Secular and Sacred in Late Roman Portraits by Carlos Machado

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Eleonora o della metamorfosi by Puppa, Paolo

“…This monologue is divided into seven stations, almost a secular way of the cross, where the contradictory personality of the actress emerges, torn between disgust and deep desire towards the stage. …”
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Stato civile e cultura politica islamica. Una riflessione antropologica by Domenico Copertino

“…Starting from the debate between Clifford Geertz, Talal Asad and Ernest Gellner on religious traditions, ethos and power, the article offers a reflection on the political-intellectual dynamics that have led some Islamic and secular movements in the Middle East to formulate a project of social/institutional organization called the civil state. …”
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Una nuova stima del Pil italiano di lungo periodo (A New View of Italian Long-Run Growth) by Giuseppe Canullo

“… In the light of recent groundwork research on pre-war Italian economic growth this paper develops a new estimate of the country's secular GDP, both at current and constant prices. …”
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Il tallone d'Achille della contro-rivoluzione del prof. Friedman. by A. GAMBINO

“…In effect, this counter-revolution starts with a reaffirmation, supported by an up-to-date re-elaboration, of the ultra secular quantity theory as far as this theory gives outstanding prominence to the changes in the quantity of money as being decisive elements in the changes of prices and income levels. …”
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Educare alla purezza: modelli pedagogici e politica cinematografica nel cattolicesimo italiano by Gianluca Della Maggiore

“… Between the late nineteenth century and the World War I, several factors pushed secular and Catholic educational agencies to theorize pedagogical lines specifically aimed at governing individual sexuality. …”
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La riforma tributaria: speranze e preoccupazioni. (Tax reform in Italy: hopes and misgivings) by C. COSCIANI

“…Instead, a less ambitious plan is proposed centred on consolidating all income tax additional into one single rate, gradually lowering secular tax rates, lowering tax rates and reducing exemptions on the transfers of wealth. …”
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Figlie di Omero. Verso un'epica femminile. by D'Amico, M

“…The <em>Parte prima</em> (Premesse e intenzioni) presents a discussion on the secular exclusion of women from the literary canon, and in particular on the implicit separation between epic and lyric, as originally producers of gender anxiety (Gilbert and Gubar) and genre anxiety (Susan Friedman). …”

Luigi Gedda, i Comitati civici e il cinema di propaganda. Un progetto di conquista politica e di moralizzazione della società (1948-1958) by Simona Ferrantin, Paolo Trionfini

“…It aimed not only to foster support for the Christian Democrats from the post-war elections until 1958, but also to influence public opinion, orienting Italy towards a model of society that was otherwise being compromised by the onset of secularization. This study focuses on the films produced by Comitati civici – the organization that was most responsive to Luigi Gedda’s ideas – over a broad time period, identifying both similarities and the differences with respect to the cultural changes of the whole country. …”
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«In pubblico»: tra oralità e scrittura. La «vexata quaestio»: sulla tradizione dell'ottava rima dei cantari "popolari" e del Boccaccio by Beatrice Barbiellini Amidei

“…As underlined by Balduino, in establishing the tradition of ottava rima used in the cantari it's imperative to place it in a "popular" context, with a secular repertoire; the metrical form has to be connected to the performance, to genres as serventese. …”
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