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Faust Rossi
No full textFrom the video archives of the Cornell Law School Heritage Project. The interviewer is Peter W. Martin; the videographer, Michael d’Estries. This video covers Faust Rossi’s reflections on his career as a law professor. A 1960 graduate of Cornell Law School, Rossi began his legal career as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Honors Program. He subsequently became a litigation partner in a Rochester law firm, and joined the Cornell Law School Faculty in 1966. He retired in 2013.
Professor Rossi is the author of a text on expert witnesses and coauthor of the Handbook of New York Evidence. He was a national winner of the Roscoe Pound Jacobson Award for excellence in teaching Trial Advocacy. Professor Rossi was a recurring visiting professor at Central European University in Budapest and a regular faculty member in the Cornell Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris. He has also given hundreds of lectures to lawyers and judges in the United States and Europe.
Faust Rossi is Samuel S. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques, Emeritus
Space and the nation: three texts on Aldo Rossi
No full textIn this paper the spatial dimensions of political practice and the historical dimensions of architectural practice are examined. The author argues that these two practices intersect when, in the life of a city and a nation, time is transformed into space. The productivity of death in this regard is explored. In developing this argument, reference is made to the works and writings of Regis Debray and Aldo Rossi, as well as events in the recent political history of South Africa
L'originale e la maschera: Stefan George traduttore di Dante
No full textThis essay sets out to examine Stefan George’s version of the Divina Commedia from the viewpoint of the translator/poet’s performative reactivation and transmission of the cultural devices embedded in the original. At the basis of the partial rendering of Dante’s poem, of which single significant episodes are translated, is the idea of its rebirth in the modern era in the form of a complete work in German, in line with the objectives of George’s circle for literary reform. Through the translation, the translator/poet’s goal is to assimilate the whole cultural system of the Dantesque model into his own poetological system and values. This complex operation of poetic transposition (Übertragung) and literary transfer is done on several levels and even includes “disguise” as the extreme form of emulation of the translated author
Once again on Iranian *kund
No full textThe current paper is the third treatment by the author (previous ones: Rossi 2002, 2006) of a complex set of terms widely attested in the Iranian area, but also present in Armenian, NW Semitic (and from here Arabic), Indo-Aryan and Dravidian.
Differently from the conclusions of Asatrian/Arakelova paper of 2001, the author identifies three major lexical families, with the following prototypes: (1) *kōnd-/kŏnd- ‘stump, stub’; (2) *kund-/gund- ‘globular, spherical; thick, large, full-bodied’; (3) *kōnd-/kŏnd- (a) ‘stem of a tree, stump, stock’; and secondarily ‘stock of gun, stocks for offenders’; (b) any anatomical articulation conceived as a support (metaphorical projection on human anatomy of a support stick), as ‘kneecap, elbow, knee’.
All of the linguistic families mentioned show interactions between them for all of the three lexical families, and while core semantics are clearly demonstrable for each of them, peripheral (both geographical and semantical) differentiations are widely attested.
Areal atymologies encompassing Indo-Aryan, Iranian and Dravidian are also hinted
Province of Capitanata already outlined by Magini and again enlarged according to the present state dedicated to Baron Carlo Alberto Guidobono Caualchini from his humble servant Domenico de Rossi
No full textPrime Meridian = Azores Meridian, determined with Google Earth
Ricordo di Stefania Rossi Minutelli
Full text linkThe author commemorates Stefania Rossi Minutelli – librarian at the Marciana National Library from 1971 to 2005, who died on october 10th, 2008 – remembering her professional career and her role within the Italian Library Association.L'autore ricorda con affetto e stima professionale Stefania Rossi Minutelli – bibliotecaria marciana dal 1971 al 2005, scomparsa nell'ottobre 2008 – ripercorrendo il tratto di strada fatto insieme all'interno dell'Associazione Italiana Biblioteche e del mondo bibliotecario italiano
Sulle orme di Lorenzo Valla: una rilettura del trattato 'De insigniis et armis' di Bartolo
No full textNegli ultimi anni della sua vita Bartolo ha scritto alcuni trattati, i quali rappresentano una novità importante: con il tractatus il giurista di Sassoferrato offre un panorama ordinato e completo su un istituto giuridico, molto utile alla prassi. Tra quei trattati, il De insigniis et armis (pubblicato postumo nel 1358) ha un posto particolare; in esso Bartolo si occupa dei segni di riconoscimento (dagli stemmi gentilizi ai segni distintivi in campo industriale e commerciale), ricondotti ad una categoria unitaria, con una visione rigorosamente tecnico-giuridica. Come proposto dagli editori moderni dell’opera, è molto probabile che il trattato, non finito, sia stato completato dal genero di Bartolo, Nicola Alessandri, dopo la sua morte. Nicola è autore della seconda parte, non giuridica; essa consiste invece in un vero e proprio trattato di araldica. Quando Lorenzo Valla ha criticato aspramente l’opera nella sua Epistola contra Bartolum (Pavia, 1433), in realtà si è dunque scagliato – inconsapevolmente – contro pagine di cui Bartolo non era l’autore.
At the end of his life, Bartolo wrote some essays which introduced a relevant innovation: with the tractatus the Jurist from Sassoferrato offers a well-ordered and complete panorama over a legal institution, very useful for the medieval practice. Among his various essays, a special place can be given to the Tract on Insignia and Coats of Arms (published posthumously in 1358). Here Bartolo deals with different hallmarks (such as the coats of arms, the insignia of the noble households, the merchant and artisan signs and trademarks), including them in a unitary category, within a strictly legal perspective. As suggested by modern editors of the work, it is very probable that the work, left unfinished, was completed after Bartolo’s death by his son-in-law, Nicola Alessandri. Indeed, Nicola is the author of the second part of the work which does not include legal contents, but offers a veritable work on heraldry. Therefore, the harsh critics expressed against the work by Lorenzo Valla in his Epistola contra Bartolum (Pavia, 1433) were in fact addressed, without knowing it, to a section of the text which Bartolo did not compose
D. "Druga zastupati ne sramljaisja", ili: Naš drug i kollega Marija Kristina Bragone. Ee rol' v ital'janskoj i meždunarodnoj skavistike
No full textDopo una breve parte memorialistica sull’inizio dell’amicizia tra l’autrice e Maria Cristina Bragone il saggio traccia le linee del suo percorso scientifico dalla tesi di laurea a quella di dottorato alla monografia su un abbecedario inedito e alla produzione più recente mettendone in luce l’originale metodologia, i significativi risultati e l’eminente ruolo negli studi slavisti internazionaliAfter a brief memoir on the beginning of the friendship between the author and Maria Cristina Bragone, the essay traces the lines of her scientific path from her degree to her doctoral thesis, to her monograph on an unpublished Slavic abecedary and to her most recent production, highlighting her original methodology, the significant results and eminent role in international Slavic studie
Convergence in Total Variation for nonlinear functionals of random hyperspherical harmonics
Full text linkRandom hyperspherical harmonics are Gaussian Laplace eigenfunctions on the unit d-dimensional sphere (d >= 2). We study the convergence in Total Variation distance for their nonlinear statistics in the high energy limit, i.e., for diverging sequences of Laplace eigenvalues. Our approach takes advantage of a recent result by Bally, Caramellino and Poly (2020): combining the Central Limit Theorem in Wasserstein distance obtained by Marinucci and Rossi (2015) for Hermite-rank 2 functionals with new results on the asymptotic behavior of their Malliavin-Sobolev norms, we are able to establish second order Gaussian fluctuations in this stronger probability metric as soon as the functional is regular enough. Our argument requires some novel estimates on moments of products of Gegenbauer polynomials that may be of independent interest, which we prove via the link between graph theory and diagram formulas. (c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:/
Aldo Rossi and the Portuguese experience. Bairro Bela Vista, Casal das Figueiras: projects for the city
No full textIn 1976 José Charters Monteiro involved Rossi in the design of a building included in the Plan for Bairro Bela Vista in Setúbal. The intervention promoted by the Fundo de Fomento da Habitação (FFH) is part of a process that in Portugal has been crucial in the definition of a new approach to the solution of the housing problem. This approach inserts the topic of popular dwellings in the wider issue of city construction. In the same years Gonçalo Byrne realizes the housing project in Casal das Figueiras (1975). Conceived within the social development programs of the Serviço de Apoio Ambulatorio Local (SAAL), this intervention is paradigmatic of the search, carried out by the Portuguese architect, for the expression of an idea strongly related to the territory.
In the introduction to the portuguese edition of L’Architettura della città (1977) José Charters Monteiro states that the real consequences of Rossi’s considerations were not stylistic but conceptual, introducing a global vision of the city and architecture, as profound manifestations of human life. In this context is placed the attention that Rossi reserves to disciplinary fields external to architecture and which the author himself put in evidence in his introductory paper. The theories coming from the fields of geography and history contribute, in fact, to defining the character of design and the study of form, typical of architecture.
This research proposes a comparison in the light of the themes set out focusing on the relationship that, through the project, Rossi establishes with the territory and in particular with the city, identifying points in common and the divergencies with the geographical attitude that characterizes Portuguese architectural culture of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
In Setúbal Rossi designs a large residential building as part of the city and, more specifically, as an integral part of the district, confirming an architectural type linked to the evolving form and to the society to which it belongs. The design solution, deriving from a very precise model that Rossi previously had the opportunity to experiment in the project for the Gallaratese district, becomes a tool for the spatial-temporal investigation of the phenomena that generated it. Despite never actually being realised, Rossi’s project offers itself as an element of confirmation of the theories on the reading of the place fielded by the architect and as an element of comparison with the contemporary Portuguese experiences.
The investigation on the project for Setúbal takes place through the analysis of the documents kept in the archive of the Center Canadien d’Architecture and through the interviews taken with José Charters Monteiro and Gonçalo Byrne, aimed at shedding light on the development of Rossi’s proposal and on the relationship between architecture and geography as an important part of his theories and his works
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