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I nomi di Leonardo Sciascia
2020
Nella sua Racalmuto, di nome, Sciascia faceva comunemente Nanà. Era Leonardo all’anagrafe e, conformemente con l’anagrafe, nel resto del mondo, ma a Racalmuto era Nanà. L’alternativa onomastica è nota. Nei trenta anni trascorsi dalla morte dello scrittore, ne hanno fatto menzione tutti coloro che si sono presentati come testimoni diretti della sua vita. Meno noto e fin qui taciuto è che anche il suo cognome aveva due varianti, una corrente a Racalmuto e nelle aree vicine e linguisticamente coerenti, l’altra corrente nel resto del mondo. A distinguerle, una sottile, ma cruciale differenza di pronuncia. Il nome che aveva portato nell’infanzia e durante la formazione nella sua Heimat non era d…
View of Open Government: in Italy and in the Sicilian Region
2017
The web, if used in connection with Open Government practices, it becomes anextraordinary controlling method not only to attack inefficiencies, corruption and badadministration, but also to promote transparency and develop participation practices.Complete transparency and open data represents lawfulness and efficiency outpostswhich are absolutely necessary to public administrations, because they are the newfrontier of citizenship rights and participatory democracy.This paper argues in favour of the anti-corruption provisions applications and thesubsequent applicator decree (Laws no. 190/2012 and 124/2015 and legislative decrees 33/2013 and now 97/2016) for the purposes of complete administr…
I processi di nobiltà degli ordini militari: modelli aristocratici e mobilità sociale
2009
L’articolo propone alcune riflessioni comparative sui processi di nobiltà dei cavalieri siciliani dell’Ordine di Malta e su quelli degli ordini militari spagnoli (Alcántara, Calatrava, Santiago e Montesa), i quali pure attiravano le aspirazioni di prestigio sociale dei nobili isolani (quasi 200 ne entrarono a far parte nel periodo della Sicilia asburgica, da Carlo V a Carlo II). Il principale problema metodologico che si pone è quanto questo tipo di fonte possa riflettere i mutamenti – la mobilità – della società siciliana, e in particolare dei suoi strati più elevati, e in che misura invece ne restituisca forme e contorni distorti. In questo contesto si è cercato di capire non solo quando,…
Extortion, firm's size and the sectoral allocation of capital
2014
Extortion of firms is a typical activity of organized crime such as Mafia. We develop a simple principal-agent model to find the Mafia-optimal extortion as a function of firm’s observable characteristics, specifically firm’s size. We test the predictions of the model on a unique dataset on extortion in Sicily, the Italian region where Mafia is most active. Our empirical findings show that i) extortion moderately increases with firm’s size ii) extortion is regressive, the average extortion rate ranging from approximately 40% of operating profits for small firms to 2% for large firms iii) extortion turns average cost function decreasing, therefore influencing market competition
The Economics of Extortion: Theory and Evidence on the Sicilian Mafia
2019
This paper studies extortion of firms operating in legal sectors by a profit-maximizing criminal organization. We develop a simple principal-agent model under asymmetric information to find the Mafia-optimal extortion as a function of firms' observable characteristics, namely size and sector. We test the predictions of the model on a unique dataset on extortion in Sicily, the Italian region where the most powerful criminal organization, the Mafia, operates. In line with our theoretical model, our empirical findings show that extortion is strongly concave in firm's size and highly regressive. The percentage of profits appropriated by Mafia ranges from 40% for small firms to 2% for large firm…
Early human peopling of Sicily: Evidence from the Mesolithic skeletal remains from Grotta d'Oriente
2010
The site of Grotta d'Oriente, Island of Favignana, Sicily has yielded the complete skeleton of an adult female (OB) dated to the Mesolithic age. The cranial morphometry of this individual can provide us with some useful information about the peopling of Sicily in the Early Holocene period.Morphological affinities of OB and other Sicilian Mesolithic specimens were assessed to verify hypotheses concerning the early peopling of Sicily.Craniofacial metric data were employed in a comparative analysis with European Upper Palaeolithic (UP), Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Copper/Bronze age samples, and contemporary Italians. Both a model-free and a model-bound approach were used not only to calculate c…
The Sicilian periphrasis aviri a + infinitive in contemporary Sicilian dialect
2010
This article focuses on the periphrasis aviri a/da + infinitive in the contemporary sicilian. This construction has attestations since the ancient sicilian and it maintains its use still today, also due to the form’s polysemy that allows to express a temporal meaning and a modal one. Following a descriptive approach in the grammaticalization framework, we analyze the features and the meaning of the periphrasis. For the data analysis, we have used the answers supplied from a sample of informants to some traslating questions and the attestations of the form in some spoken passages collected within the inquiries carried out using the sociolinguistic questionnaire of the Atlante Linguistico del…
Il Piano Nazionale per la Ripresa e la Resilienza (PNRR) tra sussidiarietà ed accentramento
2021
Il contributo illustra le caratteristiche della governance del PNRR tra Governo centrale e regioni, evidenziandone punti di forza e criticità. una specifica attenzione viene rivolta all'attività svolta in materia dalla Regione Siciliana.
Valutazione produttive e qualitative di Timilie - Produttive and qualitative evaluation of timilie
2009
Riassunto: Gli autori riportano i primi risultati produttivi e qualitativi relativi a 4 popolazioni di timilie raccolte in diversi ambienti pedoclimatici della Sicilia occidentale. Attraverso uno schema sperimentale non ripetuto sono state valutate 720 accessioni ed è emersa una elevata variabilità tra e intra popolazioni. Dalle analisi qualitative delle accessioni collezionate sono emerse peculiari caratteristiche qualitative della granella che ne fanno intravedere l’uso sia per la produzione di prodotti tipici sia per il trasferimento in varietà ampiamente diffuse e coltivate. Abstract: Productive and qualitative results on four “timilia” population from different West Sicilian pedoclimat…
EFFECT OF ADDING SOLID AND MOLTEN CHOCOLATE ON THE POLYPHENOL CONTENT, CHEMICAL, TEXTURAL, MICROBIOLOGICAL AND SENSORY ASPECTS OF PECORINO SICILIANO …
In this project we used two specific food products, which are typically Sicilian, Pecorino Siciliano cheese and Modica chocolate, that have unique texture and taste. “Chocolate cheese” is produced with the aim of increasing the consumption of cheese especially among children, targeting the purpose of improving public health. In this research we investigated chocolate cheese including solid and molten chocolate in three levels of 5%, 10% and 15% at four ripening times (T0 = fresh, T1 = 2 weeks, T2 = 4 weeks and T3 = 6 weeks). The results showed that the addition of chocolate significantly (p ≤ 0.05) decreased the pH, ash and protein content of the Pecorino Siciliano cheese, whereas it had no…