279 research outputs found
Galeazzo Alessi, il tardo Rinascimento a Genova
No full textRibadire la credibilità della testimonianza vasariana circa l'autorialità alessiana nell'elaborazione del progetto urbanistico della Genova della metà del XVI secolo restituisce la dimensione ancora rinascimentale dell'operazione, in cui si inserisce anche la realizzazione della cupola della Cattedrale: Alessi fornisce all'arisocrazia dominante una serie di modelli di alto significato, la concezione di una rinnovata dimensione urbana, nell'ideale rappresentazione di una città "vitruviana", l'edilizia religiosa, la laica elaborazione di una qualità abitativa nei progetti di palazzo e di villa, la ricercata qualità antiquariale di bagni e grotte. Un ultimo tentativo rinascimentale di unità della progettazione artistica a cui collaborano Giovan Battista Castello, il Bergamasco e Luca Cambiaso. La Spagna di Filippo II , il progetto dell'Escorial e in questo l'intervento così ampio di Luca Cambiaso, rappresentano un'ultimo tentativo sullo scorcio del secolo di proporre una visione totalizzante che unisce figura umana, elaborazione dello spazio, dimensione architettonica
A Framework for Incorporating Minority Stress Theory into Treatment with Sexual Minority Clients
No full textEmpirical research has consistently demonstrated the negative mental health consequences of minority stress among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) populations; however, there is little understanding of how minority stress should be addressed in the actual clinical situation. This article discusses how to incorporate minority stress theory into clinical practice with LGB clients. A proposed framework begins with a two-part clinical assessment. The first part, based on Meyer’s (2003) minority stress model, examines the effects of prejudice events, stigma, internalized homophobia, and sexual orientation concealment. The second part, grounded in Hatzenbuelher’s (2009) work, examines the client’s coping/emotional regulation, social/interpersonal, and cognitive processes, which can be elevated by minority stress. Following the assessment process, the framework suggests using a LGB-affirmative treatment approach. The framework will be applied to the treatment of a black lesbian client in order to demonstrate its clinical utility.Peer reviewe
‘The Darkest Times of My Life’: Recollections of Child Abuse among Forced Migrants Persecuted because of Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
No full textNumerous studies demonstrate that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children and youth are likely to experience abuse by peers, parents, and other adults and that these experiences correlate with a host of mental health problems. However, there is little understanding of the experiences of LGBT children and youth living in countries where social and legal protections for sexual and gender minorities are limited or nonexistent. This qualitative study used thematic analysis to explore the child and adolescent abuse experiences and their impact on the pre-migration mental health of LGBT forced migrants. We analyzed 26 interviews with individuals who obtained refugee or asylee status in the United States or Canada on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Participants originated from countries in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Analysis revealed the following themes: abuse by parents and caregivers, abuse by peers and school personnel, having nowhere to turn, and dealing with psychological distress. Findings indicate that participants experienced severe verbal, physical, and sexual abuse throughout childhood and adolescence and that this abuse occurred at home, in school, and in the community. Furthermore, there were no resources or sources of protection available to them. Participants linked their abuse to subjective experiences of depression, anxiety, and traumatic stress, as well as suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. We conclude with implications for refugee adjudication practices, mental health care, and international policy.© 2015. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Peer reviewe
Tornare a discutere di riviste giuridiche
No full textThe Author traces back the role played by legal magazines over the years, emphasising
their being a mirror representation, genuine, silent and at the same time relentless, of the
different phases of legal theory.
The most recent magazines’ function is to renew the dialogue between legal theory and
case-law; this dialogue should neither be casual, nor a captive of the alternative, as sad as
it is popular, between occasional disapproving distancing and too enthusiastic acceptance in
respect of court’ choices
La Convenzione Ilo sulla violenza e le molestie sul lavoro
No full textThe essay analyses the impact of the ratification of the ILO Convention in the Italian legal system, with a focus on the concept of violence and harassment and its impact on other concepts, such as mobbing, and on the health and safety obligation of the employer. The author also
analyses the role of prevention strategies in counteracting violence and harassment in the workplace as psychosocial risks
On Democracy in Peer-to-Peer systems
No full textThe information flow inside a P2P network is highly dependent on the network structure. In order to ease the diffusion of relevant data toward interested peers, many P2P protocols gather similar nodes by putting them in direct contact. With this approach the similarity between nodes is computed in a point-to-point fashion: each peer individually identifies the nodes that share similar interests with it. This leads to the creation of a sort of "private" communities, limited to each peer neighbors list. This "private" knowledge do not allow to identify the features needed to discover and characterize the correlations that collect similar peers in broader groups. In order to let these correlations to emerge, the collective knowledge of peers must be exploited. One common problem to overcome in order to avoid the "private" vision of the network, is related to how distributively determine the representation of a community and how nodes may decide to belong to it. We propose to use a gossip-like approach in order to let peers elect and identify leaders of interest communities. Once leaders are elected, their profiles are used as community representatives. Peers decide to adhere to a community or another by choosing the most similar representative they know about
Giorgio Manganelli e il teatro
No full textNel 1967 Manganelli, che proprio quell’anno si sarebbe proclamato araldo della letteratura come menzogna, pubblicava sul «Verri» un articolo in cui illustrava la sua personalissima idea di teatro, compendiata nel congeniale e versatile binomio di cerimonia e artificio: «una idea piuttosto perplessa, e tuttavia eccitata: un sistema di diffidenze, irritazioni e imprecise speranze». Questo articolo, che secondo qualche interprete andrebbe letto come un vero e proprio manifesto programmatico, è semmai un valido documento dell’atteggiamento ambivalente, misto di perplessità ed eccitazione, sempre mostrato da Manganelli nei confronti del teatro, sin dalle pagine dei suoi giovanili quaderni di appunti, dove il futuro scrittore già tradiva un certo imbarazzo verso una forma d’arte che, ai suoi occhi, appariva troppo compromessa con la vita, e dunque, come dirà poi nel Discorso dell’ombra e dello stemma, costantemente minacciata del rischio di diventare antropomorfica.
Pur senza mai sciogliere del tutto le proprie riserve, Manganelli non ha però voluto rinunciare all’opportunità di «cimentarsi con la sfida del testo teatrale»; e dal 1963, anno in cui il suo primo esperimento drammatico, il monologo Iperipotesi, veniva messo in scena nel corso del convegno fondativo del Gruppo 63, per oltre un decennio si è volentieri improvvisato drammaturgo ogni qualvolta gli si è presentata l’occasione, mosso dalla curiosità e dalla segreta “imprecisa speranza” di «trovare [...] il sentiero che conduce al teatro». Sfortunatamente quel sentiero si è rivelato per lui non privo di qualche accidente, tra rappresentazioni mancate e accoglienze nient’affatto calorose; tanto che, dopo l’ennesima delusione, lasciata ormai ogni speranza, si è a malincuore rassegnato a desistere dall’impresa.
I suoi «vaghi, frammentari» contatti col mondo del teatro, «alleati – diceva lui – delle sue sindromi depressive», sono comunque all’origine di un eccentrico repertorio di testi, finalmente riuniti in una raccolta pressoché completa, Tragedie da leggere, pubblicata nel 2005 per la cura di Luca Scarlini. Al curatore spetta anche l’indiscutibile merito di aver accuratamente ricostruito, attraverso un paziente lavoro di ricerca, tutte le tappe della travagliata avventura teatrale di Manganelli, e di aver richiamato l’attenzione degli studiosi sulle sue “tragedie da leggere”, cui le opere maggiori hanno finito inevitabilmente per rubare la scena.
Ma, se è interessante conoscere le vicende che hanno portato l’agorafobo Manganelli a vestire i panni del drammaturgo, è invece indispensabile comprendere le ragioni del suo ambivalente atteggiamento di fronte al teatro, nonché al più grande autore drammatico di tutti i tempi, William Shakespeare. Verso di lui e verso i suoi altrettanto grandi personaggi, Manganelli ha sempre nutrito un’ammirazione incondizionata e perciò inconfessabile, tale da fargli compiere le più spericolate acrobazie pur di riportare il teatro di Shakespeare nel territorio meno compromesso della letteratura, non senza qualche inevitabile forzatura e contraddizione. Anziché tentare di smorzarle, è proprio su queste contraddizioni che conviene concentrare l’attenzione, a partire da quella più clamorosa. Perché è senza dubbio degno di nota il fatto che Manganelli, così sospettoso nei confronti del teatro, e fermamente intenzionato ad assomigliarlo il più possibile alla letteratura, sia invece arrivato a concepire la scrittura come «luogo di eventi sostanzialmente teatrali», dove lo scrittore, «eroico guitto», si trasforma nell’istrione di se stesso, al fine, solo implicitamente dichiarato, di «ingannare e illuminare il lettore», e soprattutto di proteggere la parte più intima di sé, nascondendo dietro un apparato di finzioni le proprie più segrete veritàIn 1967 Manganelli, who in the very same year declared himself as herald of the literature as a falsehood («letteratura come menzogna»), published on «Il Verri» an essay with the purpose to explain his very personal idea of theatre, summarized through the congenial and versatile combination of ceremony and artifice: a quite confused and yet excited idea: a scheme of suspicions, annoyance and fuzzy hopes («una idea piuttosto perplessa, e tuttavia eccitata: un sistema di diffidenze, irritazioni e imprecise speranze»). The essay, which – according to some annotators – should be considered as a manifesto, is instead a valuable treatise about the two-sided attitude, mingled and excitement, Manganelli always had towards theatre, as it came out from the pages of his early notebooks, in which he betrayed embarrassment in front of an art form that he regarded as too much intertwined with everyday life and constantly threatened by the risk of becoming anthropomorphic, as he later wrote also in his Discorso dell’ombra e dello stemma.
By the way, without making known his ideas on theatre, Manganelli never gave up the opportunity of attempting to measure himself with the theatrical play. So, starting from the first stage play of his first drama monologue Iperipotesi, acted out during the Gruppo 63 foundational meeting, he gladly accepted every chance to work as a dramatist for over a decade, fueled both by curiosity and by his secret “fuzzy hope” to find the path to theatre («trovare [...] il sentiero che conduce al teatro»). Unfortunately for him, that path to theatre wasn’t very smooth, amid missed performances and somehow a not so favourable welcome, up to the point that, after the umpteenth disappointment, once abandoned all hope, he reluctantly resigned himself to give up the undertaking.
Manganelli’s vague and fragmented contacts with theatre, which he defined as allied to his depressive syndromes, represent the basis of an odd collection of works, brought together in the Tragedie da leggere anthology (Aragno, 2005), published and edited by Luca Scarlini. Scarlini is also eligible as the one who accurately reconstructed, through a painstaking research work, all Manganelli’s theatrical stages, bringing the scholars’ attention on his “tragedie da leggere”, however overshadowed by Manganelli’s major works.
In any case, one the one hand, it is interesting to understand the reasons why the agoraphobic Manganelli worked also as a dramatist, on the other, the comprehension of his two-sided approach to theatre and to the major dramatist ever, William Shakespeare, must be considered as essential. In fact, Manganelli always brought forward a strong, unreserved and therefore unmentionable appreciation towards Shakespeare and his famous characters, emotions that led him do his utmost and face some contradictions and twistings to translate Shakespeare’s theatre into the less involved with everyday’s life dimension of literature. Manganelli’s contradictions represent the item on which we should put our focus: the author, while being really cautious against theatre and absolutely willing to compare it to literature, at the same time considers writing as a place made of basically theatrical events («luogo di eventi sostanzialmente teatrali»), in which the writer, as a heroic player («eroico guitto»), becomes a histrionic impressionist of himself («istrione di se stesso») with the implicit purpose to deceive and illuminate the reader («ingannare e illuminare il lettore») and, most of all, to shelter his inner side by hiding his innermost thoughts behind a fiction displa
Geostatistical modelling of spatial distribution of sperm whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary based on sparse count data and heterogeneous observations
No full text1. The Mediterranean sperm whale sub-population is classified as endangered by the IUCN. The conservation
management of this species demands further knowledge of its habitat use.
2. In this study, a generalized additive model was used to evaluate the spatial distribution of sperm whales in the
Pelagos Sanctuary.
3. The results suggested a preference for areas characterized by a particular sea floor topography. The estimated
encounter probabilities were highest above bathymetric features such as the Imperia and Genoa canyons and the
seamounts of the Ligurian Sea, highlighting differences in the habitat preference of sperm whales
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