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CORRESPONDENCE OF VENETIAN EMISSARIES IN CONSTANTINOPLE: TURKISMS IN THEIR EPISTLES AND THEIR LINGUISTIC FORMS IN THE BALKANS

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The political and trade ties between the Ottoman Empire and the Venetian Republic from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century significantly impacted cultural history and linguistic development.
KSENIJA AYKUT, MARIJA MITIĆ
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Cartography in the service of the Venetian State: an early 16th-century map of central and northern Dalmatia by an unknown draftsman

Geoadria, 2019
This paper analyses the manuscript map of central and parts of northern Dalmatia by an unknown author in the first decade of the 16th century. It is the oldest preserved detailed depiction of a Croatian region and is currently housed in the State ...
Kristijan Juran, Karin-edis Barzman, Josip Faričić   +2 more
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Venetian Policy in the Peloponnese at the Turn of the 15th Century

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
This article analyses the policy of the Venetian Republic in the Morea (Peloponnese), considering its territorial acquisitions of Argos and Nafplio in the late fourteenth century, as well as in connection with the increased Ottoman threat in the region ...
Tatiana Evgenievna Belorussova
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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Late Byzantine Dynastic Turmoil in the Eyes of the Grand Chancellor of the Republic of Venice

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2016
The article deals with the narrative of the intra-dynastic conflict between John V Palaiologos and his son Andronikos IV (1373–1379), as depicted in the contemporary chronicle of the Venetian Grand Chancellor Raffaino Caresini (ca. 1314–1390). The author
Dmitry Viktorovich Vozchikov
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Reading Dürer in Late Sixteenth‐Century Padua: Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582), His Library and the Annotated Institutionum geometricarum (Paris, 1535)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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Donna, che fosti tra le donne un Sole»: sui tentativi poetici giovanili di Paolo Paruta (metà XVI sec.)

Italianistica Debreceniensis, 2017
During the mid-1560s, Paolo Paruta (1540-1598), future Ambassador of the Republic of Venice in Rome (1591-1595) and author of the three books of Perfettione della Vita Politica (Venice, 1579) wrote some poems: the canzone Donna, che fosti tra le donne un
Marco Giani
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Titian's Falconer: From Zorzone to Girolamo Cornaro

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The identity of the sitter in Titian's Falconer and the issue of its dating have been subject to a false, yet very influential assumption: that The Falconer should be dated to a point as late as 1537 in order to connect it to the identity of Zorzone Cornaro (1517–1571), son of Girolamo (1485–1551).
Rachel Healy
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Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: What we know, what we don't (but should) know

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 871-899, August 2026.
Abstract In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long‐term distributive dynamics. This article highlights several promising avenues for future research, focusing on the preindustrial period.
Guido Alfani
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