Download or read book Art Mobility and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia written by Francesco Freddolini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the Medici Grand Dukes pursued ways to expand their political, commercial, and cultural networks beyond Europe, cultivating complex relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Islamicate regions, and looking further east to India, China, and Japan. The chapters in this volume discuss how casting a global, cross-cultural net was part and parcel of the Medicean political vision. Diplomatic gifts, items of commercial exchange, objects looted at war, maritime connections, and political plots were an inherent part of how the Medici projected their state on the global arena. The eleven chapters of this volume demonstrate that the mobility of objects, people, and knowledge that generated the global interactions analyzed here was not unidirectional--rather, it went both to and from Tuscany. In addition, by exploring evidence of objects produced in Tuscany for Asian markets,this book reveals hitherto neglected histories of how Western cultures projected themselves eastwards.

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Download or read book Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony written by Adam Ledgeway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family, including standard and regional varieties and dialects. The relation between periphrasis and inflexion raises questions for both syntax and morphology, and understanding the phenomena involved requires cooperation across these sub-domains. For example, the components that express many periphrases can be interrupted by other words in a way that is common in syntax but not in morphology, and in some contexts, a periphrastic form may be semantically equivalent to a single-word inflected form, with which it arguably forms part of a paradigmatic set. Patterns of this kind are found across Romance, albeit with significant local differences. Moreover, diachrony is essential in understanding these phenomena, and the rich historical documentation available for Romance allows an in-depth exploration of the changes and variation involved, as different members of the family may instantiate different stages of development. Studying these changes also raises important questions about the relation between attested and reconstructed patterns. Although the empirical focus of the volume is on the Romance languages, the analyses and conclusions presented shed light on the development and nature of similar structures in other language families and provide valuable insights relevant to linguistic theory more broadly.

Download or read book Shakespearean Echoes written by Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare's current international afterlife.

Download or read book Preparation for Death written by Alphonsus Liguori and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand new translation of St. Alphonsus Liguori's, Apparecchio alla Morte, capturing the simplicity of the Italian, while using correct ecclesiastical vocabulary. It is annotated copiously and contains an extensive bibliography. This translation is a major improvement over others that have been published, as they are all based on the 1830 English version. Preparation for Death delves into Church teaching on the four last things: death, judgment, hell, and heaven. It is not a somber book. More than 250 years after it was written, St. Alphonsus speaks to us as a loving shepherd, wishing for the salvation of all. He shows us that death is a sunny topic, if properly viewed as a portal to eternity, and if we have the desire and the perseverance to lead a life ordered to the Will of God. He teaches us to prepare early for the blessed life to come, and shows us how. Striking in the absence of overt theologizing, and faithful to the teachings of Holy Mother Church, St. Alphonsus does not fail to emphasize that sin is evil, that man is stained, and that his whole existence should be directed to-wards the glory of God. St. Alphonsus rarely makes abstractions, preferring to use ordinary, everyday vernacular, and employing examples to carry the weight of his arguments. In 36 pithy chapters, he stresses that the work of salvation is an individual act, in willing cooperation with God's grace, aided by the Angels and Saints, especially Mary most holy, our Blessed Mother, on whom he calls for aid at the end of each of the 108 devotions and prayers.

Download or read book Preparation for Death Or Considerations on the Eternal Maxims written by St. Alphonsus Liguori and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt: THE object of the present treatise is expressed by a passage which is to be met within one of the Epistles of St. Fulgentius, on the subject of prayer: "Compunction of soul excites an affection for prayer," humble prayer obtains the Divine help. Compunction of soul, leads it to regard its wounds? But prayer earnestly demands the medicine for its healing. And who is sufficient for these things.? For who can pray as he ought, unless the Divine Physician Himself pours into the heart the beginning of spiritual desire."It will be seen that the following Manual of Devotion consists of a series of chapters or instructions on important points of Christian teaching, which are called "Considerations." These Considerations are written for the purpose of pricking or of wounding the conscience. It may be in many points, so that it may be thoroughly aroused and awakened of excitement, that is, compunction of the soul, real remorse of conscience for past as well as for present coldness and dryness. It must be a very hard heart, indeed, to not be moved by these "Considerations"so touchingly simple are they, so plain, and so wholly true. They deal with such doctrines and facts as to having a universal application, which admits of no dispute, and which are always confirmed by some passages from the Holy Scripture. It must be allowed on all hands, that it is necessary for the soul to be aroused to feel its own needs, to regard its own wounds, so that it may be directed to a source where these needs can be supplied, and these wounds be healed. One great aim of this treatise, is to arouse, as well as to direct the mind, to lead it to consider its own wants, and to seek by prayer to have those wants supplied. The book is essentially a guide to prayer. It represents from its beginning to its end, the continual outpouring of one's heart before God. An outpouring that is at times expressed in the very same words which imply, a new phase of thought. These several repetitions are not to be regarded as tokens of intellectual inferiority, but as developments of a plan, which is both carefully laid down and accurately carried out under a seeming carelessness of expression. Regarded as a Manual of Mental Prayer, each of these "Considerations" has a technical and special significance. Their treatment of life and death, of the value of time, of the mercy of God, of the habit of sin, of the general and particular judgments, of the love of God, of the Holy Communion, and of kindred subjects equally important. The "Consideration," as used here, implies far more than a mere inquiry. Its equivalent, the Italian Consideration, and the Latin Consideration, do not fully express its particular meaning in this treatise, where it stands for a reflectional meditation. It calls into play the exercise of the memory, which puts together all the circumstances of the subject under notice. It excites the imagination, which represents, as in a picture, all such circumstances, bringing them vividly before the mind's eye; and, lastly, it urges the will to fix and detain these things in the soul, that, by its own effort, it may unite itself with the will of God, so that God's will and the will of man may become one. St. Thomas Aquinas defines "Considerations" to be "an act of the intellect, and of the beholding the truth of a proposition," (Sum 22E, Q. 53.4) to be, moreover, principally related to the judgment. As one of the three divisions of prayer, these "Considerations" must also be considered as reflections, as reasonings of the mind upon definite subjects, either for its perfect conviction of some vital truth, or for its persuasion to the formation of some holy resolution. The chief end of all such reflections, must be the bringing of the soul into communion with God; but this cannot be done by the intellect alone.

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Download or read book Preparation for Death Or Considerations on the Eternal Maxims written by St. Alphonsus M. Liguori and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparations for Death, Or Considerations on the Eternal Maxims is a philosophical and religious work written by Saint Alphonsus Maria De Liguori. Saint De Liguori was a Catholic Bishop of Italian descent who lived during the eighteenth century. This work represents De Liguori's ruminations on the topic of death. The book is intended to prepare the reader for the death that is "imminent for all humans." The author remarks early that no individual can escape death, and that we must thus be prepared for death at all times. The book is divided into considerations, which each examine a specific aspect of dying. These considerations are examined in three parts, each discussing said consideration from a different angle, intended to make the subject matter approachable by those in any stage of life. Every section begins with a quote from scripture and closes with a series of prayers. In all, the author examines thirty-six distinct considerations. Saint Alphonsus Maria De Liguori's work is the writing of a wise man. His prose is simple and encourages the reader to enter an almost meditative state. While this book may appeal primarily to practicing Catholics, De Liguori efforts to make his work approachable by non-believers as well. Few writers could tackle such a challenging topic and pull it off the way De Liguori has. Preparations for Death, Or Considerations on the Eternal Maxims is a deeply affecting book on coming to terms with mortality and preparing for the inevitable. It is a reminder of the fleeting nature of existence, and the importance of living a good life. As a tool to improve one's life by preparing for death, Alphonsus Maria De Liguori's book is highly recommended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.