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Note 13: In the first passage of De pictura, Alberti borrows a Ciceronian proverb (from De amicitia 5.16) concerning the "coarse senses of Minerva" to distinguish the sensate knowledge of a painter from a mathematician's abstract mensurations (see Kemp, "Introduction," 12).

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

The “second triumvirate” could be considered a form of amicitia, since that was the word that the Romans used to denote political alliance; and Pollio may have structured his history by beginning and ending it with these two instances of friendship among princes.

Cracking the Shakespeare Code - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The “second triumvirate” could be considered a form of amicitia, since that was the word that the Romans used to denote political alliance; and Pollio may have structured his history by beginning and ending it with these two instances of friendship among princes.

Cracking the Shakespeare Code - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The “second triumvirate” could be considered a form of amicitia, since that was the word that the Romans used to denote political alliance; and Pollio may have structured his history by beginning and ending it with these two instances of friendship among princes.

Cracking the Shakespeare Code - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The “second triumvirate” could be considered a form of amicitia, since that was the word that the Romans used to denote political alliance; and Pollio may have structured his history by beginning and ending it with these two instances of friendship among princes.

Cracking the Shakespeare Code - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

The “Compendium of the Catechism” speaks of “the wisdom of its presentation and the depth of its spirituality,” and our book has grown out of an “amicitia catechistica” between Notre Dame de Vie in France, Maryvale Institute and Franciscan University in Steubenville -- three institutions that have firsthand evidence of this spirituality through their courses in theology and catechesis.

Archive 2008-06-01 papabear 2008

And this is the message of the seventh book of De amicitia which I have retranslated above.

Balkinization 2006

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, De amicitia, lib. vii (ca. 45 BCE) (my transl.) (in the Loeb edition of the works of Cicero, vol. 20, p. 132).

Balkinization 2006

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, De amicitia, lib. vii (ca. 45 BCE) (my transl.) (in the Loeb edition of the works of Cicero, vol. 20, p. 132).

Balkinization 2006

And this is the message of the seventh book of De amicitia which I have retranslated above.

Balkinization 2006