Sound and Silence, Rhythm and Harmony as the Basis for Prenatal Education through Music Musical Pedagogical Experiences with Expectant Parents

AbstractArt begins with life: the construction of primary sounds begins in the womb. The voices of mother and father join in this “gestational symphony”, influencing its harmony with their interactions. The scientific community recognizes the key role of the prenatal period: international researches confirm the importance of a harmonious primary relationship. My own musical pedagogical work over the past several years has confirmed to me that the optimum medium for educating to listen and to live in harmony with the self and others, is provided by experiences based on the individual's personal sensibility and fostering immediate reflection

Musical Play and Emotional (Self) Regulation a Maieutic–formative Teaching Method

Abstract Play improves children's emotional self-regulation abilities because, while enhancing their capacity to express emotion, it also enables them to differentiate and modify emotive experience and control negative affect (Galyer& Evans, 2001; et al). Children always incorporate sound into their play and this is one of the earliest manifestations of musical ability. Musicality, in turn, is a fundamental element of human existence of the human being and, no surprisingly, is closely related to cognitive, social and emotional skills (Trevarthen, 2000).What is the role of the music-play dyad in treating socioemotional disorders in school age children

Federico Marchese Pallavicino: Diario del March.e Federico Pallavicino, Inviato Ducale a Monaco 1662 Sett.e – Ottobre. Tagebuch des Federico Marchese Pallavicino, Gesandter des Herzogs von Parma in München, im September und Oktober 1662 (FONTES 55)

FONTES 55 publishes a full text version of the "diary" of Federico Marchese Pallavicino, who spent the month of September 1662 at the court of Bavaria in Munich on the occasion of the baptism of prince Max Emanuel of Bavaria, in Italian and in German translation

Spilbergo e Gradisca : scene del carcere duro in Austria / estratte dalle memorie di Giorgio Pallavicino

Spilbergo e Gradisca : scene del carcere duro in Austria / estratte dalle memorie di Giorgio Pallavicino Torino : Stamperia dell'Unione Tip.-Editrice, 1856 109 p. ; 18 c

Galileo, Poetry, and Patronage: Giulio Strozzi's Venetia edificata and the Place of Galileo in Seventeenth-Century Italian Poetry

This is the publisher's version, © 2013 by The University of Chicago Press.The Venetian poet and librettist Giulio Strozzi (1583 –1652) spent much of his career glorifying the Serenissima through a series of theatrical pieces. His only epic poem, the Venetia edificata (1621, 1624), while ostensibly a celebration of the republic, shows a level of commitment to Galileo Galilei (1564 –1643) and to Galileo’s science that is unique among poets of the time, Venetian or otherwise. It is the apex of Strozzi’s artistic project to incorporate Galileo’s discoveries and texts into poetic works. The Venetia edificata also represents the culmination of a fifteen-year effort to gain patronage from the Medici Grand Dukes in Florence. While the first, incomplete version is dedicated to the Venetian Doge, the second, finished version is dedicated to Grand Duke Ferdinando II de’ Medici of Florence. More than a decade after Galileo’s departure from the Veneto to Florence, Strozzi cites from Galileo’s early works, creates a character inspired by Galileo, incorporates the principles of Galileo’s science into the organizing structure of the poem, and answers one of Galileo’s loudest complaints about Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered (1581). Strozzi’s strategies both in writing the Venetia edificata and in seeking patronage for it underscore the ambivalent response to Galileo in contemporary poetry

11th September 2001 : the Italian writers’ response

One month after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, the Corriere della sera published an article on the possible future consequences for literature of this horrific event. Some novelists boldly declared their work would not be affected at all, while others observed that their literary visions and perspectives were already responses to life’s tragic aspects. Several writers confessed to wondering, at least initially, whether literature henceforth could continue to have any real sense. Ten years on, this essay examines the nature of the Italian response. It looks firstly at the views of those writers who expressed opinions directly to the press or in essay form, and then at a small number of novels (by Tullio Avoledo, Marisa Bulgheroni and Tiziana Rinaldi Castro) and short stories (by Andrea Piva, Andrej Longo and Andrea Cannobio) which have embraced the theme, and which have done so in ways that reinforce the sense of an underlying political and/or cultural aesthetic. Connections between twenty-first-century reactions to 9/11 and the Italian experience or memory of political terrorism and war will be explored, as well as the question of inspiration for novelists, in the particular context of catastrophe or trauma

"Delirium Day": A nationwide point prevalence study of delirium in older hospitalized patients using an easy standardized diagnostic tool

Background: To date, delirium prevalence in adult acute hospital populations has been estimated generally from pooled findings of single-center studies and/or among specific patient populations. Furthermore, the number of participants in these studies has not exceeded a few hundred. To overcome these limitations, we have determined, in a multicenter study, the prevalence of delirium over a single day among a large population of patients admitted to acute and rehabilitation hospital wards in Italy. Methods: This is a point prevalence study (called "Delirium Day") including 1867 older patients (aged 65 years or more) across 108 acute and 12 rehabilitation wards in Italian hospitals. Delirium was assessed on the same day in all patients using the 4AT, a validated and briefly administered tool which does not require training. We also collected data regarding motoric subtypes of delirium, functional and nutritional status, dementia, comorbidity, medications, feeding tubes, peripheral venous and urinary catheters, and physical restraints. Results: The mean sample age was 82.0 \ub1 7.5 years (58 % female). Overall, 429 patients (22.9 %) had delirium. Hypoactive was the commonest subtype (132/344 patients, 38.5 %), followed by mixed, hyperactive, and nonmotoric delirium. The prevalence was highest in Neurology (28.5 %) and Geriatrics (24.7 %), lowest in Rehabilitation (14.0 %), and intermediate in Orthopedic (20.6 %) and Internal Medicine wards (21.4 %). In a multivariable logistic regression, age (odds ratio [OR] 1.03, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 1.01-1.05), Activities of Daily Living dependence (OR 1.19, 95 % CI 1.12-1.27), dementia (OR 3.25, 95 % CI 2.41-4.38), malnutrition (OR 2.01, 95 % CI 1.29-3.14), and use of antipsychotics (OR 2.03, 95 % CI 1.45-2.82), feeding tubes (OR 2.51, 95 % CI 1.11-5.66), peripheral venous catheters (OR 1.41, 95 % CI 1.06-1.87), urinary catheters (OR 1.73, 95 % CI 1.30-2.29), and physical restraints (OR 1.84, 95 % CI 1.40-2.40) were associated with delirium. Admission to Neurology wards was also associated with delirium (OR 2.00, 95 % CI 1.29-3.14), while admission to other settings was not. Conclusions: Delirium occurred in more than one out of five patients in acute and rehabilitation hospital wards. Prevalence was highest in Neurology and lowest in Rehabilitation divisions. The "Delirium Day" project might become a useful method to assess delirium across hospital settings and a benchmarking platform for future surveys

I libri iurium della Repubblica di Genova: Liber A (cc. 408v-519r.)

Dottorato di ricerca in diplomatica. 12. ciclo. Tutore e coordinatore Dino Puncuh.Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Biblioteca Centrale P.le Aldo Moro, 7, Rome; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Piazza Cavalleggeri, 1, Florence / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal

La Rhétorique Des Putains, Ou La Fameuse Maquerelle : Ouvrage imité de l'Italien / [Ferrante Pallavicino]

LA RHÉTORIQUE DES PUTAINS, OU LA FAMEUSE MAQUERELLE : OUVRAGE IMITÉ DE L'ITALIEN / [FERRANTE PALLAVICINO] La Rhétorique Des Putains, Ou La Fameuse Maquerelle : Ouvrage imité de l'Italien / [Ferrante Pallavicino] (1) Einband (1) Titelblatt (10) Mesdames (12) L' Auteur Au Lecteur (15) Introduction (22) Lecon I. (37) Lecon II. (54) Lecon III. (71) Lecon IV. (83) Lecon V. (97) Lecon VI. (114) Lecon VII. (140) Lecon VIII. (159) Lecon IX. (182) Lecon X. (200) Lecon XI. (225) Lecon XI. [i.e. XII.] (248) Lecon XIII. (270) Lecon XIV. (289) Lecon XV. (309