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Florintesa, a program agreement for the italian botanical gardens and the national floristic heritage.
2014
OUR CLAIM: "The Botanical Gardens are, par excellence, responsible for carrying out the important mission of the conservation of our flora, through specific actions on live plants and their seeds, along with education and outreach aimed at spreading a new environmental culture, more careful and respectful of the essential needs of life, more sensible to the aesthetic and scientific value of the national flora" To overcome the isolation and strengthen their role in our society, the University Botanical Gardens have become promoters of national and European consortiums: examples are the working group "Botanical and Historic Gardens" of the Italian Botanical Society (1) and, on the global leve…
Virtues for the Anthropocene
2015
The paper discusses some difficulties that life in Anthropocene poses to our ethical thinking. It describes the sort of ethical task that individuals find themselves confronting when dealing with the planetary environmental quandaries that characterise the new epoch. It then asks what, given the situation, would count as environmentally virtuous ways of looking at and going about our lives, and how relevant virtues can be developed. It is argued that the practice of gardening is distinctively conducive to that objective. Finally, some garden virtues that will be of special importance in the Anthropocene, but have so far been largely neglected by environmental ethicists, are listed and descr…
Urban gardens and institutional fences: The case of communal gardens in Turin
2017
Urban gardens take on different forms and meanings, which vary depending on the socio-economic context where they located/used and how it evolves over time. This makes a garden comparable to a micro-social ecosystem, different from other gardens and ever changing. As with every social-ecosystem resulting from a territorialisation process, there is a certain degree of social inertia that makes it difficult for outsiders with new motivations and demanding new spaces to enter into the "garden ecosystem". Drawing on existing literature and fieldwork in two urban communal gardens in Turin, the paper is mainly concerned with the spatiotemporal dimension of urban gardening, with a special focus on…
Privātmāju dārzi pilsētā
2019
Maģistra darba tēma ir „Privātmāju dārzi pilsētā”. Maģistra darba mērķis ir izpētīt privātmāju dārzu nozīmi pilsētnieku dzīvē un pilsētvidē. Darbā izvirzīti četri pētnieciskie jautājumi: kā pilsētu dārzi tiek skaidroti teorētiski; kādas ir dārzu īpašnieku piešķirtās nozīmes dārziem; kādas funkcijas tie pilda; kāda ir privātmāju dārzu ietekme uz pilsētvidi. Pētījuma teorētiskajam ietvaram izmantoti dažādi sociālo zinātņu teorētiskie skatījumi: pilsētas lauksaimniecības perspektīva, pilsētplānošanas teorijas un simboliskā interakcionisma teorija. Darbā izmantotas kvalitatīvās pētījuma metodes: daļēji strukturētas intervijas ar privātmāju dārzu īpašniekiem, novērojumi, kā arī dokumentu analīze…
Il patrimonio delle ville di Bagheria, fra storia, conservazione e valorizzazione
2016
Il volume di M.A. Giusti (a cura di), Ville lucchesi, d’Italia, del mondo Conoscenza e cura delle dimore di campagna e dei loro giardini, pubblicato a Lucca nel 2016, rappresenta il primo studio che indaga in maniera completa la particolare tipologia della villa e il suo contesto, non solo in un ambito italiano, ma nel mondo. Assieme alle ville lucchesi, che con l’associazione Ville e Palazzi di Lucca ha promosso l’iniziativa editoriale, sono indagate le ville Venete, Torinesi, del Lazio, quelle Medicee, Vesuviane e quelle esistenti nel territorio del comune di Bagheria. Con il volume della Giusti, le ville barocche e tardo barocche di Bagheria vengono inserite nel vasto panorama culturale …
Schede per la flora ornamentale siciliana. 61-67
2013
With the aim to improve the knowledge of the ornamental flora of Sicily, a series of reports on the most rare and significant species found in the historic or public gardens and parks has been started since 2001. The plants taken in consideration are examined as far as taxonomy, geographical origin, biology, ecology are concerned, also taking into account their condition in Sicily with respect to introduction, sanitary status, occurrence, etc... Furthermore, germplasm conservation is, when possible, provided in the Botanical Garden of Palermo. Each taxon is treated in a single report. Here the reports 61-67, by F. Argento, M.R. Cucco, E. Di Gristina & R. Oliveri, are presented. These concer…
Quattro diagnosi sul florario di Francesco Buti per le villanelle di Girolamo Kapsperger
2009
Il messaggio etico dei testi di Francesco Buti per i "Fiori" di Girolamo Kapsperger (villanelle a 1,2,3,4 voci e Bc. del 1632) e la ricercata semplicità della musica giustificano la scelta anacronistica e stilisticamente inappropriata della titolazione di genere scelta da Kapsperger o dall’editore Masotti. Il termine villanella allude in questo caso a un giardino in cui i fiori formano un mazzetto di allegorie per il buon cristiano. Più specificamente i soggetti riguardano i miti classici collegati ai vegetali, ai quali si ispira l’autore per riprendere le leggende sull’origine dal sangue o dal latte degli dei, da cui nacquero per metamorfosi il gelsomino, la viola, la rosa, l’amaranto, l’a…
Preliminary studies on red palm weevil as potential risk for palm trees in mediterranean basin
2012
The impacts of insect invasive species on human health and on agricutlture have attracted worldwide attention. However, researchers and policymakers rarely directly address the connection between invasive species and loss in natual and cultural heritages. Various attempts have been made to address the plants that are affected by invasive species but the links between these and loss in naturla biodiversity and heritage in botanical and historical gardens are largely lacking in the literature. We report a study on the Red Palm Weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorous ferrugineus (Oliv.) (Fig. 1) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) which is the most important pest of the palm date trees in many countries. RPW is …
New forms for urban space: utopia? Creative leisure time in an experience for the 10th Biennial of architecture of Venice: Living at Vema
2015
Questo saggio riflette, a 10 anni della “10. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura - Biennale di Venezia”, sulla ricerca e la sperimentazione architettonica inerenti alle nuove forma di spazio urbano, come il progetto, Gli orti dell’ozio creativo, di Santo Giunta redatto per VEMA (2006). In questa città futura – masterplan di Franco Purini, curatore del Padiglione Italiano, ipotizzata sull’asse tra Verona e Mantova e nei pressi del crocevia dei corridoi ferroviari Lisbona-Kiev e Berlino-Palermo – gli spazi ed i luoghi sono stati studiati da 20 gruppi di architetti. «Il gruppo guidato da Santo Giunta – come scrivono François Burckhardt e Burghart Schmidt – ha proposto strategie di attenzione…