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La chiesa di Santa Maria di Campogrosso ad Altavilla Milicia (Palermo), i ruderi di un monumento normanno tra abbandono, restauri e studi archeologici
2017
The church of Santa Maria di Campogrosso, long abandoned, is now a ruin. However, this church represents an important historical and architectural witness to the presence of “basiliani” monks in eastern Sicily, much less documented than the western Sicily’s one. Moreover, the story of this monument is linked to a very important episode, the Norman conquest of Sicily with the birth of the so-called "arabo-normanna" architecture. The essay describes the history of the church between abandonment, restoration and archaeological studies until the present.
Per la conservazione partecipata, consapevole e diffusa dell'architettura storica e religiosa
2016
Il saggio Per la conservazione partecipata, consapevole e diffusa dell’architettura storica e religiosa è un contributo per meglio conoscere e dunque conservare, facendo fruire, il patrimonio delle preesistenze architettoniche con destinazione religiosa, partendo dal caso delle chiese di Bagheria, ma proponendo un apporto generale sia per la stessa conservazione, ma anche per il dovuto adeguamento liturgico. Infatti, non solamente s‘impone la conservazione del patrimonio storico e religioso, ma unitamente l’adeguamento liturgico secondo il concilio Vaticano II e dei successivi apporti pastorali offerti dalla Conferenza Episcopale Italiana. Nel saggio si sottolinea che qualsiasi nuova aggiun…
La chiesa e il convento di San Domenico a Cagliari nel XVI secolo.
Questa ricerca riguarda il convento di San Domenico a Cagliari e la riforma della fabbrica attuata nel corso del Cinquecento. Fondato nel borgo di Villanova nel versante est del castello di Cagliari nella seconda metà del XIII secolo, il convento di San Domenico raggiunse la sua massima espansione a partire dagli anni sessanta del XVI secolo, in seguito probabilmente all’introduzione nel convento della riforma domenicana. Le riforme spirituali e materiali del convento fecero parte di più vasto movimento di rinnovamento che coinvolse su larga scala il panorama sardo nel secondo Cinquecento, dovuto a molteplici fattori tra cui il riformismo monarchico di Filippo II e le riforme religiose avvi…
RECOVERY AND RE-USE OF BUILDING MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS IN ARCHITECTURE
2018
Gli studi sul riuso degli scarti per l’architettura hanno prodotto negli ultimi anni risultati inediti e molto originali. Questo, tuttavia, resta ancora un ambito poco esplorato, più florido in determinati contesti geografici e particolari condizioni economiche; limitato a poche esperienze di sperimentazione in altri. In questi contesti, i limiti per la diffusione di sistemi costruttivi che riusano prodotti di scarto sono essenzialmente due: innanzitutto il fattore culturale, la tradizione consolidata e la difficoltà di accettare modi di costruire e vivere radicalmente alternativi a quelli conosciuti (se non limitati ad esperienze di studio, o temporanee, o comunque che non interferiscano c…
Expiration of Time Limits and the Ius Appellationis
2022
The rotal decree under comment offers the cue to address the delicate topic of the appeal and the peremptory time limits for its presentation, especially in light of the recent reform of the canonical matrimonial process promulgated by Pope Francis.On the basis of the new structure of the process of matrimonial nullity appears, in fact, evident the legislative disfavor, towards the appeal, seen as a potentially dangerous tool for the salus animarum of the faithful for the risk of procedural lengths connected to it, so as to provide for a prior examination of admissibility in order to avoid that they were made for the purpose of mere dilatory, that is, for the sole purpose of lengthening the…
"II –Il monastero benedettino", in Bonacasa Carra RM, Schirò G, Vitale E, Manenti M, "Il Monastero benedettino di Monreale. Dati storico-archeologici…
2016
In the Norman hunting park dominating the Conca d'Oro, in the second half of the XII century the monumental complex of Monreale began as a rational unitary body, consisting of the royal palace, the Duomo and the Benedictine convent which, from 1176, housed hundred Cluniac monks of Cava de 'Tirreni, called here by King William II; a wall, originally equipped with twelve towers, protected the religious community from possible external attacks. The goal of the founder was the creation of a strong instrument for the Christianization of western Sicily - still predominantly Muslim -, and at the same time of a prestigious dynastic mausoleum, in the explicit intent to rival all previous sacred impe…
Rural architecture in Western Sicily tradition. Identity, sustainable recovery
2010
Improving the Downwind Sail Design Process by Means of a Novel FSI Approach
2021
The process of designing a sail can be a challenging task because of the difficulties in predicting the real aerodynamic performance. This is especially true in the case of downwind sails, where the evaluation of the real shapes and aerodynamic forces can be very complex because of turbulent and detached flows and the high-deformable behavior of structures. Of course, numerical methods are very useful and reliable tools to investigate sail performances, and their use, also as a result of the exponential growth of computational resources at a very low cost, is spreading more and more, even in not highly competitive fields. This paper presents a new methodology to support sail designers in ev…
First Evidence of Contourite Drifts in the North-Western Sicilian Active Continental Margin (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea)
2021
We present the results of an integrated geomorphological and seismo-stratigraphic study based on high resolution marine data acquired in the north-western Sicilian continental margin. We document for the first time five contourite drifts (marked as EM1a, EM2b, EM2, EM3a, and EM3b), located in the continental slope at depths between ca. 400 and 1500 m. EM1a,b have been interpreted as elongated mounded drifts. EM1a,b are ca. 3 km long, 1.3 km wide, and have a maximum thickness of 36 m in their center that thins northwards, while EM1b is smaller with a thickness up to 24 m. They are internally characterized by mounded seismic packages dominated by continuous and parallel reflectors. EM2 is loc…
Dynamic assessment of word derivational knowledge: Tracing the development of a learner
2016
The present paper reports on a case study that explored the applicability of dynamic assessment (DA) for promoting learners’ word derivational knowledge in English as a second or a foreign language (L2). One learner’s performance on tasks assessing his word derivational knowledge was measured four times. The first two measurements were conducted before and after three weekly human-mediated DA sessions and the last two, which took place a year and a half later, before and after three weekly computerised DA sessions. Think aloud protocols and interviews were used to trace changes in the learner’s use of strategies and knowledge sources. The results revealed that following the dynamic assessme…