8 a Institute of Agriculture and Environment, Private Bag 11222, Massey University, 9 Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand 10 b Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Incipit), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones 11 Científicas (CSIC), Rúa San Roque 2, 15704 Santiago de Compostela, Spain 12 c Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14424 Potsdam, Germany 13 d Institute of Food, Nutrition ...

Abstract The article is devoted to a lengthy incipit, here in the meaning of copyist’s addition preceding main text, which constitutes longest and most substantial later Kalīla wa-Dimna . it argued, makes usable as an anthology ethical practical advice geared wide audience. incipit evinces scholastic structure, whose parts are analyzed placed relation similar elements within book’s other prefac...

This paper focuses on the incipit of d’Annunzio’s plays written in French and first staged theatres. It analyses one hand thematic structural link between scene play dramatic development and, other, correspondences with theatrical poetics.