Lingua Italiana e interferenze dialettali nelle testimonianze dei Maltesi davanti all’Inquisitore

Fino all' avvento dei Cavalieri dell' Ordine Gerosolimitano nell' isola (\ 530), Malta dipendeva dal Tribunale dell' Inquisizione della Sicilia, ed era retta da un Commissario, Questa situazione dovette cambiare qualche decennio piu tardi, Infatti, nel 1561 il Vescovo Domenico Cubelles venne nominato primo lnquisitore di Malta con lettere apostoliche del 21 ottobre 1561 (Bonnici 1977: 64-65), L'Inquisizione maltese, che doveva rimanere attiva fino al 1798, anna in cui i Cavalieri di Malta vennero espulsi dalI'isola da Napoleone, era quindi legata direttamente all'lnquisizione romana, ovvero al Sant' Uffizio (Bonnici J990: 40-42), In questa intervento si intendono prendere in esame alcune dichiarazioni rese da inquisiti e testimoni maltesi davanti all'Inquisitore Antonio Pignatelli (1646-1649), che 42 anni dopo la sua permanenza maltese sarebbe di ventato Papa, col nome di Innocenzo XlI (1691-1700),peer-reviewe

Dirac operators on all Podles quantum spheres

We construct spectral triples on all Podles quantum spheres. These noncommutative geometries are equivariant for a left action of $U_q(su(2))$ and are regular, even and of metric dimension 2. They are all isospectral to the undeformed round geometry of the 2-sphere. There is also an equivariant real structure for which both the commutant property and the first order condition for the Dirac operators are valid up to infinitesimals of arbitrary order.Comment: 24 pages, no figures; v2: minor correction

New frontiers and applications of attachment theory

Editoriale dell'E-Book internazionale di cui l'autrice \ue8 Topic Editor, introduce e commenta lo stato dell'arte sull'attaccament

A peep or a gaze? References to Antonius Andreae in "Quaestiones super physicam" by Theodoricus of Magdeburg

Conference publication: Via Scoti : methodologica ad mentem Joannis Duns Scoti : atti del Congresso scotistico internazionale, Roma 9-11 marzo 199

The Italian Constitutional Court’s Ruling against State Immunity when International Crimes Occur: Thoughts on Decision No 238 of 2014

The tension between access to justice and jurisdictional immunity of States is one of the most debated topics in current public international law. The present essay aims to explore the Italian Constitutional Court’s opinion on this matter, in particular after its recent judgment no. 238 of 2014, in which the Court stated that Italy is no longer bound by the rule on State immunity in the case of civil proceedings dealing with damages caused by the Nazi army during World War II. Studying the Court’s reasoning and the arguments provided in order to compel Italy not to implement the ICJ judgment in the Jurisdictional Immunities of the State could provide a new point of view in the International Community, based on domestic constitutional norms, about the fundamental need to protect the rights of the human being, even to the detriment of a international customary rule

On human dignity and State sovereignty: The Italian Constitutional Court's 238/2014 judgment on State immunity for international crimes

Judgment 238/2014 of the Italian Constitutional Court has flatly contravened the decision of the ICJ on Jurisdictional Immunity of States (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening) of 2012, ruling that the customary norm on State immunity from civil suits before a foreign court as ascertained in the ICJ decision never entered the domestic legal order, because it is incompatible with core principles of the Italian Constitution. In execution of the Constitutional Court ruling, in 2015, some Italian tribunals have condemned Germany to pay damages to former Italian military internees victim of international crimes during World War II, thus integrating an international wrongful act on the part of Italy. The 238/2014 judgment has been criticised from many angles. Much criticism was addressed to its alleged dualist approach that seemed to insulate Italy. The paper argues that the 2014 judgment of the Italian court is rather a reasoned response to the ICJ decision, grounded on principles common to the Italian and the international law, and a call for a consistent application of State obligations concerning the effective implementation of human rights. From this perspective it constitutes a valuable contribution towards a principled and open-minded debate over the structure and function of international la

Il viaggio e gli scritti ‘maltesi’ di Luigi Capuana

Nel 1910 Luigi Capuana visito l'isola di Malta, dove soggiorno per quindici giorni. La sua presenza nell'isola fu considerata un avvenimento culturale d'eccezione per tutta l'intellighentzia dell'isola. Scopo di questo intervento edi percorrere Ie tappe del soggiorno maltese del maestro verista e di segnalare alcune varianti che appaiono nella versione maltese della novella Un anniversario.peer-reviewe

Were frontier lands in the central Mediterranean “isolated worlds”? The island of Malta as a case study

In his book, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Reign of Philip II, Fernand Braudel defines the islands of the Mediterranean as «isolated worlds» and «lands of hunger». These definitions carry pragmatic implications that may appear contentious if put under the lens of micro-history. Braudel himself recognizes the limitation of these statements, as he considers it appropriate to exclude Sicily from the above description. Indeed, such definitions, while carrying political and economic implications, do not necessarily reflect all the historical realities of the Mediterranean islands, in particular if the latter happen to be frontier territories. In this paper, I propose to study these concepts within the framework of Maltese history, in particular from 1530s up to the early eighteenth century, when the island of Malta can really be said to exemplify the notion of 'frontier lands'. This is not the first study on the Braudelian idea of 'isolated worlds' as applicable to the Maltese island. Victor Mallia-Milanes studied this concept in relation to other Braudelian ideas, such as that of 'land of hunger' or that the inhabitants of such lands were 'prisoners of their poverty'. What I am proposing in this paper is to build on Mallia-Milanes' study entitled Was Early Modern Malta an (Isolated World?, and at the same time, relate this concept of 'isolated worlds' to that of 'frontier territories'.peer-reviewe