Vico a modo mio

Un Vico multiforme, pluriversal, polifacético, es el Vico que el Autor plantea a partir de las propias lecturas de la obra del napolitano, de las interpretaciones de los muy distintos autores que han afrontado tanto al filósofo napolitano, como su obra, su vida, su figura. Un Vico dado también a través de la traducción, de la re-construcción de su propio pensar, tamizado por distintas tradiciones culturales, diferentes orientaciones hermenéuticas e historiográficas, diversas aproximaciones personales.A multiform, pluriversal, multifaceted Vico, is the one that the Author raises from his own readings of the work of the Neapolitan and from the interpretations of the very different authors who have confronted both the Neapolitan philosopher, his work, his life and his figure. A Vico that is also given through translation and through the re-construction of his own thinking, sifted by different cultural traditions, different hermeneutical and historiographical orientations, different personal approaches.Un Vico multiforme, pluriversale, poliedrico, è il Vico che l'Autore espone a partir dalle proprie letture dell'opera del filosofo napoletano e dalle interpretazioni dei diversi autori che hanno affrontato lo studio del pensatore napoletano, la sua opera, la sua vita e la sua figura. Un Vico che emerge anche dalla traduzione, dalla ricostruzione del proprio pensiero, vagliato da tradizioni culturali differenti, da orientamienti ermeneutici e storiografici distinti e da diversi approcci personali

Maquiavelo, palimpsesto de Vico

La lectura de la obra de Vico, sobre todo en sus vertientes antropológica, histórica y política, le pareció siempre al autor de este ensayo algo sumamente original, moderna y fecunda. No obstante, ciertas resonancias conceptuales, e incluso metodológicas, le inducían a imaginar estar leyendo un palimpsesto de Maquiavelo, en el que se hubieran borrado los detalles más escabrosos, más rechazados, más problemáticos, para el contexto en el que Vico escribía, y se hubiera reescrito sobre el original, nuevos modos, nuevas maneras de decir lo que era necesario decir; y decir de nuevo. Leer a Maquiavelo en Vico, tratar de determinar la influencia habida del pensador florentino en el napolitano, sería un ejercicio, ante todo, palimpséstico. Por eso, cree el autor que la relación entre Vico y Maquiavelo hay que plantearla en los mismos términos que Croce proyecta la relación entre moral y política, caracterizándola como “un problema que quizás nunca pueda resolverse”.The author of this paper has always thought that the reading of Vico’s work, mostly in its anthropological, historical and political aspects, is a highly original, modern and fertile endeavour. However, certain conceptual and mostly methodological echoes induced him to imagine that, while reading Vico, he was facing a palimpsest of Machiavelli, where the more scabrous, repudiated and problematic features had been erased, in order to adequate it to the context where Vico was publishing, as if Vico had written over the original his new ways, attempting to say what had to be said, and to restate the same the again. Reading Machiavelli in Vico, trying to find out which was the influence of the Florentine thinker upon the Napolitan one, would be, above all, a palimpsestic exercise. For that reason, the author believes that the relationship between Vico and Machiavelli must be studied in the same terms that Croce applies to the relationship between moral and politics, characterizing it as “a problem that may never be resolved”

De nuevo el Príncipe

Estudio Bibliográfico de / A Bibliographical Study of: Nicolás Maquiavelo, El Príncipe , trad., ed., n. y est. prel. de Ángeles Perona. Biblioteca Nueva, Madrid, 2004

Short-term fire front spread prediction using inverse modelling and airborne infrared images

A wildfire forecasting tool capable of estimating the fire perimeter position sufficiently in advance of the actual fire arrival will assist firefighting operations and optimise available resources. However, owing to limited knowledge of fire event characteristics (e.g. fuel distribution and characteristics, weather variability) and the short time available to deliver a forecast, most of the current models only provide a rough approximation of the forthcoming fire positions and dynamics. The problem can be tackled by coupling data assimilation and inverse modelling techniques. We present an inverse modelling-based algorithm that uses infrared airborne images to forecast short-term wildfire dynamics with a positive lead time. The algorithm is applied to two real-scale mallee-heath shrubland fire experiments, of 9 and 25 ha, successfully forecasting the fire perimeter shape and position in the short term. Forecast dependency on the assimilation windows is explored to prepare the system to meet real scenario constraints. It is envisaged the system will be applied at larger time and space scales.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft