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Un libro de horas iluminado para Alfonso de Borja : influencia de los grabados alemanes en la miniaturade la Corona de Aragon a mediados del siglo 14. / Francesca Manzari.
No full textIl saggio ricostruisce il contesto di produzione di un raro esempio di libro d’ore valenziano della metà del Quattrocento, indagando a fondo i diversi aspetti del raffinato manufatto. Il repertorio decorativo secondario viene ricondotto alla produzione valenziana, mentre le carte incipitarie maggiori, dotate di straordinarie ma inusuali bordure miniate, vengono spiegate identificandone i modelli nella carte da gioco prodotte da un proto-incisore tedesco, spesso utilizzato come repertorio di modelli anche in ambito fiammingo. L’identificazione di un ritratto del destinatario e del suo nome, Alfonso, insieme all’indagine “archeologica” sulle tracce di fogli perduti hanno permesso di proporre Alfonso Borgia, quale committente, alla metà del secolo, prima della sua elezione come papa Callisto IIIThe essay reconstructs the context of production of a rare example of Valencian Book of Hours from the mid-15th century, investigating in-depth the different features of the elegant artefact. The secondary decorative repertory is linked with the illuminated production at Valencia, while the major incipit pages, with extraordinary but unusual illuminated borders, are explained identifying their models in the printed playing cards produced by a German engraver; these were used as model books especially in Flanders. The identification of the owner’s portrait and name, Alfonso, together with the “archeological” analysis of the traces of lost leaves, have enabled the author to propose Alfonso Borgia as the patron, dating the book to the middle of the century, before his election as pope Callixtus II
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Francesca Bertini
No full textFrancesca Bertini was an extremely careful guardian of her image and legacy throughout her whole life. A major star of the international silent screen, she has recounted her hugely successful career in different autobiographic writings and interventions. An invaluable source of information for the history of Italian cinema, these documents are notoriously reticent—and sometimes unreliable—about certain personal details of her life. For example, she never revealed to have been first registered in 1892 at an orphanage in Florence as Elena Taddei, the daughter of Adelina di Venanzio Fratiglioni, a single mother and possibly a stage actress (Jandelli 2006, 31-2). While many sources indicate her first surname to be Seracini, the only concrete information we have about her acquired identity is that she became Elena Vitiello in 1910, when her mother married Arturo Vitiello, a Neapolitan propman or furniture dealer. Bertini was introduced to the sprightly Neapolitan theatrical milieu at an early age. She got her first, supporting role on stage when she was just seventeen, in the widely acclaimed 1909 production of “Assunta Spina”—an intense southern melodrama by reputed author Salvatore Di Giacomo. One of the most representative texts of the new Neapolitan popular theater, “Assunta Spina” was later transposed on screen by Bertini in 1915. The final result is still regarded as one of the masterpieces of Italian silent cinema and an emblematic example of Verist cinema. By 1915, Bertini had already been cast in more than 50 films, including many one and two-reel historical reconstructions and a few features. The following years saw her continuing to grow in popularity, with her films gaining huge acclaim wherever they were presented, from Europe to Latin America and from Russia to the United States
Le funzioni delle citazioni bibliche nella letteratura della Slavia ortodossa
No full textBiblical quotations play a central role in the literature of Slavia orthodoxa. Their
importance, together with the necessity of their systematic study, has been underlined
several times. The biblical element should be analysed at several levels, within differ
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ent literary forms. First it should be identified and classified, then understood in the
context of liturgy and liturgical books. Through biblical quotations, the author gave an
interpretation of history and present situation according to the Holy Scripture and, by
means of rhetoric, he tried to make the biblical message actual and to renew its meta
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morphic power. The present study focuses on the function biblical quotations have in
some of the most representative literary forms of Slavia orthodoxa. M. Garzaniti analy
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ses hagiographic texts, pilgrimage tales and chronicles; F. Romoli sermons and spiritual
teachings
OBSERVATIONS AND SIMULATIONS OF THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN COASTAL BREEZES AND THE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER IN THE COASTAL HOUSTON ENVIRONMENT
No full textThe atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) in the coastal environment is constantly evolving due to gradients in temperature, moisture, and surface roughness. The ABL influences regional air quality and weather forecasts through low-level stability and thermodynamic fluxes. Even though the ABL is intrinsic to daily life, it is historically under-sampled and poorly simulated in numerical models, because it evolves on a high spatiotemporal scale. The sea breeze (SB) is a contributor to the rapid coastal ABL evolution and develops because of the land-sea thermal gradient and advects the marine airmass onshore during the day. As a result, the SB can contribute to convection initiation and alter air quality in coastal areas. The TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) field campaign gathered observations in the coastal-urban environment of Houston, Texas. With the goal of understanding the convective cloud lifecycle, a dense network of ABL measurements was gathered to understand how coastal breezes influence cloud evolution. Ground-based remote sensors and small uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) were deployed throughout the campaign and gathered a high temporal and vertically resolved dataset throughout numerous SB events, some of which triggered convection initiation. Vertical profiles of temperature, humidity, and winds were collected by the OU CopterSonde UAS from June to September in the coastal region of Houston, Texas. These profiles offer 5 m vertical resolution, on average, every 30 min through diurnal transitions, SB events, and nearby deep convection. During the campaign, CopterSonde observations were gathered through 17 SB events, 6 of which led to convection initiation. The UAS data can resolve the thermodynamic evolution and interactions between the SB and the pre-existing convective boundary layer. Using the UAS observations, SB impacts and interactions with the ABL are investigated. The range of SB thermodynamic impacts is found to be broad and depends on the time of SB passage and influence from additional water bodies, like Galveston Bay. The SB is also found to convectively destabilize the ABL by advecting an airmass with enhanced equivalent potential temperature. The rate at which equivalent potential temperature increases in response to the SB provides insight into how conducive the environment is to convection initiation. The resolution of UAS observations also provides a unique opportunity to evaluate numerical weather prediction on temporal scales consistent with the PBL evolution during coastal breeze passages, and beyond the surface layer. A case study is evaluated using observations during a bay breeze to sea breeze transition to understand how model parameterizations influence the forecast. The Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS) is a convection-allowing ensemble designed to predict high-impact weather by combining rapidly updating data assimilation cycles with varying PBL and radiation parameterizations. While the model is not geared toward PBL studies, it provides a benchmark to evaluate commonly used parameterizations for NWP to offer insight into best-performing combinations and potential improvements. The biases of state variables calculated from the UAS observations show distinct differences from biases calculated using surface meteorological station observations, suggesting that traditional ABL evaluation practices may underestimate errors in the mixed layer. Additionally, the SB is variably represented in terms of the depth, arrival time, and intensity with different parameterization configurations. Only a subset of members simulate the preceding Galveston Bay breeze, and none do so accurately. The bay breeze is very sensitive to initial conditions, especially for members with local mixing schemes. As a result, initial cloud cover induced by the radiation scheme affects the ability to simulate a bay breeze, as well as the SB onset time. The mixing scheme for ABL parameterization lends differences in SB depth, intensity, and evolution. This variability across simulated SBs motivated analyzing how these differences impact simulated convection. Two events are analyzed to understand how simulated convection initiation differs with the ABL parameterization. Forecast performance is evaluated using storm object identification and matching with gridded reflectivity observations. One case's performance is consistent across all members, but the other is greatly dependent on the ABL parameterization. Local mixing scheme members tend to have more moisture across the region and disperse rising motion ahead of the SB front, which leads to an overestimation of storm objects inland. Nonlocal mixing members have more isolated lifting and unstable air close to the SB front that causes an underestimation of convective storms. These differences are less impactful when the environment is very unstable upon initialization. Then, all EMs result in an overestimation of convective storm objects ahead of the SB. These results suggest that the simulation of the convective boundary layer is more critical to accurately depicting convection initiation than the sea breeze characteristics
Author Correction: Biodiversity estimates and ecological interpretations of meiofaunal communities are biased by the taxonomic approach (Communications Biology, (2018), 1, 1, (112), 10.1038/s42003-018-0119-2)
No full textIn the original published version of the article, the acknowledgements incorrectly omitted a statement acknowledging the availability of public data through the authors’ funding from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. This information was also missing from the Data Availability statement. In addition, the original version of the acknowledgements did not accurately reflect the relative funding to author Francesca Leasi from multiple sources. These errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
DIFFERENTIAL FORMS IN CARNOT GROUPS AFTER M. RUMIN: AN INTRODUCTION
No full textThese notes are taken from the Master Thesis of the second author
(written under the supervision of B. Franchi and P. Pansu) and are partially
based on a PhD course given by the first author at the University of Bologna
in 2012-2013. They are aimed to provide an elementary and comprehensive
introduction to the theory of differential forms in Carnot groups and to the
so-called Rumin’s complex
A morphological layer for the German part of the SMULTRON corpus
No full textA morphological layer for the German part of the SMULTRON corpus. Layer was annotated according to the STTS tagset and the annotation guidelines of the Tiger corpus.
Coordinator: Thomas Müller
Annotators: Francesca Caratti, Arne Recknagel
This distribution contains a morphological layer for the SMULTRON corpus [0].
The annotation process is described in :
@InProceedings{mueller2015,
author = {M\"uller, Thomas and Sch\"utze, Hinrich},
title = {Robust Morphological Tagging with Word Representations},
booktitle = {Proceedings of NAACL},
year = {2015},
}
[0] http://www.cl.uzh.ch/research/parallelcorpora/paralleltreebanks/smultron_en.htm
An American at the origins of European Sprachwissenshaft and Italian historiographical thought. William Dwight Whitney and his approach to linguistic issues
No full textThis contribution is dedicated to William Dwight Whitney (1827–1897), a scholar who generally has a modest space dedicated to him in the historiography of linguistics, despite his name and works having had considerable circulation among his contemporaries. His originality and method are outlined with particular attention being given to his reception in Europe and in the setting of Italian studies of theoretical and empirical linguistics.
Whitney was among the first to contest Schleicher's concept of language as a natural fact, claiming, instead, that it has social nature, as an ‘institution’ created by man; he was a forerunner in recognizing the relevance of signs and their value, and of language acquisition. In his demonstrations and in his methods he proposes a science of historical linguistics but at the same time it is open to 20th century linguistics and the concept of language as a complex system ordered and crossed by relationships. Both his unique approach to the study of Sanskrit, which emphasised the study of its use and its variants, and his interest for modern languages, makes him a particularly interesting scholar, as he and his reception testify the rise, in Europe and especially in Italy, of a new approach to linguistic issues, no longer exclusively historical-comparative, but also theoretical and general.
Nonetheless, Whitney ought to occupy a prominent place in the history of linguistics, because he was also the author of one of the first introductory texts of the discipline, which was published in 1875; in that same year a French translation came out, which was soon followed by an Italian, and a German translation (both 1876).The number of almost contemporaneous translations gives an idea of the gap which a general and introductory work like Whitney's filled and illustrates that there was a clear need for it.
In several works, including recent ones, De Mauro identified the specific characteristics of Italian linguistic studies: we can find a good many of these traits in Whitney as well. Although the fruitful contribution of Whitney's ideas in an environment which is ‘naturally’ inclined towards the themes and methods the American linguist dealt with, i.e., the ‘Italian linguistic school’, has not been fully recognised until now, it is undeniable that his ideas provided an important stimulus for new interpretations and new models
How to signify otherness and diasporic bodies through puppetry. Two dramaturgies by Kossi Efoui
No full textAuthor of various theater plays, French-speaking writer of Togolese origin Kossi Efoui transfers in his texts, relying on the puppet’s medium, his experience of political exile from his native country and statelessness, as well as search for an identity in his adoptive country, France.
Reluctant to embrace a Western view that tends to relegate authors of African origins to an exotic aesthetic, Kossi Efoui puts a complex concept of identity at the center of his dramaturgy.
This chapter is centered on two different texts by Kossi Efoui, "Io (tragédie)" (2006) and "En guise de divertissement" (2013). The latter was conceived as a stage writing together with the puppet theater company Théâtre Inutile, during a collaboration lasting twenty years.
Analyzing the two texts, I aim to demonstrate how the basic themes of Efoui’s dramaturgy - the trauma of exile and the expropriation, on the one hand, and the rehabilitation of a human feeling, of one’s own history and identity, on the other - find their best concretization in the staging carried out with puppets
Mary as ‘scala caelestis’ in Eighth and Ninth Century Italy, in The Reception of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Marian Narratives in Texts and Images, M. B. Cunningham, T. Arentzen (eds.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 235–56.
No full textThis paper explores the reception and reshaping of the theme of the Dormitio in homilies as well as in visual arts produced in early medieval Italy. Connected to other papers presented in the workshop as for the interaction between textual and mental images of Mary (Olkinuora), it also found a natural prosecution in another dealing with the development of the theme of the Dormitio in tenth and eleventh centuries Byzantine texts (Booth). The case-study chosen for this paper is an image of the Virgin Assunta depicted in the apse of the small ‘crypt’ of the abbot Epiphanius (824–42) in the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, in the former Langobardia Minor, preserving the most important painted cycle in the early medieval central-southern Italy. Mary sits on a throne, holding a book where a quotation from the Magnificat hymn is inscribed. The throne, the crown, and five archangels paraded in the lower section of the vault, make her appear as the Queen of Heaven ruling with her Son, who is depicted on another throne in the vault above. The painted cycle of the crypt has been analysed by generations of art historians, among whom Toesca (1904) and Belting (1968) traced a connection between its contents and the writings of the Gallic author Ambrosius Autpertus († 784). He was a monk, briefly abbot, and a renowned theologian active at San Vincenzo al Volturno in the second half of the eighth century. In his Sermo de adsumptione sanctae Mariae – the earliest original homily on the Dormitio attested in the Latin West ¬– Mary is presented as reigning above the Angels with her Son. Autpertus quotes the Magnificat in celebrating the humility of Mary, a virtue that made her the celestial ladder to Heaven from which God descended to Earth and humanity can ascend to salvation – thus adopting a new metaphor in the West for describing her role in the history of Salvation. This metaphor is instead to be found in the Byzantine Marian tradition from the sixth century, and revived by iconophile writers of the early eighth century. The latter already connected the Magnificat to the moment of Mary’s transitus in their homilies on the Dormitio. Although the modalities of transmission of iconophile homilies to the West have not been investigated, it remains the case that Autpertus declares that he could not find «apud Latinos» anything related to the Dormitio, and that he then adopts a phrasing, metaphors, epithets applied in the Byzantine tradition to describe Mary, her Assumption into Heaven, her role in the history of Salvation. Interestingly, the mural painting with the Assunta pre-dates of one century the earliest Byzantine depiction of the Dormitio of Mary, which instead present Mary on her deathbed surrounded by the Apostles. The Assunta at San Vincenzo should not be explained by mechanically comparing it to earlier theological writings, but by reconstructing the modalities of circulation of theological concepts between East and West in the period of the ‘image struggle’, their influence on the religious mentality, and their eventual ‘translation’ into visual imagery
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