29 research outputs found
Una postilla di Petrarca alla Commedia (Inf., II 24)
No full textIl contributo prende in esame due fogli del Vat. lat. 3199 con la Commedia. Il primo contiene l'unica postilla a noi giunta di Petrarca al poema dantesco, di cui si propone una diversa lettura sulla scorta del raffronto con marginalia rintracciabili in altri codici da lui posseduti o consultati e si avanza una nuova identificazione dei due rimandi in essa presenti, che ci svelano un lettore inaspettato e attento alla forma linguistico-poetica più che al contenuto del testo. L’altro foglio ha un disegno su carta incollato sulla pergamena e raffigura le due corone della nostra letteratura; di questo disegno si ipotizza una datazione anticipata rispetto a quella tradizionale e una relazione con i battenti lignei della porta della Sala del Giglio di Palazzo Vecchio a Firenze.
The paper focuses on two leaves of Vat. lat. 3199, in relation to Dante’s Commedia. The first one has the only marginal note for this manuscript in Petrarch’s own hand. Through a comparison with Petrarch’s marginal notes in other manuscripts owned or consulted by him a new interpretation of this note is provided; and the riddle of the two references to other passages of the Commedia is solved. The other sheet of paper has a drawing glued to the parchment which portrays the two great masters of Italian literature: the author proposes an earlier dating for this drawing than the one ususally attributed, and a connection with the portraits of Dante and Petrarch on an inlaid wooden door of Palazzo Vecchio’s Sala del Giglio in Florence
«Valete amici, valete epistole»: l’ultimo libro delle Senili
No full textIt is generally assumed that Petrarch planned to put at the end of the Seniles the Epistola ad Posteritatem, thereby creating a symmetry with the last Book of the Familiares, which was made up of letters to great men of the past. The paper aims to prove that towards the end of his life Petrarch abandoned this project: sensing that, in his frail health, death was imminent, he judged that the Book XVII - all of letters to Boccaccio, with the long and substantial Sen. XVII 2, which is his spiritual testament, and XVII 3, the famous translation of the last tale in the Decameron - was especially apt to conclude the collection. So, scarcely more than a month before his death, he wrote the last letter of all, Sen. XVII 4, ending with a definitive farewell to friends and letters. The outcome is that it is not correct to print - as recent editors have done - the unfinished letter Ad Posteritatem as Book XVIII of the Seniles. The paper also argues that Sen. XVII 3 alone among the four letters of Book XVII has a precanonical tradition, which descends not from the missiva but from the scriptorium of the author himself. The study of the tradition makes it possible to demonstrate that a difficult passage of Sen. XVII 4, concerning the question of whether the tale of Griselda be history or fable, was never correctly printed, and that the restitution of the wording with appropriate punctuation brings the passage into line with others where Petrarch considers the same problem. The paper also deals with question about Petrarch and the Decameron: how and when he had a copy of it and whether it was ever talked of between the two friends
The Princess Elisabeth Station
No full textAware of the increasing impact of human activities on the Earth system, Belgian Science Policy Office (Belspo) launched in 1997 a research programme in support of a sustainable development policy. This umbrella programme included the Belgian Scientific Programme on Antarctic Research. The International Polar Foundation, an organization led by the civil engineer and explorer Alain Hubert, was commissioned by the Belgian Federal government in 2004 to design, construct and operate a new Belgian Antarctic Research Station as an element under this umbrella programme. The station was to be designed as a central location for investigating the characteristic sequence of Antarctic geographical regions (polynia, coast, ice shelf, ice sheet, marginal mountain area and dry valleys, inland plateau) within a radius of 200 kilometers (approx.124 miles) of a selected site. The station was also to be designed as "state of the art" with respect to sustainable development, energy consumption, and waste disposal, with a minimum lifetime of 25 years. The goal of the project was to build a station and enable science. So first we needed some basic requirements, which I have listed here; plus we had to finance the station ourselves. Our most important requirement was that we decided to make it a zero emissions station. This was both a philosophical choice as we thought it more consistent with Antarctic Treaty obligations and it was also a logistical advantage. If you are using renewable energy sources, you do not have to bring in all the fuel
Panel. Spaces of Slavery
No full textRitual Architectures: Doorless and Makeshift Boundaries in Faulkner’s Slave Quarters / Amy Foley, Bryant UniversityFaulkner builds raced architectures throughout his writings, associating a lack of ornamentation in slave dwellings with an unfinished, nascent, or uncultivated way of life. Particularly in Go Down, Moses; Absalom, Absalom!; and “Red Leaves,” slaves live in cabins entirely without doors or with doors of a makeshift design as do the “domiciled” slaves of Thomas Sutpen and the McCaslins. Faulkner’s slave quarters are built from “odds and ends” and “refuse” that adorn sites of entry, repeatedly suggesting that the value of making a home is in the ritual or performance rather than in its material application. Faulkner conceptualizes how architectures direct, facilitate, and possibly “arrest” the motion of enslaved bodies relevant to contemporary theories of architecture and space, economy, labor models, and modes of observation and movement in industrial era work culture. His slave architectures anticipate and work out alternative models of supervision and relations between master and slave.Master/Slave Cartography: Mapping in The Unvanquished / Leigh Ann Litwiller Berte, Spring Hill CollegeThis paper examines Faulkner’s understanding of cartography as expressed in scenes within The Unvanquished (1938), a collection revised and published shortly after the author appended the first map of Yoknapatawpha to Absalom, Absalom!. In two key scenes, master and slave take turns as map makers, constructing “living maps” and what I call “trickster maps,” offering insight into the ways that maps and map making function as reflections of power and tools of subversion. Ultimately, these mapping scenes illuminate Faulkner’s larger conception of geography, unsettling our understandings of Yoknaptawpha as a geographical and imaginative entity. Faulkner offers a fluid understanding of the way that cartographers, land, events, and inhabitants intersect to construct contested, living maps of the world
Adenet le Roi entre chanson de geste et roman
No full textA. Henry a vu dans les quatre œuvres d’Adenet le Roi une évolution du genre épique vers le genre romanesque. Berte as grans piés, qu’il place chronologiquement en troisième position, aurait permis à son auteur de se « libér[er] de l’ancienne épopée ». Il n’en reste pas moins que Berte adopte la forme épique : jusqu’à quel point ?À travers l’analyse de l’emploi des vers d’intonation, marqueurs de la laisse épique strictement définis et classés par plusieurs critiques, il s’agit de mieux comprendre le projet de l’auteur : l’étude révèle qu’Adenet non seulement maîtrise et exploite toutes les caractéristiques structurelles et sémantiques des vers d’intonation, mais de plus leur apporte les mêmes adaptations que ses contemporains. S’insérant dans un moule rigoureusement pensé, les innovations thématiques témoignent dès lors plus de l’évolution de la chanson de geste au XIIIe siècle chez les créateurs que de son abâtardissement chez de maladroits épigones.A. Henry saw in the four works of Adenet le Roi an evolution from the epic to the novel. He claimed that Berte as grans piés, which he chronologically put in third position, allowed its author to “free himself from the old epic.” It is nevertheless a fact that Berte adopts the epic form. One may well ask, then, to what extent it does so.Thanks to an analysis of the use of intonation verses, those markers of the epic stanza strictly defined and classified by several critics, our aim is to get a better understanding of the author’s project. Indeed, our survey reveals that Adenet not only mastered and made use of all the structural and semantic characteristics of intonation verses, but also that he introduced the same adjustments as his contemporaries. Thus, complying with the rules of a rigorously thought-out form, his thematic innovations show the evolution of the French epic in the 13th century among creators rather than its degeneracy among clumsy epigones
Dual energy for pulmonary vein isolation using dual-energy focal ablation technology integrated with a three-dimensional mapping system: SmartfIRE 3-month results /
No full textAims: Contact force (CF)-sensing radiofrequency (RF) catheters with an ablation index have shown reproducible outcomes for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) in large multicentre studies. A dual-energy (DE) focal CF catheter to deliver RF and unipolar/biphasic pulsed field ablation (PFA), integrated with a three-dimensional (3D) mapping system, can provide operators with additional flexibility. The SmartfIRE study assessed the safety and efficacy of this novel technology for the treatment of drug-refractory, symptomatic paroxysmal AF. Results at 3 months post-Ablation are presented here. Methods and results: Pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) was performed using a DE focal, irrigated CF-sensing catheter with the recommendation of PFA at posterior/inferior and RF ablation at the anterior/ridge/carina segments. Irrespective of energy, a tag size of 3 mm; an inter-Tag distance ≤6 mm; a target index of 550 for anterior, roof, ridge, and carina; and a target index of 400 for posterior and inferior were recommended. Cavotricuspid isthmus ablation was permitted in patients with documented typical atrial flutter. The primary effectiveness endpoint was acute procedural success. The primary safety endpoint was the rate of primary adverse events (PAEs) within 7 days of the procedure. A prespecified patient subset underwent oesophageal endoscopy (EE; 72 h post-procedure), neurological assessment (NA; pre-procedure and discharge), and cardiac computed tomography (CT)/magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) imaging (pre-procedure and 3 months post-procedure) for additional safety evaluation, and a mandatory remapping procedure (Day 75 ± 15) for PVI durability assessment. Of 149 patients enrolled between February and June 2023, 140 had the study catheter inserted (safety analysis set) and 137 had ablation energy delivered (per-protocol analysis set). The median (Q1/Q3) total procedure and fluoroscopy times were 108.0 (91.0/126.0) and 4.2 (2.3/7.7) min (n = 137). The acute procedural success rate was 100%. First-pass isolation was achieved in 89.1% of patients and 96.8% of veins. Cavotricuspid isthmus ablations were successfully performed in 12 patients [pulsed field (PF) only: 6, RF only: 5, and RF/PF: 1]. The PAE rate was 4.4% [6/137 patients; 2 pulmonary vein (PV) stenoses, 2 cardiac tamponades/perforations, 1 stroke, and 1 pericarditis]. No coronary artery spasm was reported. No oesophageal lesion was seen in the EE subset (0/31, 0%). In the NA subset (n = 30), microemboli lesions were identified in 2 patients (2/30, 6.7%), both of which were resolved at follow-up; only 1 was symptomatic (silent cerebral lesion, 3.3%). In the CT/MRA subset (n = 30), severe PV narrowing (of >70%) was detected in 2 patients (2/30, 6.7%; vein level 2/128, 1.6%), of whom 1 underwent dilatation and stenting and 1 was asymptomatic; both were associated with high index values and a small inter-Tag distance. In the PV durability subset (n = 30), 100/115 treated PVs (87%) were durably isolated and 18/30 patients (60.0%) had all PVs durably isolated. Conclusion: A DE focal CF catheter with 3D mapping integration showed a 100% acute success rate with an acceptable safety profile in the treatment of paroxysmal AF. Prespecified 3-month remapping showed notable PVI durability. Clinical trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05752487
Corpo e experiência no processo criativo de Frida Kahlo: Conexões entre dança e cultura visual
No full textThis study emphasizes the issues of body and experience in the creative process of painter Frida Kahlo, in connection with a creative process in dance, based on images by this artist. Through interlacings between the fields of dance and visual culture, the author reflects about contempop dance, a dance proposition based on relations among bodies and images, popularized in different cultural spheres. From these reflections and artistic practices, possibilities for critical, creative and performative actions emerge for teaching, research and artistic creation in the contemporary era of mass reproduction and propagation of images.A reflexão do presente artigo é articulada a partir de elementos e imagens de um processo criativo e pedagógico de dança inspirado no universo pictórico de Frida Kahlo. O autor compartilha elementos de sua própria experiência com imagens da referida pintora com o objetivo de refletir sobre corpo e experiência no processo criativo desta artista. Disso emergem críticas que interpelam o papel das artes e de instituições culturais no contexto contemporâneo atravessado pela estetização cultural e pela reprodutibilidade técnica das imagens. Em torno das práticas artísticas de Frida Kahlo e das experiências estéticas e criativas desenvolvidas a partir de suas imagens, este estudo aponta possibilidades para fazeres críticos, criativos e performativos no ensino e na criação de dança e demais artes
Dual energy for pulmonary vein isolation using focal ablation technology integrated with a three-dimensional mapping system: SmartfIRE 12-month results
No full textAims The multicentre, single-arm SmartfIRE study assessed the safety and effectiveness of the novel dual-energy THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH SF (DE STSF) contact-force sensing catheter with multimodality generator to deliver radiofrequency (RF) and unipolar biphasic pulsed field (PF) ablation. Three-month follow-up showed a 100% acute success rate with an acceptable safety profile. Results at 12 months postablation are summarized here.Methods and results Patients with symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation underwent pulmonary vein isolation with the recommendation of PF ablation at posterior/inferior and RF ablation at the anterior/ridge/carina segments. The 12-month effectiveness endpoint was freedom from documented symptomatic and asymptomatic atrial arrhythmia on or off antiarrhythmic therapy (assessed by electrocardiogram, remote arrhythmia monitoring, and 24-h Holter), including acute procedural failures. Safety was assessed as the incidence of serious adverse events (SAEs) related to device and/or procedure. Quality of life was evaluated via Atrial Fibrillation Effect on Quality-of-Life (AFEQT) scores, and healthcare utilization was assessed as hospitalization for cardiovascular events and antiarrhythmic drug (AAD) use. Of 149 patients enrolled, 140 had the study catheter inserted (safety population analysis set), and 136 met the eligibility criteria and had ablation energy delivered (per-protocol analysis set). Freedom from symptomatic and asymptomatic atrial arrhythmia at 12 months was 71.5% (84.2% when using standard-of-care monitoring only). The clinical success rate (freedom from symptomatic arrhythmia) was 86.4%, and single procedural success was 81.0% (n = 136). The rate of device- and/or procedure-related SAEs was 3.6% (5/140 patients; two cardiac tamponades, two pulmonary vein stenosis, one anaphylactic shock). At 12 months, the overall AFEQT score increased by a median 26.9 points vs. baseline. Cardiovascular hospitalization rate reduced from 20.1 to 11.9% during the 12 months before vs. after ablation, respectively. The use of Class I/III AAD decreased from 60.3% at baseline to 23.9% at 6-12 months postablation. Post hoc analysis showed that patients with high adherence to recommended inter-tag distance and PF/RF index during ablation (n = 47) had a 12-month freedom from atrial arrhythmia recurrence of 86.9%, while the remaining patients (n = 88) had a rate of 64.0%.Conclusion The 12-month follow-up of the SmartfIRE study demonstrated the effectiveness, safety, and healthcare benefits of ablation using the DE STSF platform.Clinical Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05752487 (https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05752487)Clinical Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05752487 (https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05752487)Funding
This study was supported by Biosense Webster, Inc., part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech.
Acknowledgements
We thank all SmartfIRE study personnel and patients for their valuable participation in this trial. We thank the following individuals for their efforts in trial execution, statistical analysis, and input during the development of this
article: Sarah Rabau, Liesbeth Vanderlinden, Li Wan, Jennifer Maffre, Guixia Huang, Farid Jamshidian, Yanmin Wang, Erin Rogers, and Swati Trivedi. Medical writing and editorial assistance was provided in accordance with
Good Publication Practice guidelines by Michelle Hughes, PhD, of Lumanity Communications, Inc. (Yardley, PA, USA), under the guidance of the authors, and was funded by Biosense Webster, Inc. (Irvine, CA, USA), part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech
