Malignant primary melanoma of the vagina (PMV) is a rare type of non-cutaneous melanoma
often discovered in postmenopausal women. PMV has a very aggressive disease course …

Background: The start of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a shift in medical education from
the classroom to the virtual setting. This abrupt change led to an increase in stress among …

This document is a collection of articles from the Canadian Journal of Surgery, covering
various topics related to surgical education and practice. The articles provide valuable insights …

How does one begin to illustrate the breadth and depth of Italian lives in America? When I
embarked upon this venture, I believed that a book could embrace the fullness and the variety …

The cult of saints was a key expression of popular piety and Christian doctrine in premodern
Europe. While holy people strove to transcend the sinfulness of the world, after their death …

… of the influence of medieval forebears by Sandro Sticca), and a familiar moral line istraced
from … In the field of literature, on the other hand, Gian Carlo Alessio's scholarly survey of the …

This dissertation explores the phenomenon of civic cults dedicated to contemporary laymen
and women in the late medieval Italian communes. While hundreds of contemporary lay …

An elaborately decorated initial A opens the statutes written and illuminated for the Scuola
della Purificazione della Vergine Maria e di Sancto Zanobio, 1 a Florentine confraternity for …

This essay investigates the origins, significance, and varied inflections of the figure of an angel
in Renaissance representations of St. Roch. Although presumed to derive from the saint’s …

This dissertation presents a study of culture and politics in the city of Florence between the
fourteenth and early fifteenth century. It questions the long-held assumption that the years …