Cultura abitativa nella Cisalpina romana. 1. Forum Popili

Recensione del volume a cura di Antonella Coralini, Cultura abitativa nella Cisalpina Romana. 1. Forum Popili. Borgo S. Lorenzo: All\u2019Insegna del Giglio 2010. 344 S. zahlr. Abb. 1 Beil. (Flos Italiae. 9.) Il volume, che presenta i risultati di un progetto co-finanziato dal MIUR (PRIN Programmi di Ricerca di Interesse nazionale) e dall\u2019Universit\ue0 degli Studi di Bologna, \ue8 incentrato sull\u2019edilizia residenziale di Forum Popili (Forlimpopoli) e costituisce il primo di una serie di lavori analoghi dedicati ai centri urbani della Romagna romana

Critical pedagogy and citizenship : Lorenzo Milani and the school of Barbiana

This article can also be found in: Learning and Social Difference, Challenges for Public Education and Critical pedagogy. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm, 2006. Chapter 8,This paper discusses the pedagogical challenge of providing an education that stresses the connection between learning and power and the potential, for social solidarity, of a collective approach to learning based on a process of what Freire and other critical pedagogues would call ‘critical literacy.’ The stimulus for such a pedagogical approach to citizenship derives from the legacy of a radical and very controversial Tuscan priest, Don Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967), and the students from an isolated and impoverished farming community in the Mugello region of Tuscany who constituted the School of Barbiana. The pedagogical ideas emanating from Lorenzo Milani and his school of Barbiana remain a source of reference in debates about schooling and social activism in Italy and elsewhere. The key text to emerge from this school, Lettera a Una Professoressa (Letter to a Teacher), was an important source of reference during the turbulent ‘sessantotto’ (1968) period in Italy. The paper provides an analysis of this and other works with whihc Lorenzo Milani was connected.peer-reviewe

St Lawrence of Birgu before 1530

This paper focuses on the medieval cult of St Lawrence in the Maltese Islands and investigates the documented origins of the parish dedicated to the saint in Birgu. In particular, it considers the relationship that may have existed between this parish and the chaplaincy of the Castrum Maris. It is concluded that the two entities were quite separate and, indeed at times, at variance with each other.peer-reviewe

National and Private Ambitions in the Patronage of French Cardinals at the Papal Court (Fifteenth to Sixteenth centuries)

Few French cardinals left important traces in the form of architectural patronage in Rome during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a period characterised by the alternation of times of strong tension between the French kings and the Papacy, and phases of political harmony. French cardinals’ relations with Rome reflected such a changeable contingent political situation: their position was extremely delicate because they owed obedience to the pope, as princes of the church, and to their king, as French nobles and bishops. Generally, their engagement was projected more towards France, typically in the areas of family influence, than towards Rome. Nevertheless, some French cardinals, such as Guillaume d’Estouteville, Jean Jouffroy, Jean de Bilhères, and Jean Du Bellay, were well-established in Rome, participating in cultural life and artistic production. Analysing their architectural patronage helps to evaluate if they were agents of the King of France aiming to promote, in part by supporting art and architecture, royal policy at the papal court, or if they were driven by personal ambitions. Comparing these men with the patronage of Thomas Leroy—not a cardinal, but a Breton-prelate established in Rome where he undertook a brilliant career in the Curia—permits us to place the conduct of cardinals in a more general context, and to verify if it was different from that of other French resident prelates

Confini, viabilità e bonifica agraria del territorio di "Tifernum Mataurense"

The work collects and summarises the results of decades of studies, excavations and research into the ancient Tifernum Mataurense (modern day S. Angelo in Vado, in the province of Pesaro-Urbino), an Apennine municipium in the upper Metauro valley, bordering the surrounding territories of Tifernum Tiberinum (Città di Castello), Sestinum (Sestino), Pitinum Pisaurense (Macerata Feltria), Urvinum Mataurense (Urbino) and Pitinum Mergens (Acqualagna). The issue of reconstructing historical borders and ancient transport systems is addressed both from an historical point of view, retracing and comparing the civic and religious history of the Tifernum communities, and from an archaeological point of view, by means of accurate references to the urban topography of the city, the physical geography of the area (mountains, rivers etc.) and to the persistence of roadways and place-names. Scattered yet still evident traces of land cultivation and Roman centuriation survive, mainly in the lowland Tifernum areas, to the east and to the west of the city, along the course of the River Metauro and adjoining two road axes which run alongside the river bed on opposite banks

Monitoraggio di Toxoplasma Gondii in alcune colonie feline della Provincia di Firenze

RIASSUNTO Parole chiave: Monitoraggio Epidemiologico, Toxoplasma gondii, Colonie Feline, IFAT, nPCR Sono stati esaminati, per Toxoplasma gondii, complessivamente 206 campioni di sangue e 40 campioni di feci provenienti da gatti appartenenti a colonie feline della provincia di Firenze. Su questi campioni è stata effettuata la ricerca degli anticorpi specifici attraverso Immunofluorescenza indiretta (IFAT) e del DNA parassitario su sangue e feci con la metodica della PCR (polymerase chain reaction). Cinquantasette sieri su 180 sono risultati positivi con titoli variabili da 1:40 – 1:640, con una siero prevalenza globale pari al 31,67 %. Due campioni di feci su 40 sono risultati positivi alla nPCR con una prevalenza, riferita al gruppo esaminato, del 6,25 % Tre campioni di sangue su 69, esaminati con nPCR, sono risultati positivi con una prevalenza del 4,92 % E’ interessante porre anche come dato di valutazione analitica anche i risultati combinati fra le varie metodiche che nello schema ifat tox/pcr sangue/pcr feci hanno dati i seguenti risultati: pos/neg/neg = 11 ; neg/neg/pos = 1 ; pos/pos/pos = 1; pos/pos/neg = 2 . Sono state inoltre effettuate le medesime prove su un gruppo di gatti domestici, di provenienza geografica regionale ed extra regionale, dalle quali sono emerse solo positività al Test IFA nel numero di 8 campioni sul totale di 26 esaminati, con una prevalenza del 30,77

ITACA station classification: EC8 site classification based on 1:100.000 geological map

This activity was requested by the project coordinators since it was necessary to have an early version of the recording stations classification in order to interface the ITACA database with the REXEL software for the selection of natural accelerograms compatible with NTC2008 proposed reponse spectra. Since the compilation of the monographs is ongoing and, at the same time, a cataloging for all the 616 ITACA stations was immediately needed, a preliminary classification based solely on geological data available at a homogeneous level for all the sites was undertaken. Using a lithological map by INGV (unpublished), at a national scale (1:100,000), this goal has been achieved. This map derives from the Geological Map of Italy at 1:100,000 scale, by merging different geological formations, based on lithological and geological age criteria, in several lithological units. Each unit was attributed an EC8 subsoil class. The limits of this type of “geological” classification are well known, as it allows only a approximate level of knowledge, but, as already mentioned, it was dictated by the urgency to set up a first classification. This classification based on lithological map was subsequently "corrected" using: a) detailed geological data; b) a geological "expert" evaluation; c) H/V microtremors measurements; d) photos of the sites; e) Vs30 values from down-hole and cross-hole tests. Main problems have been encountered where the site studied is near a geological limit between two different soil categories detached from two classes, the thickness of cover, rested on bedrock, is less than 20 m or landslides of some importance are present. VS30 values are available for very few stations which are denoted without asterisk in the “subsoil category” column

The reformation and sixteenth-century Malta

The Protestant Reformation, which began in Germany in 1518, met willing sympathizers everywhere in Europe. The condition of the Church had been much the same throughout Christendom: corruption, worldliness, spiritual lassitude, and immorality had everywhere taken the upper hand. It was in consequence of this unchristian attitude of the Church that anticlericalism, together with the Humanist reaction of the Renaissance to these abuses, gained popularity. This was the atmosphere in which Cardinal Carafa, in July 1542, secured from Pope Paul III the bull Licet ab initio, creating a: totally reformed Inquisition for Italy. In this position he had to fight against all kinds of Protestant heresies. Books had to be severely censored, as printing helped the spread of such ideas. But it was only in 1559, the year he was elected Pope as Paul IV, that the Index Librorum Prohibitorum was published. The effect of the Index was soon to become apparent as it enabled the Church to conduct a policing action over all published literature. In Malta the Inquisition enabled the Church to exercise strict control over books and other publications reaching the island, inhibiting their circulation for almost three centuries. In Sicily the first mention of the Lutheran heresy is dated 1529 at the time of Fra Eremio de Tripedibus, an Augustinian monk of Maratea in the kingdom of Naples, who was also master of Theology, In the opinion of C.A. Garufi, this date is doubtful as Lutheran ideas had, by then, just seeped through the Venetian Republic, then considered the most liberal of Italian States. Unlike Malta in the times of the Order of St John's rule, the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily had steadfastly resisted the establishment of the Roman Inquisition. Liberatore mentions the fact that when Charles V tried to introduce it in 1544, the nobility raised considerable objections. They feared that the Viceroy would exploit it to his own advantage, thereby gaining a stronger position. At times, however, heretics, especially in Naples, were sent to Rome to be tried there. The two Kingdoms, like the rest of the Spanish Empire, including tiny Malta, were greatly influenced by prohibited literature coming mainly through France. Indeed, the presence of this kind of literature in Malta raised fears that Lutheranism would become established in Malta. This prompted the response of the inquisitor who persecuted any Lutheran sympathisers.peer-reviewe

Temporary work in Tuscany: A multinominal nested logit analysis

In this paper, distinguishing between the choice of the worker and the choice of the firm, we provide a probabilistic evaluation of the transition from temporary to permanent employment in a regional context. Estimating a Multinomial Nested Logit Model, we found that the transition to a permanent job is far from certain, especially for women and older workers