660 research outputs found
Il principio di sussidiarietà: una legge manifesto?
No full textL'articolo vuole evidenziare che il principio di sussidiarietà, nonostante le difficoltà di implementazione, non è espressione del patologico fenomeno delle "leggi manifesto
Economic, environmental, and animal welfare performance on livestock farms: Conceptual model and application to some case studies in Italy
No full textThe aim of this paper is to propose a multi-attribute hierarchical evaluation model for the evaluation of the aggregate sustainability of livestock farms integrating the economic, environmental, and social aspects. This approach uses an aggregation criterion based on the geometric mean to assess a farm's current level of sustainability. Sustainability was measured through the use of indicators including carbon footprint, farm income, and animal welfare. Secondly, based on the relationships between the sustainability aspects, the effects of improvement measures on all the indicators were estimated. This paper presents eight livestock case studies from Italy, analyzed in 2014. The results show intermediate values for the aggregate index of sustainability for most of the farms. The index mainly depends on the estimated values of the sustainability indicators related to the economic and environmental aspects. Lower values of animal welfare sustainability are quantified. The introduction of improvement measures in relation to the preparation of the soil had positive effects, both in terms of emissions and animal welfare. The increase of available space per Livestock Unit (LU) resulted in the greatest positive effect on animal welfare, among all the other actions analyzed
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
Reimagining the Baroque in Italian Modernism. From the fin-de-siècle to Lucio Fontana
No full textWhile Italian art of the twentieth century is usually associated with either the avant-garde practices of Futurism or the classicism of Fascist visual culture, the Italian modernists' complex engagement with concepts of the ‘Baroque’ has yet to be explored. Through an extensive analysis of paintings, sculptures, publications, collecting practices, and exhibitions, my dissertation addresses this lacuna by investigating how the Baroque was discursively constructed and visually represented in Italian modernist artistic and cultural debates between 1880 and 1945. I study how artists and critics such as Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio De Chirico, Adolfo Wildt, Lucio Fontana, and Roberto Longhi championed or disparaged the Baroque in the context of heated debates over the import of Italy’s rich cultural heritage, its status in modern Europe, and the potential role of avant-garde art as a catalyst for national regeneration. In contrast to previous scholars I argue that the development of modern art in Italy was actively shaped by cultural perceptions about the Baroque. My dissertation therefore sheds new light on the role of style in the cultural politics of Italy, which in turn will transform our understanding of visual culture in modern Italy, and of twentieth-century representations of the Baroque in art, literature, and aesthetics.</p
Sul problema della tutela internazionale dell'ambiente: da Kyoto a Parigi passando per Positano
No full textL'Autore sostiene che la sicurezza ambientale internazionale sia passata da una prospettiva incentrata sulla sovranità dello Stato ad una che si focalizza sull'autonomia soggettiva e sulla sussidiarietà delle istituzioni
Sustainability of Chianina beef production: what is the future of the suckler-to-finish system? Sostenibilità della produzione di carne Chianina: quale futuro per gli allevamenti a ciclo chiuso?
No full textNegli ultimi decenni, la zootecnia intensiva è stata accusata di contribuire in maniera significativa alle emissioni di gas serra e al peggioramento delle condizioni degli animali, con ripercussioni sotto il profilo etico ed ambientale. L’allevamento bovino di razza Chianina appartenente alla filiera IGP del “Vitellone Bianco dell’Appennino Centrale” rappresenta uno dei principali esempi di allevamento estensivo per la produzione di carne del centro-Italia, ma contemporaneamente presenta diversi profili di criticità legati soprattutto alla scarsa produttività della razza.
L’obiettivo dello studio è quello di valutare la sostenibilità “globale” di un campione di 6 allevamenti chianini umbri a ciclo chiuso. A tal fine è stato utilizzato un approccio multi-criteriale, aggregando i dati con la media geometrica, di tre diversi indicatori di sostenibilità: Carbon Footprint (dimensione ambientale), di redditività (economica) e di benessere animale (sociale).
La raccolta dati, realizzata nel 2022 attraverso la somministrazione di un questionario, ha incluso aspetti tecnici, economici e sociali della gestione zootecnica, integrati con dati secondari provenienti dal Consorzio IGP, dall’Associazione Nazionale Allevatori Bovini Italiani da Carne (ANABIC) e dall’Associazione Regionale Allevatori Umbria (ARAU).
La valutazione della sostenibilità economica è stata realizzata attraverso l’analisi del valore aggiunto al fine di aumentare la comparabilità dei risultati. Quella ambientale attraverso la metodologia Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) “from cradle to farm gate”, in accordo alle norme UNI EN ISO 14040 e 14044 del 2006. Quella sociale misurando il grado di benessere animale basandoci sul sistema Classyfarm, che prevede la classificazione degli allevamenti in base a punteggi di rischio. I tre indici rilevati per le rispettive dimensioni di sostenibilità sono stati aggregati in un macro-indice di sostenibilità globale. Le aziende sono poi state ordinate in un ranking di performance crescente.
Sulla base dei risultati ottenuti per ogni indicatore di sostenibilità sono stati messi in evidenza eventuali criticità e sono state ipotizzate possibili azioni per migliorare la competitività degli allevamenti
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
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