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Tra diplomazia e teatro: Giuseppe Bonechi nell'epistolario di Metastasio
No full textIl saggio si concentra sulle strategie culturali e diplomatiche messe in atto da Metastasio per proporre il librettista Giuseppe Bonechi alla corte di Giuseppe I re del Portogallo
Dentro e fuori Vienna: il conte Orsini Rosenberg nelle lettere di Metastasio
No full textIl saggio prende in esame i rapporti culturali e diplomatici tra Metastasio, poeta cesareo alla corte degli Asburgo a Vienna e il conte Franz Xaver Wolfgang Orsini von Rosenberg, figura diplomatica tra le più influenti a corte. La familiarità tra Rosenberg e Metastasio, descritta dai loro scambi epistolari e dai ritratti del conte che il poeta affida ad altri corrispondenti, assume i contorni di un’amicizia motivata dalla comune passione per la cultura e per il teatro, nonostante le lunghe pause della loro frequentazione dovute agli incarichi del diplomatico a Madrid e a Firenze tra la fine degli anni Cinquanta e lungo tutto il decennio seguente
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Antigone a San Pietroburgo. Sul periodo russo di Marco Coltellini (1772-1777)
No full textIl contributo ricostruisce l’ultima fase della carriera di Marco Coltellini, soffermandosi sul suo soggiorno a San Pietroburgo tra il 1772 e il 1777 e sul ruolo svolto come poeta alla corte di Caterina II. Dopo aver delineato il percorso che condusse il librettista toscano da Livorno e Vienna alla capitale russa, il saggio analizza in particolare l’Antigona, composta nell’ambito del sodalizio con il compositore Tommaso Traetta. Attraverso l’esame del testo, delle soluzioni drammaturgiche e dei paratesti delle edizioni pietroburghese e fiorentina, l’articolo mette in luce il dialogo tra tragedia antica e melodramma, nonché le strategie encomiastiche rivolte alla celebrazione dell’imperatrice Caterina. L’Antigona emerge così come un’opera capace di riflettere i gusti della corte russa, le istanze dell’Illuminismo e le dinamiche di autopromozione dell’autore, inserendosi nelle più ampie reti culturali e diplomatiche italo-russe del tardo Settecento.The essay reconstructs the final phase of Marco Coltellini’s career, focusing on his stay in St Petersburg between 1772 and 1777 and on his role as poet at the court of Catherine II. After outlining the path that led the Tuscan librettist from Livorno and Vienna to the Russian capital, the study examines in particular Antigona, composed within Coltellini’s collaboration with the composer Tommaso Traetta. Through an analysis of the text, its dramaturgical solutions, and the paratexts of the St Petersburg and Florentine editions, the article highlights the dialogue between ancient tragedy and melodrama, as well as the encomiastic strategies aimed at celebrating Empress Catherine. Antigona thus emerges as a work capable of reflecting the tastes of the Russian court, the ideals of the Enlightenment, and the author’s strategies of self-promotion, situating itself within the broader Italian–Russian cultural and diplomatic networks of the late eighteenth century
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The cross-section of mutual fund fee dispersion
Full text linkIn this paper, we empirically analyze the factors affecting the cross section of mutual fund fee dispersion.
In the context of equity mutual funds, fee dispersion stems primarily from the heterogeneity of products,
clienteles and production functions. However, the relevant theory predicts that search costs can also generate
fee dispersion. By controlling for observable sources of heterogeneity, we find that fee dispersion
decreases with fund size and age, as well as with the amount of assets under management of the investment
company. In addition, we find lower levels of fee dispersion for funds that charge marketing and
distribution fees. Although we cannot rule out the possibility that these factors are a proxy for some
unobserved source of heterogeneity, our results are also consistent with the theoretical prediction that
search costs positively affect fee dispersion
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