This book reviewed discusses the life of Angelo Poliziano who was a leading humanist in Lorenzo de' Medici's Flroence. Poliziano was brought into the household of Lorenzo as a secretary and tutor for the Medici children in the early 1470's.

This thesis focuses on the Summa Angelica de casibus conscientie written by Angelo da Chivasso (d. 1495), first printed in 1486. Angelo belonged to the Observantine branch of the Franciscan Order and was its vicar general four times. Having documented Angelo's life and career, the thesis centres on the construction and purpose of his Summa. It assesses its originality within the tradition of confession manuals and the reasons for its popularity. It argues that the structure is very clear because Angelo intended it for the use of simplices confessores, by which he probably meant priests who did not have a university degree. He arranged his material alphabetically and in the longer sections, paragraphs were numbered, making cross-referencing easy. He included a list of authorities and explained the manner of quoting from them. Not all these features were original, but together they helped to make the Summa popular. There are several noteworthy features of Angelo's Summa. The procedures described had been laid down in earlier manuals, including the need for more rigorous questions - ad status – relating to the profession of each penitent and where this might lead to sin. Angelo however diverged from some earlier authorities by warning about excessive rigour. Circumstances were to be taken into account, and where possible penitents to be given the benefit of the doubt. The number of copies of Angelo's Summa printed throughout Western Christendom during his lifetime and following his death are a tribute to its importance. The period of fame however, was short. Martin Luther was a particularly virulent critic of the Summa, and the Catholic Church changed the method of hearing confessions, making much of it redundant, though it survived for some centuries more as a work of reference for confessors.

This research portrays a paradigm for the assessment of aging services to support populations aging in place. The dissertation was designed to establish a model to identify and evaluate senior ready communities. Area specific social programs and services are identified. In order to meet the growing needs of aging populations, the dynamic representation of existing services and the need for services that could be developed in certain communities require reevaluation in current planning, restructuring, and/or community development.

The purpose of this dissertation is to conduct a study of the history of the girls’ magazine Cordelia (1881–1942), founded in Florence by Angelo De Gubernatis. The analysis mainly focuses on the years 1881–1917; however, the latter period is also briefly treated. The theoretical framework consists of sociology of literature and gender history; the dissertation belongs to the field of history of publishing, which is integrated with a gender historical perspective. The methodological challenges faced when dealing with periodicals as research objects are also considered. In order to achieve bibliographic control and examine Cordelia’s contents and contributors, all issues of the magazine’s first 36 years were indexed. The study examines the commercial strategies of the magazine’s publishers, as well as the contributions of the chief editors and writers involved in the making of the magazine. Attention is drawn to the personal relationships between the individuals in these groups. As is shown, the magazine was not very successful in its first three years of publication, during the editorship of De Gubernatis. The two editors who followed, Ida Baccini and Jolanda (pseudonym for Maria Maiocchi Plattis), did succeed, however, in creating a familiar and attractive product for the young female public and to involve them in their magazine. Quantitative surveys of the contributors and contents have shown, for instance, that Baccini and Jolanda relied on regular contributions from relatively few writers and also published serial fiction to arouse the readers’ interest. Their comprehension of the potential of the periodical and the importance of their gender in addressing their readers, together with the capacity of long-time publisher Cappelli to develop commercial strategies to boost sales, seem to have been the reason for the longevity and success of Cordelia.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1978. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-409).

This thesis reconstructs the Prague premiere of the opera Tiefland by Eugen d'Albert and describes how this performance differed from earlier ones. The sources cited are original materials from the archives of the National Theatre including musical scores and references from the contemporary press. The thesis also provides an overview of opera premieres and the repertory of the Neues Deutsches Theater in the period 1888-1910 and details of d'Albert's visit to Prague before the time of the Tiefland premiere.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 antonio.pdf: 5926373 bytes, checksum: e6b6ebc1ebc01dfe122f88bf7c4cbfc6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-01-21 / Along the historical development of the Brazilian nation constitution, from nineteen century, accentuate idealizations of building a society based on progress and civilization basics. At various times and in different ways, social ideals were projected for the nation in construction, which was formed in policies of the elites associated with the Imperial government and in economy based on slavery. Such notions that formed, at the same time, the basis of ideal departure and the end of destination, were benchmarks taken in Europe, particularly in France, where the development of the art industrial hinder a firm pace of constant acceleration, signaling an irreversible process of progress and civilization. In this context, as justifying the option for the imported models, the caipira, social subject relegated to the historical ostracism, is going to be used as a representation of the non-progress and the non-civilized. This study seeks then to interpret, within the benchmark methodology of Depth Hermeneutics, and within the conceptual structures developed in Cultural History, as symbolic expressions built with the image of caipira had potential to operate as ideology, in this specific social and historic context / Ao longo do desenvolvimento histórico de constituição da nação brasileira, a partir do século XIX, acentuam-se idealizações de construção de uma sociedade baseada nas noções de progresso e civilização. Em diversos momentos e de diferentes modos, projetavam-se ideais sociais para a nação em construção, que se formava nas políticas das elites associadas ao governo Imperial e numa economia fundamentada na escravidão. Essas noções que constituíam, ao mesmo tempo, a base ideal de partida e o termo de destino, eram referenciais tomados da Europa, especialmente da França, onde o desenvolvimento da técnica industrial entrava numa cadência firme de aceleração constante, sinalizando um processo irreversível de progresso e civilização. Neste contexto, como que uma justificativa da opção pelos modelos importados, o caipira, sujeito social relegado a um ostracismo histórico, passa a ser utilizado como representação do não progresso e do não civilizado. Este estudo procura, então, interpretar, dentro do referencial metodológico da Hermenêutica de Profundidade, e dos arcabouços conceituais desenvolvidos na História Cultural, como que as expressões simbólicas construídas com a imagem do caipira tinham potencial para operar como ideologia neste contexto social e histórico específico

Il presente studio ha posto come obiettivo di delineare gli sviluppi della commedia plautino-terenziana nel periodo post-tridentino esaminando le commedie di Luigi Groto il Cieco di Adria (1541-1585). Il periodo di primo Cinquecento vide il «recupero» e la «reinvenzione» della commedia che partì dal modello plautino, adattando ai bisogni del tempo e del pubblico del Rinascimento. All'inizio del Cinquecento prevalse la commedia «motoria» di Plauto basata sull'intreccio, sulle beffe e sull'azione. quando la struttura della commedia iniziò a irrigidirsi, il modello pralutino venne approfondito usando elementi della «stataria», di modello terenziano, basata sullo studio dei caratteri. Tale cambiamento avvenne anche all'interno di alcuni letterati del secolo, Angelo Beolco e Pietro Aretino, entrambi fondamentali per la presente analisi. Le tre commedie in questione, composte da Luigi Groto sono molto diverse tra di loro. Ogni capitolo del presente studio analizzerà una sola commedia e ciascuna da un solo punto di vista. Il primo capitolo avrà come oggetto la proposta linguistica del Groto presentata nella sua prima commedia, intitolata La Emilia, opera di stampo chiaramente ariostesco. Nel secondo capitolo potremo conoscere il quadro offerto dal confronto di diverse concezioni della donna. Nella seconda commedia del Groto, intitolata Il Thesoro, infatti, saranno confrontate una vasta gamma di personaggi femminili, tra cui la più trasgressiva, Licinia, la giovane malmaritata. Questa commedia, chiaramente, è di stampo aretinesco. Il terzo capitolo esaminerà la struttura «hedonistica» de La Alteria, una metacommedia per eccellenza di stampo formalmente terenziano, ma con influssi dei tre maestri: Ariosto, Beolco e Aretino. / The aim of the present study is to define the development of the comedy of Plauto-Terencian origin after the Council of Trent. It will examine the comedies of Luigi Groto, comparing them with other comedies of the Sixteenth Century. There was a reinvention of the comedy based on the Plautian model in the first half of the Cinquecento. The model (called motoria), which was full of effects and lively with action, was adapted to the needs of the era and the public taste. Subsequently this model was enriched by patterns of the Terencian comedy called stataria. The stataria, differently from the motoria, gave more room to characters and to reflections of the comedy itself. Some playwrights, i.e. Angelo Beolco and Pietro Aretino, both fundamental for the study, followed this development in their plays. The three comedies that we are going to analyse, differ from each other. Every chapter is going to examine only one comedy and only from one point of view. In the first chapter, we are going to analyse the language of comedy that Groto proposed in the La Emilia (1579). This play is based on Ludovico Aroisto's elaboration of Plautus. In the second chapter, we are going to look at different perceptions of female characters in the Il Thesoro (1583), Groto's second comedy. We will see how the change in the importance of women on stage modified the other characters. In the last chapter we are going to interpret how the La Alteria (1587), based on Terence and Aretino, became a pure metacomedy, and how its hedonistic structure was influenced by Ariosto, Aretino and Beolco.

Le sculpteur français Juan de Juni (1507-1577) s’installa en Espagne au début du Siècle d’Or. Après quelques travaux au gré de son itinérance, il établit son atelier à Valladolid en 1540. L’artiste contribua à l’émergence de « l’École de Sculpture de Valladolid ». Il réalisa au total en Espagne une cinquantaine d’œuvres, principalement en bois polychrome, consacrées à la Passion du Christ et au culte marial. Précisément, notre travail de thèse consiste à ne pas restreindre son œuvre à la sphère artistique ibérique mais au contraire à montrer le caractère cosmopolite et la polyvalence stylistique du sculpteur ; pour cela, nous cherchons à faire la lumière sur son parcours de formation (1507-1533), depuis ses premières œuvres dans sa région natale jusqu’à son établissement à Valladolid / French sculptor Juan de Juni (1507-1577) settled in Spain at the beginning of the Golden Century. He sculpted a few works as his route took him until he reached Valladolid where he installed his workshop in 1540. The artist contributed to the emergence of the “Sculpture Academy of Valladolid”. He made fifty works in Spain in all, mostly in polychromatic wood, dedicated to the Passion of Christ and the cult of marriage. Our Ph-D study does not precisely consist in restricting his work to the Iberian artistic sphere but on the opposite in showing the cosmopolitan nature and stylistic versatility of the sculptor; in that aim we try to get right to the bottom of his career path (1507-1533), starting with his first works in his native region to his establishment in Valladolid

This is a case study on the functioning of political parties and the aim was to explain “how” and “why” the Swedish social democratic party changed their policies in the Middle East politics. I wanted to explain this process of change by using Angelo Panebianco’s framework for the analysis of political parties. Angelo Panebianco´s hypothesis is that all parties must be viewed as organizations to understand their functions. With time they become more institutionalized and depending on their historic development they will end up as more or less institutionalized. If this change showed that the social democratic party acted as a bureaucratic and institutionalized organization, Panebianco’s organizational theory would explain the change of their Middle East politics. In my case study I have used a qualitative analysis of the content to interpret my material of measuring parties’ institutionalization level as “high” or “low” within the two different areas; organizational dilemmas and the dominant coalition. My conclusion is that the social democratic party has indications both of a “high” institutionalized organization and as a “low” institutionalized organization, still they have a relatively dominant coalition. My study demonstrates that Angelo Panebianco´s organizational theory can not fully explain “how” and “why” the Social democratic party changed their Middle East politics.