Le alberate stradali nella storia

La presenza degli alberi lungo le strade nei millenni. Analisi storica

Rifondazioni: invenzione delle identità e traslazione delle memorie. I paesi sommersi per la realizzazione di bacini idrici

This contribution is part of a wider study involving an international research group that is studying a common phenomenon in Europe: the creation of reservoirs - to generate electricity – by means of the submersion of settlements and small towns. This method has caused at least three phenomena: the disappearance of small towns and their more recent “rediscovery” for tourism purposes; the construction of new inhabited areas for populations deprived of their homes with the consequent problem linked to displacement and the construction of new identities; the transfer into the new settlements of parts of or of entire original buildings that were disassembled before submersion and that were reassembled or whose fragments were located in new buildings realized for the new settlements. All these events are related to the theme of memory and therefore also represent an opportunity to reflect on the more general problems that our country is still sadly facing, such as villages in areas at great risk of earthquake or hydro-geological instability.This contribution aims to form the basis for analysis and reflection on the strategies that the project of new settlements has put into place to avoid losing the sense of social and memorial belonging, the relationship between inhabitants and architecture but also the relationship between architecture and landform itself. Rifondazioni: invenzione delle identità e traslazione delle memorie. I paesi sommersi per la realizzazione di bacini idriciIl contributo si inserisce all’interno di un lavoro più ampio che coinvolge un gruppo di ricerca internazionale il cui obiettivo è lo studio di un fenomeno comune in Europa: la sommersione di piccoli paesi, per la realizzazione di bacini di raccolta delle acque per la produzione di energia elettrica. Queste operazioni hanno innescato almeno tre fenomeni: la scomparsa di piccoli paesi e la loro attuale “riscoperta” a fini turistici; la costruzione di nuovi centri abitati con il conseguente problema del radicamento e della costruzione di nuove identità; la traslazione, nei nuovi centri, di parti o di interi edifici antichi smontati prima della sommersione e ricostruiti o collocati all’interno di differenti assetti. Tutte azioni, queste, che chiamano in causa il tema delle memorie e costituiscono, quindi, anche l’occasione per riflettere su problemi più generali sempre attuali per il nostro Paese quali quelli relativi ai borghi nelle aree a forte rischio sismico o dissesto idro-geologico.Il contributo intende costruire le basi per un’analisi e riflessione circa le strategie che il progetto dei nuovi insediamenti ha messo in atto o meno per evitare la perdita del senso di appartenenza sociale e memoriale, intendendo quest’ultima non solo dal punto di vista del rapporto che lega gli abitanti alle architetture, ma anche dal punto di vista del legame tra abitare e forma della Terra.Il contributo si inserisce all’interno di un lavoro più ampio che coinvolge un gruppo di ricerca internazionale il cui obiettivo è lo studio di un fenomeno comune in Europa: la sommersione di piccoli paesi, per la realizzazione di bacini di raccolta delle acque per la produzione di energia elettrica. Queste operazioni hanno innescato almeno tre fenomeni: la scomparsa di piccoli paesi e la loro attuale “riscoperta” a fini turistici; la costruzione di nuovi centri abitati con il conseguente problema del radicamento e della costruzione di nuove identità; la traslazione, nei nuovi centri, di parti o di interi edifici antichi smontati prima della sommersione e ricostruiti o collocati all’interno di differenti assetti. Tutte azioni, queste, che chiamano in causa il tema delle memorie e costituiscono, quindi, anche l’occasione per riflettere su problemi più generali sempre attuali per il nostro Paese quali quelli relativi ai borghi nelle aree a forte rischio sismico o dissesto idro-geologico.Il contributo intende costruire le basi per un’analisi e riflessione circa le strategie che il progetto dei nuovi insediamenti ha messo in atto o meno per evitare la perdita del senso di appartenenza sociale e memoriale, intendendo quest’ultima non solo dal punto di vista del rapporto che lega gli abitanti alle architetture, ma anche dal punto di vista del legame tra abitare e forma della Terra. Resettlement: New Identities and Transfer of Memory. Submersion of Towns for The Creation of Reservoirs  This contribution is part of a wider study involving an international research group that is studying a common phenomenon in Europe: the creation of reservoirs - to generate electricity – by means of the submersion of settlements and small towns. This method has caused at least three phenomena: the disappearance of small towns and their more recent “rediscovery” for tourism purposes; the construction of new inhabited areas for populations deprived of their homes with the consequent problem linked to displacement and the construction of new identities; the transfer into the new settlements of parts of or of entire original buildings that were disassembled before submersion and that were reassembled or whose fragments were located in new buildings realized for the new settlements. All these events are related to the theme of memory and therefore also represent an opportunity to reflect on the more general problems that our country is still sadly facing, such as villages in areas at great risk of earthquake or hydro-geological instability.This contribution aims to form the basis for analysis and reflection on the strategies that the project of new settlements has put into place to avoid losing the sense of social and memorial belonging, the relationship between inhabitants and architecture but also the relationship between architecture and landform itself

Questioni di demonologia. Valore e uso dei termini daímon e daimónion nel pensiero cristiano di II e III secolo

2011 - 2012The aim of my PhD dissertation is to analyze the changes in the use of the words δαίμων and δαιμόνιον between the Hellenistic period and the Christian thought of the Second and the Third Centuries. In Hellenistic period, when δαιμόνια is used in the LXX translation, its meaning is not easy to understand. The use of the word δαίμων in Ancient Greek is very extensive and it can have a lot of different meanings; several studies, such as François 1957, Brenk 1986 and Timotin 2012, concern this argument:1 all of these authors stress the polyvalence of the demonic notion on a diachronic and synchronic level. On another level, it is also often difficult to understand the difference between the notion of demonic and that of divine, but it seems that there must be a difference since the first occurrences of the term in Iliad, where sometimes δαίμων and θεὸς; means the same, while in other passages they are clearly opposed. An important proposal for the understanding of the meaning of the δαίμων, not only in Greece, but in all the Ancient Mediterranean, is that of Petersen 2003, who suggests to investigate the function of the concept tied to the word δαίμων: by analyzing this, it is possible to understand that in the Mediterranean world, including Ancient Near East and Egypt, the demonic level is always connected to the idea of μεταξύ. The demonic seems to be the influence that affects the human world from the divine sphere: so, any appearance of the gods in Iliad is demonic, because the gods cannot show themselves as they really are in the human world... [edited by Author]XI n.s

L'Apocalisse nella letteratura (Marlowe, Shakespeare, Dostoevskij): tempo, intreccio, allegorie

The essay examines Revelation both as a literary text and as a narrative device. In this intellectual framework, The Author discusses three main issues: the ways in which Time is perceived and represented within the text; the circulation of the apocalyptic imaginery as a literary paradigm used to interpret History; the characterization of Revelation's language as unveiling and utopian at the same time. On this ground the essay studies Revelation's reception within literary domain, and in particular in Elizabethan theatre and in Dostoevskij's novels.The essay examines Revelation both as a literary text and as a narrative device. In this intellectual framework, The Author discusses three main issues: the ways in which Time is perceived and represented within the text; the circulation of the apocalyptic imaginery as a literary paradigm used to interpret History; the characterization of Revelation's language as unveiling and utopian at the same time. On this ground the essay studies Revelation's reception within literary domain, and in particular in Elizabethan theatre and in Dostoevskij's novels

Terribili a udirsi, più terribili a vedersi

In this essay, Chiara Franceschini discusses the extremely imaginative series of miniatures of hell and the Last Things as well as the complex relations between text and image in the Livre de la Vigne, Ms. Douce 134 from the Bodleian Library (1460 circa). Published by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, to accompany a fac-simile of the Ms. Douce 134 from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, this contribution discusses the extremely rich series of miniatures of hell and infernal punishments and the complex relations between text and image in this unique manuscript, which was produced possibly in the Grand Chartreuse in the region of Grenoble around 1460: Chiara Franceschini, “Terribili a udirsi, più terribili a vedersi”, in: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (ed.), Il manoscritto Douce 134: mirabile visione, Roma: Treccani, 2019, pp. 105-135. http://www.treccani.it/catalogo/catalogo_prodotti/tesori_svelati/la_mirabile_visione.htm

Terribili a udirsi, più terribili a vedersi

In this essay, Chiara Franceschini discusses the extremely imaginative series of miniatures of hell and the Last Things as well as the complex relations between text and image in the Livre de la Vigne, Ms. Douce 134 from the Bodleian Library (1460 circa). Published by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, to accompany a fac-simile of the Ms. Douce 134 from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, this contribution discusses the extremely rich series of miniatures of hell and infernal punishments and the complex relations between text and image in this unique manuscript, which was produced possibly in the Grand Chartreuse in the region of Grenoble around 1460: Chiara Franceschini, “Terribili a udirsi, più terribili a vedersi”, in: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (ed.), Il manoscritto Douce 134: mirabile visione, Roma: Treccani, 2019, pp. 105-135. http://www.treccani.it/catalogo/catalogo_prodotti/tesori_svelati/la_mirabile_visione.htm

Receptive music interventions improve apathy and depression in elderly patients with dementia

Individuals with dementia and their families often experience poor quality of life due to patient's behavioral and psychological symptoms. Increasing evidence has mounted on the potential role of music in improving social, emotional and cognitive skills. In the present study we aim to investigate whether a receptive music intervention might reduce apathy and depression in elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or vascular dementia (VaD) and improve their caregivers' burden. Among patients attending to a Memory Clinic, we have enrolled 48 AD or VaD elderly subjects. They were divided into two groups on the basis of family agreement to musictherapy. The experimental group (n=15) was asked to listen to a 80-minute audio CD, for at least 15 minutes per day, at least once a week, for three months. The overall sample was evaluated at baseline, at week 4 and at week 12 through the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Cornel- Brown Scale QoL in Dementia (CBSQoLD) and the Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES); caregiver stress was assessed using the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI). Apathy and depression were significantly improved among patients treated with music interventions compared to control group (treatment effect =43.667; P<0.001 and treatment effect =61.238; P<0.001 respectively). Caregiver burden was significantly reduced after three months of receptive music approach (treatment effect =15.759; P<0.001). The results of this study are consistent with the efficacy of receptive music interventions on improving apathy and depression in AD or VaD elderly patients and lowering associated caregiver's burden

Antropologia Mosaica: Risvolto politico della perfetta profezia e speranza messianica nel pensiero di Mosè Maimonide.

Lo scopo principale della mia tesi è quello si esaminare l'eccezionalità della profezia di Mosè e il suo risvolto etico-politico alla luce del pensiero di Mosè Maimonide. Nella prima parte, rivolgerò l'attenzione all'idea di profezia che emerge dagli scritti maimonidei. In particolar modo, è mia intenzione evidenziare le discrepanze tra le descrizioni di profezia presenti nella Guida dei perplessi, nel Mishneh Torah e nel Commento alla Mishnah. Lo scopo di tale comparazione è quello di comprendere il naturalismo di Maimonide, espresso nei quattro paradigmi di eccellenza umana: Adamo, Abramo, Mosè e il Messia. Nella seconda parte, analizzerò la complementarietà tra la missione profetica di Abramo e la missione profetica di Mosè, al fine di evidenziare l'importanza dell'era messianica nella storia dell'ebraismo. Per Maimonide l'avvento del Messia rappresenta la condizione necessaria perché si possano realizzare le tre forme di redenzione, la redenzione nazionale di Israele, la redenzione universale della razza umana, e la redenzione individuale dell'uomo. The main aim of my thesis is to explore at length the singularity of Moses' prophecy and its ethical-political implications, in the light of Maimonides' thought. In the first part, I will focus my attention on Maimonidean idea of prophecy one can find in his works. In particular, it is my intention to underscore the the differences between the descriptions of prophecy one finds in Maimonides' principal works, The Guide of the Perplexed, Mishneh Torah and Commentary on the Mishnah. The purpose of this comparison is to understand Maimonides' naturalism, expressed in the four paradigms of human excellence: Adam, Abraham, Moses and the Messiah. In the second part, I will analyze the complementarity between Abraham's prophetical mission and Moses' prophetical mission in order to underline the importance of Messianic age in the history of Judaism. For Maimonides, the coming of the Messiah means the necessary condition to realize the three kind of redemption, the national redemption of Israel, the universal redemption of humankind, the individual redemption of man