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Motto “Grant Mersi” nel soffitto dipinto dello Steri di Palermo
2019
Descrizione e contestualizzazione dell'unica iscrizione in lingua d'oil presente nel soffitto dipinto della sala magna dello Steri a Palermo, fatto realizzare da Manfredi III Chiaramonte tra 1377 e 1380.
La scena del sogno nel Mercator plautino
1987
Dopo avere chiario la problematica relativa al sogno del Mercator plautino, finora analizzato esclusivamente sotto il profilo filologico e misconosciuto in rapporto al sogno drlla Rudens, esamino le apparenti incongruenze plautine alla luce della modernateoria interpretativa dei sogni.
Maarit Verrosen Pimeästä maasta lajien risteyksessä
2008
Measures of the Massive Mountain in Aleksis Kivi’s Play Kullervo
2022
The story of a prisoner inside an enormous steel mountain is embedded in Kullervo, an early Finnish tragedy by 19th-century author Aleksis Kivi. I focus here on the exceptional size of the mountain, as told by the main character, Kullervo. Although the embedded story has aroused admiration in research, the mountain’s size and form do not appear to have done so. If taken literally, and assuming the shape of a double pyramid, at a minimum, the mountain’s surface area would be between that of Earth and Uranus, a planet that Kivi was somehow aware of. The mountain’s maximum surface area and volume would greatly exceed that of the Sun. This mountain cannot be localized in the near environment of…