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The scope of this dissertation is to examine the representations of Egypt in modern Italian literature. By closely analyzing Egyptian, Italian and French texts related to the colonial moment and the Italian intellectual environment during fascism I revise current views of coloni…

With the exception of three isolated settings of "In exitu Israel," no polyphonic settings of psalms survive until around 1480. In the period 1480-1500 no fewer than four collections of Vespers psalms appeared, preserving 108 unique settings of polyphonic psalms. These psalms re…

My dissertation project examines the relation between sound and space of twelfth-century polyphony in Notre-Dame cathedral during its construction. Beginning in the second half of the twelfth century, a dramatic shift in rhythmic organization in the polyphonic repertoire at Notr…