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Anaciclosi. Sguardi sul centro antico di Napoli
No full textIl Centro Antico di Napoli, realtà complessa, intricata, difficilmente descrivibile, ha una sua anaciclosi. La sua è un’evoluzione che ciclicamente ritorna alla sua fase di origine, nella sua forma primordiale, originaria, e da questa trae spunto per il suo sviluppo, per la sua rigenerazione e il suo sostentamento.
Il volume propone diversi approcci di lettura a questa realtà. Sguardi sensibili sono accompagnati a letture più sistematiche della composizione urbana, descrizioni rese sempre nella consapevolezza che unico imprescindibile maestro resti la città costruita. Vengono indagati i temi prevalenti all’interno del complesso manufatto urbano cercando di cogliere, nella sostanza del costruito, dove potrebbe risiedere quella qualità senza nome spesso evocata, dell’architettura della città. Il Centro Antico di Napoli si rivela così come un archivio mobile, incontenibile, errante, dove ciascun dettaglio architettonico o vicenda umana ad esso intrecciatosi sembra reclamare un naturale diritto di rappresentazione, uno spazio nella memoria prima individuale e poi collettiva
Turin Shroud: Etiology of Jesus Christ’s Death for Infarction Followed by Hemopericardium
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Commentary on “Did Jesus Die of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy? A Medical Revisiting of the Gospels
No full textInformed by Emanuela Marinelli, whom the authors thank,
the following observation seems appropriate in reference
to two very recent papers not in full agreement with
each other. There are two possible etiologies for the death
of Jesus: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and/or stress-induced
heart disease.
Ref.1 hypothesizes Takotsubo pathology 4,5 as the etiology
for the death of Jesus. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a
particular non-ischemic pathology still not fully understood,
is much more frequent in elderly women and often it is of
a transitory nature. It resembles a heart attack but does not
have lesions to the coronary arteries nor to the heart and
leads to a ballooning of the left ventricle, with a widened
base and a narrow neck similar to the Japanese octopus trap.
It is considered a partial paralysis of the left ventricle of the
heart.
Ref.2, based on results of Ref.3, hypothesizes that Jesus,
already during the Last Supper, was suffering from stressinduced
heart disease (the neuroendocrine system increases
the production of catecholamines and cortisol causing an
increase in blood pressure and heart rate leading to spasms
of the arterial vessels) which produces myocardial infarction
even in the absence of coronary obstructions and dyslipidemia.
These spasms, that also occur in young individuals,
produce myocardial necrosis, and in the present case, likely
resulted in cardiac tamponade from hemopericardium as the
cause of death.6,7
In fact, Jesus likely began to develop this stress induced
heart disease when, about twenty hours before His death, He
was in the Cenacle next to Judas, the traitor. This pathology
continued to develop during the hematohidrosis in the Gethsemane
and later when He was beaten, scourged (with more
than 370 wounds), crowned with thorns, when He carried the
heavy cross on Mount Calvary and was crucified.
The very high frequency of heartbeats due to stress,
accentuated by tonic and clonic contractions, hypovolemia,
orthostatic collapse and uremia likely caused a significant
effusion of blood into the pericardial cavity producing hemopericardium
from ruptured myocardium with subsequent
congestive cardiac tamponade and immediate death after a
strong chest pain.
This is also in accordance with the Bible account: "With a
loud cry, Jesus breathed his last." (Mark 15:37, New International
Version). The Bible also states that “Instead, one
of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a
sudden flow of blood and water.” (John 19:34). This is in
accordance with the blood contained in the hemopericardial
sac decanted after a few hours from death when the red
corpuscular part of the blood settled on the bottom leaving
the serous part at the top. The spear that perforated the pericardium
from below caused the outflow of "blood" first and
"water" (the serum) later. Thus, stress-induced heart disease
may also be an etiology for Jesus’ death
Abitare il centro antico di Napoli: tre strategie per piazza Miraglia
No full textLa pubblicazione raccoglie i materiali prodotti in occasione di due eventi:
1) il workshop internazionale di progettazione architettonica "Abitare il Panier - Marseille", organizzato dal Politecnico di Torino, svolto nel 2016 con la collaborazione dell'ENSA di Marseille e presentato in una giornata di studi a Torino nel maggio 2016;
2) il workshop "Scale up! Design workshop compactness, density, intensity" organizzato con il Dipartimento di Architettura di Napoli , svolto a Napoli nel 2017 e ivi presentato nel settembre 2017
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