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Seguendo Gesù. Testi cristiani delle origini, volume I
No full textIl volume contiene l’edizione critica, la traduzione, un’ampia introduzione e commento a tre testi fondamentali del primo secolo del cristianesimo: la cosiddetta Prima lettera di Clemente ai Corinzi, le lettere di Ignazio e la Didachè. Prinzivalli ha curato la Lettera di Clemente ai Corinzi, il primo documento sicuramente di origine romana nella storia del cristianesimo, e due delle lettere di Ignazio, ai Romani e a Policarpo, molto importanti per la mistica e per la sua concezione della funzione del vescovo. The volume contains the critical edition, the Italian translation, a broad introduction and commentary on three fundamental texts of the first century of Christianity: the so called First letter of Clement to the Corinthians, the Letters of Ignatius and the Didachè. Emanuela Prinzivalli was concerned with the First letter of Clement to the Corinthians, certainly the first document of Roman origin in the history of Christianity, two of Ignatius’ letters, very important for the mystical language (to the Romans), and his view of the role of bishops (to Polycarpus).The volume covers the introduction, the critical edition, the analysis and the Italian translation of the seven original letters of Ignazio of Antiochia and of other two (anonymous) fundamental works from the first and a half century of Christianity, i.e. the so called First letter of Clement to the Corinthians and the Didaché. Besides revealing the churches’ organization, these works show the different ways in which the figure of Jesus Christ was perceived in two different areas where Christianity was propagated: Rome and the region of Syria
Corrigendum to “An approach based on semantic stream reasoning to support decision processes in smart cities” [Telemat. Informat. 35 (1) (2018) 68–81](S0736585317304768)(10.1016/j.tele.2017.09.019)
No full textThe authors regret that, in the work “An approach based on semantic stream reasoning to support decision processes in smart cities”, Telematics and Informatics (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.09.019), the name of the fourth author Antonio Simonetti has not been reported in the string of authors but erroneously only in acknowledgements. Thus, the correct string of authors and their affiliations are shown above. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused
"You Dare to Compare Yourself to Shakespeare?" Philip Roth, American Bard
No full textPhilip Roth’s writing has been consistently inspired and influenced by Shakespeare’s theater on multiple levels. This essay aims to investigate Roth’s Shakespearean imagination by tracing the evolution of characters, themes, symbolism, and motifs derived from the Bard’s plays, focusing in particular on Operation Shylock and Sabbath’s Theater. Throughout his career, Roth’s negotiations with Shakespeare were often antagonistic and competitive, but, as time passed, allusions to the Bard in his novels became more accurate, while Roth’s writing took on a strong performative vein. In his most accomplished works, Roth ‘invented’ (or reinvented) the character of “the author” – the writer, the playwright, the artist – and set a pseudo-autobiographic alter-ego on the stage of contemporary America. For a writer who continually performed the character of “the author” in his texts as well as outside (in interviews, essays etc.), it is only natural to model his public persona on the English playwright, eventually impersonating the role of “American bard”
Women and Literature in Thornton Wilder’s "The Ides of March"
No full textAlthough of the approximately 120 fictional documents and letters composing
Wilder’s epistolary historical novel The Ides of March slightly less than half are
ostensibly written by female characters, the author had to defend his work from at
least one accusation of being unfair to women. The aim of this article is to investigate
how Wilder gives voice to four famous women of ancient Rome—Clodia
Metelli (supposedly Catullus’s model for the Lesbia addressed in his poetry);
Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt; Julius Caesar’s aunt Julia Marcia; and the actress
and courtesan Cytheris—by subverting traditional stereotypes and rewriting
their personalities according to modern issues. Wilder’s Roman women are multilayered,
ambivalent characters struggling to overcome gender stereotypes and
discriminatory attitudes toward them through a strong connection with art and
literature
Identidad Sexual y Nación en Madre Que Estás en Los Cielos, de Pablo Simonetti
No full textRESUMEN / ABSTRACT Este trabajo estudia la novela Madre que estás en los cielos de Pablo Simonetti como una propuesta de tolerancia e inclusión de la diferencia. A través de las memorias de la protagonista, el autor establece una cadena de identidades marginadas que se inicia con la emigración forzada de la abuela italiana a Chile a fines del siglo XIX y que se prolonga en la identidad de género y la preferencia sexual. En el caso de la mujer, el texto recupera renuncias definitorias de un devenir en la periferia de una cultural patriarcal y los amagos de negociar un espacio acorde con su subjetividad. La homosexualidad se formula como normalidad paralela dentro parámetros occidentales hegemónicos de aplicabilidad distorsionante en Latinoamérica al desconocer, entre otros, factores raciales y de clase social.
SEXUAL IDENTITY AND NATION IN MADRE QUE ESTÁS EN LOS CIELOS BY PABLO SIMONETTI This essay interprets Pablo Simonetti’s novel Madre que estás en los cielos as a call for tolerance and social inclusion. Through the memoirs of the female protagonist, the author establishes a chain of marginalized identities harking back to the forced emigration of the protagonist’s Italian grandmother to Chile at the end of the 19th century and continues with social exclusions based on gender roles and sexual preference. In the case of the woman, the novel calls attention on the one hand to the most significant deprivations of an existence that unfolds in the periphery of patriarchy and, on the other, to her attempts to negotiate for herself a space that embraces her feminine identity. Homosexuality is formulated as a parallel normality within hegemonic Western parameters that are misapplied in Latin America as they do not take into account racial or class differences
Identidad Sexual y Nación en Madre Que Estás en Los Cielos, de Pablo Simonetti
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0RESUMEN / ABSTRACT Este trabajo estudia la novela Madre que estás en los cielos de Pablo Simonetti como una propuesta de tolerancia e inclusión de la diferencia. A través de las memorias de la protagonista, el autor establece una cadena de identidades marginadas que se inicia con la emigración forzada de la abuela italiana a Chile a fines del siglo XIX y que se prolonga en la identidad de género y la preferencia sexual. En el caso de la mujer, el texto recupera renuncias definitorias de un devenir en la periferia de una cultural patriarcal y los amagos de negociar un espacio acorde con su subjetividad. La homosexualidad se formula como normalidad paralela dentro parámetros occidentales hegemónicos de aplicabilidad distorsionante en Latinoamérica al desconocer, entre otros, factores raciales y de clase social.
SEXUAL IDENTITY AND NATION IN MADRE QUE ESTÁS EN LOS CIELOS BY PABLO SIMONETTI This essay interprets Pablo Simonetti’s novel Madre que estás en los cielos as a call for tolerance and social inclusion. Through the memoirs of the female protagonist, the author establishes a chain of marginalized identities harking back to the forced emigration of the protagonist’s Italian grandmother to Chile at the end of the 19th century and continues with social exclusions based on gender roles and sexual preference. In the case of the woman, the novel calls attention on the one hand to the most significant deprivations of an existence that unfolds in the periphery of patriarchy and, on the other, to her attempts to negotiate for herself a space that embraces her feminine identity. Homosexuality is formulated as a parallel normality within hegemonic Western parameters that are misapplied in Latin America as they do not take into account racial or class differences.SUNY BrockportModern Languages and Cultures Faculty Publication
Scrittori cristiani antichi fra I e II secolo
No full textSulla base della lettura dei Testi della Didaché o Istruzione degli Apostoli, della Lettera di Clemente Romano ai Corinzi, delle Lettere di di Ignazio di Antiochia recentemente editi nel volume "Seguendo Gesù. Scrittori cristiani antichi fra I e II secolo" a cura di E. Prinzivalli e M. Simonetti. Fondazione L. Valla - Monadori, 2010, riportati in lingua greca con traduzione italiana a fronte e commentati con ricchissimo commento di note e ampie introduzioni relative a ciascuno dei tre autori, si è esposto nella relazione il fittissimo e complesso quadro del costituirsi del pensiero cristiano nei primi due secoli. Si tratta infatti di testi databili tra il 70 d.C. e le prime due decadi del secondo secolo. Dalla lettura emergono due versanti di problematiche: da un lato l'emergere di un complicato dibattito interno relativo ai conflitti fra opinioni o dottrine divergenti a proposito dell'identità di Gesù, d'altro lato il fondamentale problema della organizzazione della vita comunitaria, nella quale vivissimi sono i conflitti fra carismi e ministeri in via di formazione o di consolidamento
“For thy kingdom is past not away, / Nor thy power from the place thereof hurled”: Martianus Capella and a Prophylactic Oracle of Apollo
No full textThe chapter provides a reconsideration of a section in Martianus Capella’s Book 1, dedicated to the ‘failure of the oracles’ and culminating in a quotation of a prophylactic Apollinean oracle, attributed to Alexander of Abonouteichos. The author tries to reconstruct some possible lines of transmission of this oracle, at the same time highlighting how its allegorical framework helps to shed light on some aspects of the ongoing controversy between pagans and Christians, which took into account the thaumaturgical and therapeutic capabilities of the gods
Non-Profit Institutions: a delicate balance between values, business orientation and accountability. Evidence from Italy
No full textBasic theories and literature review
The Non-Profit phenomenon is a topic conceptually much debated by scholars, both at national and international context (DiMaggio & Anheier, 1990; Salamon & Anheier, 1996; Giddens, 1998; Anheier & Kendall, 2001; Powell & Steinberg, 2006; Bronzetti, 2007; Gidron & Bar, 2010; Ishkanian & Szreter, 2012; Salamon, 2012; Anheier, 2014): “Non-Profit sector”, “third sector”, “voluntary sector”, “social economy” or “social enterprise” are just a few examples of the wide range of terms that can be used to describe a diversity regarding:
- its real manifestations,
- subjects involved,
- objectives pursued.
Of course, no one of these terms and correlative definitions is exhaustive to a universal description of the theme but, at the same time, each one of them may be potentially usefulness regarding the part of reality to describe (Anheier, 2014, p. 61).
In this sense, according the purpose of this research work, we can start from a structural- operational approach (Salamon & Anheier, 1992) which is focused on basic structure and operation of Non-Profit Institutions (NPIs). More specifically, this definition is based on five characteristics of NPIs, of which the most important one for this study is Non-Profit-distributing criterion: ‘[...] nonprofits ensure that whatever surplus revenue might be generated is devoted to their mission and activities and is not distributed to their owners, members, founders, or governing board. [...] Thus, nonprofits organizations, unlike private businesses, do not exist primarily to generate profits, either directly or indirectly, and are not primarily guided by commercial goals and considerations’ (Anheier, 2014, p. 73).
The high dynamism of the phenomenon we are trying to describe is demonstrated by many recently and new concepts which seems to be useful to do this, like “civil society” and “social capital”: in this respect, some Author underlines that “civil society” (Gramsci, 1971; Etzioni, 1993; Gellner, 1994; Putnam, 2000; Anheier, 2001; Keane, 2009) represents the macro- infrastructure where NPI operate; while “social capital” (Coleman, 1990) refers to specific characteristics and actions of them:
‘In other words, these concepts are the pillars of an approach that tries to go beyond the state
versus market perspective that dominated the social science thinking and policymaking for much
of the twentieth century’ (Anheier, 2014, p. 94).
In this sense, the explanation of why the organizations exist lies in many theories most of which are relatively recent (DiMaggio & Anheier, 1990; Ben Ner & Gui, 1993; Hansmann, 1996; Rose- Ackerman, 1996; Salamon et al., 1999). Concerning the objectives of this research, particularly relevant are the Trust-related theories (Arrow, 1963; Nelson & Krashinsky, 1973; Hansmann, 1987; Ortmann & Schlesinger, 2003) and the Entrepreneurship theories (James, 1987; Rose- Ackerman, 1996; Dees et al., 2001) which seems to pose a crucial question: whether market economies are aimed at profit, why are there some organizations that decide not to foresee profit as a priority of their system of values?
Trying to answer this question, we need to point out that NPIs are “Non-Profit-distributing” organizations (although, not “Non-Profit-making”) (Anheier, 2014, p. 196) and, mainly, they are built on a very deep value system which necessarily influences their organization and performance. These two features imply that NPIs appear to be organizational entities that must coexist in a conceptual space that is intermediate between business and public government; furthermore, their value system imply a very complex performance behavior because the achievement of their goals is conditioned by values pursued within their mission and vision (Kramer, 1981, 1987; Najam, 1996; Zimmer, 1996; Toepler & Anheier, 2004): politics, religion, ethics, voluntarism, philanthropy, compassion are just some example.
Given the above brief considerations, it is clear how complex the management of NPIs can be. Furthermore, in this perspective, Non-Profit literature has highlighted the need for NPIs to be more “business-like” oriented: many recent writings (Dart, 2004; Austin, 2000; Brinckerhoff, 2000; Frumkin & Andre-Clark, 2000; Moore, 2000; Weisbrod, 1998) ask for almost a necessity of a social entrepreneurship (Emerson & Twersky, 1996) or to employ for-profit tools and strategies to gain success in Non-Profit Sector (Kearns, 2000), although without declining the specific characteristics of that orientation.
Undoubtedly, NPIs are currently facing increasing uncertainty, especially in financial matters (Deakin, 1995; Bowman, 2011). Consequently, these types of organizations manifest a great need for managerial techniques (Drucker, 1990): despite for-profit organization, in Non-Profit Sector measuring of performance could be very hard. Thus, the real question could be: NPIs may face an obvious confusion because of the absence of traditional for-profit price mechanisms that are usually helpful to balance revenues and expenditures, supply and demand, or goals with their activities as in other sectors (Anheier, 2000). This confusion, together with the heterogeneous nature of NPIs (DiMaggio & Anheier, 1990; Skelcher & Smith, 2015), may lead to an “overload” of managerial schemes, each potentially useful depending on the specificities of different organizations. This could be somewhat dangerous because adaptation of managerial approaches could have serious organizational and managerial consequences (Downe et al., 2010; Kislov et al., 2017).
NPIs are currently facing increasing uncertainty, especially in financial matters (Deakin, 1995). Consequently, they manifest a great need for managerial techniques (Drucker, 1990): despite for- profit organization, in Non-Profit Sector measuring of performance could be very hard. Thus, the real question could be: NPIs may face an obvious confusion because of the absence of traditional for-profit price mechanisms that are usually helpful to balance revenues and expenditures, supply and demand, or goals with their activities as in other sectors (Anheier, 2000). This confusion, together with the heterogeneous nature of NPIs (DiMaggio & Anheier, 1990), may lead to an “overload” of managerial schemes, each potentially useful depending on the specificities of different organizations. This could be somewhat dangerous because adaptation of managerial approaches could have serious organizational and managerial consequences (Downe et al., 2010; Kislov et al., 2017).
In this perspective, this work tries to deal with NPIs management challenges, addressing a potential response to the need of managerial approaches and schemes for a better understanding of phenomenon.
In particular, this research aims to identify the main trajectories on which to build a potential managerial model useful also for a better understanding of the management and performance of NPIs. This especially because NPIs performance and accountability systems and levels are tightly linked with service delivery (Poister, 2004; Pettijohn & Boris, 2013; Fyffe et al., 2017): performance measurement represents the main tool for accountability (Behn, 2001; Ricci, 2016), particularly for NPIs (Wholey, 2001; Hatry et al., 2005; Moynihan, 2007).
Research questions
NPIs are currently facing increasing uncertainty, especially in financial matters (Bowman, 2011). Consequently, they manifest a great need for managerial techniques (Drucker, 1990). NPIs may face an obvious confusion because of the absence of traditional for-profit price mechanisms that are usually helpful in measuring performance (Anheier, 2000). This confusion, together with the heterogeneous nature of NPIs (Skelcher & Smith, 2015), may lead to an “overload” of managerial schemes.
This research aims to identify the main trajectories on which to build a potential managerial model for a better understanding of the management and performance of NPIs. Performance and accountability systems (Behn, 2001; Ricci, 2016) are tightly linked with service delivery (Pettijohn & Boris, 2013; Fyffe et al., 2017): the first represents the main tool for the latter (Hatry et al., 2005; Moynihan, 2007).
Methodology
After the analysis of the main literature on NPIs, the research will deal with the analysis of key elements of their management, to identify the most critical aspects.
In the second section, the work will explore a case study represented by a sample of small- medium NPIs. We will treat this part within the framework of structural equations modeling (SEM) in order to investigate the connection between the performance and the organizational aspects of the NPIs. The study will cover a specific sample of NPIs rather than a wider context: its goals is to develop concepts and viewpoints for a potential theoretical model rather than an analytical description of a national or cross-national phenomenon (Yin, 1994). The statistical analysis will allow to test the coherence of theoretical insights and to draft trajectories and dimensions of a possible multifaceted management model for NPIs into which coproduction may play a very important role for service delivery (Nabatchi et al., 2017)
Identidad Sexual y Nación en Madre que estás en los cielos de Pablo Simonetti
No full textThis essay interprets Pablo Simonetti’s novel Madre que estás en los cielos as a call for tolerance andsocial inclusion. Through the memoirs of the female protagonist, the author establishes a chain ofmarginalized identities harking back to the forced emigration of the protagonist’s Italian grandmotherto Chile at the end of the 19th century and continues with social exclusions based on gender roles andsexual preference. In the case of the woman, the novel calls attention on the one hand to the mostsignificant deprivations of an existence that unfolds in the periphery of patriarchy and, on the other, toher attempts to negotiate for herself a space that embraces her feminine identity. Homosexuality isformulated as a parallel normality within hegemonic Western parameters that are misapplied in LatinAmericaastheydonottakeintoaccountracialorclassdifferences.Este trabajo estudia la novela Madre que estás en los cielos de Pablo Simonetti como una propuesta detolerancia e inclusión de la diferencia. A través de las memorias de la protagonista, el autor estableceuna cadena de identidades marginadas que se inicia con la emigración forzada de la abuela italiana aChile a fines del siglo XIX y que se prolonga en la identidad de género y la preferencia sexual.En elcaso de la mujer, el texto recupera renuncias definitorias de un devenir en la periferia de una culturalpatriarcal y los amagos de negociar un espacio acorde con su subjetividad. La homosexualidad se formula comon ormalidad paralela dentro parámetros occidentales hegemónicos de aplicabilidad distorsionante en Latinoamérica al desconocer, entre otros, factores raciales y de clase social
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