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Philosophy during the Renaissance

Nicolae Sfetcu — Wed, 22 May 2024 08:28:35 +0000

In humanist environments of the 15th century, so different from the Universities, under the protection of princes or popes, secular and ecclesiastical people met indifferently, at the Platonic Academy in the Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent, as at the Aldine … Read More

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Aesthetics in Middle Ages, Renaissance and XVII – XVIII centuries

Nicolae Sfetcu — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:00:48 +0000

Middle Ages (Teaching Boethius, manuscript of the Consolation of Philosophy, 1385.) The aesthetics of the Middle Ages take up the principles of Neoplatonism by relating them to the theological model of Christianity. It is considered then that in artistic creation … Read More

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Christmas during the Renaissance

Nicolae Sfetcu — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 02:01:51 +0000

Before the Christianization of the West, Christmas was called Dies Natalis Solis Invicti and corresponded to the birth day of Sol Invictus. The date of 25 December has been set as the great feast of the undefeated Sun (Sol Invictus) … Read More

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History of literary translation

Nicolae Sfetcu — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:10:50 +0000

The first important translation in the West was that of the Septuagint,[1] a collection of Jewish Scriptures translated into Koine Greek in Alexandria between the 3rd and 1st centuries BCE. The dispersed Jews had forgotten their ancestral language and needed … Read More

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