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“The Mirror of God”. Gregorio XIII and the Reform of the Calendar
No full textIt was on the first of January 45 BC when calendar reform instigated by Julius Caesar came into force. From then until fifteen centuries later on February 24, 1582, when Pope Gregorio XIII issued the Inter gravissimas pastoralis officii nostri curas by means of which, thanks to a drastic subtraction of ten days for the October of that year, a system of calculation of the days and months, which was more accurate than the previous system, was developed. This was a decision which was both courageous and definitive and a decision which is now widely accepted in most countries in the world, so much so that even where the Gregorian calendar has not yet been fully implemented, there is still hope about achieving a convergence on consensus for the date regarding the celebration of Easter. Not surprisingly, on May 6, 2014, the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Tawadros II, encouraged Pope Francis to move precisely in this direction.
History and Geography together thus seem to join forces in highlighting the importance of the reform of The Gregorian calendar as a watershed and central reality in the West and, by extension, throughout the whole world. And, it was in this great attempt at guiding civil and religious life in Europe – towards what was eloquently called the “Mirror of God” – that Villa Mondragone served as the magnificent and majestic backdrop
La Repubblica del Gusto. Riflessioni sul nazionalismo culturale
No full textIn questo saggio si esamina il ruolo centrale del gusto nella formazione dell’idea di Nazione nel Settecento europeo.
Il particolare caso dell’Inghilterra è interessante perché nel XVIII secolo essa mostra in concreto l’importanza dell’arte e del gusto nella creazione dell’identità nazionale. Conquistato un equilibrato e stabile assetto politico dopo la Gloriosa Rivoluzione del 1688-89, l’Inghilterra si dedica fin dai primi anni del Settecento al raffinamento di quegli aspetti – le arti, i costumi, le scienze – per solito subordinati alla soluzione di altri e più urgenti problemi sociali. Fattori circostanziali come il Grand Tour favoriscono poi la circolazione di opere d’arte (in originale o in copia), incisioni, relazioni su usi e costumi continentali, segnalando a loro volta l’importanza di produre uno stile e un’arte nazionali in grado di competere sul piano del gusto e dell’arte con le altre nazioni «civili» europee
Note sulla produzione spirituale di S. Alfonso de’ Liguori e di Giovanni Battista Scaramelli
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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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Resilience in Papal Rome, 1656-1870. A City's Response to Crisis
No full textThis book analyses the evolution of the city of Rome, in particular, papal Rome, from the plague of 1656 until 1870 when it became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The author explores papal Rome as a resilient city that had to cope with numerous crises during this period. By focusing on a selection of different crises in Rome, the book combines cultural, political, and economic history to examine key turning points in the city's history. The book is split into chapters exploring themes such as diplomacy and international relations, disease, environmental disasters, famine, and public debt and unravels the political, economic, and social consequences of these transformative events. All the chapters are based on untapped original sources, chiefly from the State Archive in Rome, the Vatican Archives, the Rome Municipal Archives, the Ecole Francaise Library, the National Library, the Capitoline Library
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