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Lettere sulla cavalleria e il romance di Richard Hurd. Introduzione, traduzione e note di Laura Bandiera
No full textLetters on Chivalry and Romance (1762) è l’opera di un critico neoclassico – Richard Hurd – impegnato coi suoi stessi strumenti ad abbattere i pregiudizi classicisti. All’apparenza informale, in realtà sorvegliatissimo, questo scritto di Hurd è quindi un tour de force argomentativo e ironico inteso ad agire su più fronti: l’emancipazione dall’egemonia classicista e dal gusto francese; la valorizzazione del patrimonio letterario nazionale; la creazione di una categoria storico-estetica – il ‘gotico’, ovvero il ‘sublime’ – utile a riabilitare l’antico non meno che ad assecondare la sensibilità moderna. Hurd rivaluta capolavori al tempo negletti quali la Gerusalemme Liberata di Tasso e, ancor più, The Faerie Queene di Spenser, indicandoli come grandi realizzazioni artistiche che aprono la strada alla modernità. Letters on Chivalry and Romance è quindi un’opera sottile e provocatoria che prepara la grande svolta culturale verso il Romanticismo, toccando questioni ancora cruciali quali la nozione di genere letterario, la tradizione sottesa a un’opera d’arte, la relazione tra letteratura e società. Il volume a cura di Laura Bandiera presenta il testo di Hurd in traduzione italiana e, per la prima volta, in un’edizione annotata comprensiva di un’ampia introduzione
Did the Noble Savage Have a Woman? Exoticism and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century Novels on North-America
No full text'In Days of Yore How Fortunately Fared the Minstrel': A Cultural Geneaology of Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads
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Study of coherent interactions between charged particle beams and crystals for beam steering and intense electromagnetic radiation generation
Full text linkThe work presented in this thesis has been devoted to the investigation of new
schemes for beam steering and high-intense electromagnetic radiation generation through
coherent interactions of charged particle beams with crystals. A series of experiments was
carried out in two different laboratories, i.e., the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN
in Geneve and the MAinzer MIkrotron (MAMI) of the University of Mainz in Germany, by
different international and national collaborations, namely the UA9 experiment., the
European CUTE project and the INFN COHERENT and ICE-RAD experiments. The
experimental data have been analysed and critically compared with simulations.
First of all, the possibility of combining the efficient deflection and the intense
electromagnetic radiation production of ultrarelativistic electrons through channeling or
volume reflection in bent silicon crystals was investigated. Interesting results were
obtained in a wide range of beam energies, spanning from 0.855 GeV available at MAMI
to hundreds of GeV accessible at the H4 extracted beamline of SPS. It has been
demonstrated the possibility to use bent crystals for efficient deflection of electron beams
in the subGeV energy range. This range of energies was still unexplored due to the lack of
properly sized bent crystal for negative beams steering. Secondly, it has been shown that
the radiation accompanying single (VR) and multiple (MVROC) volume reflection in a bent
crystal has peculiar characteristics, such as higher intensity than for bremsstrahlung in an
amorphous material and a wide angular acceptance, that make this kind of radiation quite
interesting for applications. On the very high-energy side, crystal-aided collimation through
radiation accompanying VR and MVROC has been proposed for the future electronpositron
colliders, e.g., the International Linear Collider. On the other hand, in the subGeVGeV
energy range, which is accessible by most electron accelerators worldwide, the
radiation accompanying VR can be exploited as an high-intensity X- or γ-sourse with poor
emittance beams.
In addition to the studies carried out with electrons, the investigation of new
schemes for manipulation of charged beams trajectories was carried out at the H8
beamline of SPS with the usage of 400 GeV/c protons. Firstly, a periodically bent crystal
was realized via the superficial grooving method and tested at the H8 line. The
effectiveness of this method in achieving perfectly periodic structures was demonstrated.
On the strength of these results, it has been proposed to test the crystal sample as a
positron-based crystalline undulator in the energy range of 10-20 GeV, as a source of
intense MeV photons. Finally, it has been experimentally demonstrated that even a
straight crystal, i.e., a crystal mirror, may be used for the steering of ultrarelativistic protons
in place of a bent crystal. Unlike the traditional scheme relying on mm-long curved
crystals, particle mirroring enables beam steering in high-energy accelerators via
interactions with μm-thin straight crystal. The main advantage of mirroring is the interaction
with a minimal amount of material along the beam, thereby decreasing unwanted nuclear
interactions.
Summarizing, all the experimental studies presented in this thesis lead us to
consider crystals, either bent or unbent, as reliable tools in particle accelerator physics for
different applications within a wide energy range
"The strangely-complicated subject of Italian politics": l'imprevedibile Mrs Trollope di A Visit to Italy (1842) e la questione italiana
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Wordsworth's Ariosto: Translation as Metatext and Misreading
No full textDopo la prima traduzione inglese di John Harington, tre versioni complete dell’Orlando Furioso furono pubblicate fra il 1755 e il 1823: la prima di William Huggins, la seconda di John Hoole (1783), l’ultima ad opera di William Stewart Rose. Il saggio ‘Wordsworth’s Ariosto: Translation as Metatext and Misreading’ prende in esame questi lavori ed esplora le strategie testuali e paratestuali adottate dai traduttori a fronte delle valutazioni contraddittorie riservate al poema ariostesco. In particolare, il saggio si sofferma sulla traduzione – sorprendentemente mal riuscita – data da William Wordsworth di un frammento del Canto I (risalente al novembre 1802). Alla luce della poetica e della poesia di Wordsworth, il frammento rivela un atteggiamento ambivalente verso il romance e il poema di Ariosto, più ampiamente documentato dal libro V di The Prelude (scritto nel 1804) e Peter Bell (nelle versioni 1798 e 1806). E’ ricostruendo la sottile dialettica fra ‘romance of tradition’ e ‘romance of the mind’ o, più in generale, fra ‘dipendenza’ ed ‘emancipazione’ dalla grande tradizione letteraria, che si può giungere a riconoscere nella traduzione deludente di Wordsworth un gesto di inconsapevole ‘mislettura’, una involontaria parodia dell’originale e di Ariosto, per Wordsworth – alla fin fine – grande maestro e precursore
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