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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Modernism
(2022)
The book meticulously analyses the history of the critical reception of avantguard art through the interpretations received by one of its greatest emblems, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso, 1907. Since Les Demoiselles ...
Plants and vegetation of NW Ethiopia
(2022)
Pichi Sermolli’s work with his more than 2750 collections of plants from nearly 150 localities on the Lake Tana expedition in Ethiopia in 1937 was interrupted by World War II, but completed in 1947 at the Royal Botanic ...
Networks of bishops, networks of texts
(2022)
This volume is the first one in a collection connected to the PRIN project on Ruling in hard times. Patterns of Power and practices of government in the making of Carolingian Italy. Its focus lays on bishops and their ...
Chapter Forms of government and rhetoric: perceptions of democracy and oligarchy in Demosthenes
(2022)
Demosthenes is recognized as a defender of Athenian democracy and freedom, particularly in voicing his concern about the growth of Macedonian power. While the defence of democracy is a recurring theme in his speeches, ...
Chapter Lothar’s manuscripts, manuscripts for Lothar, manuscripts of Lothar’s time
(2022)
This paper aims to give an account of some of the manuscripts related to Lothar. In its first section an attempt is made at retracing a set of books that could have belonged to Lothar’s library, nowadays known only from ...
Chapter Uniting past and present: Sicily as a locus of identity between Greece and Rome
(2022)
Basing on the accounts of Thucydides and Plutarch, the paper analyses the way Sicily and the proposed Athenian expedition to Sicily, as a strategic bridge to advance over Carthage, define Nicias and Alcibiades, and what ...
Chapter The Appeasement Puzzle and Competition Neglect
(2022)
Recent studies indicate that British appeasement towards Hitler followed a buying-time logic, i.e., it tried to postpone confrontation until Great Britain improved its military position through rearmament. However, this ...
Chapter Damasias and Thales: stasis and sophia at the term of Solon’s apodemia
(2022)
This paper addresses an obscure aspect surrounding Solon’s activity, which occurred after his political and legislative activity and before his opposition to Pisistratus’ moves towards tyranny. It tackles, more specifically, ...
Chapter Episcopal authority and networks in Carolingian times: recent approaches and perspectives
(2022)
This paper introduces the volume, aiming first of all at presenting the historiographical framework in which the collected essays are placed and the common questions around which they revolve, with particular regard to ...
