Michelangelo\u27s God

Poem by Basil Raymond

Two Early Statements about Michelangelo 'not in Steinmann-Wittkower'. Auszüge aus: Niccolò Franco, Le pistole vulgari di M. Nicolo Franco (Venedig 1539) (FONTES 42)

"Two Early Statements about Michelangelo not in Steinmann-Wittkower" presents two extracts from Niccolò Franco’s "Pistole vulgari" (Venice 1539). FONTES 42 is No. 6 in a series of early "Sources and Documents for Michelangelo Buonarroti"; see: FONTES 12 (Paolo Giovio), FONTES 20 (Giorgio Vasari), FONTES 23 (Benedetto Varchi), FONTES 34 (Ascanio Condivi), and FONTES 35 (Anonymous, in: Giacomo Filippo Forresti). Franco’s "Pistole" of 1539 is one of the first published collections of Italian letters. Franco’s text constitutes an early example of Venetian art criticism that places Venetian artists alongside Michelangelo in the first rank of artists. Franco proposes a new triumvirate of first artists including Michelangelo, Titian, and Jacopo Sansovino

The future of particle physics

I review the prospects for future progress in accelerator-based particle physicsComment: Opening talk at the 10th Pisa meeting on advanced detectors, La Biodola, May 22-27 200

WiLE: a Mathematica package for weak coupling expansion of Wilson loops in ABJ(M) theory

We present WiLE, a Mathematica package designed to perform the weak coupling expansion of any Wilson loop in ABJ(M) theory at arbitrary perturbative order. For a given set of fields on the loop and internal vertices, the package displays all the possible Feynman diagrams and their integral representations. The user can also choose to exclude non planar diagrams, tadpoles and self-energies. Through the use of interactive input windows, the package should be easily accessible to users with little or no previous experience. The package manual provides some pedagogical examples and the computation of all ladder diagrams at three-loop relevant for the cusp anomalous dimension in ABJ(M). The latter application gives also support to some recent results computed in different contexts.Comment: 35 pages, 4 figures and 1 table, comments added. To appear in Comput. Phys. Commu

The Conflict of Rigidity and Precision in Designation

My paper provides reasons in support of the view that vague identity claims originate from a conflict between rigidity and precision in designation. To put this stricly, let x be the referent of the referential terms P and Q. Then, that the proposition “that any x being both a P and a Q” is vague involves that the semantic intuitions at work in P and Q reveal a conflict between P and Q being simultaneously rigid and precise designators. After having shortly commented on an example of vague identity claim, I make the case for my proposal, by discussing how reference by baptism conflicts with descriptive attitudes towards understanding conceptual contents