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Terremoto e architettura storica. Palermo e il sisma del 1726.

2015

On September 1st 1726 Palermo was hit by a violent earthquake. Although it did not bring about the destruction of the city, the earthquake caused widespread and extensive damage to the architectural heritage. The local insti- tutions carried out a series of actions involving representatives of the technical culture. These actions affected the subsequent appearance of the urban pattern and influenced the construction methods of the time. Crossing the data taken from chronicles of the time, from maps produced after the earthquake and above all copious archival documents, the research aims to reconstruct the state in which Palermo was after that tragic event, highlighting a number of aspects. …

Eccentric Women? Gender and the Notion of Eccentricity

2012

British writers in the eighteenth century spent much time reflecting on the notion of normality, as the rising middle ranks promoted their ideology as a class, while defending the right of the individuals to their own personal choices. The period was also marked by scientific advances, and for this reason, it is not surprising that the term 'eccentric', originally restricted to astronomy, started to be used widely to refer to unconventional human behaviour. At first sight, eccentricity in the eighteenth century seems to be a male preserve, as the term is mostly applied to men famous for their wit and original thinking, such as Samuel Johnson or Lawrence Sterne. From this point of view, wome…

Los beneficios del mar: negocios e inversiones económicas de la oficialidad naval en el siglo XVIII

2019

Throughout the eighteenth century, the Spanish navy was extensively reformed and enhanced as a consequence of the new model of Monarchy that the Bourbons introduced. Among the measures adopted, it is remarkable the erection of the naval officers corps according to the needs and obligations that maritime war had in this century. This group becomes the paradigm of the new professionalization and new training approach, and its members had great relevance due to its great mobility around the empire and the power of the naval institution. This means that a part of the naval officers were placed in privileged positions and at the intersection of diverse political, social and economic networks. Th…

Od Cecylii de Volanges do markizy de Merteuil: (auto)edukacja kobiety światowej w drugiej połowie XVIII wieku na podstawie "Niebezpiecznych związków"…

2017

This paper examines two models of women's instruction and behavior depicted in Choderlos de Laclos’ famous epistolary novel. Cecile de Volanges is a young and naive virgin who tries to respect all the precepts of a wellborn girls conventional education. On the other hand, Marquise de Merteuil, officially a worldly lady of irreproachable reputation and secretly a dissolute libertine, has broken all the rules, and, in the conscious process of self-education, has provided herself with significant psychological knowledge that let her dominate and manipulate others.

Giuseppe Fanciulli maestro di letteratura per l’infanzia (1888-1951)

2022

Giuseppe Fanciulli can be considered a "deuteragonist" of children’s literature, since his literal and theatrical compositions have lost their importance over the years and only rarely were cited by his experts. The following contribution therefore intends to analyze the Fanciulli’s life and literary production, to reconstruct a complex and original literary itinerary, expression of creativity, of ingenuity and of a sincere love for the childhood, as well as manifestation of the desire to combine the literature with the education, accompanying the new generations towards a path of intellectual, ethical and moral growth. Giuseppe Fanciulli; literature; childhood; education; Twentieth century.

Popular Religion in the Periphery. Church Attendance in 17th Century Eastern Finland

2015

Abstract On the fringes of post-Reformation Europe, church and state authorities faced problems in enforcing church attendance. In the Swedish kingdom, religious uniformity was seen as vital for the success of the state after the Lutheran confession had been established, and absences from church were punishable by law. The seventeenth century saw significant tightening of legislation relating to church absences and other breaches of the Sabbath, and severe punishments were introduced. Despite considerable deterrents, it was sometimes difficult to control local inhabitants: absence cases were regularly brought before the local courts in Eastern Finland, where authorities were hampered by a c…

Educational Robotics: Evaluating the Role of Computational Thinking in Attaining 21st Century Skills

2022

Abstract Educational Robotics (ER) has gained prominence in the literature on Computational Thinking (CT) because of its modularity, a feature that potentially facilitates the development of abstract thinking through complex robotic parts. The field of robotics encompasses the characteristics of technology, intelligence, embodiment, and interaction, and these characteristics can serve as means of instruction for CT. Essential 21st Century Skills include decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and the use of algorithms; which are fundamental to effective problem-solving skills. Although CT is believed to be the key to developing 21st Century Skills, its role in doing so is significa…

Poverty, inequality and the Finnish 1860s famine

2016

Erfahrungstransfer aus der Schweiz an das nationalsozialistische Deutschland. Ricarda Huchs Frühling in der Schweiz

2020

The article presents Ricarda Huchs attitude towards the dictatorship of natio- nal socialism in Germany, from which the writer officially disbanded herself in 1933 by resigning from the membership of the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts and concluding at the same time that the Germanness in her opinion does not mean centralization of power, brutal methods and diffusion of people who think differently. This attitude is reflected in the autobiographical text of 1938, Friihling in der Schweiz [Spring in Switzerland] which refers to the experiences and observations of the writer during her stay in Switzerland in 1887-1896. Those memoirs serve as a kind of political message which simultaneously sho…

Deux dictionnaires de littérature de l’abbé Antoine Sabatier de Castres

2017

Il Dictionnaire de Littérature di Sabatier de Castres (1770) è considerata la prima opera ad aver fatto uso del sintagma "dizionario di letteratura". L'aspetto innovativo di questo lavoro è tuttavia alquanto limitato a causa della sua vocazione didattica, che lo accomuna a un altro dizionario di Sabatier: il Dictionnaire des Passions, des Vertus et des Vices (1769). Esamineremo il modo in cui esso resta tuttavia un'interessante testimonianza del movimento enciclopedico nel quale finì per inserirsi. The Dictionnaire de Littérature of Sabatier de Castres (1770) is considered the first work to have made use of the syntagm "dictionary of literature". The innovative aspect of this works is, howe…