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(2025)The essay analyses the phenomenon of sports doping from both a bioethical and biojurical point of view, within the broader philosophy of sport. The definition of doping and its qualification and classification is examined ...
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(2025)The main purpose of this paper is analyze the new article 33 of the Italian Constitution, which posed a recognition of the sporting activity and its «educational and social value and its role in supporting physical and ...
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(2025)This paper aims to assess the state of research in the field of sports history in Italy, taking as its starting point the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Società italiana di storia dello sport (Siss). Its goal ...
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(2025)The “Super League” case has initiated by some of the leading European football clubs with the aim of creating a new international competition alternative to those organized by FIFA and UEFA. In its judgment of 21 December ...
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(2025)The essay illustrates the evolution of the crime of forgery in corporate communications, by analysing the changes it has undergone over time; according to established case law, despite legislative intervention, the so-called ...
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(2025)The paper examines the relationship between sports justice and state jurisdiction, taking into account both the traditional system and the more recent provisions introduced by Legislative Decree No. 220 of 2003. After ...
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(2025)Viktor Shklovsky’s Marko Polo (1936) is a polyphonic work that disguises the biography of the Venetian explorer as a sophisticated formalist literary exercise. Conceived in a politically hostile climate, the book masks its ...
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(2025)Following in the footsteps of a traveller from the past is also a way to rethink the meaning and transformations of the tradition of travel writing. For many writers, the figure of Marco Polo has been the meta-literary ...
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(2025)Marco Polo’s Writing of the World contains detailed description of his visit to the Mongol Yuan Empire, and his stay in Asia for almost two decades. During his travels, he never visited the Korean peninsula and made no ...
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(2025)Seven hundred years after his death, Marco Polo re-emerges as a medial figure activating new narratives between East and West. Drawing on Orientalism and Occidentalism, this paper explores how his image functions today as ...
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(2025)This essay examines the presence and function of Marco Polo in Italian literature, focusing in particular on works and authors from the second half of the twentieth century, from Primo Levi to Italo Calvino, Franco Fortini ...
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(2025)The essay reviews the publishing projects and major new books produced to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death, focusing on Marco Polo and Venice. It is divided into three sections: a brief presentation ...
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(2025)The paper recalls the various phases in the diffusion of knowledge about Marco Polo’s journey. It especially highlights his later discovery in China, which occurred only during the eighteenth century and was made by ...
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(2025)The essay analyzes Invisible Cities as a “rebuilding” of Marco Polo’s Milione. Starting from the paratexts it reconstructs Calvino’s relationship with Polo’s text, focusing on the illustrated 1954 Einaudi Milione. While ...
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(2025)The essay investigates Maria Bellonci’s engagement with the Polian text, with particular attention to the twofold work she carried out in 1982: the rewriting of the Milione into modern Italian, and the narrative recasting ...
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(2025)When missionaries arrived in China in the mid-16th century, the Ming Empire was unknown to Europeans and very different from the Cathay described by Marco Polo. The Venetian's text was well known to the missionaries who ...
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(2025)Introduced in the 19th century, Marco Polo’s Devisement dou monde was utilized by Chinese historians to reconstruct China’s past and Silk Road history. This paper surveys the evolution of Chinese scholarship on it over the ...
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(2025)During the Middle Ages, Devisement dou monde by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa circulated widely through numerous translations into various languages. Among these, the Latin versions are particularly significant, ...
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(2025)This paper was written in Spanish for a lecture in Málaga. From the Consolatio uxoris we learn that Plutarch and Timoxena had one single daughter, who was born after four sons and only lived to be two years old. Since in ...
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Chapter Traduzioni e riusi del «Grillo» di Plutarco nel Rinascimento fiorentino: Machiavelli e Gelli(2025)Plutarch’s works were well known in the Florentine Renaissance, and were translated into Italian many times. The mythical dialogue Gryllus was highly appreciated and imitated. Machiavelli, the famous writer, repeatedly ...
