154 research outputs found
I silos granari del gruppo Ferruzzi. Memoria di uno spazio industriale
No full textThe article analyses the experience of the Ferruzzi Group of Ravenna and the significant moments of growth and expansion on the Italian and international industrial scene, starting from the 1950s. Through the reconstruction of the events characterising the birth and development of the cereal activities of Serafino Ferruzzi, founder of the company, the aim is to outline the dense network of grain silos built in the main Italian ports, based on the Group’s multiple exchanges with foreign markets, especially South America. Iconic examples of contemporary times, the surviving silos of this industrial enterprise constitute a significant part of port architecture, opening up a broader reflection on their potential uses and future destinies
La riqualificazione funzionale di un sistema viario: obiettivi e priorità di intervento
No full textArea urbana e sistema dei trasporti: obiettivi e criteri di progettazione di una metropolitana leggera
No full textLe attestazioni delle curae municipali nella regio VIII
No full textLa documentazione epigrafica della regio VIII (Aemilia) attesta la presenza soltanto di due o tre curatores municipali stricto sensu. In questo contributo vengono esaminati e contestualizzati storicamente i cursus di tali curatores.
Abstract. The epigraphic documentation of the VIII regio (Aemilia) testifies to the presence of just two or three municipal curatores stricto sensu. In this article I shall examine the cursus proper to the curatores at issue and situate them into a historical context
CA23 campania architettura. Territori plurali, festival di architettura
No full textAttività di tutoraggio per il laboratorio living lab Marcianise curato da Francesca Castanò (DADI) e Giuseppe Guida (DADI), coordinato dalla Regione Campania, Direzione Generale Governo del Territorio, nell'ambito del festival Campania architettura 2023 (Campania, 15-28 aprile 2023)
Le Rocche ritrovate. Storie di restauri: Riolo Terme e Monte Battaglia
No full textIn the border and transit area along the Apennine ridge between Romagna and Tuscany, encastellation has given rise to villages and towns since medieval times. Although by the end of the nineteenth century most of the defense systems had already been lost, there are numerous vestiges of that heritage that still endure today. Examples are the fortress of Riolo Terme, in the province of Ravenna; and that of Monte Battaglia, in Casola Valsenio, still employed as strategic nodes during World War II. In the first case it is a square defense tower built in 1388, in its original core, by the Bolognese government, with the purpose of providing shelter for the militia. In the 15th century the village of Riolo - which had become the new capital of the Senio valley - saw the fortification increased, with the addition of circular towers, a moat and a wall. Under the rule of the Riario-Sforza family, it reached its maximum military efficiency, then underwent significant transformations in the following centuries, until it housed municipal offices inside between the 19th and 20th centuries. The Longobard-era fortress, located on Mount Battaglia in Casola Valsenio, was similarly a key garrison of the Manfredi family to defend the valleys and the two rivers between Imola and Faenza. With an irregular plan that followed the contours of the land, the fortress included a watchtower about 15 meters high, used to monitor and coordinate the defense. Over the following centuries it fell into decay, later transforming into a memorial site dedicated to the fallen soldiers of World War II The paper aims to investigate the theme of military architecture as an object of study in the second half of the twentieth century, analyzing the projects and strategies of recovery and restoration curated by the Rava-Piersanti studio in the two cases of the Riolo and Monte Battaglia fortresses
Las fronteras culturales y textuales: “Cuento en camino” de Ana Lydia Vega
No full textAmong the writers of the Caribbean countries, the notion of the border is related to the discourse of insularity. This concept goes beyond geographical limits, because it designates a historical-cultural experience and a peculiar identifying perspective that have generated a heterogeneous writing. Based on these premises, the essay proposes the analysis of “Cuento en camino” written by the Puerto Rican writer Ana Lydia Vega, text included in Falsas crónicas del Sur (1991). The story emerges as the synthesis of the narrative poetics developed throughout the collection, in which the stories are installed in the imprecise border between the chronicle and the fiction, between the legend and the oral tradition of the Puerto Rican peoples. It is also presented as a metaliterary story, since the author reveals the narrative and narratological instruments used to construct the story
El centenario de Virgilio Piñera en Venecia
No full textIn a year during which some of the most leading figures in Latin American literature were celebrated on their centenary of their birth, (Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Octavio Paz), I would like to remember a belated centenary, due to a real “rebirth” in the cultural and literary Cuban scene. I’m going to propose an excellent cuban writer, Virgilio Piñera (1912-1979), who become the subject of growing critical and popular attention in recent years. His singular stories – or better still, his whole existential adventure – answer to a deep-rooted obsession with authenticity, that insidious zone where each character and situation denude his author and the ghosts tormenting him. His writing, being a continuous paradox, is the instrument trough which he wants to fight the trivial and the meaningless. His troublesome literary voice was reconsidered after his death, and his first official centenary, in his native country, was commemorated only three years ago, in 2012
Las "Pequeñas Maniobras" de Sebastián en la novela de Virgilio Piñera
No full textThis article analyzes the perspective of everyday life in a society that greatly influences behavior and thinking of the main character and narrator of the novel Pequeñas Maniobras (1963), by Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera. Due to the difficulties introduced by censorship, reception of his work encountered obstacles during the author’s life and very few criticism is now available about this text. The novel offers a particular reading of life and reality that the main character, Sebastián, proposes in the first person. The elements of everyday life I will examine are those connected to the ‘no-actions’ and the ‘no-dialogues’ of the protagonist in a corrupted society, in which he feels alienated; but, at the same time and just through these behaviors, he ‘contributes’ to its development. Moreover, I will study possible parallelisms between the protagonist and the author, involved in this paradoxical social game. From a reflection on the literary genre used, including the diary, memoirs and confessions, I will show how this ‘daily exercise’ is well suited to the intentions of the writer. In addition, based on the reflections by Maurice Blanchot and Guy Debord, along with scholars who have analyzed the literary universe of Virgilio Piñera, I will examine remarkable behavioral and linguistic aspects of the protagonist in this story
A Tree Without Branches? On Coptic Arab historian Mufaḍḍal Ibn Abī l-Faḍā’il and His Conjectural Stammbaum
No full textThe Coptic Arab writer Mufaḍḍal Ibn Abī l-Faḍā’il (d. after 759 AH/1358 AD), author of al-Nahj al sadīd (“The Correct Path”), a chronicle of the early Mamluk period, is apparently “ a historian without history”. Indeed, the only known information about his life is the date of completion of his work : the 11th of Shawwāl 759 AH, i.e. the 16th of September 1358 AD, as the author himself declared in the introduction of his book.
Apart from this, he did not provide any information on himself and he apparently left no trace on any other writer, either in his generation or in the following ones. Nevertheless, some modern scholars tried to speculate on possible connections between Mufaḍḍal and some personalities mentioned in sources of the time. In particular, Edgard Blochet, in 1919, argued that some Coptic notables mentioned in other manuscripts should be identified as members of Mufaḍḍal’s family. Blochet's hypothesis has been accepted by scholars until now, in spite of its merely
conjectural nature, and has been the basis for further speculations. In the present paper, we argue that the whole matter deserves to be carefully reconsidered and we endeavour to demonstrate that none of the hypotheses made on Mufaḍḍal’s family until now can be considered as conclusive
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