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    Considerazioni su Cesare Baronio e la Spagna, tra controversia politica e ricezione erudita

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    The study is focused on the complex relationship within Cesare baronio and the Spanish Monarchy, in the new political and historical context. As a cardinal, as pope confessor, as author, he had a preminent role in all the most relavant disputes between Rome, Madrid and Paris of the beginning of the 17th cent., when the balances and the alliances inside the the catholicism were changing.

    Progetto realizzato: "Museo Michetti a Francavilla"

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    Progetto recensito in: -“MuMi, Museo Michetti, Francavilla, restauro e ampliamento” di Luca Zevi in “L’architettura, cronache e storia” anno XLI n. 539/2000, Mancosu editore, Roma. -“Nuova Architettura italiana”, a cura di Pippo Ciorra e Marco D’Annuntiis, 2000 Skira, Milano, 2000. -"Museo Michetti”, di William J.R. Curtis, in "Architectural Record" n.5, 1999, McGraw Hill Companies, New York. -"La metropoli oltre il 2000. Immaginare il futuro”, di Pippo Ciorra, in "Quaderni di Ars. L’Architettura Contemporanea" n.1, 1999, De Agostini Rizzoli Periodici, Milano. -"Domus Pulcherrimae", volume a cura di Raffaella Falconio, Laboratorio Azzurro e Fondazione CARIPE editori, Pescara, 1999. -"Arte Futura Opere e Progetti del Centro per le Arti Contemporanee a Roma", catalogo a cura del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Umberto Allemandi & C. editore, Roma, 1999. -"MuMi Michetti", di Giovanna Capitelli, in "Ars" n.5, 1999, De Agostini Rizzoli Periodici, Milano. -"Chi..

    Future trends in paleoseismology: Integrated study of the seismic landscape as a vital tool in seismic hazard analyses

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    This paper forms the Introduction to this Special Issue of Tectonophysics, devoted to selected scientific research presented during events sponsored by the INQUA Subcommission on Paleoseismicity in the past few years. In this note, we summarize the contents of the contributed papers and use the issues they raise to review the state-of-the-art in paleoseismology from a Quaternary geology perspective. In our opinion, the evolution of paleoseismological studies in the past decade clearly demonstrates that in order to properly understand the seismic potential of a region, and to assess the associated hazards, broad-based/multidisciplinary studies are necessary to take full advantage from the geological evidence of past earthquakes. A major challenge in future paleoseismic research is to build detailed empirical relations between various categories of coseismic effects in the natural environment and earthquake magnitude/ intensity. These relations should be compiled in a way that is fully representative of the wide variety of natural environments on Earth, in terms of climatic settings, Quaternary tectonic evolution, rheological parameters of the seismogenic crust, and stress environment. For instance, available data indicate that between earthquake magnitude and surface faulting parameters different scaling laws exist, and they are a function of the local geodynamic setting (including style of faulting, typical focal depths, heat flow). In this regard, we discuss in some detail the concept of seismic landscape, which provides the necessary background for developing paleoseismological research strategies. The large amount of paleoseismological data collected in recent years shows that each earthquake source creates a signature on the geology and the geomorphology of an area that is unequivocally related with the order of magnitude of its earthquake potential. This signature is defined as the seismic landscape of the area (e.g., Serva, L., Vittori, E., Ferreli, L., Michetti, A.M., 1997. Geology and seismic hazard. In: Grellet, B., Mohammadioun, B., Hays, W. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second France–United States Workshop on Earthquake Hazard Assessment in Intraplate Regions: Central and Eastern United States and Western Europe, October 16, 1995, Nice, France, 20–24, Ouest Editions, Nantes, France; Michetti, A.M., Hancock, P.L., 1997. Paleoseismology: understanding past earthquakes using quaternary geology Journal of Geodynamics 24 (1–4), 3–10). We then illustrate how this relatively new framework is helpful in understanding the seismic behavior of faults capable of producing surface faulting and provides a comprehensive approach for the use of paleoseismicity data in earthquake hazard characterization

    Correction to: Size‐Dependent Enforcement, Tax Evasion and Dimensional Trap

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    The article “Size‐Dependent Enforcement, Tax Evasion and Dimensional Trap”, written by Raffaella Coppier, Elisabetta Michetti and Luisa Scaccia, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 05 July 2023 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 24 February 2024 to © The Author(s) 2024 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made

    Intensity-attenuation relationships for strong Apennines earthquakes: questioning the stability of regression coefficients over time and space based on MCS and ESI scales

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    The reliable evaluation of historical earthquakes is pivotal for seismic hazard assessment, and macroseismic observations are the only data available for the estimation of location and magnitude of historical events . Seismic parameters for pre-instrumental earthquakes included in the Italian catalogue (CPTI15, Rovida et al., 2016) are estimated on the basis of well-constrained empirical relations between Io and Mw, and also through dedicated algorithms (i.e., Boxer code; Gasperini et al., 1999; 2010). However, the application of traditional, damage-based macroseismic scales (i.e., MCS – Mercalli Cancani Sieberg; MMI – Modified Mercalli; EMS98 – European Macroseismic Scale) to contemporary earthquakes suffer some limitations such as the saturation at higher degrees and a strong dependence on the spatial distribution of human settlements . Most pertinent for this research, these scales are significantly influenced by the large variability of building vulnerability as a function of age and local economy. In this sense, the seismic sequence occurred in Emilia Romagna region in 2012 is particularly relevant . Seismic parameters estimated from the MCS and EMS survey do not match those instrumentally recorded or expected from the application of general empirical regressions (e.g., Galli et al., 2012; Graziani et al., 2015). This has been attributed to the concomitant role exerted by the local geologic setting and the characteristics of the building stock, or to overestimated intensity of strong seismic events in the historical catalog. A complementary approach is provided by the ESI07 (Environmental Seismic Intensity) scale. This scale is based solely on Earthquake Environmental Effects (EEEs), which have the significant advantage of A) still increase in their dimensions also close to full scale and B) to respond consistently in time and space, in particular when the study area shows homogeneous structural, lithological and climatic setting (Michetti et al., 2007). The goal of this note is twofold: (i) evaluate the reliability of EEEs attenuation with distance using a preliminary dataset of Italian strong earthquakes with normal kinematics and (ii) pursue the integration of MCS and ESI scales, which results in a more comprehensive picture of the historical and modern seismic events. We focus on the MCS scale, for which a much larger database is available; arguably, the preliminary results described in the following apply also to the other major damage-based scales (Michetti et al., 2004)

    Intervento sui sistemi dei trasporti e dei parcheggi a Catanzaro Lotto B Stralcio Funzionale. Appalto concorso. Progetto definitivo.

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    Intervento sui sistemi dei trasporti e dei parcheggi a Catanzaro Lotto B Stralcio Funzionale. Appalto concorso. Progetto definitivo. Edificio modulare nell'area della stazione di Catanzaro Città per il ricovero mezzi in esercizio sulla rete di autolinee F. C. L. Parcheggio di autovetture private. Nuovo acceso alla stazione di Catanzaro Città da p.za Montegrappa. Ristrutturazione del fabbricato viaggiatori. Ristrutturazione della fermata di Pratica Coomittente: raggruppamento temporaneo d'imprese: Gatto costruzioni spa; Costruzioni procopio srl; Carchella Francesco sp

    Ma è poi tanto pacifico che l’albero rispecchi l’archivio?

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    The Author investigates the hierarchical nature of XML structures and the way it influences the representation of archival materials: focusing on the widespread habit of referring to and depicting archives as trees, the Author highlights some major concerns and restraints related to a hierarchy-oriented approach, whereas the complex nature of archives needs to be represented through different and richer strategies

    Geological Criteria for Evaluating Seismicity Revisited: Forty Years of Paleoseismic Investigations and the Natural Record of Past Earthquakes

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    The identification of individual past earthquakes and their characterization in time and space, as well as in magnitude, can be approached in many different ways with a large variety of methods and techniques, using a wide spectrum of objects and features. We revise the stratigraphic and geomorphic evidence currently used in the study of paleoseismicity, after more than three decades since the work by Allen (1975), which was arguably the first critical overview in the field of earthquake geology. Natural objects or geomarkers suitable for paleoseismic analyses are essentially preserved in the sediments, and in a broader sense, in the geologic record. Therefore, the study of these features requires the involvement of geoscientists, but very frequently it is a multidisciplinary effort. The constructed environment and heritage, which typically are the focus of archaeoseismology and macroseismology, here are left aside. The geomarkers suitable to paleoseismic assessment can be grouped based on their physical relation to the earthquake’s causative fault. If directly associated with the fault surface rupture, these objects are known as direct or on-fault features (primary effects in the Environmental Seismic Intensity [ESI] 2007 scale). Conversely, those indicators not in direct contact with the fault plane are known as indirect or off-fault evidence (secondary effects in the ESI 2007 scale). This second class of evidence can be subdivided into three types or subclasses: type A, which encompasses seismically induced effects, including soft-sediment deformation (soil liquefaction, mud diapirism), mass movements (including slumps), broken (disturbed) speleothems, fallen precarious rocks, shattered basement rocks, and marks of degassing (pockmarks, mud volcanoes); type B, which consists of remobilized and redeposited sediments (turbidites, homogenites, and tsunamites) and transported rock fragments (erratic blocks); and type C, entailing regional markers of uplift or subsidence (such as reef tracts, microatolls, terrace risers, river channels, and in some cases progressive unconformities). The first subclass of objects (type A) is generated by seismic shaking. The second subclass (type B) relates either to water bodies set in motion by the earthquake (for the sediments and erratic blocks) or to earthquake shaking; in a general way, they all relate to wave propagation through different materials. The third subclass (type C) is mostly related to the tectonic deformation itself and can range from local (next to the causative fault) to regional scale. The natural exposure of the paleoseismic objects—which necessarily conditions the paleoseismic approach employed—is largely controlled by the geodynamic setting. For instance, oceanic subduction zones are mostly submarine, while collisional settings tend to occur in continental environments. Divergent and wrenching margins may occur anywhere, in any marine, transitional, or continental environment. Despite the fact that most past subduction earthquakes have to be assessed through indirect evidence, paleoseismic analyses of this category of events have made dramatic progress recently, owing to the increasingly catastrophic impact that they have on human society

    EAC: Elementi per un Approccio Critico

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    The Author highlights the poor spread of EAD/EAC in Italy and analyses the causes considering the broader context of standardization processes: to this aim, the Author identifies well defined problems related to political, cultural, and technical aspects. Particular attention is devoted to the analysis of some doubts and uncertainties arising from the beta version of EAC: suggestions and solutions are presented in the paper
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