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When other rules defend dissidents : the situation of Protestants and Orthodox Christians in the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth of the Saxon era
2018
The article address the problem of limiting the rights of Protestants and other non-Catholic Christian denominations during the reigns of two kings from the Wettin dynasty - King Augustus II (1697-1733). The process started as early as the second half of the 17th century, but it was fully accomplished in the years 1717-1736. In the article the author discussed the resolutions of the sejms and other legal acts introduced at that time, the aim of which was to eliminate dissenters from public life. The Polish monarchs were inert towards the process. It was the rulers of non - Catholic European states (Prussia, Russia and Great Britain) that helped Protestants an Orthodox Christans in Poland
Corpo a corpo. Agoni e danze cerimoniali nella Sicilia contemporanea
2018
the choreutical movements of the statues of saints are still today a constitutive and qualifying component of the ritual process of numerous Sicilian religious festivals, in particular those of Easter and the spring-summer ones of the patron saints. The races and dances of the Risen Christ and of the saints are generally accompanied by competitions, struggles, displays of virile attitudes, erotic allusions, the display of gold and evergreen fronds, the consumption of peculiar foods and desserts or a set of ritual symbols of an orgiastic nature which, in referring to an experience of the agro-pastoral world, appear as originally intended to celebrate and promote, at critical moments, the cos…
Donne e Sante: vestiti, orli e gioielli nella statuaria lignea femminile del Cinquecento nella Sicilia Occidentale
2015
Il contributo esamina la decorazione di alcune statue lignee del Cinquecento e del Seicento della Sicilia Occidentale che, al pari di quelle dell'altra parte dell'Isola, offrono, malgrado ci siano giunti pochi esempi rispetto a quelli citati nei documenti, una significativa campionatura sulla ricchezza delle vesti. La decorazione dei simulacri, quasi sempre affidata all'oro e a pochi e simbolici colori, secondo la tecnica dell'estofados, riflette talvolta il gusto dell'epoca. Nel saggio, infatti, si esaminano statue femminili, perlopiù Madonne e Sante venerate nell'Isola, che, scampate all'incuria del tempo o alle drastiche ridipinture dei secoli passati e anche recenti, mostrano finissime …