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Le memorie ingarbugliate. Tensioni autobiografiche nell’Uva puttanella e in Contadini del Sud di Scotellaro
2016
L’intervento s’inserisce nel dibattito sull’autobiografismo di Scotellaro nelle sue due maggiori opere in prosa, arrivateci incomplete e non pronte per la pubblicazione:Contadini del Sud e, soprattutto, L’uva puttanella, che Scotellaro definiva in fase di preparazione un ‘‘romanzo’’. Se Contadini del Sud, nelle parti disponibili oggi, sembra anticipare alcuni esiti dell’attuale non-fiction per via dell’uso disinvolto del materiale documentario, del risalto dato alle testimonianze e alle ricognizioni sul campo, della creazione di veri e propri ‘‘personaggi’’ a tutto tondo che si esprimono direttamente sulla pagina, L’uva puttanella ha caratteristiche che ne sottolineano invece l’inattualita`…
Approaches to (Auto)biography from History, Sociology, Media, and Literary Studies in Two German Publications
2015
The interdisciplinary approaches that are suggested in the two German studies reviewed here certainly advance the notion, as Thomas Etzemuller notes, that biography is a surprisingly complex genre....
Piccole città per quarantenni. Sul senso di sé nella scrittura storiografica, in margine a un libro di Vanessa Roghi
2019
Starting from an analysis of Vanessa Roghi's recent book, Piccole città, we focus on the link between historiographic writing and autobiography. In particular, it analyzes the way this link changed at the end of the twentieth century, when political categories that had determined identities, even of historians, for more than a century, have finished. Since then, issues considered "private" have emerged in the public debate and in the historiographic debate, as happened for example with drug addiction, at the centre of Roghi's book.
El escamoteo del tercer papel del Patriarca Ribera a favor de la expulsión de los moriscos
2009
D. Juan de Ribera, arzobispo de Valencia, escribió tres memoriales a Felipe III en 1601-1602. En ellos propugnaba la expulsión de los moriscos, aconsejaba que se comenzase por los castellanos y consideraba lícito venderlos como esclavos. Su primer biógrafo, el jesuita P. Francisco Escrivá, ocultó esta última propuesta. En el texto se trata de reconstruir el contenido del «tercer papel» de Ribera, manipulado por Escrivá. D. Juan de Ribera, archbishop of Valencia, wrote three memorials to Philip III in 1601-1602. In them he was supporting the expulsion of the Moriscos, was advising that it should begin by the Castilians and was considering lawfully to sell them as slaves. His first biographer…
Money Doctoring After World War II: Arthur I. Bloomfield and the Federal Reserve Missions to South Korea
2009
In this paper we analyse the scientific contributions of the New York Fed economist Arthur I. Bloomfield. A Canadian born economist, in 1941 Bloomfield took his PhD in economics at the University of Chicago, under the supervision of Jacob Viner and then joined the staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a Research Economist and stayed there until 1958. In this position, Bloomfield combined scholarly research on recent economic history and international financial and banking problems with active service as a member of various committees and commissions, both in the United States and abroad. While on leave from the Fed, he accepted appointments as a consultant and advisor to various …
The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark's Gospel, Helen K. Bond, Eerdmans, 2020 (ISBN 978‐0‐8028‐7460‐3), xiii + 317 pp., hb $43
2021
News about the Aragonese Botanist Martín Sessé Lacasta
2018
Se dan noticias del paso por la Universidad de Zaragoza y por América del médico y naturalista aragonés Martín Sessé Lacasta, que impulsó desde América la Expedición Botánica de Nueva España, así como la creación del Jardín botánico de México. Se trata de una de las personalidades que más han prestigiado la labor científica de España en América. / News about the stay of the Aragonese doctor and naturalist Martín Sessé Lacasta both in the Universidad de Zaragoza and Central America. He was part of the Botanical Expedition in Nueva España where he promoved Botanical studies and helped creating the Botanical Garden in Mexico. He is one of the most important Spanish scientist who spread Science…
Bayesian classification for dating archaeological sites via projectile points
2021
Dating is a key element for archaeologists. We propose a Bayesian approach to provide chronology to sites that have neither radiocarbon dating nor clear stratigraphy and whose only information comes from lithic arrowheads. This classifier is based on the Dirichlet-multinomial inferential process and posterior predictive distributions. The procedure is applied to predict the period of a set of undated sites located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula during the IVth and IIIrd millennium cal. BC.
A Room of One’s Own : Weiblichkeit, Schreiben und kollektive Erfahrung in Elena Ferrantes Tetralogie L’amica geniale (2011-2014) und Annie Ernaux’ Le…
2021
With her famous suggestion to «give her [the woman] a room of her own and five hundred a year, let her speak her mind» from 1929, Virginia Woolf verbalized a core issue of female writing by hinting at the socioeconomic circumstances and domestic obligations of most women – valid at her times, but still today. Both Elena Ferrante and Annie Ernaux discuss, in their respective novels, the topics of being women in the particular sociocultural land-scape (in Italy and, respectively, in France) after World War II and up to these days, the themes of marriage and motherhood, employment and especially (female) authorship. This article aims to show in a close reading of both Ferrante and Ernaux that …
SINGING THE SELF: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN SINGER AND COMPOSER JOHANNES VON SOEST
2010
The German singer, composer and writer Johannes von Soest (1448–1506), also referred to as Steinwart or Steinwert, is the author of a vernacular autobiography in verse. One of the very few such documents written by a musician, it gives a highly personal insight into his career, which extended from his training as a chorister in Soest to the ducal chapel in Cleves and afterwards to Bruges (in the company of two unnamed English musicians), Aardenburg (Overijssel), Maastricht, possibly Cologne, Kassel and finally Heidelberg, where he was appointed as Kapellmeister. He subsequently decided to become a physician. The article includes a complete transcription of the text, whose original was destr…