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La via sovversiva della «poesia onesta». La lezione di Saba nel secondo Novecento
2023
The essay highlights how Saba's poetry has been reinterpreted by poets and storytellers of the late twentieth century also from a civil perspective, and has established itself as the object of a rethinking that involves the very function of literature as a (residual) ambition for truth and as disobedience in the face of the semantic seduction of the «sign language of the strongest» (to use Nietzsche's formula).
How Do Students Value the Importance of Twenty-first Century Skills?
2014
Frameworks of twenty-first century skills have attained a central role in school development and curriculum changes all over the world. There is a common understanding of the need for meta-skills such as problem solving, reasoning, collaboration, and self-regulation. This article presents results from a Finnish study, in which 718 school pupils aged 11 to 15 years were asked to anticipate the skills they would need in the future. Accordingly, they were asked to value and rank the twenty-first century skills listed in existing frameworks and pick out those they regarded as the most important they had learned. Social skills and collaboration were ranked highest, both in the listed frameworks …
German neuroendoscopy above the skull base
2009
Endoscopy plays an important part in current minimally invasive neurosurgery. The concepts, indications, and standards of current neuroendoscopy were developed in the beginning of the 1990s by several groups of neurosurgeons. Several factors contributed to its success and acceptance, including technical development, influence of other disciplines, and adaptation to neurosurgical requirements. This historical survey focuses on the period when this technique initially emerged, including the scientific discussions of each group as well as the arguments and reasons that led to present intraventricular neuroendoscopy. Interestingly, despite the almost independent development of neuroendoscopic s…
Nuove acquisizioni documentali su villa Valguarnera a Bagheria (Palermo)
2018
A palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi di Palermo è stato fortuitamente rinvenuto il “libro di fabrica del casino della Bagaria” (1712-1779), da considerare un prezioso “frammento” del disperso archivio Valguarnera. Rispetto al corpus documentario già noto questo ritrovamento contribuisce in modo sostanziale alla messa in luce delle lunghe fasi di completamento della villa. New documentary findings on Villa Valguarnera in Bagheria (Palermo) At Valguarnera-Gangi palace in Palermo it was fortuitously found the “libro di fabrica del casino della Bagaria”; namely a volume including documents relating to the construction of villa Valguarnera in Bagheria (1712-1779), to be considered as a precious “fragment…
Ville e residenze extraurbane del Quattrocento a Palermo e in Sicilia
2016
With the exception of a few splendid residences inherited from the past and related to the Norman or Swabian courts -which areboth in use and fully operative- the documented cases of new constructions in the 15th century are rare. In a city such as Palermo,the great private gardens were internal to the walled circuit, which allowed for an elitist way of life and matching social behaviours.A compact group of towered buildings constructed during that century in several places throughout the island constitutes, however,a significant phenomenon. In these buildings, which were commissioned by distinguished clients (the Cabrera in Pozzallo, theVentimiglia in Monteleone, the Speciale in Ficarazzi)…
Tra antichità e medioevo: viaggiatori, architetti e intellettuali in Sicilia fra gli anni venti e trenta dell’Ottocento
2016
Quando Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc raggiunge la Sicilia nell’aprile del 1836 è un giovanissimo professore dell’Ecole de dessin de Paris in procinto di compiere quello che per numerosissimi suoi precursori era diventato, ormai da diversi decenni, una tappa obbligata del Grand Tour in Italia. Frotte di rampolli dell’aristocrazia europea, ma soprattutto artisti e cultori di antichità avevano attraversato negli anni precedenti le strade talvolta perigliose dell’isola alla ricerca delle vestigia di mitiche città come Agrigento, Siracusa, Selinunte ecc., spesso tenendo insieme passione ar- cheologica e gusto del pittoresco, come può testimoniare il vastissimo repertorio iconogra co che abbiamo…
La pintura de flores de Miguel Parra (1780-1846)
2013
Although Miguel Parra Abril (Valencia, 1780-Madrid, 1846) is one of the most important Valencian School painters of floral still lifes, this aspect of his work remains little known. The present article addresses this oversight in two ways. First, by offering an overview of his oeuvre as a painter of floral subjects from his student days at the Fine Arts Academy of Valencia through his mature works. Second, by analyzing two heretofore-unpublished floral compositions in relation to his more familiar works, particularly those located in private collections until recent years.Aunque Miguel Parra Abril (Valencia, 1780-Madrid, 1846) es uno de los pintores de flores más importantes de la Escuela v…
La arquitectura de la portada y retablos de San Miguel Arcángel de Burjassot. Reflejo de los modelos figurativos de A. Pozzo
2005
Friar-architects carried out important projects in the Valencia area. These monks, who combined architectural with spiritual labors, accomplished works in which they knew how to combine tradition with new architectural tendencies. The church of St. Michael Archangel of Burjassot by Friar Francisco de Santa Bárbara, provides the chance to study this constructive phenomenon in relation to its doorway and twin altarpieces at the crossing. Without doubt, these structures demonstrate the direct influence of the Jesuit Andrea Pozzo's treatise <i>Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum</i> (1693-1700), which had a broad repercussion in the Valencia region.<br><br>La actividad…
Los Requena, una enigmática familia de pintores del Renacimiento. A propósito de Gaspar Requena <i>el Joven</i>
2009
Recent exhibitions produced by the Foundation <i>La Luz de las Imágenes</i> in Valencian dioceses has allowed for numerous works of art to be seen, admired and studied under optimal conditions. In this context we offer an approach to the workshop of the Requena family, painters active in the Kingdom of Valencia between approximately 1531 and 1605. These artists, in their uneven production, owed much to Paolo da San Leocadio, the Hernandos and particularly, Joan de Joanes.<br><br>Las recientes exposiciones que viene realizando la Fundación “La Luz de las Imágenes” en el ámbito de las distintas diócesis valencianas no sólo ha acercado al público numerosas obras de arte…
Anne d’Autriche en ses images : légitimation du pouvoir féminin et culture visuelle de la majesté dans la France du XVIIe siècle
2018
Anne of Austria offers an important part, yet neglected, in the the development of royal iconography in seventeenth century France. Devoided from management of power under the reign of her husband Louis XIII, she is however the subject of many representations. The number of her images increases when she accedes to the responsibilities of the government at the death of the king, in 1643, becoming regent in the name of her minor son, Louis XIV. Beyond its majority in 1651, she maintains herself at a prominent place, until the death of Mazarin in 1661. During these two decades, a deep political crisis in France culminates in the so-called Fronde. In this context, the image of Anne of Austria b…