La tentazione del moderno. Gesualdo Bufalino e il romanzo europeo del primo Novecento

The work of Gesualdo Bufalino relies on a permanent dialogue with the great modernist models of European fiction. A whole network of allusions, innuendos and micro-quotations from the great novels of Mann, Kafka, Proust, Musil, Joyce, Woolf, is scattered among the pages of Diceria dell\u2019untore, a novel which was conceived as a \u201cserious game\u201d using previous textual materials and recombining them in order to create a new architecture of meaning. In Bufalino\u2019s following books as well, the central position assigned to the Ego coexists with a plot in which the inner experiences of the characters count more than the objective facts. There is an urgency of truth and meaning. The fact that this truth is fluid, relative and always renegotiable does not really matter: page after page, the author keeps betting on the meaning of living and writing. The existential predicament turns itself into a meta-literary predicament that is nurtured by the traditions and structures of the modernist novel

La \u2039\u2039bellezza del sapore\u203a\u203a: i sorbetti di Leopardi

The essay analyzes the Leopardi reflections on the theme of taste present in the Zibaldone and reviews the occurrences of the theme of food in Leopardi's work, focusing on its value and significance

The Atelier: a fundamental method of the architectural education

In times of instability in Portugal and almost in the entire world, due to a shortage of resources and a decrease in population, in a context in which construction and demolition are being responsible for a huge amount of garbage and waste, the great challenges facing architecture are centered on interrogating the territories, their history, memory and identity. Today’s context is made of moments of enormous doubts and changes followed by a hyper-specialization of knowledge. The deeper we look and search into, the more we become focused on particularities, isolating unconsciously from the complexity of context phenomena.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Experiencing spaces – a different approache of the architectural space

In today's society, where visualization predominate, there is little spatial experiences that can stimulate the entire repertoire of human senses. Architecture is the only art that is capable of producing inhabited spaces and provides spatial boundaries in which we, as human beings, can experiencespace. By virtue of this, the most of the experiences on a space can be reduced to a single sensory experience, the visual one.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

La letteratura italiana racconta la caduta del muro di Berlino

The fall of the wall is an event that sets a date and raises a symbolic watershed that separates the before from the after. The essay analyzes the Italian literary texts that were directly confronted with the events of 1989 by reviewing a period of time that goes from the day after the fall of the wall to the present day. From Fortini to Volponi, from Giudici to Arbasino, up to Lagioia, Affinati and Camilleri: for these writers talking about the Berlin Wall means reflecting on the crisis of ideologies, on the contradictions of history, on the relationship between literature and reality

Modeling of the residue transport of lambda cyhalothrin, cypermethrin, malathion and endosulfan in three different environmental compartments in the Philippines

AbstractThis study aims to determine the environmental transport and fate of the residue of four Philippines priority chemicals; i.e., lambda cyhalothrin (L-cyhalothrin), cypermethrin, endosulfan and malathion, in three different environmental compartments (air, water and soil). In the Philippines, pesticide application is the most common method of controlling pests and weeds in rice and vegetable farming. This practice aided the agricultural industry to minimize losses and increase yield. However, indiscriminate use of pesticides resulted to adverse effects to public health and environment. Studies showed that 95% of the applied pesticides went to non-target species. Data from previous studies in Pagsanjan Laguna, Philippines were used as input data. Dispersion, Gaussian plume, and regression equations were employed to simulate the behavior of L-cyhalothrin, cypermethrin, endosulfan and malathion in air, water and soil. Substance decay was calculated using first order reaction. This study showed how L-cyhalothrin, cypermethrin, endosulfan, and malathion behaved in the environment after release from nozzle spray, and its possible duration of stay in the environment. It will also show a tool in determining the percolation depth through soil by endosulfan. This tool can be utilized in determining the depth of contaminated soil during remediation strategic planning and project implementation of similar environmental condition