1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396001703316

Autore

Fabricius Georg <1516-1571.>

Titolo

Georgii Fabricii De re poetica libri IIII [[electronic resource] ] : Quid singulis contineatur, proxime sequens pagina indicabit.  Latinorum poëtarum inter se comparationes ex Iulij Casaris Scaligeri critco desumpta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Antuerpiae, : Ex officina Christophori  Plantini, Architypographi regij., M. D. LXXX. [1580]

Descrizione fisica

[1]+ p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

ScaligeroGiulio Cesare <1484-1558.>

Soggetti

Poetics

Latin poetry

Title pagesBelgium

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Fragment; consists of t.p. only.

Printer's device on t.p.

Reproduction of original in: British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996388030703316

Titolo

By the King. A proclamation prohibiting the importation of allome [[electronic resource] ] : and the buying, or spending thereof in any of His Maiesties dominions

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Imprinted at London, : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, deputies and assignes of Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, Anno M.DC.XVII. [1617, i.e. 1618]]

Descrizione fisica

[3] sheets

Altri autori (Persone)

James, King of England,  <1566-1625.>

Soggetti

Alum industry - Great Britain - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Caption title.

Dated at end: Westminster the sixteenth of March, in the fifteenth yeere of our reigne ..

Imprint from colophon.

The year date is given according to Lady Day dating.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787428203321

Autore

Konstan David

Titolo

Pity transformed / / David Konstan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2004

©2001

ISBN

1-4725-0232-9

1-4725-0231-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Classical Inter/faces

Disciplina

820.9353

Soggetti

Sympathy in literature

Classical literature - History and criticism

Classical literature

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

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Pity as an Emotion; 1. Pity and the Law; 2. Pity versus Compassion; 3. Pity and Power; 4. Divine Pity; Conclusion; Appendix: Aristotle on Pity and Pain; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Z

Sommario/riassunto

""Pity Transformed"" is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from modern ideas. Among the topics investigated in this study are the appeal to pity in courts of law and the connection between pity and desert; the relation between pity and love or intimacy; self-pity; the role of pity in war and its relation to human rights and human dignity; divine pity from paganism to Christianity; and why pity was considered an emotion. This book will lead readers to ponder ho