Un gioco per insegnare la dottrina cristiana dal Nord America all’Armenia. Alle origini del catechismo illustrato di Mechitar (1737)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article investigates the origins of an illustrated Armenian catechism printed in Venice in 1737. It was designed to accompany a sort of goose game in which the different squares contained emblems corresponding to the mysteries of the Christian faith. Although the text and the game were published at the behest of Abbot Mekhitar (founder of a Catholic monastic order of great importance for the history of Armenian culture) and are usually attributed to him, we will show that they can be traced back to one of the most renowned Jesuit missionaries active in Persia and the Ottoman Empire, Father Jacques Villotte, who in turn was probably inspired by a game developed earlier by another Jesuit in the Quebec missions. In reconstructing the history of this work, we will also highlight the central role played by various actors in the field of missionary printing in Armenian: the Society of Jesus, the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, the Mekhitarist Order and the Venetian printing house of Antonio Bortoli.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".