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(2023)Recovering Bacon’s valorization of error can shed light on his epistemology as a whole, and even on that of research more generally. Bacon is often known popularly as having established a scientific method to direct inquiry ...
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(2023)Galileo’s abilities as a mathematician were far below that of many of his contemporaries. He made numerous technical mistakes — including several high-profile, mathematically erroneous applications of his own law of fall ...
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(2023)This essay explores the reciprocal contamination of the notions of error and erring at the beginning of the early modern time in Latin and Romance languages, through the example of the concept of “erroneous conscience”. ...
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(2023)That error could be of interest to Freemasons and Illuminati as a topic becomes evident when one sees it in the context of concepts such as prejudice, ignorance, and gullibility. The perfection of the human being was ...
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(2023)Contemporary Spanish theatre has sporadically dealt with recent or ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, but with extremely interesting results: Palestinians, Israelis, Iraqis, Moroccans, Syrians are characters that appear ...
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(2023)For Ágota Kristóf, theatrical and novel communication are not as clearly different as we would expect given the difference between the two literary genres. The first plays, written in French-speaking Switzerland starting ...
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(2023)Moby Dick Rehearsed is a magnificent experiment in the style of Orson Welles, whose talent explores in depth the texture of Melville's novel in an attempt to put it on stage. The analysis shows how the play - performed in ...
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(2023)Griselda Gambaro's La Persistencia is one of the Argentine author's most difficult works. In it, she reconstructs a historical event, the school massacre in Beslan, North Ossetia, in 2004, which claimed more than three ...
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(2023)This contribution intends to propose a reflection on the theatrical production of the Angolan Artur Carlos Pestana dos Santos, better known as Pepetela, an author who has always combined his literary vocation with his ...
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(2023)Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Elektra constitutes an important turning point in the transition from early lyric to theatre. Inspired by Sophocles' drama, but with elements more similar to Euripides', it proposes a linguistic ...
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(2023)Fernando Pessoa's "static dramas" - fourteen are currently known, all of them unfinished and fragmentary, except The Sailor - mirror the heteronymism that characterises, in a broad sense, his entire work. A theatre of ...
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(2023)Originally performed at London Hampstead Theatre on 3 December 2013, Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line dramatizes the Partition of India in two distinct nation-states after the Independence in a lush production that ...
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(2023)This article is an attempt to analyse the text ¿Qué haré yo con esta espada? (Aproximación a la Ley y al problema de la Belleza) by Angélica Liddell from the perspective of Erich Fromm's psychoanalysis, with particular ...
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(2024)The contribution overturns the narrative of the origins of the Florentine studium as a substantial 'failure'. Its events did not represent a particular case: as in other European cities of the late Middle Ages, the university ...
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(2024)The essay reconstructs broadly The history of cultural life in Florence in the 16th-19th centuries and underlines why the system of government and power in the modern Florence had no need for a university that gave academic ...
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(2024)The essay is devoted to reconstructing the events of the Istituto di Studi superiori, especially from an institutional and political point of view. It highlights its specificity on an administrative and financial level ...
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(2024)The article describes the history of higher education in Florence from the beginning of the twentieth century until the mid-1920s, when the ancient Institute of Higher Studies, founded in 1859, was transformed into a modern ...
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(2024)In 1931, none of the Florentine academics refused to take the oath of allegiance to Fascism, as very few did throughout Italy. Yet, just six years earlier, the signatories of the so-called Croce manifesto from the University ...
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(2024)The essay aims at reconstructing the history of the University of Florence, from the fall of fascism on July 25th 1943 to the post-World War II period. At the center of this path lies Piero Calamandrei's Rettorato, which ...
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(2024)Between the 1950’s and the 1970’s, Italian university students’ population grew up to mass levels, and passed from less than 250,000 to over one million. The University of Florence even faced higher growth rates, and ...
