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Fabii

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Fabii

 

members of a patrician gens in ancient Rome. The Fabii took part in nearly all the leading events in Roman history. At Veii in 477 B.C., for example, 306 of them perished in the battle against the Etruscans. Among the foremost members of the gens were the military commander Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator and the historian Quintus Fabius Pictor.

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The earliest technique for changing the rear decoration in the Italian Renaissance productions at the Florentine Medici court appears to have been the use of a large periaktos for the 1568 production of Il Fabii, designed by Baldassare Lanci da Urbino, in the Salone dei Cinquecento of the Palazzo Vecchio.
Fray Luis confiesa, agarrandose a un dicho de Quintiliano y trayendolo a su molino; <<cuius lectio, ut Fabii verbis utar, non scholarum temporibus, sed vitae spatio terminatur>> (20).
En el cuarto capi?1/2tulo otros dos trabajos: "Ciencias sociales del creer y creencias de las ciencias sociales", de Fabii?1/2n Sanabria-S., y "Globalizacii?1/2n y catolicismos: la mirada desde arriba y las relaciones cotidianas", de Fortunato Mallimacci.
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