26 research outputs found
Le cantigas di Don Denis, il re poeta: edizione critica, studio e glossario
No full textLa tesi offre l'edizione critica integrale del corpus poetico di Don Denis, sesto re del Portogallo (1279-1325) e più prolifico tra i trovatori profani galego-portoghesi di cui ci sia giunta l’opera. I testi critici, fissati secondo un’analisi che trova le sue fondamenta nel metodo di Lachmann, sono preceduti da un resoconto dei rapporti testimoniali, e vengono accompagnati da una traduzione in italiano, da delle note, da una breve descrizione della struttura metrica e, in appendice, dai materiali preparatori all’edizione (trascrizioni diplomatiche, diplomatico-interpretative e collazione). Si propongono inoltre i risultati di un’indagine volta a determinare relazioni d’intertestualità con altre cantigas peninsulari e con la tradizione lirica galloromanza sulla base di corrispondenze di natura metrica e rimica, mettendo al contempo a disposizione tavole di comparazione relative agli schemi rimici e sillabici dei componimenti dionigini e ultrapirenaici al fine di facilitare l’individuazione di ulteriori possibili riscontri
Mestre Ali
No full textLa scheda contestualizza la citazione dell’antroponimo Mestre Ali all’interno del corpus lirico profano galego-portoghese, presentando altresì le principali proposte identificative avanzate dalla critica per il personaggio in questione
De mi fazerdes vós, senhor (RM 25,27) e Meu amig’, u eu sejo (RM 25,48): riflessioni ecdotiche sopra due cantigas dionigine
No full textIl contributo esamina sotto il profilo ecdotico due componimenti amorosi di Don Denis di Portogallo (1261-1325), De mi fazerdes vós, senhor (RM 25,27) e Meu amig’, u eu sejo (RM 25,48), soffermandosi su due singoli loci. Dopo aver illustrato le scelte operate dagli editori critici del monarca portoghese, si tenta di mostrare come il riesame della tradizione manoscritta e del valore attribuibile ad alcuni compendi abbreviativi possa condurre a proposte alternative, che consentirebbero di evitare interventi sul testo.This essay examines from an ecdotic point of view two Don Denis of Portugal’s (1261-1325) love poems, De mi fazerdes vós, senhor (RM 25,27) e Meu amig’, u eu sejo (RM 25,48), focusing on two loci. After having illustrated the Portuguese monarch critical editors’ choices, the contribution tries to show how the re-examination of the manuscript tradition and of certain abbreviations value can lead to alternative proposals, which would allow to avoid interventions on the text
Prospettive incrociate nell’analisi dei repertori plurilingui: il caso degli immigrati srilankesi a Napoli
No full textIl presente contributo assume a oggetto di indagine gli srilankesi residenti a Napoli. Secondo i dati Istat, questo gruppo costituisce nel 2023 la comunità immigrata più numerosa nel capoluogo campano, con 14.627 presenze (il 26% sul totale della popolazione straniera in città). Poco studiata sia dal punto di vista sociolinguistico sia rispetto all’acquisizione dell’italiano L2, la comunità srilankese presenta alcune specificità di particolare interesse: è ben radicata sul territorio cittadino e concentrata in aree ben definite della città, possiede luoghi di incontro e scuole di comunità riconosciute anche in Sri Lanka (De Filippo & Strozza, 2015; Guadagno, 2022); sebbene si tratti di un gruppo che solitamente avverte l’esigenza di frequentare corsi di italiano L2, tuttavia non è raro riscontrare tra gli apprendenti srilankesi fenomeni di fossilizzazione dell’interlingua al livello basico (Garzonio & Gracci, 2006; Spina, 2013). Tali dati forniscono l’immagine di una comunità coesa, piuttosto chiusa e non sempre socialmente e linguisticamente integrata nel Paese ospite.
Partendo da queste considerazioni, il presente contributo intende osservare e analizzare i repertori plurilingui di immigrati srilankesi di prima generazione, mediante un approccio che assume diverse prospettive: quella degli studi di sociolinguistica delle lingue ereditarie o heritage languages (da ora HL), e quella dell’apprendimento delle lingue seconde. Obiettivo dell’analisi consiste nel verificare (i) se e come gli usi delle HL (singalese, ma anche inglese e tamil) siano influenzati dalla conformazione delle reti sociali nel Paese d’arrivo; (ii) se e come il livello di competenza in italiano L2 sia correlato ad alcune caratteristiche sociolinguistiche dei parlanti, con particolare riferimento al loro orientamento etnico, definito e analizzato mediante un indice recentemente elaborato da Moro e Russo (in stampa) in uno studio sulla comunità filippina a Salerno.
I dati, tuttora in fase di elicitazione, sono stati raccolti presso i corsi di italiano L2 offerti dall’associazione Scuola di Pace di Napoli e sono di diversa natura: informazioni ricavate dalla somministrazione di un’intervista sociolinguistica strutturata condotta in italiano; i ritratti e le autobiografie linguistiche orali degli apprendenti srilankesi; i dati sul livello di padronanza dell’italiano L2, elicitati attraverso il test di valutazione delle competenze in entrata dell’associazione.
I risultati preliminari, riguardanti 25 apprendenti (13m/12f, età media 34 anni), sembrano confermare e arricchire quanto attestato in uno studio pilota (Maffia, 2021): un elevato uso dichiarato della HL nella prima generazione e il rafforzamento del ruolo della lingua singalese in contesto migratorio, come principale strumento di affermazione e conservazione dell’identità culturale comunitaria; il mancato raggiungimento di una buona padronanza della lingua seconda anche dopo lunghi soggiorni in Italia; l’orientamento etnico e la proiezione identitaria dei parlanti ancora in Sri Lanka piuttosto che a Napoli, dato che sembra correlato, almeno nelle prime generazioni, allo sviluppo di un italiano L2 “di sopravvivenza”, utile soprattutto e quasi esclusivamente nel contesto lavorativo e nei limitati contatti con i nativi italofoni. I risultati saranno discussi nel dettaglio, anche in relazione alle diverse variabili biografiche ed extralinguistiche dei soggetti coinvolti (sesso, età, tempo di permanenza in Italia).
Riferimenti bibliografici
De Filippo, Elena / Strozza, Salvatore. 2015. Gli immigrati in Campania negli anni della crisi economica. Condizioni di vita e di lavoro, progetti e possibilità di integrazione. Milano, FrancoAngeli.
Grazonio, Jacopo / Gracci, Sandra. 2006. “Lessico esoti dei tamil d’Italia. Uno studio linguistico e sociolinguistico nella comunità di Bologna”. in Innàccaro, Gabriele / Banfi, Emanuele (a cura di), Lo spazio linguistico italiano e le lingue esotiche: rapporti e reciproci influssi. Atti del XXXIX Congresso internazionale di studi della Società di linguistica italiana (SLI), Milano, 22-24 settembre 2005. Roma, Bulzoni: 67-84.
Guadagno, Eleonora (2022). “Territori in movimento. La comunità srilankese nella spazialità napoletana”, Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana serie 14, 5(2): 95-108.
Maffia, Marta (2021), “Apprendenti srilankesi di italiano L2 a Napoli: appunti per un profilo sociolinguistico”, Italiano LinguaDue 12(2): 123-136.
Spina, Carmela. 2013. “L’italiano degli immigrati srilankesi”. In De Meo, Anna (a cura di), Professione Italiano. Lingua, cittadinanza, salute e tutela della persona per immigrati di Paesi Terzi. Università di Napoli L’Orientale, Il Torcoliere: 169-18
The multiphysics analysis and design of CUSP, a two CubeSat constellation for space weather and solar flares X-ray polarimetry
No full textGraphene and related materials in hierarchical fiber composites: Production techniques and key industrial benefits
No full textFiber-reinforced composites (FRC) are nowadays one of the most widely used class of high-tech materials. In particular, sporting goods, cars and the wings and fuselages of airplanes are made of carbon fiber reinforced composites (CFRC). CFRC are mature commercial products, but are still challenging materials. Their mechanical and electrical properties are very good along the fiber axis, but can be very poor perpendicular to it; interfacial interactions have to be tailored for specific applications to avoid crack propagation– and delamination; fiber production includes high-temperature treatments of adverse environmental impact, leading to high costs. Recent research work shows that the performance of CFRC can be improved by addition of graphene or related 2-dimensional materials (GRM). Graphene is a promising additive for CFRC because: 1) Its all-carbon aromatic structure is similar to the one of carbon fiber (CF). 2) Its 2-dimensional shape, high aspect ratio, high flexibility and mechanical strength allow it to be used as a coating on the surface of fiber, or as a mechanical/electrical connection between different fiber layers. 3) Its tunable surface chemistry allows its interaction to be enhanced with either the fiber or the polymer matrix used in the composite and 4) in contrast to carbon fibers or nanotubes, it is easily produced on a large scale at room temperature, without metal catalysts. Here, we summarize the key strategic advantages that could be obtained in this way, and some of the recent results that have been obtained in this field within the Graphene Flagship project and worldwide
Resiting genre : a study of contemporary Italian travel writing in English translation
No full textThis thesis aims to highlight the presence of a large and varied production of contemporary
Italian travel writing and to analyse the reasons for its 'invisibility' in the Italian literary
system and critical tradition. Through the use of a comparative approach to genre and of
current theories developed in the area of Translation Studies, the thesis will outline the
different status attributed to travel writing in the Anglo-American and the Italian literary
systems. Such a comparative approach allows the study to escape the narrow confines of a
perspective based on the idea of national literature and to adopt a wider view, which, in
turn, highlights the presence of phenomena otherwise easily overlooked or discarded as
insignificant.
The peculiar characteristics of travel writing, a genre mostly based on the
representation of the Other for a home audience, are also analysed in order to point out their
affinity with translation practices and, ultimately, to underline the 'double translation'
implied by translated travel writing.
The case studies which make up the remaining part of the thesis are intended to
illustrate different aspects of the genre of travel writing; to provide scope for an analysis of
its boundaries and connections with other genres (ranging from ethnography to
autobiography, from journalism to fiction, from the essay to the novel); and to illustrate the
way in which generic expectations influence both the selection of texts for translation and
the strategies adopted when translating and marketing them for a new audience.
The writings of twentieth-century Italian explorers to Tibet, and their translations
into English, constitute a significant case of adaptation of foreign texts to the needs and
expectations of a British audience (and to the British interests in the geographical area
concerned).
The works of Oriana Fallaci and their different reception in Italy with respect to the
UK and the USA illustrate the way in which personal biography and generic choices can
intersect, determining both the popular image and the critical success of an author and of
her work.
Calvino's choice to sublimate the genre of travel writing in the stylized fiction of Le
citta invisibili is treated as an example of the way in which a text which is meant to provide
an escape from a low-status genre can become an icon of that same genre once it is
translated and read in a different cultural context.
Finally, the case of Claudio Magris's Danubio and of its English-language
translation provides evidence of the complex network of literary references which marks the
reception of a text in different cultures, and of the way in which generic affiliation can both
promote the recognition of a 'marginal' text and constrain its more idiosyncratic (and
original) characteristics
Antidiabetic Drug Prescription Pattern in Hospitalized Older Patients with Diabetes
No full textObjective: To describe the prescription pattern of antidiabetic and cardiovascular drugs in a cohort of hospitalized older patients with diabetes. Methods: Patients with diabetes aged 65 years or older hospitalized in internal medicine and/or geriatric wards throughout Italy and enrolled in the REPOSI (REgistro POliterapuie SIMI—Società Italiana di Medicina Interna) registry from 2010 to 2019 and discharged alive were included. Results: Among 1703 patients with diabetes, 1433 (84.2%) were on treatment with at least one antidiabetic drug at hospital admission, mainly prescribed as monotherapy with insulin (28.3%) or metformin (19.2%). The proportion of treated patients decreased at discharge (N = 1309, 76.9%), with a significant reduction over time. Among those prescribed, the proportion of those with insulin alone increased over time (p = 0.0066), while the proportion of those prescribed sulfonylureas decreased (p < 0.0001). Among patients receiving antidiabetic therapy at discharge, 1063 (81.2%) were also prescribed cardiovascular drugs, mainly with an antihypertensive drug alone or in combination (N = 777, 73.1%). Conclusion: The management of older patients with diabetes in a hospital setting is often sub-optimal, as shown by the increasing trend in insulin at discharge, even if an overall improvement has been highlighted by the prevalent decrease in sulfonylureas prescription
The multiphysics analysis and design of CUSP, a two CubeSat constellation for Space Weather and Solar flares X-ray polarimetry
No full textThe CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project aims to develop a constellation of two CubeSats orbiting the Earth to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter on board of each satellite. CUSP will allow to study the magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in the flaring magnetic structures. CUSP is a project approved for a Phase B study by the Italian Space Agency in the framework of the Alcor program aimed to develop CubeSat technologies and missions. In this paper we describe the a method for a multi-physical simulation analysis while analyzing some possible design optimization of the payload design solutions adopted. In particular, we report the mechanical design for each structural component, the results of static and dynamic finite element analysis, the preliminary thermo-mechanical analysis for two specific thermal cases (hot and cold orbit) and a topological optimization of the interface between the platform and the payload.Proceeding of SPIE Conference Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation , Yokohama (Japan), 16-21 June 202
Clinical features and outcomes of elderly hospitalised patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure or both
No full textBackground and objective: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart failure (HF) mutually increase the risk of being present in the same patient, especially if older. Whether or not this coexistence may be associated with a worse prognosis is debated. Therefore, employing data derived from the REPOSI register, we evaluated the clinical features and outcomes in a population of elderly patients admitted to internal medicine wards and having COPD, HF or COPD + HF. Methods: We measured socio-demographic and anthropometric characteristics, severity and prevalence of comorbidities, clinical and laboratory features during hospitalization, mood disorders, functional independence, drug prescriptions and discharge destination. The primary study outcome was the risk of death. Results: We considered 2,343 elderly hospitalized patients (median age 81 years), of whom 1,154 (49%) had COPD, 813 (35%) HF, and 376 (16%) COPD + HF. Patients with COPD + HF had different characteristics than those with COPD or HF, such as a higher prevalence of previous hospitalizations, comorbidities (especially chronic kidney disease), higher respiratory rate at admission and number of prescribed drugs. Patients with COPD + HF (hazard ratio HR 1.74, 95% confidence intervals CI 1.16-2.61) and patients with dementia (HR 1.75, 95% CI 1.06-2.90) had a higher risk of death at one year. The Kaplan-Meier curves showed a higher mortality risk in the group of patients with COPD + HF for all causes (p = 0.010), respiratory causes (p = 0.006), cardiovascular causes (p = 0.046) and respiratory plus cardiovascular causes (p = 0.009). Conclusion: In this real-life cohort of hospitalized elderly patients, the coexistence of COPD and HF significantly worsened prognosis at one year. This finding may help to better define the care needs of this population
