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Oltre le mura della Valletta: architettura religiosa a malta nella prima metà del seicento
2020
Between the end of the sixteenth century and the first half of the Seventeenth Century, the intense building activity that affected the Maltese archipelago favored the diffusion of the innovations introduced in the projects for Valletta. The construction of new parish churches offered numerous opportunities for the experimentation of Renaissance architectural language, through the use of new decorative repertoires and the models offered by Italian treatises.
Une coupe du XVIe siècle
1991
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L'encomio, la guerra, la catastrofe. L'Orlando furioso poema della crisi del potere
2020
L’Orlando furioso, specie nella sua edizione definitiva, è il poema della crisi del Rinascimento: riflette la drammatica situazione politica in cui versavano gli stati italiani, fino a farsene a suo modo interprete, pur senza mai derogare del tutto alle regole che il genere letterario al quale appartiene gli impone. Molti studi recenti hanno indagato, infatti, proprio questi aspetti del poema, generalmente trascurati dalla tradizione critica pregressa, smentendo quelle interpretazioni, talvolta corrive, dell’Orlando furioso quale grande poema della leggerezza, opera archetipica di un fantastico che rifuggirebbe qualsivoglia implicazione profonda con la storia, con il proprio tempo e con la …
Gilding and pigments of Renaissance marble of Abatellis Palace: non-invasive investigation by XRF spectrometry
2012
Most of the artworks constituting the collection of Renaissance statuary of Abatellis Palace in Palermo (Sicily) show evidence of colour layers and fragments of gold foil that probably once covered the whole marble surface. The restoration of some of these statues has allowed to carry out archaeometric studies about the painting technique and to highlight the original materials and inclusion present on the precious marbles by two famous Italian sculptors of the Renaissance, Francesco Laurana and Antonello Gagini. The measurements have been performed in situ through the integrated use of two non-invasive techniques: visible fluorescence stimulated by ultraviolet light and X-ray fluorescence.…
The death penalty in Valencia (1450-1500), numbers, urban spaces and funeral ritualities from the Brotherhood of Innocents and Helpless
2021
Mediante una combinación de fuentes documentales de origen y procedencia diversa, se han computado fehacientemente 737 ejecuciones en Valencia entre los años 1450 y 1500. El artículo analiza este aspecto de la realidad social, judicial y política de la Valencia del Renacimiento a la luz de los recientes planteamientos historiográficos sobre la materia. Se destaca el impacto del Santo Oficio (a partir de 1482) dentro del contexto penal de la ciudad, se analiza el papel restaurador y reconciliador de la Cofradía de Inocentes y Desamparados, y se aborda la contribución de esta singular hermandad a la re-significación de los espacios urbanos y periurbanos. Through a combination of documentary s…
¿Se atrapa antes a un mentiroso que a un cojo? Mentira, engaño, sinceridad y verdad en Los ensayos de Michel de Montaigne
2021
espanolLos estudios actuales sobre la mentira priman su lado epistemico y desatienden los aspectos morales. Tal distincion es clara en los intentos de diferenciar la mentira de la intencion de enganar, y tienen como contrapartida una concepcion de la verdad realista. Por ello, las interpretaciones que cuestionan o minimizan la existencia de la Verdad tienden a ser rechazadas, y parece que tampoco podrian abordar satisfactoriamente la mentira. En este articulo cuestionaremos dicha asuncion, mostrando como un autor del Renacimiento, Michel de Montaigne, sostiene una perspectiva “negadora” de la verdad y critica la mentira, precisamente destacando su dimension moral. EnglishCurrent studies on …
Electron Crystallography – New Methods to Explore Structure and Properties of the Nano World
2012
Electron crystallography, as the branch of science that uses electron scattering, developed in the last century into a manifold and powerful approach to study the structure of matter. Major historical milestones of this development are discussed. Especially electron diffraction experienced recently a renaissance and grew into an established method of structure analysis. The techniques of data collection and processing available nowadays are described.
Les glosses al Cant de Joan Antoni Almela en el quart centenari de la canonització de sant Vicent Ferrer (València, 1855)
2018
[Resumen] Existe una larga tradición en catalán de glosas explicativas a palabras consideradas obscuras o anticuadas en textos literarios antiguos. Esta tradición se remonta al siglo XVI, con la publicación de la obra de Ausiàs March, a causa del cambio de modelo de lengua literaria que se produce con el Renacimiento. Esta clase de glosas continúan durante los siglos XVII, XVIII y XIX, con una finalidad sobre todo actualizadora, para facilitar la lectura de los textos antiguos al lector moderno. El poeta valenciano del siglo XIX Joan Antoni Almela, comprometido con la restauración de la lengua literaria a partir del modelo de los clásicos, se vale también de este recurso para facilitar al l…
Il Rinascimento polacco: un'opportunità perduta per un rinnovamento culturale?
2020
A massive Polish presence in Italy, particularly during the 16th and 17th century, is the fact often referred to when the roots of Polish humanist culture is under discussion. Indeed, Poland has been the only state in Central and Eastern Europe which absorbed on a larger scale the ideals of the Renaissance. However, the assimilation of Italian culture was the case, as it seems, in just a certain number of students, particularly those who had contacts with the University of Padova and the culture which flourished in the Republic of Venice. The element that distinguished the Poles from the others was the idea of struggle, mainly spiritual struggle, in connection with the post-Tridentine cultu…
Pectin: A Long-Neglected Broad-Spectrum Antibacterial.
2020
First reported in the late 1930s and first partly explained in 1970, the antibacterial activity of pectin remained almost ignored until the late 1990s. The concomitant emergence of research on natural antibacterials and on new usages of pectin polysaccharides, including those in medicine widely researched in Russia, has led to a renaissance of research in the physiological properties of this uniquely versatile polysaccharide ubiquitous in plants and fruits. Collecting scattered information, this study provides an updated overview on the subtle factors affecting the behaviour of pectin as antimicrobial. Less degraded pectin extracted via acid-free routes, we argue in the conclusions, will so…