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Nikollë Filja dhe veprat e tij poetike. Botim kritik i dorëshkrimeve (Kodiku i Kieutit dhe Vajtim’ i Zonjësë Shën Mërī Virgjërë mbi Malt Kalvarie)
2022
Il volume presenta l'edizione critica delle opere in lingua albanese di Nicola Figlia, con riproduzione facsimilare dei manoscritti, trascirizione e analisi filologica. E' il corpus completo dell'opera di uno degli autori antichi della letteratura italo-albanese. The volume presents the critical edition of Nicola Figlia's works in Albanian, with facsimile reproduction of the manuscripts, transcription and philological analysis. It is the complete corpus of the work of one of the ancient authors of Italian-Albanian literature.
La sophía come paideia
2021
La filosofia può essere intesa come sophía, ossia come sapere puro in grado di cogliere la verità che si nasconde dietro l’apparenza delle cose sensibili. La parola chiave sophos (sapiente), originariamente, oltre che essere rapportata al possesso del sapere puro, implicava la capacità di un’abilità pratica, sul modello dell’artigiano. In questa prospettiva, i concetti di sophía e di phronesis risultano strettamente legati a quello di paideia. Philosophy as to be considered as "sophía", as a pure knowledge, reaching the truth, that is hidden behind the appereance of material objects. The keyword "sophos" (wise man), originally was related to the pure knowledge, as well as to a practical ski…
The (Meta)politics of Thinking
2021
In this chapter, Jussi Backman approaches Hannah Arendt’s readings of ancient philosophy by setting out from her perspective on the intellectual, political, and moral crisis characterizing Western societies in the twentieth century, a crisis to which the rise of totalitarianism bears witness. To Arendt, the political catastrophes haunting the twentieth century have roots in a tradition of political philosophy reaching back to the Greek beginnings of philosophy. Two principal features of Arendt’s exchange with the ancients are highlighted. The first is her account, in The Human Condition (1958), of the profound transformation of the Greek perceptions of political life initiated by Plato, the…
A HANDBOOK OF ANCIENT ANATOLIA - (S.R.) Steadman, (G.) McMahon (edd.) The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia. Pp. xviii + 1174, figs, ills, maps. Ne…
2014
LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE CLASSICAL PAST - C. Kelly, R. Flower, M.S. Williams (edd.) Unclassical Traditions. Volume II: Perspectives from East and West …
2013
Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution
2021
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been infecting humans for millennia and remains a global health problem, but its past diversity and dispersal routes are largely unknown. We generated HBV genomic data from 137 Eurasians and Native Americans dated between ~10,500 and ~400 years ago. We date the most recent common ancestor of all HBV lineages to between ~20,000 and 12,000 years ago, with the virus present in European and South American hunter-gatherers during the early Holocene. After the European Neolithic transition, Mesolithic HBV strains were replaced by a lineage likely disseminated by early farmers that prevailed throughout western Eurasia for ~4000 years, declining around the end of the 2nd…
Physico-chemical approaches in materials investigations
2023
Physico-chemical characterization is the keystone to fully understand the material properties. This topical issue has collected almost 30 contributions reflecting the latest developments on the topic. It includes, but is not limited to spectroscopic characterization, characterisation of materials by using neutrons as source, development of alternative synthetic routes of nanoparticles, microwave assisted synthesis, preparation of polymeric nanocomposites, archaeometric investigation of ancient materials.
The heavenly spheres regained
1993
Social and technological changes in the ceramic production of the Northern Levant during the LBA/IA transition: New evidence about the Sea People iss…
2019
Abstract The transition from the Late Bronze Age (LBA) to the Iron Age (IA) in the Levant is marked by the collapse of the Egyptian and Hittite empires, which dominated the political scene of the 14th–13th century BCE. The role of the Sea People, groups of migrants who were defeated by the Egyptian king Ramses III around 1175 BCE, is the focal point concerning this period. After the collapse of the LBA empires, written sources disappeared, and the archaeologists’ primary tool to define cultural processes is to analyze the evolution of pottery. Because of this, studies about the distribution of Aegeanizing ceramic production, considered here to have derived from the Sea People culture, can p…
A Unique Collection of Palaeolithic Painted Portable Art: Characterization of Red and Yellow Pigments from the Parpalló Cave (Spain).
2016
In this work we analyze the pigments used in the decoration of red and yellow motifs present in the portable art of the Parpallo Cave (Gandia, Spain), one of the most important Palaeolithic sites in the Spanish Mediterranean region. Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (EDXRF) and spectrophotometry in the visible region (CIEL*a*b*color coordinates and spectral reflectance curves) were used to perform in situ fast analyses of the red and yellow motifs with portable equipment and to characterize their elemental composition and their colorimetric perception, respectively. According to the elemental composition, the intensity of the fluorescence iron signals in red and yellow motif…