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THE EXPERIENCE OF THE PHYSICIAN GIROLAMO DONZELLINI IN THE 1575 VENETIAN PLAGUE: BETWEEN SCIENTIA AND HETERODOXY
No full textThe paper examines the 1575 Venetian plague, by taking into account the personal and scientific experience of the heterodox physician working in the Republic, Girolamo Donzellini, a very wellknown medical doctor and humanist in what he himself defined the sixteenth- century Respublica Medicorum.1 During the pestilence, he was serving an Inquisition life sentence in prison, and it was precisely because of the medical activity he provided in this tragic situation that he was able to re-gain freedom. As a heterodox doctor, a prisoner and the author of a treatise on plague, he provides a good case-study to frame the rise of medicine as a Scientia against a very tangible context: one made of cells, corpses, and pages secretly written under the first lights of the day
Truffle ecology: Genetic diversity, soil interactions and functioning
No full textTruffles are fungi producing hypogeous fruiting bodies belonging to at least 13 phylogenetically distant orders. The most studied are "true truffles" belonging to the genus Tuber, which is the most economically important group. Truffle fruiting bodies are colonized by bacteria, yeasts, guest filamentous fungi and viruses that, all together, constitute the truffle microbiota. Research on the role of this community has demonstrated that bacteria contribute to truffle aroma. From the ecological point of view, truffle aroma attracts mycophagous animals, which in turn disperse and diffuse truffle spores in the soil, and mediates interactions with microorganisms and plant roots. Truffles have a heterothallic organization, whereby for truffle reproduction it is necessary that strains of opposite mating type meet. Regarding truffle development, the truffle ascocarps use carbon coming from the host plant and not from dead host tissues or soil organic matter as believed so far. In addition to form ectomycorrhizae with a wide diversity of host plants, some truffle species are able to form also arbutoid and orchid mycorrhizas. Knowledge of truffle diversity, traditionally relied on the survey and molecular identification of fruiting bodies, moved over the years towards the survey of mycorrhizas and, recently, on the distribution in soil of the mycelium, with the determination of genets and mating types. The possibility of studying (micro) organisms directly in the field (metagenomics or environmental genomics) and the introduction of high-throughput sequencing techniques (454 pyrosequencing) have given a strong impulse to the study of the microbial communities interacting with truffles and their habitat
Lettera di Alessandra
No full textUn ritratto critico dell'opera di Alessandra Carnaroli, autrice fra le più apprezzate delle ultime generazioni della poesia di ricerca. La sezione a lei dedicata, nel numero della rivista, contiene inoltre saggi di Cecilia Bello Minciacchi, Andrea Cortellessa, e Ivan Schiavone; e vari inediti dell'autrice. Il saggio è pubblicato con lo pseudonimo di Tommaso Ottonieri.A critical portrait of the work of Alessandra Carnaroli, author of the most appreciated in the latest generations of italian research poetry. Published under the pseudonym Tommaso Ottonieri
Selected letters of Alessandra Strozzi
No full textThe letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adverse circumstances, and who was an acute observer of Medicean society. Her letters speak of political and social status, of the concept of honor, and of the harshness of life, including the plague and the loss of children. They are also a guide to Alessandra's inner life over a period of twenty-three years, revealing the pain and sorrow, and, more rarely, the joy and triumph, with which she responded to the events unfolding around her.This edition includes translations, in full or in part, of 35 of the 73 extant letters. The selections carry forward the story of Alessandra's life and illustrate the range of attitudes, concerns, and activities which were characteristic of their author
Challenging the author: Gavin Douglas's Eneados
No full textGavin Douglas’s Eneados, a translation into the “Scottis” tongue of Virgil’s Aeneid, completed in 1513 and first published in London in 1553, presents, as well as the translation of the additional thirteenth book by Maphaeus Vegius, original prologues and marginal notes to the text, rubrics and articulate conclusive material. The present paper analyses this complex paratext as evidence of Douglas’s almost philological attention to the original and his preoccupation with a faithful reproduction; it is also suggested that the models for his organization of the commentary might be both medieval (i.e., manuscripts such as Petrarch’s Virgilius Ambrosianus) and early modern, as in the case of editions of classical works: the most apt example being Jodocus Badius Ascensius’ edition of the Aeneid, printed in 1501. The Eneados thus stands on the threshold between manuscript and print, and might have indicated new possibilities of use of the printing medium in Scotland, and of the value of the translation of a classical text, had history not intervened with the Scottish defeat at Flodden Fields in 1513, which put a temporary stop both to the circulation of the Eneados and to the development of Scottish printing
Italian prepositions in aphasic production : evidence from three experimental studies
No full textIn questo lavoro offriamo un’analisi linguistica delle preposizioni italiane attraverso tre esperimenti neuro-linguistici. In una prima parte teorica vengono presentate le più importanti teorie linguistiche che si sono occupate di studiare: la formazione delle preposizioni articolate; la struttura sintattica delle preposizioni complesse; la natura dei composti preposizionali. La seconda parte, invece, è dedicata a tre esperimenti nei quali sono stati coinvolti alcuni pazienti afasici. Ogni esperimento riguarda uno degli argomenti teorici sopra menzionati. Le preposizioni articolate sono state analizzate attraverso due compiti di produzione somministrati ad un gruppo di 8 pazienti. Le preposizioni complesse ed i composti preposizionali, invece, sono stati oggetto di due casi di studio che hanno coinvolto due pazienti colpiti da agrammatismo. Dai risultati di questi tre studi sono state ricavate delle conclusioni teoriche che confermano alcune delle ipotesi presentate in precedenza.In this work, we provide a linguistic analysis of Italian prepositions with the aid of three neuro-linguistic experiments. The first part of the dissertation is devoted to the most important linguistic theories dealing with the following topics: (i) the formation of articulated prepositions; (ii) the syntax of complex prepositions; (iii) the linguistic nature of prepositional compounds. In the second part, instead, three experiments are presented every one assessing one of the fields we have mentioned above. Articulated prepositions have been analyzed through two production tasks performed by 8 aphasic patients. Complex prepositions and prepositional compounds, instead, have been the subjects of two case studies involving two agrammatic patients. The results have allowed us to single out, among the various proposals presented in the theoretical chapters, the linguistic model which better characterizes how Italian prepositions are processed
Nicetas Nicaenus, De azymis
No full textThe RAP online repertorium offers the first comprehensive catalogue of polemical literature related to the schism between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches from the 9th to the 16th century and can be described as an ideal continuation of the *Clavis Patrum*.
Each entry identifies the work (often unpublished or newly discovered in manuscript catalogs), lists its various titles (since medieval texts often lack stable titles), provides incipit and explicit (with possible variations), and examines the manuscript tradition and foliation (by reviewing catalogs or manuscripts, verifying dates, folios, etc.). It also includes relevant bibliography (critical editions and studies), identifies the author (using prosopographical studies, dictionaries, repertories, sigillography, etc.), and provides essential biographical details. Each work is classified by literary genre (e.g., treatise, dialogue), the corresponding Byzantine term, and the main polemical themes (e.g., Filioque, Azymes, Purgatory), and is assigned a unique RAP identification number.
The Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum is identified by the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 3035-2096 [continuously updated publication
Polemica scripta anonyma, Dialogus inter Graecum et Cardinales quosdam de processione Spiritus Sancti
No full textThe RAP online repertorium offers the first comprehensive catalogue of polemical literature related to the schism between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches from the 9th to the 16th century and can be described as an ideal continuation of the *Clavis Patrum*.
Each entry identifies the work (often unpublished or newly discovered in manuscript catalogs), lists its various titles (since medieval texts often lack stable titles), provides incipit and explicit (with possible variations), and examines the manuscript tradition and foliation (by reviewing catalogs or manuscripts, verifying dates, folios, etc.). It also includes relevant bibliography (critical editions and studies), identifies the author (using prosopographical studies, dictionaries, repertories, sigillography, etc.), and provides essential biographical details. Each work is classified by literary genre (e.g., treatise, dialogue), the corresponding Byzantine term, and the main polemical themes (e.g., Filioque, Azymes, Purgatory), and is assigned a unique RAP identification number.
The Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum is identified by the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 3035-2096 [continuously updated publication
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