1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452402803321

Autore

Steen Charlie R

Titolo

Margaret of Parma : a life / / by Charlie R. Steen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Brill, , 2013

ISBN

90-04-25745-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Collana

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, , 1573-4188 ; ; volume 174

Disciplina

949.2/03092

B

Soggetti

Regents - Netherlands

Electronic books.

Netherlands History Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648

Italy History 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Charlie R. Steen -- Introduction / Charlie R. Steen -- I. The Emperor’s Daughter: A Political Offering / Charlie R. Steen -- II. Return to the Netherlands / Charlie R. Steen -- III. Lost Illusions / Charlie R. Steen -- IV. Mingling Delight with Disaster / Charlie R. Steen -- V. The Confederate Spring / Charlie R. Steen -- VI. The Calvinist Insurrection / Charlie R. Steen -- VII. D isordered and Hateful Times / Charlie R. Steen -- VIII. Uneasy Victory / Charlie R. Steen -- IX. Poisoned Peace / Charlie R. Steen -- X. Disgrace, Torment, and Shame / Charlie R. Steen -- XI. Madama Margarita / Charlie R. Steen -- Bibliography / Charlie R. Steen -- Index / Charlie R. Steen.

Sommario/riassunto

Margaret of Parma: A Life presents a woman who had a vital part in the political dramas of Reformation Europe. A natural child of Charles V, she was educated in the courts of Brussels, Florence, Rome, and Parma, and then was thrust into religious and political tumult in the Netherlands, where she showed ability and character. At eight she was moved to Italy to be educated and then married to Alessandro de’Medici. Alessandro’s murder enabled Charles to marry her to Ottavio Farnese, the grandson of Pope Pius III. The union gave her years of experience in Rome. Her father’s abdication took Margaret back to the



Netherlands as regent for Philip II. His authoritarian rule and the Calvinist uprising rendered the position horrifying. When rebuked and replaced by the Duke of Alba, Margaret returned to Italy as ruler of Abruzzo. The character of Margaret assured her importance as she dealt with essential issues of life and rule. This biography reveals a woman dedicated to compromise and conciliation in public affairs.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484978903321

Autore

Kodaira Kunihiko

Titolo

Theory of algebraic surfaces / / Kunihiko Kodaira; Kazuhiro Konno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

981-15-7380-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 75 p. 45 illus.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Mathematics, , 2191-8198

Disciplina

530.15635

Soggetti

Complex analysis, complex variables

Geometry, Algebraic

Surfaces, Algebraic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction (Purposes and Known Results) -- Chapter: 1 Fundamentals of Algebraic Surfaces -- Chapter 2: Pluri-canonical Systems on Algebraic Surfaces of General -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

This is an English translation of the book in Japanese, published as the volume 20 in the series of Seminar Notes from The University of Tokyo that grew out of a course of lectures by Professor Kunihiko Kodaira in 1967. It serves as an almost self-contained introduction to the theory of complex algebraic surfaces, including concise proofs of Gorenstein's theorem for curves on a surface and Noether's formula for the arithmetic genus. It also discusses the behavior of the pluri-canonical maps of surfaces of general type as a practical application of the general theory. The book is aimed at graduate students and also at anyone interested in algebraic surfaces, and readers are expected to



have only a basic knowledge of complex manifolds as a prerequisite.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788827503321

Autore

Petrilli Susan

Titolo

Sign studies and semioethics : communication, translation and values / / Susan Petrilli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-61451-522-0

1-61451-912-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 p.)

Collana

Semiotics, communication and cognition, , 1867-0873 ; ; volume 13

Classificazione

ER 730

Disciplina

4101.019248

Soggetti

Semiotics

Semiotics - Moral and ethical aspects

Semiotics - Philosophy

Language and ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction. The semioethic turn in sign studies -- Part I: Critical semiotics, structures and models -- Chapter 1. Signposts leading to semioethics: on signs, values and the non-neutrality of semiotics -- Chapter 2. Insights into structure and structuralism -- Chapter 3. Human modelling, puzzles and articulations -- Part II: Signification, logic, iconicity -- Chapter 4. Evolutionary cosmology, logic and semioethics -- Chapter 5. Image, primary iconism and otherness -- Chapter 6. Signs of silence -- Part III: Understanding, significs and dialogism -- Chapter 7. Reading significs as semioethics -- Chapter 8. The objective character of misunderstanding. When the mystifications of language are the cause -- Chapter 9. The live word, value and otherness -- Part IV: The centrality of translation for semiotics -- Chapter 10. Translational semiotics, life processes and ideology -- Chapter 11. Translation, iconicity and dialogism -- Chapter 12. The



semiotic machine, linguistic work and translation -- Part V: From global semiotics to semioethics -- Chapter 13. Extending semiotic horizons -- Chapter 14. From the methodica of common speech to the methodica of common semiosis -- Chapter 15. Global semiotics and the vocation for translation -- Chapter 16. Social symptomatology and semioethics -- Notes -- References -- Name and subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the issues surrounding the problematic perpetuation of dominant sign systems through the framework of 'semioethics'. Semioethics is concerned with using semiotics as a powerful tool to critique the status quo and move beyond the reproduction of the dominant order of communication. The aim is to present semioethics as a method to engage semiotics in an active rethink of our ability as humans to affect change.