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Irony, historiography, and political criticism : The Porcaria coniuratio [PDF]
, 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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Orpheus and 'second nature' in Francis Bacon [PDF]
, 2018 open1noWhile Francis Bacon’s interpretations of mythological figures such as those of Prometheus, Proteus and Vulcan have received quite a bit of attention by scholars, the myth of Orpheus shows a wealth of meanings almost entirely still to be explored ...
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«Gemelli cultores»: coppie agiografiche nella letteratura latina del VI secolo
Reti Medievali Rivista, 2010 Le fonti agiografiche, attentamente considerate, possono offrire un contributo non irrilevante allo studio del concetto di amicitia in ambito monastico.
Edoardo Ferrarini
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Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 109-124, March 2025.Abstract This article focuses on four individuals from France and Italy who were viewed as hermaphrodites and their attempts to become members of the Catholic clergy between c.1650 and 1720. Drawing on largely unexplored material from the archive of the Roman Congregation of the Council, this article argues that whether, and how, bodies were ...
Brendan Röder
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Chiesa romana e modernità giuridica. Vol. I: L’edificazione del sistema canonistico (1563-1903); Vol. II: Il Codex Iuris Canonici (1917). [Reseña] [PDF]
, 2010 Reseña de: Carlo Fantappiè, Chiesa romana e modernità giuridica. Vol. I: L’edificazione del sistema canonistico (1563-1903); Vol. II: Il Codex Iuris Canonici (1917), (= Biblioteca per la storia del pensiero giuridico moderno, 76), Giuffré, Milano 2008,
Sánchez-Raygada, C.H. (Carlos Hugo)
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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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The New Science of Virtues [PDF]
, 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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Survival to amputation in pre-antibiotic era: a case study from a Longobard necropolis (6th-8th centuries AD) [PDF]
, 2018 The Longobard necropolis of Povegliano Veronese dates from the 6th to the 8th centuries AD. Among the 164 tombs excavated, the skeleton of an older male shows a well-healed amputated right forearm.
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Priests and their Bodies after Trent: (Dis)abilities, Masculinities, Sexualities
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 215-227, June 2024.This article discusses the impact of a “corporeal turn” in early modern religious history on recent publications in Counter‐Reformation Catholic History. Scholars increasingly look towards the Church's legal archives in Rome as a source of information about ecclesiastical and theological attitudes to the body and sexuality. The figure of the priest has
Miles Pattenden
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HumanitiesCi sono località che per loro stessa essenza godono di un fascino particolare. Una potenza attrattiva che conduce sovente alla loro mitizzazione. In questa tipologia può essere certamente ascritta Taormina, una delle città turistiche per eccellenza della
Giuseppe Campagna
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