937 research outputs found
Note d'archivio sul Gallo di bronzo della basilica Vaticana
No full textA complemento delle riflessioni sull'ipotesi di datazione del Gallo e delle osservazioni critiche sulla tradizione letteraria riguardo alla sua pretesa collocazione sul campanile della basilica costantiniana, esposte in altra parte della presente pubblicazione, l'autore contestualizza le fonti d'archivio riguardanti il Gallo stesso, riassumendo sinteticamente, sulla base della documentazione superstite, gli spostamenti e gli interventi di restauro a cui esso è stato sottoposto dal tardo Cinquecento ad oggi.In addiction tothe considerations on the possible new dating of the Rooster and complementing the critical observations on the literary tradition concerning its presumed position on the bell-tower of the Basilica of Constantine presented in other articles of this publication, the author contextualizes the archival sources regarding the Rooster, briefly recapitulating, on the grounds of the surviving documentation, the various relocations and restoration work that it had undergone from the late 16th century to the present-da
‘The constitution of political membership’: Punishment, political membership, and the Italian case
No full textThe article argues that punishment will vary depending on how political membership is constituted in different polities. This has significant implications for arguments that link contemporary Western punitiveness to ‘anti-politics’, understood here as a degradation of political membership. The article argues that the spread of ‘anti-politics’ and its penal implications will depend on how political membership is constituted in different polities and in their ‘State’. It reaches this conclusion by exploring the way in which ‘the State’ appears in the literature on politics and punishment, and by adopting a re-worked definition of ‘the State’. The Italian case study is then used to demonstrate both the link between punishment and political membership, and the need to contextualise our analyses of ‘anti-politics’ and punitiveness
De Taranis au Jupiter cavalier à l’anguipède : réflexions autour du substrat celtique dans la religion gallo-romaine
No full textInternational audienceFrom the inventory of Gallo-Roman images of Jupiter, the author reflects on the links betweenTaranis and Jupiter. This is to define the nature and role of the Celtic substratum in the Gallo-Romanreligion
Gli effetti delle privatizzazioni sulle imprese: gestione economica e struttura finanziaria
No full textThe Author intends to measure the effects of privatisation on Italian enterprises (1992-2002) and to assess their similarities with those found by international research on 29 countries (1961-1995): a limited reduction in staff numbers; increased efficiency in those enterprises controlled by multinationals; a lower ratio between financial debts and equity in those enterprises controlled by foreign shareholders. Through analyses of the financial data of 14 privatised enterprises in Italy, the Author did not find many differences between the Italian and international experience, with two exceptions: in Italy privatisation caused a significant decrease in staff numbers as well as in the ratio between financial debts and equity, irrespective of the shareholder’s nationality. This shows that prior to privatisation Italian enterprises were over-staffed and had excessive debts, more than those studied abroad
The penal implications of austerity: Italian punishment in the wake of the Eurozone crisis
No full text The article discusses the implications of the Eurozone crisis for Italian penality. It begins by analysing the ‘politics of austerity’ – the economic reforms and new political mode entrenched by the Eurozone crisis. It then reflects upon the penal implications of such changes, focusing on the conceptual links between state–citizen relations, political institutional arrangements, and punishment in Italy. The article argues that Italy will continue to display an alternation of punitiveness and moderation. However, the meaning and contours of both punitiveness and moderation are changing. Punitiveness is likely to be exacerbated as punishment is used to impose cohesion on an ever more fragmented polity. Moderation, far from being a collective good and ‘public philosophy’, is likely to become a narrow, stratified and personalistic good. The article urges us to consider whether austerity may be engendering similar dynamics across other EU polities. </jats:p
Insa Koch, Personalizing the State: An Anthropology of Law, Politics, and Welfare in Austerity Britain, Clarendon Studies in Criminology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, ix + 274 pp, £70.00.
No full textQuestioni di traducibilità nelle opere di scrittori postcoloniali. Un caso di riflessione: Midnight’s Children di Salman Rushdie
No full textThe aim of this article is to show the need to adopt a cultural approach in the translation of literary works, especially when these are the product of postcolonial authors. These works, coming from cultures that sometimes are very different from our western culture, tend to show a certain resistance to translation. A cultural approach requires, before translating the single sentence or word, a knowledge of the culture that has produced the text, of the history and literary heritage of that culture so as to better grasp intertextual references, as well as a reading of the other writings by the author whose text one has to translate. This article focuses on the incipit of the novel Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, in particular on the phrase ‘once upon a time’ and its Italian translation suggesting a possibility that is slightly different from the one appearing in the Italian version of the book, yet, according to the author of this article, is more faithful to the Author’s intention. The alternative translation is motivated through an overview of Rushdie’s use of the English language and history, the assumed lack of historical sense in ancient India and the roots of such assumption, and historiography in India, as all these aspects are involved in the translation of this novel that is the product of a highly hybridized culture
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