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Phocians’ Dedication to Delphi
Authors: Franchi Elena
Published: July 2024

In the storage of the Archaeological Museum of Delphi two limestone fragments most probably belonging to the same inscription are preserved (inv. no. 1091 and inv. no. 37). The text consists of two lines, both heavily fragmentary; the letters are in the stoichedon pattern. 1091 reads τῶι at the beginning of the second line, whereas 37 reads αν, which is restored as [δεκάτ]αν in the first line, and λῶν in the second line, which is restored as [Θεσσαλ]ῶν (cf. Plut. De Pyth.or., 15: Φωκεῖς ἀπὸ Θεσσαλῶν). Both fragments feature traces of previous inscriptions engraved later in a Phocian context. As a consequence, it is highly probable that the authors of our inscription are Phocian. Modern scholarship maintains that the dedication referred to a tithe to Apollo by the Phocians after a victory over the Thessalians. However, as in the case of Syll.3 202B, there are at least four possible explanations: an archaic victory told by Herodotus, Pausanias and Plutarch; the battle of Argolas (modern Mendenitisa?), fought in 355 BC and referred to by Diodorus; a victory over the Galatians of Brennus (279 BC, cf. Paus. 10.8.3 and 10.23.3); an otherwise unknown victory by the Phocians.
Honorary Athenian Decree for Tenedos
Authors: Fogagnolo Marta
Published: July 2024

The honorary decree for Tenedos attests the importance of the small island in the context of the Second Athenian League, immediately after the failed siege to Byzantium by Philip II. The military operation of the Macedonian king could have endangered the Athenian control of Bosporus, but also the autonomy of the allied Tenedos, so that the island may have been interested to pay contributions in order to receive Athens’ protection and, at the same time, Athens itself may have appreciated the help of Tenedos in a difficult moment for the League. Even if the decree has gaps and it is difficult to determine the amount of the Athenian compensation, nevertheless it has an important historical value, since it is the last official document about the relations between Athens and the allies of the Second Athenian League
Eucrates’ Decree Against Tyranny
Authors: Squillace Giuseppe
Published: July 2024

The Athenian law (or decree) against tyranny, approved in 337-336 BC at Eucrates’s suggestion, was largely studied and produced several interpretations. The law guaranteed the immunity of the tyrannicide and stopped the activities of the Areopagus, if the democracy was overthrown by a tyranny. This measure was approved when Philip controlled Greece after his military success at Chaeronea (338 BC) and the Peace of Corinth (337 BC).
Pergamon Decree for Athenaios the Clergyman
Authors: Melloni Maria Francesca
Published: July 2024

The decree of Pergamon, dated between the 8th October 135 BC and the spring of the 133 BC, contains three royal letters: the first letter (A) is addressed by the king Attalos II to Athenaios (I), his cousin; the second (B) is addressed by the king Attalos III to the city of Kyzikos; the third (C) is addressed by the king Attalos III to the city of Pergamon. The three letters deal with religious affairs: the letter (A) refers to the election of Athenaios (II), nephew of Athenaios (I), to the position of priest of Dionysos Kathegemon after the death of his father, Sosandros, which held this role, and is addressed to the grandfather of Athenaios (II), i.e. Athenaios (I). The second (B) relates to the privileges which the city of Kyzikos has to grant to Athenaios (II), citizen of Kyzikos, priest of Dionysos Kathegemon and of Zeus Sabazios, according to the will of Attalus III. The third letter (C), which the city has to enter into the sacred laws, ἱεροὶ νόμοι, states the reform of the cult of Zeus Sabazios, achieved by Attalus III: Zeus Sabazios becomes σύνναος θεός of Athena Nikephoros and the Athenaios (II) is confirmed as hereditary priest of Zeus Sabazios in the reformed cult.
Votive Inscription by Aristeis
Authors: Maniglia Francesco
Published: July 2024

A quadrangular silver plaque from Francavilla Marittima (Sybaris), the inscription is bustrophedic and consists in a private votive offering commissioned by Aristeis, a woman, to an unknown deity. The structure of the text and the graphic peculiarities of the letters bring to a chronology about late 7th-early 6th century.
Alliance Decree Among Athens, Arcadia, Achaia, Elis and Phleious
Authors: Occhipinti Egidia
Published: July 2024

This paper presents and analyses the text of an alliance decree among Athens, Arcadia, Achaia, Elis and Phleious, which was signed in 362-361 BC. The text is inscribed in a stone relief. The decree established that the contracting parties were allies of the Athenians and their allies, but they were not members of the Second Athenian league. Moreover, this article discusses the relief figures.
Treaty Between King Pharnakes I of Pontus and the Inhabitants of Chersonesos
Authors: Ferraioli Ferdinando
Published: July 2024

The inscription contains a treaty of alliance between King Pharnakes I of Pontus and the inhabitants of Chersonesos. The king promises to respect the institutions and the security of the city, the inhabitants of the city promise to maintain an alliance with the king if he remains on good terms with them and with the Romans.
Catalogue of the Winners of the Charitesia and Homoloia of Orchomenus
Authors: Saccomanno Michele
Published: July 2024

The stele, found immured in a wall near the entrance of the Church of Mary in the Monastery of Skripù, close to the site of the ancient temple of the Graces at Orchomenus, preserves the names of the victors of two poetic-musical festivals, Charitesia and Homoloia. The date based on prosopography in the first half of the first century B.C. and the mention of the competition ‘for the epinicians’ allow to postulate a relationship between the institution of the two festivals and the policy of Sulla after the First Mithridatic war, when the roman general sought to gain the support of the Boeotians through the establishment of musical contests in many towns.
Ostraka and Inscriptions on Pottery from Late Ancient Ephesus
For a corpus of the Fragments
Authors: Biagetti Claudio , Sänger Patrick
Published: July 2024

This paper provides an overview on the DFG-Project Schriftkultur und Wirtschaftsleben im spätantiken Ephesos. Neue Ostraka und Inschriften auf Gebrauchskeramik. Focus of this project is the study of two groups of potsherds with scratched inscriptions, which have been unearthed in the urban area of Ephesos. Among these findings, a number of ostraka deserve special attention, preserving new details of the social and economic life of the ancient city. These new texts are going to be edited in an open access database and studied in greater detail in a printed volume.
The Epigraphic Landscape of Athens: Public Inscriptions and Urban Space in Hellenistic Athens
Authors: Lasagni Chiara , Tropea Stefano
Published: July 2024

The two case studies here collected provide the occasion for presenting the research work carried out by The Epigraphic Landscape of Athens Project, focused on the relationship between public epigraphy and urban spaces in ancient Athens. The first part, by Chiara Lasagni, focuses on the honorary decrees and statues voted by the Athenian Demos in the years 287-262, and attempts to outline some key coordinates about the epigraphic and ideological landscape produced after the revolt from Demetrius. The second part, by Stefano Tropea, deals with the evolution of the epigraphical landscape of the Athenian asty in the decades from the battle of Pydna of 168 to the second half of the I c. BC.
The Cult of the Founder in the Epigraphic Documentation
Some Observations
Authors: Boffa Giovanni
Published: July 2024

This paper focuses on the very scarce epigraphic evidence related to the cult of the ‘founders of colonies’, that means, more precisely, on the votive inscription of Mnasithales to Antiphamos, from Gela, and the inscribed dedications from the archegesion of Anios, in Delos. These highly interesting documents allow us to discuss about the roots of the heroic status of the founders and about the relationship between the cult of the founder and the votive inscriptions.
Athenian Fortifications in the Classical age: Notes on Some horoi of Uncertain Interpretation
Authors: Marchiandi Daniela Francesca
Published: July 2024

The paper examines some Athenian horoi of uncertain interpretation. Specifically I refer to a series of three horoi inscribed with the letter κ (ca. 450 BC) and a fourth horos inscribed with the letter α (400-350 BC). The hypothesis is that the letters are to be recognised not as abbreviations, according to the current interpretation, but as letter-labels. The horoi would serve to mark the sectors in which urban fortifications were divided, according to what we know for other poleis of the Greek world since the classical period (Corinth, Smyrna, Stratonikeia, Kos). Precisely these comparisons lead us to believe that these subdivisions were functional to the organisation of the defence of the walls, the so called phylakē. Alternatively, it cannot be excluded that they should instead be explained in the framework of the organisation of the building works of the walls or of the management of their ordinary maintenance.
Bilingual Epigraphs in Rome
Translation, Coexistence and Trascriptions between Greek and Latin
Authors: Tozzi Giulia
Published: July 2024

Greek/Latin bilingual inscriptions of Rome provide us with the opportunity to study the interaction/overlapping and linguistic mixtures between Greek and Latin speakers in the multiethnic Roman population from different points of view. By studying such texts as a whole (heterogeneous for typology, production, destination, chronology) I was able to distinguish various expressions of bilingualism: translation, transliteration, code-switching, juxtaposition of the two languages, isolated Greek words in Latin contexts and vice versa. The relationship between Latin and Greek is detectable through both epigraphic and linguistic style (layout, hierarchy, lexicon, morphological and phonetic facets).
Treaty of alliance between Athens and Chalcis
Authors: Di Giorno Laura Sofia
Published: July 2024

The inscription, found in the Acropolis of Athens, discloses the terms of a treaty of alliance stipulated between the Athenians and the inhabitants of the Euboic city of Chalcis, a member of the Delian-Attic League. In the opinion of several scholars, the document dates back to 446-445 B.C., when Pericles intervened in Euboea to suppress a revolt against Athens, although it does not provide any explicit reference to the occasion of its publication. The agreements were not signed on an equal footing but were reformulated by Athenians in the form of measures imposed upon the allies and were presumably approved during a single session of Athens’ assembly.
Honorific Inscription from Delos for the Athlete Menodoros
Authors: Bianchi Irene
Published: July 2024

In the early years of the 20th century, a base was found at Delos, celebrating the pancratiast and wrestler Menodoros son of Gnaios, together with a marble slab providing thirty-six inscribed wreaths. A reconstruction of the base is provided, combined with an analysis of the text of the inscriptions (I.Délos 1957 and 2498), based on recent studies. The Delian monument, which can be dated to the years 120-110 BC, stands out for the variety of agons it records: in some cases, it is one of the oldest attestations. A brief survey of these particular agons is provided.
Two Jews Praise God at a Temple of Pan
Authors: Struffolino Stefano
Published: July 2024

On the rock walls at the Pan temple in al-Kanāys (Egypt), stand out two blessings to God from men with Greek names who define themselves as Ἰουδαῖοι. Their presence in a pagan place of worship is likely to be interpreted in the sense of sharing a common epigraphic practice, inspired by the need to send an eternal thanks for the protection during a difficult journey. The nature of the divinity does not seem to have been a problematic element. These graffiti can be seen as an example of integration and hellenization while maintaining their own religious identity. The dating can probably be placed in the second part of the Ptolemaic period.
Linguistic Rights (and Duties)
Authors: Santipolo Matteo
Published: July 2024

Language rights are included among the fundamental human rights and most countries worldwide nowadays have ad hoc legislations to protect their historical and territorial language minorities. The matter becomes more complicated when the languages to be protected are those of immigrants, who, on the other hand, have also the duty to learn, at an adequate level of competence and proficiency, the language of the place where they settle down. Linguistic rights and duties, that should all fall under the Latin ‘umbrella’ term of ius, are the subject of analysis in this contribution, which mainly aims at providing hints of reflection on an intricate and by no means easily solvable situation, with special reference to the Italian context. In the last paragraph a proposal is put forward to introduce in the debate the newly-coined concept of ius linguarum, as a possible ‘jimmy’ of the twisted matter.
Phonological Sensitivisation in English FL
An Action-Research Project for a Case of Linguistic Deconstruction in a Subject Coming from International Adoption
Authors: Gronchi Michela
Published: July 2024

The present paper discusses the results of an action-research study involving a 15-year-old student who was diagnosed with severe dyslexia after coming to Italy through international adoption. The study investigates the literature on language acquisition in cases of early deprivation and the implications of the phonological deficit in students with dyslexia in a foreign language learning environment. The essay also reports the results of a learning program concerning phonological awareness that has been delivered in a two-month period to the student. The program outlines a possible methodological and practical framework for raising phonemic awareness in secondary school students with dyslexia and offers suggestions for classroom practice.
La lacuna di Notre-Dame come paradigma della complessità
Imparare dai restauri ottocenteschi per l'intervento sul contemporaneo
Authors: Morezzi Emanuele
Published: July 2024

The architectural preservation project regarding Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris in the mid-19th century by Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc constitutes a case-study of great interest not only for the analysis of the constructional choices that led to the final result but, above all, for the design managing and attitude that the two architects have maintained throughout the course of the intervention on the building. Analysing these restorations, and in particular the design methodology on the building, it could be of high interest due to the future restorations that the building will undergo, following the fire of April 2019. The main purpose of this article is therefore to make a careful critique of the design approach of restorations that are only apparently stylistic, in order to understand how the transformation of an asset is an architectural intervention that requires clear methodological rules in order to achieve the objectives related not only to the transformation or completion of the asset but also to its enhancement.
Naturaleza y artificio en los paisajes de Flaubert
Authors: Calatrava Juan
Published: July 2024

This paper focuses on the evolution of the sentiment of landscape in Gustave Flaubert’s work, both in his travel stories (in Brittany and, especially, in Near East, with the famous Voyage en Orient) and in his major literary works (Salammbô, Madame Bovary, L’éducation sentimentale, Bouvard et Pécuchet). It is part of a more general and collective research in the School of Architecture of Granada about the image of architecture, town and landscape in literature and painting.
Il Perfetto Composto negli Atti del podestà di Lio Mazor: condizioni testuali e diacronia
Authors: Valcamonico Francesca
Published: July 2024

This short essay deals with the analysis of verb tenses’ functions in the language variety testified by the Atti del podestà di Lio Mazor. It is a series of judicial documents written at the beginning of the 14th century in a small village in the Venice Lagoon. They show an archaic state of language, in which the Simple Past is still productive, while nowadays in Northern Italy it has disappeared from the varieties spoken in the area, that use only the Present Perfect. In the 1980s, some typological studies on Romance languages identified in the expansion of the semantic functions related to the Present Perfect a diachronic process named aoristic drift. In this paper, we analyze the linguistic distribution between Present Perfect and Simple Past showed by the Atti in the light of the aoristic drift’s theory. We also integrate this theoric background by applying a refined textual analysis to the documents. The combination of linguistic theory and text analysis to investigate ancient language varieties is the innovative element of the present work, with respect to the traditional studies about aoristic drift.
Facebook nel mirino delle Corti: accanimento giurisprudenziale a cavallo del caso Schrems?
Authors: Fossà Carlotta
Published: July 2024

In a time frame that is witness of the intersection between the plane of reality and the plane of virtuality, the digital world becomes a breeding ground for a substantial case law, which mainly affects online platforms and social networks, above all Facebook, a protagonist - straddling the Schrems case - in the thorny issues related to the mass surveillance, the protection of personal data and the controversial relationships aimed at building and maintaining a sort of transatlantic bridge between the EU and the USA for the traffic of the above mentioned data.
I requisiti degli strumenti di capitale primario di classe 1
Appunti per uno studio del capitale delle banche
Authors: Bevivino Vito
Published: July 2024

The need for stability in the financial and economic system arising from the outcome of the most significant of the recent financial crises was the premise for the regulation of banking capital developed by the Basel Committee. In a short time, to respond to similar needs, the European legislator has profoundly renewed the European banking regulation with the result of creating the Single Rulebook. A significant part of this harmonization tool is entrusted to Regulation 575/2013 on prudential requirements (Capital Requirement Regulation, CRR). The CRR identifies capital requirements of banks by determining the rules for the formation of bank capital and the balance ratios between the various elements of bank financing based on the riskiness of the assets. Common equity tier 1 (CET1) is one of the fundamental components of bank capital. The study sets out the structural elements of bank capital and the requisites that the capital instruments must possess in order to be classified as CET1. Furthermore, the essay highlights those profiles in which the prudential discipline overlaps the corporate one and notes those issues on which further analysis of the relationship between the disciplines could be focused.
Prosperous Minorities in the Literary Corsair Economy
Brahín in Los cautivos de Argel and David in Guzmán el Bravo
Authors: Gordon Michael
Published: July 2024

Spanish literature written by captives or about captivity in North Africa distinguished itself from the majority of Spanish Golden Age works because of its positive portrayal of Jews. Not only were these literary representations benevolent, but they were also quite realistic. Like many of their historical counterparts, the literary Jews Brahín (Los cautivos de Argel) and David (Guzmán el Bravo) practiced their religion clandestinely in Spain before moving to the Maghreb, where they enjoyed greater freedoms and privileges, including the ability to legally own Christian slaves. Multiple 17th-century autobiographical accounts from Spanish captives in Algiers and Tunis can serve as historical templates to corroborate the precarious, yet simultaneously prosperous, situation of those two literary Jews. Finally, the similarities found in historical sources and these two North African works challenges the notion of Lope de Vega being unequivocally anti-Jewish.
A Hebrew Echo of Catullus’ Passer circa 1400?
The Question of Humanism in Late Medieval Hispano-Jewish Communities
Authors: Gutwirth Eleazar
Published: July 2024

Against the background of a long standing tradition which sees the Hispano-Jewish culture of the late Middle Ages in terms of decline and isolationism, the article attempts to analyse – and argue for an echo of Catullus’ Carmina in – a Hebrew poem of the Catalano-Aragonese “guild of the poets”. It tries to contrast the unverified attributions of translations from the Latin or the putative existence of romance texts which have not been found with the close analogy of themes and motifs between the Hebrew and the Latin poem. It contextualises it in the frame of other cultural manifestations of close contacts between Jews and Christians as well as the rich evidence of the archival documents of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Missing Information in the Fictional Worlds of Benito Pérez Galdós
A Modern and Vital Experiment
Authors: Siviero Donatella
Published: July 2024

This paper will examine the use of missing information in some novels by Benito Pérez Galdós: the trilogy El doctor Centeno, Tormento, La de Bringas. Galdós’ plots are built on allusions and withheld information, and revealed by different narrative voices; they require an active participation on the part of the reader, who must put together different blocks of information as though they were tesseras in a mosaic. This missing information leads to subjective textual lacunas, that is, they are deliberately interlocutory and relational, in order to lead the reader to a continual collaboration and to make him/her create logical connections between the text’s different perspectives. The use of this reticence strategy creates an almost metafictional relationship between Galdós’ works and the reader, a bond that is surprisingly modern with respect to the latter’s horizons of expectation.
Eric Calderwood. Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
Authors: Bou Enric
Published: July 2024

Reseña de Calderwood, Eric (2018). Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, pp. 408.
Yolanda Castaño. Lingua dell’inchiostro - O idioma da tinta
Authors: Nuñez Briones Andrea
Published: July 2024

Reseña de Castaño, Yolanda (2018). Lingua dell’inchiostro – O idioma da tinta. Roma: Squilibri, pp. 64.
The Use of Literature as Ethnographic Material: Reading Maria Barbal’s Stone in a Landslide
Authors: Clua i Fainé Montserrat
Published: July 2024

This article offers the communication presented at the Conference “The Social Dimension of Literature. Concerning Maria Barbal’s Stone in a Landslide”, held in Barcelona in October 2018. The objective is to show the ethnographic value of literature, based on the author’s own experience of using literary works to teach Social and Cultural Anthropology at Barcelona Autonomous University. The text is divided into two parts: first, a brief approximation is made to the relation between Anthropology and Literature, to later explain the utility of literary texts as complementary ethnographic materials, by focusing on the use of Barbal’s novel Stone in a Landslide for the Author’s course in Anthropology of Spain.
Gil Vicente’s Cortes de Jupiter: Some Reading Notes
Authors: Rei Matteo
Published: July 2024

The Portuguese playwright and poet Gil Vicente is celebrated as one of Western literature greatest playwrights, as well as the most important dramatic author of Portuguese literature. Cortes de Jupiter (1521) is an excellent example of his unique style and one of his most fascinating plays. This article is intended to analyse some excerpts of this work, that deal with such themes as the representation of crown prince D. João, the presence of a Moorish female character and of her peculiar jargon, the wedding of the infanta Beatriz that gave Vicente the opportunity to stage his play.
Irreverent Views of Natália Correia and Hilda Hilst from an Autobiographical Perspective
Authors: Martins Dias Maria Heloisa
Published: July 2024

This article explores two talented, controversial writers. One Portuguese, the other Brazilian, both fueled by irreverence and provocation in the way they focus on themselves and the world. Natália Correia, a poet, novelist and Azorean playwright (1923-93), whose work emerged in the midst of the Salazar regime, and with a militant political-literary performance with other leading figures in Portuguese culture and literature during the 1950s and 1960s. Her poetry maintains affinities with aesthetic tendencies of Surrealism, although she was not a strict follower of any literary movement. Hilda Hilst, a poet, prose and playwright from São Paulo (1930-2004), was a militant of different nature. She was not linked to any aesthetic programs or literary trends, a singularity that even today defies critics.
The Balearic Island’s Image in the Cinema before 1936
Authors: Brotons M. Magdalena
Published: July 2024

The origins of cinema in the Balearic Islands are closely linked to stories of travellers who came to these islands in search of good weather, splendid landscapes and the picturesqueness of centuries-old traditions and customs. Along with the filming of local pioneers, documentaries by the great French producers of the turn of the century, Pathé and Gaumont, abound. These films contrast with written testimonies by visitors who landed on islands not yet discovered by mass tourism. The steep and rocky landscape is the perfect setting for this fictions. Majorcan productions, co-productions and amateur films, also from Menorca and Ibiza, constitute the visual testimony of the Balearic Islands prior to 1936.
Poetry and Painting
About Il suono impossibile della poesia. Rafael Alberti e la poesia dipinta by Loretta Frattale
Authors: Ghignoli Alessandro
Published: July 2024

This article examines the multiple conformation that a poetic text maintains with other disciplines such as painting. We will analyse the different internal values of an openly dialogical writing in the production of the Andalusian poet Rafael Alberti, through the study of lecturer Loretta Frattale, Il suono impossibile della poesia. Rafael Alberti e la poesia dipinta. We will verify how a poem can be configured in a set of not only verbal but also visual perspectives, thus constructing a text, in the most semiological sense, that can be read in a continuous meeting of a verbovisual nature. A later Albertian poetics that prevails within the different writings of the great Spanish poet.
David Serrano-Dolader. Formación de palabras y enseñanza del español LE/L2
Authors: del Barrio de la Rosa Florencio
Published: July 2024

Review of Serrano-Dolader, D. (2019). Formación de palabras y enseñanza del español LE/L2. Oxon: Routledge, pp. xviii + 350.
Aurora Egido. El diálogo de las lenguas y Miguel de Cervantes
Authors: Sáez Adrián J.
Published: July 2024

Review of Egido, A. (2019). El diálogo de las lenguas y Miguel de Cervantes. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 150 pp.
Ángel Loureiro. El mundo ciego
Authors: Sevilla Vallejo Santiago
Published: July 2024

Review of Loureiro, Á. (2019). El mundo ciego. Málaga: Editorial Pálido Fuego, pp. 210.
Andrea Pezzé. Delirios panópticos y resistencia. Literatura policial y testimonio en América Central
Authors: Oggioni Mariana
Published: July 2024

Review of Pezzé, A. (2018). Delirios panópticos y resistencia. Literatura policial y testimonio en América Central. Guatemala: SOPHOS, pp. 303.
Jon Kortazar (ed.). Bridge / Zubia : Imágenes de la relación cultural entre el País Vasco y Estados Unidos
Authors: Verbeke Frederik
Published: July 2024

Review of Kortazar, J. (ed.) (2019). Bridge / Zubia: Imágenes de la relación cultural entre el País Vasco y Estados Unidos. Madrid; Frankfurt: Iberoamericana; Vervuert, pp. 410.
“Chassez le national, il revient au galop…”. Eugenio d’Ors in the Decade of Pontigny of 1931
With Six Unpublished Letters from Paul Desjardins and One Back
Authors: Pla Xavier
Published: July 2024

The French period of Catalan philosopher and writer Eugenio d’Ors (1881-1954) has not been sufficiently studied. The edition of six unpublished letters between D’Ors and Paul Desjardins, the famous director and organiser of the Décades of the abbey of Pontigny, which deal with the preparation and celebration of a seminar on the Baroque in the summer of 1931, offer a first reflection on the reception of D’Ors’s thought in Paris. He was a presence oscillating between the initial dazzle and the subsequent disappointment, between blind admiration and irritated disenchantment.
Enseñar gramática en el aula de ELE, Grammar Didactics and Pedagogical Grammar
Some New Proposals
Authors: Arroyo Hernández Ignacio
Published: July 2024

This article critically reviews the contributions gathered in Enseñar gramática en el aula de ELE (2018), a collection of essays which provide teachers with an up-to-date view on research and teaching proposals. Despite the differences in terms of theoretical approaches, perspectives and objectives, all the authors agree on placing meaning at the very core of teaching and on building bridges between research and classroom teaching practice.
María Rosa Iglesias. Aurelia quiere oír
Authors: Spinato B. Patrizia
Published: July 2024

Review of Iglesias, M.R. (2019). Aurelia quiere oír. Buenos Aires: Paradiso, 349 pp.
Afonso Reis Cabral. Mio fratello
Authors: Spinato B. Patrizia
Published: July 2024

Review of Reis Cabral, A. (2019). Mio fratello. Roma: Nutrimenti, 335 pp.
Albert Rossich. Dos panegírics d’Andreu Rey d’Artieda (1604) i Vicent Garcia (1613) pronunciats a l’Estudi General de Lleida. Edició crítica
Authors: Sogues Marc
Published: July 2024

Review of Rossich, A. (2019). Dos panegírics d’Andreu Rey d’Artieda (1604) i Vicent Garcia (1613) pronunciats a l’Estudi General de Lleida. Edició crítica. Lleida: Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 279 pp.
« Un pays occupé est une terre sans vie »
Réflexions sur les subjectivités occupées et les espaces de résistance dans Kannjawou, roman de l'écrivain haïtien Lyonel Trouillot
Authors: Cozzio Federica
Published: July 2024

The article proposes a reflection on how the intertwined themes of power, subjectivity and agency are articulated in Lyonel Trouillot’s 2016 novel Kannjawou. In its narrative space, the hermeneutics of collective reality is produced by an individual memory engaged in questioning the relations of power that affect subjectivity and action of both the occupied Haitians and the foreigners occupiers. A close reading of the novel seeks to unpack its ethnographic thickness, its capacity to built layers of understanding around the stakes of a disadvantaged microcosm in contemporary Port-au-Prince.
Stanley Péan et l’interculturalité en diaspora
Musique, zombis et marasa pour une haïtianité revisitée.
Authors: Fianco Fabiana
Published: July 2024

In spite of being viewed as a young writer until the ’90s, Stanley Péan is now known as one of the most distinctive and established voices in the Haitian-Canadian literary scene. The pivotal moment in his career happened in 1996, when Zombi Blues was published. This novel displays a cultural space in which Haitian traditions and Canadian modernity converge and allow intercultural exchange to take place. Drawing from this perspective, the following article aims to analyse how Péan creates a fictional universe through the blending of cultural elements. Using the collection of myths and beliefs that permeate the Haitian and African cultural panorama as a reference point, we will investigate the ways in which Péan adapted and transposed these traditions to the Haitian diasporic context. Particular attention will be given to the use of jazz and African American music, as well as to the reinterpretation of mythological creatures such as the zombie and the marasa twins. Hence, the article tries to show how Péan’s cultural crossroad contributes to the foundation of a new literary interpretation of Haitianity.
Thou shalt not kill! Or Notes on Caribbean Music as Literary Text on Being Human
Authors: Guadeloupe Francio , Romero Ivette
Published: July 2024

One of the important things that we who share in the human condition do when we write, read, interpret, and discuss written works, is relate to death; the death of the unruliness of Life. We are referring here to that counter, that unforeseen, that chaos, that deconstructive constant, that je ne sais quoi that perpetually undoes all the certainties and structures and truths we hold dear in our attempt master and colonize our existence. Let us call this the aesthetic-real understanding of death that, at its best, is ethical in character. But, and this is crux of our argument in this essay, Caribbean literature as it is also expressed in the musical productions from the region, remind us that this general aesthetic-real of relating to death is inextricably bound up with the specific historical-real of non-Europeans, and those who Europeans deemed lesser creatures, being murdered by overwork, guns, disease or poverty as a result of western greed and anti-human humanism. Again, to repeat, in this essay, we plan to explore this and its summoning an alternative conception of being human via the literature housed in Caribbean music: those written, sung, performed, and sometimes, danceable texts.
Caribbean Contemporary Poets and Graphic Artists Moored at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2018
Authors: Matz Margaret Spencer
Published: July 2024

The Teatrino del Mondo of Aldo Rossi, a performance space set on a barge that could be reached by boat (1979-80), became an iconic metaphor for the first Venetian Biennale of Architecture. At the Venetian Biennale of Architecture 2018, this metaphorical representation was engaged by Caribbean contemporary poets Lasana M. Sekou and Charles Matz II and visual artists Cozbi Sanchez Cabrera and Jean-Ulrick Désert. In exploring ties that link the vessels of Caribbean contemporary literature and art to Venice, witness is the audacity of their opera, created while confronting intensifying natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes, and recalling horrifying unnatural conditions of Slavery and war. The artists participated in collateral events in which poetry or visual art intersected marvellously with Venetian idioms.
Circulation of Models: Casts from Michelangelo Between Emilia and Veneto, in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
Authors: Fadda Elisabetta
Published: July 2024

In Reggio Emilia, the sculptor Prospero Spani, also known as Clemente (1516-1584), created two statues representing Adam and on the facade of the cathedral. Along with Saint Daria and Saint Crisanto, they were both commissioned in 1552. The two statues indisputably draw inspiration from Dawn and Dusk, which are part of the monument dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici in the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo in Florence, work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. In January 1892, Eva’s leg by Prospero Clemente broke and fell to the ground. During the restoration, it was noticed that the leg and all other statues were empty inside. There is no formal documentary evidence of Clemente travelling to Florence, where Buonarroti's New Sacristy was opened to the public in 1556 and where, only later on, by the will of Cosimo I, were carried out some engravings representing the whole composition. Despite the existence of other drawings, casts were mainly responsible for spreading Michelangelo’s inventions for the Medici tombs. In the sixteenth century, it was only possible to talk of a culture of casts after 1540 King Francis I Valois’ initiative to ask Francesco Primaticcio – who was already occupied working for him at the decoration of Fontainebleau – to procure the moulds of Rome’s best ancient statues in order to reproduce them. Among the commissioned casts there were also those from Michelangelo, an artist who was extremely admired by the French. As known, masterpieces realised for the King of France had an immediate impact in Italy, which was primarily possible thanks to Primaticcio’s numerous trips in Emilia, where the painter had his own home and used to recruit his collaborators.
The Female Body in the Artistic Research of the Late Twentieth Century
The Case of Vanessa Beecroft
Authors: Fantuzzi Arianna
Published: July 2024

Disguised, adorned, placed in space and obsessively controlled, the body exhibited in Vanessa Beecroft’s performances, drawings and photographs, highlights several key themes of contemporary debate, such as identity transformation, desire, gaze and obsession for perfection, shown from the artist’s perspective and impressed on her models’ bodies. The present essay aims to deepen these topics through the works of Vanessa Beecroft, with an emphasis on those realised in the early nineties – among which the drawings of deformed bodies and the compulsive annotations of the Libro del Cibo – and relating them to the contemporary research of Italian female artists, which reveal new declinations of art making, starting from the same subject: the female body and its symbolism.
From Vitruvius to the Science Of Drawing
Daniele Barbaro’s Concept of “Scaenographia”
Authors: Camerota Filippo
Published: July 2024

Daniele Barbaro’s treatise on perspective is one of the most authoritative technical-scientific sources of the sixteenth century. Although largely based on the unpublished work of Piero della Francesca, the treatise had the precise and original purpose of filling a gap in the Vitruvian text about the contents of the so-called ‘scaenographia’, a discipline based on optical geometry of which Vitruvius provided only meagre and sibylline words. The subdivision of the treatise, examined here into the individual parts that constitute it, follows a clearly Vitruvian structure, with the first three parts dedicated to ichnographia (perspective drawing of plans), orthographaia (perspective drawing of solid bodies) and scaenographia (perspective drawing of the buildings and their ornaments), and with two other parts specifically dedicated to the measurements of the human body and to the drawing of the planisphere, themes treated by Vitruvius respectively in the third and ninth books of De architectura. In this sense, La pratica della perspettiva, published in 1568, should be considered as an integral text of the most authoritative commentary on Vitruvius’ I Dieci libri dell’architettura, published in 1556 and 1567.
Out-of-Frame Figures
The Emergence of the Sculpted Body in Renaissance Architecture in France
Authors: Munoz Sarah
Published: July 2024

Sculpted Renaissance medallions, inspired by ancient coins and clipeatae imagines, were developed in French monuments from around 1500 to 1550. First applied to the surface of the wall and restricted to a face, they showed, around 1530-1540, transformations related to the adaptation and variation of the body in the decoration. Characters in very high relief, sometimes represented up to the hips, were multiplied, freed from their frame, addressing the viewer and creating illusion games when they were placed in false windows. These decorations thus testify to the relationship between structure and sculpture and the growing humanisation of the wall.
Orta Çağ’da İslam dünyasında yazılmış eserlerde “Çiçek ve Kızamık” üzerine-Gerileme Dönemi-II: Kitābu’t-Teysīr fī’l-Mudāvāt ve’t-Tedbīr
Authors: Acıduman Ahmet , Aşkit Çağatay
Published: July 2024

Amaç: Bu çalışmada Orta Çağ’da İslam bilimi ve tıbbının “Gerileme Dönemi” olarak kabul edilen zaman diliminin en göze batan hekimlerinden birisi olan Ebū Mervān ʿAbdu’l-Melik b. Ebī’l-ʿAlā b. Zuhr’un Kitābu’t-Teysīr fī’l-Mudāvāt ve’t-Tedbīr adlı ünlü eserinde çiçek ve kızamık üzerine yazılmış olan bölümün Türkçeye çevrilerek incelenmesi ve Türk tıp tarihi literatürüne kazandırılması amaçlanmıştır.
Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu çalışmada Ebū Mervān ʿAbdu’l-Melik b. Zuhr’un Kitābu’t-Teysīr fī’l-Mudāvāt ve’t-Tedbīr adlı eserinin 1983 yılında Dımaşk (Şam)’ta ve 1991 yılında Rabat’ta basılan Arapça nüshalarının yanında birisi Paravicius tarafından çevrilmiş ve 1530 yılında Venedik’te basılmış olan Latince bir nüshası ile diğeri Capualı John tarafından Latinceye çevrilen ve Paris’te Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé’de bulunan yazma bir nüshası (MS 5119) incelenmiştir. Rabat’ta basılan Arapça metin temel alınarak Şam’da basılan Arapça metinle karşılaştırılmıştır. Çiçek ve kızamık ile ilgili bölüm Arapça metin temel alınarak ve Latince metinle karşılaştırılarak makalenin yazarları tarafından Türkçeye çevrilmiş, Arapça metinle Latince metin arasındaki farklılıklar dipnotlarda gösterilerek, yazının Bulgular bölümünde sunulmuş ve dönemin literatürü eşliğinde Tartışma bölümünde değerlendirilmiştir.
Bulgular: Çiçek ve kızamık ile ilgili bölümün eserin Arapça versiyonunda “el-cederī ve’l-ḥaṣbe”, Latince versiyonunda “De variolis et morbillis” başlığı altında yer aldığı görülmüştür. İbn Zuhr’un çiçek ve kızamık hakkında verdiği bilgiler dönemin yerleşik tıbbi paradigması humoral patoloji teorisiyle uyumludur.
Sonuç: İbn Zuhr’un çiçek ve kızamık hakkında, öncüllerinin eserlerinde yer alan bilgileri alıntılamaktan ya da tekrarlamaktan daha çok kişisel deneyimlerini ve tedavi önerilerini ön plana çıkardığı ve sunduğu görülmektedir.
Africa’s Sovereignty in the Context of the Multipolarizing Global Order: А Pre-Exploratory Discourse on the Sahel
Authors: Okoli Al Chukwuma
Published: July 2024

A new wave of geopolitical transformation is sweeping across the world, and Africa is not exempt from its dynamics. The evolving global geopolitical order is characterized by the realignments and counter-alignments of ties and interests at the multilateral and minilateral levels, with far-reaching consequences for nations. The study analyzes African sovereignty in the context of the geopolitical dynamics of the continent. Using the Sahel as a case study and secondary sources, the author identifies and substantiates the implications of the new geopolitical situation on the continent in terms of state sovereignty. Using a broad conceptual framework, the author views African sovereignty as the ability of the continent’s states to control their political, economic, military, and cultural destinies in the transition to multipolarity. Emphasizing the growing influence of China and Russia, as opposed to the countervailing influence of the United States, the author argues that the geopolitical struggle of the great powers in Africa is primarily driven by their geostrategic interests. Under the current balance of power and conditions, the countries of the continent can win or lose depending on how strategically active they are in terms of functional diplomatic relations with extra-regional geopolitical leaders. The article argues that such engagement should be pragmatic enough to advance the interests of Africa and all stakeholders on the basis of mutual respect and functional interdependence. Otherwise, Africa’s agency and self-determination are doomed to be objectified again, similar to the pre-colonial “scramble” for Africa.
Formation of Digital Branches of the Economy at the End of the 20th Century
Authors: Rozhdestvenskaya Irina , Kadyrova Gulnaz , Zubenko Viacheslav , Izotova Galina , Zubenko Andrey , Prudnikova Anna , Zubets Anton
Published: July 2024

New Economy is a buzzword to describe new, fast-growing industries that are at the forefront of technology and are considered to be driving economic growth and productivity. The new economy was first announced in the late 1990s, when high-tech tools, especially the Internet and increasingly powerful computers, appeared in the consumer and business market. The new economy was seen as a transition from an economy based on production and commodities to an economy that uses technology to create new products and services at a speed that the traditional manufacturing economy could not match. The idea that a new economy had emerged was part of the hysteria associated with the tech bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The new economy has been variously called the knowledge economy, the data economy, the e-commerce economy, and so on. Unfortunately, for the longterm health of the new economy that emerged in the 90s, investors and financial institutions raised the prices of technology sector stocks to unprecedented high levels, without fully taking into account fundamental factors. The hype around the tech sector has done more harm than good, and the speed at which these firms have been forced to become the next Microsoft has probably destroyed many potentially good business ideas in pursuit of great ones.
What happened to Putin’s friends? The radical right’s reaction to the Russian invasion on social media
Authors: Wang Chendi , Altiparmakis Argyrios
Published: July 2024

The Ukrainian crisis has significantly shifted public opinion against Russia and Putin, placing politicians with prior Russian ties in a precarious situation. This paper tracks how parties that had some affinity to Putin have pivoted after the outbreak of war. Through computational text analysis of a decade of Facebook posts from eleven European radical right parties, we investigate their stance evolution towards Russia and their strategic management of public sentiment and Russian relationships. The results show that most radical right parties, after the invasion, neither tried to remain pro-Russia nor focused their attention on shifting their prior position. Instead, they engaged in blurring the issue, diverting attention away from the war and using the events in Ukraine to assert their anti-EU positions.
From guidelines to ground reality: Challenges faced by an infection control nurse for control of MDR infection in Nepal.
Authors: Thapa Roshani , Birbal Sabina , Shrestha Pramesh Sunder
Published: July 2024

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Double Consciousness: A Subject Formation in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby
Authors: Neupane Khagendra
Published: July 2024

This paper based on Toni Morrison's "Tar Baby" delves into the intricacies of race, identity, and belonging. It explores the expressions of double consciousness in Morrison's work and its significance in understanding the characters' motivations and relationships. It employs W.E.B. Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness as a literary tool to describe the internal conflict experienced by African Americans. Double consciousness refers to the psychological experience of African Americans who perceive themselves both as individuals and as members of a racially marginalized group. This duality arises from the social construction of race and the historical context of oppression, leading to a fragmented identity. The female protagonist, Jadine Childs, embodies the struggle of double consciousness as a young, educated black woman. She gets divided between her African heritage and the allure of white culture. Her relationship with Son, a male protagonist, serves as a catalyst for her exploration of self-awareness and cultural identity. This study examines how Morrison portrays the internal conflicts faced by her characters. Additionally, it navigates the reasons behind the formation of split personality of the characters. It also discovers the role of history and memory in shaping the characters' perceptions. Over all, this research contributes the readers to comprehend how double consciousness acts in order to formulate fragmented personality of the black characters.