432 research outputs found
Clara Maffei al cospetto di Verdi. Tra storia e finzione
No full textIl saggio ricostruisce la vita e la figura di Clara Maffei attraverso le pagine dei suoi contemporanei e le rielaborazioni letterarie di Otto e Novecento. Le lacune documentarie e la loro frammentarietà suggeriscono di prendere in considerazione un corpus eterogeneo di testi, che comprende epistolari, biografie, ma anche narrazioni letterarie, cinematografiche e televisive. In queste opere Clara Maffei è presentata come un personaggio secondario che, nondimeno, è essenziale per delineare gli ambienti intellettuali e la società del suo tempo. Il ritratti della celebre salonnière intervengono spesso in biografie di importanti esponenti della cultura ottocentesca, quali Alessandro Manzoni, Carlo Tenca e Giuseppe Verdi. E' in particolare la sua lunga amicizia col grande compositore italiano a costituire l'ambito di maggior interesse, grazie al cospicuo numero di lettere intercorse tra la contessa e Verdi dal 1845 al 1886. Nella seconda parte del saggio l'autore ricostruisce le tappe della loro profonda e duratura amicizia.The essay aims at drawing a portrait of Countess Clara Maffei through the pages of her contemporaries and the fictional reconstructions of her life and personality. The lack of documents at our disposal and their fragmentary nature suggest taking into account a diverse corpus of texts, including novels, movies and teleplays dating from mid-Nineteenth century to present time. In these works Clara Maffei is mainly seen as a minor character who is nevertheless essential for the delineation of the intellectual society of her time. Maffei’s portraits are often to be found in biographies of important personalities such as Alessandro Manzoni, Carlo Tenca and Giuseppe Verdi. Her lifelong friendship with Verdi is of high relevance, thanks to the large number of letters written by and to the Italian composer from 1845 to 1886. Thus, in the second part of this essay the author reconstructs the main events regarding the profound and enduring relationship between Verdi and the famous salonnière
Clara Maffei al cospetto di Verdi. Tra storia e finzione
No full textIl saggio ricostruisce la vita e la figura di Clara Maffei attraverso le pagine dei suoi contemporanei e le rielaborazioni letterarie di Otto e Novecento. Le lacune documentarie e la loro frammentarietà suggeriscono di prendere in considerazione un corpus eterogeneo di testi, che comprende epistolari, biografie, ma anche narrazioni letterarie, cinematografiche e televisive. In queste opere Clara Maffei è presentata come un personaggio secondario che, nondimeno, è essenziale per delineare gli ambienti intellettuali e la società del suo tempo. Il ritratti della celebre salonnière intervengono spesso in biografie di importanti esponenti della cultura ottocentesca, quali Alessandro Manzoni, Carlo Tenca e Giuseppe Verdi. E' in particolare la sua lunga amicizia col grande compositore italiano a costituire l'ambito di maggior interesse, grazie al cospicuo numero di lettere intercorse tra la contessa e Verdi dal 1845 al 1886. Nella seconda parte del saggio l'autore ricostruisce le tappe della loro profonda e duratura amicizia.The essay aims at drawing a portrait of Countess Clara Maffei through the pages of her contemporaries and the fictional reconstructions of her life and personality. The lack of documents at our disposal and their fragmentary nature suggest taking into account a diverse corpus of texts, including novels, movies and teleplays dating from mid-Nineteenth century to present time. In these works Clara Maffei is mainly seen as a minor character who is nevertheless essential for the delineation of the intellectual society of her time. Maffei’s portraits are often to be found in biographies of important personalities such as Alessandro Manzoni, Carlo Tenca and Giuseppe Verdi. Her lifelong friendship with Verdi is of high relevance, thanks to the large number of letters written by and to the Italian composer from 1845 to 1886. Thus, in the second part of this essay the author reconstructs the main events regarding the profound and enduring relationship between Verdi and the famous salonnière
Carlo Tenca, la contessa Maffei, il rinnovamento della letteratura
No full textThe essay follows Carlo Tenca’s intellectual and artistic journey in the light of his relationship with the Countess Maffei and the cultural direction of his important literary salon. Based on his conspicuous epistolary, on the theoretical writings and on various narrative works of the Milanese author, the essay shows how the bond with Clarina, from the second half of the Forties to the unification of Italy, favored his departure from Mazzinian radicalism and the adhesion to the Cavourian and Liberal moderate program expressed by the magazine "Il Crepuscolo"; this political evolution coincided with an artistic turning point for Tenca, who, while not denying Manzoni's authority, sought a more popular literature and, above all, the overcoming of the "historical" tale in a "civil" and "social" direction, tied to contemporary reality
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No full textEn este artículo se profundiza la confluencia de locus amoenus y locus horridus en los espacios de la obra poética de Manuel Álvarez Ortega, que reflejan tanto los eventos trágicos de la vida del autor como la huella indeleble que dejan. El paisaje idílico vinculado a una dimensión feliz que vive en el recuerdo aflora en diferentes oleadas; sin embargo, con frecuencia se asoma o en contraste o coexistiendo con un locus horridus simbólico de un desengaño que cuaja cada vez más hasta desembocar en apocalipsis. Tanto la esterilidad de los espacios como los habitantes simbólicos de este mundo a la deriva dejan reconocer una línea compartida con T. S. Eliot, que de manera parecida lamenta una sequía que es tanto exterior como interior y universal: en la senda de dichos destellos intertextuales, se propone un análisis comparado de las dos trayectorias valiéndose de ejemplos textuales destacados.This article deepens the relation between locus amoenus and locus horridus in the representation of space within Manuel Álvarez Ortega’s poetry, as they mirror the signs left by the tragic events of his experience. The idyllic landscape connected with the joyful past that now lives in memories appears more than once, however, the locus horridus representing the apocalyptic vision and reality seems inseparable from it. Both the spaces’ sterility and the symbolic characters that inhabit this unreal world depict an intertextual relationship with T. S. Eliot. It will be proposed a comparative analysis between the Spanish author and Thomas Stearns Eliot through a series of textual examples
Dangerous Liaisons: Relationships between design, craft and art
No full textThe introductory essay [co-authored] examines the background and current interconnections between design, craft and the fine arts. This Special Issue was able to expand the debate by showing how attitudes to materials – from 19C sculpture to current fashion – appropriate craftsmanship to reinvigorate notions of handmaking
Leopoldo María Panero: una irrupción ante litteram del lenguaje médico en poesía
No full textThis article explores how the poetic work of Leopoldo María Panero wit- nesses a gradual incursion into poetry of language belonging to the sphere of madness and medicine ante litteram with respect to its definitive irruption in 21st-century poetry. In his poems, recovering the topic of the separation between soul and body, the author claims his lack of identification with the condition of madness that society attaches to him. In this trajectory, an implicit denunciation of the dichotomous sieve by which human beings are measured, i.e. madness or sanity, takes shape. The effects are visible not only in the system of psychiatry, which he witnesses first-hand, but also in society's way of interpreting the human being
Recensione di Thomas Woelki, Lodovico Pontano (ca. 1409-1439). Eine Juristenkarriere an Universität, Fürstenhof, Kurie und Konzil (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 38), Leiden 2011
No full textResearch on the combination of water and membranes as a structural building material
No full textp. 3024-3033The aim of this paper is to investigate the combination of water and membranes for
temporary architectural applications.
Water as a construction material, can be useful for three different purposes: first of all,
thanks to its thermal mass, it can be used as a medium for cooling down or heating up
buildings (Pronk et al [6]); secondly water is uncompressible and, in combination with air,
can be used as part of a structural element; thirdly the mass of water could work as a sound barrier so it can be used as sound insulation material (Rodrigues and Coutinho [7]).
This paper shows the result of the structural behaviour. There is another paper about sound insulation properties of water. The research in both structural and sound insulation fields was carried out in the laboratories of Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
The prototype is a "waterbeam" of 2 m span. Starting from the Tensairity(R) technology
principle (Luchsinger et al [8]) developed by Airlight, the purpose of this experiment is to
replace the iron struts with a second membrane chamber filled with water. Water works
well in compression and air prevents buckling. The result is a rigid structural element made by non-rigid material (water, air, membranes and cables) with a significant reduction of weight and cost of transportation compared to the traditional iron beam but also compared with the Tensairity(R) system. Different bending tests were carried out. In each test, the two chambers of the beam were filled with air or water to understand the material behaviour.The comparison between the results shows that water works slightly better than air (stiffness increase of a range of 8-13% in the elements filled with water).
Water application in architecture showed promising results. Further investigation (pure
compression tests on columns, multiple layers sound barrier) should be carried out. These results could give architects new design opportunities and solutions concerning temporary buildings and moveable architecture. Moreover the company and building construction industry could develop innovative structural elements and new insulation components.Pronk, A.; Maffei, R.; Martin, H. (2009). Research on the combination of water and membranes as a structural building material. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/670
Nitric oxide mechanisms of nebivolol
No full textβ-blockers are among the most widely used drugs in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, although they are associated with increased peripheral resistance. Third-generation β-blockers avoid this adverse effect by inducing vasodilation through different mechanisms. In particular, nebivolol, a highly selective blocker of β1-adrenergic receptors, is the only β-blocker known to induce vascular production of nitric oxide, the main endothelial vasodilator. The specific mechanism of nebivolol is particularly relevant in hypertension, where nitric oxide dysfunction occurs. Indeed, nebivolol is able to reverse endothelial dysfunction. Nebivolol induces nitric oxide production via activation of β3-adrenergic receptors, which can explain the good metabolic profile observed after treatment with this drug. Moreover, nebivolol can also stimulate the β3-adrenergic receptor-mediated production of nitric oxide in the heart, and this stimulation can result in a greater protection against heart failure. In conclusion, nebivolol has a unique profile among antihypertensive drugs, adding to a very high selectivity against β1 adrenergic receptors, and an agonist action on β3 receptors and nitric oxide (NO), which has led to clinically significant improvements in hypertensive patients. © The Author(s), 2009
[Recensione a] Autographa, a cura di Giovanna Murano, I.l: Giuristi, giudici e notai (sec. Xil-XVl med.), con la collaborazione di Giovanna Morelli, indici a cura di Thomas Woelki, Bologna, CLUEB, 2012 (Centro interuniversitario per la storia delle università itaiiane, 16), pp. XVI, 336, ill.; I.2: Giuristi, giudici e notai (sec. Xll-XV), Introduzione di Andrea Padovani, Imola, La Mandragora,20L6, pp.XIV, 290, ill.; II.I: Donne, sante e madonne (da Matilde di Canossa ad Artemisia Gentilescbi), Imola, La Mandragora, 2018, pp. XXXV, 242, ill.
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