Il viaggio in Italia di Theodor Mommsen nel 1867

This article reports on the trip that Theodor Mommsen made to Northern Italy from April to October 1867. Mommsen spent seven months in Eastern Lombardy and the Veneto, in order to perform the autopsy of the Roman inscriptions that were to be published in the first part of the fifth volume of the «Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum» (1872). From April to early July 1867, he was based in Verona and visited Brescia, Mantua and Cremona as well as smaller places in the countryside. In mid-July, he moved to Padua and made excursions to Adria, Este, Rovigo, Vicenza, Venice, Treviso, Ferrara, Belluno, Feltre, Udine and Aquileia. In late September, he went westward and revisited Brescia, Bergamo and the western shores of Lake Garda. He then proceeded to Central Lombardy and stayed at Milan, Pavia and Como. He finally left for Paris via Turin. A table at the end of the article offers an overview of the epigraphic surveys carried out by Mommsen for the first part of CIL, 5 («Regio Italiae decima»). The article also provides some hints about Mommsen’s view of politics, economy and society in contemporary Italy

Il problema della provenienza delle epigrafi nel Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum

L’articolo indaga come il fenomeno della mobilità delle iscrizioni antiche sia stato affrontato nel Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL). Così come fu concepita da Theodor Mommsen, l’opera aveva due finalità principali: fornire l’edizione critica dei testi delle epigrafi e cercare di ricostruirne la provenienza. La decisione di organizzare il CIL su base geografica obbligò i suoi editori a sviluppare strategie specifiche per gestire il materiale epigrafico di origine non locale o incerta. Il saggio costituisce un primo tentativo di indagine della complessa e sperimentale tassonomia con cui un’enorme mole di dati fu predisposta all’interno di un repertorio monumentale. Scopo del lavoro è di chiarire l’utilità, nonché i limiti, di una risorsa-chiave per la studio del mondo antico, nonché di individuare alcune linee di sviluppo per la ricerca futura.This essay investigates how the Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) addresses the phenomenon of mobility of ancient inscriptions. As conceived by Theodor Mommsen, the Corpus had two main goals: offering a critical edition of epigraphic texts and trying to reconstruct their geographic provenance. The decision to organize the CIL geographically required its editors to develop strategies for describing and grouping inscriptions of non-local or uncertain origin. This is a first attempt at investigating the complex and evolving taxonomy through which an enormous set of data was treated within this fundamental work, thereby clarifying the utility – and limitations – of a key resource for the study of the ancient world, while also envisioning directions for future research

Libertatis dulcedo. Omaggio di allievi e amici a Giovannella Cresci Marrone

Nel 2021 Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Professore Ordinario di Storia Romana presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, è andata in pensione. Il volume ripercorre i suoi diversi interessi, attraverso la prospettiva di colleghi che con lei hanno condiviso esperienze particolarmente importanti dal punto di vista professionale e personale. All’indagine dei nuclei tematici che hanno caratterizzato la sua attività di ricerca segue una riflessione sugli aspetti maggiormente innovativi della sua didattica e del suo impegno istituzionale. Il volume si configura come un riconoscimento del fondamentale ruolo che Giovannella ha rivestito per i suoi numerosi allievi, i suoi moltissimi studenti e per tutti coloro che hanno in diversi modi potuto trarre profitto dal suo magistero.This book is a collection of essays in honour of Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Professor of Roman History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, on the occasion of her retirement on 1 October 2021. The volume explores Giovannella’s interests through the eyes of a group of colleagues, who, over the years and since the very beginning of her academic career, have shared with her significant experiences in a professional and personal capacity. The essays cover the main domains of Giovannella’s scientific research: epigraphy and regional history, ancient writing cultures, historiography and political history, from the Greek classical period to the uses of the past in the twentieth century. Specific attention is given to the multiple patterns through which different areas of Italy were incorporated into the Roman world and to the scrutiny of several key figures of ancient history, such as Themistocles, Alexander the Great, Caesar, and Augustus, as well as their receptions. They also consider Giovannella’s innovative teaching methodologies and her commitment to the institutions at which she worked. The book is conceived as a tribute to the crucial role that Giovannella has played for her many pupils, for her countless students, and for all those who have had the privilege of benefiting in different ways from her mentorship

Il nostro Maestro e noi

Nel 2021 Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Professore Ordinario di Storia Romana presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, è andata in pensione. Il volume ripercorre i suoi diversi interessi, attraverso la prospettiva di colleghi che con lei hanno condiviso esperienze particolarmente importanti dal punto di vista professionale e personale. All’indagine dei nuclei tematici che hanno caratterizzato la sua attività di ricerca segue una riflessione sugli aspetti maggiormente innovativi della sua didattica e del suo impegno istituzionale. Il volume si configura come un riconoscimento del fondamentale ruolo che Giovannella ha rivestito per i suoi numerosi allievi, i suoi moltissimi studenti e per tutti coloro che hanno in diversi modi potuto trarre profitto dal suo magistero.This book is a collection of essays in honour of Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Professor of Roman History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, on the occasion of her retirement on 1 October 2021. The volume explores Giovannella’s interests through the eyes of a group of colleagues, who, over the years and since the very beginning of her academic career, have shared with her significant experiences in a professional and personal capacity. The essays cover the main domains of Giovannella’s scientific research: epigraphy and regional history, ancient writing cultures, historiography and political history, from the Greek classical period to the uses of the past in the twentieth century. Specific attention is given to the multiple patterns through which different areas of Italy were incorporated into the Roman world and to the scrutiny of several key figures of ancient history, such as Themistocles, Alexander the Great, Caesar, and Augustus, as well as their receptions. They also consider Giovannella’s innovative teaching methodologies and her commitment to the institutions at which she worked. The book is conceived as a tribute to the crucial role that Giovannella has played for her many pupils, for her countless students, and for all those who have had the privilege of benefiting in different ways from her mentorship

Particle Astrophysics in Space with an Antimatter Large Acceptance Detector in Orbit (ALADINO)

The note describes a proposal for a large acceptance magnetic spectrometer based on a novel superconducting magnet technology, equipped with a silicon tracker and a 3D isotropic calorimeter. ALADINO (Antimatter Large Acceptance Detector IN Orbit) is conceived to study antimatter components of the cosmic radiation in an unexplored energy window which can shed light on new phenomena related to the origin and evolution of the Universe, as well as on the origin and propagation of cosmic rays in our galaxy. The main science themes addressed by this mission are therefore the origin and composition of the Universe (by means of direct search for primordial anti-nuclei in the Cosmic Ray (CR) flux and indirect search for Dark Matter signals in the CR anti-particle fluxes) as well as the origin and propagation of CR in the Galaxy (by means of precise measurements of the energy spectra and chemical composition of the CR)

Monsignor Luigi Biraghi e i falsi di Cernusco

We present here some reflections on an inscription from Cernusco sul Naviglio (Milan) discovered by Monsignor Luigi Biraghi in 1849 and published by Mommsen among the falsae in CIL V 664*. This paper stems from the discovery of some private and unpublished letters by Biraghi that we consulted at the Archive of the Quadronno Institute of the Sisters of St. Marcellina in Milan. This correspondence informs us of Biraghi\u2019s personal and professional relationships with other mid-19th century classical scholars. The analysis of these documents will shed some light on the harsh judgment that Mommsen (along with others) expressed on Biraghi regarding some inscriptions that he had discovered in the Ager Mediolanensis

ATHENA detector proposal - a totally hermetic electron nucleus apparatus proposed for IP6 at the Electron-Ion Collider

ATHENA has been designed as a general purpose detector capable of delivering the full scientific scope of the Electron-Ion Collider. Careful technology choices provide fine tracking and momentum resolution, high performance electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry, hadron identification over a wide kinematic range, and near-complete hermeticity.This article describes the detector design and its expected performance in the most relevant physics channels. It includes an evaluation of detector technology choices, the technical challenges to realizing the detector and the R&D required to meet those challenges