Dedications

Ferdinando Torriano de Tassis (1652-1721) Generale delle Poste imperiali a Venezia, fu anche un letterato, socio dell'Accademia dei Dodonei di Venezia, mecenate e protettore di talenti artistici. Attraverso l'esame di dediche, encomi, componimenti poetici che autori - reali e fittizi  - di opere di carattere teatrale, letterario, scientifico, linguistico e di altro genere gli indirizzarono, s'intende contribuire alla ricostruzione della figura e del ruolo di questo singolare personaggio nel contesto culturale della sua epoca.
Ferdinando Torriano de Tassis (1652-1721) Postmaster General to the Emperor in Venice, was also a cultivated man, a member of "Accademia dei Dodonei" in Venice, a patron and protector of talented artists. I will examine dedications, tributes, poems written for him by real or fictional authors of theatrical, literary, scientific, linguistic, and other works, thus trying to help reconstructing the figure and the role of such a peculiar person within the cultural framework of his age.
In: STORIA POSTALE. SGUARDI MULTIDISCIPLINARI, SGUARDI DIACRONICI. Atti del Convegno internazionale, Prato, 13-15 giugno 2019, a cura di B. Crevato-Selvaggi e R. Gerola, pp. 209-256.

Preface:

I have the honor and the burden of publishing the article "Prime Number Algorithms and Geometries", as a friend informed of the facts and not as a co-author of Engineer Francesco De Santis, who left us on January 6, 2022. This article represents the last work of Francesco, written in French for him natural, while to write in English, he had to go through translation.

Who was Francesco De Santis:

Born in Potenza on 7 August 1942

He considered himself a Calabrian citizen, and Roman by adoption.

Graduated in 1968 in Electronic Engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin.

Acknowledgments:
1982 Knight in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
2001 Knight of the Order of Palms of the Municipality of Sanremo.

Hobbies: Mathematics - Physics - Engineering - Architecture - Botany - Natural Sciences.

Publications:
- 1998 - "La palma" by Salvatore Cusa, ed. Bruno Leopardi - Palermo.
- 1998 - An expressive case of Fascination in Dracena draco - Quad. Bot. Environmental Application, 6 (1995): 165-166. University of Palermo.
- 2001 - Palma Palmae, with Gianfranco De Micheli - Ed. Pendragone Bologna.
- 2016 - The Gardener's Codes - the Scenes - Ed. Lulu (Les Codes du Jardinier - Ed. Lulu - The Gardener's Codes). Ed. Lulu)
- 2017 - His Majesty La Palma - with Gianfranco De Micheli - Ed.Lulù
- 2019 - Algorithms and Geometries of Prime Numbers - Ed. Lulù.

Francesco was passionate about the study of universal reality through nature; he had matured this passion of his, inspired by long periods of work in Africa, where, attending some areas of the African virgin forest, and meeting some indigenous tribes, he had learned to connect in a natural way, great chapters of our knowledge, such as mathematics, physics and geometry . Themes that we faced in good almost daily telephone chats, where he was always able to explain complex things to me, in a simple and intuitive way; I therefore owe to him my progress on the knowledge of the "intimate nature of the Universe".
Francis had discovered that the repetitive geometric forms inherent in Life can also serve as a source of inspiration for new mathematical formulations; which can range from elementary arithmetic to more sophisticated mathematical formulations; which for example we find in the properties, and in the counting of prime numbers, represented by the Riemann conjecture, which sees the light in the article written in 1859 by the great German mathematician Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, on the occasion of his appointment as Corresponding Member of the Academy Prussian of Sciences.
Riemann's Zeta function has deep connections with our world, and lives his odyssey with humanity. The appearance of the prime numbers still remains mysterious, even if the hypothesis formulated by Riemann on the position of the primes in the geometric plane of Argand-Gauss, is accepted by most mathematicians. On this scientific argument, there are inexact mythologies on "Number Theory", and related writings by great mathematicians such as: Euler, Gauss, Legendre, Goldbach and others. One of the most striking statements is the carrying over of Euler's sentence: "The human mind can never penetrate the secret of prime numbers", where the great Swiss mathematician Legendre actually wrote it; but in reality he meant that in spite of this thought, he himself had found extraordinary relationships in the prime numbers, and in essence an algorithm of their two sequences, as many as 25 distinct. In fact, his writing bears the title: "Discovery of an extraordinary law of numbers, in relation to the sum of their divisors".
Regarding the formulation of Gauss's prime number theorem, another false myth circulates, according to which this other immense genius has defined on a statistical basis, according to his insights which are unfathomable to us: the relationship existing between the order number of the primes, and the logarithm of natural numbers. If the Zeta function, which with its zeros would count the primes, is the extension of the Harmonic Series, which approximates less than the Euler - Mascheroni constant to the logarithm of natural numbers: what does statistics have to do with it?
Francesco De Santis, exposes two methods to validate Legendre's conjectures, one of which is for Goldbach's conjecture; who did not err in believing that every even number corresponds to the sum of at least two prime numbers. In essence, Francesco was unable to believe that no mathematician of the past had noticed the potential of the formulas, which he had found in counting the flower petals of "Camelia traviata", and also present in Michelangelo's great drawing at the Campidoglio in Rome.
Francis was convinced that science cannot be owned by anyone, and in this sense this article should be intended to enrich knowledge towards reality, for anyone who appreciates it in its deepest roots; and it could represent a stimulus to researchers and scientists who want to deepen this scientific topic, perhaps starting from the scientific - mathematical considerations contained in this article by Francesco.


Franco Ivaldi                                                          Cigliano February 17, 2022

Queen Elizabeth I had a love affair with her favorite court playwright, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, in 1573. They had a love-child whose identity had to be kept secret. He was placed in the home of a Catholic earl who had been in the Tower as a traitor. In return for his release, the Second Earl of Southampton made the infant born October 6, 1573, his heir as the Third Earl of Southampton. He named the boy after himself, Henry Wriothesley.  This theory is controversial, but there is growing evidence that this child was Elizabeth's son (curly auburn hair, for example), but his parentage was kept secret for political reasons.

Within the theoretical frame of my research on social virtues, the purpose of this contribution is to study hope and dedication to research in FREUD. Using a phenomenological approach, in FREUD’s letters to FLIESS in the years 1887-1891 there is an opposition between the images that FREUD offers of himself and the images of the friend. FREUD builds, through these pictures, interpersonal scenes in which complementary roles are assigned to himself and to his friend.
In several of the letters, FREUD describes his dedication to research: he feels he is in the “service” of psychology, his “tyrant and consuming passion”. FREUD’s dedication to research is supported by an “objective motivation” in the sense of WERTHEIMER. The letter dated January 1, 1896 marks a turning point in FREUD’s friendship with FLIESS:
FREUD makes a clear distinction between physiology and psychology. He  distinguishes his field of research from the field of FLIESS and applies this distinction to his own research. At this point, FREUD can reveal his “secretly nourished hope of arriving at his initial goal” [Anfangsziel]. This “initial goal”, that FREUD describes as his “always distant beckoning goal”, what “he wanted originally” is psychology.
FREUD’s hope of arriving at his “initial goal” is an authentic hope, because his expectation of a good future (bonum arduum futurum of the medieval philosophy) has not led him to neglect the present. On the contrary, hope stimulates FREUD’s dedication to his clinical and intellectual activity.

In our works at the Bursa Museum conducted for many years, we surprisingly managed to copy only a small number of dedications or inscriptions with religious content. In this paper, we publish and evaluate all the new dedications recorded during our museum research (except for no.9). Dedications are mostly in the form of stelai and new epitheta are attested in some of them. In addition to stelai, there are a few altars and one Zeus statuette. Some uninscribed artefacts are also included in the article. Many of them have been brought to the museum from Bursa and its vicinity and belong to Late Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Periods.

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la traducción castellana de
la dedicatoria que Ortensio Lando escribe a Sigismondo Rovello en
su Lettere di molte valorose donne, nelle quali chiaramente appare
non esser ne di eloquentia ne di dottrina alli huomini inferiori. En
primer lugar se llevará a cabo una breve introducción de la obra y
a continuación se tratará de enfocar la importancia del homenaje
dentro del panorama literario del siglo XVI. Por último se
presentará el texto original de la dedicatoria para proceder a su
traducción al castellano.

This paper explores the melic poets’ take on art and its
sponsors. Since much has been written on the relationship of epinician
poets with their patrons, this paper broadens the focus of enquiry to
include other melic genres and, in addition to the verbal, to look at the
visual arts as well, i.e. melic representations of communities that sponsor songs and of communities or individuals that sponsor other art-forms such as sculpture, architecture, and precious objects. Taking as starting point Xenophon’s depiction of Simonides in Hiero, I discuss epigrams XXVII and XXVIII Page and relevant testimonia that show Simonides’ keen interest in Athenian dithyrambic contests; Bacchylides’ Ode 19, probably composed for the Great Dionysia; Pindar’s Pythian 7, Paean 8, and fragment 3 in conjunction with Homeric Hymn to Apollo 281-99, Herodotus 1.31, Cicero, De oratore 2. 86. 352-353, [Plutarch] Consolatio ad Apollonium, and Pausanias – all of which offer precious insights into Pindar’s views on sponsoring monumental sculpture and architecture; and Bacchylides’ description of the golden tripods that Hieron offered to Apollo in Ode 3. On the basis of this evidence I argue that whatever the nature and the range of remuneration of poets and artists may have been, melic rhetoric shows that it was the relationship of poets, artists and their sponsors with the gods that was ultimately at stake. This is why both the poetry and the traditions about Simonides, Pindar and Bacchylides privilege the divine favour that poets, artists and patrons alike either obtained or were hoping to obtain by offering masterpieces to the gods.

The article proposes a new reading of the inscription incised around the full circumference of a gold plated bronze ring, allegedly acquired at Mycenae and now at the J. Paul Getty Museum at Malibu (no. 85. AM 264). It is written in the epichoric alphabet of Argos and dates to about the 1st half or the middle of the 6th c. B.C. It carries a dedication to Hera “with white arms” by a person (thought to be a man) whose name was originally read as Ἁϝρικνίδας, Αὐρικνίδας, or Ἀρρικνίδας, and later correctly as Fρικνίδας (< ῥικνός = shrivelled, shrunken, contracted).  After a critical review of the previous readings (see SEG 36, 341 and 38, 308), a new reading is proposed:
Hα Fρικνίδα μ’ ἀνέθεκε : θιιοῖ  λευϙολένοι Ηέραι : [The (anonymous) wife (or daughter) of Wriknidas dedicated me to goddess Hera, with white arms]. With this reading the line will scan as a dactylic hexameter.
Good photograph of the ring can be found at https://www.google.com/search?q=malibu+paul+getty+museum+Ring+with+dedication+to+goddess+Hera&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwirovf4mfzpAhWF_KQKHQ9pAZkQ_AUoAXoECAsQAw&biw=1255&bih=527

This chapter considers don Luis de Haro’s relationship with important literary figures of the Spanish Golden Age, and includes an appendix that lists over sixty of the poems, relaciones, manuscripts and books that were dedicated to him. As a young man during the 1620s and 1630s, Haro appears to have been closely connected with leading writers of the court of Madrid, people like José de Pellicer, Lope de Vega and Juan de Moncayo. However, when he entered his political maturity, he seems to have become less interested in cultivating literary relationships, and this is reflected in a decline in dedications to him of books published in Madrid after 1648. One suspects that as someone who enjoyed a highly privileged but also very insecure position as valido, he was reluctant to be publicly associated with literary works that might compromise his situation. Those writers who were allowed to dedicate books to him therefore had to do so in an indirect way, by addressing their texts to Philip IV, with a second dedication to Haro requesting that he intercede with the king on their behalf.

The ‘Epistle’ prefacing Anne Lock’s Sermons of John Calvin (1560) is a fascinating paratext that sheds light on laywomen’s role in disseminating works by continental reformers and on the way translation could be inflected by sociopolitical challenges. Lock’s dedication to the Duchess of Suffolk responds to the recent uproar in England over the relations between John Calvin, John Knox, and the Genevan exiles, and to cultural anxieties about laywomen’s religious teaching. Importantly, Lock depicts Calvin’s Geneva as an apothecary’s shop that heals an exemplary English noblewoman rather than as a haven for disgruntled subjects hostile to female rule.

There is a somewhat "transcendental" or "mystical" or "spiritual" dimension in any romantic relationship that can be put into Maslow's (1943) motivations for selfactualization/self-transcendence. This particular dimension of the relationship, based on the biology of reproduction, involves the human language. Not only language, but also imaginary conceptions of love, presenting it as an absolute, a relationship based on qualities of exceptionality, singularity, exclusivity, fusion of partners, and eternity, for a relationship which would not be the result of chance, but the effect of mysterious coincidences, of a destiny. Till now studies on human courtship has focused on behavioral and nonverbal data. This present observational study highlights the importance of verbal elements, in the form of speech acts, as the real drivers of courtship. We define what are the dedications (compliment, revelation of mental investment, declaration of love, verbal caresses, erotic evocations) and codedications (destiny, exceptionality, fusion, identity). Observational and experimental researches are suggested to deepen a promising field of study.

Lower part of an inscribed base of ‘Hymettian’ marble for the support of a bronze dedicatory torch, found in excavations of the Greek Archaeological Service for the Syntagma station of the Athens Metro. (1st c. B.C.). For the inscription see now IG II/III(3), 4.1, 399.

Abstract: Starting from the analysis of a corpus of dedications written by prisoners during the first years of the Francoism, I analyze the different dedication formats and I approach the linguistic and speech characteristics of the daily writing; besides, I also include an introduction to the dedication as one of the textual types within the daily writing practices.

In this article, the author presents and analyses a dedication on a limestone block unearthed during the excavations at Nysa ad Maeandrum in 2019. Found, not in situ, in the colonnaded street, the block was originally probably an architectural element of the hitherto unknown temple of Zeus. According to the text, the sculptor Eucharistos produced the front part of the temple (pronaon) together with a marble altar set up in front of it and the cult statue of Zeus.

The few words that Diego Fajardo utters in the brief prose account of his life at the beginning of Carajicomedia—“O ingrata patria no poseerás mi natura"—precede a command that his sexual organs be taken to the Roman Colosseum. The words recall a saying associated with Scipio Africanus— “ingrata patria, non possidebis ossa mea” or “ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem mea habes” (Valerius Maximus Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 5.3.2) —with one modification. Scipio wanted his bones ("ossa") not to be interred in Rome because of the way its citizens had treated him. Fajardo replaces the word "ossa" with "natura" to refer to his sexual organs, which he wants taken from Castile, his "patria," to Rome, after being ridiculed by its whores. The action requested therefore reverses the thrust of Scipio's saying, but why does he order his organs taken to the Colosseum? This paper attempts to answer that question.

The aim of this paper is to examine the dedication in the incipit of Cato’s Ad Marcum filium. The focus is the original nature of the book compared to the following Latin Literature and his relevance especially in Roman aristocratic world. Analyzing the dedication it is outlined the historical, social and cultural background in which Cato lived and worked. Based on this context he needed to write his essays and to address them precisely to his son.