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Italian Translations of the Book of Common Prayer
No full textThe first translation of the Book of Common Prayer was by William Bedell and Paolo Sarpi and but remained as a manuscript with no known copies. In contrast, a manuscript copy Alessandro Amidei’s translation from 1661 is preserved in the British Library. The first published translation was printed in London in 1685 (its author was an Italian protestant exile, Giovan Battista Cappelli, and its editor was Edward Brown) Other translations followed the initial three during the 1700s and 1800s. In the eighteenth century, the intellectual formation of young British nobles and men of letters was completed with a Grand Tour of Italy. As such, the bilingual editions of the Book of Common Prayer were conceived as a kind of teaching aid for learning Italian. In his chapter Villani investigates the intertwining of religious and linguistic motivation
A note on the author citation and typification of Cineraria aurantiaca Hoppe (Tephroseris integrifolia subsp. aurantiaca; Asteraceae)
No full textBartolucci, Fabrizio, Villani, Mariacristina, Galasso, Gabriele (2021): A note on the author citation and typification of Cineraria aurantiaca Hoppe (Tephroseris integrifolia subsp. aurantiaca; Asteraceae). Phytotaxa 512 (4): 297-299, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.512.4.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.512.4.
Patrimoni a rischio La conoscenza per il restauro di architetture e paesaggi di siti e riserve reali in Campania
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Viscosity Flow Curves of Agar and The Bounded Ripening Growth Model of The Gelation Onset
No full textThe gelation kinetics of agar aqueous solutions were studied by means of the viscosity flow curves using a coaxial Couette cylinder viscometer. The viscosity curves show an unusual sigmoidal trend or an exponential decay to a viscous steady state. An original theory of gelation kinetics was developed considering the coarsening of increasingly larger and more stable clusters due to Ostwald ripening and the breakup of clusters that were too large due to the instability of rotating large particles induced by the shear rate. The develope
Rheology of lightly-cured polydimethylsiloxane liquid blends
No full textThe rheology of liquid blends based on PDMS has been studied by varying the components molecular weight, the temperature and the concentration of the curing agent, at values well below the gelation threshold. The formulated lightly-cured blends showed interesting unusual behaviors. An interpretative model based on the nanocomposite polymer, the relaxation of dangling chains and the free-volume variation has been proposed. At low temperatures both the M/H (Medium-in-High molecular weights) and L/H (Low-in-High) blends confirm the previously observed anomalous rheology weakening at very low crosslinker concentrations. This is explained by means of the nanosized random coils of the grafted prepolymer nucleated in situ. As the concentration of curing agent increases, crosslinked isolated domains will be sufficiently wide to give the expected increase in rheological properties. At the temperature of 70 °C, the M/H blend shows a reverse creep behavior: the most crosslinked material exhibits an increase in compliance and the less one a decrease. This behavior has been explained taking into account the entanglement onset with a free-volume reduction (Free-Volume Change model); in contrast, the shorter chains of the micro-domains due to thermal agitation would expand the free-volume interface, with the drop of rheological performance. Moving from the M/H blend to the L/H one, at low temperatures we observe a strong decrease in compliance due to the trapping of the short chains on the entanglement sites, with the increase of the entanglement stability (Entanglement Swelling Tube model). The creep experiments show an unexpected shrinkage phenomenon for liquid blends at higher crosslinker concentration: the crosslinked domains enough extended should aggregate by non-bonding interactions giving a prestressed Bingham fluid. The rheology in rotational mode are confirmed in oscillating regime by the dissipation tanδ maximum at high frequency and the peak broadening with the curing agent concentration
The Theories of Rubber Elasticity and the Goodness of Their Constitutive Stress–Strain Equations
No full textOne of the most important challenges in polymer science is a rigorous understanding of the molecular mechanisms of rubber elasticity by relating macroscopic deformation to molecular changes and deriving the constitutive stress–strain equation for the elastomeric network. The models developed from the last century to today describe many aspects of the physics of rubber elasticity; although these theories are successful, they are not complete. In this review we analyze the main theoretical and phenomenological models of rubber elasticity, including their assumptions, main characteristics, and stress–strain equations. Then, we compare the predictions of the theories to our experimental data of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) rubber, in order to highlight the goodness of the reviewed models. The nonaffine and phenomenological deformation models verify the experimental curves in tension and compression in the whole investigated deformation range λ≤2
. On the contrary, the affine deformation hypothesis is rigorously verified only in the deformation range λ≤1
V. Borghini, Annotazioni sopra Giovanni Villani
No full textLe Annotazioni sopra Giovanni Villani del cinquecentista Vincenzio Borghini rappresentano uno degli incunaboli della filologia dei testi volgari antichi e, insieme, un esempio della maturità intellettuale del circolo culturale riunito presso Cosimo I de' Medici, duca (e poi granduca) di Firenze. La presente edizione critica muove dagli scartafacci innumerevoli lasciati dal Borghini nel progredire dell'opera, in un cantiere che egli avrebbe voluto concludersi con una edizione criticamente sorvegliata della cronica trecentesca del Villani. L'onere dell'impresa, ovvero la ricchezza della tradizione manoscritta dell'opera, fu tale da impedirne la realizzazione, che Borghini avrebbe voluta accompagnata da annotazioni filologiche e linguistiche che dessero conto dell'operato dell'editore. Le stesse annotazioni, rimaste interrotte, sono appunto sopravvissute in concieri che ne rappresentano i diversi stadi di evoluzione, dai semplici appunti di servizio ai testi stesi con accutatezza stilistica e ricompattando per argomenti filologicamente e linguisticamente coerenti sedi diverse del testo del cronista trecentesco. L'edizione critica delle Annotazioni al Villani distingue i vari materiali e ne prospetta la plausibile tassonomia cronologica, dando a testo la lezione più avanzata (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Fondo principale II.X.66) e in apparato la progreessione redazionale del manoscritto, e fornendo in appendice una prima raccolta organica di schede elaborate dal Borghini sull'opera del Villani, tramandata dal ms. della Biblioteca Corsiniana 43.A.2. Di ciascuno dei materiali manoscritti serviti al Borghini nella conduzione dell'opera la nota la testo fornisce accurata descrizione e ipotesi di datazione, ottenuta per comparazione con l'epistolario borghiniano ove attinente a questini filologiche. Una sezione speciale è dedicata alla ricostruzione della intricata vicenda redazionale delle Annotazioni stesse
I consoli della nazione inglese a Livorno tra il 1665 e il 1673: Joseph Kent, Thomas Clutterbuck e Ephraim Skinner
No full text[The Consuls of the English Nation in Leghorn between 1665 and 1673: Joseph Kent, Thomas Clutterbuck and Ephraim Skinner]. Examining in detail the years 1665 to 1673 the article allows Villani to reconstruct the history of British consular presence in Livorno from the end of the 1500s. The author shows how the first two consuls – Raymond Dawkins and Thomas Hunt – were elected by Trinity House, a corporation of sea pilots, while only in 1621 the new consul, Richard Allen was elected by the Levant Company with the consent of the sovereign, James I. He has succeeded the Catholic Morgan Read, who had exercised the office from 1634 until his death in Livorno on May 29, 1665. After Read’s death Britain chose the enigmatic figure of Joseph Kent, which may have been the pseudonym of the Baronet John Abdy who adopted the name in order to mask his activities as a royalist spy during the Interregnum. Joseph Kent died in Rome on May 22, 1670 and was succeeded by Thomas Clutterbuck in 1669 and later Ephraim Skinner in 1671. These three consuls are interesting figures and their embassies were during a time when the litigious merchant community in Livorno experienced a marked increase in economic importance. The article also briefly outlines the work of other British consuls in the seventeenth century. The history of British consuls in the 1600s, along with their successors through to the eve of World War II, clearly shows Livorno’s important role in the political and diplomatic relations between Tuscany and England. In a important posthumous article on the English in Genoa between 1600s and 1700s published in Quaderni Storici Edoardo Grendi emphasized the importance consuls and envoys have for a nation “devoted to commerce.” He demonstrated how these “leading figures” not so much expressed relationships to the “community or national group of local settlement, but rather evolutions and dynamics of power associated with inter-state relations.” This essay is a detailed verification of this line of research
La perfezione di Adamo prima della Caduta. Note sul rapporto spirituale di Margaret Fell e George Fox
No full textThe author suggests that the relationship established between the first charismatic Quaker leaders and their disciples could be interpreted as a sort of spiritual direction. In fact, in their spiritual journey the first Quakers showed a desire to learn from the experience of those who had preceded them in order to advance themselves and to achieve the perfection of Adam before the Fall. It is no coincidence that, in line with a strong Puritan tradition, the literary genre that strongly characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Quakerism was represented by the autobiographical journals in which Quakers narrated their religious experience expressing thus not only a testimony of the Spirit, but a model to follow in order to proceed spiritually. Writing about yourself, reflecting on your spiritual path, laying your conscience bare with a digging job in a sort of written public confession was a way of bearing witness to the Spirit in order to set an example for others: “That all may know the dealings of the Lord with me and the various exercises trials and troubles through which he led me in order to prepare and fit me for the work unto which he had appointed me,” as written in the first pages of the printed version of George Fox’s spiritual diary. The thorough analysis of consciousness that is fixed on the printed pages of early Quakers’ autobiographical accounts is therefore an account of a spiritual path proposed as a model for all who read them. To confirm his theory, Villani investigates the relationship between George Fox and Margaret Fell as a relationship of spiritual direction and Margaret Fell’s actions as that of a spiritual directo
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