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    Chapter L’Ateneo e le istituzioni politiche (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: The essay concerns the Commitment of the University Professors within the most important local Political Institutions: the Municipality of Florence and the Tuscany Region. The chronological period examined in the first case goes from 1944 to 2019; in the first case goes from 1944 to 2019. For each election, within a brief historical-political framework, are indicated the Faculty Members who have held the position of Council members (Municipal or Regional), of Councillor or of Mayor, and the respective party to which they belong.
    Keywords: Tuscany Region ; Municipality of Florence ; Mayor ; Council member ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter The Writing of County Histories in Early Modern England (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: The writing of county history in England experienced its first boom from the 1570s to the 1650s, during which time a series of outstanding county histories were written, including William Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent, William Burton’s Description of Leicestershire and William Dugdale’s Antiquities of Warwickshire. All these works are manifestations of the phenomenon of ‘county history writing by the gentry’. County histories are primarily about local place names and famous persons, but also give accounts related to rivers, mountains, land, architecture, real estate, family clans, regional customs and histories. This essay illustrates the sociocultural phenomenon of ‘county history writing by the gentry’ in the view of the formation of the nation state, and aims to demonstrate the significance and value of the writing of county histories by gentlemen, from the perspective of the ‘community of county gentry’.
    Keywords: Early Modern England ; Gentry ; Historiography ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Chapter Voltaire historien, Voltaire auteur de théâtre : son attitude face à la Corée (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Voltaire is one of the few European authors of the 18th century to have dealt with Korea. In this study, we first propose to highlight, through an analysis of all of his work, the texts in which he mentioned Korea and how this country is represented there. We will then try to identify his documentary sources, and we will focus mainly on how the author created stories from historical elements. Our survey also aims to understand Voltaire’s attitude to the historical-philosophical and dramatic genres, and to better understand his conception of these two genres.
    Keywords: Voltaire ; Korea ; Historiography ; Theatre ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: French
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    Chapter L’Ateneo e il dopoguerra, la Costituente (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: The essay aims at reconstructing the history of the University of Florence, from the fall of fascism on July 25th 1943 to the post-World War II period. At the center of this path lies Piero Calamandrei's Rettorato, which began in the summer of 1943 and immediately interrupted by events related to September 8th and the armistice with the Allied powers. As dean of the university, in the aftermath of the Liberation of Florence in August 1944, Calamandrei marked a significant turning point. It was a turning point that not only promptly revived teaching and research functions; but it was also able to provide for the reinstatement of teachers expelled as a result of the racial legislation and for opposition to fascism, along with the beginning of the removals of teachers most involved with the dictatorship. At the same time, in the context of a city deeply involved in the Liberation, the new constitutional order of the Republic began to be drawn; a constitutional project to which Florentine professors - such as Piero Calamandrei and Giorgio La Pira - would offer an outstanding contribution.
    Keywords: Florence ; World War II ; History of Università degli studi di Firenze ; Fall of Fascism ; Assemblea Costituente ; Piero Calamandrei ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Emotion and Female Authority: A Comparison of Chinese and English Fiction in the Eighteenth Century (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: This essay considers how early modern Chinese romance novels conceive of female agency and how this conception was received by prominent cultural elites in eighteenth-century England. In his notes to Hau Kiou Choaan, the first English translation of a full-length Chinese novel, Thomas Percy referred to the novel’s heroine as a “masculine woman”, displaying a peculiar misreading of its trope of female cross-dressing. The essay argues that the increasing association of women with the private sphere in eighteenth-century English culture is a crucial context to consider when we study the initial spread of Chinese fiction in England.
    Keywords: England ; China ; Eighteenth Century ; Fiction ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Fahrassistenz (2024)
    KIT Scientific Publishing
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Driving assistance systems are automotive basic equipment whilst promises of autonomous driving are still subject of dispute. Both are based on ideas of simplifying and automating the driving process that have a long history. The interdisciplinary study shows how the early automobiles of the late 19th century became the car we know today by means of assistance systems only. This volume reveals the role they played throughout the history of the automobile.
    Keywords: Assistance Systems; Autonomous Driving; Technology Assessment; Mobility Studies; History of Technology; Assistenzsysteme; Autonomes Fahren; Technikfolgenabschätzung; Mobilitätsgeschichte; Technikgeschichte ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: German
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    Chapter Lo Studio, le accademie, la città (secc. XVI-XIX) (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: The essay reconstructs broadly The history of cultural life in Florence in the 16th-19th centuries and underlines why the system of government and power in the modern Florence had no need for a university that gave academic degrees, the training of the ruling class was done by other cultural institutions.
    Keywords: Florence’s cultural academies in modern age ; Florence’s Studio XVI-XIX Century ; The cultural policy of the Medici ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Captured Glimpses of Modernity and War in Late Qing China (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: This chapter evaluates the role of photography in witnessing the modernising process in China during the late Qing period and conflicts which stemmed from it. The camera, introduced in China during the First Opium War (1839–1842), allowed Western eyes to record the establishment of trade routes and associated facilities. The photos examined here were taken immediately before and during the Russo-Japanese War. The photographs appear to have been focusing on technological developments in trade infrastructure, but they also captured the conspicuous Japanese and Russian military presence. Consequently, the photographs reveal the Western role in the “development” of China by its incorporation into global trading networks and violent conflicts fought over control of this infrastructure.
    Keywords: Photography ; China ; Russo-Japanese War ; Infrastructure ; Trade ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Chapter Fosco Maraini e la cultura giapponese. Note di lettura (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: Nel Novecento italiano Fosco Maraini (1912–2004) spicca per la sua forte e creativa personalità di antropologo, fotografo, viaggiatore, alpinista e scrittore. Fattore unificante di queste attività fu il concetto di alterità delle culture, così come questo era stato elaborato dall’antropologia di Boas, Kroeber e Benedict. In particolare nei suoi scritti sul passato e sul presente del Giappone è riscontrabile una visione simpatetica e fondamentalmente essenzialista delle società umane. Formatosi soprattutto sui testi dell’antropologia americana del periodo tra le due guerre, Maraini affrontò una tensione difficilmente risolvibile tra la permanenza delle componenti originarie, che definiscono ogni cultura attraverso i secoli, e l’inarrestabile processo di trasformazione interno indotto dalla modernizzazione.
    Keywords: Fosco Maraini ; Giappone ; Antropologia ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Farmaci, farmacisti e farmacie a Firenze (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: The Ars Pharmaceutica, which teaches the way to prepare, dispense and preserve all the components of the preparation and itself in excellent condition, has accompanied the history of the Florentine University with the School of Pharmacy since the foundation of the Royal Institute of Higher Studies (1859 ) until its transformation into a University in 1924. The Pharmacy studies held in the Arcispedale di S. Maria Nuova have seen numerous teachers hold the chairs of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and have important roles in international research, but also in the management of pharmacies in the area. This contribution reviews all the transformations that have historically occurred in the pharmacy throughout 100 years of the University's history.
    Keywords: History of florentine pharmacy ; School of Pharmacy ; Medicinal chemistry ; florentine pharmaceutical Industries ; Local pharmacies ; Municipal pharmacies ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Performing the «miasma» of Indian Partition. Terror and romance in Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line (2024)
    Firenze University Press | USiena Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Originally performed at London Hampstead Theatre on 3 December 2013, Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line dramatizes the Partition of India in two distinct nation-states after the Independence in a lush production that highlights personal conflicts and deflates the genocidal implications of the event that changed the future of the Subcontinent. The essay situates Drawing the Line in the context of Brenton’s lifelong engagement with historical theatre and reflects upon the aesthetic and political significance of the marginal role assigned to violence in the drama. It argues that the play performs a postcolonial discourse on South-Asian history, in which cosmopolitan notions of Britishness, Anglo-Indian relations, and colonial rule are interrogated through an ambiguous dramatic irony that, while deploring British ineptitude in handling the Partition process, in fact represents Partition as a colossal tangle of public and private complicities which mitigates the Raj’s responsibilities and tacitly subscribes to a consolatory determinism.
    Keywords: Howard Brenton ; Britishness ; historical theatre ; postcolonial discourse ; Partition of India ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Chapter «Robbe d’Europa»: Global Connections and the Mailing of Letters, Money, and Merchandise in the Eighteenth-Century China Mission (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Manuscript reports and letters written in China by the Propaganda Fide and Jesuit missionaries criss-crossed the oceans and the continents to reach Europe on ships, carts, horses, mules, and palanquins, using both European systems of transportation provided by the various East India Companies and governments, and other local public and private postal arrangements. Missionary agencies also mailed from the West robbe d’Europa («European things»), such as silver coins, foodstuff and drugs (chocolate, wine, cheese, olive oil, tobacco), medicines, galanterie (luxury items), books, devotional objects and prints. Chinese goods (tea, silk, medicines, luxury items, books) were sent in the opposite direction to please patrons in Europe. Without this multi-layered, imperfect, yet workable mailing system, the flow of information and articles fuelling early modern globalisation and, within it, the Chinese missions, would have been impossible.
    Keywords: Global Connections ; China Catholic Mission ; Propaganda Fide: Jesuits ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Chapter Identités en flammes : Orient et Occident se rencontrent dans la palette de Shiba Kōkan (1738-1818) (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: This chapter takes a hanging scroll by Shiba Kōkan (1747–1818) as a starting point to explore the emotional response of individuals and communities from distant cultures and places in the face of disasters, in particular earthquakes and fires. Images of disasters, and how they were dealt with, travelled through time and space, begging the question as to what role transcultural entanglements played in these responses.
    Keywords: Shiba Kōkan ; Japan ; Emotions ; Paintings ; Edo ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: French
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    Chapter Un lungo viaggio di Res publica: distanze e incroci linguistici fra la «Repubblica fiorentina» e il Giappone moderno (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-12
    Description: Contact with Western civilisation generated an enormous amount of translation of Western writings in Japan in the second half of the 19th century. Society and culture of modern Japan were built on this great undertaking, but discrepancies between the source and target languages can create complex entanglements. It is certainly fascinating to pay attention to the very entanglements created in the process of moving from the original language to the language of translation. From this point of view, one of the most interesting examples, the subject of this essay, is the term res publica/republic and its Japanese translation kyōwa, due to their linguistic distances and intersections.
    Keywords: Res publica ; Translation ; kyowa ; Nineteenth Century ; Japan ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Encounter with «Moral science» in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-12
    Description: The term «moral science» was used in universities and academies prior to the emergence of the expression «humanities and social sciences». However, its connection with the modern eastern Asian context has not yet been sufficiently investigated. This paper tries to fill the gap with a case study on its import and appropriation by late nineteenth-century Japan to its socio-cultural sphere, having lacked the framework of classifying the sciences into «moral» and «physical» ones. The study achieves this by examining the activities of Meirokusha, a learned society created in 1773 to promote Western studies, and the writings of one of its leading members, Yukichi Fukuzawa, who tried to understand Francis Wayland’s Elements of Moral Science (1835), a famous American textbook in his time.
    Keywords: Moral Science ; Meirokusha ; Francis Wayland ; Yukichi Fukuzawa ; Shigeki Nishimura ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Chapter L’Ateneo e il mondo della scienza (2024)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-12
    Description: In the last hundred years, the progress of science in its various disciplines has been prodigious and the University of Florence, in connection with international research groups, has developed excellent research. The progress achieved has favored the creation of new university courses and technological transfer with important advantages for the city and its economy. Examples of these interactions are physics and astronomy studies with the application development of new technologies, naturalistic studies with precious natural history collections, structural and biochemical studies for the development of new drugs and vaccines, the numerous applications of mathematical sciences, statistics and information technology and the development of science for the conservation of cultural heritage.
    Keywords: physical technologies ; natural history collections ; biochemistry ; mathematical sciences ; conservation science ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Il ‘canto dell’acqua’: Leonardo nel progetto dei nuovi Navigli milanesi (2023)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: After a long process, the reopening of Milanese canals has become one of the fundamental actions of the Town Plan approved in 2019. A strategic project that plans to reactivate the covered section of the Naviglio Martesana and the Cerchia Interna, reuniting Adda and Ticino rivers, and give new life to the great Renaissance project that Leonardo himself had worked on. In its methodological approach and in the specific outcome achieved, we can recognize elements of continuity with Leonardo’s thinking and contribute to a territorialist reflection on its current relevance.
    Keywords: Milan water city ; reopening Navigli ; Leonardo da Vinci ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    «Con assoluta sincerità» (2023)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: «With absolute honesty»: this is how Natalia Ginzburg worked in her editorial job at the Einaudi publishing house. Through documents from the Einaudi Archives in Turin and the Archivio del Novecento (Sapienza University), this book traces Ginzburg's editorial work in the postwar period, when she had major editorial responsibility and coordinated the translation of Proust’s Recherche. The correspondences with authors and translators restore a new profile of the writer, bringing to light the relevance of her intervention in narrative series, such as “Coralli” and “Gettoni”; the interaction between the professions of writer, editor and translator, from which recurring elements of poetics emerge; and the issues involved in being the only woman to have a decision-making role in the Einaudi editorial staff of the time.
    Keywords: Natalia Ginzburg ; Einaudi ; 20th century literature ; publishing ; translation ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Comparar a Europa. O conceito de literatura europeia como fator de integração política (2023)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: Starting with the last European discourse of David Sassoli, our intention is to reflect on Europe, specifically, on the concept of European literature as a factor of political integration.
    Keywords: Europe ; literature ; politics ; Sassoli ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Language: Portuguese
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    Chapter I prestiti verbali nei dialetti sloveni del Friuli: tra integrazione aspettuale e biaspettualità (2023)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The article analyses the morphological means used by the Slovenian dialects of Friuli in adapting loan verbs to their aspectual system in comparison to the traditional means of expressing verbal aspect in the indigenous Slavic lexicon. In relation to verbs of Slavic origin, the formation of aspectual pairs was mainly realised by means of prefixation to the base verb (thereby perfectivising it), whereas with loans from the adjacent Romance varieties (Friulian, Italian, Venetian) suffixation proves more productive (yielding imperfectivisation). The analysis is carried out on the dialect of Resia as well as those from the Torre and Natisone Valleys. Despite some differences, in all three dialects there is generally a strong tendency to integrate loan verbs into the aspectual systems of these varieties. Biaspectual verbs, on the other hand, are relatively rare except for the particular case of the verbs in -inat in Resian.
    Keywords: Slovene dialects of Friuli ; language contact ; loan verbs ; suffixation ; prefixation ; aspectual pairs ; biaspectuality ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter The Luwian Goddess Darawa (2023)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The PN Kammalia-Tarawa in an Old Assyrian tablet seems to be the earliest reference of the deity Darawa. The Luwian background this deity is also apparent, e.g., from the plural form DDa-ra-ú-wa-an-zi or from those texts mentioned in CTH 457 and the etymological interpretation of the divine name to the Luwian verb tarāwi(ya)-. Since the early Middle Hittite period Darawa also found her way into the Hattian milieu and as a goddess connected with the family life, she is mentioned several times in festivals for a queen (CTH 646), but also in the Hittite Prayer to the Sun-goddess of the Netherworld (CTH 371) which is – in my opinion – the only Hittite texts mentioning Darawa within the “pantheon of the state”. Texts from the Hurrian and Kizzuwatnaean milieu (e.g., CTH 351) also refer several times to Darawa, but this is clearly the result of a secondary and marginal dissemination of the goddess. In conclusion one might say that Darawa from her Luwian background also came into contact with various milieus of the “Hittite pantheon”, functioning as a goddess providing good (and evil) to humans in everyday life.
    Keywords: Darawa ; Kuduili ; Festival of a Queen ; non-state religion ; Luwian-Hittite contacts ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Macao nel XVIII secolo (2023)
    Firenze University Press | Il Settecento portoghese e lusofono
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The second section of the volume aims to illustrate the iconographical and historical situation of the city of Macao in the 18th century, analyzing the most important volume of the same period written from a Chinese point of view and presenting a Portuguese author who lived in the Portuguese Asia of the 18th century.
    Keywords: Macao ; history ; literature ; iconography ; 18th century ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Leonardo da Vinci e il lago di Serravalle (2023)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Among his hydraulic designs, Leonardo planned the construction of an artificial lake in an area east of the castle of Vinci, his native village. The project, a surprising demonstration of his perfect knowledge of places where he lived, is illustrated in three drawings found and studied by Renzo Cianchi. Today, it is particularly interesting to analyze the feasibility of Leonardo’s project, by chronologically translating it to the 21st century, namely in 2020. Based on an accurate hydrologic analysis, this paper aims at providing further insights on Leonardo’s study, focusing on the feasibility of the dam.
    Keywords: Lake of San Lorenzo ; Lake of Vinci ; Serravalle lake ; Leonardo da Vinci Lake ; Leonardo da Vinci ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Chinese returnee students and cultural production: the case of ex-students of Opera in Italy (2023)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: The aim of this chapter is to point out the connection between mobility and cultural activities of Chinese returnee opera students. Many Chinese students in Italy attend cultural and artistic university courses. They may be considered significant in analyzing Chinese reverse migration from Italy. The examined connection involves several dynamics, including artistic aspects, historical reasons, social and economic changes, public policies and consumerism styles. Mobility and cultural production may be analyzed through both a structural and imaginative dimension. The structural dimension is composed of international agreements, global mobility law conditions, social and economic changes, and private investments in education to accumulate cultural capital that produce (or reproduce) certain social structures and experiences. On the other hand, the imaginative dimension is shaped by the lifestyle adopted by middle class families, including their work activities and cultural consumption. Returnee students are both the subjects who promote this process and the object of this dynamic. Chinese singers of Italian opera, upon graduating university in Italy, join the possibilities of the work field—in Bourdieu’s perspective—which is formed by the two aforementioned dimensions. Finally, perceived differences between Italy and China in terms of musical technique and culture are reworked according to contemporary cultural policies.
    Keywords: mobility ; opera ; Chinese returnee students ; cultural production ; Italy ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Language: English
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    Chapter Leonardo negli studi ottocenteschi sulla cartografia delle Alpi (2023)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Leonardo’s manuscripts contain many quotes of ‘his’ Western Alps, well-known mountains sketched, with lakes, rivers and towns, creating outstanding territorial readings. In the 19th century, he became a turning point between medieval representation techniques and the great cartographic reform of the 16th century. Leonardo’s approach to territorial drawing, his evolutionary theories on the history of the Earth, his measuring and survey instruments, his calculation of mountains altitudes can be compared to subsequent maps confirming, , with ideal overlaps, the crystal clear anticipations of the ‘Grande di Vinci’.
    Keywords: Leonardo ; Western Alps ; cartography ; applied sciences ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Theonyms, Panthea and Syncretisms in Hittite Anatolia and Northern Syria (2023)
    Firenze University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The topic of the Anatolian panthea in the Bronze Age deals with Hattian, Hittite, Palaean, Luwian and Hurrian gods who have been worshiped in the Kingdom of Ḫatti. In such a context, along with trying to keep a balanced and methodologically-aware approach in our original research, we realized that a multi-authored work such as the present volume, with papers written by some of the major experts of Anatolian religious history, would represent an invaluable contribution to the advancement of a complex and vast field. This collection of essays is the result of the workshop Theonyms, Panthea and Syncretisms in Hittite Anatolia and Northern Syria, held at the University of Verona on 25th and 26th March 2022. Colleagues with different areas of expertise pertaining to the topic of Anatolian religions contributed to an extremely successful event.
    Keywords: Anatolian panthea ; Hittite religion ; theonyms ; linguistics ; State cult ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Fears and hopes: Chinese university students in Italy during the first wave of Covid-19 (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: In recent years, Chinese students have enjoyed a prominent presence in the Italian higher education system. A recent survey conducted by Uni-Italia shows that Chinese students account for 24% of non-EU students in Italian universities. When the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) erupted in Italy at the beginning of 2020, panic spread quickly through social media; numerous fears, generated by the tide of information available online, permeated the Chinese university student community in Italy. This chapter first analyses the problems encountered by Chinese university students in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then introduces the artistic and cultural response from within that same community. Such forms of creative response also shine light, more generally, on a growing Anti-Asian sentiment in Italy. Despite the enormous challenges posed by COVID-19, Chinese university students in Italy have developed a mode of communication that builds bridges between different cultures— quite different from “mass media” or “major news outlets”—because it is personal, honest, and intimate.
    Keywords: Covid-19 ; Chinese student ; Italy ; art ; anti-Asian racism ; intercultural communication ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Per la fortuna del Decameron nella letteratura di fine Ottocento: riscritture pascoliane edite e inedite (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Although Boccaccio’s name is rarely encountered in published works of Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), traces of a constant reading and reuse of the Decameron have emerged and continue to emerge from the poet’s manuscripts. The article outlines the history of the already known contacts between the two authors and adds a new document: the unknown verse drama ‘Messer Gentile’, inspired by the novella X 4. This drama, designed as a one-act play with a prologue and three scenes, has been left unfinished: only the prologue and the first scene are preserved, but it is enough to appreciate some dynamics that characterize the rewriting process. A dense network of references to the most ancient Italian poetic tradition emerges from the dramatic lines, and among the manuscripts one discovers an experimental rhythmic prose composed of hendecasyllables arranged in a line that the study reconnects to the reform of modern tragic theater envisaged by Pascoli. Sebbene il nome di Boccaccio si incontri molto raramente nell'opera di Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), dai manoscritti del poeta sono emerse e continuano a emergere tracce di una lettura costante del Decameron. Il contributo ripercorre la storia dei contatti già noti tra i due autori e aggiunge un nuovo documento: l'inedito dramma in versi 'Messer Gentile' ispirato alla novella X 4. Il dramma, progettatto come atto unico con prologo e tre scene, rimase incompiuto: ci sono giunti soltanto il prologo e la prima scena, che sono sufficienti per apprezzare alcune delle dinamiche che caratterizzano la riscrittura. Dai versi emerge una fitta rete di riferimente alla tradizione poetica italiana delle origini e tra i manoscritti si ritrova un esperimento di prosa modulata sul ritmo continuato degli endecasillabi riconducibile all'idea di moderno teatro tragico di Pascoli.
    Keywords: Giovanni Boccaccio ; Decameron ; fortune ; intertextuality ; theater ; Giovanni Pascoli ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Dante nella poesia ucraina del Novecento. L’esperienza di due generazioni (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: It is not a heavenly, but rather a hellish Dante, who hovers over Ukrainian poetry of the twentieth century. He supports the persecuted rather than the adepts of the Soviet regime, who are mere functionaries. Dante leads the way for the stoic Ukrainian poets, such as Mykola Zerov, Iurij Klen, Vasyl’ Stus, and Lina Kostenko, who are fully aware of the risks they take in aspiring to longed-for moral freedom.
    Keywords: Dante ; Freedom ; Hellish ; Stoic ; Ukrainian Poetry ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Language: Italian
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    Il Settecento portoghese e lusofono (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The volume aims to fit into the existing studies in Italy and Portugal on the Portuguese 18th century, however describing the 18th century from a new, inclusive (and no more separatist), point of view between Portugal, Macao (in the south of China) and Brazil. The related insight does not have the claim to completeness, but offers an overview, allowing the lector to range over three Lusitanian territories. According to this principle of completeness, the volume is divided in three chapters within which historical, iconographical and literary themes of the 18th century are illustrated. The volume higlights historical facts, literary works, also through an European view of the same period, that have marked the Portuguese, Asian and Brazilian 18th century.
    Keywords: Portugal ; Macao ; Brazil ; 18th century ; literature ; iconography ; history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Rulership and the Gods: The Role of Cultic Institutions in the Late Bronze to Iron Age Transition in Anatolia and Northern Syria (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: This paper aims to demonstrate that cults and cultic institutions are a crucial element for understanding the processes producing different regional outcomes after the fall of the Hittite empire. In this paper, cults are understood as normative cosmic forces defining tempo and worldview of ancient societies. Cultic institutions can be identified as physical spaces defined by purity, charged with real and symbolic value, and led by specialists whose competence is recognised by the community. Instead of being a by-product of political complexity, they are a driving force behind the power dynamics because they are perceived as such in a bottom-up perspective, but also often by main political actors in search of legitimation of their power. This paper examines the interconnections between cultic and political institutions in the territory under the Hittite empire and in the same space after the empire’s demise. We aim to distinguish between processes of resilience, reorganisation, and transformation as they occurred in particular micro-regions previously controlled by the empire, including the Upper Euphrates, South-Central Anatolia, North-Central Anatolia, Cilicia, and the Northern Levant; this will demonstrate both the importance of such a micro-regionally defined study, as well as the shared coincidence of cultic and political institutional change. It will become evident that cultic continuity coincided with the resilience of political institutions, and changes in the cultic landscape corresponded to political reorganisations or transformations in post-Hittite Anatolia and north Syria.
    Keywords: institution ; temple ; kingship ; Syro-Anatolia ; post-Hittite ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Dante presente, Dante assente. Il dibattito sulla cancellazione dai programma scolastici bulgari (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: One of the initiatives on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, carried out in Bulgaria in October 2021, consisted in the publication of a monographic issue of the weekly Literaturen vestnik in a bilingual version with the title “Ancora attuale, sempre divino: Literaturen vestnik celebra Dante.” Among the thematic features contained in this issue, an important place is occupied by three surveys conducted among Bulgarian secondary school teachers, university lecturers and poets. The surveys aim to outline how Dante’s work is currently perceived and to comment on the fact that – unbeknownst to most people – the Divina Commedia has been excluded from the literature curricula since the 2018-19 academic year.
    Keywords: Dante’s Reception ; Literaturen vestnik ; School Programmes ; Translation ; Teaching ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Et in Inferno ego! Sulle narrazioni di anabasi e catabasi d’ispirazione dantesca nelle opere dei romantici polacchi (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: This paper focuses on the anabasis and katabasis narratives inspired by Dante in the works of the most representative Polish romantics: Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), Juliusz Słowacki (1809-1849), Zygmunt Krasiński (1812-1859) and Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1821-1883). It was the Divina Commedia which exercised the greatest influence on the poets, especially Inferno, which became a forerunner of the Polish reality itself. But whereas Dante’s Inferno is identified with the underworld, the Polish Romantics’ locus horridus coincides with the actual world. If the Dantesque journey is a katabasis to the underworld, the descent portrayed by Polish poets is an anabasis towards a volcano crater covered with lava and ice. Moreover, according to the martyrological view, the Polish reality in those days was not only a place of suffering and tribulation, but also of expiation, which was a preparation for the arrival of paradise on Earth.
    Keywords: Dante Alighieri ; Inferno ; Polish romanticism ; Anabasis/Katabasis ; Reception of Dante’s Inferno ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Aspektualität im Resianischen und die Rolle des Sprachkontakts (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This study deals with aspectuality in Resian, a Slovene-based variety of north-eastern Italy, and the probable role of Romance influence on developments in this domain. In part, these findings are compared with the situation found with other non-Romance linguistic varieties spoken in Italy, especially Molise Slavic. The functional-semantic field of aspectuality is considered both in relation to its grammatical centre, viz. verbal aspect, and its lexical periphery. Language contact plays an important role in the almost complete transition of the Resian dual aspect system to a purely derivational opposition “imperfective : perfective”, also absorbing most of its prior morphosyntactic opposition “imperfect : aorist : perfect”. Furthermore, the special aspectual selection properties of phasal verbs and the role of aspect in the functions of modal verbs merit particular mention in this respect. In the case of lexical and periphrastic means of expression, a number of calqued progressive and prospective (imminent) periphrases, mostly calqued from Romance models, are discussed.
    Keywords: Resian ; verbal aspect ; language contact ; modality ; phasal verbs ; imminentive ; progressive ; imperfect ; aspectual periphrases ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: German
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    Tessuti di seta tra Firenze e il Levante (ca. 1350-1550) (2023)
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    Description: This study, through the use of hundreds of archival documents over a period of about two centuries, highlights the total reversal in the silk trade that occurred from the beginning of the 15th century: silk cloth no longer crossed the Mediterranean from East to West, as in previous centuries, but from West to East. Jewish, Turkish and Syrians merchants, and above all the Sublime Porte showed continued appreciation for Florentine silks. Through the analysis of the sources, every phase of such export is described in detail: the purchase of the cloths in Florence, their shipment, transport and finally the sale through Florentine correspondents in Constantinople. This flow of silks continued until the first decades of the 16th century, only to decline rapidly around the middle of the century.
    Keywords: Florence ; Levant ; Silk cloth ; Trade ; Renaissance ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Парадоксальность как специфика художественного творчества Ф.М. Достоевского: приемы, стилемы, воздействие (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: Paradoxality as a Specific Feature of Dostoevsky’s Literary Works. Techniques, Stylistics, Mechanisms of Action. All works by Dostoevsky reveal the presence of paradox. These paradoxes act according to mechanisms that depend either on the fictional (polyphonic) or nonfictional (monologic) text “dominant.” Taking as a starting point (a) the arguments of G.S. Morson, according to whom paradoxes “seem to carry the quintessence of ‘Dostoevskyism’, particularly of his brand of humor,” (b) the analysis of Dostoevsky’s paradoxical humor; and (c) the three main categories of paradoxes (“empty or rhetorical”, “negative”, “positive”), we argue that Dostoevsky applies a fourth type of paradox, one that affects neither the premise nor the ending of the paradoxical structure, but their intrinsic logical interconnection. This article analyses a repertoire of paradoxical techniques used by Dostoevsky, focusing on the destabilizing humoristic function they enact.
    Keywords: Dostoevsky ; paradox ; skeptical humor ; Grand Inquisitor ; polyphony ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Dante Alighieri nella lingua e nella cultura macedone (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of Dante Alighieri in the Macedonian cultural context through the translations and reception of his most important work, the Divina Commedia. The first part of the paper presents the translations of fragments of the poem published in the 1950s, translated by various Macedonian poets, and continues by presenting the translations by Georgi Stalev, who published parts of the poem in the 1960s, Inferno in 1967, and the whole poem (Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso) in 2006. The second part of the paper traces Dante’s impact on the literary works of Georgi Stalev, Bogomil Ǵuzel and Blaže Koneski as well as the poet’s influence in other domains of Macedonian culture.
    Keywords: Dante Alighieri ; Italian ; Macedonian ; Translation ; Reception ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Storage and Food Control in the ‘Amuq from the Late Bronze to the Iron Age: The Archaeological Evidence (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Ongoing study of the pottery assemblage and its surrounding context in Area 4 at the site of Alalakh has again brought to light a phenomenon that is considered typical for the Iron Age I Levant: the construction of pits/silo installations in open areas. This phenomenon has been interpreted as a sign of ruralisation or insecure economic conditions, a possible marker for the political instability in the area during the 13th-12th centuries BCE. This article examines the similarities and differences between the examples from the Iron Age I in the ‘Amuq and contemporary sites in the Levant, and also considers later similar installations from the Iron Age II. Keeping in mind the functions usually ascribed to these structures, this study also analyses the so-called ‘Anatolian’ tradition of grain storage in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in order to address the role of these installations in understanding possible food control strategies and their possible impact in the Levant.
    Keywords: Storage system ; Late bronze ; Iron age ; 'Amuq ; Grain pits ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter La comunicazione istituzionale dell’Università tra semplificazione linguistica e strategie possibili per un linguaggio inclusivo (2023)
    Firenze University Press | La lingua italiana in una prospettiva di genere
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: The article explores gender-neutral language strategies in Italian university documents, introducing “gender obfuscation” to avoid gender markers. Strategies discussed include using generic nouns, passive/impersonal verbs, and relative/indefinite pronouns. Inclusive language benefits are acknowledged, but complexity and reduced clarity are highlighted. The authors recommend inclusive language, including the unmarked masculine form for complex cases. Italian universities adoption of Gender Equality Plans (GEP) in response to European Commission directives is also discussed. Emphasis is placed on language attention in GEPs and collaboration with linguists for inclusivity and gender equality. Balancing language simplification with gender-inclusive objectives is recognized as a challenge.
    Keywords: language simplification ; gender-neutral language ; linguistic strategies ; Italian ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Shaping Gods: from Göbekli Tepe to Kaneš, Ḫattuša, and Beyond (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The spectacular finds at Göbekli Tepe and Nevali Çorı: monolithic pillars representing stylized humans decorated with a large variety of animals, are the representation of an animist cosmos, in which animals and plants being may appear as persons, capable of will. Çatal Höyük represents a stage in which gods started to be shaped: the bull represented the Storm-god (a concept which reached the Classical period), the stag the god of the wild fauna, and female figurines symbolized the Mother-goddess. In Egypt, where gods where usually represented by animals, zoomorphism presents a continuity which ended only with the introduction of Christianity. The archaeological finds from Kaneš and the Hittite texts document an extraordinary continuity: each deity was represented by an animal, portraited in the vessel with which the celebrant (the royal couple or also a priest) reached a kind of communion with the god in drinking of the same wine and eating of the same bread.
    Keywords: Animism ; Göbekli Tepe ; Hittite zoomoprhism ; meal ritual ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Юмор и ирония как средства борьбы с атеизмом в дискурсе Ф.М. Достоевского (2023)
    Firenze University Press | Ф.М. Достоевский: Юмор, парадоксальность, демонтаж
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: Humor and Irony as a Means of Combating Atheism in the Discourse of F.M. Dostoevsky . The question of the God’s existence troubled Dostoevsky throughout his life. He created a very convincing portrait of the atheist of his time. He did not consider unbelievers immoral, but only “infected with recklessness”, and when speaking of his atheist acquaintances, often admitted that they were good people. Dostoevsky created the image of an atheist as an intelligent person, who is guided not by the heart, but by the mind and who often evokes sympathy for his questing, his thinking, and his suffering (like Versilov or Ivan Karamazov). If we carefully consider the “atheistic” characters of Dostoevsky, however, we will see that atheism is a phenomenon associated with something both bad and funny. Through humorous details, Dostoevsky imperceptibly creates an image of the “atheist” as a comical and frivolous person.
    Keywords: Dostoevsky ; atheism ; humor ; irony ; unbelievers ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Signorie rurali, coscienza nobiliare e autorappresentazione (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The purpose of the essay is to show the choices made by noble Trentino families to propose an image of themselves, through different choices and thanks to different tools: building policy, iconographic, heraldic, funeral choices.
    Keywords: XIV-XVI century ; Trentino ; noble families ; palaces ; external paintings ; family tombs ; heraldic armorials ; empire ; Habsburg ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter «Мы смеялись, словно от щекотки по сердцу». Мутная исповедь у Достоевского (2023)
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    Description: “We laughed like from a tickle on the heart.” Dostoevsky’s Muddy Confession. When considering laughter in Dostoevsky, one immediately thinks of the long “tirade” in The Adolescent, which proposes a kind of physiology of laughter, and its unpredictable effects on the perception of those who witness it. Laughter and caustic humor color even the most intimate confessions and can serve to partially mask the difficult action of revealing oneself before others. Modernity itself is the era of self-exhibition, of a sort of widespread confession. And yet, the laughter of modernity has lost the essence of joy. Joy is a function of that almost impossible sincerity that unveils the essence of man. The grimace of the fool, who shamelessly denudes himself before others in confession, becomes a sign of the isolation of the modern self and the end of the utopia of sincerity pursued by Rousseau.
    Keywords: confession ; Dostoevsky ; laughter ; modernity ; sincerity ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Note al testo e alla traduzione (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: The aim of this article is to offer some useful notes about the two collections of sonnets here translated, together with some commentaries concerning the translation work undertaken.
    Keywords: Translation notes ; textual notes ; Deideia ; Amagao meu amor ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Epigraphic Stratigraphy: is There Any Trace of the Ostrogoths in Early Medieval “Layers” (6th-9th Century)? (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: The short but significant experiment of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy left politically ephemeral albeit culturally surprisingly durable traces in the peninsula. Among them, epigraphy takes centre stage when discussing decrees, laws, and public documents, which are a direct expression of the rulers’ will to gain greater visibility and disseminate their voice. However, epigraphy is also crucial to knowing the names, professions, ideas, and other concepts relating to the ordinary people. This contribution aims to examine a number of issues concerning controversial Germanic names datable between the VIth and VIIth century AD, and variably assigned to Ostrogoths, Lombards, and even Carolingians characters; through the lens of these durable materials, which – ironically enough – are monuments both recording contemporary propaganda and everyday life facets, the article will also explore the graphic and epigraphic changes which occurred in Italy between the VIth-IXth centuries.
    Keywords: Early Middle Ages ; Late Antiquity ; Ostrogoths ; Lombards ; Germanic names ; Epigraphy ; Paleography ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Digitale d’autore (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: The book starts with an introductory exploration on how writers use computers; gives a definition of Born-digital Literary Archives, provides a few examples from the international panorama and carries out a mapping of digital archives in Italy with a particular focus on Franco Fortini’s Archive held at the University of Siena. The volume offers a summary of the first Italian project devoted to the Italian born-digital literary archives, PAD - Pavia Digital Archives, by analysing the process of acquisition and management of the materials, now kept at the Centro Manoscritti in Pavia. Finally a critical analysis of Francesco Pecoraro’s first three works is offered through an examination of his digital archive in Pavia.
    Keywords: born-digital archives ; digital humanities ; digital preservation ; contemporary literature ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Identità narrativa e memoria autobiografica: prospettive per un dialogo interdisciplinare (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: The essay proposes a reflection on narrative and storytelling, on the idea of the subject and personal identity, based on Ricoeur's philosophy but from a broader constructivist and bio-psycho-social perspective. Narrative as the construction of meaning and the construction of coherence becomes, in this sense, a lens through which to look at the new philosophies of mind and their fruitful interaction with psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
    Keywords: Literature ; Storytelling ; Social Media ; Digital Humanities ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter L’apporto delle neuroscienze rappresenta un punto di svolta per la critica letteraria? (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: Theoretical studies on literature and the methodology of literary criticism have always been a field of high intellectual "porosity" capable of opening up to diverse and novel disciplinary stimuli and expertise. However, this capacity, which is moreover a necessary characteristic of proper research, clashes with the rigidity of the disciplinary structure of the Italian university, based on rigid taxonomies of knowledge. Overcoming this rigidity is now desirable and necessary to release the innovative potential of the so-called frontier fields of study.
    Keywords: Theory of literature ; literary criticism ; cognitive literary studies ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter The territorial organization of the Amalfi Coast: nature and man's intervention (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The Amalfi Coast is characterized by jagged mountain ridges and valleys that include streams and plunges into the sea with steep cliffs, here and there interrupted by short sandy coasts. The coastal and inland towns contribute to the beauty of the landscape, rich in historical and artistic evidence from the Middle Ages. At the same time, urban agglomerations expanded, almost unique examples of adaptation to difficult environmental conditions. The study aims to analyze the natural and anthropogenic components of the whole, today.
    Keywords: Amalfi Coast ; Road ; Valley of the mills ; cave ; Amalfi villages ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Adverbielle Präfigierung im Sprachkontakt: Partikelverben und ihre aktionale Rolle im Burgenlandkroatischen (2023)
    Firenze University Press
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    Description: This article shows that particle verbs in Burgenland Croatian – a notable morphosyntactic phenomenon of language contact – may form aspectual pairs in a typically Slavic manner. Particle-based pairs with an indigenous base verb are formed by means of suffixation, suffix opposition, suppletion or prefixation. In the case of spatial relations, by contrast, preverbs predominate over prefixes, leading to a reduction of the old inventory of verbal compounds. Nevertheless, preverbs are only rarely obligatory in the formation of aspectual pairs. In the case of borrowings, only prefixation is productive, which might be attributed to German (and Hungarian) influence. On a par with other aspectual pairs, particle-based formations may express taxis relations (sequence, simultaneity, incidence). Language contact possibly contributed to the preservation of the Contextually Conditioned Imperfective Past also in imperfective particle verbs.
    Keywords: Particle verbs ; Burgenland Croatian ; language contact ; verbal aspect ; CCIP ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Il Naviglio di Ivrea da Leonardo a oggi. Storia, tecnica e territorio (2023)
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    Description: The Naviglio di Ivrea (Turin) sketched in sheet 563r of the Atlantic Code, drew Leonardo’s attention when he was working as hydraulic engineer in the nearby Milan. A research on the rich documentation available in local archives led to identify techniques and materials used to build the Naviglio, often similar to those in Leonardo’s hydraulic studies and drawings, and to show both its interaction with the surrounding territories and the continuous updates in hydraulic engineering from the XV to the XIX centuries. The persisting relevance of the canal through centuries is a testament to Leonardo’s ancient intuition.
    Keywords: Leonardo ; Naviglio di Ivrea ; hydraulic engineering ; territory ; technical update ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter О некоторых особенностях словоупотребления в поэтическом словаре Достоевского. В связи с книгой М.Л. Уральского и Г. Мондри Достоевский и евреи (Санкт-Петербург: Алетейя, 2021) (2023)
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    Description: On Features of Word Usage in Dostoevsky’s Poetic Dictionary in Connection with M.L. Uralskij and G. Mondry’s Dostoevsky and the Jews (St. Petersburg: Aletheia, 2021) . This article addresses the question of Dostoevsky’s alleged anti-Semitism with particular attention to Uralskij and Mondry’s book devoted to this topic, in which conclusions about the author’s chauvinism and xenophobia are based on his use of the word ‘Jew’ (zhid). For almost the entirety of the 19th century, however, such word usage was not a marker of anti-Semitism. Throughout his life, Dostoevsky communicated with many representatives of the Jewish people without differentitating them in any particular way from representatives of other nationalities. In the writer’s poetic dictionary, the word ‘Jew’ sometimes denotes a person who acquires unscrupulously, examples of which Dostoevsky found in all nationalities of the world, including the Russian.
    Keywords: Dostoevsky ; Jewish question ; national character ; denial of anti-Semitism ; Russian word zhid ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Progressivo e imminentivo nel sistema verbale dell’albanese d’Italia (2023)
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    Description: This article deals with some specific characteristics of the Italo-Albanian (Arbëresh) verbal system, including the “presumptive” and “unfinished” past, but focuses especially on the expression of Aktionsart with the help of peri­phrases variously present, if not only marginally, in Balkan Albanian and already attested in the first Arbëresh grammars of the 19th century. The distribution of the periphrastic constructions with progressive and imminentive functions in a series of Italo-Albanian dialects is analysed on the basis of an initial overview of durative periphrases presented in Savoia (1991), but enriched by further research and integrated into a broader typological overview. The author hypothesises that the periphrases in question are not so much the result of linguistic contact with actual Italo-Romance varieties, but rather go back to the Balkan context of possibly Proto-Romance origin.
    Keywords: Italo-Albanian ; Albanian ; Greek ; Aktionsart ; imminentive ; progressive ; Balkan linguistics ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter The Creation of Two Ethnographic Identities: The Cases of the Ostrogoths and the Langobards (2023)
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    Description: The aim of this paper is to analyse two ethnographic identities constructed for two barbarian peoples – the Ostrogoths and the Langobards. As I try to argue, the first identity was constructed to show that the Ostrogoths were a civilized people and a better version of the Romans, and moreover, this identity communicated that the Ostrogoths could not be called a barbaric and savage people. Theoderic the Great’s propagandists tried to present the Ostrogothic warriors as defenders of the Roman World. The second identity – constructed for the Langobards – presented them as a people who embodied the very antithesis of their main enemies c. 660: the Franks and the Romans. The origin of the Langobards and the genesis of their ethnic hallmark, i.e. the long beards, were presented as signs of distinction or limitic structures which communicated non-romanitas of this people.
    Keywords: Early Middle Ages ; Late Antiquity ; Ostrogoths ; Langobards ; Theoderic the Great ; Origo gentis Langobardorum ; Ethnographic Identity ; Barbarians ; Civilization ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Il Brasile nel XVIII secolo (2023)
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    Description: The third and last section of the volume aims to represent the Brazilian colony in the 18th century through an historical, iconographical and literary point of view, and analyzing three very important Brazilian volumes of the same period.
    Keywords: Brazil ; history ; iconography ; literature ; 18th century ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Amagao meu amor / Macao amore mio (2023)
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    Description: Dell’idea and Macao amore mio are the Italian translations of the two Portuguese colletions of sonnets of António Correia: Deideia and Amagao meu amor. These literary works have been translated for the first time in Italian language by Michela Graziani in this volume. The Italian translation provides the Italian reader to appreciate the poetry style of António Correia and to approach this fascinating Portuguese author of our contemporary age.
    Keywords: Amagao meu amor ;  Translation ; Italian language ; Portuguese poetry ; Sonnet collection ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Description: Cain resumes the biblical story of the genesiacs brothers to recount it in a heterodox way. Based on the canonical biblical texts, the ethical perspective of David Maria Sassoli and in ideological discourses, José Saramago (re)reads the life of the murderous brother by a desacralizing bias, establishing a process of discursive reorganization of the Bible and, consequently, of Christianity – an ideology rooted in the social thought that the writer Portuguese intends to resolve. Our proposal is to probe such ethical assumptions questioned by the novel. Thus, we will focus on the figure of the protagonist to reflect on postures, symbolic representations, narrative functions and ideological expressiveness. Let us, through our reading, decommthe kaleidoscopic clash that the skilled narrator stages to present an ethical proposal in dialogue with renewing ideals of today's society.
    Keywords: Cain ; biblical narrative ; parodic rereading ; ethical values ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Kubaba and other Divine Ladies of the Syro-Anatolian Iron Age: Developmental Trajectories, Local Variations, and Interregional Interactions (2023)
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    Description: Already by the Late Bronze Age, culturally distinct cults of Kubaba existed throughout the region controlled by the Hittite Empire. After the fall of the empire and the fragmentation of the political landscape of the Syro-Anatolian region, these cults persisted in local contexts, developing along their own trajectories, and thus producing hypostases of the goddess with unique roles, modes of expression, and perhaps aliases. However, these local variations did not evolve in a vacuum, but in many cases through a process of interregional and intercultural interactions. This paper will examine these processes along with the resultant expressions of local cults of Kubaba, demonstrating specific trajectories for interactions between neighboring groups, along with selective adaptations and rejections of foreign cultic concepts. Preliminary results suggest an interesting convergence between these cults and certain sociolinguistic boundaries within the region, perhaps connected to communities with shared group identities.
    Keywords: Kubaba ; Iron Age ; Religious contacts ; Syro-Anatolian cults ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    L’aspettualità nel contatto linguistico: lingue slave e oltre (2023)
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    Description: This volume investigates the functional-semantic field of aspectuality in relation to the role of language contact in the development of minority languages in Italy and beyond, highlighting hitherto completely unknown parallels, e.g. contact-induced development of progressive and prospective verbal periphrases. The influences of the dominant languages surface not only in Slavic derivational verbal aspect, but also in the restructuring of morphosyntactic reflexes of aspect. Aspectuality is examined in relation to Slavic micro-languages spoken in Italy (Molise Slavic, Resian, Tersko, Nadiško), Austria (Burgenland Croatian), Germany (Upper Sorbian), Albania (Kaj-nas) and the Baltic, as well as in relation to Arbëresh, Cimbrian, Griko, Lithuanian and Macedonian.
    Keywords: aspectuality ; verbal aspect ; minority languages ; language contact ; aspectual periphrases ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Journey to a foreign land: imagining migration in Sinophone Literature from Thailand (2023)
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    Description: Sima Gong and Zeng Xin are two of the most prominent contemporary Sinophone writers in Thailand. Although they were born in Thailand, they frequently write about migration. In this chapter I want to ask why the motive of migration is so prominent in their works and how they write about it. I argue that their ancestors’ quest from China to Thailand is indeed not the focus of attention but the wandering between these two places. Although they did not physically migrate from China to Thailand, these authors use literature as a means to travel mentally between the two countries, and “re-live” the migratory experience through their texts. Analyzing these selected texts offers a unique insight into the authors’ floating identity, one that is constantly migrating between China and Thailand.
    Keywords: Migration ; Sinophone ; Thailand ; Identity ; Literature ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter The Centres of Public Power Between the Cities and the Countryside, in the Light of the Recent Archaeology (Italian Peninsula, Late 5th-9th Century) (2023)
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    Description: The paper aims to illustrate, especially through the results of recent archaeological studies, the articulation and forms of the centres of public power between the Gothic and the Carolingian periods, in the dialectic between the city as a seat of the institutions and their protagonists, and the countryside, which contains the production centres and controls their resources. We will consider the Italian territory, with a focus on Tuscany, and propose some comparisons with the rest of Europe. An architectural, artistic and topographical resilience emerges. It is probably the consequence of the continuity of a series of elements: the public ownership of particular urban and suburban areas and palaces, as well as of rural strategic sites; the use of languages and models of the Late Roman aristocracy, and the economic impoverishment of the early medieval rulers.
    Keywords: Early Middle Ages ; Late Antiquity ; 5th-9th Century ; Italy ; Tuscany ; Public Power Centers ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Massimo il Greco e il pensiero politico di Dante nella Russia del Cinquecento (2023)
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    Description: Maximus the Greek (c. 1470-1555/1556), one of the most influential members of the Greek diaspora in Russia, arrived in Moscow from Constantinople with an official delegation (1518) and remained there until his death at the time of Ivan the Terrible. It was only in the second half of the last century that it was discovered Maximus the Greek must be identified with Michael Trivolis, a young Greek humanist educated in Florence at the end of the 15th century. Like many of his contemporaries, Trivolis had been influenced by the preaching of Girolamo Savonarola. Systematic research on the relation between the work of Savonarola and the humanists close to him and the writings of Maximus the Greek has not yet been conducted, but the data collected to date allow us to establish a close relationship within the context of certain religious, philosophical, and social themes. The examination of a text dedicated to the exercise of power by emperors and princes, the Discourse more extended, written by Maximus the Greek by the time of Ivan the Terrible, shows not only direct correlations with some of Savonarola’s cantos, but also the presence of images and themes from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and Cristoforo Landino’s Comento, starting with the idea of empire. The collections of Maximus the Greek’s writings, in which this Discourse appears, were widely disseminated, and left a deep mark on Russian culture.
    Keywords: Cristoforo Landino ; Dante ; Girolamo Savonarola ; Idea of Empire ; Maximus the Greek ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Signorie rurali e risorse economiche: forme di prelievo e di gestione (2023)
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    Description: In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the rural lords exercised strong control over the economic resources of the Trentino area. The essay illustrates the forms of land rent collection, and dwells in particular on the exploitation of mineral resources.
    Keywords: XIV-XV century ; rural lordships ; land rent ; seigneurial levy ; mineral resources ; timber ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Ricerche sullo Zibaldone Magliabechiano: il De doctoribus seu inventoribus tra Paolino Veneto e Boccaccio (2023)
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    Description: In the De doctoribus seu inventoribus inserted in the Zibaldone Magliabechiano, Boccaccio reports names and short biographies of several distinguished men and women that he read in Paolino Veneto’s Chronologia Magna. By comparing this list with its original source, the article means to reconstruct the modus operandi of the Certaldese during the study for the production of his erudite works of the late age, highlighting the importance of such a tool for understanding the intellectual baggage of its author and his methods of reworking the material.
    Keywords: Giovanni Boccaccio ; authorial philology ; Zibaldone Magliabechiano ; Paolino Veneto ; Chronologia Magna. ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Zu slavisch-baltischen Konvergenzen (und ihr Fehlen) im Aspekt-Tempus-Bereich (2023)
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    Description: The article provides a survey of aspect-tense (AT) grams in (North) Slavic and Baltic, with some account of Finnic. More recently developed grams (bound morphology and constructions) are evaluated against a deeper diachronic and larger areal backdrop in order to assess the significance of contact as a factor contributing to convergence of Slavic and Baltic varieties in the AT domain. In fact, the amount of actually converging features related to grammatical oppositions in this area is quite small; these are: (i) Prominent parallels in the strict subject- vs. object-oriented division of perfects in Slavic (mainly Belarusian) rural varieties, which must have been supported by an ancient and very stable Baltic model. (ii) Suffixation patterns of stem derivation in Aukštaitian Lithuanian resembling Slavic secondary imperfectivisation. The reasons for a generally low level of mutual influence between Baltic and Slavic are subjected to some methodological discussion.
    Keywords: (North) Slavic ; Baltic ; language contact ; areal convergence ; aspect-tense grams ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter António Correia: o homem e seu legado literário (2023)
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    Description: The personal memory of Lurdes Escaleira and Jorge Bruxo deals with the relationship among them, Correia and Ernesto Matos and focuses on a first portrait of António Correia and his literary
    Keywords: António Correia ; Ernesto Matos ; Life ; Literary path ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Marco Polo returns to China: Giuliano Montaldo’s TV series (1982) (2023)
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    Description: In 1982, the Italian television network RAI produced a TV series by Giuliano Montaldo on the travels of the Venetian merchant Marco Polo. Broadcast in forty-six countries, the Emmy Award-winning cinematic project, which involved partners from the United States, Japan, Germany, and France, stood as the first film co-production between Italy and China and represented a relevant step in the consolidation of the Sino-Italian friendship after the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1970. This paper aims to research the transnational dynamics enacted by Marco Polo during the Sino-Italian co-production and presents the making of the TV series in China from ideation to distribution. The study includes an original interview with the director Montaldo (2022).
    Keywords: Marco Polo ; Giuliano Montaldo ; TV series ; film co-production ; Sino-Italian transnational relations ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter A Quantitative Analysis of Theonyms and Panthea in the Hittite Cult Inventories (2023)
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    Description: The riches of the Hittite tablet collections are justly famous for the great mass of information they provide about deities, cult, and religious beliefs all over the Kingdom of Hattusa. The sheer amount of available texts and the fragmented state of many of them pose nontrivial problems for any systematic study of the Hittite religion. Expanding on the digital edition of the so-called cult inventories (CTH 526-530, ca. 450 fragments) and exploiting the potential of the related database, this paper provides for the first time a quantitative analysis of the panthea of local towns in the core area of the kingdom in the Late Empire period. The study is organized in two parts. Part One sets out the methodological basis for the analysis by examining the target corpus in terms of internal consistency, discussing the appropriateness of a distinction between “state” vs. “nonstate” cults both within the perspective of the current discourse on Hittite religion and specifically with regard to its consequences for the proposed analysis, and laying out the analytical principles used in the extraction of the relevant information. Part Two presents selected sets of data, explores ways to interpret and combine them, and investigates their significance for the study of local panthea in the Late Empire. The results are twofold. On the one hand, an innovative picture of the panthea under discussion is obtained, with substantial implications for our understanding of a number of deities, their relationship to each other, and their role within the religious life of provincial communities. On the other hand, the critical scrutiny of the nature and specific traits of the data sample highlights methodological pitfalls in a purely quantitative analysis of Hittite religious texts, and proposes correctives for mitigating their impact, thereby providing a significant case study for future research.
    Keywords: Hittite religion ; ancient Anatolia ; quantitative research ; centre-periphery studies ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter The Revival of Cassiodorus’ Variae in the High Middle Ages (10th-11th century) (2023)
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    Description: This paper is based on a number of reuses of Cassiodorus’ Variae that have been found in notarial documents written in Rome and Lazio between the tenth and eleventh century. Given that the manuscript tradition of the Variae becomes visible only from the twelfth-thirteenth centuries onwards, these reuses are a good starting point to reflect on a specific question: what were the practical and contingent motivations that, in Lazio, stimulated the intellectual elites to research and reuse the Variae? By following an alternative path to that of the manuscript evidence, it is thus possible better to identify the contexts of preservation, circulation, and practical use of the Variae underlying the more evident late medieval revival.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; 10th-11th Century ; Lazio ; Rome ; Cassiodorus’ Variae ; Medieval notaries ; Legal Renaissance ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Transnational urban encounters: existential wanderings in Xue Yiwei’s collection Shenzheners (2023)
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    Description: The fictional works of the Chinese writer Xue Yiwei, who migrated to Canada in 2002, can be regarded as a byproduct of cross-border mobility and cultural displacement. This paper examines the relationship between the individual and the metropolis in four short stories from the collection Shenzheners, focusing on the impact of the writer’s transcontinental relocation on his representation of city dwellers and intercultural encounters. This research adopts an interdisciplinary framework, which merges textual analysis with the approaches of Cultural Studies and Literary Urban Studies, and places this theoretical construction within a transnational context. By investigating the multiple narrative forms Xue Yiwei uses to question stereotypical cultural boundaries and to build a bridge between Chinese and global literatures, the connection between his experience of mobility and his hybrid fictional microcosm will be explored.
    Keywords: Global Chinese literature ; transnational writers ; transculturalism in Chinese fiction ; Chinese urban literature ; Shenzhen fiction ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Narratività ed embodiment della voce (2023)
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    Description: When speaking of narrativity, a widely held idea in various disciplinary fields that identity is essentially narrative is often called into question. Numerous linguistic, literary, neuroscientific, and evolutionary studies corroborate this idea. In reality, narrativity in these different fields of study often means different objects of inquiry, which have different definitions and describe different processes and, therefore, different cognitive capacities. In this paper, we will consider the notion of narrativity as a cognitive process, that is, as a component of the human mode of knowledge construction. As such, narrativity would constitute a cognitive universal. From this definition, we will show how narrativity is an eminently linguistic process made possible by the body technology of language and voice in particular. Finally, we will argue for the constitutive and bodily role of language for narrativity in ontogenetic development and inner speech.
    Keywords: narrativity ; embodiment ; motherese language ; inner speech ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Unending Wandering: visions of mobility in Zou Taofen’s Italy (2023)
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    Description: This paper focuses on visions and representations of Italy that emerge from the travel writings and narrative intersections of Sino-Italian mobilities. Taking its primary example from the travels of Zou Taofen (1895-1944), who enshrined his memories of Italy in Pingzong jiyu 萍踪寄语 (Messages from an unending wandering) while exiled from China, this critical exploration of mobility traces the spread of ideas between the Italian Peninsula and the Republic of China. Zou’s new and original visions of Italy reached a broad readership during the republican period, spreading widely and making Zou a “central figure of the New Culture era." Despite his place as one of the most successful and influential journalists in the history of the Republic of China, Zou has not yet “received his full due” (Mitter 2004, 55).
    Keywords: Zou Taofen ; Chinese travel literature ; Republican China ; Italy ; China ; Mobility ; Exile ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Famiglie signorili delle valli di Non e di Sole (2023)
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    Description: With reference to the 14th and 15th centuries, the essay analyses the specific characteristics of the rural lordships of the Val di Non and Val di Sole, territories of the Episcopal principality of Trento, particularly subject to Tyrolean influence.
    Keywords: 14th-15th centuries ; Trentino ; rural lordship ; castles ; mines ; forest resources ; Thun ; Spaur ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Accoppiamenti giudiziosi. Professionismo militare e signoria rurale in Italia nei secoli XIV e XV (2023)
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    Description: Mercenarism and Lordship are deeply linked in the Italy of the 14th and 15th centuries. It is difficult to distinguish between these two realities. Equally, it is difficult to understand the social impact of the mercenary phenomenon in reference to the lordship (this is an original theme). This work aims to clarify these aspects, with the use of new interpretative categories for the analysis of the complicated dynamics through which the two phenomena influenced each other.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; lordship ; history of warfare ; mercenarism ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Lingua di genere, inclusione, lingua pubblica: spunti di riflessione in punta di langue e di parole (2023)
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    Description: This contribution proposes some general observations on gendered language in a public context. Some specific issues are discussed: 1) language can be neither the only nor the main tool for a truly inclusive society, for which it is rather necessary to raise the level of average culture; 2) the public language has to refer to standard Italian in order to guarantee transparency for all citizens (even of those who do not have a high level of linguistic competence and therefore cannot handle exogenous changes in structure) 3) the unmarked masculine in certain contexts is however an inclusive strategy that in Italian is embedded in an articulated system of solutions that are not always based on the grammatical masculine (such as the use of feminine persona).
    Keywords: gender language ; inclusion ; public language ; langue and parole ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Leonardo da Vinci a Piombino: progetti di ammodernamento delle fortificazioni del litorale toscano (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The paper describes a research on Leonardo da Vinci’s activity as a military architect in Piombino, Tuscany, in the early years of the 16th century. These studies use modern digital survey technologies in order to recognize if, in the remains of the town’s defensive system, there are still traces of the intervention carried out in Leonardo’s time, and integrate these data with the analysis of historical-documentary sources and the results of recent archaeological and stratigraphic analyses. The achieved results were finally compared with Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings, obtaining some interesting feedback.
    Keywords: Leonardo da Vinci ; fortifications ; Renaissance ; drawings ; architectural survey ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Per uno studio sulla ricezione di Boccaccio volgare: il Filostrato come modello compositivo del libro d’amore tra i secoli XV e XVI (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Between the 15th and 16th century, the main archetype of court poetry and its “codice lirico”, represented by Petrarca in the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, could be flanked by the model of the lyrical Boccaccio, whose vulgar love works, including Filostrato, seem to be alive in the memory of pre-Bembian writers because of the presence, for example, of stylistic features and themes typical of an “codice elegiaco”.
    Keywords: Philology of Italian literature ; 15th century ; Boccaccio ; “Filostrato” ; courtly poetry ; “Libro d’amore”. ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Quattro matrimoni e una biblioteca (2023)
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    Description: This historical research starts from the books of Ambrósio Fernández Merino and explores the figure of their owner, a mysterious Spanish lawyer who lived in Florence. The result is the discovery of a little-known intellectual and of a woman who was, on the contrary, very well-known and present in the social chronicles of her time: Marie Louise La Farge. A wealthy American of French origins, divorced and married four times, she lived in London, Paris, Rome and died in Florence in 1899. After her will gave rise to a legal battle that reignited public interest on her life, she fell into oblivion. Her story resurfaced from some ownership notes found on several books of Merino’s library, books owned by Louise’s ex-husbands. The library was given to the University of Florence by the La Farge’s heirs.
    Keywords: Merino Libray Collection ; Ambrósio Fernández Merino ; Marie Louise La Farge ; John La Farge ; George Lyndes Lorillard ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Old Church Slavic (2023)
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    Description: This book, translated by Lev Blumenfeld, contains a synchronic grammar and grammatical dictionaries of Old Church Slavic. The framework is based on a substantially revised version of the classical descriptive methodology. The intent is to improve on the classical monographs by Vaillant, Diels, Lunt in the direction of utmost completeness, explicitness, and deliberate consistency between the grammatical structure, the corpus of texts (limited to the seven oldest OCS manuscripts), and the dictionaries. The grammar is intended as a set of rules that provide a complete characterization of any OCS wordform. Peculiarities in the language of each source are described as systematic departures from canonical OCS, a conventional constructed variety primarily described by the grammar. The book is addressed to linguists working in Slavic studies, as well as to specialists in the general theory of grammar, especially phonologists and morphologists. Data from the dictionaries are freely available as a searchable database online here.
    Keywords: Old Church Slavic Grammar ; Old Church Slavonic Grammar ; Phonology ; Morphophonology ; Paradigmatics ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Un esercizio di immaginazione sociologica: se «*» e «ə» fossero persone? (2023)
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    Description: In the presentation, an exercise in sociological imagination is carried out: the question is asked if "*" and "ə" were people, what kind of gender would be projected onto them? The area in which an initial answer is sought is the world of entertainment, starting in particular with the Sanremo Festival 2022, co-hosted by actor Gianluca Gori as Drusilla Foer, in multiple chronicles celebrated as the most representative female face of this edition of the Festival. From an initial search of news images, we have shown how almost exclusively men are placed in the center and rewarded over women who use, express, manifest, and publicize aspects of themselves, in reference to gender, that are culturally ascribable to the other sex: a true gender inequality.
    Keywords: Asterisk ; Schwa ; Gender ; Transgender ; Show business ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Der Verbalaspekt in der obersorbischen Umgangssprache im Sprachkontakt (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This paper deals with the Upper Sorbian aspect categories. While the traditional inflectional opposition imperfect vs. aorist is still widely used in the standard variety, it has almost disappeared from the colloquial variety used in the Catholic area of Upper Lusatia in Eastern Germany. By contrast, the derivational opposition of perfectivity formally persists in this area but has undergone some changes which are very specific to this variety. In particular, this aspect opposition, expressed by means of prefixes and suffixes has been radically restructured, such that its functional domain has shifted from grammatical aspect to grammatical telicity. It is argued that the starting point of this change is to be sought in an identification of the Sorbian aspect-sensitive grammatical prefixes with the German prefixes which mainly express telicity in processes of word formation. Special usages dealt with in this study are, on the one hand, the expression of habituality through (formally) imperfective verbs and, surprisingly, the expression of ongoing telic processes, but also of the analytical future, by means of their perfective correlates, on the other.
    Keywords: Upper Sorbian varieties ; German ; aspect ; language contact ; grammatical telicity ; telic processes ; habituality ; future ; prefixes ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Between Adoption and Assimilation: The Case of Ištar of Ḫattarina (2023)
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    Description: In his investigation of the expansion of the cult of the “deity of the night” in Anatolia and her relationship with Ištar (Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten 46, 259-439), J. Miller exposed the complexity of a diachronical analysis of the religious phenomenon represented by the diffusion of local “forms” or “aspects” of Ištar during the late Hittite period. However, many relevant issues concerning the role of the goddess in the Hittite dynastic pantheon, heavily influenced by Ḫurrian beliefs, and her presence in local pantheons, are still to be dealt with. As a case study, the present contribution will focus in particular on the goddess Ištar of Ḫattarina, attested together with the “Kanešite gods” Pirwa and Aškašepa in Muwatalli II’s prayer CTH 381. This unusual association may be derived from the interpretation of a local female deity traditionally defined as MUNUS.LUGAL, “queen” in Hittite local pantheons, as a form of Ištar.
    Keywords: Hittite cult ; Hittite religion ; Ištar ; Hittite pantheon ; Local cults ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Il territorio pontino nei disegni di Leonardo da Vinci (2023)
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    Description: The Pontine territory, located in southern Lazio, once ʽpalus pontinaʼ, has been represented over the centuries through iconographic views, cartographic drawings, literary documentation, and designed through reclamation works that allowed, over time, to dry up and anthropize the land. The two moments of representation and design of the Pontine territory are clearly reflected in Leonardo’s Cartographic view of the Pontine plain and the coast north of Terracina, of which the paper presents a critical reading.
    Keywords: Pontine marsh ; Leonardo da Vinci cartographer ; cartographic and iconographic documentation ; Cartographic view of the Pontine plain and the coast north of Terracina ; territorial representation ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Предисловие (2023)
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    Description: Foreword. Dostoevsky: Paradox, Humor, Deconstruction. A foreword to the present book and to each of the 15 articles that are part of it. While the analysis of humor, paradox, and deliberate deconstruction has generally occupied a marginal position in the study of Dostoevsky’s universe, it seems impossible to understand his poetics without pointed attention to these categories. The present book aims to fill the existing gap by focusing on the nature of ambivalent humor, paradoxicality, and methods of “de-automatizing” consciousness through deconstruction. It is precisely the dialogical and paradoxical nature of Dostoevsky’s artistic method that enables such different and sometimes contradictory readings.
    Keywords: Dostoevsky ; Paradox ; Humor ; Deconstruction ; Dostoevsky Studies ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Language: Russian
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    Chapter Brevi considerazioni sul disegno leonardiano del territorio tra visione olistica e restituzione selettiva dei fenomeni (2023)
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    Description: Leonardo’s conception of drawing and painting as a “science”, intended as a means to know material reality, in its application to the cartographic field highlights the Master’s adoption of different criteria for selecting and arranging information content in maps. Considering some significant cases, the text highlights Leonardo’s main contributions to cartography and proposes to consider these discrepancies as the results of an investigative process, in which the permanence and mutability of objects and territorial phenomena are evaluated in close relation with the project.
    Keywords: maps ; eidotypes ; Leonardo da Vinci’s topographic drawings ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: Italian
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    Chapter Ascetism and Incontinence and Dostoevsky’s Gift of Tears (2023)
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    Description: In Dostoevsky’s binary poetics, an opposition can be drawn between two fundamental stances – asceticism and incontinence. Ascetics adhere to an ethos of self-restraint in response to the desires of the flesh. Incontinents act spontaneously to gratify their desires. The current study draws an analogy between the behavior pattern of Dostoevsky’s self-denying intellectual heroes and that of exiled castrate (skoptsy) communities. Dostoevsky’s ascetics represent a cerebral mindset attracted to visions of social utopia; their intellectualizing detaches them from the life of the body and thus weirdly parallels the strictures of the skoptsy. An encounter between an ascetic and a prostitute serves as a central plot moment in works such as Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground.
    Keywords: Dostoevsky ; ascetism ; sectarianism ; castrates ; drunkenness ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Einflusswirkungen auf das Geschäftsmodell Carsharing – unter Berücksichtigung des Stakeholder-Ansatzes (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: Carsharing kann wesentlich zur Reduzierung privater PKW beitragen. Dennoch verharrt es in der Nische. Die vorliegende Arbeit sucht nach den Gründen des Nischendaseins und dies mit Fokus auf unterschiedliche Stakeholdergruppen. Neben der Darstellung der Einflusswirkungen sowie deren Einordnung und Auswertung auf der Grundlage des Stakeholder Salience Modell von Mitchell et al. gibt der Autor Handlungsempfehlungen, wie es zu einer Ausweitung des Carsharing in Deutschland kommen kann. Car sharing can contribute significantly to reducing the number of private cars. Nevertheless, it remains in the niche. This work looks for the reasons for this niche existence and does so with a focus on different stakeholder groups. In addition to the presentation of the effects of influence as well as their classification and evaluation on the basis of the Stakeholder Salience Model by Mitchell et al., the author gives recommendations for action on how an expansion of car sharing in Germany can be achieved.
    Keywords: Carsharing ; nachhaltige Mobilität ; Stakeholder-Ansatz ; Stakeholder Salience Model ; Stakeholder-Beziehungen ; car sharing ; sustainable mobility ; Stakeholder approach ; Stakeholder salience model ; Stakeholder relationships ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: German
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    Chapter Per l’edizione del Corbaccio: preliminari allo studio della tradizione (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-03
    Description: The paper examines some critical aspects of the manuscript tradition of Boccaccio’s Corbaccio, starting from the results of the very few studies on the subject. Besides proposing an updated list of all the 79 available manuscripts that hand down the work, whose yet we don’t have any critical edition, he then demonstrates, through a number of examples, the benefits of widening perspective to the codes of the non-α family, but also of a comprehensive reconsideration of the status of α itself. In the absence of a solid classification of the whole manuscript tradition, the “traditional” hypothesis that the α2 group (and in particular the Mannelli codex) represents an advanced redaction of Boccaccio’s «umile trattato» risks to be too conditioning if assumed at such a preliminary stage.
    Keywords: Boccaccio ; Corbaccio ; Manuscript Tradition ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Solar Deities in the Kuwattalla Ritual Tradition: Epithets and Functions (2023)
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    Description: Through the contextual analysis of the occurrences of solar deities in the Kuwattalla ritual texts, we will try to sketch a portrait of these deities, focusing on their functions in the ritual process. Special attention will be paid to the combination of ritual gestures with Luwian incantations, since the latter might help to define the specificities of each member of this divine group.
    Keywords: Luwian ; Hittite ; Sun-deities ; ritual texts ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Ф.М. Достоевский: Юмор, парадоксальность, демонтаж (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: While the analysis of humor, paradox, and deliberate deconstruction has generally occupied a marginal position in the study of Dostoevsky’s universe, it seems impossible to understand his poetics without pointed attention to these categories. The present book aims to fill the existing gap by focusing on the nature of ambivalent humor, paradoxicality, and methods of ‘de-automatizing’ consciousness through deconstruction, arguing that these are central elements in Dostoevsky’s creative arsenal. It is precisely the dialogical and paradoxical nature of his artistic method that enables such different and sometimes contradictory readings. Dostoevsky, who proclaimed «the excitement of compassion» as the secret of humor (in the ‘funny’ there is always sadness and even despair), more generally exposes in his writing the structural duality of all phenomena.
    Keywords: Dostoevsky ; Paradox ; Humor ; Deconstruction ; Comparative Studies ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Signorie in un’area di strada. La Valsugana nel XIV secolo (2023)
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    Description: The Valsugana, crossed by the river Brenta, is a perfect example of a 'road area'. The seigniorial families installed in this territory juggled between the bishop of Feltre and the prince-bishop of Trento, not without a certain amount of military pressure from the city lords of the Veneto region (Scaligeri, Carraresi). During the 15th century the authority of the Habsburgs asserted itself in Valsugana.
    Keywords: 14th-15th century ; Trentino ; rural lordship ; Valsugana ; vescovo di Feltre ; principe vescovo di Trento ; Asburgo. ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Ostrogoths vs. Franks: Imagining the Past in the Middle Ages (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-06
    Description: This introductory essay aims at highlighting some aspects concerning the connections between the Ostrogoths and Franks in the Middle Ages. To this end, cases from different contexts and chronologies have been examined: firstly, Giovanni Villani’s chronicle, which conveys a polarized image of the Gothic and Carolingian worlds; and then some testimonies from the ninth century, that use the Ostrogothic model in connection with the present in a more complex and ambivalent manner. The various interpretations of the Gothic world are linked by a tendency to emphasize historical analogies, that leads to an overall and protracted disinterest in the specific forms of Ostrogothic society and in work that most documents it, Cassiodorus’ Variae.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; Communal Age ; Carolingian Age ; Florence ; Giovanni Villani ; Walahfrid Strabo ; Cassiodorus ; Franks ; Ostrogoths ; Political Use of History ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Writing for the wor(l)ds: the reflection on language in Yiyun Li’s literary production (2023)
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    Description: Yiyun Li, b. 1972, moved from Beijing to the US in 1996, where she soon realized to be a talented writer. Although her early works, including the collections of short stories A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005) and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (2010), and the novels The Vagrants (2009) and Kinder Than Solitude (2014), still privileged Chinese settings and characters, after the publication of her memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life (2017) the literary landscape depicted by Li was amplified with autobiographical anecdotes and reflections on literature, human relations and language. Building upon psychoanalytical hints, this article offers a close reading of Where Reasons End (2019) and Must I Go (2020), reflecting on Li’s literature from a global perspective, and arguing that her contribution to world literature lies in her bold dissociation from any conventional, crystallized and thus imprisoning use of language.
    Keywords: Yiyun Li ; World Literature ; Sinophone Studies ; Exophony ; Jacques Lacan ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Chapter Vescovi e signori rurali nella regione trentino-tirolese tra XIV e XV secolo (2023)
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    Description: The essay illustrates the progressive weakening of the figure of the prince-bishop of Trento, feudal lord of most of the holders of castle lordships in the Trentino area. During the fourteenth century and especially the fifteenth century, noble families learned to look to Vienna and Innsbruck and to participate in the Tyrolean diets. With the sole exception of Alexander of Mazovia, the Trentino prince-bishops following Niccolò da Brno were all faithful to the empire and indeed strong supporters of it.
    Keywords: XIV-XV century ; Trento ; prince-bishop ; feudal relations ; empire ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Altre rivolte. Violenza antisignorile nell’Italia tardomedievale (2023)
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    Description: Peasant revolts were widespread in late medieval Europe. Based on the extensive investigation of the project La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo, this essay examines the numerous cases of peasant rebellion in the Italian peninsula, scarcely known to historians – who have mostly focused on urban uprisings – and never assessed on a large scale. The comparative perspective allows to analyse the causes, contexts, relevance, and results of such revolts, as well as to understand not only the features of lordships in late medieval Italy, but also the nature of the relationship between lords and subjects.
    Keywords: Middle Ages ; lordship ; revolts ; rural communities ; peasant violence ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Il ruolo del contatto nell’aspetto perfettivo in griko: forme sintetiche ed analitiche in competizione (2023)
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    Description: The aim of this article is to discuss a change in the expression of perfective aspect in Griko. According to Rohlfs (1977), this variety of Italo-Greek only possesses a synthetic past perfective form, thus failing to mark a distinction between the past punctual and present perfect values of the perfective. And yet, some changes in the expression of this macrocategory were already taking place at the time of Rohlfs when an originally resultative periphrastic form was beginning to be used beyond its original limits. By taking into account a wider array of sources, including both early and contemporary written attestations, as well as data collected with native speakers, we show how the regrammaticalization of this analytic construction, from resultative to present perfect marker, was already under way in the late nineteenth century and is now completed for some speakers. The article concludes with a number of reflections about the role played by contact in these developments.
    Keywords: Griko ; perfective ; perfect ; aorist ; language contact ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter Dalla Vita nova al Paradiso: alcune riflessioni sul percorso poetico-traduttorio di Ol’ga Sedakova (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: In the complex panorama of Russian translations of Dante, Ol’ga Sedakova occupies a particularly important place, representing the figure of an intellectual who not only devoted long studies to Dante’s poetics and language as well as attempted translation, but who also introjected the themes and scope of his cultural heritage into her own work. In this essay, Sedakova’s poetic and translating career is analysed by showing how, from her first publications in the samizdat journals of the 1970s to her most recent publications in 2020, the figure of Dante, his work and themes have always been given central importance.
    Keywords: Contemporary Russian Poetry ; Divina Commedia ; The New Life ; Translation Sedakova ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    «Parlare di tutto». Un’idea della critica (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: This volume presents the correspondence between Luigi Baldacci and Franco Fortini currently preserved in Florence, at the Archivio Contemporaneo Alessandro Bonsanti del Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux, and in Siena, at the Archivio del Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Franco Fortini. In addition to exchanges on specific authors or events (Noventa, Leopardi, Contini, Papini and the avant-garde, Bontempelli, Aldo Braibanti’s trial, etc.), the comparison and in some cases the clash between the two interlocutors pivots on the role of literary criticism in years of a profound cultural crisis and transformation in Italy. Both still place a high value on the figure of the intellectual and of the literary critic, as long as his role is exercised in full awareness of the contradictions that characterize it.
    Keywords: Franco Fortini ; Luigi Baldacci ; Correspondence ; Literary criticism ; Late Twentieth Century ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Vertrauen in Roboter und dessen Beeinflussbarkeit durch sprachliches Framing (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Collaborative robots (cobots) enable human-robot interactions in the workplace without safety fences. An appropriate level of trust by employees is critical to the success of these interactions. Anthropomorphic perceptions and fears of technological replacement affect trust formation. They can be influenced by linguistic framing, as this interdisciplinary empirical study shows.
    Keywords: Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion; Kollaborierende Roboter; Vertrauen; Anthropomorphismus; Sprachliches Framing; Human-robot interaction; Collaborative robots; Trust; Anthropomorphism; Linguistic framing ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Chapter La lingua italiana come strumento di parità di genere nelle Università (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: The paper examines the studies on the relationship between language, sex and gender in Italian academia; the search for non-sexist linguistic strategies for the representation of women and men; the related support of international political action; the recent EU Equality Strategies; and the action of the CRUI Commission on Gender Issues.
    Keywords: Sex ; gender ; sexism ; Gender equality ; CRUI ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
    Language: Italian
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