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The role of women in the shaping of civic identity in Edwardian Leicester: Edith Gittins and the Anglo-Saxon past of Æthelflæd's fountain. Historical reconstruction and 3D visualization
Full text linkThis article analyses a case of female patronage in Edwardian Leicester, a drinking fountain surmounted by a statuette dedicated to a female Anglo-Saxon ruler. The bequest, by Edith Gittins (1845-1910), is contextualized within the nineteenth-century perspectives on the past that identified the roots of the English people in the Anglo-Saxon period. The article explores the cultural, social and gender implications of Gittins' intentions behind the bequest both for women's rights and for the use of the past in the construction of civic identity. These have not hitherto received sufficient attention. In order to address these questions the article exploits the potential of a 3D visualization of the urban setting where the fountain was intended to be erected to help frame the historical inquiry
“...ipsum studium perpetuo in civitate Bononie ut thesaurum pretiosissimum conservare”. The relationship between the urban order and the university in Bologna (12th-15th centuries)
No full textThis article examines the discourses on urban order and its relationship with the medieval university (Studium), starting from the imperial constitutio promulgated by Frederick Barbarossa (1155), which provided forms of protection for students and magistri who had moved away from their place of origin for the purpose of their studies, through various normative texts produced up to the last communal statutes of Bologna (1454). In particular, the article focuses on the civic statutes as an instrument of order and an expression of municipal autonomy vis-à-vis other powers, such as the imperial one, from which an analysis of the relationship between urban order and the university cannot be separated
Ulteriore revisione e proprietà psicometriche della versione italiana della Disgust Scale-Revised.
No full textSpazio e società nel Comune medievale: la ricostruzione virtuale di piazza di Porta Ravegnana a Bologna
No full textIl lavoro ha preso in considerazione le fonti più adeguate alla ricostruzione virtuale tridimensionale di Bologna, cercando di rendere più trasparente possibile il legame tra le fonti utilizzate e la ricostruzione virtuale realizzata.
Esso in particolare ha considerato le strutture materiali ricostruite in computer grafica come un’opportunità per affrontare lo studio della società in un’area circoscritta di Bologna (piazza di Porta Ravegnana), ma estremamente significativa dal punto di vista urbanistico, economico e politico, ha consentito di sfruttare le opportunità offerte da una ricostruzione virtuale poggiante su un’affidabile base documentaria.
Ne consegue la possibilità, non secondaria, di coniugare e rendere più facilmente percepibile e intuitivo il rapporto tra lo spazio e la società che in quei luoghi ha vissuto, lasciandovi un’impronta significativa e durevole nel tempo
Bononia Picta: the 3D reconstruction of 16th century Bologna and the application of this technique to cultural tourism
No full textThe three-dimensional reconstruction of the city of Bologna in the second half of the 16th century is based on the fresco representing the city situated in the apostolic buildings in the Vatican and commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in 1575. The fresco represents a perspective view of the city in its complete urban development within the third circle of city walls.
The three-dimensional reconstruction was made using an open-source 3D modeling software program (Blender), and concerns the whole urban area represented in the Vatican fresco. The 3D reconstruction was also based on the urban cadastral survey made by the papal state in 1835, in order to cross reference the virtual reconstruction with a reliable topographic map that was chronologically close to the Vatican source.
The 3D city model of Bologna in the late 16th century was also tested on a 3D engine (Unity) to create an interactive virtual environment where a user can move about the virtual city in real time.
The current state of the project allows the user to navigate the whole area of Bologna as it was depicted in the Vatican fresco. Another phase of the work focused on the reproduction of building materials and on the creation of the digital terrain model -DTM- (based on current spot heights and contour lines data) with vegetation reproduced in the pictorial decoration.
The goal of the project is to obtain a dual-purpose model which can be used in university teaching to visualize the progress of Bologna’s transformation from antiquity until the Renaissance, through the production of a GIS application that will provide a visualization of the city’s historical documents. This achievement will allow a large audience interested in cultural heritage to be reached. In regard to cultural tourism, it will be possible to create customized itineraries as well as mobile and tablet Apps
Via Zamboni 1801-1889. Trasformazioni urbanistiche e sociali
No full textThe value of historical research and the computer processing of historical sources has been the focus of the project NUME. This paper retraces the steps with reference to the research on the history of via Zamboni in Bologn
Second-Order Factor Structure of the Vancouver Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (VOCI) in a Non-Clinical Sample
No full textBackground: The Vancouver Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (VOCI) is a self-report measure of the severity of obsessive-compulsive problems such as contamination, checking, obsessions, hoarding, needing things to be just right, and indecisiveness. In the seminal paper a six-correlated-factor structure was found in a sample of OC patients, but the issue of the factor structure of the VOCI in non-clinical populations was not addressed. Aim: This study assesses the psychometric properties and the factor structure of the Italian version of the VOCI in a non-clinical sample. Method: The VOCI was administered to a large community sample (n = 445). Some participants also completed a battery including measures of OC behaviour, worry, anxiety and depression (n = 89) and were administered the VOCI twice at an 8-week interval (n = 46). Results: Confirmatory factor analyses replicated the six-correlated-factor structure originally found in a patient sample, but a more parsimonious, second-order-factor model showed a statistically higher fit, suggesting that VOCI subscales can be considered as facets of a higher-order OCD factor. The whole item pool and each of the subscales showed good internal consistency, unidimensionality, test-retest reliability and convergent construct validity. As in the original version, limited support for discriminant validity was found. Scores were weakly associated with age, gender and education. Conclusions: Although some key issues still need to be investigated (e.g. sensitivity to change), the VOCI seems to be a psychometrically sound instrument for the assessment of OCD-related behaviours and thoughts and can be used in cultural contexts different from the original.</jats:p
La pianta prospettiva di Bologna del 1575: attendibilità della fonte
No full textAnalisi della veduta di Bologna (1575) ai fini di un utilizzo come fonte per la ricostruzione virtuale di Bologna cinquecentesca
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