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THE CHURCH OF SAN FANTIN IN VENICE: DIGITAL MODELING, ARCHIVAL RESEARCH, AND THE REUSE OF ANCIENT MARBLES
No full textThe church of San Fantin in Venice embodies the city’s architectural and historical evolution,
with its origins in the High Middle Ages still uncertain. This article explores the church’s
transformation through a multidisciplinary approach, combining digital modeling, material
analysis, and archival research. Carlotta Zaramella reconstructs San Fantin’s architectural
phases using a Building Information Modeling (BIM) model. Myriam Pilutti Namer analyzes
the phenomenon of reused materials in Venice, with particular focus on the types of ancient
marbles incorporated into the church’s fabric. Giulia A.B. Bordi investigates medieval material
evidence and archival records of the baptismal font and the holy water stoup
Challenging implicit gender stereotypes in Italian news through language
No full textThis paper investigates gender stereotypes in Italian news by analyzing statistical representations provided by Word Embeddings of a sample of occupational names and political titles. The findings demonstrate that journalistic language encodes gender associations, which reflect both societal gender inequalities and socio-cultural biases. Further analysis explores the role of Italian grammar, indicating that the Italian gender-marked grammatical system can contribute to mitigating stereotypes, although it cannot completely eliminate them. Based on these findings, the article highlights the importance of computational linguistics tools in identifying latent biases in news language and recognizes journalism's fundamental role in promoting gender-fair language
On (in)definite ART in Italian and Italo-Romance varieties
No full textThis paper addresses the challenging nature of definiteness and indefiniteness,
focusing on several non-canonical interpretations of the definite article
(ART) in Italian. The core objective is to demonstrate that so-called “indefinite definites”
should be unified with canonical indefinites, rather than being grouped with
other non-canonical uses like “weak definites” (WDs) or “reference to kind”. Using
cross-Romance diagnostics, the paper shows that ART-indefinites—which are
exclusive to Italian—are fundamentally different from WDs, which are attested
cross-linguistically. Unlike WDs, which often involve singular count nouns, are
lexically marked, and sensitive to modification restrictions, ART-indefinites are
restricted to mass and plural count nouns and appear broadly in verb-object combinations
without modification restrictions. Structurally, ART-indefinites are unified
with bare nouns and partitive determiners (di+ART), forming four possible indefinite
nominal expressions in Italian. This variation is analysed as resulting from the
overt or covert realisation of the indefinite operator (di/ de) in SpecDP and nominal
features (ART) in D. Analysis of informal Italian and Italo-Romance varieties confirms
that ART-indefinites correlate with weak indefinites and compete with bare
nouns. Ultimately, the study supports the hypothesis that the so-called “definite
article” in Italian realises nominal features (gender, number, and abstract Case) at
the morphosyntactic level, implying that its semantic interpretations are often independent
of it
K-operator as a predictor for Alzheimer-Perusini's disease
No full textProgressive memory loss occurring in age-related neurological diseases contributes to the disgregation of the individual, with serious personal and social consequences. We model the brain network damage provoked by a neurological disease through a physics-inspired mathematical operator, K. Acting on a diseased brain, K provides the disease time evolution. Focusing on Alzheimer-Perusini's disease (AD), we approximate the K-operator considering selected patients of the ADNI 2 dataset. We also propose K as a predictor for the disease progress over time and give its preliminary evaluation in the AD progression from the cognitive normal (CN) stage to AD through intermediate mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stages
Spatiotemporal characterisation of underwater noise through semantic trajectories
Get PDFUnderwater noise pollution from human activities, particularly shipping, has been recognised as a serious threat to marine life. The sound generated by vessels can have various adverse effects on fish and aquatic ecosystems in general. In this setting, the estimation and analysis of the underwater noise produced by vessels is an important challenge for the preservation of the marine environment. In this paper we propose a model for the spatiotemporal characterisation of the underwater noise generated by vessels. The approach is based on the reconstruction of the vessels’ trajectories from Automatic Identification System (AIS) data and on their deployment in a spatiotemporal database. Trajectories are enriched with semantic information like the acoustic characteristics of the vessels’ engines or the activity performed by the vessels. We define a model for underwater noise propagation and use the trajectories’ information to infer how noise propagates in the area of interest. We develop our approach for the case study of the fishery activities in the Northern Adriatic Sea, an area of the Mediterranean Sea which is well known to be highly exploited. We implement our approach using MobilityDB, an open source geospatial trajectory data management and analysis platform, which offers spatiotemporal operators and indices improving the efficiency of our system. We use this platform to conduct various analyses of the underwater noise generated in the Northern Adriatic Sea, aiming at estimating the impact of fishing activities on underwater noise pollution and at demonstrating the flexibility and expressiveness of our approach
Diegoli E. Tim Wharton, & Louis De Saussure, Pragmatics and Emotion.
No full textWithin pragmatics, emotions have long been marginalised because they were thought to be too intangible to be captured in propositional terms, and only recently have researchers begun to recognise their role in human cognitive processes and social behaviour. Pragmatics and Emotion makes a valuable contribution to linguistics and affective sciences alike by offering one of the first in-depth studies on the role of emotions from the perspective of pragmatic theories.
The book consists of one introductory chapter, followed by seven chapters that first provide the readers with some historical and theoretical background, and then offer an original perspective that accounts for the role of emotion in the process of meaning production and inferencing
Pottery as an Indicator of Mountain Landscape Exploitation: An Example from the Northern Pindos Range of Western Macedonia (Greece)
Get PDFSurveys and excavations carried out between 2004 and 2019 around the Vlach town of Samarina, in the Pindos Mountains of Western Macedonia (Greece), have yielded potsherds that can be attributed to different historical periods. The data collected so far suggest a long human presence in this region of the northern Pindos spanning from the Middle Pleistocene to the late Middle Ages. The ceramic fragments from the Historical Camp (HC), Kirkouri (KRK), the Holy Cross Church (SMC), Mt. Anitsa (Anitsa), Avgo (VGO), the Mirminda Pass (VLC), Mt. Vasilitsa (VSL), and the saddle between Mts. Bogdhani and Gurguliu have been studied in detail. Despite their fragmentary state, a database has been created with themorphological and typological characteristics of the potsherds and the sites from which they were retrieved. Coarse and fine ware potsherds have been identified. According to their manufacturing characteristics, they can be
attributed to different Roman and medieval periods. A diassarion of the Larissa mint shows that connections between the mountain highlands and the lowlands were already active during the period of Emperor Augustus. The Samarina potsherds are probably related to the movements of Vlach shepherds, who spent long periods in these mountains with their flocks. This impression is confirmed by the presence of one vessel wall fragment which was directly in contact with fire and a few small vessel bases. The presence of ceramic vases is closely linked to the transportation of primary or secondary food supplies in a pre-cooked form or as liquids. We know that Vlach shepherds, as many other groups of Eurasian shepherds, never manufactured ceramic vessels even in their villages. Instead, they used different types of wooden and metal containers for cooking, drinking, and other tasks associated with pastoral activities, such as keeping milk and
making cheese and butter, for example. Following these observations, our aim has been to define the vessel types used by the Vlach shepherds, which exhibit some kind of uniformity from the Roman to the Middle Ages
Kingendai Nihon o ikiru tekusuto isan. Mono x eii x sekai 近現代日本を生きるテクスト遺産 モノ×営為×世界
No full textIl volume raccoglie contributi di 18 studiosi di varie discipline, dalla letteratura alla storia dell'arte all'archeologia ai museum studies, che si confrontano con il concetto di "textual heritage" relativo al contesto del Giappone moderno e contemporaneo.The volume brings together contributions from 18 scholars from various disciplines, ranging from literature to art history, archaeology, and museum studies, who engage with the concept of “textual heritage” in relation to the context of modern and contemporary Japan
Cittadinanza
No full textIl termine su cui intendiamo qui soffermarci è “cittadinanza”: lo si farà innanzitutto circoscrivendone il senso in riferimento alla sua etimologia, per poi verificare la tenuta del significato (la faccia interna del segno) rispetto al processo di storicizzazione a cui il significante (la faccia esterna, l’elemento formale) naturalmente è soggetto. Lo scopo non è quello di confermare o di destituire il contenuto espressivo per come rilevato, ma di considerare adeguatamente i processi osmotici che ogni lemma intrattiene con l’ambiente in un preciso momento culturalmente,
socialmente, economicamente connotato e, se occorre, contribuire a qualificarlo di conseguenza, in un susseguirsi di operazioni di confinamento e di sconfinamento pensate ora come esercizio di resistenza, ora come forma di resa alla sua magmatica complessità
Law and Environment: Ecocide and the Rights of Nature
No full textThis handbook is an interdisciplinary introduction to the Anthropocene, the epoch in which the combined impact of humans
and their technologies on the Earth system is comparable to that of natural forces. To more concretely consider the historical,
political, and epistemological conditions behind the Anthropocene, the handbook takes the water city of Venice, along with its
cultural–natural ecology, as the paradigm of the ongoing geoanthropological transformation of the planet. In connection with
the educational program of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the con-
tributions herein reflect environmental humanities research, with an emphasis on hydrosociology, supported by the UNITWIN/
UNESCO Chair on Water Heritage and Sustainable Development and the NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities. The hand-
book contains a series of lessons, in which scholars with different backgrounds and disciplinary training examine the historical
development of the human–nature relationship from multiple comparative perspectives. Unit One (four lessons) offers an over-
view of Anthropocene Venice, ranging from a discussion of riverine and aquatic mythologies to the history of water science and
management, from antiquity to the industrial age. Unit Two (three lessons) deals with the general question of the Anthropocene,
the genealogies of the concept, and its articulation as a problem of oversight and knowledge economy, including artistic vistas
(e.g., bird’s-eye view, vedute, and aerial photography). Unit Three (three lessons) is a comparative discussion of water cities – Ven-
ice, Tenochtitlán, and Bangkok – against the background of hydrophilia, the lasting connection between humans and aquatic
environments in history. Unit Four (four lessons) explores the cultural politics of the Anthropocene, with a special emphasis on
the following issues: the social underpinnings of science and technology, the mission of eco-artistic movements, resistance to the
extractivism of material resources and cultural commons, and the struggles for the rights of nature against ecocide