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Our endeavour is based on the search for revealing the realities that happened during the Renaissance period in the Italian city-states, starting from their formation and ending up with the fall of these regimes. The Italian Renaissance is a surprisingly well-defined phenomenon in time and space, impacting not only Italian and European culture and civilization, leaving its strong imprint on an entire world. The Italian Renaissance civilization witnessed socio-economic, administrative-political changes of a complet...

The Roman Ancient culture makes no exception from the long line of humanity's empires, which have not paid attention to femininity in its beauty and goodness, instruction and education. The Roman woman represented, both during the Empire and in the Republic, a controversial subject and treated most often differently. While common women only received elementary skills (writing and reading), upper and middle-class women had the right to a selected education, granted by the family's position. Ever since birth, the st...

The Sibyls and the art of prophecies have played an essential role in history, proving the inclination of the human spirit towards mysticism and the belief of all societies that at the base of any symbolic story is a real event. In the book of Enoch, which describes the making of the world according to the Jewish tradition, often cited by the authors of the New Testament and even by Jesus Christ, it speaks of angels who loved women and married them, making them known the derisory mysteries they knew, the small mys...

The woman in ancient Rome did not have a direct political role, but often from behind the curtain, her influence was overwhelming, whether it was family or public life. The significant involvement of Roman women in politics was eased by the crisis following the civil wars that led to a disintegration of the family and the moral principles hard-pressed by the new rules, exiles, and property confiscations as follow-ups of the triumvirate. All of these gathered, lead to an uncertainty of life, extremely favourable to...

This paper aims to analyse the ways in which a marriage can be concluded in the case of rich and noble families, as well as in the case of the poor ones. Marriage habits are different, depending on the social and economic status, and most of these traditions prevail nowadays also. The institution of marriage will lead to a transformation of the sentimental imaginary, starting from the Middle AgesВ’ fin amor, played by the troubadours, to the pragmatic, interested relationship, focused on procreation and the transf...

The present paper is intended to be an analysis of the female ideal during the Renaissance period, respectively during the 14th-17th centuries, both in the realities of the times and in the art. The Italian Renaissance was inspired by Greek-Roman mythology, i.e. Olympus was fascinated by the goddess of beauty, Venus, as well as the ideal of the Middle Ages represented by Virgin Mary and Eve. Although the Church blames the feminine beauty as a source of sin, the prosperous Renaissance society divinises the beauty o...

The present paper proposes to identify the perception of the students of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, the largest technical university in Romania, regarding the quality of the university educational services through a quantitative, descriptive research. This study is a conclusive research, the collected data being the subject of a quantitative analysis. Their purpose is to test hypotheses and to analyze the relationships between variables. The sample consists of students from the master and doctoral course...