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An Eighteenth-Century mise en scène and the Play of Refractions: Essayists, Critics, Spectators, and an Actor Negotiate Meanings
Get PDFThe article aims to reconstruct the eighteenth-century discussion about knowledge and its connection to a new kind of acting. Mise en scène, that is, the collective and negotiable creation of meaning in theatre, will be at the core of the following pages. I will examine the eighteenth-century essayists who redefined the body as a readable text and senses as useful tools for understanding others, participants in the process. Metatexts, engendered by both the dramaturgic text and its staging, will demonstrate how these essayists orientated acting and theatrical reception. Key-words around which the main concepts have been developed will be considered as markers of the pervasiveness of the discourse on passions and sensibility in many literary and performative genres. As a case-study, the article focuses on Macbeth, affirming that essays written on the art of acting and related topics concurred in creating meaningful refractions in Garrick’s performances, whose manifold instances were disseminated by reviewers. The process of knowledge examined in essays was literally acted out in the theatrical space and commented in letters shedding light on Shakespeare’s text and its previous adaptations. However, the article’s focus can only be retrospective and highly influenced by contemporary pivotal studies on these topics
The Victimization Narratives of “Russophile” Ruthenians and Their Lasting Influence on Socio-political Discourses
Get PDFThis paper deals with deportations of Ruthenians during World War I by the Austro-Hungarian government that used civilian internment, confinement and evacuation to remove ‘suspicious’ persons from the area of operations of the Austro-Hungarian military. The cause of deportation was political suspicion that the Ruthenians would have connections to the Russian Empire. Deportations led to social disaster because many Ruthenian civilian internees died in the Thalerhof concentration camp, which marked the beginning of self-victimization of survivors and their descendants. This war crime became not only a place of remembrance but also, through the spread of the media, a sphere of conflict of political memory and historiography in Ukraine, Russia, Austria and the United States. This paper analyses the victim discourses of deportees and their descendants on the one hand and their use for national and political purposes on the other hand. The unreflected narratives like the genocide-thesis and forced labour in Thalerhof will be examined critically. The development of the victimization discourses and their transformation over time are at the forefront of this research.This paper deals with deportations of Ruthenians during World War I by the Austro-Hungarian government that used civilian internment, confinement and evacuation to remove ‘suspicious’ persons from the area of operations of the Austro-Hungarian military. The cause of deportation was political suspicion that the Ruthenians would have connections to the Russian Empire. Deportations led to social disaster because many Ruthenian civilian internees died in the Thalerhof concentration camp, which marked the beginning of self-victimization of survivors and their descendants. This war crime became not only a place of remembrance but also, through the spread of the media, a sphere of conflict of political memory and historiography in Ukraine, Russia, Austria and the United States. This paper analyses the victim discourses of deportees and their descendants on the one hand and their use for national and political purposes on the other hand. The unreflected narratives like the genocide-thesis and forced labour in Thalerhof will be examined critically. The development of the victimization discourses and their transformation over time are at the forefront of this research
The Grzymała Lubański Affair
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to examine the personal and professional life of Henryk Grzymała Lubański. A Polish Garibaldian who was completely erased from public memory after his death, Lubański was extremely active in promoting the Russian and Polish languages and Russian and Polish literature among Italians. This article, which is based on a variety of unpublished archival sources, is the first to be entirely dedicated to this subject. This work contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the history of Slavic studies and Russian studies in Italy in the second half of the 19thcentury.The purpose of this article is to examine the personal and professional life of Henryk Grzymała Lubański. A Polish Garibaldian who was completely erased from public memory after his death, Lubański was extremely active in promoting the Russian and Polish languages and Russian and Polish literature among Italians. This article, which is based on a variety of unpublished archival sources, is the first to be entirely dedicated to this subject. This work contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the history of Slavic studies and Russian studies in Italy in the second half of the 19thcentury
A.A. Potebnja’s Inner Form. An Excursus Starting from the Origins of Language
Get PDFThe aim of the present article is to offer an orderly exposition of the various definitions and functions that the concept of inner form plays in the theory of the Ukrainian linguist A.A. Potebnja. The article mainly deals with Mysl’ i jazyk, however, other later and earlier publications by Potebnja are taken into consideration. Because the concept of inner form is so broad, three main spheres of interest have been defined in the analysis: word formation (i.e, Potebnja’s conception of the origins of language), cognitive and linguistic development, and, finally, the prose/poetry dichotomy. The article concludes with some suggestions regarding possible areas of further study of Potebnja’s theory.The aim of the present article is to offer an orderly exposition of the various definitions and functions that the concept of inner form plays in the theory of the Ukrainian linguist A.A. Potebnja. The article mainly deals with Mysl’ i jazyk, however, other later and earlier publications by Potebnja are taken into consideration. Because the concept of inner form is so broad, three main spheres of interest have been defined in the analysis: word formation (i.e, Potebnja’s conception of the origins of language), cognitive and linguistic development, and, finally, the prose/poetry dichotomy. The article concludes with some suggestions regarding possible areas of further study of Potebnja’s theory
Natural Science Methods and Traditional Approaches in the Study of the 11th-Century Chludov Glagolitic Palimpsest (GIM, Chlud. 117). Preliminary Results
No full textThe article is devoted to the new stage of the Chludov glagolitic and latin palimpsests from the study of a 14th-early 15thcentury manuscript (SHM, Chlud. 117). The method of a multispectral imaging and subsequent software processing of palimpsest digital images allows us to read four pages of this manuscript. They contain services of a small (selected) glagolitic Menaion of the 11thcentury, made in southwestern Bulgaria under the influence of south Italian Latin and Byzantine manuscripts. Unknown sticheras of old Bulgarian writers for the service of Michael the Archangel (8.11) were discovered and published. The article is devoted to the new stage of the Chludov glagolitic and latin palimpsests from the study of a 14th-early 15thcentury manuscript (SHM, Chlud. 117). The method of a multispectral imaging and subsequent software processing of palimpsest digital images allows us to read four pages of this manuscript. They contain services of a small (selected) glagolitic Menaion of the 11thcentury, made in southwestern Bulgaria under the influence of south Italian Latin and Byzantine manuscripts. Unknown sticheras of old Bulgarian writers for the service of Michael the Archangel (8.11) were discovered and published.
Mr. Vynnyčenko’s Idle Hours of the Year 1918, or: The Art of Inoffensiveness (Panna Mara)
Get PDF1918 was a fateful year for Ukrainian nation builders, but also for Socialist Vynnyčenko, who since mid-1917 had tried to accredit the autonomy statute of the Central Rada through laborious – and finally abortive – negotiations with the Russian and Bolshevik governments. The comedy Panna Mara(Miss Mara) that Vynnyčenko jotted down in early 1918 in order to kill the boredom of one of his many railway trips between Kiev and Moscow, later appeared to him as an “inane little play” – a judgement which the present paper intends to challenge. Starting off as a satire of bourgeois life under revolutionary rule, Panna Marasoon quits the satirical mode. The scenic representation of rural Ukraine resulting from this shift is not downright idyllic; but the communication between the dramatis personae(and, especially, the encounter between owners and have-nots) shuns away from class struggle so definitely as to remind the spectator of a family concerned with solidarity only: in the world of Panna MaraUkraine is fundamentally reconciled with herself. The generic standards of comedy – the final restoration of harmony between people previously engaged in a harmless, amusing confrontation – coincide with a political program that Vynnyčenko, later in his life, designated as Concordism. This paper tries to show that Panna Maradiffers as much from the ingenuous solutions of this treatise as it avoids the bitter conclusions of Vynnyčenko’s book The Nation’s Renascence; the comedy addresses both the opening-up of modernity and the fraternal effort towards the nation. The play’s message, thus, is relevant to the literary scholar, but also to a politically enlightened public. The question of Ukrainian independence, controversial, nay, utopian in 1918, has found an unambiguous answer since the country, in the run-up to 2018, claimed an ultimate “farewell to the Empire”. Recent years, true, have shown that this parting could not be achieved like a short distance run, but it is clearly engaged. No one interested in the early moments of the ongoing ‘farewell’ will ignore Panna Mara– however “inane” the author himself may have considered his play.1918 was a fateful year for Ukrainian nation builders, but also for Socialist Vynnyčenko, who since mid-1917 had tried to accredit the autonomy statute of the Central Rada through laborious – and finally abortive – negotiations with the Russian and Bolshevik governments. The comedy Panna Mara(Miss Mara) that Vynnyčenko jotted down in early 1918 in order to kill the boredom of one of his many railway trips between Kiev and Moscow, later appeared to him as an “inane little play” – a judgement which the present paper intends to challenge. Starting off as a satire of bourgeois life under revolutionary rule, Panna Marasoon quits the satirical mode. The scenic representation of rural Ukraine resulting from this shift is not downright idyllic; but the communication between the dramatis personae(and, especially, the encounter between owners and have-nots) shuns away from class struggle so definitely as to remind the spectator of a family concerned with solidarity only: in the world of Panna MaraUkraine is fundamentally reconciled with herself. The generic standards of comedy – the final restoration of harmony between people previously engaged in a harmless, amusing confrontation – coincide with a political program that Vynnyčenko, later in his life, designated as Concordism. This paper tries to show that Panna Maradiffers as much from the ingenuous solutions of this treatise as it avoids the bitter conclusions of Vynnyčenko’s book The Nation’s Renascence; the comedy addresses both the opening-up of modernity and the fraternal effort towards the nation. The play’s message, thus, is relevant to the literary scholar, but also to a politically enlightened public. The question of Ukrainian independence, controversial, nay, utopian in 1918, has found an unambiguous answer since the country, in the run-up to 2018, claimed an ultimate “farewell to the Empire”. Recent years, true, have shown that this parting could not be achieved like a short distance run, but it is clearly engaged. No one interested in the early moments of the ongoing ‘farewell’ will ignore Panna Mara– however “inane” the author himself may have considered his play
Effect of cigarette smoke and treatment with relaxin on guinea pig skin
Get PDFCigarette smoking causes microvascular dysfunction and skin aging. Relaxin, primarily but not exclusively involved in reproduction, has connective tissue among its targets. Within a project on the interference of relaxin with the effects of smoke on guinea pigs, we examined the skin response to those stimuli. Adult guinea pigs were exposed to cigarette smoke daily for 8 weeks, and some of them were treated also with relaxin, 1 or 10 µg/die. Controls were treated with relaxin vehicle alone. The skin was analyzed by light and electron microscopy and histochemistry for mast cells and the collagen specific chaperonin Hsp47. The epidermis appeared unaffected by any treatment. In the superficial dermis, smoke led to a decrease in mast cell number and intensity of astra blue staining, suggestive of granule discharge. Relaxin caused further significant reduction in mast cell number. In the superficial and deep dermis, the staining intensity of Hsp47 positive cells, assumed as active fibroblasts, increased upon smoke. The staining intensity decreased gradually in the superficial dermis upon relaxin, reaching significance after treatment with 10 µg/die relaxin, while in the deep dermis it decreased significantly upon treatment with 1 µg/die relaxin and underwent further, significant increase with 10 µg/die relaxin. The results suggest that relaxin can enhance skin mast cell secretory response, possibly antagonizing nicotine induced vasoconstriction and, depending on dose and localization of responding cells, can counteract the profibrotic stimulus of smoke on dermal fibroblasts
Management of daily physical activity and diabetic foot prevention
No full textEven if physical activity plays a key role within diabetic foot treatment its use and the results obtained from this treatment seem to be still limited. Nowadays, new and even more advanced technologies for the long term daily physical activity monitoring are available and they are radically changing some aspects of physical activity such as its amount, features and monitoring. In spite of the past, the several electronic devices that are currently available can be integrated into routine care and provide essential information for management to both the healthcare providers and patients. In particular, since the end of the last century, an increasing number of studies have applied the movement monitoring to patients at risk or with history of ulceration. The questionnaires have been progressively replaced with modern technologies such as accelerometers or complex multisensory devices able to objectively measure the physical activity performed. The data collected through the use of such devices can allow a better assessment of patient’s condition and provide useful information for the definition of a more complete treatment protocol. Daily physical activity monitoring devices provide to the Diabetes Units information on the typology, quantity, distribution and intensity of the daily physical activity performed by each patient concurring to the prevention of foot ulcers that represent the most dreadful diabetes complications. The different functions and modes of operation of monitoring devices can be integrated to provide a more comprehensive and intelligent monitoring system that provide valuable information on patients’ ongoing health status and the physical activity performed during daily life. These devices can manage in real time or even in remote the physical activity performed in addition to calculate that to be performed in the following hours. As a result, they contribute to improve patients’ lifestyle and reduce the costs for the treatment of such complications. The aim of this review is to define and emphasize the role of a long term daily physical activity monitoring in the prevention of diabetic foot ulcers
Recensione. Ranieri Maria (ed.), Teoria e pratica delle new media literacies nella scuola. Roma: Aracne (2018)
Get PDFRecensione. Ranieri Maria (ed.), Teoria e pratica delle new media literacies nella scuola. Roma: Aracne (2018
Simulation of a mutual fund to stabilise the income of farms belonging to a dairy cooperative
Get PDFIn the last years, the high volatility of the dairy market has exposed farmers to a strong income risk, which is expected to increase. In this context, with the reg. (EU) 1305/2013, European Union tried to encourage the adoption of risk management tools such as insurance, mutual funds and the Income Stabilisation Tool (IST). The IST is a mutual fund that compensates farmers for severe income losses, but nowadays it is still very little applied. The reform of reg. (EU) 1305/2013 by the so-called Omnibus Regulation, introduced relevant innovation allowing for sector-specific IST, a reduced threshold (20%) and the use of indexes. The simulation of a sector-specific IST under Omnibus Regulation is performed on 167 farms belonging to a dairy cooperative in Veneto Region (Italy)