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Per amore e per interesse. Moventi e modelli dell’azione benefica nella riflessione antica
2021
Classical thinkers described sometimes the donor’s move employing some unexpected analogies: Aristotle explains the “benefactor’s love” comparing it to the artist’s love for his artwork, or to the mother’s devotion to her sons. Cicero talks about benivolentia as a permanent and constant affect, very distant from amor adulescentulorum. Seneca, in ben. 1.14, chooses to compare donor’s beneficia amabilia to the behavior of meretrix. The aim of this paper is to recognize the tight bind of love and interest underlying these analogies, and to explain how it could be, after all, a pattern useful for re-thinking the nature of contemporary philanthropy.
Why are there no comprehensively digital scholarly editions of classical texts?
2018
Currently, no 'canonical' classical text with a multi-testimonial tradition has a digital scholarly edition based on a complete digital transcription of all primary sources, and on the automated collation of those transcriptions. Most classicists simply do not feel that they need such editions. I argue that this is ultimately due to the 'canonization' of the corpus of classical texts. Classicists are more focussed on the 'Text' than on the documents (manuscripts) and their texts: they tend not to consider the textual variance in the manuscripts as culturally meaningful in itself, but merely instrumental in view of the constitutio textus. I suspect that we will not have 'comprehensively digi…
Recensione a: Galileo GALILEI, Lettera a Cristina di Lorena, edizione critica a cura di O. Besomi, collaborazione di D. Besomi, versione latina di E.…
2014
Recensione al vol. Galileo GALILEI, Lettera a Cristina di Lorena, ed. critica a cura di O. Besomi, collab. di D. Besomi, vers. lat. di E. Diodati, a cura di G. Reggi, Roma-Padova 2012.
Seneca. Lettere a Lucilio (introduzione, traduzione e commento), Siena 2011.
2011
In the “indeterminacy” which characterizes our millennium, in the “liquid” (Zygmunt Bauman) unpredictable scenery of postmodernity, Seneca invites today's man to the Foucalt “care of oneself” that assumes the shape of assiduous dedication to improve themselves in order to be for the other, to devote oneself and to be good for the other according to ethics of interiority which finds its full reconversion in social ethics. Actually, it is just the fluid unpredictable scenery of postmodernity to authorize and efface the validity of Seneca's letters, emphasizing by contrast the clear distinction by postmodern pluralism. Through the reflective dialogue word of the philosopher, man recalls a trut…
Progetto sostenibile di edilizia residenziale a Marsala: “Casa Salina”
2021
The present research work aims at the design of a sustainable building, a small holiday home single-family house in Villaggio San Teodoro, Marsala (TP). A territorial classification, the assessment of the climatic data and a study of the solar paths made possible the most passive strategies for the improvement of indoor and outdoor comfort. Interesting and reasoned was the study of the prevailing winds and the relative positioning and sizing of the openings, including on the roof, in order to favor natural ventilation inside the building. The effectiveness of these solutions have been proven by fluid dynamics analyzes with Ansys Fluent software, Revit and Daylight Visualizer in order to det…
Interpretare una parte. Personae e modelli etici in Roma antica tra tarda repubblica e principato
2019
L’ultima opera di Cicerone, il de officiis, propone una complessa riflessione sulle personae, i ruoli naturali e culturali che ogni uomo è chiamato a mettere in equilibrio e a interpretare sulla scena di un mondo, quello della tarda repubblica romana, nel quale il problema più importante è collegare il piano della politica a quello dell’etica, l’utile all’honestum. Al cittadino che verrà, in un orizzonte che gli appare oscuro, Cicerone prova a mettere in mano la capacità di scegliere “chi e quali vorremmo essere” (1.117), e anche la possibilità concreta di cambiare, in caso di errore nella scelta. Nel giro di pochissimi anni, però, è il mondo al quale Cicerone rivolge la sua riflessione che…
Hacer películas chilenas desde Francia: Marcela Said y Jairo Boisier
2019
Submitting projects to international funds and the subsequent festival tour are obligatory steps for most films that, outside purely commercial circuits, seek distribution and cultural legitimacy beyond their national borders. In this globalized context, European support funds are particularly important. Following the path opened by pioneering scholars (De Valck, Elsaesser, Falicov, Shaw), this article aims to study the transnational networks in which Latin American cinema is currently involved. We address this issue by focussing on the specific case of two Chilean directors based in France: Marcela Said and Jairo Boisier. By doing so, we intend to show how European and particularly French …
Modular Small Diameter Vascular Grafts with Bioactive Functionalities.
2015
We report the fabrication of a novel type of artificial small diameter blood vessels, termed biomimetic tissue-engineered blood vessels (bTEBV), with a modular composition. They are composed of a hydrogel scaffold consisting of two negatively charged natural polymers, alginate and a modified chitosan, N,O-carboxymethyl chitosan (N,O-CMC). Into this biologically inert scaffold two biofunctionally active biopolymers are embedded, inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) and silica, as well as gelatin which exposes the cell recognition signal, Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD). These materials can be hardened by exposure to Ca(2+) through formation of Ca(2+) bridges between the polyanions, alginate, N,O-CMC, and polyP…
Enhancement of structural, functional and antioxidant properties of fish gelatin films using Maillard reactions
2018
International audience; This study investigates the effect of Maillard reactions (MR) on the physico-chemical and biological properties of fish gelatin based edible films. Glucose was incorporated in gelatin film forming solutions at different glucose/lysine molar ratios: 0.5/1.0, 1.0/1.0 and 5.0/1.0. The MR was then induced by heating films at 90 °C for 24 h in dry conditions. Color changes and browning index measurements were used to pursue the MR kinetic. Results showed that the development of MR products was dependent on the glucose content and on the reaction time. Mechanical and thermal properties of treated films displayed an increase in tensile strength, elongation at break and glas…
Biomimetic strategy towards gelatin coatings on PET. Effect of protocol on coating stability and cell-interactive properties
2019
Gelatin-modified poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) surfaces have been previously realized via an intermediate dopamine coating procedure that resulted in surfaces with superior haemocompatibility compared to unfunctionalized PET. The present study addresses the biocompatibility assessment of these coated PET surfaces. In this context, the stability of the gelatin coating upon exposure to physiological conditions and its cell-interactive properties were investigated. The proposed gelatin–dopamine-PET surfaces showed an increased protein coating stability up to 24 days and promoted the attachment and spreading of both endothelial cells (ECs) and smooth muscle cells (SMCs). In parallel, physi…