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Les enseignements mystiques de la nature dans le Kašf al-asrār ‘an ḥikam al-ṭuyūr wa al-azhār (Le Dévoilement des mystères que recèlent les sages par…
2022
The Kašf al-asrār is a mystical literature work of the Mamluk author Ibn Ġānim al-Maqdisī (d. 1279). It consists of an introduction and thirty-seven chapters, called išārāt, in which flowers and animals present mystical teachings to the narrator. Building on the analysis of the introduction and some chapters of the work, this study aims to show the formal characteristics of the text, its relations with the munāẓara genre, as well as the mystical meanings it contains and the particular role that nature occupies within the work. Nature, indeed, is not here the symbol of a theophany rather it shares the same condition of pain of the human being due to separation from God. Throughout the differ…
Roots of the Savage Mind. Apophenia and Imagination as Cognitive Process
2009
l'articolo studia il ruolo cognitivo dell'immaginario con particolare riferimento alle culture di caccia e raccolta e al problema della costruzione simbolica del paesaggio
Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape. Appearances of the “Political”
2022
This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the authors explore how embedded powers in politics, education, democracy, and landscape are analyzed through aesthetics.
Configurazioni e trasfigurazioni. Discorsi sul paesaggio mediato
2021
Curatela di saggi sulle mediazioni paesaggistiche Editing of essays on landscape mediations
Paesaggi, territori e immaginari nella transizione digitale
2023
Short introduction to the conference session
Energie rinnovabili e trasformazioni territoriali: il caso del fotovoltaico in Sicilia
2023
This paper intends to deal with the issue of territorial transformations that have taken place in the last two decades in Sicily, after the construction of hundreds of small, medium and large photovoltaic plants. These plants were built often causing profound landscape changes.
Il bosco in aree interne. Risorsa locale o paesaggio ludico?
2021
Per ragionare sulle dendrolatrie - le pratiche, i miti e le figure dell’immaginario arboreo - in prospettiva geografica, questo contributo sviluppa una riflessione sul bosco: figura dell’immaginario arboreo, ma anche risorsa fondamentale per territori rurali e montani. Si analizza in che modo questa risorsa sia interpretata nel contesto delle aree interne: territori gravati da deficit di sviluppo e servizi per i quali dal 2013 la Strategia Nazionale per le Aree Interne (SNAI) ha avviato interventi per adeguare i servizi e promuovere progetti di sviluppo. Si indagano diverse interpretazioni del bosco: dall'approccio conservazionista, a quello della prospettiva territorialista che considera i…
La diversità degli animali domestici nelle isole circumsiciliane: un patrimonio scomparso prima di essere conosciuto
2018
In tutti gli studi che affrontano il tema della perdita della diversità animale allevata e vegetale coltivata in Sicilia non si fa cenno alla presenza di razze animali nelle isole circumsiciliane, ad eccezione dell’asino di Pantelleria. Recenti indagini hanno permesso di accertare una presenza storica, seppur limitata, di razze animali, oggi estinte, sulle isole parasicule. Inoltre i testi che trattano specificatamente di tali razze forniscono preziose informazioni sul passato uso agro-pastorale dei territori insulari e meritano pertanto un’adeguata valorizzazione. None of the studies dealing with the loss of Sicilian reared animal and cultivated plant diversity mentions the presence of ani…
Diffusion modeling of COVID-19 under lockdown
2021
Viral immune evasion by sequence variation is a significant barrier to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine design and coronavirus disease-2019 diffusion under lockdown are unpredictable with subsequent waves. Our group has developed a computational model rooted in physics to address this challenge, aiming to predict the fitness landscape of SARS-CoV-2 diffusion using a variant of the bidimensional Ising model (2DIMV) connected seasonally. The 2DIMV works in a closed system composed of limited interaction subjects and conditioned by only temperature changes. Markov chain Monte Carlo method shows that an increase in temperature implicates reduced virus diffusi…
Shoreline Evolution and Environmental Changes at the NW Area of the Gulf of Gela (Sicily, Italy)
2021
Coastal areas are among the most biologically productive, dynamic and valued ecosystems on Earth. They are subject to changes that greatly vary in scale, time and duration and to additional pressures resulting from anthropogenic activities. The aim of this work was to investigate the shoreline evolution and the main environmental changes of the coastal stretch between the towns of Licata and Gela (in the Gulf of Gela, Sicily, Italy). The methodology used in this work included the analysis of: (i) shoreline changes over the long- and medium-term periods (1955–2019 and 1989–2019, respectively), (ii) dune system fragmentation and (iii) the impact of coastal structures (harbours and breakwaters…