Relationship between spatial ability, visuospatial working memory and self-assessed spatial orientation ability: a study in older adults

This paper describes some novel spatial tasks and questionnaires designed to assess spatial and orientation abilities. The new tasks and questionnaires were administered to a sample of 90 older adults (41 males, age range 57–90), along with some other tests of spatial ability (Minnesota Paper Form Board, Mental Rotations Test, and Embedded Figures Test) and tests of visuospatial working memory (Corsi’s Block Test and Visual Pattern Test). The internal reliability of the new tasks and questionnaires was analyzed, as well as their relationship with the spatial and working memory tests. The results showed that the new spatial tasks are reliable, correlate with working memory and spatial ability tests and, compared with the latters, show stronger correlations with the self-report questionnaires referring to orientation abilities. A model was also tested (with reference to Allen et al. in Intelligence 22:327–355, 1996) in which the new tasks were assumed to relate to spatial ability and predict orientation abilities as assessed by the self-report measures

La forza dell\u2019archivio. Dominio e giurisdizione del monastero di San Nicol\uf2 di Rodengo nel \u2018libro\u2019 di un abate archivista del Settecento

Il volume presenta l\u2019edizione del "Dominio e giurisddizione" opera dall\u2019abate olivetano Angelo Maria Camassei, vissuto tra Sei e Settecento. Si tratta di un testo nato contestualmente al riordino delle carte d\u2019archivio del monastero di Rodengo presso Brescia, in un contesto che \u2013 sulla scia dell\u2019esperienza muratoriana \u2013 mirava al ricupero delle memorie storiche di un monastero le cui radici affondavano nella riforma cluniacense prima dell\u2019innesto olivetano avvenuto attorno alla met\ue0 del Quattrocento. Il testo \ue8 preceduto da un\u2019ampia introduzione volta a delineare da un lato l\u2019autore, la sua attivit\ue0 di archivista e il riordino dell'archivio di Rodengo; dall'altro ad illustrare il testo e il suo contenuto fondato su documenti dei secoli XIV-XVII

Recensione a: Kaiserlicher Gesandter und Kurienbischof. Andreas Jamometic am Hof Papst Sixtus\u2019IV. (1478-1481). Aufschl\ufcsse aus neuen Quellen

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Rasini, Baldassarre

Profilo biografico di Baldassarre Rasini, professore all'università di Pavia (sec. XV

L\u2019Hodoeporicon di Ambrogio Traversati: una fonte privata nella storiografia camaldolese

Il contributo prende in esame la tradizione manoscritta e la ricezione dell\u2019Hodoeporicon all\u2019interno dell\u2019ordine camaldoles

Recensione a: Vercelli fra Tre e Quattrocento. Atti del Sesto Congresso Storico Vercellese. Vercelli Aula Magna dell’Università A. Avogadro, “Cripta dell’Abbazia di S. Andrea”, 22-23-24 novembre 2013, a c. di A. Barbero, Vercelli, Società Storica Vercellese, 2014 (Biblioteca della società storica vercellese, 46)

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Note in margine agli 'Scritti petrarcheschi' di Agostino Sottili. Linee di diffusione delle opere latine di Francesco Petrarca nei territori del Sacro Romano Impero

The diffusion of Petrarch’s Latin works, with special regard to the German countries in the XV century, follows definite lines as the manuscript tradition coming from there shows. In fact, during this period a substantial number of manuscripts was written and read in monasteries, where Petrarch was appreciated as Christian moral philosopher; an other consistent group was property of students who studied in Italian universities or in the universities of Erfurt, Leipzig and Vienna, and who read his works because of their interest on rhetoric and on the new culture. The publication of Agostino Sottili’s studies on Petrarch gives the possibility of reflecting on these matters and underlines that new perspectives on this research will come from the study of Petrarch’s reception in pre-humanists’ or humanists’ writings outside of Italy