366 research outputs found
Centro Polifunzionale ad Acilia
No full textElisabetta D'Amato, con Fabio Lanfranchi, Michele testa, Filippo Testa e Fulvio Cocchi, hanno vinto nel 2000 un concorso indetto dal Comune di Roma per la realizzazione del centro Polifunzionale di Acilia (Roma).Elisabetta D'Amato, with Fabio Lanfranchi, Michele testa, Filippo Testa and Fulvio Cocchi, won a competition in 2000 announced by the City of Rome for the costruction of a Polufunctional Center in Acilia (Rome)
Aesop's Fables
No full textFiona Waters, I am learning, is a prominent creator of children's books; she has produced some eight of them! She and Fulvio Testa have combined to make a very good fable book here. Testa's style remains similar to the style he showed in his 1989 Barron edition encompassing twenty fables. Here he has tripled the number of fables. The inspiration of some scenes remains the same. The illustrations there were branded by the unusual multi-colored borders. Here the illustrations take up the whole of each right-hand page, while texts are on the left-hand pages. The sleeping hare there had been playing solitaire. Now he is on an ipod (title-page and 31)! WC there and here are the same in inspiration, but the venue has changed (11). The cover-page and dust-jacket have a fine FC, which can also be found on 14. There is real distance between these two characters! FS (29) may have improved. The Tortoise and the Eagle (33) is a fine illustration; it gives us a sense of the proud tortoise's smallness. I love the cat hanging with one eye open and fixed on the mouse under the dresser (35). DLS is told twice to accommodate two different versions (38-41). The Lion, the Bear and the Fox (86) does a good job of showing the large beasts' exhaustion. This version substitutes a trap of sticks for the hunter's bow in AD (74). The telling of some fables might make them seem banal; an example is The Hunting Dog, the Lion and the Fox (72). There is a small head-piece for each text besides the full-page illustration. The two illustrations often work together well. A good example is FWT (84): the headpiece illustrates the trap and the severed tail. The full-page illustration shows the fox without a tail trying to persuade the other foxes to get rid of their tails too.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)Signed by both Waters and TestaFirst printingRetold by Fiona Water
Aesop's Forgotten Fables
No full textI got this lovely book at a much reduced rate by ordering it early on Amazon. The combination of Waters and Testa remains strong, as it did in their 2010 Aesop's Fables. The flyleaf proclaims This stunning collection revitalises forty of Aesop's lesser-known fables, which have been rewritten by the talented anthologist, Fiona Waters, and sumptuously illustrated by renowned artist, Fulvio Testa. Yes! Every fable but the last follows the same format: a left-hand page offers a title, a smaller image, a text, and a moral. The right-hand page is completely covered with a second illustration. The last fable spills over onto third and fourth pages with yet another illustration on the last page. Waters makes the best sense I have seen of The Fisherman and his Music (18). Testa's magic is again at work in the peaceful smile of the sleeping dog on 27 while his blacksmith master casts an unapproving eye on him. In this version of The Boy Bathing, the man is still lecturing on the bank and the boy is still struggling in the water as the fable ends (34). Both the telling and the picture are fine in SS (50); this peddler goes directly back to market twice after the ass's first and second slips, and, after the third slip set off home with a quietly satisfied smile on his face. Both picture and moral are superb for The Travellers and the Plane Tree: A freely given service is often met with ingratitude (62). The Leopard and the Fox (82) makes a fine cover picture, repeated on the dust-jacket.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First editionFirst printingRetold by Fiona Water
Nuova segretaria, solita passione: sempre altissimo l’interesse per la politica
No full textLe primarie sono uno strumento di democratizzazione della vita interna ai partiti. Secondo le serie storiche raccolte da CLS-Candidate and Leader Selection a partire dal 2009, i selettori che partecipano a quelle del Partito Democratico hanno sempre dichiarato di avere un forte interesse per la politica. Il capitolo mette a confronto i dati dell’exit poll 2023 con quelli delle precedenti primarie, andando alla ricerca di un possibile “effetto Schlein” su questo aspetto. L’attrazione della candidata autorizzava a ipotizzare un afflusso di selettori ad personam eventualmente poco interessati alla politica. L’evidenza empirica conferma invece un persistente elevato interesse per la politica da parte del selettorato nel suo complesso, e un dato addirittura più alto per la parte che ha votato Schlein. Anche con la nuova leadership, permangono i dubbi sulla capacità del PD di attirare nell’immediato futuro categorie di cittadini meno sofisticati
Un ricordo personale di Fulvio Papi
No full textThe article reflects on Fulvio Papi’s philosophical approach, highlighting his dedication to simplifying complex ideas to reveal underlying truths. The author recounts personal interactions that demonstrate Papi’s ability to engage deeply yet succinctly with philosophical concepts, enhancing understanding and discussion. The article underscores Papi’s impact through his commitment to clarity and ethical simplicity, leaving a lasting legacy in philosophical discourse
Äsop: Die Fabeln
No full textHere is the German version of the very good fable book published in 2010 in English by Andersen Press. As I wrote there, Testa's style remains similar to the style he showed in his 1989 Barron edition encompassing twenty fables. Here he has tripled the number of fables. The inspiration of some scenes remains the same. The illustrations there were branded by the unusual multi-colored borders. Here the illustrations take up the whole of each right-hand page, while texts are on the left-hand pages. The sleeping hare there had been playing solitaire. Now he is on an ipod (title-page and 31)! WC there and here are the same in inspiration, but the venue has changed (11). The cover has a fine FC, which can also be found on 15. There is real distance between these two characters! FS (29) may have improved. The Tortoise and the Eagle (33) is a fine illustration; it gives us a sense of the proud tortoise's smallness. I love the cat hanging with one eye open and fixed on the mouse under the dresser (35). DLS is told twice to accommodate two different versions (38-41). The Lion, the Bear and the Fox (86) does a good job of showing the large beasts' exhaustion. This version substitutes a trap of sticks for the hunter's bow in AD (74). The Lion, Ass, and Fox is also well done: I have seldom seen such a pile of booty (89)! There is a small head-piece for each text besides the full-page illustration. The two illustrations often work together well. A good example is FWT (84): the headpiece illustrates the trap and the severed tail. The full-page illustration shows the fox without a tail trying to persuade the other foxes to get rid of their tails too. The rhyming morals added here are often quite clever. This is one of several books I found visiting Germany. I had too much luggage so I ordered them as soon as I arrived back home!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: GermanErste AuflageNeu erzählt von Gisbert Haef
Fair and Equitable Treatment and the Fabric of General Principles
No full textThis book moves from the circumstance whereby currently the obligation to provide fair and equitable treatment (FET) to foreign investments is included in the majority of international investment agreements and has proved to be the most invoked standard in investor-State arbitration. Hence, it is no overstatement to describe this standard as the basic norm of international investment law. Yet both its meaning and normative basis continue to be shrouded in ambiguity and, as a consequence, to inspire a considerable number of interpretations by legal writers. The book's precise aim is to unravel such ambiguity, arguing from the idea that FET has become part of the fabric of general international law, but has done so by means of a source somewhat neglected in legal doctrine. This being the category of general principles peculiar to a certain field of international law, i.e. those principles having their own foundations in the international legal order itself, but which, through the mediation of the judge, end up being shaped according to the features typical of a specific normative field. The book, as well as having a solid theoretical backdrop as its basis, offers a careful and critical analysis of pertinent case law, and will prove useful to both scholars and practitioners. Fulvio Maria Palombino is Professor of International Law at the Law Department of the University of Naples Federico II and a member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law. Specific to this book: • Explains the ICSID practice clearly and concisely • Useful in practical terms Excerpts from a review: 'Fair and Equitable Treatment and the Fabric of General Principles' is an original and well researched book, in which the author challenges a number of conventional wisdoms on FET.Among the strengths of the book one can mention the solid discussion of public international law principles relevant to FET and the interesting incursions into domestic law legal systems which play an important role in the understanding of FET components such as due process, legitimate expectations or proportionality. In particular the section on promises provides a convincing analysis of the issues that arise when the administration makes an assurance or representation to an investor. Against the backdrop of the examination of unilateral acts under public international law, Palombino's analysis sheds new light on what ought to be the proper scope of protection under the legitimate expectations doctrine in case of governmental promises, clarifying a number of points which have received insufficient attention by arbitral tribunals thus far. - Michele Potestà, Attorney with Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Geneva; Senior Researcher, Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS) book review in International and Comparative Law Quarterly, (2018)67(4), 1036-1037. For the full review, see: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589318000246
The Four Engravings : between word and image
No full textThis essay is part of a volume which offers the first comprehensive study of the De Nola (Venice 1514), a hitherto underappreciated Latin text written by the Nolan humanist and physician Ambrogio Leone. Divided into three books and enriched by four engravings, De Nola is an extraordinary historical, chorographical and topographical treatise celebrating the city of Nola in the Kingdom of Naples. Its author was the Nolan physician and humanist Ambrogio Leone, who dedicated the work to Enrico Orsini count of Nola, while its publisher was Joannes Rubeus, or Giovanni Rosso from Vercelli. The volume would mark an important advance in European humanistic and antiquarian debates. Leone’s description of a seemingly minor urban centre in the peninsula is an innovative and ground-breaking work of Renaissance scholarship. Several decades after Biondo Flavio’s studies of Rome and Italy had appeared in print, De Nola marked a shift in antiquarian publications, and opened the way to a new approach to the description of cities. Its fame was enduring, reaching beyond the borders of the Italian peninsula to the main centres of Renaissance European culture. Despite its profound originality and its early and widespread circulation, De Nola has remained at the margins of Renaissance studies.
The chapter written by Fulvio Lenzo discusses the four engravings, which help to make Leone’s book an early sixteenth century masterpiece of humanist literature. His analysis of the engravings clarifies the important role played by Leone himself in planning and drawing the illustrations, and reduces the role of the Venetian painter and engraver Girolamo Mocetto to little more than an executor of Leone’s ideas.
Leone relied, at a first level, on a massive use of written sources relating to a wide range of disciplines. He appears as a reader (and certainly also an owner) of manuscripts and above all of printed editions, like those published by his friend Aldo and composed in Greek characters with the support of Grifo’s renewed Greek typeset; but also as a tireless ‘devourer’ of mathematical and geometrical treatises, like Luca Pacioli’s edition of Euclid. He certainly consulted (or even possibly possessed) illustrated books like the famous Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, or the 1511 edition of Ptolemy’s geographical work (edited by another émigré from the Kingdom of Naples, namely Bernardo Silvano of Eboli), or architectural treatises like Fra Giocondo’s edition of Vitruvius, all printing products which displayed an impressive iconic apparatus; but he also studied a deliberately aniconic book as Leon Battista Alberti’s De re aedificatoria, a real bestseller at the time, where mental images were created by the power of words. Ambrogio Leone considered his book not only a medium for the publication of his text, but also a valuable art object, in which renewed illustrations play a relevant role
Biblioteche d'arte. Le ragioni di una mobilitazione e di un convegno
No full textDiscorso di apertura del convegno dedicato al panorama delle biblioteche d'arte di Torino e in particolare su quella della Fondazione Torino Musei
"Presentación del libro de José M. Sevilla Prolegómenos para una crítica de la ra zón problemática. Motivos en Vico y Ortega"
No full textPresentación leída en español por el autor, en la Universidad de Sevilla el día 6 de junio de 2011, en el acto de presentación conjunta de los libros Prolegómenos para una crítica de la razón problemática. Motivos en Vico y Ortega (José M. Sevilla) y Filosofía de la razón plural. Isaiah Berlin entre dos siglos (Pablo Badillo O’Farrell, Coord.); acto en el que participaron los profesores Joaquín Abellán, Pablo Badillo, Giuseppe Cacciatore, José M. Sevilla y Fulvio Tessitore.Introduction read in Spanish by the author, in the joint launching of the books Prolegómenos para una crítica de la razón problemática. Motivos en Vico y Ortega (José M. Sevilla) and Filosofía de la razón plural. Isaiah Berlin entre dos siglos (Pablo Badillo O’Farrell, Coord.) that took place at the University of Seville on June the 6th, 2011. The act counted with the participation of Joaquín Abellán, Pablo Badillo, Giuseppe Cacciatore, José M. Sevilla and Fulvio Tessitore
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