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Communiqués de presse AXA en français et en italien: quelques stratégies argumentatives du discours spécialisé et du discours promotionnel
Get PDFThis study aims at characterising the corporate press releases of the Axa Group of Insurance according to his principal website in French and English and his localised website in Italian between September 2022 and September 2023. The paper identifies a set of linguistic strategies typical of the genre and their actualisation in the two selected corpora and links them to communicative purpose as well as to the envisioned audience. For each corpus analyses of the visual and textual contents were carried out. The argumentative analysis of press releases’s titles and quotations demonstrate the intention of consolidate the positive image of reliability of the Group as well as his promotional aim
The Navy of the Republic of Genoa in the Context of Mediterranean Military Renewal (16th-17th Centuries)
Get PDFThe concept of Military Revolution has provided the accepted paradigm for the understanding of transformations occurring in the Mediterranean scenario, in the 16th and 17th century, especially as regards the rise of large, public, galley fleets (in Spain, Venice, and the Ottoman Empire). When the particulars of each instance are taken into account on their own merits (beyond matters of sails and cannons), the consensus is that a broad modernization of techniques, logistics, and tactics did also occur in Mediterranean warfare, in strict relation to the development and flourishing of the chief players in the area (and of their respective land armies). The peculiarity of Genoa is, in the first place, the vast disproportion between its eminence as a geo-political and economic entity and its relatively diminutive public fleet and land army, which were no way near matching the Republic of Venice. Is Genoa, then, an instance of a failed (or embryonic, at most) military revolution? To accept the commonplace of an intrinsic backwardness of the Genoese Republic, and extend it to the military domain too, would be to disregard the massive contribution of la Superba to the prosperity of its ally, Spain, and to the history of Mediterranean armaments. Beyond the weight of the contracts secured by Genoese asientistas, one need look for no further counterexamples than the importance of harbours all along the Liguria coast within the Spanish route outlined by Parker. The dispute over naval rearmament and over its costs and prospective benefits, in fact, divided the Genoese ruling class throughout most of the 1600s. This article examines: 1. the matter largely from the perspective of the coeval debate and illustrates the extent to which stakeholders were conscious of the demands of warfare modernization to meet the trends afoot in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, based on such unpublished documents as the anonymous Trattato delle armi marittime genovesi (Treatise on Genoese maritime armaments, 17th century); 2. the bombardment of Genoa, carried out by Louis XIV’s fleet, in 1684. At that time, Genoa realised all too well that naval warfare had radically and profoundly changed, and had to face the adverse reaction of France (i.e. dynamics of global strategy)
Technological innovation and search for consensus: the Italian Wars (1521-1559)
Get PDFThe essay reconsiders the Military Revolution theory, in the light of the most recent studies dedicated to the exchange of favour and service between sovereign power and the elite, to the imperial systems and to the dynamics in the relations between centres of power and between interest groups within polycentric monarchies during the early modern age. In particular, the argumentation focuses on the attrition war between the Habsburgs and the Valois for hegemony on the Italian peninsula, confirming the validity of Geoffrey Parker’s thesis. For the great monarchies struggling for supremacy in the Euro-Mediterranean area, the resort to new and expensive offensive and defensive technologies was a stimulus to seek their subjects’ consensus, by encouraging great nobles to join the patronage network of the sovereign, and by strengthening and articulating those formal structures (the court and the financial and judicial bureaucracy) which made it possible to mediate internal conflicts and to coordinate elites’ contribution to the war effort
Itinerari storiografici tra Europa e femminismo. Identità, soggetti, emozioni: Luisa Passerini e Rosi Braidotti a confronto
Get PDFThe history of women, women’s studies, gender history have proposed some of the most significant contributions of contemporary historiography in recent decades, outlining an original research path, also concerning the discourse aboutEurope. Feminism does not fully coincide with these studies, but rather seems to operate in the ethical dimension, urging the recognition of specific instances and issues in historical research. Luisa Passerini has played a central and longstanding role in the debate on Europe that has taken place within the various twists and turns of historiography in recent decades. Themes and studies that have often intersected with those of Rosi Braidotti, enabling an intellectual exchange that has resulted in a significant epistemological depth, which this contribution seeks to account for
The influence of slope damage on the kinematics of landslides
No full textThe stability of large rock slopes is controlled by geological, structural, geomorphic, and environmental factors, which define the location, size, and failure mechanism of landslides. However, the stability of a slope can change with time, as a result of the formation and accumulation of slope damage, which weakens the rock mass forming the slope or the rupture surface of the incipient landslide. In this paper, we review three landslide sites, analysing the characteristics of the slope damage, and highlighting its effects on the kinematics of the slope and the evolution of the landslide. We note that, despite the importance of slope damage in controlling the timing and evolution of a slope failure, no frameworks or guidelines currently exist for performing a consistent and systematic analysis. We also emphasize that interdisciplinary approaches should be developed to assist in the quantification and characterization of rock slope damage
Structural health of a road tunnel intersecting a large and active rock-block slide
No full textThis work presents the case study of the San Lorenzo road tunnel, a linear infrastructure located in Friuli Venezia Giulia, northern Italy, affected by the so-called Passo della Morte landslide. This slope instability phenomenon has caused several problems since the beginning of the tunnel construction works, like water seepage and concrete lining detachments, increasing the safety risk for road users. Due to these circumstances, numerous studies have been conducted and a monitoring system has been developed since 2014 to control the ongoing situation of the most damaged portions of the road tunnel. Building on the monitoring data, studies and knowledge accumulated over the years, this paper describes the work done to trace back the sum of landslide-induced stresses directly responsible for the current damages on the tunnel. The first steps taken in this direction have included an adequate representation of the crack pattern on the tunnel vault. This has been used both as an initial goal and as a means of validation in the development of a finite element model. From the latter, it will be possible to infer the landslide-induced stress combination mentioned earlier
A new population of Rosalia longicorn, Rosalia alpina, in Calabria (Southern Italy) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
No full textThe Rosalia longicorn is a species of European Community interest, included in Annexes II and IV of the “Habitats” Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora) and is included in the “Red List of Italian saproxylic beetles”. In Calabria (Southern Italy), Rosalia alpina was apparently distributed only in the National Parks. We discuss about the discovery of a new population of Rosalia alpina (Linnaeus, 1758) in a mountainous area of Calabria called Catena Costiera, which is located between two National Parks and constitutes an important wildlife exchange corridor
Pay As You Drive Insurance and Chrono-Urbanism: time as a strategic variable
No full textWithin the general class of Pay As You Drive car insurance policies, in this work we propose a Time-Based policy, in which the car use is measured in terms of time spent driving. In particular, we explain how time-based ratemaking can contribute to a better personalization of the premium, with consequent advantages for the insurance company and the policyholder, but at the same time it can represent a useful nudging tool to reduce dependence on cars and can contribute to the achievement of the goals of sustainable mobility, and therefore environmental sustainability, of modern chrono-urbanism models. We also show the results of an analysis carried out on mobility data from the city of Rome which provide some initial information on the link between time and risk, useful both for pricing these policies and for identifying their potential market target and the infrastructural and behavioral aspects that can influence their effective use as an incentive and stimulus for a more aware use of transport means
Christophers Brett, Rentier capitalism: who own the economy, and who pays for it?, Verso, 2020, pp. 512
Get PDFUna rivoluzione militare? Scenari dalle vicende degli antichi Stati italiani
Get PDFMuch has changed in historiography since the English historian Michael Roberts, in the mid-1950s, coined the category of the military revolution. Roberts’s military revolution was a “restricted” version, destined to be superseded by a “larger” version by Geoffrey Parker in the 1970s and 1980s. The late 1980s were also those in which in Italy there was a metamorphosis in the reference models of academic military historiography, which began to fill several gaps. In this perspective and in closer dialogue with international historiography, the role of the ancient Italian states in military modernization has been studied by declining other variables with respect to sails, cannons and fortresses, on which the paradigm of the military revolution was based.
The complex and varied social structure according to the territories, the relationship between professionalization and the survival of clientele, the dialectic between regular armaments and militias: these are just some of the factors that have diluted the concept of military revolution in space and time, identifying in the Italian pre-unification states undoubted factors of innovation (to be read, however, in a plot played on a wider stage, Mediterranean or continental), but also factors of permanence that go beyond the traditional periodization of the modern age. Not by chance, the military historiography of recent decades has contributed to rediscover the centuries of the late Middle Ages and the seventeenth century, fundamental for understanding a long ancient regime rather than a revolution linked to innovations ascribable, from time to time, to Italians, Swiss, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, French