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Donne altrove. Viaggi, scrittura periodica e identità nell'Ottocento inglese

2015

The book focuses on the usage and publication of travelogues by 19th century women travellers to the colonies of the Empire as tools for spreading a new female identity based on courage, strenght, adventurous attitudes, in brief, based on all those features on which male identity had governed the economic, social, political and cultural areas, and last but not least, suffocated the so called 'fragile' gender. the travelogue, that is the writing of a a non fictional travel experience by women, to and in place such as the colonies, considered as the uncivilised and dangerous side of the Empire gave women the possibility to develop and perform their own selves as authoritative, mobile and powe…

19th century women travellers colonies authoritative mobile identities re-definition of British cultural identitySettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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Da Akrágas a Girgenti. Architettura e paesaggio nelle descrizioni e nell’iconografia della “città dei templi” fra Settecento e Ottocento

2016

Quando Gioacchino Di Marzo, intorno alla metà dell’Ottocento, intraprende l'opera di traduzione in italiano del Lexicon topograficum siculum di Vito Amico, dato alle stampe fra il 1757 e 1760, sente l'esigenza di dovere emendare incisivamente la voce dedicata alla città di Agrigento, in cui l'abate catanese aveva concesso alla città antica soltanto alcune brevi notazioni intorno ai templi antichi – fatta eccezione per il tempio di Giove Olimpico – soffermandosi invece sulla «novella Girgenti» e fornendo notizie dettagliate su tutti gli edifici degni di nota presenti nella città. Il tentativo di Di Marzo di colmare una simile lacuna – ingiustificabile a suo modo di vedere – scrivendo una lun…

Agrigento antiquities travellers 18th century 19th centurySettore ICAR/18 - Storia Dell'ArchitetturaAgrigento antichità viaggiatori XVIII secolo XIX secolo
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Modeling risk perception in ATIS context through Fuzzy Logic

2011

Abstract This research is aimed at investigating the effect of accuracy of ATIS (Advanced Traveller Information Systems) in terms of route choices and travellers concordance to informative system. A Stated Preference Experiment has been made by using a Travel Simulator developed at the Technische Universiteit of Delft (The Netherlands). During the experiment respondents have been asked to make repeated route choices in presence of ATIS. Two kinds of information have been tested: descriptive (respondents are provided with the estimated travel times on each route), and prescriptive (respondents are provided with the estimated shortest route). For each kind of information four levels of accura…

Risk perceptionOperations researchComputer scienceConcordanceStated PreferenceContext (language use)Travellers behaviourFuzzy logicFuzzy LogicInformationStatistical analysesATISConcordanceInformation systemGeneral Materials ScienceTravel simulatorAccuracyDrivers route-choiceTravellers' behaviourBehaviorfuzzyUncertaintyPreferenceRoute choiceRisk perceptionTravel behaviorAccuracy ATIS Concordance Fuzzy Logic Risk perception Route choice Stated Preference Travel simulator Travellers' behaviour UncertaintyITSProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
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La grandeur & la beauté - Le Arti Decorative siciliane nei diari dei viaggiatori francesi tra XVII e XIX secolo

2021

This volume constitutes the second stage of a research project which, through a detailed study of the accounts of foreign travellers who arrived in Sicily between the 17th and 19th centuries, has identified descriptions of the Sicilian decorative arts seen during their itineraries. After having published the results of the research on the diaries of English travellers in the volume Beauty and Splendour - Le Arti Decorative siciliane nei diari dei viaggiatori inglesi tra XVIII e XIX secolo, the results of the scientific research on the diaries of French travellers are presented here.

Settore L-ART/04 - Museologia E Critica Artistica E Del Restaurogrand tour decorative arts Sicily travellers history of art collecting collections museums modern age france
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Viaggiatori stranieri a Santa Caterina tra XVIII e XIX secolo

2019

The essay analyses the testimonies of foreign travellers on the church of Santa Caterina al Cassaro in Palermo between the 18th and 19th centuries, contextualising them with the cultural and historical-artistic panorama of the time.

Settore L-ART/04 - Museologia E Critica Artistica E Del Restaurosanta caterina palermo travellers art decorative arts museology culture
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I tamburi a cornice in Sicilia

2015

Le prime attestazioni della presenza del tamburo a cornice in Sicilia risalgono al V secolo a.C. Lo strumento è poi documentato fino ai giorni nostri attraverso raffigu¬razioni, documenti d’archivio, resoconti di viaggiatori stranieri, testi di interesse folklorico e, piuttosto ampiamente, dalla ricerca etnomusicologica moderna, per mezzo di audio-registrazioni e videofilmati. Morfologia, tecniche esecutive, repertori, decorazioni, contesto d’uso dei tamburelli in Sicilia si inscrivono nel più ampio quadro dell’area italiana (centro-meridionale) e mediterranea, ma con alcune specificità, soprattutto nelle tecniche esecutive. Queste, sebbene affini a quelle impiegate in altre regioni italian…

Settore L-ART/08 - EtnomusicologiaFirst evidences of frame drums in Sicily trace back to the V century b.C. Tambourines have been recorded until today by paintings archive documentation observations provided by foreign travellers folkloric literature and quite widely by modern ethnomusicology through audio and video recordings collected on the field. Morphology performance techniques repertoires decorations and social use of tambourines in Sicily refer to the wider context of Italian (central-southern part) and Mediteranean area but with some peculiarities chiefly referring to performance skills. Though similar to the techniques practised in other Italian regions in Sicily we can observe a typical style that can be connected with a common historical background with the Arabic-Islamic world.
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Beauty and Splendour - Le Arti Decorative siciliane nei diari dei viaggiatori inglesi tra XVIII e XIX secolo

2018

Scientific study of the testimonies taken from the diaries of English travellers between the 18th and 19th centuries on the Sicilian Decorative Arts.

decorative arts grand tour travellers sicily
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