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Pietro Verri’s Contribution to the Economic Theory of the 18th Century: Commercial Society, Civil Society and Governance of the Economy
No full text'Count Pietro Verri (1728-97) - Schumpeter writes (History, p. 178) - - would have to be included in any list of the greatest economists'. Within the Milanese school, he certainly stands out, alongside with Cesare Beccaria, during one of the most interesting periods from a history of analysis point of view. Luigi Cossa's famous introduction to the study of political economy rates Pietro Verri to be inferior to Beccaria in ingenuity and scientific cultivation, but greatly to be ahead of him as an economist.1 This judgement by Cossa, in particular, seems to echo the relative position of the two men in the history of ideas, particularly after Beccaria's rise to fame with a book - On crimes and punishments - which had in fact been largely inspired by Verri himself and defended by him.2 It is proposed in the present paper to revisit some of the basic tenets of Pietro Verri's political economy, with more in view than dwell on specific intuitions and theorems: namely relate those to Verri's own - quite original - conception of the economy. The scholarly work of Pietro Verri - with a special reference to his Meditazioni sulla economia politica of 1771 - provides the first systematic contribution stemming from the quarters of Lombard enlightenment in the field of political economy, especially so if one considers that Cesare Beccaria's parallel work - namely his Elementi di economia pubblica, conceived and drafted at the same time as Verri's Meditazioni - would only be published posthumously several years later. From the vantage point afforded by Verri's political economy, we gain a considerably attractive view of the most significant elements and characteristic concepts of Lombard enlightenment during the latter half of the 18th century; Verri, moreover, as we shall see, builds on a number of them in a new and original way. This paper is aimed at discussing Verri's political economy mainly along two distinct, but related, lines. In the first place the conception of commercial society is considered such as it is treated by the author particularly in his Meditazioni. In this perspective the analysis of such issues as competition and the market or money and taxation occupy a central place. Secondly it will be necessary to emphasise that Verri's approach has little to do either with forms of pure economics on one side - largely yet to be born throughout the 18th century - or, on the other side, with such conceptions of the polis - contrariwise well alive among his own contemporaries - as are founded on a sovereign authority conceived to be situated above the law. What Verri's political economy ultimately amounts to is an economic conception of civil society. The latter has natural strong connections with his own fact-mindedness - emphasised by Schumpeter - as well as with his deep practical involvement in administrative affairs and in the reforming process taking place during the latter half of the 18th century in Milan. In our view, a thorough investigation along the mentioned lines is the precondition for an understanding of the intellectual stature and of the scholarly contribution of Pietro Verri. His main ground is distinctly analytical and only by appreciating his analysis is it possible to shed light on the meaning and intellectual significance also of his practical contributions. Moreover Verri's pronouncements on the criticism of despotic government, the relevance of intermediate powers or bodies and on multiple levels of governance will be examined in a new and original light, showing how close they are to the gist of his analysis.
L'Università e le scuole per gli Ingegneri a Ferrara
No full textLa storia della formazione culturale degli ingegneri è stata oggetto nel secolo scorso di importanti ricerche, si ricordano quelle di Pietro Riccardi e Antonio Favaro. In tempi più recenti diversi studi sono stati condotti in Francia, mentre più rare e occasionali sono state negli ultimi decenni le ricerche condotte in Italia. Il presente articolo risulta un contributo alla conoscenza dell'istruzione tecnica superiore a Ferrara con particolare riferimento all'Università riformata (1771-1804), al periodo napoleonico (1804-1815), allla Restaurazione Pontificia (1817-1859), all'Italia unita
Ferrara trionfante, per la coronazione della B.ma Vergine del Rosario celebrata l'anno 1638 : con apparato di teatro, di macchine, e di musica componimento dell'eccellentiss. sig. d. Ascanio Pio di Savoia : donato dal medesimo signore alla Compagnia del Santiss. Rosario eretta anticamente in Ferrara nella Chiesa di S. Domenico de reuerendi Padri Predicatori /
No full textIllustrations: 5 engravings, comprising 4 scenes from the presentation and a large view of the outdoor stage. The last is signed in the plate: Pietro Todeschi scultor. Its legend reads: ...scena del teatro fabricato l'anno 1638 nella Piazza nuoua di Ferrara per la solenne Coronazione della Beatissima Vergine del Sant.mo Rosario : Inuenzione del sig.r Alfonso Chendi architetto ferrarese...di nuouo dissegnato, e posto alla stampa di Gio: Battista Barbieri...Mode of access: Internet.Bound with: Narratione de' successi intorno alla miracolosa imagine della gloriosissima Vergine. Stampata in Lucca et ristampata in Fiorenza, 1588 (SPECIAL 94-B7331)
Atlas Marrakech. Musei per la città storica
No full textO livro Atlas Marrakech. Musei per la città storica, de coautoria do Prof. João Rocha, diretor do Departamento de Arquitetura, é lançado esta semana, sintetizando investigação realizada sobre Marrakech e representando o resultado da lecionação de uma Unidade Curricular de Projeto na Università Iuav de Veneza, onde a cidade de Marrakech foi o objeto de estudo. O livro, apresenta textos dos três autores, Marco Ferrari (Iuav), João Rocha e Pietro Ferrara (Iuav); tem prefácio do Prof.Filipe Themudo Barata (UÉvora), do Prof. Armando Dal Fabbro (Iuav), e um ensaio do historiador Hamid Triki. A publicação é bilíngue (Italiano e Francês) tendo tido o apoio do Centro de Investigação CIDEHUS e do Iuav.
Marrakech, cidade e arquitetura; Marrakech cidade e literatura; Marrakech entre Oriente e Ocidente, são os temas que contextualizam a pesquisa para este livro, onde o recurso a documentos de arquivo, cartografia, fotografia (Maison de la Photographie de Marrakech), e de elementos desenhados, convocam uma reflexão sobre a relação extraordinária que a arquitetura desta cidade tem com o lugar, com a sua medina, com os seus jardins, com o fluxo de uma população antiga, berbere, muçulmana, judaica, e europeia. O livro propõe também uma reflexão sobre a relação da arquitetura contemporânea com a cidade histórica, sobre o ato de se realizar arquitetura como um elemento de coesão social, como um elemento de criação de identidades plurais.
O livro As Vozes de Marrakech, de Elias Canetti, que veio a posicionar a “cidade vermelha” no caminho da globalização, permite agora outras leituras e interpretações da cidade, e onde a importância, da (re)invenção de espaços museológicos, como momentos abertos à cidade, se tornam prioritários. Neste contexto Atlas Marrakech. Musei per la città storica mostra também o resultado dos projetos realizados para espaços adjacentes a três significativos monumentos da cidade: a mesquita Koutoubia, a Qubba Al Barundiyyin e o Palácio Al Badi.IUAV, CIDEHUS, Catedra UNESCO em Patrimonio Imaterial (Évora)
Archeologia a Castel San Pietro tra antichità e medioevo.
No full textSintesi delle ricerche e delle scoperte archeologiche effettuate nell'area situata tra le antiche città di Bononia e Forum Corneli, attraversata dalla via Aemilia e incentrata sullo scomparso municipio romano di Claterna. La raccolta dei dati consente di delineare i caratteri e lo sviluppo dell'insediamento territoriale tra l'età romana e il medioevo, quando sorse il centro di Castel S. Pietro, del quale si segnalano le più recenti scoperte di archeologia urbana
ANTISENSE MEDIATED DYSTROPHIN READING FRAME RESTORATION
No full textExon skipping using antisense oligonucleotides (AONs) has successfully been used to
reframe the mRNA in various DMD (Duchenne muscular dystrophy) patients carrying
deletions and in the mdx mouse model. This study can be devided in two parts: in the
first part we have tested the feasibility of the exon skipping approach for patients with
small mutations in in-frame exons, while in the second part a quantitative comparison of
exon skipping revealing techniques is addressed.
We first identified 55 novel disease-causing point mutations. We selected 5 patients
with nonsense or frameshifting mutations in exons 10, 16, 26, 33 and 34. Wild type and
mutation specific 2‟OMePS AONs were tested in cell-free splicing assays and in
cultured cells derived from the selected patients. The results obtained confirm cell-free
splicing assay as an alternative system to test exon skipping propensity when patients‟
cells are unavailable. In myogenic cells, similar levels of exon skipping were observed
for wild type and mutation specific AONs for exons 16, 26 and 33, while for exon 10 and
exon 34 the efficiency of the AONs was significantly different. Interestingly, in some
cases skipping efficiencies for mutated exons were quite dissimilar compared to what
previously reported for the respective wild type exons. This behaviour may be related to
effect of the mutations on exon skipping propensity and highlights the complexity of
identifying optimal AONs for skipping exons with small mutations.
In the second part we compared different techniques to reveal the exon skipping levels
in the muscles of 7 different mdx mice. An absolute quantification of the dystrophin
transcript amount was possible using a digital array. Results underline the low
expression of the dytrophin gene and the amount needed to correctly quantify the exon
skipping percentage
La forma specifica nell’alchimia di Pietro Bono da Ferrara
No full textLa natura della pietra filosofale è uno dei temi più complessi dell’alchimia medievale. Secondo Pietro Bono da Ferrara, autore della Pretiosa Margarita Novella, una quaestio sull'alchimia, è la forma specifica dell'oro. Lo scopo di questo contributo è quello di ricostruire le fonti utilizzate dall’alchimista, in particolare il Conciliator di Pietro d’Abano, al fine di stabilire un legame tra i due autori. Avicenna utilizza il concetto di forma specifica, per spiegare le virtù occulte delle medicine. Alberto Magno lo usa nel De mineralibus e Pietro d'Abano lo esamina nel Conciliator. Bono segue questi autori nella sua concezione della forma specifica, di cui riporta e discute alcuni temi comuni, come l'importanza dell'influsso astrale, l'identificazione della forma specifica con la forma sostanziale e la conoscibilità attraverso l'esperienza delle virtù date dalle forme.The nature of the philosopher’s stone is one of the most complex themes of medieval alchemy. According to Petrus Bonus of Ferrara, author of the Pretiosa Margarita Novella, a quaestio on alchemy, it is the forma specifica of gold. The purpose of this contribution is to reconstruct the sources used by the alchemist, particularly Peter of Abano’s Conciliator, in order to establish a link between the two authors. Avicenna uses the concept of forma specifica, to explain the occult virtues of medicines. Albert the Great uses it in De mineralibus and Peter of Abano examines it in the Conciliator. Bonus follows these authors in his conception of the forma specifica. He recalls and discusses some common themes, such as the importance of the astral influence, the identification of the forma specifica with the substantial form, and the knowability through the experience of the virtues given by the forms
Lifting String Analysis Domains
No full textStrings are characterized by properties that either refer to their content (e.g., the set of contained characters) and to their shape (e.g., the character position and the length of the strings). In this paper, we present a general framework providing a systematic lifting of string domains through a segmentation abstraction, yielding to a more accurate representation of strings without major impact on efficiency of the analysis. The proposed operator exploits the abstraction functor introduced by Cousot, Cousot and Logozzo for a fully parametric array representation, in the string scenario
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