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The tenso and Dante: the “evolution” of the tenso from the Medieval time through Dante’s Devine Comedy, with lists of Provençal tensos pertaining to Italian historic events, and the Italian tensos
No full textEver since the publication of “Las Leys D’Amors” in the 14th Century, which provided the first definitions of Provençal forms of poetry, critics have tried to define the Tenso (Tenzone) as a “genre,” and less as an entity of its own. The tenso’s content, its propensity to represent more realistic, personal and historic concerns of medieval life more than any other form of poetry, makes an impelling reason to revisit it, and to define what constitutes a tenso, which is, at best, still confusing. The aim of this study, therefore, is to find out “what constitutes a tenso” by studying what was the poet’s “intention” when writing this sort of poem; and what was the tenso’s historic “evolution” in time and place. It becomes also essential to answer the question: When writing tensos, were the troubadours simply sending missives written in verses, often identified as “ Correspondence Sonnets (sonetti di corrispondenza), ” or were they interested in “debating,” in verse form, the concerns of the day regarding, for example, the nature of poetry itself, of love, or other cultural or even political events of significance? To discover the use and the importance of the tenso during this time, we analyze the tenso production, beginning with those written in Provence and those written in Italy in the Provençal dialect. We further analyze the Italian tensos of the Sicilian School of Poetry and those of the Siculo-Tuscan periods, up to the Stilnovisti and Dante. The first two chapters will bring forth themes, ideologies, local settings and events that molded the Tensos. In the third, we will examine the early experience Dante had with the Tenso, and to what extent he made used of this experience in writing his Divine Comedy. In the fourth chapter we will attempt a more accurate definition of the Italian tenso. As a conclusion, we will demonstrate that during the 12th and 13th centuries, the tenso form was very much in vogue in Italy, that the Italian tenso underwent important and radical changes to merit a distincitve definition of its own, and that its poetic production was much more extensive than today it is believed to have been.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Vito A. De Simon
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Works of Vito A. Girone at the University of Dayton
Full text linkNews release announces that a collection of drawings and watercolors by Vito A. Girone will be displayed at the University of Dayton
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Gli ostrogoti in Gallia, secondo le Variae di Cassiodoro
No full textSirago Vito A. Gli ostrogoti in Gallia, secondo le Variae di Cassiodoro . In: Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 89, 1987, n°1-2. pp. 63-77
Corporate tax avoidance: Una rassegna della letteratura internazionale
No full textThis paper provides a survey of the literature on corporate tax avoidance — that is, any legal method whose intent is to minimize the amount of income taxes owed by a firm — with a focus on developments over the last two decades. In the survey, I analyze key contributions, outline the theoretical framework for links among studies, and summarize the metrics developed by prior literature to measure corporate tax avoidance. Finally, I provide an overview of areas in which our understanding is still limited and further research is needed
Scoprire il paradosso: la psicologia relazionale nella detection story di Agatha Christie
No full textLabor protection, tax planning, and capital investment: evidence from small-sized enterprises
Full text linkThis paper examines the effect of labour protection laws on tax planning and capital investment. Exploiting a major reform that introduced firing costs in Italy for firms with fewer than 15 employees but left firing costs unchanged for larger firms combined with matched employer-employee data, I show that the rise in firing costs led small firms to increase tax avoidance and capital investment relative to larger firms. Robustness and placebo tests suggest that the results are causal. Overall, the findings indicate that tax avoidance allows small firms to generate internal funds to substitute labour for capital when employment protection becomes stronger
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