ALBUM de Caspar Held, étudiant en théologie à Tübingen (1564). In-8 de 106 f., mar. bl. jans. (Hans Asper.)

Cranach (Lucas). Passional, cité

Guntheri Christoph. Schelhameri De nitro cum veterum, tum nostro commentatio. qua utriusque ortus & natura excutiuntur, multa de eo veterum graecorum, latinorum, arabum loca corrupta emendatur, & explicantur, virtutesque ejus & utilitates ad rectae rationis leges expeduntur.

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Review of "Christoph Schlingensief : art without borders" edited by Tara Forrest and Anna Teresa Scheer

Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders, edited by Tara Forrest and Anna Teresa Scheer, is the first English-language collection of essays about this extraordinary German artist. As Forrest and Scheer suggest in their introduction, ‘access to Schlingensief’s highly challenging productions has been hampered by the fact that very little has been published on his oeuvre in the English-speaking world’. This collection aims to introduce English-speaking artists, scholars and academics to Schlingensief’s extensive, experimental, and at times highly controversial body of work across film, theatre, television, live art and activism...

Voyages and travels into Brasil and east-Indies : containing an exact description of the dutch Brasil and divers parts of the east-Indies, their provinces, cities, living creatures, and products, the manners, customs, habits and religion the inhabitants : with a particular account of all the remarkable passages that happened during the author's stay of nine years in Brasil, especially in relation to the revolt of the portugueses, and the intestine war carried on there from 1640 to 1649 : as also a most ample description of the most famous city of batavia in the east-Indies

Joan Nieuhoff, viajante alemão, nasceu em Usen, Vesfália, em 1618, e morreu em Madagascar, em 1672. Trabalhou na Companhia das Índias Orientais, foi nomeado agente em Batávia, em 1654. Em 1655, foi à China tratar da abertura dos portos daquele país ao comércio holandês. Governou o Ceilão de 1662 a 1667. Em 1672, desembarcando em Madagascar, foi morto pelos nativos.

THE DIVERGENT PATHS OF OPERA IN THE CLASSICAL PERIOD AS SEEN THROUGH THE OPERATIC WORKS OF CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK AND WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Although evidence of Gluck's influence on Mozart is sometimes discernible, by examining the two operas I have performed and a recital of arias by these two composers we can see clear contrasts in their approach to and expression of classical opera. The two operas discussed are Gluck's Armide and Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. Gluck and Mozart were both innovators but in very different ways. Gluck comes from a dramatic background (his principles have been compared to those of Wagner) and Mozart brings together dramatic excellence with the greatness of his musical genius, his gift of melody, and his ensemble writing, which is arguably unequaled in the repertory. A well-rounded performer strives to understand what the composer is really trying to say with his work, what the message to the audience is and what his particular way of conveying it is. The understanding of a composer's approach to drama and character interaction plays a huge role in character development. This applies no matter what role you are preparing whether it is baroque opera or late romantic. Discovering the ideals, style, and purpose of a composer contributes to an effective and rewarding performance experience, for those on stage, those in the pit, and those sitting in the seats.

Cathepsin S Cleavage of Protease-Activated Receptor-2 on Endothelial Cells Promotes Microvascular Diabetes Complications

Endothelial dysfunction is a central pathomechanism in diabetes-associated complications. We hypothesized a pathogenic role in this dysfunction of cathepsin S (Cat-S), a cysteine protease that degrades elastic fibers and activates the protease-activated receptor-2 (PAR2) on endothelial cells. We found that injection of mice with recombinant Cat-S induced albuminuria and glomerular endothelial cell injury in a PAR2-dependent manner. In vivo microscopy confirmed a role for intrinsic Cat-S/PAR2 in ischemia-induced microvascular permeability. In vitro transcriptome analysis and experiments using siRNA or specific Cat-S and PAR2 antagonists revealed that Cat-S specifically impaired the integrity and barrier function of glomerular endothelial cells selectively through PAR2. In human and mouse type 2 diabetic nephropathy, only CD68(+) intrarenal monocytes expressed Cat-S mRNA, whereas Cat-S protein was present along endothelial cells and inside proximal tubular epithelial cells also. In contrast, the cysteine protease inhibitor cystatin C was expressed only in tubules. Delayed treatment of type 2 diabetic db/db mice with Cat-S or PAR2 inhibitors attenuated albuminuria and glomerulosclerosis (indicators of diabetic nephropathy) and attenuated albumin leakage into the retina and other structural markers of diabetic retinopathy. These data identify Cat-S as a monocyte/macrophage-derived circulating PAR2 agonist and mediator of endothelial dysfunction-related microvascular diabetes complications. Thus, Cat-S or PAR2 inhibition might be a novel strategy to prevent microvascular disease in diabetes and other diseases.

[Orphée et Eurydice]. Airs de ballet / Christoph Willilbald Glück, comp. ; orchestre de Chambre de la Société des Concerts de Versailles ; G. Cloez, dir.

Titre uniforme : [Orphée et Eurydice. W 41]. Choix

西海艾先生行略Xi hai ai xian sheng xing lüe.Vie du P. Aleni (1582-1649).

Même ouvrage que le Chinois précédent, article I.

Français 1649

Contient : 1° Le Pèlerinage de la vie humaine [par GUILLAUME] « DE GUILLERVILLE » ; 2° « Le noble Livre de Fleuret »

Recueil de documents pour servir à l'histoire, durant les années 1610, 1623, 1632, 1633, 1644, 1649, 1663, 1664 et 1670. Copies.

Contient : 1 « Factum du capitaine LA GARDE », compromis dans le complot de Ravaillac, pour obtenir ou un jugement qui lui permette de se disculper ou la liberté ; 2 Mémoire en faveur de Frédéric V, électeur palatin, contre Maximilien, premier électeur de Bavière, et son frère Ferdinand, archevêque de Cologne. Vers 1623 ; 3 « Traitté entre le roy [Louis XIII] et le duc de Savoye [Victor Amédée]... par lequel le duc de Savoye cede et transporte au roy et à ses successeurs la ville et chasteau de Pignerol, le village et fort de La Perouse et autres villages d'alentour, en recompense de quoy Sa Majesté promet aud. duc de l'acquitter envers le duc de Mantoue de la somme de 494,000 escus et de lui fournir le surplus en deniers comptans... Faict à Saint Germain en Laye, le 5 may 1632 » ; 4 « Proposition de Mr de Feguieres [MANASSES DE PAS DE FEUQUIERES], ambassadeur de France, faicte à Halbron », après la mort du roi de Suède Gustave-Adolphe, pour relever le courage des princes de la ligue protestante. 1633 ; 5 « Relation veritable de ce qui s'est passé en la creation du pape Innocent X, contre les faux bruits publiez au desadvantage de Mr DE SAINCT CHAMOND, ambassadeur extraordinaire du roy pres Sa Sainteté » ; 6 « Remontrance au roy [Louis XIV] par la noblesse assemblée à Paris, en octobre 1649 », contre les « preeminances [données] à des races et maisons particulieres audessus du corps de la noblesse, où il n'y a jamais eu d'autre distinction que celle de l'illustre sang et des dignitez » ; 7 « Traicté du renouvellement de l'alliance des Suisses avec le roy [Louis XIV]. 1663 ». Relation de la réception faite aux ambassadeurs suisses, venus à Paris, au mois de novembre 1663, pour recevoir le serment du roi audit traité ; 8 « Relation de la campagne de Hongrie, en 1664, et des combats de Kermein et de Sainct Gothard entre les trouppes françoises et allemandes et l'armée des Turcs, avec les articles du traicté de paix fait entre l'empereur et le Grand Seigneur » ; 9 Documents concernant l'expédition du duc de Beaufort contre Gigeri ; 1 « Relation envoyée au roy par le Sr DE CASTELAN, contenant ce qui s'est passé à Gigery, depuis le 22 octobre [1664] jusques au 25 » ; 2 « Seconde Relation envoyée au roy par le Sr DE CASTELAN, contenant ce qui s'est passé à Gigery, à la retraitte des trouppes de S. M. » Louis XIV ; 10 Lettre de FRANÇOIS-PAUL, « b[aron] DE LISOLA », agent de l'empereur Leopold, à l'agent du roi d'Angleterre, pour former une ligue qui paraisse une suite de la garantie stipulée par le traité d'Aix-la-Chapelle ; 11 Extraits relatifs aux reines de Pologne et de Suède