Gli otia di un giurista filologo: il Philargyrus di Andrea Alciato by Antonio Nogara

“…The unpublished Latin comedy Philargyrus, written by Andrea Alciato (1492-1550) between 1523-1527, is a remarkable work in the field of humanistic drama in Latin, regarding the historical period of the Duchy of Milan during the Wars in Italy between France and Spain in the first thirty years of 15th century. …”
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Leonardo profetico by Marco Versiero

“…The earliest examples are from the last decade of the 15th century, at the time of the quick decline of the Duchy of Milan, in whose service Leonardo was operating. …”
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'Giustizia fatta': observations sur un registre des condamnés à mort (1471–1764) de la bibliothèque de Beccaria by Pierre Musitelli

“…Covering more than 200 pages, this is a chronological list of the public executions of men and women in the duchy of Milan between 1471 and 1764. This chronicle of the scaffold, which breaks off in the month if not on the very day that Dei delitti et delle pene (On crimes and punishments) appeared, records the names of ‘thousands of wretches’ whose deaths, presented as ‘pleasing spectacles’, made the Milanese philosopher ‘shudder’ with indignation, as he observes in his celebrated pamphlet of 1764. …”
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