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The issue of mathematics textbooks in the correspondence of Giovanni Novi to Enrico Betti during the Unification of Italy
2013
The Unification of Italy represented a political, educational and mathematical turning point; leading researchers worked to raise both the mathematical and political standard in Italy through their active role in the reform of the Italian educational system at the secondary as well as at the university levels. One of the aims was to adapt the elementary books of mathematics to the progress of mathematics, through the translation of new works too. In the Archivio Betti, at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, there are 48 letters that the mathematician Giovanni Novi (1826-1866) sent his friend Enrico Betti (1823-1892) from December of 1850 to October of 1864. Novi translated important treat…
Edizioni, traduzioni e censure: Cicognara, i fratelli Giachetti e l’editoria artistica di inizio Ottocento
2018
This article focuses on Leopoldo Cicognara's role as an advisor of the Italian publisher Giachetti (Prato). After a brief analysis of three key publications (Cicognara's history of sculpture; Séroux d'Agincourt's history of medieval and early-modern Art; Winckelmann's history of ancient art), the authors discuss the role of censorship and its consequences for nineteenth-century art books. The documentary appendix includes a complete transcription of all reports by the Florentine censor p. Mauro Bernardini.
How Enlightenment is taught in Higher Education? An analysis of textbooks, their contents and gender
2017
Con el presente artículo tratamos de analizar cómo se enseña y cómo se ha enseñado el movimiento ilustrado en las aulas de secundaria de nuestro país, a través del estudio de algunos materiales curriculares de 2.º de Bachillerato correspondientes a la asignatura de Historia de España. Estos han sido elaborados en distintos momentos, los últimos años del periodo de vigencia de la Ley de Ordenación General del Sistema Educativo (1990) y en el marco de la actual Ley Orgánica para la Mejora de la Calidad Educativa (2013). Nuestro objetivo es tratar averiguar si las innovaciones aportadas por la historiografía más reciente sobre la Ilustración se han trasladado o no a los mismos. También si esto…
Pliegos poéticos de bandoleros en la Cataluña del barroco. Un ejemplo de literatura propagandística
2018
En aquest estudi s’analitza la literatura popular de bandolers de la Catalunya del segle xvii. El bandolerisme sigué un fenomen important en les primeres dècades del barroc en el Principat i la seua repercussió arribà, de manera notable, a la literatura de cordell de l’època. Aquests plecs de cordell, que tenien la missió d’arribar a tots els públics, compten amb un nombre reduït d’estudis, si tenim en compte la seua importància. Per eixa raó, l’article analitza els dos principals moments històrics que propiciaren el major auge d’edició de plecs de bandolers en vers a Catalunya, com foren les signatures de les unions i dels agermanaments contra els bandolers (1606) i el sistema repressiu de…
Accounting, gender and history: the life of Minna Canth
2009
This article introduces Minna Canth, one of the earliest businesswomen in Finland, although better known as a pioneer of Finnish realistic literature and champion of the women's movement. The historical study method is applied together with a narrative and interpretative approach to examine accounting and gender based on Minna Canth's bookkeeping and correspondence in the 1880s. Minna Canth's story brings together three realities that normally do not meet: women's everyday life, business, and literature. The study introduces an early female merchant who was knowledgeable about financial issues and managed her own business affairs independently. An intended contribution of this study to acc…
Tall Tales for a Mass Audience: Dutch Penny Prints and Spanish Aleluyas in Comparative Perspective
2021
Abstract In this article we compare Dutch penny prints with Spanish Aleluyas, focusing on three specific functions of this premodern mass medium: popularising and adapting theatre plays; standardising (folk/fairy) tales; adapting and popularising literary classics. Via these functions we address the discrepancies between the two countries considering the materiality of the penny prints, the growth of the production, but also the transition from a predominantly religious, towards a more profane content. Striking was the lack of educative and edifying initiatives in Spain in contrast to the Dutch ideological strategies. We observed some interesting similarities as well. Although in both count…
Michael Livingston / John K. Bollard (Eds.), Owain Glyndŵr. A Casebook. (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies.) Liverpool, Liverpool University Press 20…
2015
States of Division: Border and Boundary Formation in Cold War Rural Germany, by Sagi Schaefer
2017
El manuscrito del 'Cancionero de Baena' (PN1) : Descripción codicológica y evolución histórica
2018
The present article attempts to establish as accurately as possible the chronological trajectory of the unique codex of the Cancionero de Baena (PN1 in the Dutton nomenclature). It begins with a detailed examination of the codicological aspects of the manuscript, which serve to date its origin to around 1465. This origin, combined with the historical data, supports a conjecture that the manuscript probably belonged to Gonzalo de Beteta, an official of both Enrique IV and the Catholic Kings. It would have passed from him to his grandson, Jorge de Beteta y Cardenas, who gave it to the Real Biblioteca de El Escorial in 1576. The article then follows the vicissitudes of the manuscript from its …