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Shining castles and humans of metal/floral appearance ? metaphorical language in the Palaiologan romances Kallimachos and Velthandros
2019
About eight centuries after Heliodorus, the Greek novel resurfaced in the twelfth century, in Komnenian Byzantium, and again two centuries later under the Palaiologan dynasty. This latter literary revival was due to the political stability of the imperial Byzantine government, which promoted cultural production, rhetorical education, and patronage networks. Kallimachos and Velthandros, two Palaiologan romances presented as court literature, combine ancient and medieval tropes with rhetorical artistry to blur the boundaries between the artificial and the natural. Castles and objects made of precious metals thus resemble living, natural spaces, and human characters are portrayed in metallurgi…
Le città di nuova fondazione nella Sicilia del Seicento: committenza, progetti, istituzioni
2011
Il Seicento è per la Sicilia il secolo delle città: città riconfigurate ed ammodernate, città ricostruite, dopo tragiche catastrofi, ma soprattutto città fondate ex novo nel vasto latifondo isolano per creare comunità agrarie stabilmente insediate e socialmente controllate, seguendo una prassi certamente non inedita per l’isola; nessuna delle esperienze precedenti è però paragonabile a ciò che avvenne a partire dalla fine del XVI secolo fino agli inizi del XVIII, quando vennero fondati più di cento borghi feudali da parte dell’aristocrazia isolana, fenomeno che riguarda soprattutto il val di Mazara (corrispondente nella tradizionale divisione in valli dell’isola alla Sicilia centrale ed occ…
Música política: Los embajadores en la vida musical de los siglos Diecisiete y Dieciocho
2017
Attraverso alcuni esempi si discute la funzione della musica e del mecenatismo musicale nell'attività politico-diplomatica di un ambasciatore nel Settecento. The role of music patronage in the career of an ambassador in the 17-18 centuries is discussed, through a few exemples. Se propone una reflexión en torno al uso de la música en la labor diplomática y a su papel «político» — entre comillas — en los siglos XVII y XVIII.
PATRONAGE E CLIENTELISMO: UNA RILETTURA
2015
Nel lessico colloquiale il termine patronage – tradotto in italiano esclusivamente, e spesso equivocamente, come “padronato” o “padronaggio”, cioè come potere di disposizione fondato sull’asimmetrico “dominio patrimoniale” esercitato da qualcuno su qualcun’altro o sulla possibilità di esercitare la “protezione” di qualcuno da parte di qualcun altro – assume in realtà molti significati, spesso in funzione dell’orientamento valoriale che se ne vuole attribuire. Così, può significare appoggio, protezione o favore; ma anche, nella forma declinatasi nel rinascimento italiano, “mecenatismo”; o, ancora, e in senso dispregiativo, favoritismo, che rinvia ad un sistema di clientelismo basato, ad esem…
Devotees, A New Ordeal and A Sense of Belonging: Ethnography and Nethnography of Saint Agatha
2012
In 2004 and in 2008, the author conducted ethnographic research in Catania (Southern Italy) on one of the most important religious feasts in honor of Saint Agatha. This chapter relates Agatha's story, which is that of a Sicilian virgin martyr persecuted in the fourth century by a Roman proconsul. At the feast of St. Agatha, the three elements: the extra-ecclesial nature of popular religiosity, the transmission of knowledge through vehicles other than seminaries and other official religious institutions, and the expression of popular religiosity with signs and symbols that transmit the presence of the supernatural in everyday life, can be found. A starting point was to identify and understan…
Granting Epicurean Wisdom at Rome: Exchange and Reciprocity in Lucretius' Didactic (DRN 1.921-950)
2018
In the first book of De Rerum Natura, Lucretius describes his didactic undertaking as a metaphorical process of gift exchange (1.50-53): the obscure and salvific precepts of Epicurean philosophy, skilfully arranged in hexameters, are said to be 'gifts' (dona) that the poet has prepared with loyal zeal (studio fideli). Such a suggestive depiction of Lucretius' relationship to the work's dedicatee, Gaius Memmius, seems to reflect a relevant functional pattern of De Rerum Natura as a coherent system of communication strategies, variously readapting social models and cultural traditions. The present paper employs the interpretative approach of gift theories – the thought-provoking theories elab…
"Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" dzieło Józefa Wybickiego. Pamiętamy o polskim hymnie i jego twórcy
2022
Among national symbols, next to the emblem and colors, the anthem occupies a special place. National symbols have contributed to building a sense of identity for centuries and belonging. They express love for the homeland and integrate society. Mazurek Dąbrowski (Poland Is Not Yet Lost) has been a symbol of the society’s hope and faith in the revival of the state almost since its creation. In 2022, the Year of Józef Rufina Wybicki was celebrated in Poland, who was the author of the words of the song, which has been the anthem of Poland for nearly 100 years. For this reason, Wybicki’s biography was recalled in the anniversary article. As well as the circumstances of making him the patron of …
Lope and the Creation of Contemporary Heroes: «La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba» y «La nueva victoria del marqués de Santa Cruz»
2013
Lope defended the usefulness of history presented on stage, that is, theatre’s function of preserving and creating a collective memory. In the case of La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo and La nueva victoria del marqués de Santa Cruz, this playwright dramatized military events that took place immediately before the composition of these plays. In this article i will analyze the fundamental traits of those texts in relation to Lope’s desire to please his patrons and, at the same time, to participate in the making of a Spanish national identity, which intensified during the first years of king Philip IV’s reign through different media, among them painting and theatre. This paper ends reflecting …
Classical Legacy and Imperial Ideal in the Early Renaissance: the Artistic Patronage of Alfonso V the Magnanimous
2008
La supervivencia de la tradición clásica a lo largo de la Edad Media es uno de los grandes temas de la historia cultural de Europa. Un aspecto muy influyente del legado clásico en la Edad Media y el Renacimiento es su vinculación con la idea de imperio. La noción de la unidad perdida de la Cristiandad y el deseo de incorporar diversas identidades y tradiciones propiciaron intentos sucesivos de revindicar la tradición del Imperio Romano con el propósito de afirmar la supremacía de un poder único, personal y dinástico, de alcance teóricamente universal, opuesto a la tendencia de división de poderes políticos y territoriales en diferentes niveles característica de la Edad Media. El reinado de …
Unlocking behaviors of long-term service consumers : the role of action inertia
2017
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the antecedents of word-of-mouth (WOM) in long-term service settings. Specifically, the authors examine the moderating role of action inertia in the relationships between satisfaction and repatronage intention, satisfaction and WOM, and repatronage intention and WOM. Design/methodology/approach The proposed model was empirically tested using survey data from 1,385 telecommunications service subscribers. The data were analyzed using partial least squares path modeling. Findings Results suggest that a positive link between repatronage intention and WOM, hereto a neglected relationship in the marketing literature, in contrast to previous literat…