84 research outputs found
Alberto Alpago Novello e i piani regolatori per l'Africa italiana
No full textIl saggio nasce da una approfondita ricerca archivistica in funzione della mostra inaugurale del Museo delle Culture di Milano (Mudec) e analizza soprattutto le peculiarità del piano regolatore di Alberto Alpago Novello, Ottavio Cabiati e Guido Ferrazza per Bengasi: esso, ricorda Luigi Piccinato, è tra i pochi capace di coniugare la cultura progettuale del Moderno e tutelare i valori artistici, architettonici e ambientali del luogo
Modern attitudes towards vernacular architecture. Works by the Italians Luigi Angelini, Alberto Alpago Novello, Ottavio Cabiati, Alessandro Minali.
No full textAmong the many architects practicing between the two world wars, some looked at the so-called vernacular architecture - then referred to as traditional or local, primitive, and spontaneous - as a model of genuine functionality. For some of them, its revival also stands for a solid and reliable solution for preserving the continuity between past and present, local communities and their traditions, society and its generations, a place, and its materials. Architectural historians have widely explored the theme, highlighting figures, subjects, and currents. Nevertheless, investigation of the role of history and historic culture is still far from exhausted, not only for Modernists but also among the Avantgardes and the International Style too. As a response to this conference’s topics, some of the architects working in and around Milan the 20th century focused on the relationships between tradition and modernity. Here we look at some of their works to open a discussion on different scales: the landscape, the town, the building. We shall examine their proposals for a functionalist and modern design concept in traditional terms: the Mediterranean colonial house will illustrate the research by Alberto Alpago Novello and Ottavio Cabiati on local architecture; the modern pre-Alpine house proposed by the engineer Luigi Angelini for the Bergamo valleys and the building materials chosen by the architect Alessandro Minali show their respect for each place. The conclusions will – one hopes - lead to talking about typological and constructive building features, materials, and traditional techniques as a tool for preservation
Tuning the Hydrolytic Degradation Rate of Poly-Lactic Acid (PLA) to more Durable Applications
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Le fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio / raccolti ed illustrati da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, opera divisa in quattro tomi con tavole in rame, rappresentanti le piante, i prospetti, e gli spaccata.
No full textLoggia del Capitanio; cropped elevation, left side (plate T XIV); [Physical descrip: 4 v. : ill., plans; 24 cm. Edition source: University of Toronto Libraries] In 1776 Bertotti Scamozzi published the first volume of Le fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio raccolti e illustrati. The idea of producing a luxurious edition of Palladio's works for an international, especially English, market began in 1770, when Pietro Edwards first discussed it with Bertotti Scamozzi, the scholar Antonio Locatelli and probably also the collector and patron John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. The aim of the project was to clarify Palladio's ideas for his admirers and imitators, to solve problems of attribution and reconstruction of incomplete or destroyed works, and to resolve the question of the difference between Palladio's completed buildings and those shown in the plates of his treatise I quattro libri. Bertotti Scamozzi erroneously viewed the drawings in I quattro libri as plans representing Palladio's original wishes. He therefore undertook a philological analysis aiming to restore the 'old' Palladio: he collated all the editions of I quattro libri, comparing the designs shown in those plates that he considered most reliable and consistently Palladian with the corresponding buildings and noting the differences in execution. The results of his work were recorded in the drawings published in Le fabbriche. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/25/2008
Sulla ricezione della «Gerusalemme liberata» nella cultura europea tra Sette e Ottocento
No full textThis paper highlights the importance of the work of Torquato Tasso for European culture through an analysis of some significant moments of his legacy, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After a brief investigation of the musical theatre, we will focus on the connection between Tasso’s works and those of Rousseau, Goethe and Goldoni. Our essay ends with an analysis of the presence of Tasso in Manzoni, especially considering the parody of canto xvi of Jerusalem Delivered, written by the Milanese author with his friend Ermes Visconti : Manzoni’s reflection (including that on Tasso’s poetry) seems to find its perfect place within the European cultural landscape
Il giardino, il vento, il cuore. Manzoni e Bassani
No full textIn this paper I propose a first investigation about the influence of Manzoni’s model in the works of
Giorgio Bassani. This is a very important model for him, as evidenced by the many references to
Manzoni in the Ferrarese author’s essays and the various intertextual links that can be perceived
in his poetic compositions and in his narrative proses. Bassani is one of the authors of the second
half of the twentieth century who have taken more inspiration from Manzoni to renovate Italian
narrative. In this paper I want to analyze above all the citations-allusions of The Betrothed in
The Garden of Finzi-Continis. This intertextual analysis is preceded by a study of the essay texts
of Bassani and in his interviews that help to better undestarnd the years 1955-1958 in the cultural
itinerary of this author to validate the links found between the Manzoni masterpiece and the novel
of Finzi-Contini
PERCHE' IL GOVERNO. IL LABORATORIO ETICO-POLITICO DI FOUCAULT
No full textIn this book the author analyzes the philosophical work of Michel Foucault considering, primarily, those courses and texts – long unpublished or not very well-known – which provide evidence of the extensive research he carried out after publishing Surveiller et punir (1975). Overcoming the common notion that in this period Foucault moved “from politics to ethics”, the book shows how much importance he gave, in this period, to his intense study of “politics as war continued by other means” and, above all, to the genealogy of various forms of the “government of men”. In particular, the courses held by Foucault at Collège de France starting in 1976 make it possible to focus very precisely on the theme of biopolitics which, instead, has often been interpreted in ways that were too freeform and variable. Additionally, in these courses it is possible to find a very sharp and surprising historical reconstruction of liberal and neoliberal “governmentality,” a reconstruction which especially today seems to be very useful. Finally, these courses make it possible to contextualize appropriately the Foucaultian research on the ethics of “the care of the self,” explaining the extreme importance this theme has in the definition of the relationship between the “government of self” and the “government of others”, i.e. between ethics and politics
The Word as Mask. A Reading of Tommaso Landolfi’s Ottavio di Saint-Vincent
No full textThe aim of this essay is to explore the relationship between the word and the fictional concealment in the narrative work of
one of the most original – but, strangely, least known – Italian authors of the 20th century, Tommaso Landolfi. This analysis
examines a single work by Landolfi, the long story Ottavio di Saint-Vincent, which seems to have a particular relationship
with the whole narrative production of this author because of its concern with metanarrative. The story of the poor poet Ottavio of
Saint Vincent, who pretends to be a fictional duke conforming to the duchess’ wishes, surfaces more than once as a metaphor for
literary creation itself
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