L'egoismo di Federigo Tozzi

Lettura della trilogia tozziana di prose poetiche ("Bestie", "Cose" e "Persone") sulla base delle confluenze con l'opera stirneriana "L'unico e la sua proprietà"

STORIA HIC ET NUNC. La formazione dello storico del design in Italia e all’estero

Qual è il ruolo della storia nei corsi di studi in design? Come si forma lo storico del design in Italia e all’estero? Come mai si registra un calo, sempre maggiore, dell’interesse verso le discipline umanistiche in generale e della storia in particolare? A queste e ad altre domande rispondono i membri dell’Ais/Design, l’Associazione Italiana degli Storici del Design, riunitisi il 28 e il 29 novembre 2013 in occasione del secondo convegno nazionale dell’associazione intitolato «Storia del design: una disciplina in formazione»

STORIA HIC ET NUNC. La formazione dello storico del design in Italia e all’estero

Qual è il ruolo della storia nei corsi di studi in design? Come si forma lo storico del design in Italia e all’estero? Come mai si registra un calo, sempre maggiore, dell’interesse verso le discipline umanistiche in generale e della storia in particolare? A queste e ad altre domande rispondono i membri dell’Ais/Design, l’Associazione Italiana degli Storici del Design, riunitisi il 28 e il 29 novembre 2013 in occasione del secondo convegno nazionale dell’associazione intitolato «Storia del design: una disciplina in formazione»

Dalla guerra alla pace. L’Arazzo di Bayeux e la conquista normanna dell’Inghilterra (secolo XI)

The Bayeux Tapestry (or rather, embroidery) is one of the most famous medieval artworks, which narrates in images the conquest of England by the Normans led by Duke William the Conqueror. Images taken from the embroidery are reproduced on thousands of objects evoking the Middle Ages, and at the same time the work has been the subject of hundreds of studies in many European countries, by historians, art historians and narrative scholars. In all of this, some questions and some answers are lacking, in particular with regard to the political culture expressed in the work: there is no doubt that the embroidery is a narrative of the exploits of William the Conqueror, an attempt to reconcile the English and Normans and in part an exaltation of the role of Odo, bishop of Bayeux; but it is also the expression of a series of political ideals and models of order, a reading and an evaluation of the system of contemporary power, organized around the kingdom and based on the primacy of the aristocracy and the value of personal ties. The volume aims to follow this line of research, showing how the embroidery, from many points of view (the political ceremonial, the role of the king, the aristocratic bonds of fidelity), reflects a social imaginary and a series of clearly recognizable political ideals

La trama dell’allegoria

The present study aims to examine the presence of allegory in literary works in prose, limiting the attention to a specific area of the second half of the twentieth century called ‘letteratura di ricerca’. After discussing the most important theories about ‘modern allegory’, and particularly the debate that has developed in the Italian literary critic around the ‘80s, a series of textual analysis are gathered, focusing on several authors, such as Manganelli, Morselli, Volponi, Malerba, Arbasino, Sanguineti, Di Marco. As we can see from the exam of these works, narrative allegories have an impact both on the formal and the content-related level: the allegorical impulse can affect the structure of a novel, its formal aspects and its diegesis, as well as its relations with literary genres

Appropriateness of antiplatelet therapy for primary and secondary cardio- and cerebrovascular prevention in acutely hospitalized older people

Aims: Antiplatelet therapy is recommended for the secondary prevention of cardio- and cerebrovascular disease, but for primary prevention it is advised only in patients at very high risk. With this background, this study aims to assess the appropriateness of antiplatelet therapy in acutely hospitalized older people according to their risk profile. Methods: Data were obtained from the REPOSI register held in Italian and Spanish internal medicine and geriatric wards in 2012 and 2014. Hospitalized patients aged 6565 assessable at discharge were selected. Appropriateness of the antiplatelet therapy was evaluated according to their primary or secondary cardiovascular prevention profiles. Results: Of 2535 enrolled patients, 2199 were assessable at discharge. Overall 959 (43.6%, 95% CI 41.5\u201345.7) were prescribed an antiplatelet drug, aspirin being the most frequently chosen. Among patients prescribed for primary prevention, just over half were inappropriately prescribed (52.1%), being mainly overprescribed (155/209 patients, 74.2%). On the other hand, there was also a high rate of inappropriate underprescription in the context of secondary prevention (222/726 patients, 30.6%, 95% CI 27.3\u201334.0%). Conclusions: This study carried out in acutely hospitalized older people shows a high degree of inappropriate prescription among patients prescribed with antiplatelets for primary prevention, mainly due to overprescription. Further, a large proportion of patients who had had overt cardio- or cerebrovascular disease were underprescribed, in spite of the established benefits of antiplatelet drugs in the context of secondary prevention