... . There are rectangular panels telling the stories, with few figures(which are bony), bare landscapes, and emphasis on lively gestures. Hands, feet, and heads are emphasized. VOCABULARY Animal style: a medieval art form in which animals are depicted in a stylized and often complicated pattern, usually seen fighting with one another. Cloisonne: enamelwork in which colored areas are separated by thin bands ... moldings around an arch Axial plan (Basilican plan, Longitudinal plan): a church with a long nave whose focus is the apse, so -called because it is designed along an axis Baptistery:...

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... Mazzini, it was the new-guelph writers who provided the necessary intellectual stimulus for the first war of liberation. They tried to involve the pope historically by showing how the medieval papacy had fought the Germans. The advent of a liberal pope, Pius IX, created the hopes for a federation of the Italian states. In spite of his personal sympathy for the Lombard ... success almost accidentally labelled Austria as the greatest oppressor of the peninsula. At Brussels in 1843, Gioberti produced his Primato Moralo Civile degli Italiani (the Primacy of the Italian Civil Morality). Here...

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... . The instincts of the peasants to self-interest, indifference and greed occur in the extreme times of war. Both the novel and the film are indictments of an accepted social morality, which fully reveals itself only in times of such great stress. Michele constantly berates the characters for their deliberate moral blindness to the implications of war, a blindness, which results in ... spiritual education- (Dego 102). Michele is opposed to Fascism and to the lack of ethics from which the peasants suffer and he forces Cesira to confront her own deficiency of morality. Through his own educa...

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