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The small mammals (insectivores, bats and rodents) from the Holocene site of Vallone Inferno (Scillato, Sicily)
2013
The Vallone Inferno rock-shelter is an archeological site located at 770 m a.s.l. in the Madonie massif in Sicily. This massif is modeled into the Triassic and Oligocene sedimentary rocks of the Imerese Basin. Thearchaeological excavations conducted since 2008 have provided a long prehistoric and historic sequence from the Neolithic to the medieval period. From the four sedimentary complexes identified, only levels 3.4 to 3.1 from complex 3 and 4.2 from complex 4 have yielded small-mammal material. Level 4.2 is poor in remains and as yet without cultural ascription, though it has a radiocarbon age of 9450±50 years BP. Level 3.4 has yielded fragments of ceramic characteristic of the Middle N…
La Madonna del Latte dal monastero chiaromontano di Santo Spirito di Agrigento
2020
The essay deals with the panel depicting the Madonna del Latte from the Chiaromontano monastery of Santo Spirito in Agrigento, reconstructing the historical and restoration events and the artistic context.
La poesia epico-storica mediolatina (secc. VI-X). Caratteri generali, consistenza del “corpus” e stato della ricerca
2011
The work is concerned with examination of the principal Middle Latin epic-historical poems written between the 6th and 10th centuries, from Corippo to Rosvita of Gandersheim. It is divided into three sections, the first of which is devoted to Corippo (Iohannis and In laudem Iustini Augusti Minoris), which represents the archetypical model of Middle Latin epic-historical poetry; the second then concerns the production of the Carolingian age, through analysis and presentation of four poems (Aachener Karlsepos or Karolus et Leo, De gestis Hludowici Imperatoris by Ermoldo Nigello, De bellis Parisiacae urbis by Abbo of Saint-Germain and Annales de gestis Karoli Magni by the so-called “Saxo Poet”…
Radiocarbon chronology
2015
Essay on radiocarbon cronology of Early Bronze Age sites from the Middle Euphrates region
Islam politico e Guerra fredda: alternative islamiste in Iraq e Libano (1967-1991)
2019
This article seeks to evaluate the impact of Cold War strategies and superpowers initiative in the Middle East with a particular reference on the evolution of political Islam. Based on a storiographical analysis, the article also focuses its attention on two particular cases of the Shia social and political thought (the Lebanese Hezbollah and Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr writings) in order to show how these two particular expressions of the Islamic political thought have been influenced by the Cold War and what was their positioning in this regards. In the first paragraph a particular attention is dedicated to the applicability of Cold War paradigm to the Middle East and in this sense, by using H…
CELEBRATING WOMEN ARTISTS IN JORDAN: REFRAMING GENDER ROLES AS RESISTANCE
This thesis focuses on women artists in the capital of Jordan, Amman, and particularly on their cultural practices as an expression of a creative agency. These women create independent spaces, cultural initiatives, public performances and original artworks that allow the reframing of gender roles in neoliberal patriarchal societies today. Beyond labeling the emergence of a new female activism, or femtivism, as feminist or revolutionary, I suggest reading it as the reconfiguration of a new wave of feminisms in Jordan, which engages with the visual arts, the contemporary cultural scene of Amman, the geography of the city and the political commitment, often in informal domains rather than in i…
The Contribution of Bullying Involvement and Alexithymia to Somatic Complaints in Preadolescents
2023
Somatic complaints during preadolescence are connected to individual and contextual factors, and extant research highlights the relevance of alexithymia and bullying involvement. In this cross-sectional study, we explored the joint and unique influence of bullying involvement—as perpetrators, victims, or outsiders—and alexithymia on somatic complaints in a sample of 179 Italian middle-school students (aged 11–15). Findings revealed an indirect association between bullying perpetration and victimization complaints through alexithymia. We also found a significant direct association between victimization and somatic complaints. No significant association between outsider beha…
Dal profano al sacro: oreficerie e abiti nella Sicilia tardo-medievale
2019
Nell’Europa tardo medioevale le leggi suntuarie disciplinarono l’uso di abiti e gioielli e i frati predicatori portarono avanti campagne moralizzatrici contro il lusso, con discorsi nelle piazze e roghi delle vanità. In Sicilia gioielli e abiti lussuosi divennero una forma d’investimento, servivano per costituire le doti, si trasmettevano in eredità e potevano essere impegnati. Modificare gli oggetti profani, simbolo di peccato, in paramenti e arredi sacri fu considerata un’opera meritoria, fondamentale per la salvezza dell’anima. Beni temporali, acquistati a volte con un arricchimento illecito, subivano una metamorfosi che consentiva di conciliare aeterna e temporalia. Nel Trecento nobildo…
The Treatment of Old Age at Court. The Kings of Sicily from Roger II to Martin II (11th–15th Century)
2023
Nella concezione galenica, la vecchiaia perde la sua connotazione di ineluttabile processo degenerativo per soggiacere alle stesse regole terapeutiche messe in atto per mantenere la salute e prolungare la vita. L'aspirazione a ritardare i malanni della vecchiaia, richiamando e riproponendo il mito della prolongatio vite, anima il pensiero e l'operato di quanti (filosofi, medici) diventarono figure di riferimento per i sovrani siciliani. Analizzando i contesti culturali che videro l'isola attraversare varie dominazioni (normanna, sveva, angioina, aragonese), il contributo si propone di mettere a fuoco le strategie seguite dai re di Sicilia vissuti più a lungo - in tal senso il concetto di ve…
Pietro Luna: uomo di Chiesa, di potere e arbitro delle sorti familiari
2012
Le vicende familiari e patrimoniali dei Luna nel XV secolo appaiono seguite quasi indirizzate nei momenti decisivi dal presule di famiglia, Pietro, arcivescovo di Messina, secondogenito del conte di Caltabellotta, Antonio Luna, e di Beatrice Cardona. Pietro è il punto di riferimento dei fratelli Carlo e Sigismondo e interviene in più occasioni in loro aiuto, a causa delle difficoltà economiche e delle contese fra i due, acquistando con vendite-prestito i loro beni immobili; gestisce, così, prima indirettamente poi direttamente assumendone il controllo, il patrimonio familiare. Il Luna per un breve periodo è dominus di Sambuca e Bivona e amministratore della contea di Caltabellotta. Impegnat…