Chinese admirals in the early Ming. Silk standards flutter
above his head. After a short service, the doge casts a golden
ring into the lagoon. As it sinks through the azure sea he
proclaims: “Mare, noi ti sposiano in segne del nostro vero
perpetua dominio” (O Sea, we wed thee in sign of our true
and everlasting dominion). By 1434 , the marriage ritual was
already more than four hundred years old. It originated when
Pope Alexander III gave the doge a ring and told him:
“Receive this ring as the symbol of your empire over the
sea.... You and your successors be married to her each year,
so that succeeding generations may know that the sea is
yours, and belongeth to you as a spouse to a husband.”
Venice’s wealth was rooted in her capture of Byzantium. In
1204 a Crusade had been launched to take Jerusalem.
Financing for the Crusade was hard to come by until the
Doge Dandolo offered support— provided the Crusaders
would capture Zara (contemporary Zadar in Croatia) on their
way south. The Crusaders agreed, becoming mercenaries in
the process. The temptation to capture Byzantium for Venice,
as well, proved irresistible to the Crusaders, who initiated the
sack of the Orthodox Christian capital by another Christian
state. When Byzantium fell, her empire was divided amongst
the victors. Venetian spoils, exemplified by the four bronze
horses and marble on the lacade of Saint Mark’s Basilica,
included Byzantine islands and ports from the Black Sea
through the Aegean to the Ionian Sea. Venetian galleys thus
had friendly harbors all the way to Byzantium and
Alexandria. [...]
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[ 87 ]"Jacobus de Breda y la Imprenta holandesa en la
tradición de Opera et Dies de Nicolás Valla", Exemplaria
Classica. Journal of Classical Philology, 20 ( 2016 ): 187 - 215.
Antonio Moreno Hernández, Jesús López Zamora.
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[ 88 ]Summary: This guide develops the origin, properties,
context of discovery and use of different materials and raw
materials, and the impact they have had on the life of
mankind throughout its history. It specifies everything about
silicon. Materials and raw materials. Silicon. Author:
Martínez Bogado, Mónica. Category: Applied and
interdisciplinary sciences. Subcategory: Materials science
and related sciences. Year of publication: 2011. Publisher:
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology - National
Institute of Tech-nological Education. Document type: Guide.
Format: PDF. Language: Spanish
http://www.inet.edu.ar/wp-content/uploads/ 2012 / 11 /silicio.pdf
[ 89 ]The anthropology of some Satanists. An exploration of
the most significant and widespread texts of recent and
contemporary Satanism reveals with great clarity a
Promethean vision of man, which translates into his
exaltation and divinisation: "you shall be as gods", promised
the ancient tempter, and the promise remains unchanged also
for those who today are inspired by that tempter. Aleister
Crowley ( 1875 - 1947 ), the undoubted inspiration for many
contemporary Satanist authors, clearly explains the link
between the exaltation of man and rebellion against God,
particularly against the God of moral precepts, in which he
had been educated in a fundamentalist sect: "There is no
law," Crowley writes in the Liber legis, "except 'do what you
will', (...). Be strong, man! Desire and enjoy everything of the
senses and of ecstasy: fear not that any God will disown you
for this. Every man, every woman, is a star if he finds true
self-will, otherwise he is a slave; and slaves shall serve.
Exclude mercy: cursed are those who have mercy! Kill and
torture: spare no one!". In the same vein is Anton Szandor La
Vey (b. 1930 ) who begins his Satan's Bible (Avon, New
York 1969 ) with "nine satanic affirmations", a sort of hymn
to the human desire for psychophysical self-gratification at
any price, both in the relationship with oneself ("Satan stands
for indulgence instead of abstinence. Satan represents vital
existence instead of useless spiritual dreams"), as well as in
the relationship with others ("Satan represents revenge
instead of turning the other cheek"); and, above all, in
relation to God and his moral standards ("Satan represents
man insofar as he is nothing more than another animal,
Sometime better, but more often worse than those who walk
on all fours; man who by reason of his supposed 'divine
intellectual and spiritual development' has become the most
vicious animal of all. Satan represents all so-called sins, in so
far as they lead to physical, mental and emotional
gratification"). In this manifesto of Satanism, the symptoms
of a profound rebellion against religion in general and the
Christian religion in particular are already clear. Further
reading of the Satan's Bible leads to a short chapter with this
significant title: "Wanted! God dead or alive"; it affirms the
meaninglessness of a certain desire for a relationship with
that God to whom men will turn only to find relief in
physical evil and forgiveness in moral evil; the denial of God
is the Satanist condition for the fulfilment of man, in the
sense that the Satanist must not bow his head to anyone and
must find in himself all the resources necessary to build up
his own happiness here on earth. All religions of a spiritual
nature", writes La Vey, "are man's invention", a sort of
projection to infinity of his frustrated desires, of all that man
would like to do without achieving it; on the contrary, "the
Satanist believes in the complete gratification of his ego",
lives life "like a party", without renouncing any satisfaction
and without cultivating that useless love for every man that
the Satanist considers impossible and absurd: "you cannot
love everyone; it is ridiculous to think that you can; if you