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Il dibattito intorno alle questioni del restauro negli interventi di completamento della Loggia di Brescia tra Ottocento e Novecento
No full textVINCENZO BELLINI FOCUSED ON ,,THE PURITANS’’ OPERA
No full textMagisterská práce pojednává o hudebním skladateli Vincenzu Bellinim
a jeho opeře Puritáni. Hlavním cílem a posláním práce je přiblížit čtenáři tuto významnou romantickou osobnost a úzce se zaměřit na dílo Puritáni. Zde se autor zaměřuje na vznik
a vývoj opery. Dále poukazuje na děj a jednotlivé postavy kusu. Jelikož se v inscenaci vyskytuje autorova oblíbená role Riccarda, rozhodl se jí věnovat blíže a rozebrat
její slavnou árii: „Ah, per sempre io ti perdei“ harmonicky i formálně. Nakonec se autor zaměří na vybrané pěvce, kteří zpívali árie od Vincenza Belliniho, a zmíní jeho vlastní postřehy a poznatky z poslechu skladeb. Magisterská práce by měla sloužit všem čtenářům, které zajímá hudební skladatel Vincenzo Bellini a jeho opera Puritáni.The master's thesis deals with the composer Vincenzo Bellini and his opera Puritans. The main goal and mission of the work is to introduce readers to this important romantic personality and to focus closely on the work of the Puritans. Here the author focuses on the origin and development of opera. Next, go to the history and individual characters of the piece. As the author's favorite role of Riccardo appears in the productions, he decided to take a closer look at it and analyze his famous aria: "Ah, per sempre io ti perdei" harmoniously and formally. Finally, the author focuses on selected singers who sang an aria by Vincenza Bellini, and his own observations and insights from listening to the warehouse. The master's thesis should serve all readers who are interested in the composer Vincenzo Bellini and his opera Puritans
La ‘pancia’ della società: sul controverso rapporto tra ceti medi e politica, da Marx all’Italia della crisi
No full textThis article focuses on the relationship between class and political behaviour, with specific attention to what happens in the middle of social stratification. Through a review of literature, the author reconstructs the evolution of the political role of the middle classes in the capitalist era
Giovanni Bellini. The Art of Contemplation
No full textGrave J. Giovanni Bellini. The Art of Contemplation. London/New York: Prestel; 2018.Following the arc of Bellini’s career, from his early devotional paintings to his later, occasionally secular works, this book offers an in-depth appreciation of the Venetian master who dominated the Early Renaissance. Featuring nearly every extant Bellini work, as well as those of his contemporaries, this book brims with gorgeous Renaissance art. Author Johannes Grave focuses on some of the artist’s greatest works including Allegoria Sacra, the Brera Pietà, and the altarpiece of San Giobbe—to explore how Bellini excelled in tempera before mastering oil painting. Grave discusses how Bellini’s precise lines, his delicate facial expressions, and the subtle effects of light and shadow were used in his religious paintings as well as his portraiture and late mythological depictions. This book examines Bellini’s life, including his complex relationships with his father Jacopo, his brother Gentile, and his brother-in-law Andrea Mantegna. It considers the original contexts of Bellini’s works, and elucidates the ways in which these paintings were meant to be perceived. The book also links Bellini’s devotional paintings with the poetic creations of his pupil Giorgione. An important contribution to the scholarship of Renaissance art, this masterful book reaffirms Bellini’s status as one of Venice’s greatest painters
Neutrinoless double beta decay
No full textThe study of neutrino properties is one of the fundamental challenges in Particle Physics nowadays. Fifty years of neutrino investigations established that neutrinos are massive particles but the absolute scale has not yet been measured. Moreover the true nature of the neutrino mass is still unknown. Is the neutrino its own antiparticle, as proposed by Majorana in 1937? The only way to probe the neutrino nature and provide a measurement of its mass is through the observation of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, a very rare, spontaneous nuclear transition which emits two electrons and no neutrinos. An overview of present status and future perpectives of 0vββ experimental searches is given. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence
Lawyers in a Blocked Society. Career Expectations and Determinants of Professional Success in the Italian Legal Labour Market
No full textThis article focuses on the changing conditions of Italian lawyers, starting from the widespread idea - here assumed as a general hypothesis - of the law profession that, in many cases, could be a way out for people with unfulfilled career expectations. In detail, a brief introduction situates the increase in the number of lawyers in the context of an economy with a low capacity to create high-education jobs, while the first section highlights the segmentation of the legal labour market. The second section then examines the relationship between initial career expectations and professional success, also paying attention to social origins as a determinant of success or failure. Furthermore, it attempts to typify and understand different choice patterns. For these purposes, the author presents selected findings of a study on lawyers based in Florence
Lepidocyrtoides hopkini Bellini 2017, sp. nov.
No full textLepidocyrtoides hopkini sp. nov. Cipola & Bellini FigS 1I –J, 30–35 Diagnosis. Body completely black in adultS (Fig. 1I); dorSal head with 4 median and 7 Sutural mac; labral papillae with 2 large teeth-like projectionS; baSomedian labial field with chaetae r abSent, M2 ciliate and Smaller; 5 anterior poStlabial chaetae ciliate pluS 2–4 Scale-like chaetae (FigS 30E, 32C, E–F); Th II with about 68 anterior mac and 9 poSterior mac; Th III–Abd III with 5–6, 0, 3 and 1 median mac reSpectively; Abd IV with 20–25 median mac and 18 lateral mac (FigS 33, 34A–B); trochanteral organ with about 130 Spine-like chaetae; ungueS without apical tooth; unguiculi acuminate with outer edge with proximal tooth; lateral flap of collophore with about 8 Smooth and 24 ciliate chaetae; manubrial plate with 5–6 blunt mac; dorSal denS with two inner proximal chaetae gently ciliate, without unilaterally ciliate chaetae (FigS 31B, 35D–F, H). Type Material. Holotype female on Slide (AMS): AuStralia, New South WaleS, Taree, Lorien Wildlife Refugee, 31°45'04"S, 152°32'03"E, 46 m., 17.i–04.ii.2015, MalaiSe trap, G. & B. WilliamS coll. Paratype on SlideS (AMS): 2 femaleS and 6 SpecimenS in alcohol, Same data aS holotype. ParatypeS on SlideS (AMS): 2 femaleS and 1 juvenile on SlideS and 6 SpecimenS in alcohol, Same data aS holotype, except 26.xi–14.xii.2011. Description. Total length (head + trunk) of SpecimenS 4.14–4.46 mm (n=4), holotype 4.37 mm. Adult SpecimenS with body completely black, except depigmented SpotS on head, tergal membraneS, Abd IV anteriorly, tibiotarSuS III and collophore and denteS diStally (Fig. 1I). Subadult and juvenileS pale white with dark blue pigmentS on Ant I–IV, Th II, Abd I–II, Abd IV–V poSteriorly, tibiotarSi I–II, coxa to femura III, dorSal manubrium and proximal denteS (Fig. 1J). ScaleS preSent on Ant I to proximal Ant IV, dorSal and ventral head, Th and Abd dorSally, legS (except empodia), collophore anteriorly, dorSal and ventral manubrium, and denteS ventrally. Head. Antennae Shorter than trunk length (Fig. 1I), ratio antennae: trunk = 1: 1.34–1.55 (n=4), holotype 1.55 mm; antennal SegmentS ratio aS I: II: III: IV = 1: 1.49–1.84: 1.2 4–1.57: 2.39–3.01, holotype 1: 1.49: miSSing: 2.68. Ant IV annulated on diStal four fifthS, with bilobed apical bulb, S-blun t SenS of different SizeS and ciliate chaetae (Fig. 30A–B). Ant III SenSe organ with 2 elongated rodS, 2 Spiny guard SenSilla, S-blunt SenS and ciliated chaetae (Fig. 32A). Ant I dorSally with 7 mac and about 26 Smooth mic at baSe (Fig. 32B). Head dorSal chaetotaxy with 13 antennal (An), 5 anterior (A), 4 median (M), 7 Sutural (S), 1 poSt-Sutural (PS), 2 poStoccipital anterior (Pa) 1 poStoccipital poSterior (Pp) chaetae, pluS 1 extra mac of uncentain homology (Fig. 32E). EyeS G and H Smaller, A and B larger, otherS Subequal, with 6 interocular chaetae, without ScaleS (FigS 32E). Clypeal formula with 4 (l1–2), 21 (frontal), 3 (pf0–1) ciliate chaetae, l1–2 acuminate and long, pf0–1 larger, 6 frontal Smaller, otherS Subequal (Fig. 32D). Prelabral chaetae Smooth; labrum with chaeta a1 not thick, p0–2 larger. Labral papillae with 2 large teeth-like projectionS apically acuminate and 1 Small outer projection (Fig. 32C). Maxillary palp with Smooth apical appendage (a.a.) and baSal chaeta (b.c.) gently ciliate, thick and 1.06 larger in length than the apical; Sublobal plate with three Smooth appendageS. Labial palp with five main papillae (A–E) pluS one hypoStomal papilla (H) with 0, 5, 0, 4, 4, 3 guard appendageS, reSpectively, lateral proceSS (l.p.) apically pointed and not reaching the baSe of the papilla E. BaSolateral and baSomedian labial fieldS with chaetae M1–2, E, L1–2, M2 Smaller, r abSent (Similar to L. villasboasi, Fig. 26D). Ventral head with numerouS ciliate chaetae of different SizeS, 5 anterior poStlabial chaetae pluS 4 Scale-like chaetae; cephalic groove with about 27 Surrounding ciliate chaetae, 11 median mic, 2 larger baSal chaetae (b.c.), otherS Subequal (FigS 30E, 32F). Thorax chaetotaxy (FigS 33A–B). Th II with about 71 antero-median chaetae, 68 mac; poSteriorly with 9 median mac, and 1 latero-median (m4). Th III with 5–6 median mac (a1–2, p1–3, p2e may be abSent) and 2–3 lateral mac (m6, p5–6, p 5 may be abSent). Ratio Th II: III = 2.86–2.22: 1 (n=4), holotype 2.86: 1. Abdomen chaetotaxy (FigS 30C–D, 33C–D, 34A–C). Abd I without central mac. Abd II with 3 central mac (m3, m3e– 3ei) and 2 lateral mac (m5–6), 2 meS, bothriotricha a5 and m2 with 12 and 6 acceSSory chaetae reSpectively. Abd III with 1 central mac (m3) and 5 lateral mac (m7?, am6, pm6, p6–7), bothriotricha a5, m2 and m5 with 11, 8 and 8 acceSSory chaetae reSpectively, and 4 lateral meS. Abd IV with 20–25 median mac, 18 lateral mac, bothriotricha T2 and T4 with 10 and 6 acceSSory chaetae reSpectively, 12 poSterior SenS (ps type I, otherS type II), and aproximatelly 18 poSterior meS. Abd V with SerieS ‘a’, ‘m’ and ‘p’ with 4, 4 and 5 mac reSpectively. Ratio Abd III: IV = 1: 4.05–5.04 (n= 4), holotype 1: 4.84. LegS. Subcoxa I (outer Side) with 7 chaetae on two rowS and 10 pSp; Subcoxa II with an anterior row of 15 chaetae pluS about 18 chaetae anteriorlly, poSterior row of 7 chaetae and 8 pSp; Subcoxa III with one row of 10 chaetae pluS about 15 anterior chaetae, and 2 pSp poSteriorlly (Fig. 35A–C). Trochanteral organ with about 130 Spine-like chaetae (Fig. 35D). Femora I–III with 2 inner chaetae (Submedian and diStal) gently ciliate. TibiotarSi I– III Subdivided or not on diStal two thirdS and with at leaSt 15 inner mac gently ciliate each; outer Side with ate leaSt 5 long ciliate apically acuminate chaetae (Fig. 30F). UngueS outer Side with a pair of large laterobaSal teeth and one unpaired proximal tooth; inner Side with 3 teeth, 2 paired baSal and 1 unpaired median Smaller than baSal teeth, apical tooth abSent. Unguiculi I–III acuminate, with poSterior and outer edgeS Serrated, outer edge with one Small proximal tooth, inner edge Smooth; ratio unguiS: unguiculuS = 1: 0.59. TibiotarSuS III diStally with one inner Smooth chaetae 1.24 larger than unguiculuS; outer Side with tenent hair capitate, gently ciliate, and 0.77 Smaller than unguiS outer edge (FigS 30G, 35E). Collophore. Anterior Side with 28 ciliate chaetae, 6 diStally of different SizeS, 2 apically acuminate, 12 thin and 7 Smaller chaetae widely diStributed; poSterior Side with one unpaired proximal mac, 19 meS (3 unpaired), about 32 ciliate chaetae, and 26 ciliate mic widely diStributed, and diStally 1 thick Smooth chaeta; lateral flap with about 8 Smooth chaetae and 24 ciliate chaetae (Fig. 35F). Furcula. Ventral manubrium with 4 apical ciliate chaetae, 7 outer Scale-like chaetae and about 26 apical long ScaleS, and 13 Subapical ScaleS on one tranSverSe row per Side (FigS 31A, 35G). Manubrial plate with 5–6 blunt mac gently ciliate and apically bullet-like, 15 ciliate chaetae of different SizeS, and 2 pSp. DorSal denS with two inner proximal chaetae gently ciliate, without unilaterally ciliate chaetae (FigS 31B, 35H). Mucro bidentate with apical tooth Subequal to proximal tooth, baSal Spine not SurpaSSing the apex of the proximal tooth. Etymology. The new SpecieS honorS Dr. Stephen P. Hopkin (in memoriam), reSearcher and author of the book “Biology of SpringtailS” (Hopkin 1997) of great importance for Collembola SpecialiStS. Remarks. Lepidocyrtoides hopkini sp. nov. reSembleS L. flavocinctus Schött, 1917 by body of adultS completely black, Ant IV with bilobed apical bulb, prelabral chaetae Smooth, Th II with 9 poSterior mac, Th III uSually with 6 central mac, Abd I devoid of mac, Abd II with 3 central mac, unguiculuS acuminate and manubrium with dorSal ScaleS (See Schött 1917: 42; WomerSley 1934: 120; YoShii & GreenSlade 1994: 11). However, L. hopkini sp. nov. differS from thiS SpecieS by baSomedian labial field without r chaeta and ungueS without apical tooth, both preSent in L. flavocinctus. Other differenceS of L. hopkini sp. nov. are trochanteral organ with about 130 Spine-like chaetae (about 40 in L. flavocinctus); proximal unguiculuS with outer tooth (abSent in L. flavocinctus); lateral flap of collophore with 8 Smooth chaetae and 24 ciliate chaetae (2 Smooth and 10 ciliate in L. flavocinctus), and manubrial plate with 5–6 blunt mac (4 in L. flavocinctus).Published as part of Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante, 2017, The discovery of Lepidocyrtoides Schött, 1917 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Entomobryinae) from the New World, including three new species from Brazil and one from Australia, pp. 201-248 in Zootaxa 4324 (2) on pages 238-245, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/99763
“He tolle'd and legge'd”: Samuel Beckett and St. Augustine. Habit and Identity in Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy
No full textAbstract – Samuel Beckett's interest in St. Augustine is manifest throughout his oeuvre, both in terms of content and style, and can be traced from his very first works, such as Whoroscope, to his last plays and short stories. Although this interplay has been touched upon in the critical discourse on Beckett, a systematic analysis is still to be done. This paper represents a preliminary investigation into the Augustinian influence in the early Beckett, in particular Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy. By considering the presence of the Confessions in these two novels I intend to show how St. Augustine's work played a significant role in the development of the young author, offering him the occasion to overcome his theory of habit as outlined in his early essay, Proust. In this text, Beckett posits habit as merely “the generic name for the countless treaties concluded between the countless subjects that constitute the individual and their countless correlative objects”. Dream still endorses this perspective, but already suggests a different dialectic of memory, will, and habit. This shift, I argue, can be connected to Beckett’s reading of Augustine's meditations, in book VIII of the Confessions, on the cleavage between the spirit and the flesh. In Murphy, we see Beckett’s 'Augustinian dialectic' fully formed: habit is no longer a veil of Maya that hides the real essence of the individual, but the condition of possibility for the subject's flight from the “mercantile Gehenna” world towards the truth of the inner self.Riassunto – L'interesse di Samuel Beckett per Sant'Agostino è evidente nell'intero corpus dell'autore – a partire dai suoi primissimi lavori, in particolare la poesia Whoroscope, fino agli ultimi drammi e racconti – e si manifesta sia sul piano del contenuto che dello stile. Nonostante il rapporto tra i due autori sia già stato oggetto dell'attenzione dei critici, una sua analisi sistematica deve essere ancora compiuta. Nel presente saggio si offre una proposta di lettura della presenza agostiniana nel primo Beckett, in particolare Dream of Fair to Middling Women e Murphy. Considerando la presenza delle Confessioni in questi due romanzi intendo mostrare come i lavori di Sant'Agostino abbino giocato un ruolo fondamentale nello sviluppo del giovane autore, offrendogli l'occasione di superare la sua teoria dell'abitudine così come l'aveva rappresentata nel saggio giovanile Proust. In questo testo, Beckett descrive l'abitudine come “il nome generico per gli innumerevoli accordi stipulati fra gli innumerevoli soggetti che costituiscono l'individuo e i rispettivi innumerevoli oggetti”. In Dream si presenta la stessa prospettiva, ma già si intravedono i segni di una differente dialettica fra memoria, volontà e abitudine. Tale slittamento può essere ricondotto alla lettura delle meditazioni agostiniane nel libro VIII delle Confessioni, nelle quali si tematizza la scissione fra la volontà dello spirito e quella del corpo. In Murphy la dialettica agostiniana di Beckett giunge a compimento: l'abitudine non è più il velo di Maya che nascone l'essenza reale dell'individuo, ma la condizione di possibilità per la fuga del soggetto dalla “mercantile Gehenna” verso la verità dell'interiorità
Cormac McCarthy's Poetics of Craftsmanship: Collaborating with Medical Advisers in the Writing of The Crossing
No full text“The work is everything,” says Ben, the main character of McCarthy’s play The Stonemason, summing up his grandfather Papaw’s view of the craft of the stonemason as the ground of beauty, justice, and truth. Judging from McCarthy’s inclination to indulge in extended descriptions of all sorts of labors and crafts he must, at least in part, agree with his character. As has been noted elsewhere, craftsmanship is a privileged theme in Cormac McCarthy’s oeuvre, and the available archival material proves that the author has always been meticulous in gathering information about the crafts he has set himself to describe, undertaking extensive bibliographical research in all technical aspects and at times seeking help from specialist advisers. Relying on some manuscripts and letters held at the Wittliff Collections in San Marcos, Texas, this article investigates the way McCarthy collaborated with two specialist medical advisers, Dr. Oren Ellis and Dr. Barry King, in the writing of a scene of his novel The Crossing. The intention is to provide insight into McCarthy’s creative process and to further understand the way descriptions of crafts integrate within his overall poetics in what can be defined as an attempt to oversaturate the representation of reality
Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" Between the Work Ethic and the Refusal of Work
No full textIn this essay, I investigate the role played by the work ethic in The Nigger of the “Narcissus”. I interpret the novel, in the wake of Fredric Jameson and Giuseppe Sertoli, as a political allegory expressing Conrad's views on the crisis of the value of work which took place during the fin de siècle. The novel represents an idealized pre-modern organic community, based on discipline and work, and embodied by the crew of the Narcissus, as it is attacked by the evil forces of degenerate modernity, embodied by the two antagonists James Wait and Donkin and their refusal of work. On the one hand, Wait stands for the turn-of-the-century decadent culture, which was undermining the Victorian faith in work. On the other hand, Donkin stands for contemporary social movements and criticism of the labour system of the time. By analysing the way the ethic of work and its discontents are represented in The Nigger of the Narcissus, and by highlighting the ambiguous stance taken by the narrator and the author in the face of it, I intend to show how, in spite of his veneration of work, Conrad was well aware that such an attitude was quickly becoming anachronistic. The organic community in which the Victorian worship of work could be a meaningful social experience rather than a mere glorification of profit and social climbing was on the wane, and a new and more modern ethic of work had to be invented
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