Search results for "Nineteenth Century"
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"Panem et circenses". Teatri e pubblici di Parigi al tempo di Donizetti
2019
L'articolo offre una panoramica sui teatri parigini negli anni Quaranta dell'Ottocento, descrivendone funzioni, repertori, pubblici.
The medicalization of suicide in 19th century Spain: theoretical, professional and cultural aspects
2012
This paper analyzes the medicalization process of suicide in Spain during the 19th century. It describes the transition of suicide seen as an act of free will to a model, developed by mental doctors, which considered it a pathological behavior. Against this model, other conservative positions from the fields of Law and Medicine continued to defend the traditional view. The initial interest of mental medicine regarding the social aspects of suicide was developed during this period. The social factor that authors considered to be the most influential to suicide was the loss of religious ideas, which was understandable considering that religion was very present in Spanish science and society t…
«DI RICCHE LIBRERIE FORNITI, O NON SANNO, O NON NE VOGLIONO GIOVARSI». NOTE SU CULTURA, EDITORIA E CIRCOLAZIONE LIBRARIA IN SICILIA (SECC. XVIII-XIX)
2015
SOMMARIO: Il saggio ricostruisce le vicende dell’editoria e della tipografia in Sicilia tra tardo Settecento e primo Ottocento, riconnettendole alla questione della circolazione libraria nel delicato frangente contraddistinto dall’espulsione gesuitica e dall’abolizione dell’Inquisizione, sino alla repressione antigiacobina e all’esperienza costituzionale di stampo inglese. L’indubbio rilancio dell’editoria, che nell’isola risponde alle rinnovate esigenze delle élites urbane e al vasto progetto borbonico di riforme, subisce un’inevitabile battuta d’arresto nel 1799, quando la censura, ora saldamente nelle mani del governo, ne impedisce l’ulteriore espansione comprimendo gli spazi di moviment…
Nell'«académie musicale de chant» di Parigi. Rossini al Théâtre-Italien nei "feuilletons" di Delécluze (1832-1863)
2018
The essay explores the reception of Rossini’s Italian operas in the writings of Étienne-Jean Delécluze. A leading figure in the Parisian cultural milieu of his time, Delécluze reviewed performances at the Théâtre Italien for the influential «Journal des débats» between 1832 and 1863. He developed an interpretative frame based on the idea that the Théâtre-Italien should function as as a “school of singing” for Paris, and identified Rossini’s operas as canonical texts that such a school should preserve and promote, in opposition to more recent trends originating from Italy. The breakdown of this cultural project, which had met with some significant public support, is probably linked to the st…
El esqueleto de la viuda Houet: Frenología y medicina legal en Francia durante la década de 1830
2015
This paper deals with the judicial identification of corpses in nineteenth-century France. The case of the widow Houet (1833) is particularly interesting for this purpose because two contrasting techniques of identification were employed: forensic medicine and phrenology. Mateu Orfila, dean of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, had recently developed a quantitative method for the identification of corpses, which was later regarded as a landmark in nineteenth-century forensic medicine. Pierre-Marie Dumoutier, an outstanding member of the Society of Phrenology, analysed the skull and offered surprising data about the personality of the widow. The episode stirred up controversies on the evidentiar…
Viajes y redes profesionales en los orígenes del alienismo español
2016
Resumen Este artículo examina la importancia de los viajes y las redes profesionales en los orígenes de la psiquiatría en España. Tras una revisión de los antecedentes ilustrados y los periplos terapéuticos y profesionales en el primer alienismo, se describen los desplazamientos a instituciones psiquiátricas extranjeras, durante el segundo tercio del siglo XIX, de un grupo de médicos exiliados, comisionados y pioneros españoles. Posteriormente, con su afianzamiento social, institucional y profesional, algunas figuras de la medicina mental española estrecharon sus vínculos y su proyección internacional organizando o asistiendo a congresos y otros eventos científicos. Su caso ilustra así el i…
Pedrotti, Carlo
2015
Biografia del compositore e direttore d'orchestra Carlo Pedrotti (1817-1893)
Income inequality and famine mortality: Evidence from the Finnish famine of the 1860s
2021
This article examines whether economic inequality intensified the adverse effects of harvest, price, and income shocks during a famine. Using a parish-level longitudinal dataset from the Finnish famine of the 1860s, it shows that a substantial proportion of the excess mortality experienced during the famine resulted from a decline in agricultural production, a decline in incomes, and a surge in food prices. The findings indicate that the adverse effects of food output fluctuations were intensified by increasing income inequality and decreasing average income, while the market-transmitted shocks were weakened by a contraction of disposable income. The results are corroborated with multiple a…
Ments alterades en el segle XIX: Els relats d'Edgar Allan Poe i Guy de Moupassant
2014
En el present article s’aborda la confl uencia entre l’autor nord-america Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) i l’autor frances Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), que, a pesar d’estar adscrits a tendencies literaries divergents (romanticisme enfront de realisme/naturalisme), van compartir interessos tematics i formals inequivocs en l’ambit del relat. Partint de les primerenques infl uencies de la contistica de Poe sobre l’escriptura de Maupassant, aquest treball se centra en una seleccio dels relats de l’autor frances que el vinculen literariament a Poe (tant en el terreny tematic com en el narratologic), relacionats amb la fascinacio d’ambdos autors per estats mentals atipics i narradors alterats o «a…
La scoperta, sistemazione e conservazione della grande Iscrizione di Gortina, nell'isola di Creta (1884-1921): la protezione delle testimonianze e le…
2013
La scoperta e la conservazione della Grande Iscrizione di Gortina a Creta, da parte degli studiosi italiani, fra la fine del XIX sec. e i primi decenni del XX sec., rappresentò un grande riconoscimento scientifico-culturale per la giovane nazione italiana. Nel passato, l’isola di Creta era stata legata alla Repubblica di Venezia e anche questo rapporto favorì l’invio a Creta del giovane epigrafista F. Halbherr, il quale fra notevoli peripezie rinvenne, assieme all’epigrafista tedesco E. Fabricius, la famosa l’iscrizione nell’antica città di Gortina. L’iscrizione, fra le più antiche e complete finora conosciute in tutta Europa, conteneva le norme sulla famiglia, l’eredità e in generale i dir…