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Putting the body back into corporate
When medieval guilds, universities, and city communes embraced the power of collective purpose
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Academic packages
In the Renaissance, the humanist educational offering was part of a larger vision
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Dr Cristian Ispir
Undercutting the competitors
Tintoretto and the art of lightning leadership
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The paradox of class
How Low-Status Languages Become Elite Symbols in Foreign Lands
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Knots and wheels
The horror of the mechanical in the pre-modern world
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Wounded by soundbite
In the Middle Ages, most writers would get their classical quotes not from the works of classical authors they likely never read, but from compilations…
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An insatiable desire for learning
When the Medici library was created in the early 15th century, it was more a desire than a fully-fledged library.
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August 2024

Open self-transformation
Where the Renaissance meets late modernity
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Perception-altering, life-changing art
When Zeuxis and Parrhasius, two of the most celebrated painters in ancient Greece, decided to hold a competition, it was to determine who among them…
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Literary and artistic cosplaying
The Renaissance began as an immersive experience
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Beautiful polis
Gallipoli and the end of one world
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Dolente bellezza
Yesterday morning we set out for Matera, that town on the border of Puglia and Basilicata, where we arrived early afternoon.
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