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Pietro Verri’s Contribution to the Economic Theory of the 18th Century: Commercial Society, Civil Society and Governance of the Economy
No full text'Count Pietro Verri (1728-97) - Schumpeter writes (History, p. 178) - - would have to be included in any list of the greatest economists'. Within the Milanese school, he certainly stands out, alongside with Cesare Beccaria, during one of the most interesting periods from a history of analysis point of view. Luigi Cossa's famous introduction to the study of political economy rates Pietro Verri to be inferior to Beccaria in ingenuity and scientific cultivation, but greatly to be ahead of him as an economist.1 This judgement by Cossa, in particular, seems to echo the relative position of the two men in the history of ideas, particularly after Beccaria's rise to fame with a book - On crimes and punishments - which had in fact been largely inspired by Verri himself and defended by him.2 It is proposed in the present paper to revisit some of the basic tenets of Pietro Verri's political economy, with more in view than dwell on specific intuitions and theorems: namely relate those to Verri's own - quite original - conception of the economy. The scholarly work of Pietro Verri - with a special reference to his Meditazioni sulla economia politica of 1771 - provides the first systematic contribution stemming from the quarters of Lombard enlightenment in the field of political economy, especially so if one considers that Cesare Beccaria's parallel work - namely his Elementi di economia pubblica, conceived and drafted at the same time as Verri's Meditazioni - would only be published posthumously several years later. From the vantage point afforded by Verri's political economy, we gain a considerably attractive view of the most significant elements and characteristic concepts of Lombard enlightenment during the latter half of the 18th century; Verri, moreover, as we shall see, builds on a number of them in a new and original way. This paper is aimed at discussing Verri's political economy mainly along two distinct, but related, lines. In the first place the conception of commercial society is considered such as it is treated by the author particularly in his Meditazioni. In this perspective the analysis of such issues as competition and the market or money and taxation occupy a central place. Secondly it will be necessary to emphasise that Verri's approach has little to do either with forms of pure economics on one side - largely yet to be born throughout the 18th century - or, on the other side, with such conceptions of the polis - contrariwise well alive among his own contemporaries - as are founded on a sovereign authority conceived to be situated above the law. What Verri's political economy ultimately amounts to is an economic conception of civil society. The latter has natural strong connections with his own fact-mindedness - emphasised by Schumpeter - as well as with his deep practical involvement in administrative affairs and in the reforming process taking place during the latter half of the 18th century in Milan. In our view, a thorough investigation along the mentioned lines is the precondition for an understanding of the intellectual stature and of the scholarly contribution of Pietro Verri. His main ground is distinctly analytical and only by appreciating his analysis is it possible to shed light on the meaning and intellectual significance also of his practical contributions. Moreover Verri's pronouncements on the criticism of despotic government, the relevance of intermediate powers or bodies and on multiple levels of governance will be examined in a new and original light, showing how close they are to the gist of his analysis.
Gli scrittori italiani e la Bibbia. Panorama degli studi recenti
No full textConstatando l’attuale rigoglio degli studi su Bibbia e sacro in letteratura, la rassegna affronta le ultime opere collettive (2009-2012) dedicate a tale ambito di studi: i primi tre volumi di La Bibbia e la letteratura italiana, diretta da Pietro Gibellini; Gli scrittori italiani e la Bibbia, a cura di Tiziana Piras; La ricerca del fondamento, a cura di Giuseppe Langella; La poesia scala a Dio, a cura di Francesca D’Alessandro e Gianni Festa; i primi tre volumi di La letteratura e il sacro, a cura di Francesco Diego Tosto; Sotto il cielo delle scritture, a cura di Carlo Delcorno e Giovanni Baffetti. Alcuni di questi studi sono orientati verso l’aspetto letterario delle riscritture e citazioni bibliche, altri invece si concentrano sul tema del sacro e della religione nella vita e nell’opera di poeti e scrittori; l’arco cronologico comprende la storia della letteratura italiana dalle origini fino all’età presente, privilegiando spesso il Novecento e la contemporaneità
About twin primes and distribution of primes
No full textThis paper give us a demonstration of twin primes conjecture using approximation of function �(iupsilon) that we introduce in section 6. Section 1-5 give us introduction to terminology and a clarification on (iupsilon) terms. In particular section
5 is really important because of its Lemma. Section 7 reassume foregoing explanations and it give us two theorems and one corollary;the theorem 7.2 give us exact approximation of twin primes counting function
Cardiac complications in a patient affected by systemic mastocytosis and primitive myelofibrosis: a case report
No full textSystemic mastocytosis with associated primitive myelofibrosis is a rare and com- plex disease with a difficult therapeutic management. The release of several in- flammation mediators can trigger acute cardiovascular events
«Le père trompé»: traduzioni e ricezione del teatro di Lope de Vega in Francia tra Seicento e Settecento : con un'appendice su Manzoni, lettore di Lope de Vega
No full textQuesto lavoro si propone di delineare la ricezione del teatro e della figura letteraria di Lope de Vega in Francia tra il Seicento e i primi decenni dell’Ottocento. Collocandosi nel vasto ambito della letteratura comparata, si avvale di diversi approcci e strumenti teorici: muovendo da un’analisi del contesto ricettore influenzata da una prospettiva polisistemica, si soffermerà in particolare sullo studio descrittivo delle traduzioni (Descriptive Translation Studies), intese come riscritture condizionate da fattori interni al contesto d’arrivo e a loro volta come fattori d’influenza su quel medesimo ambito. Nell’immensa mole bibliografica sulla Comedia in Francia manca uno studio specifico riguardante Lope de Vega, che prenda in considerazione la creazione della fama e la nascita delle traduzioni reader-oriented delle sue commedie, unendo i due punti in una cornice storica e teorico-metodologica. Muovendo da un approfondimento sul contesto culturale e sulla figura del traduttore, si è cercato d’impostare un’analisi tassonomica della strategia traduttiva, osservando l’influsso degli adattamenti stage-oriented sulle traduzioni reader-oriented, e al tempo stesso i contraints culturali legati all’estetica classicista. S’include un breve approfondimento sull’ipotesi di una ricezione manzoniana della comedia lopesca
Short-term and long-term plasticity interaction in human primary motor cortex
No full textRepetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over primary motor cortex (M1) elicits changes in motor evoked potential (MEP) size thought to reflect short- and long-term forms of synaptic plasticity, resembling short-term potentiation (STP) and long-term potentiation/depression (LTP/LTD) observed in animal experiments. We designed this study in healthy humans to investigate whether STP as elicited by 5-Hz rTMS interferes with LTP/LTD-like plasticity induced by intermittent and continuous theta-burst stimulation (iTBS and cTBS). The effects induced by 5-Hz rTMS and iTBS/cTBS were indexed as changes in MEP size. We separately evaluated changes induced by 5-Hz rTMS, iTBS and cTBS applied alone and those induced by iTBS and cTBS delivered after priming 5-Hz rTMS. Interactions between 5-Hz rTMS and iTBS/cTBS were investigated under several experimental conditions by delivering 5-Hz rTMS at suprathreshold and subthreshold intensity, allowing 1 and 5 min intervals to elapse between 5-Hz rTMS and TBS, and delivering one and ten 5-Hz rTMS trains. We also investigated whether 5-Hz rTMS induces changes in intracortical excitability tested with paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation. When given alone, 5-Hz rTMS induced short-lasting and iTBS/cTBS induced long-lasting changes in MEP amplitudes. When M1 was primed with 10 suprathreshold 5-Hz rTMS trains at 1 min before iTBS or cTBS, the iTBS/cTBS-induced after-effects disappeared. The 5-Hz rTMS left intracortical excitability unchanged. We suggest that STP elicited by suprathreshold 5-Hz rTMS abolishes iTBS/cTBS-induced LTP/LTD-like plasticity through non-homeostatic metaplasticity mechanisms. Our study provides new information on interactions between short-term and long-term rTMS-induced plasticity in human M1
Noninvasive Imaging of Basal Cell Carcinoma With Neuroendocrine Differentiation With Line-Field Confocal Optical Coherence Tomography
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Anonymus, Rezension von: Pietro Santi Bartoli, "Colonna Traiana, eretta dal Senato e Popolo Romano all'Imperatore Traiano Augusto nel suo foro in Roma. Scolpita con l'historie della guerradacica, la prima e la seconda espeditione, e vittoria contro il re Decebalo. Nuovamente disegnata et intagliata da Pietro Santi Bartoli con l'espositione latina d'Alfonso Ciaccone, compendiata nella vulgare lingua sotto ciascuna immagine. Accresciuta di medaglie, inscrittioni e trofei da Gio. Pietro Bellori" (Roma [1672]), in: Giornale de’ letterati, 27. Februar 1673, pp. 13-21 (FONTES 14)
No full textTEN CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF BOOKS ON ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY GIOVAN PIETRO BELLORI IN THE GIORNALE DE’ LETTERATI, 1670-1680, NO. 2 A review of Pietro Santi Bartoli’s album of engravings after the spiral relief band of Trajan’s column in Rome, which includes Giovan Pietro Bellori’s translation of Alfons Chacon’s explications of the reliefs, first published in 1576. Chacon’s commentary was amended and corrected by Bellori at very many points. Engravings of relevant coins and inscriptions were added to the work. During the decade 1670-1680 ten reviews of books by Giovan Pietro Bellori that had appeared in the same years (1669-1680) were published in the Giornale de' letterati in Rome. These include Bellori's famous book of late sixteenth-seventeenth-century artists' 'Lives' (Vite de' pittori) as well as a number of significant archaeological publications treating numismatics, glyptics, sculpture, painting and Roman topography. Reviews and articles appeared in the Giornale unsigned, thus their author or authors cannot be determined with certainty. The discussions of Bellori's works are lengthy and penetrating; they underline the remarkable position he had attained in the world of seventeenth-century archaeological scholarship. The ten reviews will appear in separate instalments of FONTES (Bellori, 1-10)
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