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Note 71: From De ingenuis moribus, cited by Schevill, First Century of Italian Humanism, 69. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Note 39: Vergerius, De ingenuis moribus (I.V. #255), cited by Schevill, First Century of Italian Humanism, 67. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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I say Raimi should have moribus as the villian and as spiderman is getting a beat down , he calls in Blade to help him. 1 villian 2 heroes.
Rumor: Villain Confusion Stalls Spider-Man 4? Or is the Production Just on Winter Break? | /Film 2009
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The "Sermon" (actually a lengthy four-part book) that de Cessolis wrote was titled "Liber de moribus hominum et offciis nobilium" and as far as I could decipher in my non-existent Latin translation skills, none of that related in any way to anything about "chess" (something like "scaccum" in Latin).
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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Si quid bonis moribus, si quid veritati dissentaneum, in sacris vel humanis literis a me dictum sit, id nec dictum esto.
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“Res Italas armis tuteris, moribus ornes, Legibus emendes ....”
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Maximinus invisum se sentiens, quod ex infimo loco in tantam fortunam venisset moribus ac genere barbarus, metuens ne natalium obscuritas objiceretur, omnes Alexandri praedecessoris ministros ex aula ejecit, pluribus interfectis quod moesti essent ad mortem
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The phrase "a child in age and most base in morals" (puer aetate fuit et moribus pervilis) seems to acknowledge the contradiction inherent in such a pronouncement, a tension between childhood and immorality.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Most are of her mind, [5048] De moribus ultima fiet questio, for his conditions, she shall inquire after them another time, or when all is done, the match made, and everybody gone home.
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Improba, informis, impudica, temulenta, nutrix, &c. quoniam in moribus efformandis magnam saepe partem igenium altricis et natura lactis tenet.
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