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The façades along the Cassaro in Palermo: historical-building characterization, degradation, restoration norms for interventions
2009
The good-will to operate in the old town privileging the history and the maintenance of historic buildings, is manifest in this study on the Vittorio Emanuele monumental street, the foundation axis of Palermo, and it’s architectural degraded and disfigured fronts. The search concerning sixty civil buildings is based initially on a cognitive process that includes historical analysis, geometric and dimensional survey, investigation on constituent materials and decay systems, in relation to environmental or anthropic causes. The study includes a design proposal that, according to the individuality of cases, it would represent an intervention code about some recurrent critical aspects on which …
Del sacrilegio al desagravio. Culto y ritual de la imagen sagrada en la Valencia del primer franquismo
2021
El presente trabajo aborda, en primer lugar, la mirada sobre los ataques iconoclastas desde la perspectiva del primer franquismo y la construcción del discurso de regeneración nacional por medio de la idea del advenimiento de un nuevo tiempo cristiano. A continuación, se estudia la restitución al culto de las imágenes sagradas, seguido de un estudio del caso valenciano centrado principalmente en los ejemplos de la Virgen de los Desamparados y el Cristo del Grao como representantes de la activación de geografías devocionales. Las dos tesis principales del artículo son que los actos de desagravio se organizaron con la intención de construir un relato oficial de los actos iconoclastas y que fu…
The muqarnas ceiling of the Palatina Chapel in Palermo
2018
St. Peter’s Basilica inside the Royal Palace of Palermo, known as the Palatina Chapel, is one of the most popular medieval monuments in Sicily. Built between 1130 and 1163, it contains interesting wooden framings that represent both bearing and finishing structures. Studies about the Arab-Norman church have often concentrated on the very rich and suggestive decorative mosaic apparatus of walls and floorings, as well as the pictorial cycle of wooden ceilings. Knowledge about the constructive techniques adopted and, in particular, about the realization of the coverings, is very limited: there are wooden floors built at different levels, vaults and wooden ceilings and among these is the portio…
Audience involvement in creative media for development: Making sense of the semiotic interface
2017
This article explores the role that semiotic communication plays in the generation of narrative affect. It also draws on Suruchi Sood’s concept of audience involvement as being capable of increasing self-efficacy and collective-efficacy, both of which are crucial to behaviour change. It therefore, demonstrates how semiotic tropes are used in creative media narratives to elicit affect and in turn generate authentic audience involvement with the subjects of those narratives, a process which eventually has positive consequences for behaviour change communication. Hence, these narratives fueled by semiotics, become the threshing floor where potential audiences are drawn into pro-social discours…
Miquel Juan, Matilde, Pérez Monzón, Olga y Martinez Taboada, Pilar (eds.) "Afilando el pincel, dibujando la voz. Prácticas pictóricas góticas". Madri…
2018
Looking for determinants of willingness-to-pay for Sibelius Hall, Lahti
2017
The aim of this paper is to determine the factors affecting the willingness-to-pay for a local concert hall, namely Sibelius Hall in Lahti. Our study argues that a high income, the use of cultural services and a positive attitude towards culture were connected to a high willingness-to-pay for Sibelius Hall. Our study revealed that “I do not know” answers can be partly explained by the character of cultural preferences being an acquired taste. As a consequence, the users and respondents exhibiting a positive attitude towards culture may choose the “I do not know” option instead of making a zero bid. peerReviewed
Pirandello e Gombrowicz – La presenza teatrale pirandelliana nei drammi gombrowicziani di Karol Karp (review)
2014
Veronica Chiarenza (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”) Recensione su Pirandello e Gombrowicz - La presenza teatrale pirandelliana nei drammi gombrowicziani di Karol Karp Pirandello e Gombrowicz - La presenza teatrale pirandelliana nei drammi gombrowicziani di Karol Karp si muove nell’ambito di un dualismo e di elementi di vicinanza tra i due autori. Il volume procede attraverso un movimento “geografico” ben definito – dalla Sicilia di Pirandello alla Polonia di Gombrowicz – e concettuale – da un’immagine più ampia dei temi tipici di Pirandello sino al loro riscontro specifico in tre drammi scritti da Gombrowicz. Karp analizza il rapporto tra i due scrittori con grande diligenza e…
Heading identity: a question among italian postwar immigrants in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentine
2015
Este trabajo analiza, a partir de los testimonios personales ofrecidos por un grupo de inmigrantes de la posguerra, el significado que estos sujetos históricos le han dado y le dan al concepto de identidad. En tal sentido, se ha buscado rastrear a través de entrevistas orales, cuál es el sentimiento de los inmigrantes con respecto a su identidad: se sienten ¿inmigrantes? ¿Extranjeros?, ¿Argentinos? Se parte de la idea de identidad como una construcción en la que es necesario comprender no sólo en su relación con el otro sino también como una alteridad propia. Por lo tanto, la identidad de muchos inmigrantes podría caracterizarse como una “identidad partida”, es decir, dividida en dos, entre…
Del teatro civil a un teatro del estupor
2016
Tras haber trabajado junto a algunos de los grandes nombres de la escena italiana como Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Michela Cescon o Mirko Artuso, Beppe Casales (Padua, 1978) se empieza a interesar en el teatro de narración solista en los comienzos del milenio, momento en el que empieza a elaborar una dramaturgia personal caracterizada por una continua búsqueda de una voz propia y una profunda reflexión sobre la labor y función del dramaturgo. Obras como sus últimas La spremuta. Rosarno, migranti, 'ndrangheta (2012), sobre los encuentros entre los inmigrantes explotados por la mafia en el sur con la policía, o la muy recomendable L'albero storto. Una storia di trincea (2014), un denso espe…
Il mito delle origini spagnole della camorra, tra letteratura e storia
2015
Dalle prime fonti post-unitarie agli scritti di metà Novecento e di fine millennio, le origini dell’organizzazione criminale campana sono state spesso messe in relazione, più o meno diretta e quasi sempre con il ricorso ad argomenti etimologici, con il passato vicereale di Napoli, una delle principali metropoli dell’Europa moderna. L’epoca spagnola, secondo uno stereotipo di lunga durata, viene vista come ideale modello storico negativo, ma anche come luogo mitico che intreccia memorie e leggende di ascendenza folclorica in cui poter situare i natali, più o meno nobili, di un fenomeno criminale che fin da subito ha dato luogo a una sua propria tradizione letteraria.