614 research outputs found
Lucio Fauno: “Alli lettori”, in: Delle antichità della citta di Roma, raccolte e scritte da M. Lucio Fauno con somma brevità, et ordine, con quanto gli Antichi ò Moderni scritto ne hanno, Libri V. (Venezia 1548) (FONTES 13)
No full textAt the end of his book, 'Delle antichità della città di Roma' (Venezia 1548), the author, Lucio Fauno, appends a postscript in which he addresses his readers (“Alli Lettori”) concerning a then bitter controversy about the correct location of the Roman Forum. In contrast to a widely-held view that located the Forum between the Capitoline Hill and the Arch of Titus, Pirro Ligorio, and his friends, Gabriele Faerno and Benedetto Egio, advocated a position that relocated the Forum between the Capitoline Hill and the Palatine. This contradicted the prevailing consensus, as it was established in the Topographia Antiquae Romae (1534) of Bartolomeo Marliani. Fauno’s arguments refute the Ligorian postion, in defence of his own description of Roman topography provided in his book of the Antichità di Roma. In the course of time Ligorio’s relocation of the Forum proved to be wrong. In the discussion of ‘Lucio Fauno’, it is shown that this name is a pseudonym for the writer and antiquarian, Giovanni Tarcagnota of Gaeta (d. 1566)
Five Easy Pieces dedicated to Ludovico Quaroni
No full textThe first edition of this book was published in Italian in 1989, about two years after the death of Ludovico Quaroni; this edition in English is addressed mainly to non-Italian scholars with an interest in modern architecture in Italy. Given the imperfect parallel between musical and literary composition, therefore, in this book an intimate intellectual atmosphere prevails, which reveals the author’s skill in creating a narrative and also in engaging in a type of critical writing that is rarely undertaken by architect-intellectuals. The five episodes in the book cover almost thirty years, from 1958 to 1987, which were years that remained deeply preserved in the author’s memory. The literary form of the pieces gives all of them a common structure: they are dialogues; usually consisting of brief exchanges of few words, spoken or written, between the author (Lucio Barbera) and Quaroni. In one of them – Charisma – the dialogue takes place between Quaroni and a larger chorus. In another – Elective Misunderstanding – we have a double dialogue at a distance, a trio, if we return to the musical metaphor, between Quaroni, Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso and Barbera. The last piece is a longer conversation by Quaroni on himself; a taking stock and a valediction. On the frontispiece, Barbera gives a clear indication of his intentions: “For students of Architecture who are well-educated and for architects interested in getting to know better a Master of their trade”
Toward a new paradigm in open economy modeling: where do we stand?
No full textThis paper provides a selective, up-to-date survey of the recent, fast-growing literature on new open economy macroeconomics. Lucio Sarno begins with a review of the seminal paper in this literature, describing the baseline model proposed therein. He then covers a number of variants and generalizations of the baseline model involving the allowance for nominal rigidities, pricing to market, alternative preference specifications, and alternative financial markets structures. The author also discusses the recent stochastic extensions of these models, especially focusing on their implications for the link between risk and exchange rates and on new directions for the relevant literature.Econometric models ; Macroeconomics
Per una rilettura del prologo di Marziano Capella
No full textIl "De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii" di Marziano Capella si apre con un doppio prologo in versi e in prosa. Nella prosa l’autore è interrogato dal figlio sul significato dell’inno che ha appena recitato e che il giovane attribuisce a esercizio di un perdigiorno. Il verbo con cui questa attività viene bollata è, nella tradizione manoscritta, il neologismo greco γυμνολογίζεις che potrebbe essere interpretato sulla base di un altro neologismo, γυμνολογία, termine che compare nelle dispute teologiche sulla natura umana e/o divina del Cristo.Martianus Capella’s "De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii" opens with a double prologue, written in verse and in prose. In the prose section, the author is questioned by his son about the meaning of the hymn he has just recited and which the young man considers to be the creation of an idler. The verb with which this kind of activity is defined is, in the manuscript tradition, the Greek neologism γυμνολογίζεις, which could be interpreted on the basis of another neologism, γυμνολογία, a term which appears in the theological disputes on the human and/or divine nature of Jesus
Metastasio sul letto di Procuste. A proposito di due sonetti per nozze
No full textMetastasio wrote a limited number of sonnets, and in various letters expressed deep perplexities about the value and the efficacy of this poetic form. A recent edition of his “Poesie”, edited by Rosa Necchi in 2009, offers the twenty-nine texts approved by the author as well as six more ones discovered from the end of the Eighteenth Century up to recent times. The article adds to this corpus two forgotten sonnets included in epithalamic anthologies printed in Naples in 1717 and in Rome in 1722 respectively, and illustrates their unexpected subsequent re-uses
Stability of numerical methods for delay differential equations
No full textAbstractConsider the following delay differential equation (DDE) y′=ƒ(t,y(t),y(t−τ(t))), t⩾t0,with the initial condition y(t)=Φ for t⩽t0,where ƒ and Φ are such that (0.1), (0.2) has a unique solution y(t). The author gives sufficient conditions for the asymptotic stability of the equation (0.1) for which he introduces new definitions of numerical stability. The approach is reminiscent of that from the nonlinear, stiff ordinary differential equation (ODE) field. He investigates stability properties of the class of one-point collocation rules. In particular, the backward Euler method turns out to be stable with respect to all the given definitions
Prima di Croce. Le ricerche archivistiche di Vincenzo d'Auria sui teatri napoletani
No full textThe article illustrates the interest of the little-known essays on operatic activity in Naples published by Vincenzo d'Auria at the end of the nineteenth century. The author had the opportunity to examine archival documents that no longer exist today. His writings, all of which appeared in local journals, preceded Benedetto Croce's monograph on the history of Neapolitan theaters (1891). Despite their fragmentary and anecdotal character, d'Auria's studies deserve to be better known as they offer details not otherwise available
Creative Strategies in Lucio Fulci's Horror Films: Virus in the Cinema Lab
No full textPierwsza część tekstu jest próbą opisania środków, jakimi posługują się poszczególni twórcy filmów z nurtu gore w celu wywołania u odbiorcy uczucia obrzydzenia i dezorientacji. Następnie autor koncentruje się na specyfice włoskiego kina gatunków, aby w części drugiej przejść do omówienia filmów włoskiego reżysera krwawych horrorów, Lucio Fulciego. Jego twórczość staje się metaforą laboratoryjnej probówki, w której można zaobserwować mechanizmy destruktywnego oddziaływania elementów gore na tradycyjne konwencje filmowe oraz filmową estetykę.In the first part of the article the author describes various means used by filmmakers within the gore genre, in order to create a feeling of disgust and disorientation in the viewer. Then in the second part, Sawicki concentrates on the work of the Italian horror director Lucio Fulci. His work can be seen as metaphor that takes the shape of a laboratory test-tube, in which one can observe the destructive workings of the elements of gore on traditional cinema conventions and traditional cinema aesthetics
The birth and early years of INA, the International Neurotoxicology Association
No full textAbstractThe International Neurotoxicology Association (INA) is a scientific society whose members have interest and expertise in the discipline of neurotoxicology. The idea of forming INA was born in 1984, as a follow-up to a NATO-sponsored meeting on Toxicology of the Nervous System. INA held its first meeting in the Netherlands in 1987 and has had continuous meetings every other year since then. INA is registered as a scientific society in the Netherlands, and is an affiliated society of IUTOX. This paper presents a personal account of the events that led to the birth of INA, and of the first fifteen years of this association
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