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ALCUNE CONSIDERAZIONI SULL’ARCHITETTURA CIVILE A SIRACUSA E NEGLI IBLEI FRA XV E XVI SECOLO
2021
The few buildings that survived the 1693 earthquake, concentrated mainly in the city of Syracuse, offer a fragmentary picture of late Gothic civil architecture in south-eastern Sicily. The analysis of the detail elements such as windows and doorawys in the facades, stairways and loggias inside the courtyards, marked by the coexistence of late Gothic and Renaissance architectural languages, highlights the adoption of decorative motifs widespread throughout Sicily and the Mediterranean context. However, many original solutions emerge, such as the square mullioned window, largely common in the city of Syracuse but also present in Scicli, probably very common in the urban landscape of the hybla…
Fazioni e popolo in una provincia del dominio pontificio fra XIII e XIV secolo
2021
Between the 13th and 14th centuries, a number of cities in the inchoative papal state experimented a system of self-government that allowed the Guelph and Ghibelline factions, formally represented in those same bodies on an equal footing, to work alongside the more strictly communal magistracies. The case of Todi is rather well known, given the role that Bartolo da Sassoferrato assigns to it in his Tractatus de guelphis et gebellinis (ca. 1350), but current research has already ascertained that this political tradition appeared at least around 1260. Some evidence can suggest, however, that some form of integration of factions into the local institutional framework was possible elsewhere, an…
First Record of Eurasian Spoonbills Platalea leucorodia feeding on Branchiopoda in a temporary wetland
2020
The diet of the Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia is poorly documented with only the most common prey groups known, namely small fishes, amphibians, reptiles, crustaceans, molluscs, worms, leeches and plant material. Here, the first observations of three small crustaceans, Branchiopoda Triops cancriformis (Notostraca), Chirocephalus diaphanus (Anostraca), and Cyzicus tetracerus (Spinicaudata) are documented as prey of the Eurasian Spoonbill in a temporary wetland near the San Teodoro salt pan (Marsala, western Sicily). These observations provide a new insight into the foraging ecology of the species, showing its extreme opportunism in targeting small prey when feeding in a temporary we…
Presentazione
2013
Histories and geographies of the Palermo school of design
2022
Vito Noto non ha mai percorso la “via siciliana del design”, ma attraversando l’intera penisola è approdato in un altro paese, che seppure vicino all’Italia possiede una cultura differente e una storica e riconosciuta scuola del design. La sua storia ha così assunto una forma che forse avrebbe potuto essere completamente diversa se mai avesse pensato di rimanere nella sua isola, dove, cresceva e si consolidava la scuola palermitana del design. La sua storia avrebbe di sicuro incrociato quella di Anna Maria Fundarò che della scuola fu una caparbia e visionaria ideatrice e sostenitrice, assumendo un ruolo tanto riconosciuto a livello nazionale e internazionale quanto contrastato e isolato a l…
LA RICOSTRUZIONE DIFFICILE: CONFLITTI SOCIALI E IMPRESE ARCHITETTONICHE NEL VAL DI NOTO DOPO IL TERREMOTO DEL 1693
2012
La storiografia riferita alle vicende post sismiche del Val di Noto ha ricorrentemente interpretato lo straordinario patrimonio architettonico realizzato dopo il terremoto del 1693 come il risultato di uno sforzo collettivo, che vide coinvolti in modo sinergico tutti i livelli della società siciliana. Il terremoto è stato insomma visto spesso come un evento traumatico capace di saldare – in una sorta di comune reazione della vita contro la morte – il governo spagnolo, la nobiltà feudale, il clero e le comunità urbane, queste ultime in una posizione subalterna rispetto alle determinazioni delle tre tradizionali sfere del potere Ancién Regime (Monarchia, Nobiltà e Chiesa).Il progredire degli …
La cattedrale di San Nicolò a Noto e la sua ricostruzione
2008
Nel 1949 Cesare Brandi intraprende il suo itinerario in Italia, restituendo una lettura di Noto barocca in cui la città è descritta come una «scenografia solida» a cielo aperto. Una città che prende forma dalle idee progettuali degli architetti settecenteschi attraverso i rapporti e le sequenze scenografiche delle strade e degli imponenti edifici monumentali. La cattedrale, la scalinata e il suo prospetto si trovano al centro di questo sistema urbano che Brandi seguita a descrivere come «un piano semplice in apparenza, in realtà il più inatteso», sintetizzando in una sola frase la valenza fortemente urbana della ricostruzione settecentesca. L’esperienza di Noto rappresenta per l’architettur…
First real–time detection of solar pp neutrinos by Borexino
2014
International audience; Solar neutrinos have been pivotal to the discovery of neutrino flavour oscillations and are a unique tool to probe the reactions that keep the Sun shine. Although most of solar neutrino components have been directly measured, the neutrinos emitted by the keystone pp reaction, in which two protons fuse to make a deuteron, have so far eluded direct detection. The Borexino experiment, an ultra-pure liquid scintillator detector running at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, has now filled the gap, providing the first direct real time measurement of pp neutrinos and of the solar neutrino luminosity.
Diversity of Pharmacological Properties in Chinese and European Medicinal Plants: Cytotoxicity, Antiviral and Antitrypanosomal Screening of 82 Herbal…
2011
In an extensive screening, the antiviral, antitrypanosomal and anticancer properties of extracts from 82 plants used in traditional Chinese medicine and European phytomedicine were determined. Several promising plants that were highly effective against hepatitis B virus (HBV), bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV)—a flavivirus used here as a surrogate in vitro model of hepatitis C virus, trypanosomes (Trypanosoma brucei brucei) and several cancer cell lines were identified. Six aqueous extracts from Celosia cristata, Ophioglossum vulgatum, Houttuynia cordata, Selaginella tamariscina, Alpinia galanga and Alpinia oxyphylla showed significant antiviral effects against BVDV without toxic effects …
Sensitivity of different early developmental periods of Baltic herring (Clupea harengus) to water-accommodated fraction of crude oil
2013
The probability for the oil accident to occur at the Gulf of Finland has been increasing last ten years and it is predicted to continue so. The risk is high based on the accident probability and the probable harm caused; some spawning areas of the Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras) are located in the vicinity of ports and ship fairways with heavy traffic, so any oil spillage there could affect recruitment of this commercially important species. In this study, newly fertilized embryos, the older embryos and the hatched larvae of Baltic herring were exposed to water-accommodated fraction (WAF) made from crude oil. Oil exposure increased most the mortality of the hatched larvae, and larv…