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The first English translation of Dei delitti e delle pene. A question of sources and modifications
Get PDFUnlike the first French translation, which has received adequate scholarly attention, the first English translation, printed in London in 1767 for the Whig bookseller, journalist and advocate for the freedom of the press John Almon, has as yet been neglected by research. Following on from my previous essay, which investigated the editorial and political contexts, this study focuses on the translated text, enquiring about its sources and faithfulness to the original. Indeed, a collation with one of the two Italian sixth editions (1766) and with Morellet’s version (dated 1766, but printed on 28 December 1765) revealed that this text, which was the main channel for the dissemination of Beccaria’s ideas in the English speaking world, used both the Italian original and the French version as sources. In addition and most strikingly, the collation also showed that the translation contains modifications of significant passages, which appear in neither source. The present article interprets changes introduced in chapter II (“Of the Right to Punish”) and in chapter XXVIII (“Of the Punishment of Death”). They intervene surprisingly on passages whose interpretation is still debated among present day scholars
Hacerse vulnerable: recorrido crítico y de género de una investigadora entre América del Sur y Europa
Get PDFInterrogating migration and “illegality”: weaving ethical and epistemological concerns in a research process
Get PDFGlobal Intellectual History: Some Reflections on Recent Publications
Get PDFAnn Thomson is Professor of Intellectual History at the European University Institute. She works on the intellectual history of the long Eighteenth Century, in particular on the ‘natural history of man’ and the circulation of ideas and cultural exchange. Recent works include The Enlightenment in Scotland: National and International Perspectives, edited with Jean-François Dunyach (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2015), L’âme des Lumières (Seyssel: Champvallon, 2013), Cultural Transfers: France and Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited with Simon Burrows and Edmond Dziembowski (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010), and Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
Healing, Translating, Collecting. Doctor Michelangelo Tilli across the Ottoman Empire (1683–85)
Get PDFThe article is based on the correspondence between doctor Michelangelo Tilli, the secretary of Granduke Cosimo III de’Medici in Florence and doctor Francesco Redi head physician at the Medici Court and a leading scientist in Europe. Michelangelo Tilli (1655-1750) a young physician graduated from the university of Pisa, between 1683 and 1685 travelled to the Ottoman Empire with the official charge of treating Mustafa pasha “Mussaip”, grand admiral of the Turkish fleet and son in law of Sultan Mehmed IV. It was a relevant diplomatic and political move to send a promising physician to treat the Pasha during the crucial military campaign of the Turks in Central Europe against the Holy League while Christian armies were confronting the last Ottoman attack to Vienna and Hungary. From Istanbul Tilli travelled to Belgrade and back, while the Ottomans were at war with the Hapsburg Empire. The catastrophic consequences of the siege of Vienna in September 1683 resonate in his letters and reports, to date unpublished among the literature on these events. Tilli’s letters intersect political and diplomatic information with medical therapy, botanical observation and the search for antiquities, showing the plurality of functions performed by early modern medical practitioners across imperial boundaries
Cosmic Rays: the salt of the star formation recipe
Get PDFA three-day workshop entitled “Cosmic Rays: the salt of the star formation recipe” was held at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Florence. The proposed workshop had the goal of bringing together experts in theory and simulations of cosmic-ray propagation, astrochemists, and observers to share ideas, discuss recent and present results, and identify the key challenges regarding the chemistry and physics of cosmic rays in the near future.A three-day workshop entitled “Cosmic Rays: the salt of the star formation recipe” was held at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Florence. The proposed workshop had the goal of bringing together experts in theory and simulations of cosmic-ray propagation, astrochemists, and observers to share ideas, discuss recent and present results, and identify the key challenges regarding the chemistry and physics of cosmic rays in the near future
Agenda 2030, social and work inclusion even for people with intellectual disability: ecological social and human approach
Get PDFOne of the most significant challenges for education and training of youth and adults with intellectual or complex disability deals with searching for generally accepted concepts underlying social and work inclusion.This article refers to an ecological social and human approach. Furthermore it investigates on the perspective of social and work inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities based on the main contemporary international inputs according (UN, 2006; 2015; 2018). Agenda 2030, inclusione sociale e lavorativa anche per le persone con disabilità intellettiva: approccio ecologico sociale e umanoUna delle sfide più significative per la formazione dei giovani e degli adulti con disabilità intellettiva o complessa consiste nella ricerca di approcci condivisi sottesi all’inclusione sociale e lavorativa.Il presente contributo analizza, secondo un approccio ecologico sociale ed umano, la prospettiva dell’inclusione sociale e lavorativa delle persone con disabilità intellettiva, alla luce delle principali indicazioni internazionali contemporanee (UN, 2006; 2015; 2018)
The employability potential of young disabled adults in Campania: negotiation between resources and obstacles
Get PDFWe have chosen to use a descriptive research design in order to investigate the employability potential of 200 young adults (18-30 years old) with different kinds of disability living in Campania. Within the selected sample, we have further selected and interviewed 20 young adults who are engaged in working activities, in order to identify the resources they have mobilized and the facilitators used to support their functioning in order to be included in a working context. The research results show how young disabled adults living in Campania require to be supported in the development of their employability potential with interventions that should be focused in particular on the area of guidance , using pathways and tools aimed at supporting their capacity to design their own life and professional project in a more inclusive way, taking into account the resources available and the contextual barriers. Il potenziale di occupabilità di giovani adulti disabili in Campania: negoziazione tra risorse e ostacoliSi è scelto di utilizzare un disegno di ricerca di ricerca esplorativo- descrittivo per indagare il potenziale di occupabilità di 200 giovani adulti (18-30 anni) con diversi tipi di disabilità che vivono in Campania. Nell’ambito del campione abbiamo ulteriormente selezionato e intervistato 20 giovani adulti impegnati in attività lavorative, con lo scopo di identificare le risorse che hanno mobilitato e i facilitatori utilizzati per supportare il loro funzionamento al fine di essere inclusi in un contesto lavorativo. I risultati della ricerca mostrano come i giovani adulti disabili che vivono in Campania necessitano di essere supportati nello sviluppo del loro potenziale di occupabilità con interventi focalizzati in particolare sull'area dell’ orientamento, utilizzando percorsi e strumenti volti a sostenere la loro capacità di progettare la propria vita e il progetto professionale in modo più inclusivo tenendo conto delle risorse disponibili e degli ostacoli contestuali.
The Structure of non-traditional students’ motives for entering higher education
Get PDFThis study uses secondary data analysis to investigate the motives behind non-traditional students starting university studies. The data were collected during the first part of a longitudinal on-line survey conducted at Masaryk University amongst first-year students attending all of the university’s bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes. The Academic Motivation Scale was the tool used in the original research to explore the university students’ reasons for beginning their studies. A sub-sample of the primary study population, adult students 26 years of age or older who had taken a break from their educational trajectories, were identified as non-traditional students. We found that the hierarchy of non-traditional students’ motives for entering higher education diverged from the hierarchy of the rest of the sample. Struttura delle motivazioni degli studenti non tradizionali per accedere allo studio universitarioQuesto studio esamina le motivazioni degli studenti non tradizionali per accedere allo studio universitario sulla base di un’analisi secondaria dei dati. I dati provengono dal primo ciclo di ricerca a lungo termine dell’Università Masaryk effettuato tra gli studenti dei primi anni di tutti i programmi di laurea di primo e di secondo livello. Lo strumento di ricerca è stato il questionario AMS (Academic Motivation Scale), utilizzato per esaminare i motivi per i quali gli studenti universitari intraprendono il loro percorso di studi. Ai fini del nostro studio abbiamo considerato come studenti non tradizionali gli studenti di 26 anni o di età superiore che nel loro percorso di studi hanno sperimentato una qualche interruzione. La ricerca ha evidenziato come la gerarchia delle motivazioni che spingono gli studenti non tradizionali ad accedere allo studio universitario è diversa da quella che spinge il resto del campione di studenti universitari.