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(2025)The correct interpretation of the first chapters of the Consolatio uxoris allows to ascertain that Plutarch’s wife had first a miscarriage, then four sons (one of whom, named Chaeron, died as a child), and finally a daughter ...
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(2025)Plutarch severely criticizes the opinion on fortune held by both the Stoics and the Epicureans, and – while referring to both positions as ideological extremes – repeatedly hints at the Tyche seen as a force operating in ...
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(2025)This paper was written in French for a conference in Paris. Plutarch’s quotations from Me¬nander are very numerous: a com¬plete scan reveals their importance and the spiritual affinities between the two writers. Philological ...
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(2025)This paper was written in English for a conference in Leuven. Problems 3, 4, and 5 of the III book of QC resume the discussions that arose during one and the same sym¬posium. The 3rd question, raised by Florus (why women ...
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(2025)Though the Quaestiones Convivales may be considered a ‘minor work’, they nevertheless contain no less than nine books, in which Plutarch, following in the wake of Plato, Xenophon and others, collected in written form the ...
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(2025)This chapter looks at the serendipitous encounter between the surgeon Leonardo Fioravanti (1517-1588) and the magus Giambattista Della Porta (1535-1615) as a mirror reflecting a distinctively Renaissance phenomenon, one ...
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(2025)Giovan Battista Della Porta was the main promoter of the idea of “natural magic” in the sixteenth century. This chapter aims to analyse his approach through the prism of illusionism. Based on an archaeology of Della Porta’s ...
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(2025)Given the encyclopedic nature of Giovanni Battista Della Porta’s Natural Magick, it may seem surprising that the volume devotes so little attention to sound, a field explored at length by other natural philosophers of the ...
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(2025)This chapter deals with a curious phenomenon of cultural appropriation and assimilation of Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Magia naturalis in the new context of English experimental philosophy. In the second part of the ...
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(2025)Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Natural Magic (1589) offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersections between beauty and health. It reflects the period’s beliefs about the healing properties of natural substances and ...
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(2025)This chapter explores Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Magia naturalis as a pivotal site for the development of experimental approaches to natural philosophy in Renaissance Naples. Focusing on the expanded twenty-book edition ...
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(2025)Over the course of his long life as a publicist Della Porta became increasingly aware of the Hieroglyphica by Horapollo. Della Porta developed a peculiar way of using hieroglyphic images to develop, confirm, propagate, and ...
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(2026)The experience of Hospital Schooling and Home Education in Tuscany is currently at a crossroads. On one hand, years of work have produced well-established practices and a network of relationships between schools, hospitals, ...
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(2026)This essay examines illness as an anthropological and educational experience, exploring its philosophical, historical, literary, and pedagogical dimensions. From biblical texts to Hippocratic writings, from Aquinas to ...
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(2026)The rapid digital transformation of education has profoundly reshaped the professional role of teachers, requiring the development of complex digital, pedagogical and reflective competences. This contribution explores the ...
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(2026)Through the account of a ‘journey’ in the pediatric wards of the “Department for Women and Children” of the “S. M. alle Scotte” University Hospital in Siena, a lower secondary school teacher working in a hospital setting ...
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(2026)Hospital schooling represents a distinctive educational service for hospitalized students, characterized by delivery methods and teacher-student relationships different from traditional schools. Initially an episodic ...
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(2026)This study explores autobiographical writing as a formative and reflective practice within the education and training of professionals. Adopting a qualitative-phenomenological approach, it analyzes a corpus of autobiographical ...
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(2026)This theoretical essay develops a neuroeducational framework for inclusive instructional design in complex educational contexts, integrating the principles of Daniel Siegel’s interpersonal neurobiology with special education ...
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(2026)Given the enormous progress in the treatment of diseases and the increase in survival rates, the pediatric world is also undergoing substantial change, with a significant rise in the number of children with chronic and/or ...




















