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Review Of Printers Without Borders: Translation And Textuality In The Renaissance, Joshua Reid Oct 2018

Review Of Printers Without Borders: Translation And Textuality In The Renaissance, Joshua Reid

Joshua S. Reid

Review of Selene Scarsi . Translating Women in Early Modern England: Gender in the Elizabethan Versions of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso. Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies Series. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. x + 207 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6620–2.

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Datación Del Príncipe: Inicio Y Culminación, William J. Connell Dec 2012

Datación Del Príncipe: Inicio Y Culminación, William J. Connell

William Connell

This article establishes a new, more precise date
for the completion of Machiavelli’s work on The
Prince. Newly discovered documents in Florentine
Archives from July 1515 reveal that Niccolò
Machiavelli and his family were struggling to deal
with an unexpected crisis that had befallen them
in the previous several months. That crisis must
have been none other than the failure of
Machiavelli’s Prince to win favor with the book’s
dedicatee, Lorenzo de’ Medici the Younger. The
presentation of the book to Lorenzo can now be
dated between 15 May 1515 and 3 July 1515, and
probably toward the beginning of …

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The Eternity Of The World And Renaissance Historical Thought, William J. Connell Dec 2010

The Eternity Of The World And Renaissance Historical Thought, William J. Connell

William Connell

This essay suggests that the Renaissance revolution in historical thought was encouraged by contemporary debates over the Aristotelian-Averroistic doctrine of the eternity of the world. In the early Renaissance eternalism came to be understood as a proposition with controversial consequences not only for the creation of matter e nihilo but also for the record of historical time. Modern scholarship, following Momigliano, believes that understandings of time had little effect on the practice of ancient historians. But that was not the view of Orosius, the most widely read historian during the Middle Ages, who condemned the pagan historians for their eternalism. …

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Translating Women In Early Modern England: Gender In The Elizabethan Versions Of Boiardo, Ariosto And Tasso, Joshua S. Reid Dec 2010

Translating Women In Early Modern England: Gender In The Elizabethan Versions Of Boiardo, Ariosto And Tasso, Joshua S. Reid

Joshua S. Reid

Book Review of Translating Women in Early Modern England: Gender in the Elizabethan Versions of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso, by Selene Scarsi.

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Still Figures: Photography, Modernity And Gender In Neera’S Fotografie Matrimoniali, Silvia Valisa Jan 2010

Still Figures: Photography, Modernity And Gender In Neera’S Fotografie Matrimoniali, Silvia Valisa

Silvia Valisa

This essay discusses author Neera's early novel "Fotografie matrimoniali" (1883) in light of its ambiguous engagement with modernity. I argue that modernity takes on different meanings and ideological connotations in the text, in particular in its discussion of gender, while participating in a nationalist rhetoric that simultaneously gives room to and ‘frames’ its female subjects. I thus investigate how the representation of gender roles is impacted by the changes brought forward by modernity, and discuss whether Neera’s formal (photographic) choice succeeds in opening a different narrative and ideological space.

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The Writing Center Director’S Resource Book, Joshua S. Reid Dec 2008

The Writing Center Director’S Resource Book, Joshua S. Reid

Joshua S. Reid

Book Review of The Writing Center Director’s Resource Book, edited by C. Murphy and B. L. Stay.

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Efigie De Luigi Corsaro, Leysser L. Leon Jan 2007

Efigie De Luigi Corsaro, Leysser L. Leon

Leysser L. León

Ha fallecido en Perugia, a los 72 años, el Prof. Luigi Corsaro (1940-2012), que auspició y dirigió mis investigaciones jurídicas e interdisciplinarias por seis años (2000-2005). En el 2007, a pedido de una revista dirigida y editada por varios de mis alumnos más destacados, escribí estas páginas evocativas de sus enseñanzas y de su papel en mi formación académica. Las vuelvo a publicar, por este medio, confiando en que pueda difundirse entre el mayor público posible (especialmente entre los jóvenes estudiantes) la imagen de un jurista, de un Maestro cuyas lecciones universitarias y de vida me acompañarán por siempre.

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Sidney’S Poetics: Imitating Creation, Joshua S. Reid Dec 2005

Sidney’S Poetics: Imitating Creation, Joshua S. Reid

Joshua S. Reid

Book Review of Sidney’s Poetics: Imitating Creation, by Michael Mack.

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