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Un nuovo manoscritto di canzoni siciliane con ottave inedite attribuite ad Antonio Veneziano

2020

Si presenta una nuova antologia manoscritta di canzoni siciliane, conservata a Catania presso un privato e databile intorno al 1600, che contiene una cospicua sezione di più di cinquanta ‘ottave’ intestate a vari autori accanto a 349 'canzuni' in massima parte adespote. Il manoscritto fu donato da un certo Lelio, da identificare probabilmente con Lelio Pavese (ob. 1608), a Paolo Pozzobonelli (1572-1630), entrambi nobili savonesi. nel segmento finale del manoscritto si rinviene una pregevole serie di ventidue ottave encomiastiche e di prigionia attribuite ad Antonio Veneziano “carcerato” e indirizzate a Francesco Santapau, principe di Butera, tra il 1588 e il 1590: se ne dà l’edizione commen…

Prof. J. Lautenbacha angļu literaturas vēsture XVI. gadsimtenī

1922

Andrea Calamech (1524-1589)

2011

Andrea Calamech è ricordato da Vasari come «creato ed accademico» di Bartolomeo Ammannati, menzionato quindi più in virtù dell’amicizia e della lunga collaborazione professionale che legava i due maestri della corte medicea, che per una approfondita e duratura conoscenza dello scultore e architetto carrarese, della cui attività, infatti, non sembra essere ben informato: nella seconda edizione delle Vite lo dà per morto nella lontana Messina, proprio nel momento in cui la carriera artistica di Andrea nella città dello stretto, invece, progrediva favorevolmente, per svilupparsi con grande successo fino alla fine degli anni ottanta del secolo, come architetto di fiducia della municipalità, del…

The Body of the Soul. Lucretian Echoes in the Renaissance Theories on the Psychic Substance and its Organic Repartition

2015

In the 16th and 17th centuries, when Aristotelianism still was the leading current of natural philosophy and atomistic theories began to arise, Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura stood out as an attractive and dangerous model. The present paper reassesses several relevant aspects of Lucretius’ materialistic psychology by focusing on the problem of the soul’s repartition through the limbs discussed in Book 3. A very successful Lucretian image serves as fil rouge throughout this survey: the description of a snake chopped up, with its pieces moving on the ground (Lucretius DRN 1969, 3.657–669). The paper’s first section sets the poet’s theory against the background of ancient psychology, pointing out …

The main trends in the palaeodemography of the 7th-18th century population of Latvia

2006

The study represents palaeodemographic research of osteological material of 3304 individuals from the funds of the Anthropological Laboratory of the Institute of History of the University of Latvia in Riga, dating from the 7 th to the 18 th century AD. Compensated life expectancy at birth is varying between 20.3 and 22.2 years during the research period. Crude mortality has changed between 49.3 and 45 %o. In the early period (7 th - 13 th century) there is a significant male prevalence (2.2 - 1.4); female life expectancy at the age of 20 is on average 6.6 years less than for males. This difference decreases to 5.4 years in the 13 th - 18 th century. According to historical demography, femal…

ALCUNE CONSIDERAZIONI SULL’ARCHITETTURA CIVILE A SIRACUSA E NEGLI IBLEI FRA XV E XVI SECOLO

2021

The few buildings that survived the 1693 earthquake, concentrated mainly in the city of Syracuse, offer a fragmentary picture of late Gothic civil architecture in south-eastern Sicily. The analysis of the detail elements such as windows and doorawys in the facades, stairways and loggias inside the courtyards, marked by the coexistence of late Gothic and Renaissance architectural languages, highlights the adoption of decorative motifs widespread throughout Sicily and the Mediterranean context. However, many original solutions emerge, such as the square mullioned window, largely common in the city of Syracuse but also present in Scicli, probably very common in the urban landscape of the hybla…

The discovery of stapes

2013

Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia revisited and redefined some of Galeno's reports, and was recognized as one of the leading Italian Physicians of the 16th century. Ingrassia principally studied the skull, and gave very important contributions to otorhinolaryngology, including the discovery of the stapes. He also isolated the inferior nasal concha from the maxillary bone, described the frontal sinus, the pterygopalatine fossa and several foramina of the skull. Ingrassia firstly attributed a sensorial function to the middle ear bones, which he called fifth particular function. He also added some details to the description of the VIII cranial nerve, which introduces the concept of bone conducting so…

Yersinia pestis DNA from Skeletal Remains from the 6th Century AD Reveals Insights into Justinianic Plague

2013

Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of the disease plague, has been implicated in three historical pandemics. These include the third pandemic of the 19th and 20th centuries, during which plague was spread around the world, and the second pandemic of the 14th–17th centuries, which included the infamous epidemic known as the Black Death. Previous studies have confirmed that Y. pestis caused these two more recent pandemics. However, a highly spirited debate still continues as to whether Y. pestis caused the so-called Justinianic Plague of the 6th–8th centuries AD. By analyzing ancient DNA in two independent ancient DNA laboratories, we confirmed unambiguously the presence of Y. pestis DNA in…

Graffiti dello Steri di Palermo e conoscenze mediche

2007

The graffiti left by prisoners in the Inquisition gaols of Palermo's represent a testimony of the historical period between 1600 to 1793. In that period, by order of the viceroy Caracciolo, all the testimonies were removed at the same time in which the Inquisition court was suppressed. In this work the historical subdivision between sacred and profane themes is analyzed with the purpose to study human body in an anthropological key as a language in condition of limited freedom and under torture. Many of the profane graffiti are devoted to medical knowledge suggesting that doctors were involved in the activities of this religious court likewise happened in civil courts. Giovanni Filippo Ingr…

Le cappelle della Madonna e dei Marinai nella chiesa dell’Annunziata a Trapani. Costruzione e architettura nel primo Cinquecento in Sicilia

2017

Il saggio affronta le problematiche connesse alla genesi e alla costruzione di due cappelle realizzate nella prima metà del XVI secolo nel medesimo complesso dell’Annunziata a Trapani. Attraverso una rilettura della documentazione superstite e l’osservazione delle incongruenze che entrambe le opere mostrano, si sono sviluppate nuove ipotesi sul ruolo dei committenti, sui progetti originali e sulle maestranze coinvolte. Le due cappelle rivelano una singolare contaminazione di linguaggi e il loro studio può agevolare la comprensione dei meccanismi e delle procedure attuate nell’isola, di fronte alla eterogeneità delle specializzazioni del cantiere e alla compresenza di linguaggi diversi (dal …