Alessandro Valignano, teólogo e missionário

Vários factores concorreram para a configuração do pensamento de Valignano enquanto teólogo. Da componente europeia da sua formação – de teor jurídico e filosófico –, terá ele absorvido elementos que tanto apontavam para soluções de conciliação, como, porventura, até de repulsa (como a filosofia tomista de matriz aristotélica, fundada, por seu turno, numa fé justificada pela via da razão), face ao ideário, necessariamente diverso, com que iria deparar-se nos territórios de missão em que havia de exercer a sua tarefa de supervisão enquanto Visitador: a Índia e o Japão.O objectivo deste estudo consiste, pois, em pôr de relevo esses aspectos compósitos e intentar demonstrar como logrou ajustá-los Valignano junto dos povos nativos dos territórios do Oriente onde desenvolveu o seu magistério de evangelização.

Gruvrätten vid Stora Kopparberget 1641-1682 : en undersökning över rannsakade brott och utdömda straff

The purpose of this essay is to examine and explain how the Swedish mining court of Stora Kopparberget (the Great Copper Mountain) implemented its judicial legislation between 1641-1682. Questions are asked about which counts of indictments the court tried, which sentences they handed out, in what quantities and how these results looks in comparison with other contemporary courts. The index cards of the court judicial protocols are the primary source of information. The methods are those of quantity- and comparative analysis.The results show that theft of copper ore was the most common crime ransacked by the court. Other common crimes were (in order): sin of omission, transgression of work directions, fights, slander and disdain, trade of stolen ore, failing appearance in court etc.Fines were by far the most common sentence followed by shorter imprisonments, gauntlets, loss of right to mine possession, twig beating, loss of work, penal servitude, banishment, “wooden horse riding” and finally military transcription. Even though previous re-search, in the field of Swedish specialized courts, is almost non existent evidence confirms great similarities between the Stora Kopparberget mining court and Sala mining court. This essay will, hopefully, enrich our knowledge of specialized courts, of 17th century mining industry and society and let us reach a broader understanding of the working conditions of the mountain.

A Permanência do clássico mitológico em Omero, Iliade, de Alessandro Baricco

The work Homer, Iliad, by Italian writer Alessandro Baricco (be borned in 1958, in Italy), published in 2004, arose of a project of retelling of Homer’s work, aimed at the theater and which excluded the direct participation of the gods. But until which point the act of not focusing on the gods excluded the relationship between the literary with the mythological? It’s possible return to the classics excluding the presence of pagan gods? Which tripolar relationship could trace among the mythological, the literary and the theatrical in this Italian work? These are the questions that guide the undertaken study, aiming to check the sense that the elements taken from Classical Mythology engender in the produced text and in the artistic context in which it is inserted.

Konstruktion und Concetto. Die römischen Katafalke für Kardinal Alessandro Farnese (1589), Papst Sixtus V. (1591) und Principe Carlo Barberini (1630)

In Rom entstand im ausgehenden 16. Jahrhundert die Gattung des „Tempietto-Katafalks“, eines Trauergerüsts in Form eines überkuppelten Zentralbaus, der anlässlich der feierlichen Exequien eines hochrangigen Verstorbenen die symbolische Totenbahre als anspruchsvolle ephemere Kleinarchitektur überfängt. Anhand dreier herausragender Beispiele, der Katafalke für Kardinal Alessandro Farnese, Papst Sixtus V. und Principe Carlo Barberini, sollen die architektonische Gestalt der Funeraltempietti und ihre symbolische Aussage näher beleuchtet werden. Dabei soll weniger die Ikonographie der figürlichen Ausstattung im Mittelpunkt stehen als vielmehr die “Sprachfähigkeit” der gewählten architektonischen Formen, die bei den hier vorgestellten römischen Katafalken ein zentraler Teil der Gesamtkonzepts ist. Dabei sind sowohl der Festanlass – die Memoria des verstorbenen Würdenträgers – als auch die Architektur selbst zum Thema gemacht.

Senator Alessandro Lustig [Illustration] : Professor der allgemeinen Pathologie

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Senator Alessandro D'Ancona [Illustration] : Professor der italienischen Literatur

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