The circulation of Edward Gibbon’s books in Eighteen century Lombardy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Bono
Keyword(s):  
Balcanica ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Stosic

The engraving of the Finding of Moses from Caspar Luyken?s Amsterdam (1694) and Nuremberg (1708) bibles served as a model for Teodor Kracun?s painting for the small iconostasis of the Orthodox cathedral in Sremski Karlovci (1780), for the Viennese printer J. G. Mansfeld?s frontispiece of Dositej Obradovic?s Poem of the Deliverance of Serbia (1789) and for Dimitar Zograf ?s fresco in the vault of the exonarthex of the Rila Monastery (1843). Three different versions of the original copper engraving reveal how Luyken?s Bible was used in support of the cause of religious revival and national liberation of the Serbs and Bulgarians in the Habsburg and Ottoman empires respectively in the late eighteen century and the first half of the nineteenth.


Author(s):  
Francisco Sanz de la Higuera

RESUMENLa documentación recopilada en los protocolos notariales, en especial los inventarios post-mortem de varios tesoreros generales de la Santa Cruzada de Burgos en la segunda mitad del Seiscientos y gran parte del Setecientos, permite un análisis crítico de sus niveles de fortuna y de los principales sesgos de su cultura material y una aproximación a la cultura de las apariencias y a las redes de influencia en las que se debatían de forma cotidiana o de una manera más extraordinaria. Sus interiores domésticos en vida y las mentalidades que se adivinan a través de sus últimas voluntades, posibilitan el descubrimiento de las estrategias que hubieron de adoptar ellos, sus hogares y los entramados en que estaban implicados.La tesorería general de la Santa Cruzada no estaba al alcance de cualquiera. Disponían de significativos recursos económicos y financieros, una adecuada formación contable y nutridos contactos, cercanos o lejanos, en las intrincadas redes de la Administración. Eran testaferros de individuos muy poderosos, de La Corte, ubicados al final de una maquinaria aviesa y complicada, preñada de peldaños de poder, entre las cumbres más aristocráticas y los niveles intermedios, con los consumidores de las bulas en el extremo más débil y desprotegido. Abstenerse de ayunar tenía sus sobrecargas para unos, la mayoría, y sus beneficios para otros, una minoría afortunada y económicamente solvente.PALABRAS CLAVESanta Cruzada, Burgos, Siglo XVII y XVIII, cultura material, redes de influencia. ABSTRACTThe compiled information in the notarial registry, in special the probate inventories of several major treasures of the Santa Cruzada in Burgos in the second half of Seventeen Century and great parto of Eighteen Century, allow a critical analisys of their levels of fortune and the main slant of the material culture and an aproximation to the apperance culture and to the influence net in which they were debated of daily form or in a more extraordinary way. Their domestic interiors in life and the mentalities that are guessed through their last wills, allow the discovery of the taken strategies, their homes and the studdings in which they were involved.The general treasury of the Santa Cruzada was not scope of anyone. They had significant economic and financiers resources, a suitable accountig education and full contacts, nearby or distant, in the dense nets of the Administration. They were testaferros of very powerfull people, of the Cort, located at the final part of a difficult and complicated machine, full of steps of power, between the most aristocratic summit and the interval levels, with the consumers of the bulas in the most weak and disprotected extreme. To be abstain from fasting had their overload for ones, the majority, and its benefits for the others, a lucky and economically solvent minority.KEY WORDSSanta Cruzada, Burgos, XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries, material culure, influence nets.


2022 ◽  
Vol 27 (42) ◽  
pp. 261-280
Author(s):  
M�nica Coster Ponte

O texto faz uma introspe��o na no��o anat�mica de tubo digest�rio humano,�questionando a abordagem mecanicista e individualizada da digest�o. Para tanto, � realizado um percurso por trabalhos de artistas que desmontam a no��o de tubo digest�rio mediante elabora��es po�ticas sobre as fezes, proposi��es prost�ticas para o corpo vivo e estrat�gias relacionais. S�o abordados trabalhos de, entre outros, Anna Maria Maiolino, Wim Delvoye, Lygia Clark, Jorge Menna Barreto, bem como os aut�matos do s�culo 18 de Jacques Vaucanson. Nosso intuito aqui � reformular a digest�o como atividade imbricada ao campo da arte e vice-versa.Palavras-chave:Digest�o. Arte contempor�nea. Aut�mato. Pr�tese. Ecologia.�AbstractThis text examines the anatomic idea of the human digestive duct, challenging the mechanistic and individualized approach to digestion. A journey through the works of artists who disassemble the digestive duct, with poetic constructions about human waste, prosthetic propositions for living bodies, and relational strategies, is established.�Works of Anna Maria Maiolino, Wim Delvoye, Lygia Clark, Jorge Menna Barreto are mentioned, as well as the eighteen-century automata of Jacques Vaucanson. Our purpose is to reformulate digestion as a process interwoven with the field of the arts and vice versa.Keywords:Digestion. Contemporary art. Automaton. Prothesis. Ecology.


Author(s):  
Dilip Hiro

For four decades Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoing Cold War between Riyadh and Tehran lie the Sunni-Shia divide, and the two countries’ diverse histories, socio-economic compositions, and claims to exceptionalism. Saudis present their rivalry with Iran stemming from conflict between Sunnis and Shias. But, according to Iran's ruling clerics, their republic is founded on Islamic precepts whereas Saudis’ dynastic rule lacks legitimacy in Islam. This foundational schism has played out in a geopolitical competition for dominance in the region and beyond: Iran has acquired influence in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, while Saudi Arabia's hyperactive crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman, has intervened in the Yemeni civil war against the Tehran-backed Houthis, and tried to destabilize Lebanon and isolate neighboring Qatar.. In his lucid narrative, peppered with penetrating analysis, Dilip Hiro examines the toxic rivalry between the two nations, tracing its roots to the eighteen-century Arabia, and examines whether the current Cold War in the Islamic world is likely to end in the near future.


2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-635
Author(s):  
Tiago Cardao-Pito

I cannot endorse Donleavy’s conclusion that “ fair value” accounting is derived from the eighteen-century economic thinkers: Anne Robert Turgot; Richard Cantillon; and Adam Smith. In his well-written study, Donleavy seems to misperceive fair value accounting as the reporting of accounting items by their market values. However, fair value accounting also advocates a theoretical explanation of how market prices would be formed and why they would be fair values. It is important to clarify this point, because it leads to two subsequent conclusions. First, that the price/value theory in fair value accounting is quite distinct from Turgot, Cantillon and Smith’s theories on the same matter. For instance, Cantillon and Smith suggested cost-based theories of value, where labor was the key element. Second, it is possible to distinguish fair value accounting from periods where the case for reporting accounting rubrics by market values was promoted based on other theoretical motivations.


2006 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 214
Author(s):  
Marie Demeilliez ◽  
W. Dean Sutcliffe

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