662 research outputs found
La Vestale 'incesta'
No full textMarcello Salvadore: La Vestale incesta.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Pliny the Younger and Plutarch are the sources
of a detailed account of Vestalis incesta’s punishment: they say that she was
sentenced to death. Dionysius adds that there was no after death ritual.
Modern scholars generally accept what the three authors assert. In this article
the author surmises that the Vestalis incesta, together with the parricida, was
not condemned to death: both of them were sentenced to a particular kind
of banishment from the Society
De Lope a Celano: la adaptación italiana de "Los tres diamantes"
No full textAbstract
This paper explores an Italian adaptation of Lope de Vega’s play Los tres diamantes, written in the
second part of the seventeenth century. Its author, Carlo Celano, was a famous writer of opere regie,
i.e., adaptations of Spanish comedies of situation. The analysis focuses on the way in which the
adaptation of the Aristotelian units of space and time leads to a reduction of the characters and a
simplification of the situation, although this is compensated by enriching its ludic component. This
last trait can be also observed in a previous re-elaboration of Lope’s comedy, the scenario of the
Commedia dell’arte titled Il cavaliere dai tre gigli d’oro
Due note critiche
No full textMarcello Garzaniti
Answers to Criticism
The author answers to the critics of M. Capaldo and A.Giambelluca Kossova with the aim to bring the different proposed questions back into the sphere of scientifi c dialogue
Duel and Violent Death in Propertius’ Elegy 4,10.
No full textL’elegia 4,10 di Properzio presenta fin dall’esordio una chiara finalità eziologica; il suo contenuto, però, supera la convenzionale opposizione tra genere eziologico ed epico: svelare le origini del tempio di Giove Feretrio, infatti, implica la rievocazione delle tre guerre che si conclusero con il trionfo di Romolo, di Cosso e di Claudio Marcello. La brevità dell’elegia è spiegabile alla luce del limite numerico che la tradizione assegnava ai vincitori di spolia opima; ad un onore tanto raro ben si addice tanto la finalità eziologica del componimento quanto la tonalità epica con cui sono descritti i duelli tra i duces romani e i loro avversari. Il carattere decisivo dei tre scontri è amplificato dalla crescente pericolosità dei nemici: essa giustifica la descrizione della loro morte in una climax di violenza, tanto più efficace perché corrispondente alla sempre maggiore importanza delle campagne militari, che determinano il progressivo ampliamento dei confini romani
European risk factors' model to predict hospitalization of premature infants born 33-35 weeks' gestational age with respiratory syncytial virus: validation with Italian data
No full textOBJECTIVES: A model for predicting respiratory syncytial virus hospitalization in infants born 33-35 weeks' gestational age (wGA) has been developed from the Spanish FLIP study risk factors. The model correctly classified 71% of cases and the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was 0.791. To assess its applicability in Italy, the model was validated against data from the Osservatorio VRS study.
METHODS: Discriminant function analysis was used to validate the model by (a) using the predictive variables identified in FLIP to generate a function from the Italian data and (b) applying the coefficients from the FLIP calculations to the Italian data.
RESULTS: The function calculated from the Italian data provided 77% accurate classification (ROC: 0.773). Applying the FLIP coefficients to the Italian data resulted in correctly classifying 68% of cases and a ROC of 0.760. The number needed to treat to prevent hospitalization of 80% of at risk infants was 13.4, based on a hospitalization rate of 5% and 80% treatment efficacy.
CONCLUSIONS: The Italian data confirm the predictive ability of the model, which could be used to target palivizumab prophylaxis in Italian infants born 33-35 wGA
The Pragmatics of Literature
No full textThis translation of the work of one of the founding fathers of literary structuralism and semiotics in Italy is a timely introduction to the theoretical study of literary communication. Marcello Pagnini is a leading figure in the post-structuralist endeavor to return the text to something resembling its social matrix. He explores not only the dynamics of the author/reader rapport but also the connections between the literary text and its sociocultural and historical contexts
Sulla presenza di Cipriano nel “De aleatoribus”
No full textIn ps.cyprianic De aleatoribus the whole way of composing shows
a deep assimilation of Cyprian’s model by the anonymous author.
The similarities attract attention for their evidence: the main subjects in common, the reference to single words and expressions, the similar structure of several sentences, the same expressions for introducing biblical quotations, the quotation of the same biblical texts too. Everything induces to admit that the anonymous author depends directly on Cyprian
The nephrotic syndrome is an immunoinflammatory disorder
No full textAuthor shows that nephrotic syndrome is a complex immunoinflammatory disorde
Art, ritual, and reform: the acrchconfraternity of the Holy Crucifix of San Marcello in Rome
No full text“Art, Ritual, and Reform” is the first comprehensive study of the social history, devotional practices, and art patronage of the Arciconfraternita del SS. Crocifisso di San Marcello a Roma, one of the most prominent lay religious associations in sixteenth-century Italy. Divided into four main chapters, the dissertation first develops the innovative theory of conspicuous devotion through a documented examination of the company’s religious rituals and urban processions during the Catholic Reformation. The following chapters apply the theory to analyses of the confraternity’s commissions in the Cappella del Crocifisso in San Marcello and the nearby Oratorio del Crocifisso, in which Perino del Vaga (1501–47), Daniele da Volterra (1509–66), Giovanni de’ Vecchi (ca. 1536–1615), Cesare Nebbia (ca. 1536–1614), and Niccolò Circignani (ca. 1517/24–after 1596) painted. Challenging traditional interpretations of Central Italian painting from 1520 to 1590, the object-focused project argues that conspicuous meaning and form served conspicuous devotion to both instruct and inspire, in accordance with the reforms of the Catholic Church. A final chapter explores the archaism of paintings produced by Jacopino del Conte (1510–98) and Marcello Venusti (ca. 1512–79) for Santa Chiara a Monte Cavallo, a Capuchin convent founded by the confraternity on the Quirinal Hill. Reinforcing the assertions of the preceding chapters, the discussion demonstrates the company’s keen art historical, or stylistic, understanding, which enabled it to choose between different artistic modes to suit different subjects and contexts, as required by the Council of Trent (1545–63). Recovering both the variety and the devotional significance of lay festive performance and art patronage in sixteenth-century Rome, this crucial research offers a much needed critical reassessment of art, ritual, and reform in the Catholic Reformation.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Kira Maye Albinsk
La presenza di Gramsci nella storiografia filosofica e nella storia della della cultura
No full textThe article takes into consideration the “fortune” of Antonio Gramsci’s works in history of philosophy and history of culture studies in post-war Italian philosophy.The author shows conditions and consequences of a peculiar diffusion of the first publication of Letters from Prison and Prison Notebooks. According to the author, the discussions about the “crisis of idealism” influenced Gramsci’s reception in this field of studies.The paper focuses on the main aspects of this question, reconstructs the cultural policy of Togliatti, and it devotes a special attention to authors such as Eugenio Garin and Nicola Badaloni
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