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Feste pubbliche a Palermo nell’età degli Asburgo. Istituzioni, architettura, città (1516-1700)
No full textWith the death in 1516 of Ferdinand the Catholic, king of Aragon and Sicily, the island was incorporated into the galaxy of the Hispanic crowns under the leadership of Charles of Habsburg, the future emperor Charles V, in a political and institutional framework that would last until the Utrecht agreements of 1713, which sanctioned the passage of the Kingdom of Sicily to the Savoy.
It was precisely the entry into the Carolingian imperial dimension that proved decisive for Sicily, and for Palermo in particular, setting the starting point for a total rethinking of the city's urban and architectural system, with respect to which public celebrations would constitute the ephemeral and occasional alter ego of the gradual and complex process of monumentalization of the city: both obey the same needs of officialdom and magnificence, which must be satisfied in the perspective of a capital city.
In particular, the decisive event that constitutes an authentic break in the Sicilian festive tradition is the crossing of the island by Charles V, in 1535, returning from the victory of Tunis. In the triumphal entries organized by the main cities of the island in his honor, one can feel the leap in quality with previous experiences, inevitably pushing the Sicilian cultural models to fit into a framework of ideological references and artistic experiences of a supranational nature: the various passages of Charles V in Italy, in the thirties of the sixteenth century, constitute an extraordinary opportunity for the production of the ephemeral, with an acceleration in the experimentation of figurative models, in the development of ceremonial structures, in the valorization of monumental routes, which, going beyond the specific scope of individual cities, manages to involve the most avant-garde artistic and cultural environments of the moment. The long process of projects that will involve the city of Palermo from that moment on will materialize in a total redesign of the urban structure and in a substantial renewal of the architectural and monumental heritage, which constitute, in a certain sense, the indispensable premise from which to start to understand specific themes, times and methods through which, between the 16th and 18th centuries, the culture of celebration develops in this city. If, in fact, the "construction of the capital" was carried out by necessarily reconciling needs of a different nature, not least the monumental and representative ones that were pursued with particular incisiveness by institutional clients, especially after the mid-16th century. In this sense, the rectification and extension of the ancient Cassaro constitutes the most significant operation and the most dense with consequences regarding the theme proposed here, since the new straight road, named after the viceroy Toledo, with the magniloquent terminations of Porta Nuova and Porta Felice and the sumptuous epicentre of the Quattro Canti, will become the ‘place’ of the main celebrations in Palermo, the privileged route of parades, processions and cavalcades, without a substantial distinction between civil and religious celebrations. Built city and ephemeral city, therefore, will move along similar paths, often intertwining and overlapping, certainly influencing each other.
In fact, while the city, during the second half of the sixteenth century, was undergoing a radical process of urban and architectural modernization, a series of important festive events (Entrance of Don Giovanni d’Austria returning from the victory of Lepanto (1572), entrance of the viceroy Marco Antonio Colonna (1577), sacred triumph of Santa Ninfa (1593), etc.) allowed for the experimentation of many of those essential elements in the organization of public celebrations, which in the first decades of the seventeenth century would find a definitive ceremonial structure, both with regard to the festive practice and with regard to the definition of the places chosen for such events. An almost perfect device on which the story of the election of Santa Rosalia as the new patron saint of the city would be grafted, after the “miraculous” discovery of her relics in 1624. From that moment on, the “festino” would establish itself as the most important collective event in the capital; the ephemeral apparatuses, increasingly more sumptuous, created for the occasion will constitute an irreplaceable testing and experimentation ground for the entire community of artists and architects linked to the Palermo Senate, responsible both for the material organization and the cultural elaboration of the celebratory program, as well as for the publication of the punctual festive reports, often accompanied by engravings of the apparatuses prepared for the occasion
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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