81 research outputs found
Gianna Manzini e il genere del ritratto tra narrativa e critica
No full textQuesto studio ripropone all'attenzione una narratrice di grande finezza, Gianna Manzini, negli ultimi anni raramente indagata dalla critica. Della sua ricca produzione di romanzi e racconti, il saggio prende specificamente in esame il genere del ritratto, da lei molto amato e dedicato tanto agli uomini quanto agli animali. Il saggio, attraverso paradigmatici esempi testuali, evidenzia come nell'opera di Gianna Manzini il genere del ritratto sia oggetto di particolare cura stilistica e non abbia mera funzione descrittiva, ma si faccia carico di momenti focali della narrazione. Emerge inoltre che il ritratto rappresenta per l'autrice una modalità di approccio all'altro e al mondo con i quali permette di instaurare un legame diretto e profondo, tanto da costituire sostanziale strumento di analisi e di conoscenza.This essay draws attention to a novelist of great finesse, Gianna Manzini, who was generally overlooked by critics in the last years. Among her rich production of novels and short stories, this essay specifically chooses to focus on portraits, a genre which she loved and used to represent both animals and human beings. By means of paradigmatic textual examples, the essay points out that, in Gianna Manzini's work, the genre of portrait is stylistically refined and it hasn't a merely descriptive function, but it is entrusted with crucial moments in the narration. Furthermore, the essay explains that to the author portraits mean a mode of approaching other people and the world by creating a direct and deep bond, to the point of becoming a substantial instrument of analysis and knowledge
La lettera di Giovanni Manzini ad Andreasio Cavalcabò sul matrimonio (Cremona, 17 febbraio 1389)
No full textGiovanni Manzini, a man of letters engaged at the Visconti court in 1388-1389 as a tutor of Melchiorre, son of the chancellor Pasquino Cappelli, is the author of a small letter collection, transmitted by the ms. Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 11507, largely autograph. Among his letters, only partially published, is the one to Andreasio Cavalcabò (Cremona, 17 February 1389), written on the occasion of the marriage of this Visconti diplomat. This epistle is a reflection on the dignity of marriage, in which Manzini uses patristic sources, in particular Augustine’s De bono coniugali, and modern ones, namely Petrarch’s Familiares. The essay offers the editio princeps of Manzini’s letter, placed in the context of the production on the subject of marriage in the 14th century and accompanied by an extensive commentary that gives an account of the philological problems and identify the sources
Studi preliminari sulle terrecotte architettoniche dalla domus cd. ‘del Mitreo’ sulla Civita di Tarquinia (VT). Campagne 2016-2017 dell’Università degli studi di Verona
No full textsono pubblicati vari frammenti di decorazione fittile di edifici databili fra il VI secolo a.C. e il I secolo d.C. provenienti dagli scavi dell'Università di Verona a Tarquini
Portable instrumentation for the study of wall paintings: the case of S. Maria ad Undas in Idro (BS-Italy)
No full textThe parish church of Santa Maria ad Undas, on the Idro Lake shores, externally looks quite simple and austere while the inner single nave possesses a rich decorative apparatus, currently mostly covered by a white lime layer applied during the seventeenth century plague period.
Its unique characteristic is the painted masonry altar, discovered in 1955 after the removal of an eighteenth-century altarpiece. It is a very rare artifact comparable only with two other altars, both located in the Brescia area. The style and the oriflamme of San Bernardino of Siena suggest that such decoration was realized shortly after 1443, when the symbol was formally canonized. Being the altar immovable a preliminary in-situ study was mandatory to plan possible consequent laboratory analysis to finally assembly a valorization project also including a restoration and conservation plan.
A set of three non invasive techniques was used to characterize both the author palette and neoformed secondary phases that may be present: Multispectral Imaging, Raman spectroscopy and Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS). Images acquired under UV light, in both fluorescence and reflectance mode, gave useful information about the presence of organic residual materials due to the presence of a binding medium used for the application of currently lost gilding details [1]; at the same time the readability of some details was improved with respect to what observable in visible light. Images collected in Reflected Near Infra Red (RNIR) light led to formulate initial hypothesis about some of the pigments used by the artist, such as hematite, goethite and green earths [2]. The combined use of the two spectroscopic techniques allowed to clearly identifying the pigments and the alteration phases on the altar: the red and yellow areas showed signals typically attributed to hematite and goethite, confirming what supposed from RNIR imaging. Furthermore the presence of white lead was stated by Raman spectroscopy, while the use of FORS resulted fundamental torecognize the blue and green pigments as azurite and green earths [2]. As concerning the secondary phases, quite common species such as gypsum, niter and hydromagnesite were revealed due to the detrimental effect of the average church environmental conditions, such as very high humidity and relatively low temperature. The same combination is a fundamental condition for the formation of Plattnerite as alteration phase of white lead when applied in frescoes [3]; other black areas resulted covered by a thin carbon-based layer attributable to the burning of candle
Le ragioni teoriche del giusto processo
No full textThe paper begins by two citations of Vincenzo Manzini and Francesco Gentile that the author uses to present different positions on the role of the process to recognize the truth.
Presenting a natural law position, the Author highlights the false problems of the criminal process, and invites scholars to search in the theoretical roots the starting point to allow the process to become truly the scheme of the legal order and the conflict will turn into a disput
DIGITAL, SOCIAL E AMBIENTAL: COMO A GERAÇÃO MAKERS CONTRIBUI COM O CENÁRIO DA INOVAÇÃO SOCIAL E QUAL O IMPACTO NA SUSTENTABILIDADE.: DIGITAL, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL: THE MAKERS’ GENERATION IN THE SOCIAL INNOVATION SCENARIO AND ITS IMPACT ON SUSTAINABILITY
No full textThis paper seeks to reflect on the Maker culture and Digital Fabrication, their possible relationship with Social Innovation processes in Brazil, and how they contribute to the construction of more sustainable scenarios. The article was based on a literature review related mainly to the themes: Social Innovation (MANZINI, 2008; 2017), Digital Fabrication (KOLAREVIC, 2005; GERSHENFELD, 2012), Maker Movement (MOTA, 2014; COSTA, 2018) and Sustainability (MANZINI, 2017; CACCERE, 2017). For this analysis, the book by the author Ezio Manzini (2017): Design, when everyone does Design, was selected as the main study. As a conclusion, we can perceive the approximation between the themes, having as similarity issues such as: collaboration, problem solving, community, innovation, creativity, user (active participant in the processes) and sustainability. Also noteworthy is important role of technology in the Social Innovation process, as a support for the generation of contextualized and, at the same time, distributed solutionsA discussão proposta neste artigo visa contribuir para uma reflexão de como a cultura Maker colabora com o cenário de Inovação Social no Brasil, e como ambos fatores contribuem para a construção da sustentabilidade. O artigo foi desenvolvido baseado em revisão de literatura relacionada principalmente a: Inovação Social (MANZINI, 2008; 2017), Fabricação Digital (KOLAREVIC, 2005; GERSHENFELD, 2012), Movimento Maker (MOTA, 2014; COSTA, 2018) e Sustentabilidade (MANZINI, 2017; CACCERE, 2017). Para esta análise, foi selecionado como estudo principal o livro do autor Ezio Manzini (2017) Design, quando todos fazem Design. Como conclusão podemos perceber a aproximação entre os temas, tendo como similaridade questões como: colaboração, resolução de problemas, comunidade, inovação, criatividade, usuário agente ativo na resolução do problema e sustentabilidade. Destaca-se ainda o importante papel da tecnologia no processo da Inovação Social, como suporte para inúmeras soluções futuras
Un espace modernista tutto per sé: l’eredità di Virginia Woolf tra le pieghe delle “scritture di vita” di Negri, Banti, Manzini e Ortese
No full textThis dissertation examines the original mixture of Baroque legacy and Modernist experimentalism patterned after Virginia Woolf’s model in a selection of twentiethcentury Italian women writers. My research contributes to provide a better definition and a more thorough understanding of the Modernist phenomenon in Italy, by arguing that Italian literary modernity was achieved most successfully by the very writers who were unrepresented in the modernist literary canon, namely Ada Negri, Anna Banti, Gianna Manzini, and Anna Maria Ortese. Through Deleuze and Guattari’s reflections on a modern “virtual space,” Merleau-Ponty’s concept of “resemblances” among writers over time, Benjamin’s investigations on “modern phenomena, ” and Drucker’s examination of a “virtual espace” conceived by some early twentieth-century Western European painters, my comparative analysis at the intersection of art and literature demonstrates how the idea of a literary “espace” that characterizes modernity functions as an alternative space, a re-discovered homeland, even “a room of their own,” in the case of these prominent Italian women writers of the 20th century. Ultimately, my thesis shows how the Baroque legacy on one hand and the more or less explicitly acknowledged “literary motherhood” towards Virginia Woolf’s Modernism on the other constitute the traits that most characterize this “other reality,” perceived by the subject, beyond the more superficial façade of external reality. In fact, their literary output is marked by such an original combination of prose and lyrical stylistic features that clearly denotes, on one hand, a resemblance with the seventeenth-century rupture with the poised rationality of the Renaissance; and, on the other, with Woolf’s unprecedented experimentalismPh.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Lucia Vedov
A set of nine principles for distributed-design information storing
No full textThe issues of distributed working are many, with problems relating to information access and information acquisition the most common (Crabtree et al., 1997). Keeping track of project and team information is becoming more complex as design is increasingly being carried out collaboratively by geographically dispersed design teams across different time zones. The literature notes that little prescription or guidance exists on information management for designers (Culley et al., 1999) and Hicks (2007) highlights a relative lack of overall principles for improving information management. Additionally, evidence from earlier studies by the author into ‘How information is stored in distributed design project work’ reinforces the need for guidance, particularly in a distributed context (Grierson, 2008). Distributed information collections were found to be unorganised, contained unclear information and lacked context. Storing and sharing of distributed information was often time consuming and the tools awkward to use. This can lead to poor project progress and can impact directly on the quality and success of project outcomes (Grierson et al., 2004, 2006). This paper seeks to address these issues by presenting the development, implementation and evaluation of a set of Principles and a Framework to support distributed design information storing in the context of a Global Design class. Through both quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods the Principles were found to help in a number of ways – with the easy access of information; the structuring and organising of information; the creation of an information strategy; the making of information clear and concise; the supporting of documentation during project work; and the strengthening of team work; all helping teams to work towards project outcomes
Reading Mathilde de La Mole in the Age of Protest Feminism
No full textPublishedArticleThis article analyses the critical reception, over time, of Stendhal’s unconventional heroines, attempting to identify and challenge some of the assumptions and prejudices that have been active in the extensive secondary literature devoted to the author. It focuses on critical responses to Mathilde de La Mole, with a view to showing how the attitudes of readers of Le Rouge et le Noir have changed over time, and in order to make a case for their further alteration. Stendhal’s early critics judged her character as lacking in verisimilitude; some celebrated the implausible aspects of her character, while others saw them as literary shortcomings. While such criticisms certainly conveyed an implicit moral judgement, later critics focused far more explicitly on what they perceived as Mathilde’s moral deficiencies, more specifically her failings as a woman and a person; there is also a small but growing number of readers and critics who have read her moral character in a highly favourable light. It will be argued in this essay that different evaluations of Mathilde’s character are authorized by the plural perspectives offered by the text
metodología basada en el diseño social para potenciar la autoestima de madres adolescentes de la Fundación Amiguitos Royal
No full textLa investigación que a continuación se presenta tiene como propósito potenciar la autoestima de madres adolescentes que pertenecen a la Fundación Amiguitos Royal por medio de una metodología basada en el Diseño Social, la cual permite evaluar conceptos y situaciones desde el punto de vista del autor Ezio Manzini desde el Diseño Social y cualidades de la autoestima por el autor Carl Rogers, dentro de un taller de construcción de mobiliario que permita la organización de objetos en el hogar.
Se parte de una mirada de la Fundación Amiguitos Royal y por medio de entrevistas a los profesionales que hacen parte de la fundación y a la madres adolescentes, se encuentran ausencias de objetos que son necesarios para el desarrollo tanto de las madres como de los hijos dentro del hogar; aunque actualmente dentro de las actividades que plantea la fundación toman cursos de costura donde tejen la primera muda del bebé, cobija y algunas veces hasta el moisés, se logra entender que la escasez de dinero no permite que ellas gocen de mobiliario para ordenar objetos como zapatos, ropa, juguetes, etc.
A partir de un grupo focal, se observó que a las madres adolescentes les gustaría poder utilizar otros materiales, no sólo la tela, características que llevaron a Renacer a concretar determinantes del material que se va a utilizar para sus actividades, la rigidez y el fácil acceso, por tal razón se escogió el cartón como material ya que es asequible y posee la suficiente rigidez para la actividad.#DiseñoIndustrialThe research presented here aims to enhance the self-esteem of teenage mothers belonging to the Fundación Amiguitos Royal through a methodology based on Social Design. This approach allows for the evaluation of concepts and situations from the perspective of the author Ezio Manzini in Social Design and self-esteem qualities by the author Carl Rogers, within a furniture construction workshop that enables the organization of household objects. The study starts with an examination of the Fundación Amiguitos Royal and, through interviews with professionals involved in the foundation and the teenage mothers, identifies a lack of necessary objects for the development of both mothers and children at home. Currently, the foundation offers sewing courses where they create the baby’s first outfit, a blanket, and sometimes even the bassinet. However, it is understood that the lack of money prevents them from having furniture to organize items such as shoes, clothes, toys, etc. From a focus group, it was observed that the teenage mothers would like to use other materials, not just fabric. This insight led Renacer to determine the material requirements for their activities: rigidity and easy access. Therefore, cardboard was chosen as it is affordable and sufficiently rigid for the activity
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