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Matteo Palmieri’s City of Life: The Original Idea of Three Opportunities for Salvation
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 6, November 2014
Pages:
230-239
Received:
17 November 2014
Accepted:
28 November 2014
Published:
15 December 2014
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20140206.12
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Abstract: The Anglo-Saxon world has always devoted special attention to the Florentine humanist Matteo Palmieri (1406-1475). The Città di vita (The City of Life) represents the last, great creative effort of Palmieri, the moment when he was, to quote Marsilius Ficinus, a theological poet. Palmieri was aware of the heterodoxy of his poem and did not circulate it widely to avoid accusations of heresy. He, therefore, left the final reviewed copy (the Laurenziano manuscript) to the Proconsul of the Art of Judges and Notaries. This paper provides a brief summary of the City of life, a discussion of its sources (notably Origen), and an outline of Palmieri’s theological outlook, before presenting new findings based on the recently published Modena manuscript. This manuscript offers a unique chance to further investigate Palmieri’s theological outlook with the original idea of three opportunities for salvation. In addition, the Modena manuscript provides new elements to be analyzed considering that the three circulating manuscripts (Magliabechiano, Ambrosiano, and Barberiniano Latino) never mention Dati’s commentary. There are reasons to think that the Modena manuscript circulated in Florence after Palmieri’s death and therefore this is an additional relevant piece in the fascinating, yet still hazy-edged mosaic that is the knowledge and the history of the tercet poem by Matteo Palmieri.
Abstract: The Anglo-Saxon world has always devoted special attention to the Florentine humanist Matteo Palmieri (1406-1475). The Città di vita (The City of Life) represents the last, great creative effort of Palmieri, the moment when he was, to quote Marsilius Ficinus, a theological poet. Palmieri was aware of the heterodoxy of his poem and did not circulate...
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Political Satire in Abebe Tola’s “Yabe Tokichaw Shimutochi” and “Yabe Tokichaw Mitsetochi” Essays
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 6, November 2014
Pages:
240-251
Received:
5 December 2014
Accepted:
17 December 2014
Published:
22 December 2014
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20140206.13
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Abstract: In Ethiopian political situation peoples use different methods of literary works to criticize the government and to show some useful directions. These kinds of political criticism develop the culture of politics in the country. This study attempted to show one way of political criticism; using satire. The researcher selected appropriate essays that reflect the use of satire for political criticism. In line to this, textual analysis of the essays selected from the analogy books of Abebe Tola’s ‘Yabe Tokichaw Shimutoch’ and ‘Yabe Tokichaw Mitsetoch’ were carried out. Thus through analysis of the themes of these essays the study discloses the major social wrong themes and behavioral wrong themes and their effect on the peoples life by the reflection political situation of the country. The study also reveals that even though the country is on the way of building democracy some problems and faults are found as the satirist stated. Therefore, every Ethiopian people are from the ordinary persons up to the higher officials and from the oppositions parties up to the leading party should take some useful measure to build good democratic and developed state in terms of every aspect.
Abstract: In Ethiopian political situation peoples use different methods of literary works to criticize the government and to show some useful directions. These kinds of political criticism develop the culture of politics in the country. This study attempted to show one way of political criticism; using satire. The researcher selected appropriate essays that...
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The Struggle for Woman’s Place and Voice in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and George Sand’s Indiana
Barbara Dell’Abate-Çelebi
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 6, November 2014
Pages:
252-257
Received:
9 December 2014
Accepted:
23 December 2014
Published:
31 December 2014
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20140206.14
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Abstract: The aim of my article is to uncover the deep semiotic relation existing between Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and George Sand’s Indiana (1832), highlighting the proto-feminist elements that characterize both novels and drawing a comparative analysis of the two plots centered on the difficult journey of initiation of two young women physically and emotionally imprisoned by the laws of patriarchal society. Both novels follow a track of self-discovery through a progressive and circular development that shows below the surface plot, affirming social conventions, a submerged plot encoding rebellion. Through a semiotic analysis of the deep structure of the two novels my article intends to reveal a three-stage development of the protagonists, strictly connected to their progressive awakening to romantic and physical love. Moreover an analysis of the isotopic structure of the two texts will show how the dichotomy Nature vs. Culture undermines the two plots, from the micro to the macro levels of the texts. The conflict between Nature and Culture is at the origin of other thematic and figurative isotopies: love vs. marriage, physical vs. spiritual love, freedom vs. slavery, faith vs. religion, Creole vs. English, dark vs. light etc. These isotopies underline and support in both novels a distortion of the formalized conventions of love, highlighting the thematic conflict between woman’s individual desire and the limits set to her within a patriarchal society.
Abstract: The aim of my article is to uncover the deep semiotic relation existing between Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and George Sand’s Indiana (1832), highlighting the proto-feminist elements that characterize both novels and drawing a comparative analysis of the two plots centered on the difficult journey of initiation of two young women physically...
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Evolutionary Jazz Improvisation - Jazz Harmony and Solo Improvisation Created by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms with Automatic Fitness
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 6, November 2014
Pages:
258-265
Received:
22 September 2014
Accepted:
18 December 2014
Published:
6 January 2015
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20140206.15
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Abstract: This paper describes the Evolutionary Jazz Improvisation (EJI) system for creation of jazz harmony and jazz solo improvisations based on evolutionary algorithms with automatic evaluation. The evaluation function is implemented using score calculation based on specific events recognized in the chord progression and solo line, and alignment to different optimal intensity increase and relaxation curves. The evaluation function is based on the author’s solo analysis of 73 great masters’ solo characteristics and their techniques used for build-up of jazz solos. The results have been evaluated by our live jazz group and used in jam sessions, some of which have been recorded and made available for listening at the links given later.
Abstract: This paper describes the Evolutionary Jazz Improvisation (EJI) system for creation of jazz harmony and jazz solo improvisations based on evolutionary algorithms with automatic evaluation. The evaluation function is implemented using score calculation based on specific events recognized in the chord progression and solo line, and alignment to differ...
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