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Ferrara città creativa
No full textIl saggio indaga il tema della creatività urbana a partire dall’illustrazione di tre pratiche locali sbocciate all’improvviso a Ferrara a partire dal 2012. Il recente fenomeno di creatività che si è manifestato a Ferrara viene messo in relazione con i risultati di trent’anni di politiche culturali e per il turismo promosse dalla città. In conclusione vengono sviluppate alcune considerazioni sia sulle pratiche illustrate, sia sulle condizioni generali per favorire questo tipo di sviluppiThe essay explores the theme of urban creativity from the illustration of three local practices suddenly blossomed in Ferrara from 2012. The recent phenomenon of creativity that is manifested in Ferrara is put in relation by the author with the results of thirty years of cultural and tourism policies promoted by the City. In conclusion, some considerations are developed both on the practices discussed, both on the general conditions to encourage this type of development
Memorie istoriche delle chiese di Ferrara e de' suoi borghi : munite, ed illustrate con antichi inediti monumenti, che ponno servire all' istoria sacra della suddetta città.
No full textErrata, last 2 leaves.Includes index of churches discussed.Signatures: pi⁶ A-2C⁸ 2D⁴ ²A-D⁸ E¹⁰(-E1) F-H⁸ I¹⁰(-I3)."Al benigno lettore" signed by the author, Giuseppe Antenore Scalabrini.Mode of access: Internet.Armorial property stamps with rampant lion and initial M. Blind stamp of Giannalisa Feltrinelli.Binding: mottled paper, backed in streaked goatskin, corners in sheepskin. Edges mottled blue
Amazonian plants from ethnomedicine to biotechnology through pharmaceutical biology approaches: a PhD experience in connecting forest with laboratory
No full textThe South american Natives, Shuar and Achuar people and their ethnomedical culture constitute the
background subject of the Phd research, performed both in Ecuador (Salesian Politechnic University,
Quito), and in Italy (Pharmaceutical biology labs, University of Ferrara). Based on ethnomedical
responses, Piper aduncum, Maytenus macrocarpa, Schinus molle, Tecoma stans and Eugenia hallii were
chosen as amazonian plant species subject of the research.
AIMS
The research has been focused on:
− checking the presence of endophytic fungi in plants;
− isolating and subculturing pure endophytic strains;
− checking the biotransformation capacity of the isolated endophytes on pure compounds; the most
performing endophytes were also tested on phytocomplexes and pure chemicals obtained by the
plant from which the fungi were isolated;
− phytochemical characterization and bioactivity assays of plant extracts: P. aduncum.
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METHODS
Biotransformations. Fresh aerial plant parts were properly washed in sanitizing solutions and in vitro
cultured using adequate solid media to isolate endophytes. (+/-)-cis-bicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-en-6-one,
acetophenone, 1-indanone, 2-furyl methyl ketone, 2-methylcyclopentanone, 2-methylcyclohexanone, 2-
methoxycyclohexanone were chosen as substrate model for biotransformations. The cultures were
sampled after 1, 3, 7, 10 days of culturing, and ethyl acetate extracted to verify by GC-MS the presence of
possible biotransformation products. Biotransformations were also checked on P. aduncum whole
essential oil and on dillapiol, cis-ocimene, piperitone, (-)-terpinen-4-ol as most abundant chemicals.
Chemical fingerprinting of P. aduncum essential oil. Steam distillation was adopted to obtain the essential
oil, then characterized by GC-MS, NMR analyses.
In vitro bioassays of P. aduncum essential oil. Antimicrobial activities were checked in vitro using proper
agarized media to reach MIC. Antioxidant capacities were checked through DPPH test, ABTS and
photochemiluminescence assays. Born's turbidimetric method and Writhing test were respectively
adopted to check platelet-aggregation and anti-nociceptive properties. Mutagenic, antimutagenic
properties and toxicity were assayed using classical and modified Ames test.
MAIN RESULTS
364 fungal strains were in vitro isolated. Among all, 5 strains performed biotransformations on
acetophenone to (S)-1-phenylethanol, with important yields (78-97%) and enantiomeric excess (78-
100%). Three strains gave also phenols probably by enzymatic reactions (Baeyer-Villiger oxidations). 15
fungal strains gave the lactones (-)-(1S,5R)-2-oxabicyclo[3.3.0]oct-6-en-3-one and (-)-(1R,5S)-3-
oxabicyclo[3.3.0]oct-6-en-2-one from (+/-)-cis-bicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-en-6-one, probably as result of
monooxygenase activation. Phytochemical characterization of P. aduncum essential oil has evidenced
dillapiol as the most abundant terpene, followed by cis-ocimene, piperitone and terpinen-4-ol. Only cisocimene
and piperitone gave several biotransformation products through dehydrogenation and
hydroxylation reactions. The essential oil has evidenced non-mutagenic properties and interesting
antifungal and antioxidant activities.
CONCLUSIONS
Several endophytic fungal strains from Amazonian plants were isolated and checked for
biotransformations on pure chemicals and on P. aduncum essential oil. Data obtained will be useful for
possible following patents about micro-organisms able to transform pharmaceutically interesting
chemicals. Taxonomical characterization of the most performing fungal strains is still in progress. P.
aduncum essential oil can be considered genotoxically safe and provides interesting antifungal and
antioxidant properties, supporting its ethnomedical use as cicatrising and disinfectant crude drug and
suggesting an extension of its employ as preservative ingredient
The cult of St Nicholas in medieval Italy
No full textSt Nicholas was one of the most popular saints in medieval Italy. His cult attracted the attention
of popes, kings and emperors, and his shrine at Bari became an important international pilgrimage
destination. This thesis asks how the cult of St Nicholas came to be so widespread and popular in
Italy, and why the saint attracted the attention of diverse groups and individuals.
This thesis is structured around four chapters. The first demonstrates that through a
process of Latinisation the cult of St Nicholas became integrated within Italian literary traditions
and within a new spiritual era. Chapter Two reveals that this Latinisation also occurred within the
saint’s iconography. Chapters Three and Four are case studies of the cult in Puglia and Venice,
locations which claimed possession of the saint’s relics. These case studies show that the general
developments that the cult of St Nicholas underwent in Italy, identified in Chapters One and Two,
did not apply universally. Instead, the presence of the saint’s relics resulted in a different profile
of the saint in Bari and Venice. Through the process of Latinisation, the cult of St Nicholas
became updated and remained relevant for its new Italian audience; Chapters Three and Four
show alternative ways that the cult of St Nicholas gained widespread popularity.
This thesis presents for the first time an iconographical study of St Nicholas in Italian art,
which develops existing research of the saint’s Byzantine iconography. Chapter Four presents a
profile of the cult of St Nicholas in Venice in the Middle Ages, which is a significant oversight in
the literature. The thesis uses a variety of visual and textual sources, in particular fresco and
altarpiece representations, archival documents from Venice and Rome (including the Apostolic
Visitations), and under-exploited contemporary and antiquarian Venetian sources
BASSANI E FERRARA
No full textNel decimo numero della rivista di Georgetown University dedicato al rapporto tra gli autori del Novecento e le più importanti città d'Italia, Paola Italia si occupa del rapporto tra Giorgio Bassani e Ferrara, città a cui l'autore dedica tutta la sua opera narrativa e che diventa un vero e proprio personaggio letterario. In particolare, grazie al lavoro compiuto durante la curatela del Meridiano dedicato a Giorgio Bassani, pubblicato nel 1998, Paola Italia mette in risalto il ruolo della città natale nel rapporto con il primo abbozzo del "Giardino dei Finzi Contini", intitolato "Primo appunto" e pubblicato sul "Caffè" sette anni prima della versione a stampa del celebre romanzo. Abbozzo in cui si chiarisce, nel diaframma dantesco, la sostanza simbolica della narrazione bassaniana e la sua rappresentazione di Ferrara.In the tenth issue of the journal of Georgetown University dedicated to the relationship between the authors of the twentieth century and the most important cities in Italy, Italian Paola deals with the relationship between Giorgio Bassani and Ferrara, a city to which the author devotes all her fiction and that becomes a real literary character. In particular, thanks to the work done during the curatorship of the Meridian dedicated to Giorgio Bassani, published in 1998, Paola Italian emphasizes the role of the town in the relationship with the first draft of "" The Garden of the Finzi Contini "," titled "" First note the "" and published in the "" Coffee "" seven years before the print version of the famous novel. Sketch in which it is specified in the diaphragm Dante, the symbolic substance of the narrative bassaniana and its representation in Ferrara
Tecnical food design. Knowledge and flavours
No full textLarticolo tratta dell’ultima frontiera della ricerca scientifica, alla quale il design guarda con grande interesse per attingere ai saperi della trasformazione della materia: la gastronomia molecolare. Si tratta di una vera e propria scienza che basa le sue analisi sulla chimica organica, che costruisce le conoscenze di base per lo sviluppo tecnico-scientifico del settore alimentare, che permetterà al food design di entrare nella cultura del design contemporaneo. L’articolo presenta alcune importanti scoperte della scienza gastronomica, in particolare quelle del fisico Nicholas Kurti, degli chef Ferran Adrià, Gualtiero Marchesi, Ettore Boccia e di Davide Cassi
Dal rilievo al projection mapping. La ricomposizione degli affreschi della chiesa di Santa Caterina Martire in Ferrara
No full textNel salone d’onore del Museo di Casa Romei a Ferrara è conservata una Crocifissione di Cristo di
autore ignoto datata 1350 ca. La scena, fulcro di un complesso programma, fu staccata da una parete
della chiesa di Santa Caterina di Ferrara nel 1935. In basso, sul lato sinistro, una lacuna interrompe
il racconto di cui si intuisce comunque il senso grazie a parti di vesti riconducibili a figure umane.
Questo progetto, attraverso la ricomposizione grafica dell’intero ciclo e una proiezione di luce sul
reperto museale sopra citato, vuole risarcire il vuoto esistente e restituire una lettura iconografica e
percettiva più esauriente dell’intero racconto.In the hall of honor of the Museum of Casa Romei in Ferrara there is a Crucifixion of Christ by an
unknown author dated 1350 ca. This scene, the fulcrum of a complex program, was detached from
a wall of the church of Santa Caterina di Ferrara in 1935. At the bottom, on the left side, a gap interrupts
the story, the meaning of which is however sensed through parts of clothes attributable to
human figures. This project, through the graphic recomposition of the entire cycle and a projection
of light on the gaps mentioned above, seeks to compensate for the existing void and return a more
comprehensive iconographic and perceptual reading of the whole story
Un Pantheon cittadino. Giovanni Girolamo Agnelli e gli “uomini illustri” ferraresi
No full textCesare Orlandi (1734 - 1779) is known as the editor of the Iconologia by Cesare Ripa. In 1766 he compiles a questionnaire and sends it to all Italian city officials asking key information on each municipality. A question refers to who are, in the opinion of the local officials, the ‘illustrious men’ who have lived or are currently living in the city. The purpose of the questionnaire is to compile an encyclopaedic volume on Italy titled Delle Città d’Italia e sue isole adiacenti.
The city of Ferrara, upon receiving this request, charges a local man of letters, Girolamo Agnelli (1701-1773) to write a response. Agnelli is a member of the Arcade Society, of the ‘Accademia degli Intrepidi’, and the author of the poem Il Limbo. Agnelli’s response, titled Notizia, is yet unpublished and deserves to be studied further. In this paper I outline the basic content of the Notizia and discuss in particular the notable people who are mentioned by Agnelli and form what we could term as the city’s ‘Pantheon’. Agnelli devotes many pages to the Estensi family, the former rulers of Ferrara, who had been forced to flee the city by the Pope in 1598. The author strives to create the perception of an harmonious continuity between the Estensi’s past and the current Papal rule of Ferrara, papering over any possible tension or discontinuity between the old and the new regime. He also plays down any tension between different professional categories of citizens. Agnelli presents the presence of the Pope in the city as a natural outcome of the fact that the Estensi did not have a direct heir. Yet a notable aspect of the Notizia is the discussion of the professional middle class. It emerges from the text that professionals are rooted in the city and dominate the economic and cultural life of Ferrara in the 18th century
La Chronica parva Ferrariensis di Riccobaldo da Ferrara e il Volgarizzamento antico della Chronica parva. Proposta di edizione critica latina e volgare
No full textLa Chronica parva di Riccobaldo (ca. 1245-1318) si configura come uno dei testi più antichi dedicati alla fondazione di Ferrara, alla configurazione del suo territorio e all'affermazione del potere Estense (metà del XIII secolo) a discapito del libero Comune. Indizi interni al testo incrociati con i pochi dati biografici posseduti relativi all’autore, permettono di collocare la stesura dell’opera entro il biennio 1310-1312.
La cronaca latina e le sue traduzioni in volgare sono una presenza costante negli archivi e nelle biblioteche del Ducato: allo stato attuale della recensio effettuata in archivi e biblioteche italiane, si conoscono almeno 26 testimoni che tramandano il testo latino e le sue versioni volgari (7 latini, 19 volgari). La recente riscoperta di un testimone di inizio Cinquecento rinvenuto presso la Biblioteca Guarneriana di San Daniele del Friuli ha portato notevoli contributi alla costituzione del testo dell’edizione critica.
Mentre il testo latino della Chronica parva è stato pubblicato da Muratori (1726) e da Zanella (1983), nessuna delle versioni volgari è mai stata edita criticamente. In particolare il Volgarizzamento antico della Parva (8 mss.) risulta estremamente prezioso per la sua antichità e per la fedeltà con cui è stato tradotto: messo a confronto con la fonte, unitamente al fatto che del testo latino si conservano solo testimoni non antecedenti alla seconda metà del Quattrocento, il volgarizzamento ha rivelato un considerevole peso critico nella ricostruzione del testo latino già edito dal momento che esso sembra dipendere da un ms. latino perduto (h) molto vicino all’originale dell’autore. Sulla base della collazione integrale dei testimoni della tradizione latina e volgare si è proposto un nuovo stemma codicum bipartito ai cui vertici si riconoscono un archetipo facente capo all’intera tradizione latina conservata e il modello latino perduto h: entrambi deriverebbero da un idiografo sorto da un originale d’autore abbozzato e rimasto incompiuto, recante appunti a margine che sono stati inglobati nella prima copia idiografa.
La Nota al testo latina e volgare precede la doppia edizione critica della Parva che, provvista di un doppio apparato con le varianti scartate, una discussione dei casi critici e alcuni dati storiografici, consente di visionare e apprezzare congiuntamente i due testi che hanno una tradizione molto intrecciata. Questo lavoro ha permesso di ribadire l'importanza dello studio delle tradizioni indirette congiuntamente ai testi fonte da cui derivano. Il confronto puntuale tra le testimonianze del testo latino e quelle del testo volgare è divenuto un prezioso mezzo critico per ricostruire il testo d'autore e riconoscere come autentiche non solo le varianti latine scartate dall'editore precedente, ma anche alcune lezioni che non sono presenti nel testo latino e si conservano di riflesso solo nel volgarizzamento, attraverso il perduto modello latino h.The Chronica parva by Riccobaldo (ca. 1245-1318) is one of the oldest texts dedicated to the foundation of Ferrara, the configuration of its territory and the affirmation of Estense power (mid-13th century) to the detriment of the free Municipality. Clues within the text crossed with the few biographical data available relating to the author allow us to place the writing of the work within the two-year period 1310-1312.
The Latin chronicle and its vernacular translations are a constant presence in the archives and libraries of the Duchy: at the current state of the recensio carried out in Italian archives and libraries, at least 26 witnesses are known which contain the Latin text and its vernacular versions (7 Latin, 19 vernacular). The recent rediscovery of a witness from the early sixteenth century found in the Guarneriana Library of San Daniele del Friuli has brought notable contributions to the creation of the text of the critical edition.
While the Latin text of the Chronica parva was published by Muratori (1726) and Zanella (1983), none of the vernacular versions have ever been critically edited. In particular, the Volgarizzamento antico of the Parva (8 mss.) is extremely precious for its antiquity and for the faithfulness with which it was translated: compared with the source, together with the fact that the only preserved witnesses of the Latin text do not precede the second half of the fifteenth century, the vulgarization revealed a considerable critical weight in the reconstruction of the already published Latin text since it seems to depend on a lost Latin codex (h) very close to the author's original. On the basis of the integral collatio of the witnesses of the Latin and vernacular tradition, a new bipartite stemma codicum has been proposed. At his vertices the stemma includes an archetype belonging to the entire Latin tradition and the lost h model: both would derive from an idiograph arising from an original remained unfinished, which bears notes in the margin which were incorporated into the first idiographic copy.
The Latin and vernacular Nota al testo precedes the double critical edition of the Parva which, provided with a double apparatus with the discarded variants, a discussion of the critical cases and some historiographical data, allows us to jointly view and appreciate the two texts which are intertwined. This work has allowed us to reiterate the importance of studying indirect traditions together with the source texts from which they derive. The precise comparison between the testimonies of the Latin text and those of the vernacular text has become a precious critical means for reconstructing the author's text and recognizing as authentic not only the Latin variants discarded by the previous editor, but also some lessons that are not present in the Latin text and are conserved only in the vulgarization through the lost Latin model h
«Uscita 22» e altre obiezioni. Contro la critica decostruzionista del soggetto
No full textDrawing on Rancière, Nancy, Blanchot, Agamben, Esposito, Bhabha and Seligman, the author reconstructs their ideas a) that the individual subject's agency can dispense with a unifying center of intentionality and b) that community consists of individuals and their differences, united by a common vulnerability. Against a) the author argues that without a volitional center that unifies the self 1) no imputability is possible; 2) the self cannot establish a practical relation with itself and direct its life; 3) the moral sentiments of pride, humility, love and hate become unintelligible. Against b) it is objected that community as theorized by decostructionists cannot be distinguished from the human condition as such or from randomly assembled groupings such as the passengers gathered at Gate 22
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