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    Elefanti, serpenti e bachi da seta : riflessioni su qualche aspetto del repertorio zoologico ambrosiano

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    The author studies some aspects of the christianization of ancient zoological knowledg

    Leo gallum et maxime album veretur. Tracce della dottrina delle simpatie e antipatie naturali nell’"Exameron" di Ambrogio

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    The author argues that Ambrose possibly knew of pseudo-Democritus' work

    Ambrose’s letters: sermones absentium?

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    The author investigates some linguistic features of Ambrose's letters, in order to demonstrate their (apparent) low degree of literarity

    Linguistic otherness in Jerome's epistolary praises of holy women

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    Praises of holy women in Jerome's letters show deep appreciation of their alleged culture and multilingualism. The author deals with the (classical) origin and (Christian) meaning of that theme

    Osservazioni sulla lingua dell'epistolario ambrosiano

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    The author deals with word order in verbal phrases, as a possible clue of orality in Ambrose' letters

    Sativus e insitivus: due tecnicismi in Ambrogio?

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    The author focuses on some lexical aspects of the language of the works of Ambrose of Mila

    Cicero in Ambrose’s De officiis and letters

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    The author examines the phenomenon of 'competing exempla' in Ambrose's De officis and in his model, as such a survey might shed light on the expected audience/readership of the Ambrosian treatise

    Ut leo, sic formica vocor sermone Pelasgo : some observations about the ancient ant-lion (myrmex, myrmecoleon)

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    The Author deals with the story of the ant-lion. This animal, born because of a translation mistake in the Greek Bible, survived in the tradition of Greek and Latin Physiologus and in later bestiaries, undergoing a strange metamorphosis: mermecolion in fact became the name of the pearl-oyster

    Di nuovo sulla fortuna di un termine “agricolo”: seminarium

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    The author studies the presence of agriculture technical language in some works of Ambrose of Mila

    In margine a due testimoni del centone di Proba : Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, D 14 INF. E G 111 INF.

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    The paper focuses on two manuscripts , containing the Virgilian cento of the Christian poetess Proba (4th century), endowed with a corpus of marginal scholia.The author examines both ‘paratextual’ and 'textual' elements, which suggest that the two manuscripts derive from a common antigraph. They are both school miscellanies. The latter must be probably connected to the teaching activity of Bartolino Valvassori from Lodi, doctor of grammar and rhetoric at the Studium Bononiense in 1405-1406
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