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Central Banking in Turbulent Times

By: Francesco Papadia,Tuomas Välimäki

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Central Banking in Turbulent Times

By: Francesco Papadia,Tuomas Välimäki

Central banks came out of the Great Recession with increased power and responsibilities. Indeed, central banks are often now seen as 'the only game in town', and a place to put innumerable problems vastly exceeding their traditional remit. These new powers do not fit well, however, with the independence of central banks, remote from the democratic control of government. Central Banking in Turbulent Times examines fundamental questions about the central banking system, asking whether the model of an independent central bank devoted to price stability is the final resting point of a complex development that started centuries ago. It dissects the hypothesis that the Great Recession has prompted a reassessment of that model; a renewed emphasis on financial stability has emerged, possibly vying for first rank in the hierarchy of objectives of central banks. This raises the risk of dilemmas, since the Great Recession brought into question implicit assumptions that the pursuit of price stability would also lead to financial stability. In addition, the border between monetary and fiscal policy was blurred both in the US and in Europe. Central Banking in Turbulent Times asks whether the model prevailing before the Great Recession has been irrevocably altered. Are we entering, as Charles Goodhart has hypothesized, into the 'fourth epoch' of central banking? Are changes to central banks part of a move away from the global liberal order that seemed to have prevailed at the turn of the century? Central Banking in Turbulent Times seeks to answer these questions as it examines how changes can allow for the maintenance of price stability, while adapting to the long-term consequences of the Great Recession.

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Oxford University Press

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0192528882

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9780192528889

Petrarch

By: Francesco Petrarca

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Petrarch

By: Francesco Petrarca

Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch's Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet's own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied by brief but useful notes . . . " —Chronicles "As well as skillful and fluent verse renderings of the 366 lyrics that make up this milestone in the development of Western poetic tradition, Musa offers copious and up-to-date annotation to each poem . . . along with a substantial, sensitive, and intelligent introduction that is genuinely helpful for the first-time reader and thought provoking for Petrarch scholars and other medievalists." —Choice The 366 poems of Petrarch's Canzoniere represent one of the most influential works in Western literature. Varied in form, style, and subject matter, these "scattered rhymes" contains metaphors and conceits that have been absorbed into the literature and language of love. In this bilingual edition, Mark Musa provides verse translations, annotations, and an introduction co-authored with Barbara Manfredi.

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Indiana University Press

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0253213177

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9780253213174

Petrarch's Lyric Poems

The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics

By: Francesco Petrarca

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Petrarch's Lyric Poems

The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics

By: Francesco Petrarca

Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative text as graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian.

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Harvard University Press

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0674663489

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The Canzoniere

(rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta)

By: Francesco Petrarca

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The Canzoniere

(rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta)

By: Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) has been described as the 'first modern man of letters' and his influence on the European lyric tradition has been widespread. The poems of his Canzoniere, closely associated as they are with the enigmatic figure of Laura, were soon to become the models for love-poetry in nearly all major European literatures in the Renaissance. The new translations here use the same rhyme schemes and broadly the same metres as those used by Petrarch himself. The facing English texts are thus not intended to be absolutely literal, but to reflect the inner meanings and moods of the originals, with some further literal translations of difficult passages added in the notes. The notes to the poems also cover their likely dates, mythological allusions, certain background settings, and a number of other calendrical and structural features which appear to emerge from the actual sequencing of the collection itself. There is also a section on old Italian syntax. and other linguistic aids. The new translation of Petrarch's Rerum Vulgarian Fragmenta is in two separate volumes.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1899293124

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9781899293124

Veritas

The Thrilling Sequel to Secretum

By: Rita Monaldi,Francesco Sorti

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Veritas

The Thrilling Sequel to Secretum

By: Rita Monaldi,Francesco Sorti

A spy uncovers a political plot in 18tn century Vienna in this sequel to the acclaimed historical thriller Secretum—“another tour-de-force of derring do” (Historical Novel Society). Vienna, 1711. Atto Melani, a spy in the service of Louis XIV, arranges for his faithful helper to relocate from a Roman slum to the imperial court in Vienna. There, Atto enlists his help in a secret mission to bring about the end of the war between France and Austria. Meanwhile, a Turkish delegation has arrived in Vienna for talks with Emperor Joseph I—despite the fact that Austria is supposed to be at peace with the Ottoman Empire. When the emperor suddenly falls ill with smallpox and students are targeted by a serial killer, some fear that a centuries-old power struggle has been reignited. Can Atto and his helper prevent Europe from descending into all-out conflict? An unfinished palace known as the Place with No Name, an exotic menagerie and a fantastical Flying Ship are just some of the ingredients of this baroque spy novel.

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Casemate Publishers

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0857905708

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9780857905703

The Norman Admiralty

History of an Office between two Worlds

By: Francesco Carbonaro

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The Norman Admiralty

History of an Office between two Worlds

By: Francesco Carbonaro

What was the real power of the Norman admirals? In what way did they practise their authority? This study on the Norman admiralty in Sicily focuses on the development of this office as it changes from an office to a title with increasing and increadible prestige in the years from the second half of the 11th century to the end of the 12th century. The admiral was an officer who worked in the royal palace for the royal authority as prime minister and was fundamental in orchestrating cultural activities. However, the admirals also established their power in fields separate to those of their position. The position of admiral was a unicum in Medieval Europe since no other political institution had a similar figure and his contribution was crucial for the development of the Norman kingdom in Sicily. The intention of this work is to study the sphere of competences of the admirality and to give a global and definitive view of the impact of the Norman admirals between the second half of the 11th century and the end of the 12th.

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Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

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3832553002

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9783832553005

Elementary Instructions for Students of Sculpture

By: Francesco Carradori

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Elementary Instructions for Students of Sculpture

By: Francesco Carradori

Carradori's book of instructions is vital to understanding the art and craft of sculpting as they were practiced before the twentieth century, since little substantial material exists that demonstrates, in an informed, didactic manner, the various tools and techniques used by ancient sculptors. Carradori's work is the most comprehensive and instructive; it includes thirteen articles that explain how to restore marble sculpture, model clay, work with stucco and wax, cast and finish bronze, and how to carve and enlarge models into marble and stone, as well as seventeen tables that illustrate the arrangement, methods, and tools used in each of these processes. The book also includes the complete Italian text."--Jacket.

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Getty Publications

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0892366885

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Secretum

By: Rita Monaldi,Francesco Sorti

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Secretum

By: Rita Monaldi,Francesco Sorti

A papal conspiracy is revealed in the midst of a plague in this Italian historical thriller that sparked controversy with the Vatican. Rome, 1683. The citizens anxiously await new of the battle for Vienna as Ottoman forces lay siege to the defenders of Catholic Europe. Meanwhile, a suspected outbreak of plague causes a famous Roman tavern to be placed under quarantine. One of its detainees, Atto Melani, a spy in the service of France, discovers a secret passage leading deep into the Roman underworld. But what he uncovers there is even more astonishing: a plot to assassinate Pope Innocent XI and plans to use the plague as a weapon of mass destruction against the Islamic world. Meticulously researched and brilliantly conceived, Imprimatur is based on startling historical revelations that have been concealed for centuries, drawing on original papers discovered in the Vatican archives. A thriller in the vein of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, this novel sheds new light on the power struggles of 17th-century Europe. First published to great controversy in Italy in 2002, Imprimatur was boycotted by the Italian press before being translated into 20 languages with editions published in 45 countries.

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890

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Casemate Publishers

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0857900129

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9780857900128

Res

Anthropology and Aesthetics, 49/50: Spring/Autumn 2006

By: Francesco Pellizzi

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Anthropology and Aesthetics, 49/50: Spring/Autumn 2006

By: Francesco Pellizzi

Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.

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Peabody Museum Press

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0873657675

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9780873657679

Imprimatur

By: Rita Monaldi,Francesco Sorti

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Imprimatur

By: Rita Monaldi,Francesco Sorti

«Bestseller internazionale pubblicato in 60 paesi, accostato dalla critica americana ai maggiori capolavori italiani di sempre come Il Gattopardo e Il Nome della Rosa, Imprimatur è un raro esempio di romanzo storico al crocevia tra giallo, narrazione a tesi, indagine documentale e palpitante racconto dazione.» Roma, settembre 1683 In una locanda nel cuore della Città Santa la morte improvvisa di un viaggiatore semina il panico: veleno o peste? Per paura del contagio, gli ospiti vengono rinchiusi in quarantena nelle loro stanze. Tra essi cè labate Atto Melani, ex cantante castrato e ora agente segreto del Re Sole, deciso a scoprire cosa si celi dietro quella strana morte. Atto dovrà però scontrarsi con le reticenze e le paure degli altri ospiti, con lo spettro della peste che aleggia nella locanda e gli echi minacciosi della battaglia decisiva che le armate dei principi cattolici stanno combattendo a Vienna contro i turchi. Nonostante le difficoltà, linchiesta dellabate Melani condurrà alla soluzione del mistero, ma soprattutto alla tremenda verità che segretamente condiziona il destino dEuropa: una congiura internazionale in cui sintrecciano religione, politica e spionaggio. Il diario dellinchiesta, tenuto minuziosamente dal garzone della locanda, finirà sepolto in un volume manoscritto.

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Baldini & Castoldi

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8868657260

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9788868657260

Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination

Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures

By: Francesco Orlando

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Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination

Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures

By: Francesco Orlando

Translated here into English for the first time is a monumental work of literary history and criticism comparable in scope and achievement to Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis. Italian critic Francesco Orlando explores Western literature’s obsession with outmoded and nonfunctional objects (ruins, obsolete machinery, broken things, trash, etc.). Combining the insights of psychoanalysis and literary-political history, Orlando traces this obsession to a turning point in history, at the end of eighteenth-century industrialization, when the functional becomes the dominant value of Western culture. Roaming through every genre and much of the history of Western literature, the author identifies distinct categories into which obsolete images can be classified and provides myriad examples. The function of literature, he concludes, is to remind us of what we have lost and what we are losing as we rush toward the future.

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Yale University Press

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0300138210

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9780300138214

Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

The Evolution of Noun Classes from Latin to Italian

By: Francesco Gardani

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Dynamics of Morphological Productivity

The Evolution of Noun Classes from Latin to Italian

By: Francesco Gardani

In Dynamics of Morphological Productivity, Francesco Gardani explores the evolution of the productivity of the noun inflectional classes of Latin and Old Italian, covering a span of almost 2,000 years – an absolute novelty for the theory of diachrony and for Latin and Italo-Romance linguistics. By providing an original set of criteria for measuring productivity, based on the investigation of loanword integration, conversions, and class shift, Gardani provides a substantial contribution to the theory of inflection, as well as to the study of the morphological integration of loanwords. The result is a wealth of empirical facts, including data from the contact languages Etruscan, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Arabic, Byzantine Greek, Old French and Provençal, accompanied by brilliant and groundbreaking analyses.

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BRILL

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9004244654

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9789004244658

Odes

By: Francesco Filelfo

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Odes

By: Francesco Filelfo

Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. His long life saw him as busy with politics, diplomacy, and intrigue as with literature and scholarship, leaving him very often on the run from rival factions--and even from hired assassins. The first Latin poet of the Renaissance to explore the expressive potential of Horatian meters, Filelfo adapted the traditions of Augustan literature to address personal and political concerns in his own day. The Odes, completed in the mid-1450s, constitute the first complete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquity and are a major literary achievement. Their themes include war, just rule, love, exile, patronage, and friendship as well as topical subjects like the plague's grim effects on Milan. This volume is the first publication of the Latin text since the fifteenth century and the first translation into English.

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Harvard University Press

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0674035631

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9780674035638

The Torah as a Place of Refuge

Biblical Criminal Law and the Book of Numbers

By: Francesco Cocco

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The Torah as a Place of Refuge

Biblical Criminal Law and the Book of Numbers

By: Francesco Cocco

The law on the "cities of refuge" contained in Numbers 35:9-34 is almost universally seen as a simple repetition of legal content that is basically already present in the legislation of other biblical books. Francesco Cocco demonstrates that we find ourselves here before a case of reformulation instead of simple repetition, the implications of which are extremely interesting for the understanding of biblical penal legislation. In this particular fragment, it exhibits traces of modernity so surprising as to be as good as the defence of civil liberties in the legal systems currently in force in the majority of democratic states. The author's enquiry takes its starting point and develops, therefore, from the novel contribution which the legislation in Numbers 35:9-34 confers on the entire biblical law of a penal character. --

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161541383

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9783161541384

The Pleasant Nights

By: Giovanni Francesco Straparola

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The Pleasant Nights

By: Giovanni Francesco Straparola

This full critical edition of The Pleasant Nights presents these stories in English for the first time in over a century. The text takes its inspiration from the celebrated Waters translation, which is entirely revised here to render it both more faithful to the original and more sparkishly idiomatic than ever before. The stories are accompanied by a rich sampling of illustrations, including originals from nineteenth-century English and French versions of the text.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442644265

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9781442644267

International Maritime Conventions (Volume 1)

The Carriage of Goods and Passengers by Sea

By: Francesco Berlingieri

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International Maritime Conventions (Volume 1)

The Carriage of Goods and Passengers by Sea

By: Francesco Berlingieri

For the first time, this unique text brings together all private international maritime law conventions alongside expert commentary and analysis. Truly global in approach, the book covers each of the nineteen conventions currently in force, all scrutinised by this internationally-acclaimed author. It also examines important maritime conventions not yet in force, including the topical Rotterdam Rules. Split into three convenient volumes, this comprehensive resource provides a thorough treatment of both wet and dry shipping treaties, combining breadth of coverage with depth of analysis. In this first volume, the author covers conventions dealing with the Carriage of Goods and Passengers by Sea, in particular: - International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading, 1924 and its Protocol of 1968 and 1979 (Hague-Visby Rules) - United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 (Hamburg Rules) - United Nations Convention on the International Carriage of Goods wholly or Partly by Sea, 2008 (Rotterdam Rules) - Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974 as amended by its Protocol of 2002 (Athens Convention) This book is an indispensable reference for maritime lawyers, academics and students of maritime law worldwide.

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CRC Press

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1317750586

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9781317750581

Annuario 2014-2015

By: Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "San Francesco" di Mantova

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Annuario 2014-2015

By: Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "San Francesco" di Mantova

L'offerta formativa dell'Istituto Superiore di Scienze religiose di Mantova prevede due cicli, uno triennale per il conseguimento della Laurea in Scienze Religiose (o Baccalaureato), e uno specialistico biennale per il conseguimento della Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Religiose (o Licenza). Il secondo ciclo comprende due indirizzi di specializzazione: uno pedagogico-didattico per la scuola e uno pastorale-ministeriale.

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Lulu.com

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1291840923

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9781291840926

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