Il circolo di Cambridge: dantismo e follia

The ten circles of Dante’s Inferno, with the words that clash in eternity, are the background to the thriller of the Spanish writer who draws copiously from the medieval source and dialogues with Dante through the mad mind of his protagonist who, within a perverse play of mirrors, the poet is identified and assumes the function of guiding the world that ill-lives

Un giallo italiano all’origine della ripresa del culto dantesco

In the essay, the author conducts an intertextual inquiry that highlights the terms of the ‘dialogue’ between ancient and modern, in which Dante’s Comedy invariably returns a source the source, always alive and current, to which Giulio Leoni draws copiously for the writing of the novel I crimes of the Medusa, first effort of ‘his’ Dante cycle, and important ‘apripista’ for the revival of the reuse of Dante in contemporary genre fiction.Nel saggio l’autrice conduce un’indagine intertestuale che evidenzia i termini del ‘dialogo’ tra antico e moderno, in cui la Commedia dantesca ritorna prepotentemente a costituire la fonte, sempre viva e attuale, a cui Giulio Leoni attinge copiosamente per la stesura del romanzo I delitti della Medusa, prima fatica del ‘suo’ ciclo dantesco, e importante ‘apripista’ per il rilancio del riuso dantesco nella narrativa contemporanea di genere

Lettura di Paradiso III

La lettura da un lato mira a cogliere l‟equilibrio, che in questo canto si rivela al massimo grado, fra le ragioni dottrinali e teologiche e la persistenza delle memorie terrene, dall‟altro tende a valorizzare l‟interpretazione di Piccarda, anche attraverso il rilevamento di una serie di rapporti intertestuali e un serrato confronto con la bibliografia più accreditata, come „compimento‟ di Francesca e di Pia.Reading aims to capture the balance between the doctrinal and theological reasons and persistence of earthly memories; furthermore, it tends to enhance the interpretation of Piccarda, also through a series of intertextual relations and a close comparison with the most reliable references, as “compimento” of Francesca and Pia

Il ‘mito’ di Dante nella poesia politica del secondo Ottocento

L’Agesilao Milani di Giovanni Francesco Jatta, un poemetto filosabaudo, del se-condo Ottocento, viene letto, in questo saggio, come un esempio, assai eloquente e significativo sul piano intertestuale, del ‘riuso’ del testo della Commedia, ma anche della sua attualizzazione politica.Giovanni Francesco Jatta’s Agesilao Milani, a filosabaudo poem of the second eight hundred, is read, in this essay, as a very eloquent and significant example on the intertextual plane, of the re-use of Commedia, but also of its political ac-tualization

Leonardo Antonio Forleo e la ‘Divina Commedia’: il «libro verseggiato di morale»

The essay proposes the analysis of Guida allo studio di Dante, published in 1844 by Leonardo Antonio Forleo, an Apulian scholar whose crit-ics have recognized the merit of having contrib-uted to the cult and reading of Dante in Salento.Through precise and constant references to the text, the intention of the author is highlighted to detect the poetic, scientific and ethical beau-ties of Dante's Comedy, but also its allegorical contents, in order to instruct the 'valiant Italian youth' to which, motivated with a solid classi-cistic background, Forleo recommends reading and studving the poem as a source of good stud-ies and as the mother of poetry and of the Ital-ian language

Induction of immune response after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA BNT162b2 vaccination in healthcare workers

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Prospective validation of the CLIP score: a new prognostic system for patient with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma

Prognosis of patients with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) depends on both residual liver function and tumor extension. The CLIP score includes Child-Pugh stage, tumor morphology and extension, serum alfa-fetoprotein (AFP) levels, and portal vein thrombosis. We externally validated the CLIP score and compared its discriminatory ability and predictive power with that of the Okuda staging system in 196 patients with cirrhosis and HCC prospectively enrolled in a randomized trial. No significant associations were found between the CLIP score and the age, sex, and pattern of viral infection. There was a strong correlation between the CLIP score and the Okuda stage, As of June 1999, 150 patients (76.5%) had died. Median survival time was 11 months, overall, and it was 36, 22, 9, 7, and 3 months for CLIP categories 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 to 6, respectively. In multivariate analysis, the CLIP score had additional explanatory power above that of the Okuda stage. This was true for both patients treated with locoregional therapy or not. A quantitative estimation of 2-year survival predictive power showed that the CLIP score explained 37% of survival variability, compared with 21% explained by Okuda stage. In conclusion, the CLIP score, compared with the Okuda staging system, gives more accurate prognostic information, is statistically more efficient, and has a greater survival predictive power. It could be useful in treatment planning by improving baseline prognostic evaluation of patients with RCC, and could be used in prospective therapeutic trials as a stratification variable, reducing the variability of results owing to patient selection