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Anfione e Nivildo. Nota sui rapporti di Niccolò Jommelli con l'arcade Gioacchino Pizzi
2017
The Roman poet Gioacchino Pizzi (1716-1790) was a leading figure of the Accademia dell’Arcadia in the second half of the Eighteenth Century. His relationship with the composer Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774) is investigated for the first time. Their collaboration started in 1751 in the occasion of the creation of a “componimento drammatico” for the birthday of King Joseph I of Portugal. They worked together again in 1757, when they wrote “Il Creso”, a three-acts opera performed at the Teatro di Torre Argentina. The friendship between the man of letters and the musician is clearly described in Pizzi’s undated ode “Per la venuta in Roma del celebre maestro di cappella il signor Niccolò Jommelly”…
The Polish Nation: From a Multiethnic to an Ethnically Homogenous Nation-State
2009
In Chapter 4 I focused on the stateless noble natio of partitioned Poland-Lithuania that sought to transform itself into a Polish nation. The Polish-Lithuanian noble leaders paid lip service to the French model of the nation-state but, apart from a few lonely dissenting voices, had no intention to broaden the confines of the planned Polish nation to embrace the ‘third estate,’ that is, the peasantry and burghers. The social barrier of serfdom alone kept the nobles from associating with peasants. In the cities, a large and sometimes predominant, segment of the population was made up of German-speakers and Yiddish-speaking Jews. Their idioms disqualified them from participation in the emergin…
The Moments Which Were Never Lost
2011
From faraway Hyperborea, the North wind blows, bringing tidings from a blissful northern people in whose very being there resides a smile. The joyful days of Finnishness were left behind in Karelia, in its beloved song-lands. It is an Arcadia that still lives on in memories, passed on, in the form of stories, from one generation to the next. Yet in those unbreakable links of longing there lurks a danger: a constant temptation to deprecate and even dismiss the present moment. If your sense of the real, of the presently passing moment of the “now” is lost, then who bears the responsibility for that? An idealization of the past results in time deception, a chronological fraud where your entire…
Leaseholders in Capitalist Arcadia: Bourgeois Hegemony and Peasant Opportunities in the Valencian Countryside during the Nineteenth Century
2006
Scholars tend to interpret the European peasantry's incorporation into mass politics at the beginning of the twentieth century in terms of two equally extreme situations, citing either the peasantry's support for traditional oligarchies, or its anti-capitalist radicalism. By contrast, this article explores how the confluence between a broad network of peasant families and leased agricultural properties in the Valencian region of Spain helped generate mass support for an anti-liberal (and eventually Francoist) legal system. The authors highlight the uniqueness of the social and productive context of Valencian agriculture during the late 1800s and early 1900s, as well as the tensions that exi…
El «Libro quinto de las prosas y versos del Arcadia» de Lope de Vega : una apoteosis emblemática sin imágenes
2018
ABSTRACT: Recourse to emblematic expressive modes is a constant throughout the literary production of Lope de Vega. His pastoral romance Arcadia, especially, occupies a privileged position with regards to allusions and references to emblems, imprese and hieroglyphics (hieroglíficas), as Lope calls them on several occasions. In this respect, the end of the «Fifth Book of the Arcadia» constitutes an authentic emblematic construction with its description of twenty-one imprese painted on tablets in the Temple of Disillusionment (Templo del Desengaño), described by shepherds and shepherdesses on the occasion of an amorous disappointment endured in the course of their lives. This study analyzes t…
Un santuario di Afrodite Ericina a Psophis e la presenza di Arcadi in Sicilia da Dorieo ai Dinomenidi
1999
una notizia isolata sul culto di Afrodite Ericina in Arcadia, piuttosto che essere respinta come costruzione tarda e fantasiosa, può trovare spiegazione nel contesto delle relazioni interstatali in Sicilia nel V secolo e in particolare nell'affluenza di mercenari arcadi a Siracusa, ben attestata grazie anche ai documenti epigrafici