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Reti relazionali nella parabola dirigenziale di Carlo Lovioz alla filiale Comit di Londra (1935-1940)
No full textL'attenzione posta verso gli aspetti sociali del mondo di banca ha individuato in Carlo Lovioz, direttore presso la filiale della Banca commerciale italiana (Comit) di Londra tra il 1935 e il 1940, una figura in grado di mostrare l'importanza assunta dai network di conoscenze personali nel panorama finanziario. Sono stati selezionati una serie di incontri che offrono un primo sguardo sulla rete relazionale di Lovioz, mostrandone la composizione e i meccanismi. Il supporto fornito dalla teoria del capitale sociale ha consentito di mettere in luce alcuni tratti peculiari del gruppo sociale delle élite di banca, tra cui spirito di cooperazione (e di solidarie- tà), fiducia e stima. Essenziale ai fini della ricerca è stato il preliminare inquadramento storico avente come estremi la fondazione della Comit, nel 1894, e la legge bancaria – che sancì la fine della banca universale – emanata dal governo fascista nel 1936, affinché si potesse forni- re una dovuta contestualizzazione del periodo antecedente l'esperienza dirigenziale del banchiere preso in esame. Ripercorrendo i passaggi di un istituto che contribuì allo sviluppo eco- nomico dell'Italia di inizio Novecento, sono state descritte le cause che portarono all'intervento statale per il suo salvataggio, tra il 1931 e il 1933, e al suo nuovo assetto organizzativo.The focus on the social aspects of banking identified in Carlo Lovioz, director at the London branch of the Italian Commercial Bank (Comit) between 1935 and 1940, a figure capable of showing the importance assumed by personal acquaintance networks in the financial landscape. A series of encounters have been selected that can offer an initial insight into Lovioz's relational network, showing its composition and mechanisms. The support provided by the theory of social capital has enabled to highlight certain features of the social group of banking élite, including the spirit of cooperation, trust and esteem. Furthermore, the author considered essential to provide a preliminary historical framework in order to present a due contextualisation of the period prior to Lovioz's management experience. The chosen chronological references were the foundation of Comit in 1894 and the banking law issued by the Fascist government in 1936. By retracing the steps of an institute that contributed to the economic development in Italy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the author was able to describe the causes that led to state intervention to rescue the bank between 1931 and 1933 and to its new organisational structure
Operating amidst thorny international relations: the mediating role of Comit London’s branch, 1935-1940
Full text linkThis paper focuses on the stormy relationship between Comit London’s branch and the British financial world in the five years preceding the outbreak of the Second World War. The issues I intend to raise are set in the broader context of the relation between the Fascist regime and the United Kingdom, which began to be troubled after the start of the war in Ethiopia in October 1935. Therefore, the questions are: how did Comit manage to keep financial relations open on the London market, despite Mussolini’s and Hitler’s foreign policy rifts? By trying to pursue this aim, did the figure of Carlo Lovioz , and its personal connections amongst British bank managers play a strategic role?
In the period analysed, Comit was completing its internal reorganisation following the state bailout in 1933 and acknowledging the 1936 banking law. On a political level, there was a slow but inexorable approaching between Italy and Germany, as well as events characterised by diplomatic tensions between Authoritarian regimes and Western democracies, who managed to defuse with the policy of Appeasement. Comit London’s branch was greatly affected by this struggle between the European powers. One of its main businesses was the opening of acceptance credits in favour of Italian (but also British) exporters and the invasion of Ethiopia by the Fascist army led to a suspension of those credits. The purely political nature of the sanctions emerged, which were viewed by the banking elites with great apprehension, but little could be done, except to sit tight and wait. Notwithstanding, the interesting aspect is the work of restoring these credits by Raffaele Mattioli and Lovioz after the sanction’s removal. Mutatis mutandis, this situation would have occurred again in the First Czechoslovakian Crisis: in fact, Midland Bank, frightened by the possibility of a new world war, withdrew its acceptance credits from Comit, forcing Lovioz to act to restore them. After 1st September 1939, the wartime financial regulations were applied to Italy, despite its non-belligerence. However, there’s some evidence that show the continuation, as much as possible, of the economic relations between Italy and Great Britain, thanks to Lovioz and its relationship within the Bank of England, the only institution authorised to engage in commercial relations with enemy nations.
Finally, by the presentation of this case study I intend to draw attention to the alleged function played by Comit in showing the more 'trustworthy' and ‘professional’ side of the Fascism, through the work of figures such as Carlo Lovioz and Raffaele Mattioli. In this respect, did the former universal bank have an influence amongst British banking elites, including those of the Bank of England
The positronium atom as a benchmark for Rydberg excitation experiments in atomic physics
No full textPositronium is a hydrogen-like pure leptonic atom that has gained great attention in basic physics for its role in antimatter studies, in quantum electrodynamics tests and in material science. Positronium spectroscopy is also an interesting research field, especially in the again unexplored region of Rydberg states, where motional effects turns out of overwhelming importance in determining the level structure, at variance with the usual Rydberg atomic spectroscopy. In this paper we present a simple theory of optical excitation of positronium high-n levels in strong magnetic fields, and determine the conditions for obtaining saturation of the transitions. It is shown that positronium atom can be an atomic physics benchmark for laser excitation experiments on Rydberg states in magnetic environments
Lucien Hervé : fotografie di architettura
No full textcatalogo di una mostra itinerante di fotografie di Lucien Hervé sulle rchitettue di Le Corbusie
Scales of predictability of heavy rainfall events: a case study for the Mediterranean area
No full textDer Marschall von Luxenburg : Ein militärisches Drama in drei Aufzügen ; Mit einem Kupfer / Nach dem Französischen des Frederic [und Jean Bernard Eugène Cantiran de Boirie] von J. F. Castelli
Full text linkDER MARSCHALL VON LUXENBURG : EIN MILITÄRISCHES DRAMA IN DREI AUFZÜGEN ; MIT EINEM KUPFER / NACH DEM FRANZÖSISCHEN DES FREDERIC [UND JEAN BERNARD EUGÈNE CANTIRAN DE BOIRIE] VON J. F. CASTELLI
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
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