113 research outputs found
La ‘Sacra Famiglia con San Giovannino’ di Marsiglia: una nuova proposta per Giovanni Francesco Bezzi, detto il Nosadella
No full textL’articolo prende in esame un disegno raffigurante una ‘Sacra famiglia con San Giovannino’, conservato al Musée des Beaux-Arts di Marsiglia. Le volumetrie espanse delle figure protagoniste del disegno, così come la loro marcata caratterizzazione fisiognomica, rimandano al contesto artistico della Bologna post-tibaldesca, nel quale visse ed operò Giovanni Francesco Bezzi, detto il Nosadella, al quale viene assegnata l’autografia del foglio. L’analisi dello stile e della composizione del disegno, studiati sulla base del confronto con alcuni disegni e dipinti noti dell’artista, ha portato a inserire la prova grafica di Marsiglia nel gruppo di opere afferenti ad una specifica fase della sua carriera, esplicatasi verso la fine del sesto decennio del Cinquecento, implementando così l’ancora lacunoso catalogo del pittore felsineo.The article examines a drawing representing a ‘Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist’ kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseille. The expansive volumes of the figures in the drawing, as well as their strong physiognomic characterization, recall the artistic context of post-Tibaldian Bologna, where Nosadella lived and worked, and to
whom the authorship of the sheet is attributed. An analysis of the style and composition of the drawing, based on a comparison with some of the artist’s known drawings and paintings, has led to the inclusion of the Marseille
drawing in a group of works belonging to a specific phase of his career, datable to the late 1550s, thus filling out the still incomplete catalogue of the Bolognese painter
A redescription of Tephritis zonogastra Bezzi, 1913 (Diptera: Trypetidae).
No full textDie vorliegende Arbeit enthält eine ausführliche Nachbeschreibung von Tephritis zonogastra Bezzi, ES wird vermutet, daß Bezzi\u27s Holotypus, obgleich seine Beschreibung keine Angaben über das Geschlecht enthält, ein Männchen war, so daß hiermit die Neubeschreibung des Weibchens vorgelegt werden kann.Tephritis zonogastra Bezzi is redescribed in detail. It is suggested that although Bezzi in his original description made no mention of the sex,the holotype described by him was a male. The description of the female given by the present author may, therefore, be regarded as new
Je parcours la Terre. Un cammino con Montesquieu
No full textThis paper discusses the following volume: Domenico Felice, Introduzione a Montesquieu, Bologna, Clueb, 2013. The author examines not only the main works of the French philosopher like Lettres persanes or L’esprit des lois but also minor books which leads Montesquieu to develop a universal science of socio-political system
Partial or Total Fundoplication (With or Without Division of the Short Gastric Vessels): Which is The Best Laparoscopic Choice in GERD Surgical Treatment?
No full textBackground: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) has emerged as one of the most common diseases in the modern civilization. The immense success of laparoscopic surgery as an effective treatment of GERD has established the minimally invasive surgery as the gold standard for this condition with lower morbidity and mortality, shorter hospital stay, faster recovery, and reduced postoperative pain. Methods: Articles were sourced from PubMed and Medline, using the MeSH terms "gastroesophageal reflux disease" and "laparoscopic surgery" and "fundoplication technique." The selection of articles was based on peer review, journal, relevance, and English language. Results and Conclusions: There are some controversies with regard to the technique. First, whether total or partial fundoplication is the more appropriate treatment for GERD; second, if a total fundoplication (360 degrees) is performed, what is the effect of fundic mobilization and the division of short gastric vessels. In this review article the authors evaluate the most recent articles to establish the parameters for a "gold standard technique" in antireflux surgery
Un prototipo di Augmented Reality per la valorizzazione della villa romana di Torre di Pordenone (Friuli Venezia Giulia)
No full textIn 2008 a new excavation project started in the archaeological site of the Castle of Torre di Pordenone (Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy), thanks to the efforts of the Municipality of Pordenone. During the archaeological campaign, a new rectangular building was discovered, in connection with the Roman villa already investigated in the 1930s. This building is divided into at least nine consecutive areas and the W side has a porticus supported by 8 pillars. Given the nature of the architectural elements, which are preserved in almost all cases at the foundation level, the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Friuli Venezia Giulia (Nucleo Operativo di Pordenone), in cooperation with the Municipality of Pordenone and the Museo Archeologico del Friuli Occidentale, decided to test modern information technologies, in order to create a virtual tour, based on an accurate 3D reconstruction of the Roman building. The final prototype, developed for the project, has an Augmented Reality level that can be visualized through video-glasses (Head Mounted Display), thanks to the interaction with a high definition webcam and a tablet equipped with open source software
Nell'officina di un reporter di fine Ottocento: gli appunti di viaggio di Edmondo De Amicis
No full textScrittura in continua oscillazione tra codice soggettivo e oggettivo, le note di viaggio
sembrano configurarsi per natura come un 'apografo' dell'esperienza. Se, poi, il loro autore si
avvicina ad esse in veste di inviato speciale, sempre in parten2a su richiesta del lettore o
dell'editore, il loro rapporto con il vissuto del viaggio è destinato ad assumere caratteri ancor più complessi e stratificati.
Da questo punto di vista, la ricerca che abbiamo condotto su alcuni dei quaderni di appunti
di Edmondo De Amicis viaggiatore e reporter sembrano fornire significative chiavi di lettura per
comprendere procedimenti e motivazioni di questo genere di testi.
Le nostre indagini si sono svolte principalmente nelle Biblioteche Civiche e Nazionali di
Venezia, Torino e Firenze dove si sono rinvenuti oltre ai riferimenti teorici, metodologici e
archivistici della tesi, numerosi autografi, prime edizioni di opere e diversi carteggi. Le visite più assidue, però, sono state compiute presso la Biblioteca Civica «Leonardo Lagorio» di Imperia che, conservando un Fondo interamente dedicato allo scrittore, si è confermato il luogo più adatto per una ricerca che mirasse ad esplorare i vari livelli di scrittura con cui l'autore ha dovuto
confrontarsi nell'elaborazione dei suoi reportages.
Dei quaderni qui selezionati per l'analisi abbiamo descritto e trascritto parzialmente Ms.
E.D.A. 18 e 20, dedicati al viaggio in Marocco (1875), Ms. E.D.A. 19 e 21 utili ad una
ricostruzione del soggiorno argentino del 1884; ad essi appare cronologicamente e strutturalmente
legato Ms. E.D.A. 26, contenente note stilate durante il viaggio in piroscafo verso il Sud
America, da cui poi De Amicis trasse le pagine de Sull'Oceano (Milano, Treves, 1889). Distinto da
essi per finalità e scrittura appare Ms. E.D.A. 3 (Note per La Carrozza di tutti), fascicolo di appunti rappresentanti una fase già successiva della scrittura di "diario", utilizzati per il romanzo-reportage La carrozza di tutti (Milano, Treves, 1899).
Tali autografi sono stati scelti tra gli altri come i più rappresentativi dei processi di
creazione e di evoluzione della scrittura di viaggio deamicisiana, letta come cartina di tornasole di alcune delle principali modalità di realizzazione del genere del reportage in un periodo, quale
l'ultimo trentennio del secolo XIX, in cui esso realizzò un rilevante sviluppo storico e letterario.
A sottolineare tale prospettiva abbiamo ritenuto opportuno allegare io appendice un catalogo dei libri di viaggio letti da De Amicis, attualmente conservati presso lo Studio De Amicis ad Imperia-Porto Maurizio, con una breve premessa sul rapporto dell'autore con le fonti.
L'esperienza si è rivelata un interessante itinerario attraverso le letture dello scrittore ligure,
nell'esplorazione delle chiose che egli usava apporre a margine, oltre che nella produzione del
genere tra la fine del XIX e gli inizi del XX secolo.
La descrizione, la datazione e la trascrizione delle carte selezionate si accompagnano nella
tesi ad un esame della genesi delle scelte stilistiche nel confronto delle note autografe con l'opera a stampa, di cui vengono riportati a pié di pagina campioni significativi e ricorrenti quando funzionali all'indagine sul testo. Tale corpo analitico è stato inserito tra una presentazione di carattere teorico-descrittivo dei quaderni di viaggio valutati nel contesto della situazione complessiva del Fondo «De Amicis» e un capitolo conclusivo di osservazioni sulla scrittura di viaggio dell'autore con riferimento al processo compositivo della sua opera narrativa e saggistica.
La lettura delle note ha consentito di evidenziare differenze e somiglianze strutturali dei
quaderni e delle opere e, insieme, di misurare un progressivo spostamento ideologico e narratologico
spesso corrispondente, se non talvolta coincidente, a quello rilevabile nella lettura dei testi a stampa.
Nella totalità dei casi analizzati, l'autore procede ad un'annotazione aneddotica degli eventi,
raccoglie in forma diretta exempla di conversazione ai quali appone varianti e correzioni, seleziona
accuratamente gli argomenti, il loro ordine e la loro frequenza: tale forma, che egli restituisce
nell'opera compiuta, rivela un'inclinazione crescente a preordinare il modello dell'esperienza e la
preoccupazione costante di mantenere alta l'attenzione del pubblico ricorrendo a toni conversevoli
anche alle pagine più didattico-divulgative.
Evidenziare il processo di costruzione del testo e di emissione del messaggio all'interno del
laboratorio dello scrittore, nella continua oscillazione tra scrittura intima e scrittura pubblica
imposta dalla natura stessa delle note, ci è sembrata una strada opportuna a chiarire i nodi della
ricezione dell'opera deamicisiana, a scoprire le dimensioni dell'intenzionalità ed una più nitida
considerazione del suo esito letterario anche in rapporto al pubblico dei lettori.
Si è potuto, infine, per questa via accertare come la scrittura di De Amicis risulti collocarsi
all'incrocio tra un nuovo interesse per soggetti di carattere sociale ed una nuova attenzione
stilistica e costruttiva del testo che condurrà in ambito italiano ad un rinnovamento del genere del
reportage destinato a vedere un ricco stuolo di seguaci divisi tra una scrittura sempre più incline
all'aneddoto e al frammento lirico, definita di sapore "pre-rondista", da un lato, ed una più incline al sociale, promossa dal reportage d'inchiesta, dall'altro, secondo modalità che si riveleranno fertili sin dentro e oltre il secolo XX.
L'indagine che abbiamo svolto si colloca tra filologia e analisi del testo, nell'idea che
attingere dall'unione di queste discipline possa rivelarsi criticamente proficuo nello studio di testi come quelli rappresentati dai quaderni deamicisiani. Raccolte di note e appunti preliminari,
anteriori all'esistenza dell'opera letteraria compiuta si possono, a nostro avviso, rivelare utili sia ad una lettura diacronica, nel rapporto con il testo definitivo destinato alla pubblicazione, sia ad una lettura sincronica nella considerazione autonoma della loro composizione. A tali scopi i quaderni esaminati si prestano efficacemente, anche per la natura delle opere che ne derivano, di cui tali autografi rappresentano una sorta di officina, a volte fumosa e rumorosa, nella quale, osservando strumenti e processi in atto, diventa possibile seguire la costruzione in fieri del testo.
Travel notes are a way of writing that always alternates between a subjective and an
objective code and is by nature 'apograph' of the experience. If their writer approaches them as a
reporter whose travel begins for the reader's or the editor's request then the borders of this
sort of writing show more complex characteristics.
From this point of view Edmondo De Amicis' experience as a traveller and reporter seems to offer some interesting clues for this genre.
The research about some notebooks written by De Amicis has been carried on at Florence, Turin and Venice Civic and National Libraries but mainly at the Civic Library of Imperia called «Leonardo Lagorio», where an archive entirely dedicated to the Italian writer is preserved. The Archive has been the most suitable place to inquire the different levels of writing which De Amicis had to explore creating his travel reportages.
After an exam of the history and of the validity of the autographs, we have proceeded to the analysis of some selected manuscripts of the Archive. Among the notebooks conserved at Imperia we have studied and partially transcribed Ms. E.D.A 18 and 20 dedicated to the travel to Morocco (1875) and Ms. E.D.A. 19 and 21, that deal with the travel to Argentina (1884); linked with them, another notebook, Ms. E.D.A. 26, which contains notes about the journey in a steamboat toward South America, which inspired the pages of his On the Ocean (Milan, Treves, 1889). Different for finalities and kind of writing is Ms. E.D.A. 3 (Note per La Carrozza di tutti), a series of notes representing a phase of writing that follows the 'diary book'.
These autographs have been chosen because they better represent how De Amicis created and developed his travel reportages, and are a significant example of reportage techniques, a genre that reached an important literary and historical development in the last thirty years of 19th century.
It has also been useful, to stress this perspective, to enclose in the Appendix a catalogue of
travel books kept in the personal library of the author, today at Centro Polivalente at Porto
Maurizio-Imperia, with a short introduction about the relationship between the Italian writer and
his sources. The experience has been an useful journey through the writer's readings, through the
notes he used to write on their margins and through the production of travel books between the
end of 19th century and the 20th century.
The description and the dates of the hand-written and printed works and the transcription of the selected papers go together with an analysis of the stylistic and linguistic choices and their evolution, through a comparison of the notes with the printed work. At the bottom of the page are registered some significant and recurring examples from the volume. This analytical part has been inserted between a theoretical and descriptive part about the notebooks of the archive and a conclusive chapter about the author's travel writing techniques in the context of his entire literary production.
The reading of the notes has shown structure differences and similarities with the printed works and how their stylistic and ideological evolution often corresponds and sometimes coincides.
In the examples registered, the author usually retells the events in an anecdotal way he rarely prefers to describe them ; he reports in the direct form some conversations, that he often corrects on the pages of the manuscripts; he carefully selects the subjects, their order and frequency, revealing an inclination to prearranged patterns of experience. The anecdotes and the reporting of direct speeches allow him to avoid the tendency to write an 'essay', and to maintain high the reader's attention, keeping talkative tones also in didactic pages.
The analysis of text structuring and of emission of the message in the writer's workshop, that alternates between intimate and public writing imposed by the nature of the notes, helped to enlighten the keys of the reception of De Amicis' production, to discover its intentions, and to
consider the literary results also referring to the editorial market and the readers.
De Amicis's writing lies between a new interest in social subjects and a new stylistic and structural attention to the text which will have some important consequences in renovating the
reportage technique in the Italian literature. In the 20th century the genre will develop on one side to the anecdote and the lyrical fragment and on the other to the social enquiry.
The research shifts between philology and text analysis, with the persuasion that an interdisciplinary study could be efficacious for this kind of texts. Notes and journals that precede
the printed work appear a diachronically and synchronically productive reading, establishing a
relationship between notes and the accomplished text on one side and an autonomous reading of
the handwriting on the other. For this aim the selected texts reveal proceedings, instruments and
the birth of the work
Total fundoplication without division of the short gastric vessels: functional evaluation at one year and review of literature
No full textAim. Gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) has emerged as one of the most common diseases in modern civilization. We investigated functional evaluation after total fundoplication without division of short gastric vessels and review of literature. Methods. From January 2007 to June 2008 43 patients with chronic gastroesophageal reflux underwent laparoscopic Nissen-Rossetti fundoplication, 7 were lost during the follow-up. Patients underwent endoscopy, 24 hours pH-Metry, preoperatively, 6 months and 12 months after surgery. Articles were sourced from PubMed and Medline, using the MeSH terms "gastroesophageal reflux disease" and "laparoscopic surgery" and "fundoplication technique". Selection of articles were based on peer review, journal, relevance and English language. Results. Endoscopic findings revealed complete healing of esophagitis in all patients. Barrett esophagus was still present. Six patients reported persistence of symptoms but postoperative pH-metry and endoscopy showed the absence of reflux; two patients (5.5%) were still on PPI therapy at 12 months. Seven patients (19.4%) reported dysphagia for solid for at least three months. Re-admission for dysphagia was required for two (5.5%) and one patient underwent to endoscopic dilatation. At six and 12 months no dysphagia was reported. During the follow-up no gas-bloat syndrome was referred. The Johnsson and DeMeester's score reduction from six months to 12 months was statistically significant. Randomized and non-randomized studies seem to point out in a precise way that a division of short gastric vessels is unnecessary to perform a "short and floppy" placation. Conclusion. Nissen-Rossetti fundoplication is safe and effective for treatment of GERD, with minimal post-operative side effects
Application of a semi-automatic method for sedimentological mapping
No full textSedimentological maps, which are useful for understanding sediment dynamics, modelling sediment transport, and supporting sediment management, are important components in analysing coastal environments. Usually, sedimentological maps are based on the collection of superficial samples with different spatial distributions; however, the density of sampling is often low due to the need for optimising time and cost. A low sampling density may not be an issue to map coasts with standard bathymetry and seaward-fining sediment distribution but become critical in the presence of bathymetric anomalies. In fact, both sedimentological and morphological settings are the result of the coastal processes, and in these cases, even advanced automatic interpolation techniques cannot produce maps that properly represent the sedimentological signature of the morphological set-up. The presence of relict landforms, the Isonzo River sediment supply, and the westward littoral drift make the littoral of Grado (North Adriatic Sea, Italy) a good example of such an anomalous coast. Here, the morphological and sedimentological settings, coupled with a sparse and irregular sampling distribution, make an experienced assessment necessary to identify and solve critical issues in the sedimentological maps obtained through automatic algorithms. To construct more reliable maps of the study area, we propose a semi-automatic method based on four steps: (1) identify the incongruities of the automatic models by a match with the landforms; (2) draw polylines between samples to manually force the direction of interpolation; (3) generate simulated samples on the polylines in order to (4) interpolate both collected and simulated samples. In the study area, this approach was able to effectively represent the sedimentary anomalies caused by relict and active morphologies, both interpolating current samples and re-analysing old data with different sampling distribution. Each grain-size parameter distribution can be modelled using this technique, which can also be applied in other fields. The main benefits of this method are its ability to (1) increase useful data density without spending too much time on sediment sampling, (2) re-analyse old data, and (3) tune models only where they are unreliable
Clinotaenia angusticeps Bezzi 1923, comb.nov.
No full text<i>Clinotaenia angusticeps</i> (Bezzi, 1923) comb.nov. <p> <i>Carpophthoromyia angusticeps</i> Bezzi, 1923: 525.</p> <p> <i>Carpophthoromyia angusticeps</i> Bezzi, 1924: 97. Preocc. Bezzi 1923.</p> <p> Study of the female holotype in the collection of the MNHN, showed that this species does not belong to <i>Carpophthoromyia</i>. Despite the vague resemblance of wing banding with some representatives of <i>Carpophthoromyia</i>, it lacks the other characteristic features such as the white flattened scutellum (swollen and completely black in <i>C</i>. <i>angusticeps</i>), transverse bands on mesonotum (shining black­brown with dispersed black setulae in <i>C. angusticeps</i>) and the rounded or slightly flattened female aculeus (very broad and blade like in <i>C. angusticeps</i>). Especially the shape of the aculeus tip indicated that this is a gastrozonine. It fits within the generic concept of <i>Clinotaenia</i> as described by Hancock (1999) to which also <i>C. superba</i> (Bezzi) was recently transferred from <i>Carpophthoromyia</i> by the same author (Hancock, 1999). It differs from the latter by the shape of the female aculeus (trilobed in <i>superba</i>, pointed in <i>angusticeps</i>) and the base of the wing being completely brown (hyaline with brown patches in <i>superba</i>). Study of unidentified material that was previously sorted to <i>Carpophthoromyia</i> revealed two male specimens that are identical with the female holotype.</p> <p>Material examined</p> <p>Holotype Ψ: CHAD, Dar Banda, Ndellé, 1904, A. Chevalier, Mission Chari­Tchad (MNHN).</p> <p>Other material examined:</p> <p>BURUNDI: 1ɗ, Rumonge, April 1948, « sur plage sablonneuse et broussailles près du Lac », F. François (KBIN). CONGO (D.R.): 1ɗ, Parc National de Garamba, Mt Embe, 19.IV.1952, H. De Saeger 3341 (KMMA).</p> <p>Distribution</p> <p>Burundi, Chad, Congo (D.R.).</p>Published as part of <i>Meyer, Marc De, 2006, Systematic revision of the fruit fly genus Carpophthoromyia Austen (Diptera, Tephritidae), pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 1235</i> on pages 36-37, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/172780">10.5281/zenodo.172780</a>
Evolution and natural recovery of a washover fan, North Adriatic Sea, Italy
No full textBarrier islands are important landforms that protect the inland, bays, and estuaries from sea storms, and are notable for their rapid morphological changes. Transgressive processes caused by sea-level rise or storms are common modes of barrier evolution. The Marano and Grado Lagoon barrier islands (North Adriatic Sea, Italy) are a significant example of these dynamic environments in a more general human-altered and stabilised context. Between 2012 and 2013, at least two storms hit the westernmost one (Martignano), causing the island breach and the formation of a washover structure (channel and fan). The new formation occurred at the same location as a previous breach, indicating the presence of an erosive hot spot. The aims of the research are to (i) describe the washover morphology and its evolution, (ii) quantify the mode and the timing of the morphological beach recovery, and (iii) verify the existence of sedimentological signatures as diagnostic elements in figuring out the dynamics and evolution following paroxysmal events. Between 2016 and 2021, several Unmanned Aerial Vehicle surveys were performed in the area and compared to previous orthophotos from 2010 and 2014. Sedimentological sampling on significant morphologies was carried out across the entire system. The orthophotos and Digital Surface Models obtained from UAV surveys show that the washover channel was completely filled between 2016 and 2018 (the sediments are up to 0.80 m thick and the volumes accumulated approximately 10147 m3) before being vegetated in 2021, and the beach was realigned, indicating the achievement of a stable morphological phase. The relict washover fan on the back-barrier area retains its shape: it records at least two storm events, as confirmed by topographical variation in which more than one lobe can be identified, as well as different granulometric suites with reverse grading, highlighting the process dynamics orthogonal to the beach. This case represents an example of monitoring storm effects and subsequent natural recovery processes in a wave dominated environment, demonstrating the importance of episodic events in generating new landforms. Finally, it highlights the benefits of coupling the high-quality data from UAVs and the accurate sedimentological sampling, in order to recognise the effects of natural processes
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