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Morire "martire" e "volentieri". Interpretazione del processo di Giordano Bruno
No full textThis essay intends to discuss a traditional issue in the studies on Giordano Bruno, i.e. his behaviour during the trial and his attitude towards death. Unlike classic interpretations, this essay intends to determine the patterns of behaviour followed by Bruno when dealing with religious authority – in Genève as well as in Venice and Rome –, and above all to illustrate the complex relationship between Bruno and pope Clement VIII on the base of the trial records – a relationship which appears as a failed encounter. Finally, this essay intends to ascertain the underlying reasons that led Bruno to decide to die – a decision due to a clear consciousness of the existing power relations, and not to a generic vocation for martyrdom
"Oriente e Occidente non possono più essere separati": sincretismo religioso, ermetismo e magia nella storiografia del primo Novecento
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Bruno e i "munera Lulliani ingenii". Appunti per una rilettura
No full textIl rapporto tra Giordano Bruno e Raimondo Lullo costituisce certo una questione di indiscutibile complessità, ma anche una prospettiva molto feconda e molto precoce di interpretazione della «Nolana filosofia», così come, sul piano storiografico, un terreno di costante confronto per gli studiosi. A partire dall’analisi di una testimonianza finora sconosciuta sulle lezioni di logica lulliana tenute da Bruno a Wittenberg tra il 1586 e il 1588, individuata in un volume custodito dalla Biblioteka Uniwersytecka di Wrocław, il saggio si interroga sui caratteri della ricezione presso i contemporanei, soprattutto in area riformata, di un insegnamento, di un’attività di commento e di un percorso editoriale costantemente ispirato all’esibito proposito di accostarsi all’«ars Raymundi» non certo con il limitato intento di illustrarla o compendiarla, ma con l’ambizione di portarla ‘dentro’ la propria concezione filosofica e di farla reagire con le sue diverse componenti (prima fra tutte, la mnemotecnica), restituendola poi in forme potenziate e ormai «condotte a compimento».
Nella seconda parte del lavoro vengono poi ripercorsi e tratteggiati i caratteri e i passaggi fondamentali dell’interpretazione del lullismo di Bruno fra Settecento e Novecento, riservando particolare attenzione al nesso fra ars lulliana e metafisica bruniana istituito da Hegel; ai motivi che fondano la lettura fortemente riduttiva di Felice Tocco; alle prospettive originali e innovative aperte dalle analisi di Frances Yates, e soprattutto di Paolo Rossi, sulla «logica fantastica» del Nolano
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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