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  • Note the presence - traditional in the orbis hispanicus - of ministers in tunicles:

    Usus Antiquior with a Sevillian Cofradía 2009

  • In the Apologus to his translation of Plato's De regno, dedicated to Montefeltro on 6 January 1482, Marsilio Ficino plays on the duke's name, describing in a witticism that Federico was known as "a fide regia fideregum" and "ab orbis imperio Orbinatem ducem" by superior intelligences and as "Federicus Urbinas dux" by men. 137

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

  • This new pax orbis flattens the first world and third world into one world in which a league of multipolar economic networks will eventually replace nation-states.

    Eric Ehrmann: Dancing With Davos: The World Bank and the IMF 2010

  • By marveling at the material and intellectual ingenuity expressed in the studioli, we have already begun to apprehend what the studioli are "good for" and, more broadly, to intuit their contribution to "a new orbis studiorum."

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

  • This new pax orbis flattens the first world and third world into one world in which a league of multipolar economic networks will eventually replace nation-states.

    Eric Ehrmann: Dancing With Davos: The World Bank and the IMF Eric Ehrmann 2010

  • This new pax orbis flattens the first world and third world into one world in which a league of multipolar economic networks will eventually replace nation-states.

    Dancing With Davos: The World Bank and the IMF 2010

  • This appeared in a collection of six alternatim settings all based on the chant Kyrie orbis factor, and all by composers connected in some way or other with S Barbara and Mantua.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Pange, lingua, gloriosi proelium certaminis, et super Crucis trophaeo dic triumphum nobilem, qualiter Redemptor orbis immolatus vicerit.

    Archive 2009-04-01 bls 2009

  • Quando venit ergo sacri plenitudo temporis, missus est ab arce Patris natus, orbis, Conditor, atque ventre virginali carne factus prodiit.

    Archive 2009-04-01 bls 2009

  • They vary in technique from complex canonic structures (Haec Deum coeli) and luxuriantly sonorous polyphony (the six-voice Salve regina) to works of exquisitely transparent texture in which the words are declaimed with a clarity unusual for Obrecht (Factor orbis, based on a miscellany of plainchant melodies for the Christmas period).

    Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009

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