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Lucamante, Stefania. "The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 41, no. 1 (March 2007): 219–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001458580704100113.
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Glynn (book author), Ruth, and Jacqueline Samperi Mangan (review author). "Contesting the Monument. The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel." Quaderni d'italianistica 29, no. 2 (June 1, 2008): 190–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v29i2.8481.
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Parisi, Luciano, and Ruth Glynn. "Contesting the Monument: The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel." Modern Language Review 101, no. 4 (October 1, 2006): 1150. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20467108.
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Katorova, A. A., and Y. S. Boronenkova. "The evolution of the Italian novel (based on the works of Clorinda Di Fini), part 1." Язык и текст 4, no. 1 (2017): 17–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/langt.2017040103.
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The article deals with the evolution of the Italian novel in different literary and historical periods, starting with the epic poem of Antiquity up to the historical novel (“The Betrothed” by Alessandro Manzoni) and the social novel (“The House by the Medlar-Tree” and “Mastro-don Gesualdo” by Giovanni Verga). Based on the works of Italian philologist Clorinda Di Fini, the article shows how the focus of narrative shifts from the fate of the upper classes to the lives of ordinary people in a larger historical context, as well as the author's position in the novel moves towards impersonality and objective reflection on social problems
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Katorova, A. A., and Y. S. Boronenkova. "The evolution of the Italian novel (based on the works of Clorinda Di Fini), part 2." Язык и текст 4, no. 2 (2017): 14–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/langt.2017040203.
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The article deals with the evolution of the Italian novel in different literary and historical periods, starting with the epic poem of Antiquity up to the historical novel (“The Betrothed” by Alessandro Manzoni) and the social novel (“The House by the Medlar-Tree” and “Mastro-don Gesualdo” by Giovanni Verga). Based on the works of Italian philologist Clorinda Di Fini, the article shows how the focus of narrative shifts from the fate of the upper classes to the lives of ordinary people in a larger historical context, as well as the author's position in the novel moves towards impersonality and objective reflection on social problems.
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O'Connell, Daragh. "Contesting the Monument: The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel (review)." Italian Culture 24, no. 1 (2007): 226–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/itc.2007.0001.
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Samir, Aseel, and Rabie Salama. "Struttura e narratore ne I Promessi Sposi di Alessandro Manzoni." Romanica Silesiana 17 (June 29, 2020): 138–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rs.2020.17.11.
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In the early 19th century, the Italian literature did not have a mature novel, as is known today. The Italian novelist, Manzoni, and his masterpiece The Betrothed, set a solid basis for the contemporary Italian novel; thanks to its’ narrative characteristics that helped the novelist in achieving different reformative goals, woven stupendously with fictional, historical and realistic threads. The main purpose of this study is to apply an analytical and thematic approach on the structure and narrator of the novel. Furthermore, the research aims to distinguish the main artistic characteristics adopted from the European historical novel. The study then focuses on analyzing the function of the anonymous author’s fictional frame and how it created a diversity in the narrative levels. The research also highlights the importance of the omniscient narrator, the strong relations between the narrator and the narratee, the different narrative perspectives, and finally the polyphony: techniques that enhanced the realistic dimension of the novel.
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De Angelis, Rose. "The American Nightmare: Reading and Teaching Pietro di Donato's Ethnographic Novel Christ in Concrete." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 39, no. 1 (March 2005): 137–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001458580503900108.
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In the interdisciplinary course entitled The Italian-American Experience, Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete is examined, explored, and analyzed within historical, socio-political, and literary contexts. The novel becomes a point of focus for the discussion of immigrant life and working-class people in a broader and contextualized understanding of Italian Americans. Students read Christ in Concrete in conjunction with essays documenting the history of workers' struggles in the United States. Read as cultural artifact, Christ in Concrete documents with historical clarity and brutal honesty the way in which the American Dream turned nightmare. Using language, religion, and social politics as focal points, the paper looks at Italian-Americans, their virtues and flaws, their struggles and triumphs, as it underscores the culture's unique contributions to the American mosaic not only in the lived lives of the novel's characters but also in the poetics of its discourse.
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Parisi, Luciano. "Contesting the Monument: The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel by Ruth Glynn." Modern Language Review 101, no. 4 (2006): 1150–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2006.0385.
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Chandler, S. Bernard. "Natural Scenes and their Effect upon Characters in the Italian Historical Novel." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 26, no. 1 (March 1992): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001458589202600105.
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Hansen, Niels Chr, Makiko Sadakata, and Marcus Pearce. "Nonlinear Changes in the Rhythm of European Art Music." Music Perception 33, no. 4 (April 1, 2016): 414–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2016.33.4.414.
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Research has used the normalized pairwise variability index (nPVI) to examine relationships between musical rhythm and durational contrast in composers’ native languages. Applying this methodology, linearly increasing nPVI in Austro-German, but not Italian music has recently been ascribed to waning Italian and increasing German influence on Austro-German music after the Baroque Era. The inapplicability of controlled experimental methods to historical data necessitates further replication with more sensitive methods and new repertoire. Using novel polynomial modelling procedures, we demonstrate an initial increase and a subsequent decrease in nPVI in music by 34 French composers. Moreover, previous findings for 21 Austro-German (linear increase) and 15 Italian composers (no change) are replicated. Our results provide promissory quantitative support for accounts from historical musicology of an Italian-dominated Baroque (1600-1750), a Classical Era (1750-1820) with Austro-German centres of gravity (e.g., Mannheim, Vienna), and a Romantic Era (1820-1900) with greater national independence. Future studies should aim to replicate these findings with larger corpora with greater historical representability.
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Salsini, Laura A. "RE-ENVISIONING THE RISORGIMENTO: ISABELLA BOSSI FEDRIGOTTI'S AMORE MIO UCCIDI GARIBALDI." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 42, no. 1 (March 2008): 83–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001458580804200105.
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Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti's 1980 novel Amore mio uccidi Garibaldi destabilizes historical narration by re-imagining the accepted masculinist chronicles of Italian unification and by making central the female figure within that history. By framing this revision within the structure of an epistolary narrative, the author brings to the public stage the private lives that were once excluded from it. Bossi Fedrigotti's novel exemplifies a larger project of rewriting both the Risorgimento and the gender roles and experiences of this particular historical period. But perhaps its more significant innovation is to evoke the legacy of the unification in the tumultuous events of the 1960s and 1970s in Italy. The text acts as a mirror of Bossi Fedrigotti's own era, which like the Risorgimento, saw critical transformations in Italian culture and society.
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Manzoni, Alessandro, and Joseph Luzzi. "Letter on Romanticism." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 2 (March 2004): 299–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x22747.
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It was a foreign critic, ironically, who grasped the insurmountable national challenge that alessandro Manzoni posed to himself and to Italy's future authors with his monumental novel I promessi sposi (The Betrothed [1827, rev. ed. 1840]). Manzoni's basic theme, Georg Lukács writes, is “much less a given, concrete, historical crisis of national history” than it is “the tragedy of the Italian people as a whole” (70). This eternal plight—distilled into the story of the courtship and separation of two peasants in seventeenth-century Lombardy during plague, riots, and Spanish occupation—encompassed Italy's perpetual struggle against foreign rule, its lack of a unifying language and polity, and its reticent modernity, especially its tensions between religious tradition and secular progress. According to Lukács, the universality of the text combined with the abiding, unchanging nature of the problems it fictionalized essentially exhausted the genre of the historical novel that it introduced to Italy. Posterity has vindicated this assessment. Manzoni abandoned the genre soon after I promessi sposi to dedicate himself to historical writing proper, and his novel remains ensconced in the Italian public imaginary, just behind Dante's Commedia, as the towering, mythic work that helped occasion Italy's belated unification in 1861.
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Tveritinova, T. "The cultural code of the italian city in D. Brown’s novel "Inferno"." Literature and Culture of Polissya 106, no. 20f (December 12, 2022): 53–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.31654/2520-6966-2022-20f-106-53-62.
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The article based on D. Brown’s novel "Inferno" examines the problem of the Italian cultural code related to the topos of Florence and Venice cities. The process of creating the urban text is traced, its constituent elements are determined, which represent significant historical and cultural values and create the originality and uniqueness of the cultural code of each city. The genre specificity of Brown’s work as a novel – a tourist guide is determined, in which the urban cultural text (Florentine, Venetian) is presented as a kind of name-dropping, stringing together the names of notable cultural sights and the names of prominent citizens. Landscape, genetic, material-cultural and spiritual-cultural elements are distinguished in the process of researching the cultural code of each city. The time-space code of Florence is associated with the period of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Characteristic elements of the conceptosphere of the Florentine myth are singled out in the description of the urban topos: motifs of the stone, the garden, the tower, and time. The spiritual sphere includes urban legends, historical legends, personal myths, among which Dante Alighieri occupies a prominent place. The gastronomic code, representing the names of Italian cuisine dishes as the result of a separate nation’s accumulation of material experience, is considered separately. It is noted in the study of the Venetian cultural code, that Brown’s novel uses the "signatures of the city" (T. Tsyvian) of the world Venetian: water, firmament, toponyms, architectural structures, characters, historical and cultural realities. The topos of the city is related to the Middle Ages: the rule of the Doges, the influence of Byzantine culture, which affected the eclecticism of architectural structures. The spiritual sphere is represented by elements of hagiography, Christian symbols that represent the Venetian identity.
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Del Vecchio, Annalice. "Mangiare e parlare: il cibo come simbolo in Conversazione in Sicilia." Revista Italiano UERJ 12, no. 2 (July 13, 2022): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/italianouerj.2021.67528.
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ABSTRACT: Questo articolo analizza il cibo come parte dei simboli e delle immagini presenti nel romanzo Conversazione in Sicilia, di Elio Vittorini. L’autore italiano utilizza il parlare di cibo, così come fa con altri temi del libro, per “dire senza dichiarare”, allorquando, metaforicamente, trasforma l’atto di mangiare, o di non poter mangiare, in critica sociale e politica, in un momento storico particolare per l’Italia, allora governata dal regime fascista. Il cibo, simbolo di abbondanza, quando non c’è diventa ancora più presente nel pensiero degli italiani poveri, come una smania, un’ossessione. Il cibo rappresenta anche un viaggio verso un tempo perduto, il tempo mitico dell’infanzia, quando i sapori, la consistenza e l’odore dei cibi fanno sì che il personaggio recuperi la memoria del passato e riacquisti in questo modo la capacità di sentire ciò che aveva perso durante un periodo di profonda apatia. Queste simbologie, da un lato politiche e sociali, dall’altro più psicologiche e soggettive, “si sovrappongono e si ripetono acquistando nuove sfumature”, come scrive Samy Ramez nell’articolo Simbolo e immagine in Conversazione in Sicilia di Elio Vittorini.Parole chiave: Letteratura italiana. Neorealismo italiano. Elio Vittorini. Alimentazione. Cibo nella letteratura. RESUMO: Este artigo analisa a comida como parte dos símbolos e imagens que estruturam o romance Conversazione in Sicilia, de Elio Vittorini. Ao falar sobre comida, entre outros temas presentes no livro, o autor pode “dizer sem declarar”, criando metáforas que transformam o ato de comer (ou de não poder comer) em crítica social e política ao momento histórico que se vivia na Itália governada pelo regime fascista. O alimento, símbolo de abundância, quando ausente, torna-se ainda mais presente no pensamento dos italianos pobres, quase como uma obsessão. A comida também oferece uma viagem a um tempo perdido, o tempo mítico da infância, quando os sabores, a textura e os cheiros dos alimentos fazem o personagem recuperar a memória do passado e, assim, reconquistar a capacidade de sentir que havia perdido durante um período de profunda apatia. Essas simbologias, por um lado, políticas e sociais e, por outro, psicológicas e mais subjetivas, o tempo todo superpõem-se e se repetem “adquirindo novas nuances”, como escreve Samy Ramez no artigo Simbolo e immagine in Conversazione in Sicilia di Elio Vittorini.Palavras-chave: Literatura italiana. Neorrealismo italiano. Elio Vittorini. Alimentazione. Cibo nella letteratura. ABSTRACT: This work analyses the presence of food among the symbols and images of Elio Vittorini’s novel Conversazione in Sicilia. The Italian author uses the act of talking about food, as he does with other subjects in the book, to “say without asserting”. He metaphorically transforms the act of eating (or not being able to eat) in a political and social critic to that historical moment in Italy when the country was governed by the fascists. When it lacks, food becomes even more alive in the mind of Italian poor people, like an obsession. Food also offers a trip to a lost time, the mythical time of childhood, as the flavors, the textures and the smell of food allow the character to recover the memory of his past and, doing so, regain the ability to feel. These symbols, on the one hand political and social, and on the other psychological and subjective, “overlap and repeat [throughout the book] gaining new nuances”, as writes Samy Ramez in the article Simbolo e immagine in Conversazione in Sicilia di Elio Vittorini.Keywords: Italian literature. Italian Neorealism. Elio Vittorini. Food. Food in literature.
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Bruni, Raul. "Tra ucronia e fantapolitica: Storia di domani di Curzio Malaparte." Załącznik Kulturoznawczy, no. 8 (2021): 505–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/zk.2021.8.24.
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Storia di Domani (1949) is one of Curzio Malaparte’s most original and unclassifiable works. In some ways this novel can be considered an ‘uchronia’, given that it is based on an alternative historical hypothesis: the invasion of Europe by the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Second World War. On the other hand, the novel is (Contro)storia e satira politica similar to the genre of political fiction, given that the characters are mostly real Italian politicians who were still alive at the time the work was published. The article will focus on the interweaving of historical memory, political satire and literary fiction, showing how Malaparte’s book had anticipated in many ways more recent and better-known counterfactual novels such as Morselli’s Contro-Passato Prossimo and Biancardi’s Aprire il Fuoco.
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Mushtanova, O. Yu. "Interpretation of Historical Facts in Modern Italian Literature by the Example of Umberto Eco’s Novel “Baudolino”." MGIMO Review of International Relations, no. 1(40) (February 28, 2015): 251–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2015-1-40-251-256.
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The article is devoted to interpretation of historical facts in Umberto Eco's novel " Baudolino ". The subject of interpretation in the novel is medieval history, in particular, the reign of the emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Eco uses the typical for the historical novel method, which is the combination of facts from chronicles and fictional elements; the events are shown by the eyes of an invented character Baudolino. Emphasizing the connection between history and modernity, Eco proposes to revise the stereotypes associated with the mentioned historical period. The portraits of historical figures are borrowed from the chronicles, however in the novel they get more emotional in the perception of the protagonist, typical cliches are replaced by individuality. The opposition of italian communes to the government of Frederick also becomes a part of Baudolino's personal history. The interpretation of many events is based on legendary sources, including local tales of the italian city Alessandria, the legends of Grail and of Prester John. The legendary material fills in the gaps in medieval history. Many events (in particular, the participation of Barbarossa in the Third Crusade) correspond to the chronicles in the descriptive part, however they acquire a fictional motivation. The mystery of the emperor's death is solved in a detective key. The novel presents various doctrines elaborated in the imperial office of Frederick, their authorship is attributed to Baudolino. In the novel «Baudolino» Umberto Eco not only interprets creatively certain facts of the past, but he also practices the postmodern concept of history, according to which the past is unknowable as objective and ultimate truth and therefore it exists only in the form of a narrative. The past and the present have no fundamental difference, the history is always interpreted from the perspective of the present.
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Carravetta, Peter. "Book Review: Plotting the Past: Metamorphosis of the Historical Novel in Modern Italian Fiction." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 43, no. 4 (1997): 1045–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1997.0075.
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Pezzotti, Barbara. "“I am Just a Policeman”: The Case of Carlo Lucarelli’s and Maurizio de Giovanni’s Historical Crime Novels Set during Fascism." Quaderni d'italianistica 37, no. 1 (June 9, 2017): 89–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v37i1.28280.
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This article analyzes two successful Italian novels set during the Ventennio and the Second World War, namely Carlo Lucarelli’s Carta bianca (1990) and Maurizio De Giovanni’s Per mano mia (2011). It shows how Lucarelli confronts the troubling adherence to Fascism through a novel in which investigations are continually hampered by overpowering political forces. By contrast, in spite of expressing an anti-Fascist view, De Giovanni’s novel ends up providing a sanitized version of the Ventennio that allows the protagonist to fulfil his role as a policeman without outward contradictions. By mixing crime fiction and history, Lucarelli intervenes in the revisionist debate of the 1980s and 1990s by attacking the new mythology of the innocent Fascist. Twenty years later, following years of Berlusconi’s propaganda, De Giovanni waters down the hybridization of crime fiction and history with the insertion of romance and the supernatural in order to provide entertaining stories and attract a large audience. In the final analysis, from being functional to political and social criticism in Lucarelli’s series, the fruitful hybridization of crime fiction and history has turned into a mirror of the political and historical de-awareness of Italian society of the 2000s in De Giovanni’s series.
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Odesskiy, Mikhail P. "RUSSIAN SOURCES IN C. MALAPARTE’S HISTORICAL JOURNALISM (BASED ON LENIN’S BIOGRAPHY)." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 10 (2021): 43–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-10-43-51.
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The article analyzes the Russian sources used by Curzio Malaparte in his biography of V. Lenin (1932). In particular, the Italian writer attracted the historical journalism of L. Trotsky and also compared Lenin with the heroes of the Russian classic novel (F. Dostoevsky, I. Goncharov, L. Tolstoy). The purpose of the appeal to Russian sources was not only to find facts, but also to create an original image of Lenin – as a representative of the national character and as a typical European bourgeois.
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Xavier T., Roy, and Dr A. J. Manju. "The Blackness in The Bluest Eye." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 4 (April 28, 2020): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i4.10530.
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Novels, of any time, carry certain stories related to reality. The earlier forms of the Novel, Allegory and Romance, contained religious, philosophical facts. These literary genres took the shape of Novels, which continue to carry moral, philosophical and historical truths. George Meredith, a Victorian novelist, defined Novel as the ‘summary of actual life’. According to William Henry Hudson, an English writer, Novel is an effective medium of the portrayal of human thoughts and actions.
The English word, Novel derived from the Italian term, Novelle, which means ‘a fresh story’. It was in 1350 that the Italian writer, Giovanny Boccassio, wrote his world famous collection of love stories in prose, named Decameron. Such stories in prose were called ‘novelle’ and a story in verse was known as ‘romance’. It meant a story of the legendary past. Malory’s Morte d’Arthur is an example. Some experts gave various definitions for a ‘Novel’. According to an American novelist, F. Marion Crawford, a Novel is a pocket theatre; a novel contained all accessories of a drama without requiring to be staged before an audience. George Meredith, an English novelist, called it a ‘summary of actual life’ including both ‘the within and the without’. According to W.H Hudson, Novel is an effective medium of the portrayal of human thought and action, ‘combining in itself the creations of poetry, the details of history and generalised experience of philosophy’.
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Haugen, Marius Warholm. "Translating the Lottery: Moral and Political Issues in Pietro Chiari’s La Giuocatrice Di Lotto and Its French and English Translations." Comparative Literature Studies 59, no. 2 (May 1, 2022): 241–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.59.2.0241.
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ABSTRACT This article presents a comparative analysis of the Italian author Pietro Chiari’s novel La Giuocatrice di Lotto (1757), Jean Antoine Lebrun-Tossa’s French translation Le Terne à la Loterie (1801), and Thomas Evanson White’s English translation The Prize in the Lottery (1817), exploring how the three versions of the novel deal with specific moral and political issues attached to the topic of the lottery. By combining literary analysis with perspectives from book history and cultural history, the article explores translation as a socio-historically situated discursive practice that takes place not only on the textual but also on the paratextual level. The article’s major argument is that the three versions of the novel produce significantly different perspectives on the lottery as a moral and political problem, situated in different historical, national, and cultural contexts.
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Nikolić, Časlav V. "„KAD BIH BIO ISTORIČAR“: VULKANI I ISTORIJA U ROMANU „KOD HIPERBOREJACA“ MILOŠA CRNjANSKOG." Nasledje, Kragujevac XVIII, no. 50 (2021): 371–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/naskg2150.371n.
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When we repeat the question of Wilhelm Dilthey about the possibility of historical cog- nition with Peter Sloterdijk, our interpretation will shed light on the perspective of the heroes in the novel At Hyperboreans by Miloš Crnjanski. This hero thinks of himself as a historian by taking into account what preceded written history. What precedes official history is not only what has not been recorded in human existence, but above all those values that establish our planet. The comprehensive historical opinion about Italy and Rome, as Crnjanski examines in fiction, also implies a geological understanding of the Italian peninsula. Insights into the genesis of the soil can be seen in what shapes the conditions in which culture is created. That is why Crnjanski says that volcanoes define the beginning of Italian civilization. When the story of the beginning becomes the story of volcanoes, the narrative transforms historical thinking. From the historical, anthropogonic and polytygonic consciousness, that opinion opens to cos- mogonic phenomena. In this paper, narrative and symbolic aspects of the geological drama of our world are examined as elements of the apocalyptic image of Rome before the beginning of the Second World War.
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Rogalska-Chodecka, Katarzyna. "Lingua franca features in Italian. Evidence form an evolutionary linguistics experiment." Socjolingwistyka 35 (2021): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17651/socjoling.35.1.
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There is no doubt about the lingua franca status of the English language (e.g. Mair 2003). It even manifested itself in an evolutionary linguistics study based on the methodology of iterated learning (cf. Kirby and Hurford 2002). In an experiment with human participants, all of whom were native speakers of Polish, aimed at producing basic yet novel linguistic systems, entrenched linguistic structures related to English could easily be found, despite the fact that the experiment’s participants were asked not to use linguistic units from existing languages (e.g. Rogalska-Chodecka 2015). When the experiment’s participants tried to notice a lexical or syntactic pattern in a set of CVCVCV strings, they referred to English words regardless of their level of language knowledge or the experimenter’s instruction. Consequently, the final product of the experiment was not a novel linguistic system, but one containing entrenched linguistic English-related structures, which proves that in the absence of known linguistic structures, referring to English ones seems to be the easiest option. The present article asks whether it is possible to “force” participants in an experiment to use certain items from the Italian lexicon (related to colour, number, and shape) instead of those that come from English, despite their declared lack of knowledge of the Italian language. The results of two studies, one with a control group where the participants were asked to learn words in English as well as random CVCVCV strings, and one “contaminated” with Italian, where random words were exchanged with Italian ones, are compared in order to determine whether Italian is as useful as English from the perspective of participants in experiments and possesses lingua franca features that can be noticed in the case of the original evolutionary experiment. It turned out that, due to its high learnability, Italian exhibits lingua franca features and, given similar historical conditions to English, could regain its historical lingua franca status.
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Masciandaro, Franco. "MELCHISEDECH'S NOVELLETTA of the Three Rings as Irenic Play (DECAMERON I.3)." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 37, no. 1 (March 2003): 20–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001458580303700102.
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Building on Bakhtin's “plurality of voices” and on an anti-Hegelian exclusion of the subject from historical process, the essay explores how the unconventional plot of the novel symbolically resists and parodies the capitalist principles of contemporary 1960's Italian consumer society. The novel achieves this resistance by a calculated embedding of narrative spaces of transgression and rule-breaking actions within the main frame narrative, thereby positing an unproductive and non-conformist clash between the narrator-protagonist's hallucinatory and doxastic worlds (embedded texts) and the objective world of consumer society – represented by the frame narrative.
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Mastrogianakos, John. "Embedded Narratives of Subversion in Luciano Bianciardi's La Vita Agra." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 37, no. 1 (March 2003): 121–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001458580303700107.
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Building on Bakhtin's “plurality of voices” and on an anti-Hegelian exclusion of the subject from historical process, the essay explores how the unconventional plot of the novel symbolically resists and parodies the capitalist principles of contemporary 1960's Italian consumer society. The novel achieves this resistance by a calculated embedding of narrative spaces of transgression and rule-breaking actions within the main frame narrative, thereby positing an unproductive and non-conformist clash between the narrator-protagonist's hallucinatory and doxastic worlds (embedded texts) and the objective world of consumer society — represented by the frame narrative.
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Miller-Klejsa, Anna. "Quo Vadis? by Enrico Guazzoni and Quo Vadis? by Gabriellino D’Annunzio: Production – Dramaturgy – Reception." Panoptikum, no. 18 (January 26, 2018): 246–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/pan.2017.18.15.
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The paper concentrates on two feature films based upon Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel about ancient Rome – Quo Vadis? (dir. Enrico Guazzoni [1913]) and Quo Vadis? (dir. Gabriellino D’Annunzio, Georg Jacoby [1925]). Both films belong to the peplum genre, popular during the era of silent cinema. The paper reconstructs production circumstances of both films as well as their historical reception. It is argued that both films can be seen through the prism of socio-political contexts, including the colonial ambitions of the Italian state.
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Belloc, Marianna, Francesco Drago, and Roberto Galbiati. "Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities*." Quarterly Journal of Economics 131, no. 4 (July 11, 2016): 1875–926. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjw020.
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Abstract This article presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel data set, where information on political institutions for northern central Italian cities between 1000 and 1300 is matched with detailed information on the earthquakes that occurred in the area and period of interest. Exploiting the panel structure of the data, we document that the occurrence of an earthquake retarded institutional transition from autocratic regimes to self-government (the commune) in cities where the political and the religious leaders were the same person (episcopal see cities), but not in cities where political and religious powers were distinct (non–episcopal see cities). Such differential effect holds for destructive seismic episodes and for events that were felt by the population but did not cause any material damage to persons or objects. Ancillary results show that seismic events provoked a positive and statistically significant differential effect on the construction and further ornamentation of religious buildings between episcopal and non–episcopal see cities. Our findings are consistent with the idea that earthquakes, interpreted in the Middle Ages as manifestation of the will and outrage of God, represented a shock to people’s religious beliefs and, as a consequence, enhanced the ability of political-religious leaders to restore social order after a crisis relative to the emerging communal institutions. This interpretation is supported by historical evidence.
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Jauković, Desanka. "THE LAST LETTERS OF JACOPO ORTIS IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT – THE FIRST EPISTOLARY NOVEL OF THE ITALIAN LITERARY TRADITION." Folia linguistica et litteraria XII, no. 34 (April 2021): 149–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.34.2021.9.
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The subject of this paper is the analysis of the first epistolary novel of the Italian literary tradition, The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Ugo Foscolo, work which, thanks to its polyvalent character, both in content and form, occupies a significant place in the rich European literary context. The genre debut of the Italian literary tradition is positioned in a very complex literary panorama in the beginning of the 19th century, as a follower of Rousseau's The New Eloise, Richardson's Pamela, and above all Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, a work that is its closest European reference point in terms of composition and content. The polyvalent philosophical and artistic character of Foscolo's novel, its content stratification that reflects not only the intimate confession of the individual, but also the collective dilemmas of the then still ununited Italy in the complex cultural-historical mosaic of Europe of that time, however, are not in artistic collision with the unquestionable thematic and formal closeness between Foscolo's novel and its models in the European context - they only testify in a unique way, in a strong metatextual dialogue, complementary to the universal literary-ideological value of The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis.
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ROBERTS, DAVID D. "‘Political Religion’ and the Totalitarian Departures of Inter-war Europe: On the Uses and Disadvantages of an Analytical Category." Contemporary European History 18, no. 4 (September 29, 2009): 381–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777309990051.
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AbstractThis article seeks to clarify the uses and disadvantages of the concept of ‘political religion’, which has recently returned to currency, especially to account for the liturgy and the sense of world-historical mission central to Italian fascism, German Nazism and Soviet communism. But the category leads us to inflate abiding, suprahistorical impulses at the expense of historical specificity and novelty. And by making the phenomena in question seem relatively familiar, it diverts us from the deeper challenge they constitute. Still, the objections of critics often miss dimensions that ‘political religion’ at least approximates. Essential to the requisite synthesis is a recast notion of totalitarianism, understood as a novel frame of mind leading to a new mode of collective action.
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Cooke, Philip. "Contesting the monument: The anti-illusionist Italian historical novel. Italian perspectives, by Ruth Glynn, Leeds, Northern Universities Press, 2006, v + 148 pp., £36, ISBN 1 904350046." Modern Italy 13, no. 1 (February 2008): 90–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1353294400010565.
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Gerlich, Bianca Maria. "Sandokan of Malludu. The Historical Background of a Novel Cycle set in Borneo by the Italian Author Emilio Salgari." Archipel 55, no. 1 (1998): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/arch.1998.3440.
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Stojanović, Ana. "The 'untranslatable' signifier in the translation of the historical novel 'The Brigde on the Drina' by Ivo Andrić." Reci Beograd 12, no. 13 (2020): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/reci2013009s.
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This article compares two texts, the original one in Serbian by Ivo Andrić (one of the major voices of Serbian literature) and the version of the Italian translation by Bruno Meriggi, a translator who will be remembered for having left a valuable contribution to philological research in the context of overall historiography. The article analyzes the "untranslated" elements and signs, which appear most significant for the work of an interpreter, through a comparison of signs, meanings, similarities and dissimilarities, interpretation and intentionality in the translation of the historical novel the Brigde on the Drina by Ivo Andrić. The analysis which will in any case be connected with the guiding ideas of the concept of untranslatability, (such as obstacles in translation, and partial and absolute losses in translation), will be also developed through a semiotic gaze in order to understand the true importance of words in interpretation and the study of non-verbal messages.
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MORREALE, LAURA K. "WEALTH AND MATERIAL GOODS IN MEDIEVAL ITALIAN CIVIC HISTORIOGRAPHY." Traditio 77 (2022): 185–233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/tdo.2022.7.
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This article examines a corpus of over forty Italian civic histories produced from the mid-thirteenth to mid-fourteenth century, when the wealth of many of the peninsula's inhabitants increased significantly. Evidence from this corpus demonstrates that attitudes about wealth in historical writing changed over time and argues for a shift from a more static to a more dynamic representation of material goods in these texts. The novel mechanisms for accruing wealth that developed in the Italian urban context were important factors in the historigraphic turn, but as the period wore one, changes in the types of people writing history also contributed to modified presentations of wealth in their writings. Whether describing the display of luxury or its regulation, civic improvements or the destruction of a town's buildings by warring factions, taxation in a city or the corruption of its offiicials, views towards material goods in medieval Italian urban histories were neither wholly positive nor negative. Rather, the historiographic value of material goods was complex. The frequency with which wealth was a topic of discussion in civic histories highlights how the peninsula's inhabitants were coming to terms with the influx of wealth and the material goods they could acquire as members of their urban communities.
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MARRONE, FEDERICO, GIANBATTISTA NARDI, SIMONE CIANFANELLI, MARIJAN GOVEDIČ, SALVATORE ALESSANDRO BARRA, MARCO ARCULEO, and MARCO BODON. "Diversity and taxonomy of the genus Unio Philipsson in Italy, with the designation of a neotype for Unio elongatulus C. Pfeiffer (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Unionidae)." Zootaxa 4545, no. 3 (January 17, 2019): 339. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4545.3.2.
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Novel Unio spp. populations from Slovenia, the Italian peninsula, Sardinia and Sicily were genetically analysed in order to define the distribution and diversity of the genus Unio in Italy and neighbouring areas. The presence of two primarily allopatric autochtonous species, Unio elongatulus Pfeiffer, and Unio mancus Lamarck, is confirmed for the Italian peninsula, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.Autochthonous populations of Unio elongatulus are present in the peri-Adriatic drainages of the Italian and Balkan peninsulas, south as far as the Ofanto River (Apulia, Italy) and Lake Skadar (Albania), while its presence in the Tyrrhenian rivers of Tuscany is likely due to anthropogenic introduction events. Conversely, Unio mancus turtonii Payraudeau, an endangered peri-Tyrrhenian taxon, was found with autochthonous populations in the Apennine-Tyrrhenian drainages of peninsular Italy, eastern Mediterranean France, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily, while the actual autochthony of the single population found in the Ionian basin of the Italian peninsula (Bradano River, Basilicata) deserves further investigation. The Italian population of U. mancus requienii Michaud, reported from Lake Montepulciano is to be considered allochthonous.The binomen U. elongatulus, although widely used in the recent scientific literature, was, to date, assigned to a doubtful species, because its type locality includes a large area inhabited by different Unio taxa, which are not clearly distinguishable by their shell alone; furthermore, no type material is present in historical collections. To retain the recently-used name, a new restricted type locality is established, where only U. elongatulus lives, and a neotype is designated. The validity of the subspecies of Unio mancus is also discussed and confirmed.Finally, hypotheses on the origin of Italian mussels, and considerations on their conservation status are discussed.
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Mejdanija, Mirza. "PARADIGMA ITALIJANSKOG DRUŠTVA U ROMANU "CRVENI KARANFIL" ELIJA VITTORINIJA / A PARADIGM OF THE ITALIAN SOCIETY IN "THE RED CARNATION" BY ELIO VITTORINI." Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo / Radovi Filozofskog fakulteta u Sarajevu, ISSN 2303-6990 on-line, no. 23 (November 10, 2020): 288–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.46352/23036990.2020.288.
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Following 1925, Italy was facing a downright fascist dictatorship. The ruling politics imposed dictatorship starting with oaths of faithfulness to the regime, all the way to newspapers and school textbooks censorship. The first novel by Elio Vittorini, The Red Carnation, was confiscated by fascist censors, then revised and edited by a Florentine official. The edited and censored novel was published for the first time in 1948 by Mondadori publishing and the version published was not the original version the author himself no longer possessed. The novel tells a story of a local youth, Alessio Mainardi, and his initiation into adult life. He lives in a student dormitory together with other boys of his age. He falls in love with a classmate, Giovanna, and even manages to kiss her on one occasion. As a token of her affection, Giovanna presents him with a red carnation that he keeps and holds dear. He is constantly holding onto this illusion of love and confides in his best friend, Tarquinio. The story in the novel takes place by the end of spring 1924, the days which are in Italy known for the Matteotti affair. Alessio and his friends consider themselves fascist. They attend protests against the Matteotti commemoration organised by antifascists. It is in this novel that Vittorini is trying to resort to a mythical transfiguration owing to which the narrative reality becomes fairytale-like, distant from time and space, without losing anything from its actual heaviness of the balance achieved between myth and reality. By means of a stylistic quest, Vittorini is trying to transfer history into a literary dimension in an allusive and symbolic way. He understands that his duty, as an author, is to transfer historical reality into symbols while the historical events depicted in the novel are the rise of fascism in Italy and Matteottiʼs murder. By means of fairytale imagery, myth and symbol, the author is trying to portray the reality in Italy at the time.
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Boylan, Amy. "Cuore and the cinema: reframing the Risorgimento for the First World War." Modern Italy 24, no. 3 (March 7, 2019): 281–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2019.4.
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During the years leading up to and during the First World War, patriotic films featuring self-sacrificing child protagonists formed an important sub-genre of Italian film production. This article looks at Film Artistica Gloria’s Cuore series (1915–1916), adapted from De Amicis’ novel, with particular attention given to the two war-themed films, Il tamburino sardo (UK: The Sardinian Drummer Boy, 1915) and La piccola vedetta lombarda (The Little Lookout from Lombardy, 1915). An examination of the way in which advertising, reviews, and promotional materials worked to reframe these Risorgimento stories within a new historical context shows how the transmedial relationship between the novel, films and paracinematic texts helped to transform De Amicis’s civically-minded patriotic tales into an endorsement of Italy’s intervention in the First World War.
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Perenič, Urška. "ON THE ISSUE OF NATIONAL EXILE AND SELF-EXILE IN FRANCE BEVK'S HISTORICAL NOVEL MAN AGAINST MAN." PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES 18, no. 1 (2020): 215–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/1857-6060-2020-18-1-215-229.
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In the paper, the problem of exile is first understood in the way of national exile and persecution. The analysis will focus on the historical novel Človek proti človeku [Man against Man], 1930, by France Bevk, which thematizes the Middle Ages, but which should be read as a metaphor through which the author during the Italian occupation of Primorsko polemically and subtle confronted foreign rulers. In the novel the problem of national persecution is represented as the opposition between the representatives of ecclesiastical and secular/aristocratic authority on the one hand and the serfdom on the other, and is most thoroughly addressed through the relationship between patriarch and brave (bandit) nobles. With their bold opposition to the patriarch, secret conspiracy and efforts to remedy injustice and restore peace and order in their home country, the nobles also serve as a model for unification of the nation. Exile is also understood in terms of the individual's exile and the search for one's identity. More specifically, it is self-exile, which is at the same time self-awareness, as embodied in the central figure of Jerko, who is torn between the sword, the monk's habit and the poetry/art/spirituality. Jerko could be the alter ego of the writer France Bevk, who wrote the novel under conditions of house imprisonment and concluded it meaningfully with the symbolism of the falcon as the messenger of the spiritual world (and thus art).
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Miconi, Federico, and Giovanna Maria Dimitri. "A machine learning approach to analyse and predict the electric cars scenario: The Italian case." PLOS ONE 18, no. 1 (January 20, 2023): e0279040. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279040.
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The automotive market is experiencing, in recent years, a period of deep transformation. Increasingly stricter rules on pollutant emissions and greater awareness of air quality by consumers are pushing the transport sector towards sustainable mobility. In this historical context, electric cars have been considered the most valid alternative to traditional internal combustion engine cars, thanks to their low polluting potential, with high growth prospects in the coming years. This growth is an important element for companies operating in the electricity sector, since the spread of electric cars is necessarily accompanied by an increasing need of electric charging points, which may impact the electricity distribution network. In this work we proposed a novel application of machine learning methods for the estimation of factors which could impact the distribution of the circulating fleet of electric cars in Italy. We first collected a new dataset from public repository to evaluate the most relevant features impacting the electric cars market. The collected datasets are completely new, and were collected starting from the identification of the main variables that were potentially responsible for the spread of electric cars. Subsequently we distributed a novel designed survey to further investigate such factors on a population sample. Using machine learning models, we could disentangle potentially new interesting information concerning the Italian scenario. We analysed it, in fact, according to different geographical Italian dimensions (national, regional and provincial) and with the final identification of those potential factors that could play a fundamental role in the success and distribution of electric cars mobility. Code and data are available at: https://github.com/GiovannaMariaDimitri/A-machine-learning-approach-to-analyse-and-predict-the-electric-cars-scenario-the-Italian-case.
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Hrosevych, Taras. "War novel: the history of development and typology of the genre." Fìlologìčnì traktati 12, no. 1 (2020): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/ftrk.2020.12(1)-6.
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The general regularities and main tendencies of the development of a war novel have been researched in the article, an attempt of its typology and periodization is realized, the most common genre models is identified. The novel about the Second World War as a leading epic genre, which develops the theme of war in literature, creatively synthesized all the experience gained by the writers and front-line soldiers, became a noticeable artistic phenomenon and widespread genre formation in Western European, American and Slavic writing. It is concluded that the aesthetic and ideological-thematic level of artistic modeling of war reality is localized in different national literatures unevenly and stipulated first of all for the historical and geopolitical scope of the involvement of warring countries in hostilities. For example, in German military romance, is the so-called "Remarkable" novel, as well as a novel with a marked anti-militaristic nature. The main plot of the French war novel is the resistance movement, while the Italian one is fascist domination and occupation actions in the Balkans. Instead, in Britain, which has escaped occupation, military creativity takes a rather modest place. American writing focuses on war as a social phenomenon, armed conflicts in Vietnam. The polivector artistic search, the richness of types and varieties of war novel (panoramic novel, lyric war novel, anti-fascist novel, soldier novel, war novel-education, war novel with documentary basis, etc.) demonstrates military novel prose of Eastern Slavs. In particular, in the development of the Ukrainian war novel, literary critics distinguish such branches as the war novel, the post-war novel of the first decade, the war novel prose of the "second wave" (etc. pol. 50's - 60's), war novel 70’s-80’s, as well as modern war novels.
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Jaran, Mahmoud. "Beirut e la guerra: Elias Khuri e Oriana Fallaci." Oriente Moderno 95, no. 1-2 (August 7, 2015): 255–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22138617-12340073.
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“Switzerland of the Middle East” and “the oriental Paris” are some of the names that the beautiful city of Beirut had earned before the disasters of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). This historical event is considered the most important one in the contemporary history of Lebanon, not only because it marks the end of a difficult peaceful coexistence among the various ethnic and religious groups during the period between the Independence (1943) and the beginning of the conflict (1975), but also because it made radical geopolitical changes to the entire region. At the end of the “Swiss epoque”, the city of Beirut begins to undergo a series of transformations in terms of urban planning, landscape, etc. This paper aims to study the literary representation of Beirut during the conflict, taking as examples two authors, one Lebanese, Elias Khuri, who shows, in his novel The Journey of Little Gandhi, the irrationality of war and its effects on the city and on the inhabitants; the other one is the Italian writer, Oriana Fallaci, who describes in his novel Inshallah the experience of the Italian contingent in the peacekeeping mission in Beirut. Despite the considerable differences between the two authors, the papers shows the narratives’ affinity which highlight the transformation of Beirut, the image of its citizens and the problematic of the assimilation process between them and their city.
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Mejdanija, Mirza. "UGO FOSCOLO IZMEĐU NEOKLASICIZMA I PREDROMATNIZMA / UGO FOSCOLO BETWEEN NEOCLASSICISM AND PREROMANTISM." SOPHOS: A Young Researchers’ Journal, no. 15 (October 3, 2022): 90–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.46352/18403867.2022.90.
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By the end of the 18th century, Italy was under Napoleon’s dominance. It was the time when centuries-long European values were being changed due to the Industrial, but also French revolution. The outcome of these enormous changes was an emergence of two artistic movements – neoclassicism and preromanticism that co-existed in Italy at the time. The most renowned Italian author of the 19th century, Ugo Foscolo, is a representative of both of these movements in the Italian literature. Neoclassicism and preromanticism emerged in the attempt to find an alternative to the same issues and, therefore, they co existed in the same period of time, the elements of which are often present in the same authors, or even in one work of art. Foscolo is the author of Grazie, a neoclassical masterpiece of Italian literature, but also of the most significant work of the Italian preromanticism, the novel titled The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis. Both of these works present an attempt to escape the disappointing circumstances of the period in question. What is relevant is not the different directions at which these attempts of escapism were pointed, but the very need to do so. Culturally, in both cases, the rejection of the reality is evident. Both tendencies may be observed as a quest for an alternative to the existing conditions that are depressing: for neoclassicism, the alternative is found in the ideal of beauty and harmony, distant from the historical horrors and defeats. For preromanticism, it is the depths of one’s own self, in the union with nature, pastorally viewed as the centre of life’s authenticity. The different directions of escapism are no longer of any importance, but the very need to escape, which is what these two movements have in common. What we are about to explore in the present paper are the characteristics of neoclassicism and preromanticism in Italian literature, primarily in the works of Ugo Foscolo, the most influential Italian author of that period.
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Piselli, Cristina, Jessica Romanelli, Matteo Di Grazia, Augusto Gavagni, Elisa Moretti, Andrea Nicolini, Franco Cotana, Francesco Strangis, Henk J. L. Witte, and Anna Laura Pisello. "An Integrated HBIM Simulation Approach for Energy Retrofit of Historical Buildings Implemented in a Case Study of a Medieval Fortress in Italy." Energies 13, no. 10 (May 20, 2020): 2601. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13102601.
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The Italian building stock consists of buildings mainly constructed until the mid-20th century using pre-industrial construction techniques. These buildings require energy refurbishment that takes into account the preservation of their architectural heritage. In this view, this work studies an innovative integrated modelling and simulation framework consisting of the implementation of Historical Building Information Modeling (HBIM) for the energy retrofit of historical buildings with renewable geothermal HVAC system. To this aim, the field case study is part of a medieval complex in Central Italy (Perugia), as representative ancient rural offshore architecture in the European countryside. The system involves of a ground source heat pump, a water tank for thermal-energy storage connected to a low-temperature radiant system, and an air-handling unit. The building heating energy performance, typically influenced by thermal inertia in historical buildings, when coupled to the novel HVAC system, is comparatively assessed against a traditional scenario implementing a natural-gas boiler, and made inter-operative within the HBIM ad hoc platform. Results show that the innovative renewable energy system provides relevant benefits while preserving minor visual and architectural impact within the historical complex, and also in terms of both energy saving, CO2 emissions offset, and operation costs compared to the traditional existing system. The integrated HBIM approach may effectively drive the path toward regeneration and re-functioning of heritage in Europe.
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Bertolotti, L., M. Mazzei, G. Puggioni, M. L. Carrozza, S. Dei Giudici, D. Muz, M. Juganaru, C. Patta, F. Tolari, and S. Rosati. "Characterization of new small ruminant lentivirus subtype B3 suggests animal trade within the Mediterranean Basin." Journal of General Virology 92, no. 8 (August 1, 2011): 1923–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.032334-0.
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Small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLVs) represent a group of viruses infecting sheep and goats worldwide. Despite the high heterogeneity of genotype A strains, which cluster into as many as ten subtypes, genotype B was believed to be less complex and has, so far, been subdivided into only two subtypes. Here, we describe two novel full-length proviral sequences isolated from Sarda sheep in two Italian regions. Genome sequence as well as the main linear epitopes clearly placed this cluster into genotype B. However, owing to long-standing segregation of this sheep breed, the genetic distances that are clearly >15 % with respect to B1 and B2 subtypes suggest the designation of a novel subtype, B3. Moreover the close relationship with a gag sequence obtained from a Turkish sheep adds new evidence to historical data that suggest an anthropochorous dissemination of hosts (small ruminants) and their pathogens (SRLV) during the colonization of the Mediterranean from the Middle East.
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Pellecchia, Marco, Riccardo Negrini, Licia Colli, Massimiliano Patrini, Elisabetta Milanesi, Alessandro Achilli, Giorgio Bertorelle, et al. "The mystery of Etruscan origins: novel clues from Bos taurus mitochondrial DNA." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274, no. 1614 (February 13, 2007): 1175–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.0258.
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The Etruscan culture developed in Central Italy (Etruria) in the first millennium BC and for centuries dominated part of the Italian Peninsula, including Rome. The history of the Etruscans is at the roots of Mediterranean culture and civilization, but their origin is still debated: local or Eastern provenance? To shed light on this mystery, bovine and human mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) have been investigated, based on the well-recognized strict legacy which links human and livestock populations. In the region corresponding to ancient Etruria (Tuscany, Central Italy), several Bos taurus breeds have been reared since historical times. These breeds have a strikingly high level of mtDNA variation, which is found neither in the rest of Italy nor in Europe. The Tuscan bovines are genetically closer to Near Eastern than to European gene pools and this Eastern genetic signature is paralleled in modern human populations from Tuscany, which are genetically close to Anatolian and Middle Eastern ones. The evidence collected corroborates the hypothesis of a common past migration: both humans and cattle reached Etruria from the Eastern Mediterranean area by sea. Hence, the Eastern origin of Etruscans, first claimed by the classic historians Herodotus and Thucydides, receives strong independent support. As the Latin philosopher Seneca wrote: Asia Etruscos sibi vindicat (Asia claims the Etruscans back).
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Piselli, Cristina, Alessio Guastaveglia, Jessica Romanelli, Franco Cotana, and Anna Laura Pisello. "Facility Energy Management Application of HBIM for Historical Low-Carbon Communities: Design, Modelling and Operation Control of Geothermal Energy Retrofit in a Real Italian Case Study." Energies 13, no. 23 (December 1, 2020): 6338. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13236338.
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The highest challenge of energy efficiency of building stock is achieving improved performance in existing buildings and, especially, in heritage buildings which per se are characterized by massive limitations against the implementation of the most sophisticated solutions for energy saving. In Italy, historical buildings represent more than 30% of the building stock and the vast majority require energy retrofit, while ensuring the preservation of the heritage value and acceptable comfort conditions. In this context, historical buildings must be retrofitted and re-functioned by introducing innovative technologies aimed at reducing energy consumption and improving human comfort, health, and safety. To this aim, this study implements the Historic Building Information Modeling (HBIM) approach for the integrated modeling, monitoring, management, and maintenance of a novel geothermal system involving horizontal ground source heat exchangers (GHEXs) coupled to an adsorption heat pump for the energy refurbishment of historical buildings. In detail, a rural building part of a medieval complex in Perugia, Central Italy, is considered as a pilot case study. The analysis stresses the potential of the Facility Management (FM) applications of HBIM to provide a tool for the human-centric operational management control of the building energy performance and indoor comfort when combined with the building monitoring and supervision system. Therefore, this integrated HBIM approach may drive the path towards the user-centric re-functioning of heritage buildings.
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Fioriti, Vincenzo, Ivan Roselli, Antonino Cataldo, Sara Forliti, Alessandro Colucci, Massimiliano Baldini, and Alessandro Picca. "Motion Magnification Applications for the Protection of Italian Cultural Heritage Assets." Sensors 22, no. 24 (December 18, 2022): 9988. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22249988.
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In recent years, the ENEA has introduced a novel methodology based on motion magnification (MM) into the Italian cultural heritage protection and monitoring field. It consists of a digital video signal processing technique able to amplify enormously the tiny movements recorded in conventional videos, while preserving the general topology of the acquired frames. Though the idea of such a methodology is not new, it has recently been provided with an efficient algorithm that makes possible a viable and low-cost magnification. Applications are extremely varied in almost every field of science and technology; however, we are interested in its application to the safeguarding of architectural heritage, a sector of the utmost importance for Italy. As ancient buildings can be extremely sensitive to even minimally invasive instrumentation, most common monitoring sensors can be replaced by contactless tools and methods, such as video-based techniques like MM. It offers many advantages: easy to use, contactless devices, virtual sensors, reusability of the videos, practicality, intuitive graphical results, quantitative analyses capability and low costs. These characteristics are well suited to the monitoring of large ancient monuments; on the other hand, historical sites have peculiarities of their own, requiring careful approaches, proper tools and trained personnel. Moreover, outdoor applications of MM present quite notable difficulties from a practical point of view, e.g., the dimensions of the studied objects, uncontrolled environmental conditions, spurious vibrations, lighting change/instability, etc. Here we give a general idea of the potential of MM and related issues, using some relevant in-the-field case studies in Italian heritage protection.
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Romanska, Magda. "The theatre of cruelty and the limits of representation: Sade/Salò." Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 13, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 259–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jafp_00031_1.
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When first released in 1975, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, directed by the already-notorious Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, aroused instant controversy. As a framework for its plot, Salò took the infamous 500-page novel by the Marquis de Sade, 120 Days of Sodom. In de Sade’s novel, four libertines, President de Curval, the Duc de Blangis, Durcet and the Bishop of X, sign a contract whose main clause is commitment to breaking as many taboos as they can possibly think of. With sixteen youths, eight girls and eight boys, servants, guards and four procurers and ex-prostitutes, the libertines isolate themselves in a remote chateau to re-enact their every fantasy. Filming Salò, Pasolini’s goal was to remain faithful to Sade’s novel. The characters, events and structure of the story remain the same. The more controversial aspect of the film, however, was Pasolini’s idea of relocating Sade’s novel into the actual historical context of the fascist Republic of Salò. For Pasolini, the gesture of moving Sade to Salò was to draw an actual analogy between the fascism and sadism. For some critics, the parallel between fascism and sadism was unfortunate exactly because it presented fascism, a real and palpable phenomenon, as an abstraction (the way that Sade’s world functions).
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Galbo, Joe. "Sex, Geography, and Death: Metropolis and Empire in a Fascist Writer." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 14, no. 1 (February 1996): 35–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d140035.
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This paper is an historical and cultural analysis of the work of a Fascist writer, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and of how Italian concerns with empire are expressed in his geographical tropes. D'Annunzio was one of the leading intellectual practitioners of what Walter Benjamin called the aestheticisation of politics. His texts are distinctly tied to a national discourse which is both consciously and unconsciously imperial, and in his narratives the political map of the nation is overlaid with a tissue of imperial and sexual symbols. I examine how the geographic signs of empire are inscribed in his first novel Il Piacere and his screenplay Cabiria, and how the metropolitan experience is foregrounded whereas the peripheral ‘other’ is both devalued and made exotic. I also examine how D'Annunzio aestheticised the warrior ethic, whereby death itself is rendered an aesthetic experience.
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Sabbioni, Andrea, Thomas Villano, and Antonio Corradi. "An Architecture for Service Integration to Fully Support Novel Personalized Smart Tourism Offerings." Sensors 22, no. 4 (February 18, 2022): 1619. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22041619.
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The continuous evolution of IT (information technology) technologies is radically transforming many technical areas and social aspects, also reshaping the way we behave and looking for entertainment and leisure services. In that context, tourism experiences request to enhance the level of user involvement and integration and to create an ever more personalized and connected experience, by leveraging on the differentiated tourist services and information locally present in the territory, by pushing active participation of customers, and by taking advantage of the ever-increasing presence of sensors and IoT (Internet of Things) devices deployed in many realities. However, the deep fragmentation of services and technologies adopted in tourism context characterizes the whole information provided also by customer sensing and IoTs (Internet of Things) heterogeneity and deep clashes with an effective organization of smart tourism. This article presents APERTO5.0 (an Architecture for Personalization and Elaboration of services and data to Reshape Tourism Offers 5.0), an innovative architecture aiming at a whole integration and deep facilitation of tourism service and information organization and blending, to enable the re-provisioning of novel services as advanced aggregates or re-elaborated ones. The proposed solution will demonstrate its effectiveness in the context of Smart Tourism by choosing the real use case of the “Francigena way” (a pilgrim historical path), the Italian part.