La fortuna di Caravaggio nell'Ottocento napoletano

This chapter considers the relationship between Fortuna and Tyche as one of translatability. The first half of the chapter focuses on Tyche, with the aim of determining semantic an...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s life was turbulent and short. He was only in his late thirties when he died and yet he managed to achieve tremendous artistic success. A native ...

This chapter studies all the public temples of Fortuna at Rome in the Republican period. The main focal points of the chapter are the precise historical circumstances for the vow, ...

This chapter is focused on the most famous sanctuary of Fortuna in ancient Italy, the one dedicated to Fortuna Primigenia in the Latin town of Praeneste. It is argued that the dive...

Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship wit...

This chapter studies the negative meanings attributed to Fortuna, related to instability and bad luck. These meanings have always been attributed to the deity, and are attested alr...

L’amministrazione nell’esercizio di funzioni pubbliche ricerca efficienza e risparmi non solo riorganizzando la propria azione, ovvero esternalizzando tali funzioni, e cioè sostitu...