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El mito de Icario en la General estoria de Alfonso X
2013
This article studies the myth of Icarus as it is translated in the first part of Alfonso X's General estoria. Its analysis highlights aspects that are usually found in the mythographical episodes of the Alfonsine estoria, particularly linked with its possible sources and its internal characteristics. The latter ones are defined by the anonymity of the quote and an evident moral intention. Regarding the sources, if it is known that the mythography gets to the Alfonsine text through two paths, the gloss in the manuscripts and a mythographical work, the exact source or sources used by Alfonsine historians are still unidentified. I have begun searching where the elements that are found in no pr…
Persistenze e trasformazioni nel sistema viario tra Castronovo e le Madonie: la "via Francigena" tra xenodochia e itineraria peregrinorum
2017
The paper is focused on the route system of North and Central Sicily, from the Madonie Mountains to Vicari and Castronovo in the Early Middle Age. In this period the distribution of religious institutions along the routes shows the dynamics of a historical phase marked by new needs of military control, and the interest of the Teutonic Order.