Search results for " SICILY"

PALERMO NELLO SGUARDO DEI VIAGGIATORI (XVI-XVII SECOLO) : la città e l’architettura

2020

The leading thread of the present volume is the theme of the voyage to Sicily, Palermo, but the text is not only concerned about voyagers and their journals. The core is the city and the architecture through the written account of external personalities, who between the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, arrive in the Capital and the way( not neutral at all nor objective) by which they got information and transmitted impressions, observations. Testimonies are limited, due to the selection, which has been made in a preceding period of time (compared to the phenomenon, which is going to explode in XVIIIth and XIXth centuries). To modern travelers, who before the so-called season of Grand tour, visit…

CHLORITE/SMECTITE - ALKALI FELDSPAR METASOMATIC XENOLITHS FROM HYBLEAN MIOCENIC DIATREMES (SICILY, ITALY): EVIDENCE FOR EARLY INTERACTION BETWEEN HYD…

2006

Upper-Miocene tuff-breccia pipes from the Hyblean area (south-eastern Sicily) bear a number of ultramafic and mafic xenoliths (spinel-peridotites, pyroxenites, gabbroic rocks) whose study has led to conclude that the Meso-Caenozoic carbonatic and volcanic succession stands upon a fossil oceanic core-complex, probably connected with the adjacent Ionian crust. Evidence for hydrothermal metasomatism is common in the Hyblean ultramafic and mafic xenoliths. In some cases, extreme metasomatic transformation and shearing have deleted original mineralogy and textures yielding unusual rocks, hereafter called “metasomatites”. These rocks generally exhibit cataclastic texture, their hydrothermal miner…

A non-native population of Xenopus laevis in Sicily feeding during the riproductive period

2007

Cultivable Fungal Endophytes in Roots, Rhizomes and Leaves of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile along the Coast of Sicily, Italy

2022

The presence of endophytic fungi in the roots, rhizomes, and leaves of Posidonia oceanica was evaluated in different localities of the Sicilian coast. Samples of roots, rhizomes, and leaves were submitted to isolation techniques, and the obtained fungal colonies were identified by morphological and molecular (rRNA sequencing) analysis. Fungal endophytes occurred mainly in roots and occasionally in rhizomes and leaves. Lulwoana sp. was the most frequent of the isolated taxa, suggesting a strong interaction with the host. In addition, eight other fungal taxa were isolated. In particular, fungi of the genus Ochroconis and family Xylariaceae were identified as endophytes in healthy plants at al…

Zolfare di Sicilia: le tematiche della ricerca.

2010

Sicilian zolfare (sulphur mines) have long been one of the economic resourches of the island. Miners have worked in difficult and dangerous conditions: many of themwere young children (carusi). The paper deals with medical and health provisions for zolfara workers.

Le absidi nelle prime chiese normanne e nella Cappella Palatina di Palermo

2015

Nei primi decenni del XII secolo si realizzano in Sicilia numerosi edifici religiosi, le cui absidi seguono in genere i modelli bizantini, ma non mancano soluzioni originali. Tra le chiese basiliane del Val Demone si distingue quella dei Santi Pietro e Paolo a Casalvecchio Siculo (1117-1172), la cui abside centrale assume esternamente la forma di una torretta a pianta rettangolare, che include due nicchie pentagonali negli spazi di raccordo con la curva interna. Tutte e tre le absidi della chiesa di Sant’Andrea a Piazza Armerina (ante 1148) presentano esternamente un profilo rettilineo e la massiccia struttura muraria ingloba la torre campanaria. Nella cappella palatina di Palermo, consacra…

Sustainable tourism in the rural areas of a Southern Italian region

2012

In the last few years, a significant interest has been observed about all the possible ways rural tourism is carried out, but especially concerning agritourism, which represents the main specific application. Rural tourism is a form of sustainable tourism since its pillar is constituted by both valorisation and conservation of the environmental and territorial situation where economic activity is carried out in tune with identity and culture of local communities. From the official statistical data, it brings out the fact that this economic activity, widely spread in the Italian territory, may provide a significant financial support both to agricultural firms and to the whole economic sector…

Stazioni nuove di Euphorbia hypericifolia (Euphorbiaceae) e di Phyllanthus tenellus (Phyllanthaceae) in Sicilia

2017

New localities for Euphorbia hypericifolia (Euphorbiaceae) and Phyllanthus tenellus (Phyllanthaceae) in Sicily – Two new adventive plants, Euphorbia hypericifolia (Euphorbiaceae) and Phyllanthus tenellus (Phyllanthaceae), are reported in the Palermo’s urban area. These two taxa belonging to closely related families were both already known from the province of Messina (E. Sicily), the first one near the Messina town, the second near Taormina. The new localities expand toward west the Sicilian distribution of the two taxa, so that these appear to likely occur in other urban contexts of the island. Finally, as far as the accession road to the island is concerned, the- se two aliens – that have…

Strade secondarie in Basilicata, Calabria e Sicilia tra esperienze e prospettive

2021

The work examines recent developments in research on ancient roads with particular attention to Sicily.

Prefazione

2018

prefazione monografia sulla produzione della zolfo nella Sicilia romana