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San Marco a Offida: da convento francescano a monastero benedettino. Storia, arte, architettura
No full textIl testo presenta un approfondito studio, frutto di una ricerca organica e sistematica, del complesso di San Marco a Offida, sorto come convento francescano nel XIII secolo e trasformato in monastero benedettino nel ‘600.
Il testo è composto da quattro contributi che indagano, in modo approfondito, differenti tematiche: “Il convento di San Marco in Offida" di Padre Giovanni Lunardi inquadra le vicende storiche del monastero nel più ampio panorama della storia dell’ordine francescano; “Riscoperta di un monumento” di Rita Fabbri indaga le vicende storiche sull’architettura della chiesa e del convento, e delle successive modifiche attraverso la documentazione storico-archivistica e l'interpretazione delle tracce leggibili nell'edificio; “Tracce della pittura antica. Un viaggio attraverso i secoli” di Daniela Ferriani approfondisce le tematiche storico artistiche, con studi sui dipinti murali, i quadri e le decorazioni; “Note sulla restituzione grafica nel restauro” di Andrea Pasquato mostra con simulazioni tridimensionali gli spazi e le forme dell’edificio nei diversi momenti storici, fino alla realizzazione della chiesa settecentesca
The commitment problem of secured lending
No full textThe paper presents a new theory of trade credit in which firms buy inputs on credit from suppliers to restore the benefits of secured bank financing impaired by contract incompleteness. In a setting where investment is endogenous and unobservable to financiers, we show that a bank-secured credit contract is time-inconsistent. Upon being granted credit, the entrepreneur has an incentive to alter the original input combination, jeopardizing the bank's revenues. Anticipating the entrepreneur's opportunism, the bank offers an unsecured credit contract, reducing the surplus from the venture. One way for the entrepreneur to commit to the contract terms is to purchase inputs on credit from the supplier. The supplier observes the input investment and acts as a guarantor that inputs will be purchased as contracted, thus facilitating access to secured bank financing. The commitment role of trade credit still holds in a multi-period extension that investigates the impact of bank relationship lending on secured debt and trade credit. Our model provides novel testable predictions on optimal financial contracts in both one-period and repeated lending relationships
The commitment problem of secured lending
No full textThe paper investigates optimal financial contracts when investment in pledgeable assets is endogenous and not observable to financiers. In a setting with uncertainty, two inputs with different
collateral value and investment unobservability, we show that a firm-bank secured credit contract is time-inconsistent: Once credit has been granted, the entrepreneur has an ex-post incentive to alter the input combination towards the input with low collateral value and higher productivity, thus jeopardizing total bank revenues. Anticipating the entrepreneur's opportunism, the bank offers a non-collateralized credit contract, thereby reducing the surplus of the venture. One way for the firm to commit to the contract terms is to purchase inputs on credit and pledge them to the supplier in case of default. Observing the input investment and having a stake in the bad state, the supplier acts as a guarantor that the input combination specied in the bank contract will be actually purchased and that the entrepreneur will stick to the contract terms. The paper concludes that: (1) Buying inputs on account facilitates the access to collateralized bank financing; (2) Firms using both trade credit and collateralized bank nance invest more in pledgeable assets than firms only using uncollateralized bank credit. Our results are robust to the possibility of collusion between entrepreneur and supplier
Trade credit, collateral liquidation, and borrowing constraints
No full textAssuming that firms' suppliers are better able to extract value from the liquidation of assets in default and have an information advantage over other creditors, the paper derives six predictions on the use of trade credit. (1) Financially unconstrained firms (with unused bank credit lines) take trade credit to exploit the supplier's liquidation advantage. (2) If inputs purchased on account are sufficiently liquid, the reliance on trade credit does not depend on credit rationing. (3) Firms buying goods make more purchases on account than those buying services, while suppliers of services offer more trade credit than those of standardized goods. (4) Suppliers lend inputs to their customers but not cash. (5) Greater reliance on trade credit is associated with more intensive use of tangible inputs. (6) Better creditor protection decreases both the use of trade credit and input tangibility
Dialogare con le immagini. L’uso delle immagini nella ricerca e nella formazione esperienziale
No full textIl contributo evidenzia l'uso di immagini e disegni nella ricerca in educazione e formazione, all’interno di tecniche di animazione
o formazione di gruppi o di tecniche di intervista per l’appunto mediate da immagini e metafore e presenta due specifiche strategie:
• il Photolangage di Babin, Baptiste e Bélisle (1978), tecnica di animazione e formazione di gruppi mediata dall’uso di fotografie;
• l’Intervista epistemico-operativa messa a punto da Fabbri e Munari nell’ambito dell’Epistemologia Operativa (Fabbri, 1994; Fabbri e Munari,
2005), mediata da rappresentazioni metaforiche e/o simboliche.
Il contributo ha inoltre l’obiettivo di evidenziare come l’introduzione di strumenti di mediazione possa contribuire nel fare di una sessione formativa
o di un’intervista, un’attività esperienziale
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L'afrofuturismo tra Stati Uniti e Italia. Dalla memoria storica ai viaggi intergalattici per re-immaginare futuri postumani
No full textIn this article the author explores the cultural movement called Afrofuturism, tracing its origins, features, simbology, and its historical and political meanings. Starting from the (supposed) discoursive gap between African and African American people on one side and technology and science fiction on the other, this paradigm addresses themes related to the intersection of African Diaspora and African cultures with technology and science fiction, with the aim to recover the history of slavery and racism through the projections into alternative space-time contexts. In particular, the author explores the feminist afrofuturism perspective in order to examine the specific oppression and cultural production of African and African American women. In doing so, the author analyzes the development of afrofuturism in Italy, focusing on the work of the singer and beatmaker Karima 2G
Problems of empathy. Difficulties of emotive understanding and social complexity.
No full textThe Author analyses certain problems concerning the transformation of styles in educational experience. Refering also to neuroscientific studies, more radical model of empaty, that enable the interpretation of historical change, are proposed
Genetic and Environmental Contribution to Major Depressive Disorder and Self-declared Depression
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