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Gli ergastolani senza scampo. Fenomenologia e criticità costituzionali dell'ergastolo ostativo
No full textNel discorso pubblico si ripete, monotona, la convinzione che in Italia l’ergastolo non esiste e che i condannati al carcere a vita, prima o poi, escono tutti di galera. La realtà rivela, invece, un dato esattamente capovolto: attualmente sono 1.619 i condannati alla pena perpetua e, di questi, 1.174 (pari al 72,5% del totale) sono ergastolani ostativi, ai sensi dell’art. 4-bis dell’ordinamento penitenziario.
Sconosciuto ai più, l’ergastolo ostativo è una pena destinata a coincidere, nella sua durata, con l’intera vita del condannato e, nelle sue modalità, con una detenzione integralmente intramuraria. Una pena perpetua e immutabile cui è possibile sottrarsi solo collaborando utilmente con la giustizia.
Il presente volume, nella sua Parte I (scritta da Carmelo Musumeci) narra con autenticità la giornata sempre uguale di un ergastolano senza scampo, scandita nei suoi ritmi esteriori e interiori – alba, mattino, pomeriggio, sera, notte – costringendo il lettore a immaginare l’inimmaginabile. Nella sua Parte II (scritta da Andrea Pugiotto), ripercorre criticamente la trama normativa dell’ergastolo ostativo, argomentandone i tanti profili di illegittimità costituzionale e convenzionale, in serrata dialettica con la giurisprudenza delle Corti, costituzionale e di Cassazione, ad oggi persuase del contrario.
Il volume è impreziosito dall’eloquente Prefazione del Presidente Emerito della Corte costituzionale Gaetano Silvestri, che rilegge il regime dell’art. 4-bis o.p. alla luce del principio supremo di dignità della persona. L’Appendice (curata da Davide Galliani) illustra i risultati di un’inedita ricerca empirica condotta tra circa 250 ergastolani, finalizzata a rilevare le materiali condizioni di salute, fisica e psichica, derivanti da un regime detentivo perpetuo, esclusivamente intramurario, frequentemente declinato nelle forme del c.d. carcere duro (ex art. 41-bis o.p.).
Il volume (quarto della collana Diritto penitenziario e Costituzione, nata dall’esperienza dell’omonimo Master promosso da Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza dell’ateneo di Roma Tre) è il risultato del primo progetto di ricerca UE dedicato al regime dell’ergastolo nel contesto europeo (www.lifeimprisonment.eu)
Scantu, cantu e cuntu in Maruzza Musumeci: un’analisi etnodialettologica
No full textLo scopo di questo contributo è verificare se la scrittura di Andrea Camilleri possa essere sottoposta a una lettura etnodialettologica attraverso il riferimento ad alcuni elementi documentari ed evocativi della tradizione
cultura siciliana. Così, il primo romanzo della cosiddetta trilogia fantastica, Maruzza Musumeci (2007), sarà preso come caso di studio per valutare attraverso alcuni indizi linguistici la connessione tra paura, canto e
racconto orale, che costituiscono un contesto unitario nell'immaginario popolare siciliano. Grazie all'analisi dell'ipotesto etno-dialettale, Maruzza – piuttosto che essere assimilata esclusivamente ad una Sirena – appare con
i lineamenti delle figure femminili che tradizionalmente incutono timore nei bambini siciliani e che certamente hanno spaventato l'autore stesso durante la sua infanzia. Tranne ad essere poi "salvati" dalle canzoni e narrazioni delle madri. In base a questo contesto unitario, si propone una etimologia della parola "scantu".The aim of this paper is to verify whether Andrea Camilleri’s writing can be subjected to an ethnodialectological
reading by means of references to some documentary and evocative elements of traditional
Sicilian culture. As such, the first novel of the so-called fantasy trilogy, Maruzza Musumeci (2007), will
be taken as a case study to evaluate through some linguistic clues the connection between fear, song and
story which constitute a unitary context in Sicilian popular imagination. Thanks to the analysis of the
ethno-dialectal hypotext, Maruzza – rather than being assimilated exclusively to a Siren – appears with
the features of the female figures who traditionally cause fear in Sicilian children and who certainly
frightened the author himself during his childhood. Except, they were then ‘saved’ by the Sicilian mothers’ songs and fairy tales
Synchronic macrophage response andPlasmodium falciparummalaria
No full textHuman Chitotriosidase (CHIT), produced by activated macrophage, is a member of the chitinase family, a group of enzymes with the capability to hydrolyze chitin. Recently plasma CHIT activity was found elevated in children with acuteP. falciparummalaria compared with healthy African children, as a consequence of macrophage activation
due to the presence of parasites. In this study we recruited at the local Centre Medical Saint Camille (CMSC) of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, 62 African children (30 males and 32 females, aged 2–140 months; median 16.5 months), affected by acuteP. falciparummalaria, born and living in Burkina Faso. Control subjects included 140 healthy African children (79 males and 61 females) with age ranging from 10 to 100 months (median 22 months) at evaluation time. They did not show signs of acute
infectious disease and their blood smears forP.
falciparumwere negative. This study was approved by the local Ethical Committees of CMSC. Parents of the participating children in the study were orally informed of the scope of this research. For plasma CHIT assay, 3 ml of EDTA-blood was centrifuged and plasma samples were stored at –40°C determination by fluorimetric method at the Centre
for Metabolic Diseases— University of Catania, Italy
L'amore in tribunale: la rilevanza delle emozioni nel diritto penale in Italia tra Otto e Novecento
No full textAndrea Bacová
No full textAndrea Bacová focuses on research and teaching in the field of residential architecture. Her work includes systematic research on residential buildings and their urban context. She actively participates in promoting Slovak architecture and is the author of several publications and exhibitions
Chitin, Chitinases and Chitinase-Like Proteins: A Hypothesis on Ancestral Relationships
No full textIn this contribution we reconsider the phylogeny of mammalian proteins homologous to the glycosyl hydrolase 18 family: chitinases and chitinase-like proteins. This problem has been recently dealt with in two important papers (Bussink et al, 2007; Funkhouser and Aronson, 2007). A clear scheme emerges from these analyses, in which chitinase-like proteins are specialized, tissue-specific, mammalian proteins that have lost the chitinolytic function and have acquired a wealth of possible new functions, mainly related to inflammatory processes. We present here preliminary results from different methods of sequence analysis based on: i) multiple alignments; ii) compression algorithms; iii) statistical over(under)-representation of short k-grams. From our preliminary exploration we formulate and discuss the hypothesis that, chitinase-like proteins are the ancestor group, present as pre-chitinase activators in an ancestral unicellular world from which active chitinases originated as a response to the emergence of chitin synthesis. Chitinase-like proteins in mammals could play a role, in inflammation and in cancer development, similar to the ancient role of activator or signalling molecules in unicellular organisms
Viewer-, Author-, and Ownership in the Work of Andrea Zittel
No full textAndrea Zittel invites others to collapse the distinctions between artist, viewer, and collaborator by interacting with her usable works. This thesis explores the process of interacting with Zittel\u27s works, and how it affects viewer-, author- and ownership
The Lettere of Andrea Calmo: authorial artifices and historical reality
No full textopenNonostante l’edizione di Vittorio Rossi del 1888, la raccolta di "ingegnosi cheribizzi" e di "fantastiche fantasie" di Andrea Calmo è ancora avvolta da un certo mistero. L’autore, dissimulando la propria identità dietro alla “maschera” dell’umile pescatore veneziano, è stato in grado di offrire uno spaccato della cultura e della società nella Venezia cinquecentesca.
In particolare, è il quarto libro delle Lettere ad aver suscitato maggiore interesse tra gli studiosi ed i lettori: pubblicato nel 1566, a diversi anni di distanza dai primi tre, questo libro si distingue per il fatto che tutte le epistole sono indirizzate a delle donne immaginarie o realmente esistite.
In questa sede si propone, in primo luogo, uno studio della biografia del Calmo accompagnata da un’analisi del contesto storico-culturale della Venezia cinquecentesca; in secondo luogo, invece, viene proposto un commento di alcune lettere dell’ultimo libro dell’opera calmiana, che cerchi di far luce principalmente sull’aspetto linguistico e contenutistico del testo.Despite Vittorio Rossi's 1888 edition, Andrea Calmo's collection of "ingegnosi cheribizzi" and "fantastiche fantasie" is still shrouded in a certain mystery. The author, dissimulating his own identity behind the "mask" of the humble Venetian fisherman, was able to offer a cross-section of culture and society in sixteenth-century Venice.
In particular, it is the fourth book of the Letters that has aroused greater interest among scholars and readers: published in 1566, several years after the first three, this book stands out for the fact that all the epistles are addressed to women imaginary or actually existed.
Here we propose, first of all, a study of Calmo's biography accompanied by an analysis of the historical-cultural context of sixteenth-century Venice; secondly, however, a commentary on some letters from the last book of Calmo's work is proposed, which seeks to shed light mainly on the linguistic and content aspect of the text
Trusted Tales: Creating Authenticity in Literary Representations from Ex-Yugoslavia
No full textThis research deals with questions of authority and authenticity and how they are expressed, constructed, and appropriated within the Anglophone book market. It considers the body of literature written about ex-Yugoslavia since the 1990s Balkan conflicts by exiled writers from the region which has entered the international literary canon. Books’ routes from original publishers into English translation are discussed through practices of trust, one of the crucial social devices underpinning their exchange. Within these cross-cultural processes, the role of cultural brokers is crucial. Symbolic and cultural resources are specifically mobilised through their powerful author brands.
By exploring authenticity in the context of book publishing, I further look at how ideas and practices of community are employed and negotiated by writers and those who promote their books. My field is multi-sited and fluid, reflecting how different individual and national positions are enacted and performed through strategies ranging from unconscious dispositions to deliberate intentions. This research thus brings together ideas of the author as an authentic, representative voice together with exile as a position that grants them a new lease of relevancy in the post-socialist context.
Although ex-Yugoslav books occupy a ‘high end’ niche of the UK market, constrained by commercial as well as political, cultural, and institutional forces, in public discourse ideas of the ‘free market’ and ‘free speech’ are mobilised to produce various types of modernisation narratives. The (post)socialist production of literature is perceived as having to ‘evolve’ into a capitalist model: this would allow not only healthy competition and consumer choice but guarantee an individual writer ‘free speech’ as a basic human right. Therefore, the most general question this research raises is what kind of foreign literature gets translated into English, under what socio-cultural conditions and which politics of representation it serves within the project of world literature
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