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The influence of Lucretius in Italian Renaissance: the Vernacular
No full textThe article tackles the important question of how much was Lucretius actually read in Italian Renaissance given the dangers of Epicurean doctrine for Catholic orthodoxy. Starting with the fact that the De rerum natura was never inscribed in the Index of Forbidden Books, the article explores the subtler ways in which scholars and writers avoided contrasts with the Inquisition adding to their appreciation of Lucretius as a poet a firm refutation of Lucretius as a thinker. Examples of authors who adopted - sooner or later - this ‘dissimulatory code’ are Raphael Francus, Pier Vettori, Vincenzio Borghini, Sperone Speroni
Thanks to this quite flimsy precaution, Lucretius circulated as much as the rest of classical literature, although a combination of cautiousness on the part of the authors and active censorship on the part of the Catholic church hindered for a very long time an Italian translation of the De Rerum Natura.
Indeed, his peculiar character of poet-philosopher, of physicus, took Lucretius into the hands of rather unusual readers, such as medical doctors, who relished in his description of the plague (DRN VI) and of the physiology of sex (DRN IV).
Another favourite passage of the poem was the simile of books I and IV: the author as wise doctor, who smears the cup’s brim with honey so that the bitter remedy of epicurean philosophy might be swallowed by the reader. The simile, that had a long tradition itself, was held as emblematic of the Renaissance debate on the role of poetry and Lucretius’ lines were quoted and translated countless times.Torquato Tasso ensured the Lucretian image’s popularity by using it for the proem of his 1581 masterpiece Gerusalemme Liberata:
Other sections of the poem, filtered through Neo-Platonic philosophy, gave subject to paintings by great Renaissance artists: Botticelli and Piero di Cosimo.
The last section of the article explores the different poetic incarnations of the Hymn to Venus, which never ceased to fascinate Renaissance and later poets, and was the subject of a restless process of imitation and formularisation (Alamanni, Berni, B. Tasso
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Lucretius and Roman Politics and History
No full textThe main issues at the interface between politics and ethics raised by Lucretius' Epicurean poem
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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