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Venerari Contendere Adicere: Roman Emulation, Intergenerational Reciprocity, and the Ancient Idea of Progress
2019
Over the past few decades, the successful emergence of intertextuality, with its careful investigation of the dynamics of imitation, allusion, and emulation, has effectively challenged the Romantic notions of creativity and individual authorship. In the wide-open field left by the postmodern ‘death of the author’, however, the territory of culture as a network of patterns hiding behind the text has often been restricted within the boundaries of literary culture. In this paper, I will attempt to enlarge such a text-centred perspective by highlighting the often neglected connections between family education, intergenerational reciprocity, and aesthetic thought in Roman culture. Indeed, long b…
Seneca, Epistula ad Lucilium 124 (a cura di Pietro Li Causi, traduzione e commento cooperativi della classe V L del Liceo Scientifico "S. Cannizzaro"…
2019
A group translation and a philological and philosophical commentary on Seneca, Epistula ad Lucilium 124
ABO genotyping by PCR-RFLP and cloning and sequencing
2005
A refined PCR-RFLP based method was established to genotype ABO blood groups. The main objective of this study was to make the techniques also suitable for working with degraded DNA. Specific primer design was carried out to choose fragments shorter than 200 bp as necessary in forensic and archaeological applications. Four fragments of exon 6 and 7 of the ABO gene were amplified and digested by in total 7 restriction endonucleases. Particular attention was paid to the base changes at nucleotide positions 261(delG), 297, 526, 703, 721, 771, 796 and 1060(delC) in order to distinguish the six common alleles A101, A201, B, O01, O02 and O03. Furthermore, this method also enables determination of…
Microscopic findings and soil genetic “indicators” in support of pedoarchaeological studies
2015
Archaeologists use historical artefacts and archaeological records to reconstruct the communities that produced them and the environment in which they lived. Soil protects our buried or damaged heritage of archaeological and historic remains from depletion, damage, and any disturbance. Here are presented some preliminary results obtained in the framework of the FP7 Project "MEditerranean MOntainous LAndscapes: an historical approach to cultural Heritage based on traditional agrosystems (MEMOLA)" where ancient soils horizons are themselves archaeological records. In order to implement the MEMOLA archaeological study and to identify soil genetic "indicators", two integrated approaches were us…
Museum primatological collections: a valuable source of ancient DNA
2008
Ancient DNA polymorphisms analysis to investigate scrapie susceptibility in Sicilian sheep remains from medieval archaeological sites
2014
Encephalopathy in sheep was at first described in Ireland in 1732 and was called “scrapie“ because the animals tend to tear their hair. Historically it seems to be the result of an incestuous union as breeding practice in old farms. In Sicily the animal bones found in association with the human skeletal remains from the tombs or city-sites, comprised a broad range of domestic. Usually, species included in the collected bones are domestic animals commonly eaten as sheep or goats, cattle, pigs, chickens and a small partridge. In this contest, the assemblage and the species identification is often difficult. Based on DNA barcoding, all the investigated bones were confirmed as belonging to the …
EARLY HOLOCENE HUMAN DISPERSAL IN SICILY, ANALYSIS OF CRANIAL REMAINS FROM FAVIGNANA (EGADI ISLANDS)
2009
San Giorgio e il drago. Accessibilità fra antico e moderno a Palermo
2021
A partire da una apparentemente minuta occasione di progetto – la soluzione di continuità rappresentata dai gradini di accesso alla chiesa di San Giorgio dei Genovesi – il saggio esplora, con considerazioni puntuali, la complessa discontinuità della morfologia del nucleo antico di Palermo e presenta una strategia progettuale che si oppone a tale frantumazione. Si riesce nell’intento cogliendo alcune peculiarità della città intra moenia attraverso un attento progetto di suolo e una serie di camminamenti aerei che sanno recuperare le potenzialità di alcune ipotesi urbane del cosiddetto periodo “eroico” del Movimento Moderno. Starting from an apparently minute design opportunity—the solution o…
The hellenistic Théatron of Morgantina: History and Restoration
2011
DIO SALVI IL RESTAURO. L’apporto inglese alla cultura della conservazione dei monumenti
2020
Sebbene già riuscissimo a percepire quanto rilevante fosse l’apporto inglese per aver contribuito alla definizione del restauro modernamente inteso, sino ad oggi mancavano ancora sia una chiara visione d’insieme delle articolate vicende connesse all'affermazione dei princìpi conservativi, sia una più approfondita conoscenza delle fonti documentarie, necessarie al fine di tracciare i profili culturali dei protagonisti e scandagliarne i contributi teorici. La ricostruzione delle vicende è sviluppata entro margini temporali estesi all'incirca per tre secoli, dalla fine del Seicento al principio del Nove-cento, e strutturata attraverso la traduzione e lo studio di testi perlopiù mai circolati i…