The long apprenticeship: Rodrigo Borgia as Papal Vice-Chancellor, 1457-1492 by Fellows, K

“…Furthermore, Borgia was not a man of letters and left no record of his activities or even much in the way of personal correspondence. …”

The Spanish Enlightenment revisited

“…<br/><br/> Jesús Astigarraga, Introduction: <em>admirer</em>, <em>rougir</em>, <em>imiter</em> – Spain and the European Enlightenment<br/> María Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo, The merits of good gobierno: culture and politics in the Bourbon court<br/> Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos, The Spanish Republic of Letters in its European context: images, economics, and the representation of the man of letters<br/> Jesús Astigarraga, Economic societies and the politicisation of the Spanish Enlightenment<br/> Juan Pimentel, The Indians of Europe: the role of Spain’s Enlightenment in the making of a global science<br/> Javier Usoz, Political economy and the creation of the public sphere during the Spanish Enlightenment<br/> Ignacio Fernández Sarasola, Constitution projects during the Spanish Enlightenment<br/> Gabriel Paquette, The reform of the Spanish empire in the age of Enlightenment<br/> Jesús Astigarraga, Niccolò Guasti and Juan Zabalza, The Spanish debate on public finance: a privileged laboratory for enlightened reforms<br/> Joaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, The image of the British system of government in Spain (1759-1814) <br/> Javier Fernández Sebastián, From the ‘voice of the people’ to the freedom of the press: the birth of public opinion<br/> Alejandro Agüero and Marta Lorente, Penal Enlightenment in Spain: from Beccaria’s reception to the first criminal code<br/> Summaries<br/> Bibliography<br/> Index<br/>…”

Exemplum and Wundertier: Three Concepts of the Scholarly Persona by Gadi Algazi

“…In a third sense, broader and more heteronomous than the second, persona is understood as a cultural template for a codified social role - the man of letters, the scientist and so on - emerging at the intersection of contradictory social forces: not a neat embodiment of a group of practitioners’ shared values, but more a shaky historical compromise, sometimes an exemplum, sometimes a Wundertier and often both. …”
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SOCIAL CRITICISM IN THE POEMS AND DRAMAS CREATED BY W.S. RENDRA FROM NINETEEN SEVENTIES TO NINETEEN NINETIES by Ni Ketut Sudewa, I Nyoman Darma Putra, I Nyoman Kutha Ratna

“…His consistency in expressing social criticisms through his poems and dramas made him successful in becoming the most talkative man of letters during the Indonesia’s history of literature.…”
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HÁ TANTOS LIBERTOS QUE VIVEM NA MISÉRIA. ADEMAIS, NÃO PODIA VIVER SEM MEU SENHOR: REPRESENTAÇÕES SOBRE ESCRAVIDÃO E LIBERDADE NA NOVELA O PATUÁ, DE CARLOS JANSEN (1878/1879) by Paulo Roberto Staudt Moreira

“…We also realized that this work served for the author to build a positive self-image, which allows us to understand how the image of an intellectual / man of letters was structured in the period. Keywords: Slavery. …”
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Exemplum and Wundertier: Three Concepts of the Scholarly Persona by Gadi Algazi

“…In a third sense, broader and more heteronomous than the second, persona is understood as a cultural template for a codified social role - the man of letters, the scientist and so on - emerging at the intersection of contradictory social forces: not a neat embodiment of a group of practitioners’ shared values, but more a shaky historical compromise, sometimes an exemplum, sometimes a Wundertier and often both. …”
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Exemplum and Wundertier: Three Concepts of the Scholarly Persona by Gadi Algazi

“…</p><p> </p><p>In a third sense, broader and more heteronomous than the second, persona is understood as a cultural template for a codified social role - the man of letters, the scientist and so on - emerging at the intersection of contradictory social forces: not a neat embodiment of a group of practitioners’ shared values, but more a shaky historical compromise, sometimes an <em>exemplum</em>, sometimes a <em>Wundertier</em> and often both. …”
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Transatlantic Doubles: Intertextual Ageing in the Early Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Bulwer-Lytton by Marta Miquel-Baldellou

“…Abstract: As a literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe reviewed the writings of the Victorian man of letters Edward Bulwer-Lytton on at least four occasions in the span of six years, from 1835 to 1841. …”
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Trends in radical propaganda on the eve of the French Revolution (1782-1788) by Darnton, R

“…He staggered under a burden of debt that was the main result of his ambitious projects to win a reputaiton for himself as a man of letters. Although he was truly a radical idealist, he was almost certainly driven by his poverty to spy for the police; such is the testimony of Lenoir's manuscripts at Orléans, which corroborate the charges, usually dismissed as calumnies, by Marat and others. …”

Pierre Chommeliz, faux-monnayeur du désastre, au milieu du XVe siècle by Pierre Prétou

“…Based on the misfortunes inflicted to the man, the letter opens a disastrous reading explaining the crime. …”
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Studying Hybridity In Arundhati Roy's : The God Of Small Things by Shoobie, Mostafa Azizpour

“…Hybridity is a purportedly hot commodity and a cynosure for many a man of letter in postcolonial literature and criticism. …”
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Hasrat N. Riantiarno dalam Trilogi Cermin (Cermin Merah, Cermin Bening, Cermin Cinta)Kajian Psikoanalisis Lacanian by , Ricky Aptifive Manik, , Dr. Pujiharto, M. Hum

“…Eventually human gives his or her seemingly established, stable and holistic thing to symbolic authority, namely identity. Man of letter, poet, short story writer, and others are the intended identity, representing those who driven by their desire due to their inner lack. …”

Emperor and law in the orations of Julian 'the Apostate' by Šarkić Srđan

“…A member of the Constantinian dynasty (his father Julius Constantius, was Constantine's brother), Julian was a man of unusually complex character: he was the military commander, the theosophist, the social reformer and the man of letter. He was the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire and it was his desire to bring the Empire back to its ancient Roman values in order to save it from dissolution. …”
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Moldova – topos de legendă și nemurire by Ramona Blajan

“…Gheorghiu and the critical conscience of the Romanian emigration – the biography: from native Moldavia to Bucarest – the Romanian poet of “Calligraphy on the snow” – the publicist – the journalist, author of a reporting on Moldavia, linked to the violence of the war (“The banks of Dniester are aflame”) – the novelist, the essayist, the memorialist, the religious man, the letter-writer (the correspondence is unpublished). …”
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