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A decadência do estilo como decadência da alma

Segundo a filosofia estoica de Sêneca, o Jovem (4 a.C.-65 d.C.)

What are the symptoms of an aging Culture? What are the reasons for the decline of a Civilization? In the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium there are letters that relate the decline of style to the decline of the soul, main theme of this article.

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A felicidade no amor aos livros

Da Grécia a Santo Isidoro de Sevilha e a São Bonifácio

Study on Education founded on the Spirit based on the Western bookish tradition, on the love of the printed word. Its trajectory from Greece and Rome and its dissemination of Christianity, with the leading role of the Catholic Church. From the first Christian religious to the tradition founded by Benedict of Nursia (480-547) and Cassiodorus (c.485-585), to Saint Boniface OSB (c.672-754) and the Encyclopedism of Isidore of Seville (c.560-636).

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O Triunfo da Morte (c.1562) de Bruegel, o Velho (c.1525-1569)

Uma leitura sonora do macabro espetáculo artístico

Analysis of the macabre themes exposed in the famous painting The Triumph of Death (c.1562), by Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569). My interpretive proposal is to appreciate the images from the musical suggestions that the artist represents, and that the density of the drama of existence in the face of death can be understood more profoundly with the confrontation of the painting’s images with the musicality of the instruments and the sound of scenes.

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