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nobilitate

(nəʊˈbɪlɪˌteɪt)
adj
characterized by nobleness, distinguished
vb (tr)
to make someone a nobleto exalt or dignify someone or something
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Ne ricordiamo un episodio alquanto celebre, il De vera nobilitate di Bonaccorso di Montemagno, scritta nella prima meta del Quattrocento.
O muse, o alto ingegno, or m'aiutate; o mente che scrivesti cio ch'io vidi, qui si parra la tua nobilitate. Io cominciai: "Poeta che mi guidi, guarda la mia virtu s'ell'e possente, prima ch'a l'alto passo tu mi fidi.
Claudia Quinta genus Clauso referebat ab alto, nec facies impar nobilitate fuit: casta quidem, sed non et credita: rumor iniquus laeserat, et falsi criminis acta rea est; cultus et ornatis varie prodisse capillis obfuit, ad rigidos promptaque lingua sense.
(25) Much of this argument comes from Henricus Cornelius Agrippa's Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex (De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, 1529), one of the most influential treatises of the Querelle tradition, but the careful logic with which Tarabotti tells her version of the Creation story and the obvious criticism of all men implied in the description of the first of their kind is a good demonstration of Tarabotti's rhetorical skills.
Poggio Bracciolini in his De nobilitate (1440) had indeed recommended the emulation of Roman practices in setting up images of wise men as exemplars.
En el capitulo veintitres de su obra De nobilitate legum et medicinae, escrita hacia 1399, Salutati senala incluso que la memoria, mas que la prudencia, es la que gobierna la accion, siendo la voluntad el motor de las demas facultades de la mente (ZIRPOLO 2005, p.