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Negli anni di passaggio dal XII al XIII secolo, il cisterciense Garnerio di Rochefort si dedica alla composizione di un breve trattato, il De contrarietatibus in Sacra Scriptura. L’opera, tuttora inedita, fa ricorso all’uso delle arti sermocinali per risolvere le ambiguità scritturali. Nel prologo del De contrarietatibus emerge un peculiare interesse del cisterciense verso la disciplina della retorica e, in particolare, verso l’impiego delle figure tropiche nella comprensione dei contenuti della Rivelazione. A ben vedere, tuttavia, la scelta garneriana di ricorrere all’affinamento degli strumenti della retorica per illuminare il significato della Scrittura trova una piena giustificazione solo alla luce della sua concezione della natura e della Scriptura come teofanie e/o simboli. Ora in quest’orizzonte simbolico, di impianto neoplatonico-dionisiano, è sempre all’opera nelle res, così come nel linguaggio, un meccanismo di traslazione, un’estensione della parola, oltre il suo contenuto ordinario, a un significato altro, di natura spirituale. Dunque la fattura retorica delle espressioni bibliche assume un valore conoscitivo, e non semplicemente ornamentale, perché capace di palesare, attraverso un dialettico gioco di corrispondenze e/o di rotture, una proporzionalità analogica tra il visibile e l’invisibile. In the intervening years between the XII and XIII centuries, Cistercian Garnerius of Rochefort devoted himself to the composition of a short treatise, De contrarietatibus in Sacra Scriptura. The work, still unpublished, makes use of the sermocinal arts to resolve scriptural ambiguities. The prologue to De contrarietatibus reveals a peculiar interest of the Cistercian in the discipline of rhetoric and, in particular, in the use of tropes in understanding the contents of Revelation. On closer inspection, however, garnerian’s choice to resort to the refinement of the tools of rhetoric to illuminate the meaning of Scripture finds full justification only in light of his conception of natura and Scriptura as theophanies and/or symbols. Now in this symbolic horizon, of Neo-Platonic-Dionysian framework, there is always at work in res, as well as in language, a mechanism of translation, an extension of the word, beyond its ordinary content, to another meaning of a spiritual nature. So the rhetorical workmanship of biblical expressions assumes a cognitive, and not merely ornamental, value because it is capable of manifesting, through a dialectical interplay of correspondences and/or ruptures, an analogical proportionality between the visible and the invisible.

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Between the end of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, the south of Italy becomes one of the central destinations of the Grand Tour, travelers and foreign artists tell the landscape through the drafting of travel reports and drawings that give back an image of the places often changed over time. In particular, the territory of Campania and above all the city of Naples and the adjacent Phlegrean territory, exerts a certain charm that translates into the creation of real works of art. The work of the French architect and landscape painter Prosper Barbot is part of this context, thanks to two trips undertaken at the beginning of the XIX century, he draws up a corpus of drawings in which, through a technique that is anything but static, shows an image of the places visited completely new and personal. Through the selection of some of these designs, the paper intends to illustrate how the author’s gaze and interest have outlined the image of urban environments and spaces related to the Phlegrean and Neapolitan context.

HPV infection is widespread. Approximately 40 HPV serotypes infect ano-genital area, but most infections are asymptomatic and can get cleared spontaneously. HPV clearance is modified during pregnancy. Many information have been published about HPV infection and preterm birth, unfortunately the results are often not corresponding. The aim of this study was to understand whether there is an association between HPV infection and preterm birth. In our study we reported results about 20 pregnant women admitted for preterm birth. We assessed if and how papillomavirus cervical infection affects pregnancy outcome. HPV prevalence in pregnant women in this case series was 45% (9/20), while 55% pregnant women were found HPV-negative (11/20). There was no difference between HPV positive group and HPV negative group in terms of gestational age at delivery, neonatal weight, Apgar score. Our data, even though from a very small series, confirm the absence of different outcomes due to HPV infection. It has been reported that women with H-SIL have a higher baseline risk for PTB than general population and treatment for H-SIL probably increase this risk further. The research on HPV and PTB should go straight to this direction.

This article presents the activity of typographers, lithographers and chalcographers who created sacred images on paper in the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth century in Naples. Public and private collections of sacred prints and pictures on paper are analyzed here, along with the indications reported by the Naples trade guides during the period examined. In this way, families of «sacred printers» succeeded in time have been identified. The author focuses on other aspects, such as serial visual communication or related to the skills of the various families of Neapolitan printers. Particular attention is also paid to the figurative details placed in relation to local times and specificities that have contributed to make the visual communication and the diffusion of such images rich in the central and southern part of Italy.

The stories of healing from illness of late nineteenth century documenting the graces bestowed by the Virgin or a saint and votive paintings of the same period shed light on epidemic diseases, official therapies and devotional practices. The votive representations, as reports of graces received, are complementary sources that communicate both with their specific and different languages, the will to make public the grace received. Reports of graces testify other interesting aspects such as the doctor-patient relationship, the home environment with different characters and their roles, and the meaning of suffering lived in the home. The statement of a reality often based on the ambivalence of the role of the doctor and on syncretisms still detectable in the practices of medicalization is no less important.

Massive and severe epistaxis is an uncommon event in pregnancy. It could be life threatening and could affect the normal pregnancy course. The best management is still on debate; it could be medical, conservative or surgical. Pregnancy termination often is problem solving. Hormonal changes during pregnancy affects nasal physiology. Vaginal delivery, labour induction or cesarean section are all suitable, after hemodynamic stabilization of pregnant woman. We report a case and review the available Literature.

This paper presents a methodology for simulating screw pumps using a 3D-CFD transient approach. It is known in literature that the advantages of screw pumps in noise emission, reliability, and their capacity to work with any kind of fluid make their applications interesting for many fields. Increasing demands for high-performance screw pumps require a deep understanding of the flow field inside the machine. The investigation is performed by use of a 3D computational fluid dynamics analysis based on a single-domain structured moving mesh obtained by novel grid generation procedure through the commercial software SCORG. The real-time mass flow rate, rotor torque, pressure distribution, velocity field, and other performance indicators including the indicated power were obtained from numerical simulations performed in the SimericsMP+ environment. The performance curves of the numerical model were produced for variable rotation speeds and discharge pressures and compared with experimental data with high accuracy. The pressure distribution in the screw groove is relatively uniform, the screw clearance and the meshing area pressure are different from the screw groove pressure distribution. The results demonstrate that the speed does not have a considerable effect on the pressure field. At last, the numerical model was validated by comparing the numerical results with the measured performance obtained in the experimental test rig through the comprehensive experiment performed for a set of discharge pressures and rotational speeds. The model has shown to predict pressure variation and flow rate with good accuracy.

The term performance generally refers to actions both in experimental art and in theatre; two different areas by tradition, but determined by certain common elements that make it difficult to link the word to the former or the latter. Although versatility and diversity are the its main aspects, the performative language has progressively imposed its own form determined by the autonomous complex relationship between word and image. Taking into account this aspect and retracing the Michael Kirby’s concepts of non-matrixed structure and the Bonnie Marranca’s notion of theatre of images, this essay aims to envisage the performance as an art form that could bring attention to the value of the experience and to re-establish a link between the aesthetics of the authoring and the aesthetics of perception.

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