616 research outputs found

    In Sarbiewski's Circle − Albert Ines' Lyric Poetry

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    Albert Ines is discussed here as the author of the lyrical poem Lyricorum centuriae (Gdańsk 1655). In the collection there are many religious poems, especially ones taking up Virgin Mary as their subject matter, and hence Ines is described as vates Marianus. Ines' religious poems are bound by a double convention: that of the use of biblical and ancient metaphors; they are also even ”garrulous” because of motives of praise accumulated in a litany-style manner. His reflective poems are more interesting; they are a kind of intellectual-lyric poetry abouding in clever sayings, pointed antitheses, etc. Ines imitates Sarbiewski but being consistent with the rule ”imitari non expilare” he limits himself to only two ”parodies”; and even they are not very typical. The fact that Ines imitates Sarbiewski is also seen in taking up the same subjects in his poems. This similarity is sometimes rather faint so its significance for our interpretation will be limited

    The Story of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

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    abstract: The story of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is one of a woman who defied the odds of her time. Sor Juana was a nun born in the 1600's in Mexico. From an early start, she had an endless passion for knowledge and always strove to learn as much as she could. She went on to become a nun at the Convent of Santa Paula and used her intellect to advocate for women's rights. Though met with opposition, she wrote many poems, letters, and even plays which included her strong push for women's equality. However, the name Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is almost never mentioned in popular feminist discourse, despite Sor Juana being credited as one of the first feminist authors. This paper works to not only tell the story of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in detail, but also works to answer the question, "Why do people not know about Sor Juana". By diving into the origins of the Feminist movement in the United States, the dark underbelly of Feminism is uncovered. Primarily, the topic of how racism in feminism has plague the civil rights movement, what damage has been done to people of color because of feminism's history, and how does that pertain to modern day feminism and Sor Juana. By telling her story through both written and visual aids, the voice of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is no longer silenced but free to tell her tale and move a generation

    The Encounter between the West and the Arab World in the Age of Nahdah (Renaissance). The Translation Movement in the Arab Literary Reviews

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    In quest'articolo si riflette sul ruolo giocato dalla riviste letterarie arabe nella diffusione della conoscenza della cultura occidentale. Il movimento di traduzione avviato durante la Nahda (la Rinascita) in Egitto e nella Grande Siria condusse a cambiamenti sostanziali dei canoni estetici, ma suscitò anche un movimento di forte opposizione da parte dei conservatori

    Dall’esclusione all’inclusione. Questioni e possibili itinerari di vita per le persone con impairment intellettivo

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    The aim of this paper is continuing to think about the issues relating to inclusion, because of aseries of reasons that will be illustrated by the author. The same concept of inclusion needs tobe disambiguated, in order to act a transformative process that is necessary for the whole societyfor becoming welcoming to all. Exactly as happened in the seventies of the twentieth century,we think that the educational institution is a privileged place for the encounter with the other(and, therefore, capable of triggering the inclusive process). In order to remove the stigmawhichstill is around disability, it is important to promote as much as possible such socialization opportunities.With respect to disability (as will emerge from this paper), it should be reiterated that it is a sociohistorical-cultural construct and, therefore, that it varies with the changing of practices linked toit. In this regard, turning our gaze towards adult life (and towards the institutional practices implementedso far), we think is important to continue to problematize the housing conditions of thosewho have intellectual impairment, in order to imagine solutions which could be different fromthose acted up to now. If implemented, these solutions would allow the identity developmentof the people involved (changing the same meaning of disability)

    Growth, genes, genomes: iInsights into microbial respiration of arsenic and selenium

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    Arsenic (As) and selenium (Se) are naturally occurring metalloids in the Earth’s crust. Their speciation is governed by the microbial communities in various environments which influences their mobility among the soil, water, and air interface. Microorganisms can utilize As and Se oxyanion as terminal electron acceptors in dissimilatory reduction. These organisms are ubiquitous and phylogenetically diverse. The objectives of the studies in this thesis were to gain an understanding of the metabolism of As and Se respiring bacteria, analyze the genes encoding enzymes involved in respiration and understand how these enzymes are regulated in the presence of various electron acceptors. We were able to isolate two novel As and Se respiring bacteria from different environments; from a wastewater treatment facility in Verona, NJ and an estuarine canal from Chennai, India. Based on 16S rRNA gene analysis, strain S4 was classified as a novel genus and species, Selenovibrio woodruffi and strain S5 as a novel species, Desulfurispirillum indicum. We analyzed the genome of D. indicum and examined the expression of putative reductases to further understand respiratory metabolism of As and Se oxyanions. Five molybdoenzyme genes were identified in the genome of strain S5, three of which we were annotated to encode for a respiratory arsenate reductase arr, periplasmic nitrate reductase nar, and respiratory nitrate reductase nap. Also, an arsenate resistance system, ars, was identified. We were not able to positively identify a selenate reductase gene. Gene expression studies revealed that arr was an inducible gene and the only gene highly expressed during arsenate respiration. Growth studies showed that selenate respiration was inhibited by nitrate. Lastly, we also enriched activated sludge samples for tellurium oxyanion respiring bacteria. Thus, we not only added novel, phylogenetically different organisms to the ever-increasing list of As and Se respiring microbes, we also provided insights into the genes and enzymes involved in As and Se respiration and how they are regulated.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Ines Rauschenbac

    Compositional profile of food supplements for honeybees

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    Mestrado de dupla diplomação com a Université Libre de TunisHoneybees (Apis mellifera L.) are the main pollinating agents for numerous plants and fruit trees and, hence, play a key role in agriculture and more generally in the maintenance of ecological biodiversity. Like the most of organisms, honeybees need a diverse diet consisting of minerals, carbohydrates (sugars), fats, and amino acids (proteins) to survive and reproduce. An adult honey bees carbohydrate requirement is satisfied by the nectar produced in flowers and also occasionally from extra floral nectarines or honeydew secreted by plant-feeding insects, while, flower pollen is the main source of amino acids, protein building blocks, largely used to feed developing larvae and young bees to provide structural elements of muscles, glands and other tissues. Bee-population declines are linked to nutritional shortages caused by land-use intensification, which reduces diversity and abundance of plant species. Together with the deficiency caused by adverse climatic changes and with the need to reduce colony mortality and particularly to ensure good nutritional/health status of bees in specific production moments, artificial supplementation of honeybee colonies became a major issue in beekeeping, and now is a common and growing practice within Portuguese beekeepers. This practice, in association with the reduced regulation in this area is leading to the proliferation of commercial products based on carbohydrates, protein and other substances of diverse origins and compositions. The impact of these products on hives may enable the beekeeper to remedy colony imbalances resulting from adverse or beekeeping conditions, but also may pose risks to the bee’s health and the bee products quality, depending on the used raw materials and the presence of harmful substances. The present work, inserted within the project ApisCibus - Artificial food for honeybees: quality survey, digestibility and performance on the bee hive, will have as main objective to evaluate the quality of commercial honeybee artificial supplementation through composition analysis of commercial supplements. The quality parameters evaluated are: minerals quantified through atomic absorption spectroscopy, fatty acids analyzed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and amino acids which are analyzed by ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electro spray ionization mass spectrometry (UPLC-ESI-MS). Food supplements that are analyzed are largely used by beekeepers without knowing if they are benefic or not, toxic or not on the health of bees. Furthermore the results of the analysis shows that what is represented on the labels of products could be not exactly the same amounts of the real product inside the package. It shows also that some products may be considered as benefic or as toxic depending on the amount of these micronutrients. To continue this work in order to confirm these hypothesis, in vitro tests could be done on honeybees using these products analyzed in this thesis. Through the obtained results we could observe that the high amount of free amino acids presented in the studied supplements does not necessarily reflect a good source of nutrients, considering that for the bee it is important to have access to a diverse set of amino acids. Bee's nutritional requirements require 10 essential amino acids (Arg, Phe, His, Ile, Leu, Lys, Met, Thr, Trp and Val). The supplement P12 appears as the richest and most balanced, followed by P05. The C08 supplement, although containing an adequate proportion in most amino acids, has an excessive amount of Arg, which may cause adverse effects. Regarding fatty acids, the samples presented several compounds, among which the most abundant were hexanoic acids, 9-octadecenoic acid (oleic acid) and 9,12-octadecadenoic acid (linoleic acid). Although the role of fatty acids in bee nutrition is not yet fully understood, compounds such as linoleic acid, linolenic acid, myristic acid and dodecanoic acid appear to play an important role in inhibiting some microorganisms that affect bees, as Paenibacillus larvae larvae (American foulbrood). For this reason the sample P05 appears as the one with the highest nutritional quality, since it presented a higher number of fatty acids. In the analysis of minerals, it was observed that protein foods are significantly richer in micronutrients. In this work, the most common elements were potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium, while copper and manganese appeared in some foods in small quantities. Cadmium, often an associated element with heavy metal contamination appeared in only one of the products, P05, but in very small quantities, lead was not detected in any of the supplements. In general, there were discrepancies between the results obtained and the description available on product labels, making clear the need for further quality control of these commercial products.As abelhas melíferas (Apis mellifera L.) são os principais agentes polinizadores de inúmeras plantas e árvores frutíferas e, portanto, desempenham um papel fundamental na agricultura e, de maneira mais geral, na manutenção da biodiversidade ecológica. Como a maioria dos organismos, as abelhas precisam de uma dieta diversificada, composta de minerais, hidratos de carbono, lípidos e aminoácidos (proteínas) para sobreviver e se reproduzir. A necessidade de hidratos de carbono de uma abelha adulta é satisfeita pelo néctar produzido pelas flores e também, ocasionalmente, por meladas segregadas por insetos, enquanto o pólen de flores é a principal fonte de aminoácidos, principais constituintes das proteínas, tendo um papel preponderante no desenvolvimento de larvas e abelhas jovens, fornecendo elementos estruturais de músculos, glândulas e outros tecidos. O declínio das populações de abelhas está ligado à escassez nutricional causada pela agricultura intensiva, que reduz a diversidade e a abundância de espécies de plantas.Juntamente com a deficiência causada por alterações climáticas adversas e com a necessidade de reduzir a mortalidade de colónias, particularmente para garantir um bom estado nutricional/saúde das abelhas, a suplementação artificial de colónias de abelhas tornou-se uma questão importante na apicultura, sendo uma prática comum e crescente entre os apicultores portugueses. Esta prática, associada à escassa regulamentação existente para este tipo de produtos, está a aumentar a oferta comercial destes produtos.O impacto destes produtos nas colmeias pode permitir ao apicultor remediar desequilíbrios existentes nas colónias, resultantes de condições adversas ou de apicultura, mas também pode representar riscos à saúde da abelha e à qualidade dos produtos apícolas, dependendo das matérias-primas usadas e da presença de substâncias nocivas. O presente trabalho, inserido no projeto ApisCibus - Alimentos artificiais para abelhas: levantamento de qualidade, digestibilidade e desempenho sobre a colmeia, teve como objetivo principal avaliar a qualidade de suplementos artificiais de abelhas comerciais através da análise da sua composição química. Os parâmetros de qualidade avaliados foram: minerais, quantificados por espectroscopia de absorção atómica, ácidos gordos, Analisados por cromatografia gasosa acoplada a espectrometria de massas (GC-MS) e aminoácidos analisados por cromatografia líquida de ultra-pressão acoplada à espectrometria de massas por ionização por eletrospray (UPLC- ESIMS). Através dos resultados obtidos pudemos observar que a elevada quantidade de aminoácidos livres apresentada nos suplementos estudados, não reflete necessariamente uma boa fonte de nutrientes, considerando que para a abelha é importante ter acesso a um conjunto de aminoácidos diversificados. As exigências nutricionais da abelha requerem 10 aminoácidos essenciais (Arg, Phe, His, Ile, Leu, Lys, Met, Thr, Trp e Val).O suplemento P12 surge como o mais rico e equilibrado, seguindo-se o P05. O suplemento C08, apesar de conter uma proporção adequada na maioria dos aminoácidos, apresenta uma quantidade excessiva de Arg, o que poderá provocar efeitos adversos. Relativamente aos ácidos gordos, as amostras apresentaram diversos compostos, entre os mais abundantes os ácidos hexanóico, ácido 9-octadecenóico (ácido oleico) e ácido 9,12-octadecadienóico (ácido linoleico). Embora o papel dos ácidos gordos na nutrição das abelhas ainda não seja totalmente compreendido, compostos como o ácido linoleico, ácido linolénico, ácido mirístico e ácido dodecanóico parecem ter um papel importante na inibição de alguns microorganismos que afectam as abelhas, como Paenibacillus larvae larvae (Loque Americana). Por esta razão a amostra P05 surge como a de maior qualidade nutricional, já que apresentou um maior número de ácidos gordos. Na análise dos minerais, observou-se que os alimentos proteicos são significativamente mais ricos em micronutrientes. Neste trabalho, os elementos mais comuns foram o potássio, sódio, cálcio e magnésio, enquanto cobre e o manganês surgiram em alguns alimentos em pequenas quantidades. O cádmio, um elemento associado frequentemente com a contaminação por metais pesados surgiu apenas num dos alimentos, P05, mas em quantidades muito reduzidas, já o chumbo não foi detetado em nenhuma dos suplementos. No geral, verificaram-se discrepâncias entre os resultados obtidos e a descrição disponível nos rótulos dos produtos, tornando-se evidente a necessidade de um maior controlo de qualidade destes produtos comerciais.The author thanks to Programa Apícola Nacional (2017-2019) for the funding to the Apiscibus and to Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and FEDER inside the Program PT2020 for the finantial support to CIMO (UID/AGR/00690/2019)

    Ines Adornetti, Buone idee per la mente. I fondamenti cognitivi ed evolutivi della cultura, Cagliari, Cuec Editrice, 2011, pp.144

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    The text offers a Critical Review of "Buone idee per la mente. I fondamenti cognitivi ed evolutivi della cultura" by Ines Adornetti. The author critically reflects on the book by considering its methodologies, its arguments, and its relation with other books of the same type and on the same subject.Il testo propone una Lettura Critica del libro "Buone idee per la mente. I fondamenti cognitivi ed evolutivi della cultura" di Ines Adornetti. L'autrice riflette criticamente sul libro considerandone le metodologie, gli argomenti e il nesso con altri libri dello stesso tipo e sullo stesso argomento

    Compositional profile of food supplements for honeybees

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    Mestrado de dupla diplomação com a Université Libre de TunisHoneybees (Apis mellifera L.) are the main pollinating agents for numerous plants and fruit trees and, hence, play a key role in agriculture and more generally in the maintenance of ecological biodiversity. Like the most of organisms, honeybees need a diverse diet consisting of minerals, carbohydrates (sugars), fats, and amino acids (proteins) to survive and reproduce. An adult honey bees carbohydrate requirement is satisfied by the nectar produced in flowers and also occasionally from extra floral nectarines or honeydew secreted by plant-feeding insects, while, flower pollen is the main source of amino acids, protein building blocks, largely used to feed developing larvae and young bees to provide structural elements of muscles, glands and other tissues. Bee-population declines are linked to nutritional shortages caused by land-use intensification, which reduces diversity and abundance of plant species. Together with the deficiency caused by adverse climatic changes and with the need to reduce colony mortality and particularly to ensure good nutritional/health status of bees in specific production moments, artificial supplementation of honeybee colonies became a major issue in beekeeping, and now is a common and growing practice within Portuguese beekeepers. This practice, in association with the reduced regulation in this area is leading to the proliferation of commercial products based on carbohydrates, protein and other substances of diverse origins and compositions. The impact of these products on hives may enable the beekeeper to remedy colony imbalances resulting from adverse or beekeeping conditions, but also may pose risks to the bee’s health and the bee products quality, depending on the used raw materials and the presence of harmful substances. The present work, inserted within the project ApisCibus - Artificial food for honeybees: quality survey, digestibility and performance on the bee hive, will have as main objective to evaluate the quality of commercial honeybee artificial supplementation through composition analysis of commercial supplements. The quality parameters evaluated are: minerals quantified through atomic absorption spectroscopy, fatty acids analyzed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and amino acids which are analyzed by ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electro spray ionization mass spectrometry (UPLC-ESI-MS). Food supplements that are analyzed are largely used by beekeepers without knowing if they are benefic or not, toxic or not on the health of bees. Furthermore the results of the analysis shows that what is represented on the labels of products could be not exactly the same amounts of the real product inside the package. It shows also that some products may be considered as benefic or as toxic depending on the amount of these micronutrients. To continue this work in order to confirm these hypothesis, in vitro tests could be done on honeybees using these products analyzed in this thesis. Through the obtained results we could observe that the high amount of free amino acids presented in the studied supplements does not necessarily reflect a good source of nutrients, considering that for the bee it is important to have access to a diverse set of amino acids. Bee's nutritional requirements require 10 essential amino acids (Arg, Phe, His, Ile, Leu, Lys, Met, Thr, Trp and Val). The supplement P12 appears as the richest and most balanced, followed by P05. The C08 supplement, although containing an adequate proportion in most amino acids, has an excessive amount of Arg, which may cause adverse effects. Regarding fatty acids, the samples presented several compounds, among which the most abundant were hexanoic acids, 9-octadecenoic acid (oleic acid) and 9,12-octadecadenoic acid (linoleic acid). Although the role of fatty acids in bee nutrition is not yet fully understood, compounds such as linoleic acid, linolenic acid, myristic acid and dodecanoic acid appear to play an important role in inhibiting some microorganisms that affect bees, as Paenibacillus larvae larvae (American foulbrood). For this reason the sample P05 appears as the one with the highest nutritional quality, since it presented a higher number of fatty acids. In the analysis of minerals, it was observed that protein foods are significantly richer in micronutrients. In this work, the most common elements were potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium, while copper and manganese appeared in some foods in small quantities. Cadmium, often an associated element with heavy metal contamination appeared in only one of the products, P05, but in very small quantities, lead was not detected in any of the supplements. In general, there were discrepancies between the results obtained and the description available on product labels, making clear the need for further quality control of these commercial products.As abelhas melíferas (Apis mellifera L.) são os principais agentes polinizadores de inúmeras plantas e árvores frutíferas e, portanto, desempenham um papel fundamental na agricultura e, de maneira mais geral, na manutenção da biodiversidade ecológica. Como a maioria dos organismos, as abelhas precisam de uma dieta diversificada, composta de minerais, hidratos de carbono, lípidos e aminoácidos (proteínas) para sobreviver e se reproduzir. A necessidade de hidratos de carbono de uma abelha adulta é satisfeita pelo néctar produzido pelas flores e também, ocasionalmente, por meladas segregadas por insetos, enquanto o pólen de flores é a principal fonte de aminoácidos, principais constituintes das proteínas, tendo um papel preponderante no desenvolvimento de larvas e abelhas jovens, fornecendo elementos estruturais de músculos, glândulas e outros tecidos. O declínio das populações de abelhas está ligado à escassez nutricional causada pela agricultura intensiva, que reduz a diversidade e a abundância de espécies de plantas.Juntamente com a deficiência causada por alterações climáticas adversas e com a necessidade de reduzir a mortalidade de colónias, particularmente para garantir um bom estado nutricional/saúde das abelhas, a suplementação artificial de colónias de abelhas tornou-se uma questão importante na apicultura, sendo uma prática comum e crescente entre os apicultores portugueses. Esta prática, associada à escassa regulamentação existente para este tipo de produtos, está a aumentar a oferta comercial destes produtos.O impacto destes produtos nas colmeias pode permitir ao apicultor remediar desequilíbrios existentes nas colónias, resultantes de condições adversas ou de apicultura, mas também pode representar riscos à saúde da abelha e à qualidade dos produtos apícolas, dependendo das matérias-primas usadas e da presença de substâncias nocivas. O presente trabalho, inserido no projeto ApisCibus - Alimentos artificiais para abelhas: levantamento de qualidade, digestibilidade e desempenho sobre a colmeia, teve como objetivo principal avaliar a qualidade de suplementos artificiais de abelhas comerciais através da análise da sua composição química. Os parâmetros de qualidade avaliados foram: minerais, quantificados por espectroscopia de absorção atómica, ácidos gordos, Analisados por cromatografia gasosa acoplada a espectrometria de massas (GC-MS) e aminoácidos analisados por cromatografia líquida de ultra-pressão acoplada à espectrometria de massas por ionização por eletrospray (UPLC- ESIMS). Através dos resultados obtidos pudemos observar que a elevada quantidade de aminoácidos livres apresentada nos suplementos estudados, não reflete necessariamente uma boa fonte de nutrientes, considerando que para a abelha é importante ter acesso a um conjunto de aminoácidos diversificados. As exigências nutricionais da abelha requerem 10 aminoácidos essenciais (Arg, Phe, His, Ile, Leu, Lys, Met, Thr, Trp e Val).O suplemento P12 surge como o mais rico e equilibrado, seguindo-se o P05. O suplemento C08, apesar de conter uma proporção adequada na maioria dos aminoácidos, apresenta uma quantidade excessiva de Arg, o que poderá provocar efeitos adversos. Relativamente aos ácidos gordos, as amostras apresentaram diversos compostos, entre os mais abundantes os ácidos hexanóico, ácido 9-octadecenóico (ácido oleico) e ácido 9,12-octadecadienóico (ácido linoleico). Embora o papel dos ácidos gordos na nutrição das abelhas ainda não seja totalmente compreendido, compostos como o ácido linoleico, ácido linolénico, ácido mirístico e ácido dodecanóico parecem ter um papel importante na inibição de alguns microorganismos que afectam as abelhas, como Paenibacillus larvae larvae (Loque Americana). Por esta razão a amostra P05 surge como a de maior qualidade nutricional, já que apresentou um maior número de ácidos gordos. Na análise dos minerais, observou-se que os alimentos proteicos são significativamente mais ricos em micronutrientes. Neste trabalho, os elementos mais comuns foram o potássio, sódio, cálcio e magnésio, enquanto cobre e o manganês surgiram em alguns alimentos em pequenas quantidades. O cádmio, um elemento associado frequentemente com a contaminação por metais pesados surgiu apenas num dos alimentos, P05, mas em quantidades muito reduzidas, já o chumbo não foi detetado em nenhuma dos suplementos. No geral, verificaram-se discrepâncias entre os resultados obtidos e a descrição disponível nos rótulos dos produtos, tornando-se evidente a necessidade de um maior controlo de qualidade destes produtos comerciais.The author thanks to Programa Apícola Nacional (2017-2019) for the funding to the Apiscibus and to Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and FEDER inside the Program PT2020 for the finantial support to CIMO (UID/AGR/00690/2019)

    MARIONETA KAO SREDSTVO IZRAŽAVANJA

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    Predstava Fragile naslov je diplomske ispitne predstave studentice Ines Zmazek pod mentorstvom doc. art. Hrvoja Seršića na Umjetničkoj akademiji u Osijeku, na Odsjeku za kazališnu umjetnost, smjer gluma i lutkarstvo. Predstava je nastala u sklopu dvogodišnjeg projekta Zavirimo iza pozornice: pioniri europskog lutkarstva. U ovom diplomskom radu autorica opisuje proces rada na predstavi, iznosi činjenice o lutkarima i njihovim životima, te se bavi marionetom kao sredstvom izražavanja. Na kraju autorica zaključuje da joj je rad na predstavi Fragile uvelike pomogao da istraži stvari koje do sada nije imala priliku istražiti, te da se još više razvije kao lutkarica.The play Fragile is the title of a graduate exam presentation by Ines Zmazek under mentorship of assistant professor of arts Hrvoje Seršić at the Academy of Art in Osijek, at the Department of Theater Art, acting and puppetry. The performance was born as part of the two-year project All Strings Attached: The Pioneers of European Puppetry Behind the Scenes. In this graduate thesis the author describes the process of work on the play, the facts about famous puppeteers and their lives, and deals with the marionette as a means of expression. In the end the author concludes that her work at the Fragile show greatly helped investigate things she has not yet been able to investigate and develop even more as a puppeteer

    Moonlit lullaby : on one Marian ode by Albert Ines

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    The aim of this paper is to analyze and interpret the ode by Albert Ines, Ad Virginem Matrem. Cynthiam suam. In cuiusdam diei crepusculo (Lyr. 57). First the author cites the original lyrics written in Latin in Alcaic stanzas, and its poetic translation by the author of this paper. Next, the previous reception of the poem is discussed and the motifs analyzed in the context of intellectual history (time and transience, melancholy of twilight) and sensual experiences and its religious symbolism (contemplation of the sky, the moon as a figure of Virgin Mary). The paper points out the strong bond of the poet with Mary treated as a Muse, guide and object of pure, innocent love
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