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L’estètica emocional de la transformació: una revisitació barroca de la Faula d’Apol·lo i Dafne
2021
The well-known Sonnet XIII by Garcilaso de la Vega «A Dafne ya los brazos le crecían» was to establish the disconsolate figure of Apollo, pining for the loss of Daphne, as the literary paradigm of the pangs of love —at least in Renaissance literature in the Iberian peninsula. Thus, a century later, Francesc Fontanella revisited the Garcilaso sonnet and carried out a profoundly Baroque re-reading. The Catalan text ‘transforms’ the symmetry and order in which the Spanish sonnet describes the metamorphosis of the nymph into an inseparable amalgam between the old way of being and the new reality, between the human and the plant, and freezes the figure in mutation: neither the original form nor …
Three three-letter words in three recent novels in three different languages: God, sex and joy
2017
In this article, the authors propose to analyse the ways in which religion and sexuality are related to one another in three recent novels: (1) Fransi Phillips�s Die donker god (2007), (2) Inga �olude�s Santa Biblia (2013) and (3) Michel Houellebecq�s Soumission [English translation: Submission] (2015). In each case, the novels are briefly placed within their respective literary cultures (Afrikaans, Latvian and French) in order to offer a contextually sensitive analysis. After each of the novels has been discussed related to the three related topoi of God, sex and joy, some comparative remarks are offered in conclusion.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: In this contrib…
Nicolai Leonici Thomaei De varia historia libri tres. Nuper in lucem editi. Index insuper tum capitum, tum eorum quae notatu digna uisa sunt locuplet…
Erudite miscellany in which the author, drawing on his readings of the classics, deals with the most disparate topics of ancient history.
Gli elogi vite brevemente scritte d'huomini illustri di guerra, antichi et moderni, di mons. Paolo Giovio vescovo di Nocera
The author draws a portrait of the great men of history and literature of the Medieval and Renaissance eras.
Valerii Maximi Dictorum, factorumque memorabilium libri 9. Ad fidem optimarum editionum, & codicum manuscriptorum diligenter examinati
Moralizing collection of memorable facts and sayings, divided into 95 sections, each divided in two parts, one dedicated to Roman exempla, the other to foreigners.