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Abstract I beni della nobiltà nel Friuli moderno: un quadro d’insieme e alcuni casi di rivendicazioni maschili e femminili a cavallo del confine La realtà geopolitica presa in esame è quella del Friuli moderno, spartito, dopo la caduta... more
La lecture de L'Homme du ressentiment de Scheler permet d'y découvrir l'idéologie pré-nazie délirante qui régnait dans le monde intellectuel du début du XXe siècle et l'université allemande en particulier. On sait que le système... more
In Samuel Johnson's "One and Twenty" a young man turns the age in which he has complete access to all the inheritance he had been left as he becomes the new head of the household. The poem is Johnson's mock-advice to this young man who... more
The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed landscape inevitably still bore the traces... more
In 1438 Pedro, Duke of Coimbra, was second-in-line to the Portuguese throne. The death of his elder brother Duarte had left the royal seat vacant and Pedro, a middle-aged, powerful magnate was elected as regent for Duarte’s son Afonso,... more
These short biographies of some of the characters so-called Berlin line of the Radziwiłłs show the long path they travelled from the late 18th to the mid-20th century. Although the short answer to the question of what were the specific... more
Dolgozatomban az 1711 és 1799 között magyar báróvá és gróffá emelt személyekkel foglalkoztam kizárva azokat, akik már származásuk szerint főnemesek voltak, azonban a vizsgált időszakban további rangemelést nyertek. A 18. századi világi... more
Résumé de ma conférence prochainement présentée au colloque international "Georgia in the Context of Christian Civilization", Tbilissi-Bakurtsikhe, 11-13 septembre 2019.
Human dignity is making a comeback. The paper focuses on the story that this comeback of human dignity presupposes and recasts. In that story, the “human family” is portrayed in terms of aristocratic dignitas. The consequences are... more
Étiqueté le plus souvent comme un penseur de la démocratie, parfois jusqu’à en faire un précurseur du totalitarisme communautaire, Rousseau est rarement étudié pour ses réflexions sur l’aristocratie. Cette forme de gouvernement joue... more
By means of an in-depth exegesis of the works of Alasdair MacIntyre and Friedrich Nietzsche, my dissertation argues that the fundamental pathology afflicting Modernity in the West is not a crisis of values—whether valuelessness or... more