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“This England”: Re-Visiting Shakespearean Landscapes and Mediascapes in John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010)
2017
The paper will offer a reading of John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010), a 90-minute experimental feature film that has been defined as “one of the most vital and original artistic responses to the subject of immigration that British cinema has ever produced” (Mitchell). It will focus on the multifarious ways in which the film makes the “canonical” literary material that it incorporates, including Shakespeare, interact with rarely seen archival material from the BBC regarding the experience of Caribbean and South Asian immigrants in 1950s and 1960s Britain. It will argue that through this interaction the familiarity of Western “canonical” literature re-presents itself as an uncanny landscap…
Nowcasting COVID‐19 incidence indicators during the Italian first outbreak
2020
A novel parametric regression model is proposed to fit incidence data typically collected during epidemics. The proposal is motivated by real-time monitoring and short-term forecasting of the main epidemiological indicators within the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy. Accurate short-term predictions, including the potential effect of exogenous or external variables are provided. This ensures to accurately predict important characteristics of the epidemic (e.g., peak time and height), allowing for a better allocation of health resources over time. Parameter estimation is carried out in a maximum likelihood framework. All computational details required to reproduce the approach and replica…
Due volti della notte. Su Arthur Schopenhauer e Richard Wagner
2016
Il saggio prende le mosse dalla concezione dell'arte espressa da Arthur Schopenhauer nel "Mondo come volontà e rappresentazione" (1818; IIa ed. 1844), soffermandosi in maniera particolare sul Capitolo 52 e sull'idea di un'interpretazione metafisica della musica. Tale ipotesi viene messa in rapporto con l'esperienza compositiva di Richard Wagner a partire dalla concezione del "Ring des Nibelungen" e con particolare riferimento al linguaggio armonico di "Tristan und isolde". In nota viene riportato il frammento di una lettera di Richard Wagner ad Arthur Schopenhauer, databile intorno al 1857.
Route to chaos in the weakly stratified Kolmogorov flow
2019
We consider a two-dimensional fluid exposed to Kolmogorov’s forcing cos(ny) and heated from above. The stabilizing effects of temperature are taken into account using the Boussinesq approximation. The fluid with no temperature stratification has been widely studied and, although relying on strong simplifications, it is considered an important tool for the theoretical and experimental study of transition to turbulence. In this paper, we are interested in the set of transitions leading the temperature stratified fluid from the laminar solution [U∝cos(ny),0, T ∝ y] to more complex states until the onset of chaotic states. We will consider Reynolds numbers 0 < Re ≤ 30, while the Richardson numb…
"Der Rosenkavalier" (Il Cavaliere della rosa)
2014
Programma di sala della prima proiezione a Palermo del film muto di Robert Wiene "Der Rosenkavalier" (1926), con l'esecuzione delle musiche composte da Richard Strauss. L'autore del contributo ha realizzato anche la traduzione italiana delle didascalie originali del film in lingua tedesca: tale circostanza è segnalata nella locandina dello spettacolo, ma le didascalie non sono state ovviamente pubblicate sul programma di sala.
Richard Wagnerin Lohengrin-oopperan sävellysprosessi : analysoituna Yrjö Heinosen yleisen sävellysprosessimallin pohjalta
2005
El manuscrito del 'Cancionero de Baena' (PN1) : Descripción codicológica y evolución histórica
2018
The present article attempts to establish as accurately as possible the chronological trajectory of the unique codex of the Cancionero de Baena (PN1 in the Dutton nomenclature). It begins with a detailed examination of the codicological aspects of the manuscript, which serve to date its origin to around 1465. This origin, combined with the historical data, supports a conjecture that the manuscript probably belonged to Gonzalo de Beteta, an official of both Enrique IV and the Catholic Kings. It would have passed from him to his grandson, Jorge de Beteta y Cardenas, who gave it to the Real Biblioteca de El Escorial in 1576. The article then follows the vicissitudes of the manuscript from its …
Cosmetic Practices: The Intersection with Aesthetics and Medicine
2018
According to Shusterman, somaesthetics is as an aesthetic-ethical art of living, a practice devoted to living an attractively good life. So the aesthetic experience is not limited to art, but concerns also everyday life; consequently we can explain cosmetic practices (from make-up and hair-styling to plastic surgery) not only as making beauty, but also as feeling beauty, as a feeling better with oneself and with others. When beyond aesthetics purpose there is a functional purpose, cosmetic practices meet the medical science. This essay focuses on Somaesthetics in relation to high culture and popular culture. Firstly, some artistic practices are examined, which operate onto or into the body …
I titani della "Décadence". Su Friedrich Nietzsche e Richard Wagner
2016
Il saggio traccia un quadro dei rapporti fra Nietzsche e Wagner, dal primo incontro nel 1869 sino alla definitiva "rottura" nei giorni dell'inaugurazione del Festspielhaus di Bayreuth e della prima rappresentazione di "Parsifal". Particolare attenzione viene riservata all'opera per pianoforte a 4 mani "Nachklang Heiner Sylvesternacht", scritta da Nietzsche nel novembre 1871 e dedicata a Cosima Wagner.
Dal romanzo alla scena: note intorno al personaggio femminile nella commedia settecentesca
1988
Il saggio esamina la rappresentazione del personaggio femminile nel teatro settecentesco, con particolare riferimento alle trasposizioni della "Pamela" di Richardson effettuate da Goldoni e Chiari. The essay examines the female characters' representation in eighteenth century's theatre, with special reference to the transpositions for the stage of Richardson's Pamela by Goldoni and Chiari.