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    • «Ad consolationem legentium»
      (2020)
      This book is the result of a fruitful exchange between the textual studies about Marco Polo’s Devisement dou Monde and the socio-historical research regarding Mendicant Orders. The Order of Preachers, in particular, includes ...
    • The Example and its Antagonist
      (2021)
      An understanding of the idea of imitatio that Cicero defends in his work reveals a way of thinking in dialogue with a tradition that the Roman orator never ceases to construct for political purposes. Hence, the study of ...
    • Storie della Biennale di Venezia
      (2019)
      Atlante delle biennali intende essere un portolano per attraversare la storia e il presente di mostre che diventano epicentri di incontro e confronto anche tra nazioni e identità, che come mappe complesse e mesmerizzanti ...
    • Beyond the ‘Classical’ Sources
      (2020)
      Many enquiries about Dante’s epistles are aimed at pinpointing Dantean features and personal traits: this literary perspective is mainly concerned with his reuse of classical auctoritates or the novelty of his metaphors. ...
    • Corpus-Based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics
      (2020)
      This volume collects papers presenting corpus-based research on Chinese language and linguistics, from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. The contributions cover different fields of linguistics, including ...
    • Oral Testimonies on Sai Baba
      (2020)
      The interviews and audio recordings comprised in this volume are the outcome of a field research to Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh which took place in October-November 1985 for the preparation of the Author’s BA thesis on ...
    • Da una riva all’altra dell’Oceano
      (2020)
      The volume collects 154 letters by the writer Pier Maria Pasinetti (1913-2006) and by his sister-in-law Loredana Balboni (1920-2013), written between 1949 and 1959. The correspondence grew slowly after the untimely death ...
    • European Approaches to Japanese Language and Linguistics
      (2020)
      In this volume European specialists of Japanese language present new and original research into Japanese language over a wide spectrum of topics which include descriptive, sociolinguistic, pragmatic and didactic accounts. ...
    • John Ruskin’s Europe. A Collection of Cross-Cultural Essays
      (2020)
      Ruskin’s work is strongly embedded in the broad European context, marking an important moment in the movement for the establishment of a community culture and spirit. The essays collected here intend to place the theme of ...
    • A Self-Reflexive Verista
      (2020)
      With a Preface by Edwige Comoy Fusaro, this volume is one of few monographs on Italian post-Risorgimento author Luigi Capuana, and the first one written in English in more than forty years. Narratology and critical theory ...
    • Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions
      (2021)
      The impact of the Hellenization in the Ancient Near East resulted in a notable presence of Greek koiné language and culture and in the interaction between Greek and Nabataean that conducted inhabitants to engrave inscriptions ...
    • Il tesoro di Cipro
      (2020)
      In 58 BCE, Cyprus, an island rich in natural resources and an ancient stronghold of the Ptolemaic dynasty in the Eastern Mediterranean, was declared property of the Roman people. The decision was promoted by the tribune ...
    • Monitoring Central Asia and the Caspian Area
      (2019)
      The present volume of the series 'Eurasiatica. Quaderni di Studi su Balcani, Anatolia, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia" is entirely dedicated to the Central Asian and Caspian area. The aim of the volume is to capture and ...
    • Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500
      (2020)
      The volume contains a reassessment of the economic and social impact of the printing revolution on the development of early modern European society, using 15th-century printed books, which still survive today in their ...
    • The Translation of Spanish Classical Theater (19th-21st Centuries)
      (2020)
      El volumen tiene el objetivo de profundizar el tema de la traducción del teatro clásico español en la época contemporánea para ofrecer al lector un panorama de las modalidades de irradiación de este patrimonio artístico ...
    • Nēsoi. Island imagery in the Odyssey
      (2020)
      The aim of this book is to shed new light on the connections between the islands of the Odyssey, setting aside the common perspectives which fully contrast Ithaka to the isles of Odysseus’s travels. Indeed, on a close ...
    • Ukraine in Search of an Equilibrium
      (2019)
      With the Revolution of Dignity (2014), a large representation of the population of Ukraine came out in favour of a geopolitical placement in the EU and NATO. In parallel, Russia intervened in Crimea and the Donbas. Ukrainian ...
    • Cassius Dio and the Principate
      (2020)
      In the Imperial books of his Roman History, Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and imperial institutions to promote a political framework for the ideal monarchy, and to theorise autocracy’s typical problems and ...
    • Palm Trees Wither Upright
      (2021)
      al-Naḫl yamūtu wāqifan (Palm Trees Wither Upright) is the first work by Tunisian writer Ibrāhīm Darġūṯī, born in El-Mahassen (Tozeur) in 1955, proponent of the experimentalism and magical realism, and known all over the ...
    • From the Mediterranean to Latin America | Del Mediterráneo a América Latina
      (2022)
      This volume collects a set of expositions developed within the framework of the DIASPORE International Conference. From the Mediterranean to Latin America. Art, Language and Literature in Emigration, co-organised by the ...