Illustrare un canzoniere: appunti

Petrarch didn’t illustrate his Rvf autograph manuscript, but there are some fifteenth century Rvf manuscripts illuminated with an enough complex and varied strategy of illustrating. We felt that it might be of interest to reflect on the Petrarch’s choice of not illuminating his lyric book and to analyse painted illustrations in some Rvf manuscripts to enlighten their visual semantic

Illustrare un canzoniere: appunti

Petrarch didn’t illustrate his Rvf autograph manuscript, but there are some fifteenth century Rvf manuscripts illuminated with an enough complex and varied strategy of illustrating. We felt that it might be of interest to reflect on the Petrarch’s choice of not illuminating his lyric book and to analyse painted illustrations in some Rvf manuscripts to enlighten their visual semantic

Boccaccio letterato, umanista e narratore Intervista di Elisabetta Menetti a Lucia Battaglia Ricci

Un dialogo che ripercorre le questioni critiche che hanno mosso gli studi di Lucia Battaglia Ricci sul capolavoro di Giovanni Boccaccio

Insight from an Italian Delphi Consensus on EVAR feasibility outside the instruction for use: the SAFE EVAR Study

BACKGROUND: The SAfety and FEasibility of standard EVAR outside the instruction for use (SAFE-EVAR) Study was designed to define the attitude of Italian vascular surgeons towards the use of standard endovascular repair (EVAR) for infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) outside the instruction for use (IFU) through a Delphi consensus endorsed by the Italian Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (Societa Italiana di Chirurgia Vascolare ed Endovascolare - SICVE). METHODS: A questionnaire consisting of 26 statements was developed, validated by an 18 -member Advisory Board, and then sent to 600 Italian vascular surgeons. The Delphi process was structured in three subsequent rounds which took place between April and June 2023. In the first two rounds, respondents could indicate one of the following five degrees of agreement: 1) strongly agree; 2) partially agree; 3) neither agree nor disagree; 4) partially disagree; 5) strongly disagree; while in the third round only three different choices were proposed: 1) agree; 2) neither agree nor disagree; 3) disagree. We considered the consensus reached when >70% of respondents agreed on one of the options. After the conclusion of each round, a report describing the percentage distribution of the answers was sent to all the participants. RESULTS: Two -hundred -forty-four (40.6%) Italian Vascular Surgeons agreed to participate the first round of the Delphi Consensus; the second and the third rounds of the Delphi collected 230 responders (94.3% of the first -round responders). Four statements (15.4%) reached a consensus in the first rounds. Among the 22 remaining statements, one more consensus (3.8%) was achieved in the second round. Finally, seven more statements (26.9%) reached a consensus in the simplified last round. Globally, a consensus was reached for almost half of the proposed statements (46.1%). CONCLUSIONS: The relatively low consensus rate obtained in this Delphi seems to confirm the discrepancy between Guideline recommendations and daily clinical practice. The data collected could represent the source for a possible guidelines' revision and the proposal of specific Good Practice Points in all those aspects with only little evidence available

Illustrare un canzoniere: appunti

Privo di immagini nella redazione curata da Petrarca, tra '400 e '500 il Canzoniere ha conosciuto una significativa, anche se non ricca tradizione manoscritta illustrata. Questo saggio riflette sulle ragioni della scelta operata dall'autore raffrontandola alía tradizione dei canzonieri piú antichi e sulle valenze semantiche di alcuni dei sistemi illustrativí attestati

Market reaction to the European antitrust investigations in the payment card industry

This paper aims to analyze the stock price reaction of European banks involved in antitrust authority interventions regarding the payment card business. The main objective is to assess whether market discipline is effective and able to complement regulation (Berger et al., 2000) despite the opacity of the business (Morgan, 2002). To this end, we collect all interventions made by both domestic antitrust authorities and by the European Commission to investigate and/or sanction anticompetitive behavior in the payment card sector over the period 2004-2015. This results in a sample of 24 events, involving 135 listed banks operating in the EU-27 area. We run an event study analysis based on a traditional market model in order to estimate cumulated abnormal returns (CARs), considering both the date when the formal investigation is open and the date when the outcome of the procedure is communicated to the market. Our findings provide weak evidence in favor of the effectiveness of market discipline, with a significant (negative) market reaction only for investigations involving a small number of well-identified banking institutions, while procedures involving large banking associations or payment networks do not generate any relevant reaction

Market reaction to the European antitrust investigations in the payment card industry

This paper aims to analyze the stock price reaction of European banks involved in antitrust authority interventions regarding the payment card business. The main objective is to assess whether market discipline is effective and able to complement regulation (Berger et al., 2000) despite the opacity of the business (Morgan, 2002). To this end, we collect all interventions made by both domestic antitrust authorities and by the European Commission to investigate and/or sanction anticompetitive behavior in the payment card sector over the period 2004-2015. This results in a sample of 24 events, involving 135 listed banks operating in the EU-27 area. We run an event study analysis based on a traditional market model in order to estimate cumulated abnormal returns (CARs), considering both the date when the formal investigation is open and the date when the outcome of the procedure is communicated to the market. Our findings provide weak evidence in favor of the effectiveness of market discipline, with a significant (negative) market reaction only for investigations involving a small number of well-identified banking institutions, while procedures involving large banking associations or payment networks do not generate any relevant reaction