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The Fashioning of the Humanist Governor at the Dawn of a New Political and Cultural Era: Francesco Barbaro as Podestà of Venetian Vicenza

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 473-492, September 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Coping with aliens: how a native gecko manages to persist on Mediterranean islands despite the Black rat?

open access: yesActa Herpetologica, 2019
How a native gecko manages to coexist with an alien rodent in the Mediterranean since thousands of years? What kind of eco-ethological adaptations or evolutionary adjustments enables this gecko to persist?
Michel-Jean Delaugerre   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Saluto [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Saluto del prof. Attilio Mastino, Direttore del Dipartimento di Storia dell'Università degli Studi di Sassari, in apertura dell' 11.
Mastino, Attilio
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Irony, historiography, and political criticism : The Porcaria coniuratio [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article examines Leon Battista Alberti’s 'Porcaria coniuratio', the historical epistle on Stefano Porcari’s conspiracy against Nicholas V, which was discovered by the pope before the conspirators could carry out the plot, in January 1453.
Celati, Marta
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Sulle ragioni geografiche della Storia romana

open access: yesBollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 1884
Filippo Porena
doaj   +1 more source

Le sepolture di epoca romana ad est della Curia presso il Santuario di S. Vittoria (Serri, CA): survey e rilievo delle strutture, settembre-ottobre 2016

open access: yesLayers. Archeologia Territorio Contesti, 2018
: This article describes the preliminary survey conducted on field by the author in Serri in the sanctuary of Santa Vittoria, as part of the activities of Greek and Roman Archaeology of the University of Cagliari.
Dario D'Orlando
doaj   +1 more source

La Sardegna romana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Prospettiva sulla storia della Sardegna e della Corsica: i rapporti delle due isole con Roma risalgono ad alcuni secoli prima della nascita della provincia romana e sono legati ai tentativi di colonizzazione lungo la costa orientale della Corsica e anche
Mastino, Attilio
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Threatened and extinct amphibians and reptiles in Italian natural history collections are useful conservation tools

open access: yesActa Herpetologica, 2022
Natural history museums are irreplaceable tools to study and preserve the biological diversity around the globe and among the primary actors in the recognition of species and the logical repositories for their type specimens.
Franco Andreone   +43 more
doaj   +1 more source

The New Science of Virtues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Although Vico\u2019s New Science (NS) has been interpreted from the standpoint of practical philosophy, his treatment of moral virtues has largely been overlooked.
Bassi, Romana
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Ordo renascendi est crescere posse malis (Rutilius Namatianus I.140): the sack of Rome and the resilience of western Roman aristocracies

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 139-157, May 2025.
Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western ...
Sophie Kultzen
wiley   +1 more source

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