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Scheda a B. Crostini, S. La Porta (edd.), Negotiating co-existence: communities, cultures and ‘convivencia’ in Byzantine society, Trier, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013 (Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium 96), pp. 300
No full textLa scheda di recensione si riferisce agli atti di un simposio svoltosi nel 2010 a Dublino. Gli articoli del volume trattano l’immagine della società bizantina dal punto di vista della sua essenza multietnica.The present short recension regards the proceedings of a conference that took place in 2010 in Dublin. The articles of the volume reconstruct the image of the Byzantine society from the point of view of its multiethnicity
Demetrio Calcondila. Libri e scrittura
Get PDFOggetto della presente indagine sono la scrittura dell’umanista greco Demetrio Calcondila e i codici da lui vergati. La tesi inizia con la discussione di questioni di paléographie d’expertise e con l’individuazione dei codici sicuramente ascrivibili al pugno del dotto bizantino. Si passa poi all’analisi diacronica della sua scrittura e si fa un tentativo di ricostruirne le origini. Tale ricostruzione si basa sull’esame di due tipologie grafiche, presenti nell’unico codice finora noto come testimone della sua scrittura giovanile (Ambr. Q 13 sup., ff. 320r-329v). Vengono individuate, poi, le tipologie di scrittura del Calcondila maturo e si discutono gli influssi che esercitò su altri copisti. Tanto è compreso nel Capitolo 1. Il capitolo successivo analizza gli aspetti materiali dei codici trascritti da Demetrio. I risultati di tale analisi, insieme ai dati noti delle vicende storiche e dei rapporti stemmatici, permettono di individuare alcuni raggruppamenti di codici e di ascrivergli una posizione, almeno relativa e approssimativa, sull’asse cronologico. Per di più, la rassegna, quanto possibile completa, delle sue abitudini riguardanti il modo di allestire il libro può facilitare la risoluzione delle questioni d’expertise, nonché offrire materiale a chi voglia studiare la codicologia del libro greco della seconda metà del Quattrocento. Infine, nel Capitolo 3, vengono proposti quattro case-studies che forniscono dati utili allo studio filologico dei testi tramandati da rispettivi codici calcondiliani. Tali quattro saggi illustrano, inoltre, il modus operandi di Demetrio: come lavorava con gli antigrafi e con le Kollationsvorlagen, come soleva conservare e ricomporre le unità codicologiche di suo possesso, com’era il suo rapporto con i collaboratori. Così la tesi, da un lato, fornisce materiale d’ausilio per ulteriori studi paleografici, codicologici e filologici e, dall’altro lato, rappresenta un passo verso la rivalorizzazione della cultura poliedrica del maestro ateniese, la quale rimane ancora in gran parte da scoprire. La tesi è accompagnata da tre appendici: le false attribuzioni di codici al pugno di Calcondila; le sue epistole e la sua scrittura latina; la storia della sua biblioteca e i suoi postillati
A new epigram of Matthew Devaris
No full textMatthew Devaris, one of the prominent Hellenists in 16th-century Rome, is known, inter alia, as an author of Greek epigrams. Some of them were printed in the preface to his Liber de Graecae linguae particulis in 1588. As for the rest, several epigrams were published in 1962 by Faidon Bubulidis and a few other ones by Anna Meschini Pontani in 1978. Meschini Pontani supposed that the corpus of Devaris' epigrams might turn out to be larger. Indeed, one of his unknown poems has recently come to light in an unexpected place. A paper leaf preserved in the Archives of the Saint Petersburg Institute for History (carton 671, No. 54) is a subscribed copy of his epigram dedicated to Guglielmo Sirleto, apparently an autograph. Its first publication is offered here, together with an introductory note and some remarks concerning Devaris' possible sources
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Sylvia: Zur Entstehung des wissenschaftlichen Namens der Grasmücke (Arist. Hist. an. 592b22)
Get PDFThe article aims at demonstrating that the Latin bird name sylvia used by modern zoologists
originates from the Greek ὕλας, attested in several manuscripts of Aristotle’s Historia animalium
(592b22). Working on his Latin translation of this treatise in the 1450s–1470s, Theodore
Gaza preferred the variant “πυρρὸς ὕλας” to other readings. He rendered πυρρός with
a neologism rubicilla and ὕλας with the word silvia used only as a proper name before. As all
the editions of the Greek text from the 1504 ed. princeps onwards take over Aldus Manutius’
emendation πυρρούλας, the origin of silvia has not been ascertained until now, even though
modern editions have “πυρρὸς ὕλας” in their apparatus. Gaza’s sixteenth-century readers considered
silvia (later mostly spelled sylvia) a synonym of the nearby word rubecula, another
neologism of his coinage, identified arbitrarily since the late fifteenth century with robin redbreast.
That is why in 1769 Giovanni Antonio Scopoli used the word sylvia as the name for his
newly introduced bird genus comprising robin redbreast. In 1800 Georges Cuvier suggested
leaving only the typical warblers in that genus (“typical warblers” is a problematic name, since
also whitethroats and other birds belong to the genus; the German Grasmücken is taxonomically
more convenient), whereas other species, including robin redbreast, were moved to new
genera. Thus, the word silvia coined as an equivalent for the Greek ὕλας (which was perhaps
a scribal error) had been considered a name of robin redbreast for three centuries. Since 1800,
spelled sylvia, it designates typical warblers
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