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Variations on the Author
No full text“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
Letter From Anne Byron to Mrs Isabella Hall
No full textabstract: Concerning Byron's orders concerning her personal finances and bank operations.Seller's Description: Note in upper right corner reads WDV 50.00.Curator's Note: Writing on verso reads "Wife of the Poet." The author is the wife of the poet Lord Byron.Postage Details: Stamped three times.
Address reads: Post & Paid
Mrs Isabella Hall
Harrington Lane Area
Co. Durham.Paper Details: Originally folded. Left side has small tears. Stamp in bled through on the verso
M.H. Marganne, L'ophtalmologie dans l’Égypte greco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraires grecs, Leiden/Köln/New York, E.J. Brill 1994
No full textRecensione critica dell'opera di M.H. Marganne, L'ophtalmologie dans l’Égypte greco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraires grecs, Leiden/Köln/New York, E.J. Brill 1994, contenente edizioni di papiri e saggi
A Dominance-based Rough Set Approach Model for Selecting the Location for a Municipal Solid Waste Plant
No full textThe paper aims at investigating an innovative approach in the field of sustainability assessment of territorial transformations, where the necessity of decision support tools permitting to consider simultaneously the different aspects of the problem is becoming more and more apparent.
In particular, we propose an interactive use of the Dominance-based Rough Sets Approach (DRSA, Greco et al., 2001). The methodology well facilitates the discussion among Decision Makers (DMs) and technical experts. The method is based on the use of a preference model expressed in terms of easily understandable “if ... then” decision rules, induced from a preference information easily given by the DM in terms of indication of relatively good actions from a given sample. The method consists of organizing the search of the most preferred action by alternating stages of calculation and dialogue. The calculation stage aims at inducing decision rules and applying them to new actions, while in the dialogue stage the DMs react to the proposal revealing them preferences, that are taken into account in the next stage of calculation. The procedure stops when the DMs find an action satisfactory to be selected. We propose to apply this methodology in decisions-aiding processes concerning urban and territorial projects. In particular, we present an application to the choice of the location for a municipal solid waste plant in the Province of Turin (Italy). In the application, 39 sites are analysed and compared through the use of the DRSA on the basis of different attributes, such as presence of population, hydrogeological risk, agricultural value, interferences on transport infrastructures and economic cost. From the point of view of Multiple Criteria Decision Aid, the results of the application show that the DRSA offers a useful tool for reasoning about the data involved in the decision problem at hand and that it is suitable to elicitate the DMs’ preferences and to support them by explaining and justifying the final choice
Il pittore Gennaro Greco (Grieco) “mirabilmente avanzato ne’ studj dell’Architettura”: quadraturismo e decorazioni illusionistiche tra Napoli e Sorrento
No full textIl pittore Gennaro Greco (Grieco) è maggiormente conosciuto per la produzione di dipinti di piccolo formato in cui si raffigurano rovine, spazi architettonici, vedute fantastiche e insenature naturali ascrivibili al filone del rovinismo napoletano di primo Settecento con il pittore Leonardo Coccorante : «Operine condotte con notevole finezza di lume chiaro e colorismo prezioso, nelle quali, sia pure con effetti di delizioso ‘capriccio’ rococò, l’inserto a volte anche preponderante della ‘rovina’ disposta a suggerire una spazialità dorata e senza fine, proprio come nel gioco allusivo delle ‘architettura in prospettive per interni di chiese e dimore gentilizie, ha soprattutto valore come strumento prospettico, elemento determinante per suggestive soluzioni scenografiche» .
La tendenza di Greco nel rappresentare la rovina in prospettiva, riprendendo e modificando alcuni elementi della tradizione seicentesca riconducibile a Viviano Codazzi, a Domenico Gargiulo, ad Ascanio Luciani e a Giovanni Ghisolfi, influì sulla propensione del pittore ad approfondire il ruolo della quadratura dipinta, tecnica decorativa in voga nelle residenze napoletane e a sviluppare l’interesse per la scenografia sempre più crescente nella capitale partenopea.
In questo contesto alcuni pittori, noti nei documenti con la dicitura ‘ornamentisti’, accanto alla loro produzione da ‘cavaletto’, che ebbe grande eco tra i collezionisti stranieri, affiancarono una discreta produzione di pittura quadraturistica, vale a dire architetture prospettiche sulle volte che andavano ad arricchire la tela centrale generalmente affidata al pittore figurista. E’ il caso di Gennaro Greco la cui produzione di decorazione a quadratura prospettica resta oggi del tutto sconosciuta, nonostante alcune fonti ci confermano la specializzazione del pittore in tale genere .
Pertanto la quadratura prospettica presente sulla volta della chiesa del Carmine di Sorrento, datata 1709 e firmata da Gennaro Greco, finora sfuggita alle attenzioni della critica, costituisce una testimonianza eccezionale della sua attività da quadraturista, ad oggi come si è detto perlopiù solo documentata
The Deck-of-cards-based Ordinal Regression method and its application for the development of an ecovillage
No full textThis paper presents the deck-of-cards-based Ordinal Regression (DOR), a new multicriteria decision-aiding procedure that conjugates the deck-of-cards method with an ordinal regression approach to define a multicriteria value function representing the preferences of the decision maker (DM). The deck-of-cards method allows the DM to express the ranking order of a set of reference alternatives along with the intensity of preferences between reference alternatives. An ordinal regression procedure is then used to define a multicriteria value function that represents the ranking of the reference alternatives as well as the preference intensity.
This approach can be applied to define value functions with different formulations, such as weighted sum,
additive value, or Choquet integral. The value function thus obtained can be used to comprehensively
evaluate alternatives of a multi-criteria decision problem. The value function provided by DOR can also
be applied to a multi-objective optimisation problem. In this study, we applied DOR to handle urban and
regional planning decisions in which facilities are required to be selected, located, and planned. In particular, we consider the interactions between criteria and synergies between facilities in an enriched version of the so-called space-time model. We applied this methodology to a real-world problem to plan the development of a sustainable ecovillage in the province of Turin (Italy), thus supporting the president of the cooperative owning the ecovillage in his decisions regarding which structures to select, where to locate them, and when to plan their realisation
Asterio = Fozio, Biblioteca, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, cap. 271 (p. xciii; pp. 870-882; 1197-1200).
No full textTesto greco, traduzione italiana, nota critica al testo e note di commento al cap. 271 della Bibliotrca di Fozio, contenente riassunti ed estratti dalla "Omelie" di Asterio, vescovo di Amasea (p. xciii: nota testuale; pp. 870-882: testo greco e traduzione italiana a fronte; 1197-1200: note di commento al testo)
Introduzione
No full textSaggio introduttivo all'edizione italiana del romanzo di Miguel de Unamuno, Amor y pedagogía, di cui l'autrice è anche traduttrice. L'introduzione ha un taglio storico-letterario e linguistico-traduttologico.Introductory essay to the Italian edition of Miguel de Unamuno's novel, Amor y pedagogía, of which the author is also a translator. The introduction offers an historical-literary and linguistic-traductological sketch
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