchthon gave on 29 August 1518 at the University of Wittenberg to initiate his professorship is an impressive piece of humanist idealism. Already its title, De corrigendis adolescentiae studiis (On the reform of the studies for the young) reveals his earnest ambitions in introducing reform.
Isabella Walser‐Bürgler
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 379-393, June 2024.Abstract In 2020 Renaissance Studies [34 (2020): 243–59] published an essay entitled “Lorenzo de' Medici and Inheritance Law in Florence,” discussing the use of legislation by Lorenzo de' Medici to advantage Carlo Borromei in inheritance from his uncle, to the disadvantage of his cousin, Beatrice, who was married to a Pazzi.
Thomas Kuehn
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A Short Synthesis of (−)‐6,7‐Secoagroclavine via Metal‐Free Reductive Coupling
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Volume 27, Issue 13, April 2, 2024.Two Csp3−Csp2 and Csp3−H bonds are formed on the same carbon atom by reacting the tosylhydrazone of chiral Uhle's ketone with 2,2‐dimethylethenylboronic acid. This metal‐free reductive coupling afforded an unexplored disconnection for the asymmetric synthesis of (−)‐6,7‐secoagroclavine. Abstract A concise, convergent, and enantioselective synthesis of (
Francesca Diotallevi +2 more
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Matteo Ricci's Depictions of Alexander the Great in Late Ming China☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 227-244, April 2024.Abstract This article primarily focuses on the origin, the earliest dissemination and the accommodation of European Alexander texts in imperial China by Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552–1610). After providing an overview of the Chinese Alexander traditions, it first examines the sources of inspiration for Ricci's choice of Alexander as the prominent ...
Yaliang Fu
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