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(2025)The paper aims to trace elements of a syntactic and stylistic nature within the Itinerarium Egeriae that may contribute to the pilgrim’s travel account also being considered as a kind of autobiography.
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(2025)The examination of some texts (by Augustine and Possidius), as well as the prologue of the Retractationes, convinces us that this work is entirely consistent with the author’s sensibility as a thinker and writer, and is ...
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(2025)This contribution analyzes several passages, especially from Jerome’s epistles, from which it emerges that the Father includes autobiographical informations in a context of literary and cultural elaboration; and, in addition, ...
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(2025)Ancient letter collections possess clear autobiographical elements and potential, since their constituent letters regularly contain fragments of the author’s life story. But it is not clear that autobiographical narration ...
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(2025)The first book of the De excessu fratris is built around three main thematic strands, namely consolation, expression of grief, and praise of the deceased. Alongside Ambrose inserts many personal recollections: these are ...
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(2025)This paper examines the link between autobiographical discourse and hagiographic poetry in Paulinus of Nola's Natalicia, showing Paulinus as the unifying force of the poetic discourse, with his relationship to Saint Felix ...
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(2025)This paper focuses on an expressive form that in the carmina of Venantius Fortunatus assumes a strongly autobiographical connotation. The mention of his own name by the author actually is a real sphragís that imparts to ...
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(2025)Despite a certain reluctance to highlight relevant aspects of his biographical profile, Claudian occasionally outlines traits of his artistic personality within some of his prefatory elegiac couplets preceding the hexameter ...
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(2024)The translations of zoonyms in the Exodus are the focus of this contribution. Among them, there are the locusts, of which the scribe of Bern Burgerbibliotek 27 declares not to know the French correspondent. Another case ...
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(2024)The aim of the present communication is to investigate and present the different nuances of the natural contingency recounted within the historical and literary production of the Toulousain canonist and ambassador Bernard ...
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(2024)This study addresses the issues of the previous edition of Philippe de Thaon's lapidaries and provides new data for a future edition. The codicological analysis and some recent studies rectify the previous distribution and ...
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(2024)On his return journey from the court of the Great Khan in Beijing, the Florentine Franciscan friar John of Marignolli (†1358/1359) also visited Ceylon, the land inhabited by humans closest to the Terrestrial Paradise and, ...
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(2024)The essay proposes some general reflections on description as a mode of representing nature in medieval vernacular texts, and on the correlation between its phenomenology and the so-called 'natural feeling' in 'mentalities' ...
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(2024)In this paper, we intend to analyse one of the odeporic works from the corpus of Ennodius of Pavia (Ennod. 245 V. = carm. 1.1 H.) through the combined interaction of interpretative perspectives and visualisation tools. The ...
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(2024)The paper analyses a brief passage from the dialogue De lite inter Naturam et Fortunam by Albertino Mussato, in which two animal similes are employed. The sources of these similes are identified, revealing a combination ...
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(2024)This paper offers a preliminary analysis of the Romance tradition of Rorgo Fretellus’s Descriptio de locis sanctis, one of the major medieval Latin itineraries of the Holy Land. The study examines key passages from its Old ...
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(2024)In his Zibaldone Magliabechiano (vvd. 223v-35v) Boccaccio wrote his personal rework of the first three books of Hayton's Flos historiarum terrae Orientis, renowned 1307 treatise on the crusade, soon re-interpreted as an ...
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(2024)Conceived from a shared scholarly and philological perspective, Boccaccio’s Genealogie deorum gentilium and De montibus exhibit thematic overlap, as they often discuss the same geographical and mythological locations. This ...
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(2024)The theme of poetic coronation was of great significance to Boccaccio, and he frequently alludes to the laurel crown when discussing his mentors, Dante and Petrarch. In the chapter of Genealogie deorum gentilium dedicated ...
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(2024)The contribution proposes an analysis of a selection of toponymic glosses to the Bible d’Acre (BA) contained in the ms. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, nouv. acq. fr. 1404 and in the ms. of the Occitan version ...
