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By the time Petrarch wrote his works, in the 14th century, curiositas was mainly considered as a vice, and many treatises highlighted its negative significance. In the present article, we will see that in Petrarch, the notion of curiositas is conceived in different senses and it is not valued only negatively, but it reflects the prismatic complexity of Petrarch's thought. It will then be our purpose that of unraveling its different characterizations and the Medieval and Ancient sources he uses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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O conto de Psiquê e Cupido (Apuleio, Metamorfoses, IV, 28-VI, 24), por sua natureza simbólica, apresenta uma série de níveis interpretativos, que ultrapassam a justificativa textual de sua inserção na obra, explicitada, no passo que antecede o relato, pelo uso de auocare (“afastar pela palavra, desviar, distrair”). Nosso propósito aqui é discutir uma dessas camadas significativas da narrativa, a partir da bipartição de Vênus em duas deusas (Venus uulgaria e Venus caeles), tal como apresentada por Apuleio em sua Apologia (12, 1-5), associando-a às figuras da própria Vênus e à de Psiquê, bem como à representação paródica dos deuses do panteão tradicional grego, em especial de Cupido, com ênfase no desfecho da fabula.

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Neste artigo, apresentamos uma reflexão acerca da tipologia da violência expressa em O asno de ouro, de Apuleio. Damos especial relevo aos meios por meio dos quais esse fenômeno se organiza, a saber, distribuindo-se, por um lado, em torno da história principal e das histórias intercaladas, e, por outro, distribuindo-se pelos níveis estrutural, temático e fenotípico. Com esse intuito, buscamos apontar como tipos análogos de ações violentas individuais podem encerrar, por vezes, leituras interpretativas com significados distintos.

Neste artigo, buscamos analisar a expressão da violência em O asno de ouro, de Apuleio, considerando especificamente a sua manifestação no decorrer do primeiro conto acessório, o de Aristômenes. A partir dessa análise, esperamos revelar como determinados elementos literários desenvolveram-se primeiramente no conto acessório e são posteriormente retomados e desenvolvidos ao longo da história principal. Dentre esses elementos, encontram-se a inserção da violência; a relação intrínseca entre laetaberis e violentia; a espacialidade composta por epidêmicos contornos violentos; e a metamorfose animal como castigo máximo e violência mais duradoura no romance.

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This article tries to make a point about the question of Pudentilla’s dowry and the role that it played in Apuleius’s self-defense in his Apology. After having examined the type of evidence showed by Apuleius in the law court, the order in which it is presented and the function it has in the oration, we proceed to examine the question of the dowry. This is linked to the circumstance of a wedding celebrated in the isolation of the country and not in town, an unusual, though not illicit custom. From Apuleius’s evidence, we can deduce that the rhetorician will base his defense on the concepts of Pudentilla’s self-mastery and freedom of choice; moreover we can assume that the dowry had been fixed according to the dotis promissio and not the dotis dictio regulation.

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This article deals with the reception of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature in the late-antique pagan milieu on the basis of a passage from Apuleius' De deo Socratis. The notion of daemon testis present in this passage has no parallel in the Greco-Roman religious and philosophical traditions, but is well attested in some Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts, to which Apuleius may have had access during his travels in the Mediterranean world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Apuleius' narrative, more specifically his work "The Golden Ass", is a possible field for discussing and problematizing the expressions and representations of the feminine and its behaviors of and in the Roman society of the second century after Christ. In choosing a source of a literary nature, we draw an approximation between literature and history, however we do not confuse the specifics of each area. The use of literature by history goes where the problem is stated, and the questions asked must be grounded and justified in the field of history. It should be noted that literary texts are fundamental documents for the study of antiquity. In the study of women, this theme has grown significantly in recent years. Such investigations are in line with current historiographical debates, which have also privileged singular aspects and the social actions of individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Este artigo propõe um estudo das narrativas de metamorfose em Luciano de Samósata (Lúcio ou o asno) e Apuleio de Madaura (O asno de ouro), a partir do exame de três aspectos: a) a conjunção e a disjunção entre mente humana e corpo bestial; b) a possibilidade de ler o texto como uma experiência mental; e c) a relação entre metamorfose e contrametamorfose, o que torna possível que a própria experiência possa ser narrada. Trata-se de abordar certas estratégias narrativas utilizadas pelos dois autores, incluindo os dados pelos quais homens e animais se aproximam e se distinguem – a alimentação, o sexo, o trabalho e a linguagem –, o que faz com que a experiência mental não seja senão uma radical experiência de um corpo ficcional.

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È noto che la lingua di Apuleio sia ricchissima di effetti anfibologici e paronomastici. Come tradurre? In questo saggio si esaminano due diverse traduzioni, quella emulativa di Alessandro Fo e quella ‘servile’ di Lara Nicolini. In alcuni dei copiosissimi loci bollati come ‘intraducibili’, l’autrice di questo saggio offre proposte e soluzioni che limitino l’ineluttabilità di tale sconfitta, valorizzando in traduzione la dominante ludica dello stile delle Metamorfosi di Apuleio.Apuleius’ language is well-known for its wealth of amphibological and paronomastic effects. How should it be translated? This essay examines two different solutions: Alessando Fo’s translation, which seeks to produce similar effects, and Lara Nicolini’s one, aimed at formal equivalence. For a few of the many 'untranslatable' text passages, the author of this essay offers possible solution to limit the ineluctability of this defeat and to best render the ludic dominant of Apuleius’s style in the Metamorphoses.

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This article consists in reflections about Apuleius religion, Roman intellectual who lived in 2nd century in Africa Roman. We present an analysis about religious characteristics surrounded this author, such as his medium-platonic philosophy, the mysteric cults, his involvement with magical practices and occupation of priestly position. We use the workmanships of the analyzed author: Apologia, Florida, O asno de ouro and O Deus de Sócrates, as research sources. We present the analysis of a solid bibliography about Apuleius and the context. It's important to stand out Apuleius has his name involved in magic until nowadays and was accused as practicing with magic at his time, was involve in a legal process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]