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    The educational system of the University of Malta : Italian influence and pedagogic projects

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    The study of the origins and development of Universities is important because it shows how these Medieval institutions to a large extent shaped and organized a new culture. The history and traditions of universities, their very creation, but, most of all their development from an organizational and teaching perspective are the starting point, in this specific research field, to determine the educational context and the cultural function performed by universities during the eighteenth century. The innumerable essays and studies relating to the structure and the cultural function of European universities are rich and fruitful, whereas their pedagogic and educational issues seem to be neglected. This research will focus on this particular sphere. Education becomes an element of "individual and collective growth", as it is connected with the currents of thought responsible for its development 1 . We shall focus mainly on the development and supplementing of national and foreign educational projects which contributed to the cultural evolution of the Maltese society by performing an essential task in preventing the interruption of historical continuity. Accordingly, attention will focus on the origin of the Maltese university system, clearly derived from its religious background and modelled on Italian educational patterns. Thus it is better to make clear that in these remarks on education and its related activities, it is important to consider the political and social context of the European universities at the end of 1700.peer-reviewe

    From Venice to Newport: a painting by Giambettino Cignaroli lost and found

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    Il contributo rende noto il ritrovamento di un soffitto su tela di Giambettino Cignaroli, ora conservato nella Salve Regina University di Newport, in origine dimora della famiglia Goelet che la fece costruire alla fine dell'800. Il confronto con le fonti e con i disegni della Biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano ha reso possibile identificare tale soffitto con quello dipinto nel 1735 per una della sale di Palazzo Labia a Venezia e finora ritenuto perduto. Si sono ricostruite l'attivit\ue0 del pittore nella celebre dimora veneziana tra il 1735 e il 1738 e le vicende che hanno portato alla dispersione dell'arredo pittorico nell'ultimo decennio del XIX secolo. Da ultimo \ue8 stato individuato un modelletto preparatorio - passato recentemente sul mercato antiquario con errata attribuzione - per il soffitto di un'altra sala dello stesso palazzo

    The effectiveness of the international strategy in the analysis of the political language: Berlusconi´s speech at the chamber of deputies on the 13TH May 2008

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    In this context we will oversee to understand if and in which measure, the intentional attitude delineated today by the school of Anglo-Saxon thought and, in particular, by Dennett’s philosophy, can constitute an opportune and effective instrument for the analysis of the public language. With the expression “intentional system” we refer to the addressee of the communicative enterprise: a collectivity of people joined by the sharing a physical space and a temporal time; such a system can be explained, rationalized and, possibly, anticipated (as for its actions and to its behaviors) through the attribution to it of shared convictions and desires, which constitute the common sense of that organism. The so delineated philosophy of intentionality becomes, in this within, hermeneutics of the speech held by the then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to the Chamber of Deputies on May, 13 2008, that is in occasion of the beginning of its IV legislature. The exposure of the former prime Minister insisted, in order to guarantee to his own government the necessary consent, on the baggage of convictions and desires shared by the Italians, in an historical moment of confusion and political-institutional instability. That speech evidenced proper values of the cultural and ideological matrix of Italy: the house, the family, the entrepreneurial increase of North, the elimination of the organized crime in the South, the tax reduction on the job of the entrepreneurs, individual safety, the removal of the material causes of the abortion. Such concepts were introduced in order to attract the interest of a conservative public opinion and to diverge the attention from the substance of that government’s action, that realized itself in a plan of drastic reduction of the job in Public Administration and of increase of the tax charge, in the picture of a progressive and general economic recess

    Salaparuta

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    Ricostruita a seguito del terremoto in un sito diverso dall’originario, Salaparuta era una città di antica origine e aveva raggiunto un assetto urbano compiuto tra Cinquecento e Settecento, sotto il dominio feudale dei Paruta e degli Alliata. Uno degli edifici più significativi del centro era la chiesa madre, con la sua originale facciata a torre con campanile, risalente alla metà del Settecento

    “Disguised in scarlet”. Hume and Turin in 17481

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    Archive Research concerning the following subjects: Hume in Turin (8 May - 29 November 1748) as secretary and aide-de-camp to General St Clair. St Clair's mission and correspondence (his letters written by Hume). Hume's account of plains and fortifications (the principle of sympathy). Hume's maladay and religion. 'Of National Characters' and Hume's reading of Montesquieu's Esprit. Hume and Lord Charlemont

    Moonlight on Endymion: in search of 'Arcadian opera', 1688-1721

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    A paradigm of the earliest operatic endeavors of the Arcadian Academy, the myth of Endymion and Diana inspired librettos by Christina of Sweden and Alessandro Guidi, Francesco de Lemene, and Pietro Metastasio. All of these efforts emerged as reactions to the ‘Baroque,’ yet their dramaturgical and intellectual underpinnings appear to stand in such contrast to each other that the very notion of ‘Arcadian opera’ demands critical revision, at least with respect to its initial stage. The present article will do so by juxtaposing the aforementioned librettos with contemporary tracts by Gian Vincenzo Gravina and Giovanni Antonio Mezzabarba. It will conclude that Arcadia indeed adopted polymorphic traits at first, but that most conflicts dissolved within the towering oeuvre of Pietro Metastasio

    Maltese literature under the Knights of St John

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    The presence of the Order of St John in Malta could only be expected to consolidate and develop further the cultural tradition already existing among the educated class. The fundamental aspect was Christianity, namely a religion which also assumes the role of national identification. This tradition tended to simplify matters which had nothing to do with faith in itself The older spoken language, Maltese, an originally Arabic dialect which goes back to the Arab occupation (870-1090), had no written or recognized culture of its own, and was in principle identified with illiteracy. In the late 18th century it started to gain the respect of the intelligentia and to be used for literary purposes on an ever-widening scale. Christianity and Latinity actually embody the more evident features of the island's cultural identity. The Order of St John, therefore, had no added problems of a strictly cultural nature when it arrived in Malta and established itself as the sole protagonist in both political and cultural affairs. It could easily insert itself within the pre-existent pattern of behaviour and thought and further enhance it by attracting the attention of Maltese men of culture.peer-reviewe

    Agricoltura e sviluppo economico: il caso italiano (secoli XVIII-XX)

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    Modelli dell'agricoltura italiana dal settecento al secondo dopoguerra

    "Law Reporting" in Europe in the Early-Modern Period: Two Experiences in Comparison

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    The article challenges the cliché handed down to us by the European legal tradition of a marked contrast between ‘common law’, assumed as case-law/anti-doctrinal law, always opposed to ‘civil law’, seen as doctrinal/non case-law. Focusing on English and Italian legal historiography on the Great Tribunals and the collections of their decisions on both sides of the Channel, the article attempts to show that the traditional paradigm cannot be applied tout court to the medieval and early-modern period. In particular, the article highlights that the European Continental Great Tribunals’ decisiones, credited with binding force by such powerful and authoritative courts, can be considered – in broad sense – nothing else than ‘case-law’
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