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Description: Capodimonte was the first Palace of Neapolitan Dinasty “Borbone”, but it was neglected due to the rise of Portici and Caserta’s Royal Palaces, therefore, it was built very slowly. It was completed only a century after the laying of the foundation stone (1738). After so long times, which saw the succession of several architects aiming the leadership to the royal site, some of them were quite famous among the most representative figures of Architecture and Art History in Naples, across Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. The Royal Site was originally meant as Hunting reserve nearby the Capital and significant place of rest for the young Carlo di Borbone (Charles of Bourbon), who two years later decided to build a Royal Palace too. That decision was intended to amend the territorial aspects of Neapolitan northern hill, also to influence the urban layout before the unification of Italy. This study, based on a careful documentary and iconographic research, highlights the complex development of the palace and its park which are still paying a high price for the most controversial aspects of the project and its execution, emerged since the beginnings.

Description: This proceedings e-book contains papers presented at the national Symposium on “Electronic Books and the practices of scholarly research”, held in Naples, Italy, on 20 June 2003. The advent of new technologies, tools, and digital resources is changing how scholars conduct their work, keep updated in their field or fields of study, and think about research. Moving from the reconstruction of the market of scientific communication, copyright policies, and management of long-term conservation strategies, the published papers aim to discuss the ways in which scholarly practices have changed in the last decades, even since the end of the last century, in teaching and in research, in various disciplines like history, phisics and biomedical sciences.

Description: heories about the origins and developments of modern cities seem to agree, without exception, to a point: the city is the place of maximum concentration of exchange. Activities, in fact, are located into urban and metropolitan agglomerations to minimize the resources needed to meet the growing need for relationships and exchanges with other activities. In recent years, the concentration and specialization of these activities have led to an extraordinary increase in intensity and quality of exchange needs, with the obvious consequence of congestion in most metropolitan areas with predictable consequences on the sustainability of urban areas, on the quality of life of its inhabitants and on the energy consumption associated with the growing demand for mobility. As a result, in recent years, several authors have argued for greater integration between urban planning policies, mobility management and energy efficiency. In this context, this volume aims to provide a contribution in this direction and presents the results of a research project aimed at the development of an integrated city-mobility-energy governance model. In particular, the first part of this work give an overview of the complex relationships between mobility, energy consumption and built environment through a meta-analysis of the recent literature. Specifically, in this section, the two main sources of energy consumption in urban areas (energy consumption in the residential sector and energy consumption of transport) are considered. These sectors represent, according to the latest estimates, respectively 32% and 35% of the final energy consumption. The section introduces several characteristics of the built environment such as density, functional mix or accessibility and described as such factors affect energy consumption in the transport and residential sectors. Understanding these relationships is of crucial importance for the development of a coordinated mix of actions aimed at reducing energy consumption in urban areas. Subsequently, the main models present in the literature for estimating residential energy consumption and urban transport energy consumption are presented, paying particular attention to the strengths and weaknesses of each model, the complexity and the related technical and operational aspects related to the implementation of such models. In the second part of this work, the focus is on the techniques for the representation and classification of energy consumption in urban areas through an application to the case study of Naples. Particularly, this section places particular emphasis on the new opportunities offered by the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and by the increasing availability of new data sources. The work integrates the use of "traditional" data sources such as census surveys, new data sources (in particular open and large data) with spatial analyzes developed ad hoc to provide exhaustive knowledge of energy consumption patterns within the city of Naples. The proposed methodology is validated by comparing the results obtained with the previously available data for the study area and by the implementation of spatial statistical analyzes in a GIS environment. The proposed methodology is a useful tool for public decision-makers and policy makers aimed at defining integrated government strategies for the reducing and optimizing of public and private energy consumption. In particular, the methodology described in this work is useful for classifying and representing energy consumption on an urban scale, for the identification of critical areas in terms of consumption, and for ex post evaluation of interventions on the urban system.

Description: This volume contains the correspondence of Giuseppe De Blasiis (1832-1914), the first History professor of the Neapolitan University. In his leading role as a 19th century Italian Historiographer, he was responsible for the scientific structure of the Neapolitan Society of National History, of which he was a founding member and later president. His studies on Medieval History, without forgetting those he carried out on the modern age, as well as his vast knowledge of the documentary and bibliographical sources from Naples, made him a privileged spokesman for anyone who wanted to approach the history of southern continental Italy.

Description: An examination of the literature sources, of the archival documents, of the iconographic and cartographic repertoire to reconstruct the key moments of the fascinating architectural and artistic history of one of the most famous monuments of our city. The Basilica of San Giovanni Maggiore is now the result of often ominous and even criminal events, or of some imprudent interventions, that the recent renovations have been able to remedy only partially. Nevertheless, thanks to the constant care and to the appropriate use by the Engineers Order of Naples, it has been lately given back to the city: not only as an important place of worship, but also as a cultural center and a social gathering site, placed in such a significant area of the historic center of Naples, UNESCO World Heritage since 1995. The architectural and artistic analysis of the Basilica has been preceded by a description of urban history in late Antiquity and in the early Middle Ages; it had its fulcrum in the hill of Monterone, now largo of San Giovanni Maggiore, with an irregular and tortuous web, preserved up to us. This work proposes in the second part an updated summary analysis of existing artistic works in the Basilica, as well as those placed in some other locations in order to be preserved or restored.

Description: During the fifteenth century, the evolution of the structures of the Italian states and the stabilization of their diplomatic relations led to a hypertrophic increase in the use of the letters. In that context, the collections of exempla exordiorum composed by the Ferrarese treatise writer and illuminator Bartolomeo di Benincà (Ferrara, ca. 1420 - ?, before 1485) responded to the political élites who, speaking and writing in ancient vernacular Italian, wishing to represent themselves through the instruments of the language. As author and collector of texts, Bartolomeo recorded the best examples of these practices on refined parchment codes, offering a useful tool for anyone wishing to compose letters in vernacular similar in elegance to those of the then much more prestigious Latin models. By outlining a stylistic proposal for literary prose in ancient Italian vulgar, he carried out a refined critical operation. Furthermore, with his collections of models in vernacular, he profoundly innovated the characters of the ars dictaminis. This volume offers the critical edition of one of Bartolomeo's collections, preceded by an extensive study focussed on the historical and cultural context.

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Description: Nel corso del XV secolo, l’evoluzione delle strutture organizzative degli stati italiani e lo stabilizzarsi dei rapporti diplomatici tra i molteplici soggetti politici determinarono un incremento ipertrofico del ricorso al mezzo epistolare. In quel contesto, le raccolte di exempla exordiorum del trattatista e miniatore ferrarese Bartolomeo di Benincà (Ferrara, 1420 ca. - ?, ante 1485) intervennero a rispondere alla domanda culturale delle élites di potere che, esprimendosi in volgare, intendevano rappresentarsi e riconoscersi attraverso gli strumenti del linguaggio. Nelle vesti di autore e collettore dei testi, Bartolomeo registrava su raffinati codici pergamenacei i migliori frutti di quella pratica, offrendo così uno strumento utile a chi volesse comporre lettere in volgare assimilabili per eleganza a quelle degli allora ben più prestigiosi modelli latini. Delineando i contorni di una precoce proposta stilistica per la prosa letteraria di un italiano ancora in via di definizione, si rese in tal modo protagonista di una sofisticata operazione critica. Con le sue raccolte di modelli in volgare, inoltre, innovò profondamente i caratteri dell’ars dictaminis.In questo volume si offre l’edizione critica di una delle raccolte di Bartolomeo, preceduta da un ampio studio di contestualizzazione storica e culturale.

Description: «Estro furioso» is the title of one of the twelve short-stories making up the index of Gesù, fate luce, the second book by Domenico Rea published in 1950; three years after its 'official' debut, always with a collection of short narrative texts, in prose: Spaccanapoli. And, again, the expression “Estro furioso” could now be used: as a ‘sample’ of style - or as a possible outline of shared reading - in the five chapters (Domenico Rea as contemporary writer; Domenico Rea, poet and novelist; Domenico Rea between national and regional publishing; Domenico Rea among History, Anthropology, Journalism and Photography; Domenico Rea between the Old and the New Continent: the language, the literature) thematic containers of fifteen essays of this volume dedicated to Domenico Rea. The authors of the essays are scholars from various Italian and foreign universities, journalists, experts in the world of photography and publishing.

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Description: L’«Estro furioso» è il titolo di uno dei dodici racconti che compongono l’indice di Gesù, fate luce, il secondo libro di Domenico Rea pubblicato nel 1950, a tre anni di distanza dal suo esordio ‘ufficiale’ – sempre una raccolta di testi brevi narrativi, in prosa – con Spaccanapoli. E, di nuovo, potrebbe adesso servire l’espressione «estro furioso»: a mo’ di ‘campione’ di stile o come possibile traccia di lettura condivisa nei cinque capitoli (Domenico Rea nostro contemporaneo; Domenico Rea, poeta e romanziere; Domenico Rea, l’editoria nazionale e l’editoria campana; Domenico Rea tra Storia, Antropologia, Giornalismo e Fotografia; Domenico Rea tra Vecchio e Nuovo Continente: la lingua, la letteratura) contenitori tematici di quindici saggi del presente volume dedicato a Domenico Rea. Gli interventi critici sono firmati da studiosi provenienti da atenei italiani e stranieri, da giornalisti, da esperti del mondo della fotografia e dell’editoria.

Description: Cities are in a state in which two opposing forces are acting on them: on the one hand the unabated urbanization process, on the other the evergrowing demand for real sustainability. The book proposes an urban planning response focused on the transformations of urban sectors to be achieved using innovative operative tools; for this aim the book defines the main features of this operative tools. The goal is to include in the cities innovative actions that can provoke a domino effect with repercussions on the entire urban structure. The book is devided in 5 sections. The first one addresses the issue of urbanization and the development of the urban systems, with the related implications in terms of resource consumption and concentration of people and functions. The second part discusses some models that explain the mechanisms of urban sprawl and the derived scenarios. The third part deals with one of the key nodes of the relationship between urban systems and environmental resources, namely the energy. The fourth part analyzes some international case studies to extrapolate recurring characteristics that can affect the operative planning. The fifth section focuses on the features of this new type of plan.

Description: Cities and all the activities carried out in an urban environment significantly influence climate change causes but, at the same time, they are greatly affected by them. For these reasons, urban areas not only represent one of the problems, but also the main field of application of intervention strategies to be developed in order to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. Among the strategies to contrast climate change, the adaptation to its environmental effects has been pushed right into the background in scientific debate, mainly due to the difficulty experienced in transferring urban climatology into methods that can be easily implemented by planners to draw up land use plan. This volume is an attempt to strengthen the cultural background of urban planner, establishing solid connections with urban climatology, in order to build a new language, able to consider the relationships between urban morphology and climate change adaptation strategies to be implemented.

Description: It truly would be a mistake to associate Domenico Rea with the critical cliché of the "rediscovered writer." Important bibliographic "clues" (works by and about Rea, have been consistently published in recent decades), which would inevitably direct us towards the mammoth 'proof' of the Meridiano, edited by the late Francesco Durante in 2005. Specific names need not be mentioned here, as they are mostly indicated and discussed in the essays in this volume. Instead, it is important to highlight the corollary derived from this preliminary evidence. If this is the case, if Rea's writing has continued to be read and discussed in different forms and ways over the years, then the question is not so much one of, so as to say - give Rea what is Rea's. Rather, the problem becomes one of verifying the methods, timing, and critical formulas of this continuity. In other words, a reflection on the production of the Neapolitan writer - and setting the ambitious goal of being 'wide-ranging' - must bring to light unfounded spaces, unpublished and rare materials so as to reconstruct friendships and intellectual relationships, to reason as to the longevity of his work and its internal relationships. In recent years, the activities of the 'National Committee for the celebrations of the centenary of his birth', established by Ministerial Decree 220, 17 June 2021, and chaired by Pasquale Sabbatino, have focused on these objectives. Starting from the opening conference "Domenico Rea and Italian Twentieth Century" (Naples, November 9-11, 2021), the proceedings of which are published here, an attempt has been made to transform this centenary into a broader "critical occasion".

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Description: Sarebbe davvero un errore associare alla figura di Domenico Rea il cliché critico dello ‘scrittore da riscoprire’. A dimostrare l’evidenza di tale errore ci sarebbero importanti ‘indizi’ bibliografici (‘opere di’ e ‘opere su’ Rea, edite con continuità negli ultimi decenni), i quali inevitabilmente ci condurrebbero verso la ‘prova’ mastodontica del Meridiano curato dal compianto Francesco Durante e risalente al 2005. Inutile fare nomi specifici, che sono per lo più indicati e discussi nei saggi di questo volume. Preme invece esplicitare il corollario, che deriva da tale preventiva evidenza. Se le cose stanno così, ovvero se la scrittura di Rea ha continuato in forme e modi diversi nel corso di questi anni a essere letta e discussa, allora la questione non è tanto quella – per dir così – di dare a Rea quel che è di Rea. Il problema diviene piuttosto verificare i modi, i tempi e le formule critiche di tale continuità. Insomma una riflessione sulla produzione dello scrittore napoletano, che si ponga l’ambizioso obiettivo di essere ‘ad ampio raggio’, deve provare a riportare alla luce spazi insondati, materiali inediti e rari, a ricostruire legami amicali e relazioni intellettuali, a ragionare sul tempo lungo della sua opera e sui suoi rapporti interni. A questi obiettivi ha puntato, nel corso degli ultimi anni, l’attività del ‘Comitato nazionale per le celebrazioni del centenario della nascita di Domenico Rea’, istituito con D.M. 220 il 17 giugno 2021 e presieduto da Pasquale Sabbatino. A partire dal Convegno d’apertura Domenico Rea e il Novecento italiano (Napoli, 9-11 novembre 2021), di cui qui si pubblicano gli Atti, si è provato a trasformare tale centenario in una più generale ‘occasione critica’.