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Scrivere fra le due guerre: riflessi socio-letterari del colonialismo italiano
2017
The Italian colonial cravings, born after the end of Risorgimento, continued until the end of the Great War, dragging the country into a series of conquering wars, culminating in that of Libya. The growth of nationalist ideology, fueling those cravings, found nourishment in the fascist regime. The expansive drives within an ideology aimed to the pride of a nation and the skillful manipulation of public opinion, obtained by the organization of a powerful propaganda machine, convinced the Italians that even the Kingdom of Italy had the right to equip itself, like other European countries, with a colonial empire. Intellectuals and writers - with few exceptions - have never left, in the years 1…
Mio Dio, puniscimi perché ho peccato! Rapporti illegittimi e senso di colpa negli anni dell'Impero
2017
The triad 'colonialism, guilt and consequent punishment, payable with mental or physical illness if not with death’, is frequently detectable in the literary texts that focus on the latest phase of Italian Colonialism. The interpretative approach proposed in this paper, is founded on two historical and social phenomena that characterized the second decade of the Fascist period, such as, the propaganda and the subsequent counter-propaganda, and the collaborationist relationship between Church and State that pivot, in literary imagination, in the metaphor of disease as a result of divine punishment for human sins. The examined novels – Tempo di uccidere di Ennio Flaiano (1947), Un mattino a I…
Su altre sponde. Riflessi letterari della colonizzazione francese. Antille francesi e Guyana, Medio Oriente, Asia e Oceania
2019
The volume contains a brief overview of some of the lesser known Francophone Literatures. These literary expressions, born, like others, as a consequence of the territorial expansion policy of France, present an extreme variety of situations both on historical and cultural level. Despite the diversification of expressive modalities and problems, they all end up acting as a thaumaturgical instrument, not only to attempt to heal the wounds inflicted by colonization but, above all, to claim the cultural heritage that the West wanted to extinguish. The common denominator of such profoundly different realities seems to be based on the contradictory result of courageous encounters that propose th…
Briganti, Longhi und «La Maniera italiana» (1961)
2022
Due inedite testimonianze di Giuliano Briganti e Roberto Longhi gettano luce sul ruolo che lo storico dell'arte assume tanto nella fase di raccolta del materiale iconografico, quanto nella definizione della 'temperatura' del colorito durante la fase di stampa. Il Manierismo, così come si presenta nel volume che Briganti pubblica nel 1961 con Editori Riuniti (Roma) e Verlag der Kunst (Dresden), è un'avanguardia decadentista dal cromatismo inquietante e freddo. Two previously unpublished testimonies by Giuliano Briganti and Roberto Longhi shed light on the role of the art historian in both the collection of iconographic material and the definition of the 'temperature' of colour during the pri…
Early prediction of coma recovery after cardiac arrest with blinded pupillometry
2017
Objectives Prognostication studies on comatose cardiac arrest (CA) patients are limited by lack of blinding, potentially causing overestimation of outcome predictors and self-fulfilling prophecy. Using a blinded approach, we analysed the value of quantitative automated pupillometry to predict neurological recovery after CA. Methods We examined a prospective cohort of 103 comatose adult patients who were unconscious 48 hours after CA and underwent repeated measurements of quantitative pupillary light reflex (PLR) using the Neurolight-Algiscan® device. Clinical examination, electroencephalography (EEG), somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) and serum neuron specific enolase (NSE) were perfor…
The index of stable critical points
2002
Abstract In this paper we show that in dimension greater or equal than 3 the index of a stable critical point can be any integer. More concretely, given any k∈ Z and n⩾3 we construct a C ∞ vector field on R n with a unique critical point which is stable (in positive and negative time) and has index equal to k. This result extends previous ones on the index of stable critical points.
L’Asilo, Napoli: Dall’ordine poliziesco della politica culturale al regime estetico della comunità che viene
2020
This paper presents and analyses the cultural and social centre "Asilo" in Naples as an urban commons and as an example of critical citizenship.
Il gesto comparativo negli studi urbani critici
2021
Non tutte le città sono uguali tra loro, ma i processi che si verificano al loro interno sono assimilabili e analizzabili grazie a modelli più o meno universali. O almeno, per molti anni così si è sostenuto: più anni di quanti forse pensiamo, se consideriamo che ancor oggi diversi studiosi di fatti urbani sostengono posizioni universalistiche. Il confronto tra due testi, un classico di Ernest W. Burgess e una lettura più recente e alternativa di Jennifer Robinson, ha come scopo la messa in discussione di questo tema all’interno degli studi urbani critici. Not all cities are the same, but the processes that occur within them can be assimilated and analyzed thanks to more or less universal mo…
Nonlinear Nonhomogeneous Robin Problems with Almost Critical and Partially Concave Reaction
2020
We consider a nonlinear Robin problem driven by a nonhomogeneous differential operator, with reaction which exhibits the competition of two Caratheodory terms. One is parametric, $$(p-1)$$-sublinear with a partially concave nonlinearity near zero. The other is $$(p-1)$$-superlinear and has almost critical growth. Exploiting the special geometry of the problem, we prove a bifurcation-type result, describing the changes in the set of positive solutions as the parameter $$\lambda >0$$ varies.
An integrated methodological approach for optimising complex systems subjected to predictive maintenance
2021
Abstract The present paper addresses the relevant topic of maintenance management, widely recognised as a fundamental issue involving complex engineering systems and leading companies towards the optimisation of their assets while pursuing cost efficiency. With this regard, our research aims to provide companies with a hybrid methodological approach based on Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) capable to deal with the main failures potentially involving complex systems subjected to predictive maintenance. Such an approach is going to be integrated within the framework of traditional Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), whose strengths and weaknesses are considered. In pa…