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The purpose of this paper is to offer a new perspective on Silius Italicus' alleged stoicism through an analysis of three episodes in his poem which deal with exemplary deaths: the execution of the so-called "smiling slave" (a Hispanic slave who bears his torments heroically, mocking his torturers, Sil.1.169--181), the death of Marcus Atilius Regulus at Carthage (Sil. 2.340--344; 2.435--436; 6.535--544), and the death of Lucius Aemilius Paullus at Cannae (Sil. 10.260--288). My argument is that in Silius' poem both Regulus' and the slave's deaths are modelled on similar passages in Seneca's oeuvre, while the description of Paullus' death, despite being modelled on Livy's account (Liv. 22.49.6--11), includes several philosophical (and especially Senecan) motifs, so that the consul of Cannae becomes a sort of stoic sapiens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a collaborative anthropological research in a textile cooperative in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, the paper deals with the processes of work self-management in urban popular economies. Aiming at contributing to the critical debate around the practices and spaces of the common in the experiences of migrant work self-management and to the political processes of self organization in popular economies, the paper relies on different disciplines to trace a political genealogy of popular economies, analysing problems, potentialities and ambivalences of self-management practices raised from the field and ethnographic data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims at responding to some of the issues recently raised by Wilkinson (2017) about love as an "improper political concept", focusing on the role of love within the spaces of commoning. By analysing two commoning initiatives (Communia in rome, the PAH in Barcelona/Sabadell), the main argument of the paper is developed in two points. The first one concerns how 'good' love, as expressed by consensus practices and group harmony, is still made of power relations. The second one concerns those people for whom love is a too strong and hurting experience that they can't or do not want live anymore, thus revealing how not everybody can afford the love leading the reproduction of commoning initiatives. Methodologically the paper results from fieldwork carried in Rome (18 months) and Barcelona/Sabadell (5 moths) based on different research methods (participant observation/observant participation; interviews; questionnaires) and based on the "politics of possibilities" introduced by Gibson-Graham (2006). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Cantieri Culturali in the neighbourhood of Zisa (Palermo) represent one of those places where movements of urban commoning and practices of cultural activism have produced common claims through the conversion of a place destined to privatization into a powerful laboratory of social inclusion and cultural promotion. After reviewing the existing debate about commoning experiences in the cultural sector, the paper aims at inverting both the sight and the method: instead of reading the experience of the Cantieri Culturali through the existing debate, the debate itself will be critically questioned on the basis of what happened at the Cantieri between January and October 2012. This way the Cantieri become the place and the opportunity for what Spivak defined as "affirmative sabotage" (2013), i.e. the questioning of discourses produced around commoning practices in recent years, especially in the domain of critical and radical geography. In fact the paper stresses how most contributions on the topic have several bans, removals and camouflages: while promoting the commons as spaces of creative autonomy (Vasudevan, 2015) and pure resistance (De Angelis, 2003), they reduce and/or erase their critical impulse, thus preventing their transformative capacity and political sense. The radical separation of the common from the market and the state, the problematic lexical and theoretical synergy between common and community, the progressive processes of un-commoning that sometimes characterize these spaces represent some of the issues discussed in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting point of this paper is the «Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights – 06/30/16 – Action no. 51362/09 – Taddeucci and McCall c. Italy», which sentenced the Italian government for not having granted residence permit due to family reasons to McCall, Taddeucci’s partner. Thanks to the recent approval of the law 76/2016 on Civil Unions, the right to family cohesion for homosexual couples has been fully recognized. In fact, since 02/11/17, the foreign partner of a same sex couple is allowed to apply for the Italian citizenship. This paper aims to identify the consistency of this type of phenomenon and to investigate the social and cultural dynamics that emerge from it. The analysis focuses on the emergence of family models, which determine different perceptions, capable of producing homophobic attitudes, sometimes associated with racial discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the role of the so-called second generations concerning the issue of the «marriages of convenience» between Italy and Ethiopia. The work ethnographically analyzes the relation between transnational marriage alliance and citizenship value beyond its finalistic perspective. Drawing on the analysis of the social structures allowing transnational mobility through marriage, I will use a mobility perspective to analyze the «convenience» of this phenomenon from children of immigrants’ side. The paper aims at shedding light on the social value of citizenship between second generations involved in this phenomenon beyond its instrumental value, and as a gauge of social legitimation. By connecting marriages with their social positioning in a transnational social space and considering the social structures reproducing their differential relation in the national public space, the paper will show how «marriages for mobility» can well be considered as practices of Italianness among second generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents new paleobiological data from the skeletal remains founded in the necropolis of Cap de Forma; the site is located on a narrow isthmus that links a 30-m-high coastal promontory in the island of Minorca (Mahon). The archeological complex, made of rock tombs called Cuevas, surrounds a complex cyclopean monument that is an atypical example of Talayotic architecture. The excavations of the necropolis were carried out between 1997 and 2001, and during these years two tombs, the number 3 and 22, respectively, were excavated. This paper describes the digging operations and the subsequent anthropological investigations focused on the analysis of the skeletal remains from the tomb 3. It was possible to identify 37 adult individuals, including 5 females and 12 males, and 7 subadults. The preliminary investigations of pathologies and stress markers reveled good health conditions characterized by an intense physical activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fener - Balat represents the 19th century Ottoman social way of life with particular construction techniques and urban life in Istanbul. In the 20th century, conservation approaches influenced the area and the recently there has been intervention in disaster prevention concerning architectural heritage. In this paper, a brief history and values have been elucidated. Urban resilience was intended in the historical area starting with a rehabilitation programme; however, various stakeholders display inconsistent scenarios on the historical built environment. As a methodology, the paper analyses major urban interventions influencing the area; in addition, monitoring after the Rehabilitation Programme via direct investigation on the neighbourhoods was discussed in the context of resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the evolution of Italian regionalism from the reasons for its introduction in the Constitution to the problems of implementation and reform. Starting from the result of the constitutional referendum which rejected the constitutional reform, the work studies the constitutional jurisprudence that best illustrates the main critical aspects of Italian regionalism. To describe the gradual narrowing of regional competences, the paper analyses the decisions of the Constitutional Court on the economic crisis. The paper focuses on the principle of cooperation used by the Constitutional Court to resolve the competence overlaps between the State and the Regions. If there is no transformation of the Parliament, this is a key principle for warranting regional autonomy. In this perspective, the article analyses the most recent Constitutional Court judgements which invoke the principle of loyal cooperation. Finally, the role of the Parliamentary Committee on Regional Issues will be emphasized. This Commission, pursuant to Article 11 of the Constitutional Law of 18 October 2001, no. 3, is called upon to intervene in the process of adopting the laws of regional competence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes some reflections concerning the practice of reading, its conceptual structure and its transformations, the blurred profile of the information ecology in which it is inserted. At the same time illustrates some outcomes of a research project conducted with tools of text mining and network science on the social reading platform aNobii. The paper presents these main topics: a) general overview of reading's context; b) short discussion reading as a complex system; c) presentation of some central concepts of network science and of its applications; d) introduction to text mining with some results of analysis of aNobii's reviews; e) conclusions and prospectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reconstructs the main lines of the history of AIB studi. Journal of Library and Information Science, an Italian Library Association publication. The previous titles and editorial programs development of the journal are outlined, highlighting how the 'vocation' for the establishment of a scientific journal - as well as professional interest - internationally oriented and fully open access has been increasingly defining, with the support of the Italian Library Association (AIB). In particular, critical steps from paper to digital, indexing and open access are discussed, referring to journal management and editorial work, to actual issues and principles involved, and looking at the still possible developments in the direction of open science. The landscape in which AIB studi is placed and progresses is finally completed with some digressions on related topics, such as e-journals management systems, citational databases, and the open access movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lack of a definition of what it means to teach Digital Humanities (DH) that is unanimously agreed upon allows us to reflect on educational objectives and methodologies with the aim of shaping the identity of the digital humanist. The opening of the international Master's degree program in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge (DHDK) at the University of Bologna aims to contribute to the discussion by developing a possible DH teaching model. Setting out from the experience developed through this project, the Knowledge Organization and Cultural Heritage (KO and CH) course, one of the first year's compulsory modules, has been designed following a specific principle. While teaching how to move from data to knowledge and how to manage this process as an iterative workflow, this course emphasises the role of DH theories, methodologies and techniques. This paper aims to introduce the scope and content of the KO and CH course. In particular, it focuses on the guidelines required to create a project in the domain of Linked open data, by working on data, models and methods coming from libraries, archives and museums (LODLAM). Linked open data (LOD) is considered to be the primary methodology for managing KO issues in the context of LAM. For what concerns the interpretation of cultural heritage memories, the implementation of DH theories and methodologies is the added value to the project's design, modelling and implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The establishment of the new Metropolitan City and recent anti-sprawl legislations form part of a new urban regeneration initiative. In this context, the goal of the current research is to provide spatial forecasts, guidelines for governance, and economic feasibility scenarios for revitalisation work. The research is centred on the Milan Metropolitan area. In addition to exploring certain theories of regeneration and resilience, this paper reinstates the practice of spatial analysis of abandoned industrial areas at a metropolitan scale and identifies boundaries, environments, and issues for meta-design testing based on public initiatives aimed at increasing socio-economic resil-ience for the south-east sector of the Milanese metropolitan area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Italian hospitals are adopting the private-sector approach, which means that they tend to work towards improving their service offerings and rationalizing health-care spending by introducing new organizational models for the management and control of "nonhealthcare" activities, outsourcing them to specialized subjects if need be. This paper identifies four solutions that correspond to different organizational models for service management on the basis of progressive outsourcing levels/ degrees. The proposed models are analyzed according to the SWOT Analysis logics that evaluates the Strengths, the Weaknesses, the Opportunities and the Threats of a project or for an organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The attention to construction details should return to be the centre of architectural design, especially thinking about the possible negative effects caused by incorrect technical solutions. This is even truer in the case of energy efficiency and thermal performance, since errors in details may compromise the hygrothermal behaviour of the entire building, and particularly in case of more fragile users, as in schools. The paper aims to examine the state of the art of school buildings in Italy, with particular reference to requalification policies, emphasizing the importance of appropriate technology design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The success of the strategies for safeguarding, preserving and maintaining the precious assets of the huge European Cultural Heritage still represents a challenge that many countries tackle with limited or inadequate actions or systems, despite the fact that the international community is now aware of the serious risks endangering its heritage. The nature of this fragile context requires the knowledge of data and information other than the technical and construction characteristics of buildings. The paper describes an innovative management tool for inspection and maintenance of historical and monumental buildings, developed within the Horizon 2020 European research project INCEPTION (Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the aftermath of WW2, Europe - as the main war scene - endorsed the "fast time" approach to reconstruction. Relying on optimising production- and-building processes, this approach was widely resorted to in experimental quarters, regarded as the "starting point" on which to build the technical know-how leading to the industrialisation of building techniques. This paper analyses the French and Italian experiences. They are closely linked, since in the shared choice of reinforced concrete as the most eligible material, the French experimentation provided a pattern for Italian reconstruction; so, they jointly become trailblazing researches about making building science-based and about organising building-yard work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, green design considers climate as a fixed property of a specific place. Nevertheless, recent changes demonstrate that this vision has to be reversed, considering climate a time-dependent parameter. This paper hybridises climatology and bioclimatic design underlining, thanks to the usage of a very recent high resolution climate reanalysis database (ERA5-Land), the impact that climate changes have on short-term periods, adopting well known building climate-related indicators. European maps are drawn considering degree-days variations (from 1981-95 to 2004-18), while typical mean 24-hour monthly days and bioclimatic charts are adopted for a limited number of locations. Results support the need to adopt climate data time variations during design phases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper critically retraces the disciplinary references of management for architecture and the building process. It aims at recovering - and innovating - the traces of the operational heritage of a strand characterising the technological research originally capable of making a great contribution of cultural transfer to promote the qualification of planning and implementation processes of public interventions. Although significant intellectual resources of architectural technology have been dedicated to these issues, following the outcome of the succession of building crises, these claims stemmed from priorities, such as research demand and educational offerings, in the area. The most recent regulatory developments and the introduction of new technologies allow us to reconsider the evolution process of systems and of client structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The circumstances that produce architecture have profoundly changed and, among these, pracisely those which perceive and use space-time in a different way in comparison with the past. This paper defines a conceptual reference framework by positioning the time factor in relation to the role of the project as an innovative and operational procedural tool in terms of sustainable conversion of cities. The essay aims to investigate the "addition strategy" as a paradigm of architectural grafting to achieve a balanced relationship between temporariness and permanence. It outlines scenarios in which a new design culture is capable of guiding the processes of transformation of the built environment by placing the idea of impermanence in a perspective that is closer to the current socio-technical condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Architectures capable of dynamically interacting with the context and change aspects of their physicality are an interdisciplinary research field with many implications on living environments and on design itself. In this area, the designers' attention is mainly focused on the temporal aspect, on the relationship with project, technology, and construction, framing the discussion on tools and design strategies for the dynamic management of variables, on the one hand, and on innovations affecting technologies and actors of the design process, on the other. In the field of adaptive architecture, the paper proposes a reinterpretation of the meaning of duration, explaining the structure and the key factors that characterise its application approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Norway is becoming one of the new destinations of the Italian immigration, and the number of Italians living in Norway has substantially increased since 2008. Using data from official sources and from a recent mixed-methods research, the purpose of this paper is to present the main characteristics of the Italians in Norway and shed light on the profile of the Italian new mobility - why they moved and how they live in Norway. The analysis indicates that the sociodemographic characteristics of the Italians in Norway and their motives for migrating are rather different from those of the previous migration waves. Today, most Italians in Norway have a high educational level, with highly qualified jobs, and are less dependent upon the migrants' networks. Also the number of women migrating alone has increased. Despite higher resources and life satisfaction, the Italians living in Norway experience difficulties in establishing satisfactory social relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 19th and first half of the 20th century, Tunisia was a destination for many Italian migrants and a country at the center of imperial rivalries operating in the Mediterranean. This paper investigates the role that the Italian school network in the Tunisian Regency occupied both in community-building among Italian immigrants and in the Franco-Italian imperial rivalries. By focusing its analysis on government schools, it assesses how their political intent changed diachronically concerning the geopolitical context's evolution, especially after the French military occupation of Tunisia. International agreements, defense (and construction) of extraterritoriality, imperial tensions, and colonial society were the cornerstones that constituted the educational institution's space of action. Making use of the documentation from the French, Italian, and Tunisian archives, the research also demonstrates, on the one hand, the supplementary relationship of private-subsidized schools to the rigid governmental network. On the other, it highlights the autonomous educational experiences of immigrant groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focusing on olive oil sector in central Italy, this paper proposes a decision support system for olive growers in order to: i) identify the optimal crop management in the hypothesis of maximizing gross farm income and maximizing a landscape integrity index; ii) simulate the effects of different policy and market scenarios. Results from multi-objective integer optimization models showed that the solution obtained by maximizing the gross income foresees the intensive crop management and the complete allocation of the farm area to newly planted olive groves. The traditional crop management is chosen when the landscape integrity index is maximized. However, only a 30% increase of the Extra Virgin Olive Oil price from ancient and traditionally managed olive groves could ensure their complete maintenance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the translation of the moral tale about Genevieve of Brabant, translated into German by the Capuchin friar Martin von Cochem (1630-1712) and into Slovene by the unschooled folk poet Pavel Knobl (1765-1830) most probably in 1800. The paper first presents the historical background, along with the period in which the work was written, the content of the legend and its reception in the German territory. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of the first Slovenian translation, published by Ignac Kremžar in Kranj, in order to verify the reliability of the attribution of the translation to Knobl and the extent to which the translator followed the German text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper endeavour to explore the sociolinguistic charateristics of gaì, a local jargon spoken by some pastoral communities on Italian Alps, untill mid/late XX century. The article first tackles the classification of gaì as a class language, and identifies its affinity with other local and foreign jargons. After a brief description of gaì's main linguistic features, the article proceeds by locating its socio-anthropological roots in the relations between shepherds, farmers and miners. Lastly, the article proposes a non-linguistic research on the origins of gaì, with a focus on the introduction of enclosures in Valcamonica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on the private Pietro Laura Fund, which belongs to the Biblioteca universitaria di Genova's bibliographic and manuscripts collection since 1938, and presents the critical issues related to the management of this material during the years. This fund should be re-evaluated in its entirety, starting from its peculiar characteristics (notes of owners, annotations, handwritten additions) that make it valuable from the point of view of book collecting and of librarianship. In order to remedy, albeit partially, the absence of specific investigations on the fund, it was decided to proceed with the presentation of the state of the art, suggesting at the same time some points for reflection on the initial donation and on the treatment hypotheses. The fund should be treated following the guidelines produced in 2018 by the AIB Commissione nazionale biblioteche speciali, archivi e biblioteche d'autore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lack of a definition of what it means to teach Digital Humanities (DH) that is unanimously agreed upon allows us to reflect on educational objectives and methodologies with the aim of shaping the identity of the digital humanist. The opening of the international Master's degree program in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge (DHDK) at the University of Bologna aims to contribute to the discussion by developing a possible DH teaching model. Setting out from the experience developed through this project, the Knowledge Organization and Cultural Heritage (KO and CH) course, one of the first year's compulsory modules, has been designed following a specific principle. While teaching how to move from data to knowledge and how to manage this process as an iterative workflow, this course emphasises the role of DH theories, methodologies and techniques. This paper aims to introduce the scope and content of the KO and CH course. In particular, it focuses on the guidelines required to create a project in the domain of Linked open data, by working on data, models and methods coming from libraries, archives and museums (LODLAM). Linked open data (LOD) is considered to be the primary methodology for managing KO issues in the context of LAM. For what concerns the interpretation of cultural heritage memories, the implementation of DH theories and methodologies is the added value to the project's design, modelling and implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the observation of the reaffirmed centrality that Wikipedia and its sister projects assumed during the Coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown, the article presents the Wikiproject Covid-19, in its dual articulation in Wikipedia and Wikidata. In particular, it analyzes the key role of librarians participating in the project, that they assume thanks to their knowledge in the LIS field and in the standardized description of resources through metadata. After a short international review, the paper reports the specific case of the University Library Center of the University of Salerno, where some librarians have actively contributed to the Wikidata Wikiproject Covid-19. Starting from the technical background acquired with participation in initiatives such as Wikicite or international campaigns such as "#1lib1ref" and from previous experiments, through the combined use of various tools and the creation of a rigorous workflow, the librarians have come to process and integrate thousands of data from Wikidata into quality biomedical databases in a relatively short time. The workflow focused mainly on three activities: the insertion of external unique identifiers for authors and scientific journals, the qualification of the items through the addition of bibliographic references and the subject cataloguing of the scientific articles relating to SARSCoV-2 and the related world pandemic. Lastly the essay highlights the limits and the critical issues of the semantic web, of the open collaborative projects and of the specific method used, with some considerations on the librarian's new centrality in the context of open data and on the need to participate in these projects in the in the area of Digital Humanities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the strategies and methods for preserving Linked Open Data (LOD). To this aim it first presents an overview of the main scientific initiatives that have dealt with this topic. Then it describes some digital technologies that may result useful for preserving LOD, providing some insights on their application to LOD. It also provides a concrete example of implementation of the Semantic Web technologies for preserving Linked Data. Finally, it suggests some specific themes and directions that should be further investigated in order to elaborate a comprehensive solution to this problem: the preservation of Linked Open Data cannot be demanded to a single tool or method, it is rather the result of technical, organizational and procedural choices that altogether make up a consistent framework for LOD preservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intellectual freedom has a continual implementation at library, particularly in collection development. This article first examines intellectual freedom and censorship in some statements of IFLA, of few European library associations and, last, of ALA. The ALA's tools to defend intellectual freedom are then analyzed, focusing in particular, compliant to the specific ALA "manual", on collections development and selection policies and on resources reconsideration procedure, as tools for prevention and defense policies against challenges to intellectual freedom in library. Then this article explains the main types of censorship concerning library collections, including the self-censorship, also called "silent censorship", its characteristics and strategies against it; furthermore this paper deals with a particular type of commercial pressure in the process of selection, with the risk of overlapping collections. Finally, this article exposes the position of Michael Gorman in relation to intellectual freedom, reaffirming again: intellectual freedom is a value also for collections development and selection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I propose an alternative semantic history of nomos, linking it to sense and the nature of image, rather, of geographical chora as image. In the light of this link, I outline an idea of regional geography as chorography, whose topicality lies, first of all, in being knowledge about sense. My reading of the relationship between nomos and sense differs from both Carl Schmitt's and Gilles Deleuze's, to the same extent that my interpretation of the nature of image, based on Plato's thought, differs from the interpretation they respectively offer of Plato's legacy. Rereading the nature of image in Plato means, in my view, understanding the original nature of complexity. Consequently, a (regional) geography conceived as chorography possesses already in its name, derived from chora-image, a key conceptual tool to face today's major epistemological challenge, that is understanding the world in terms of complexity. The concept of nomos is regarded here as a fil rouge between all the concepts taken into consideration: region, image, ethics, happiness. All these concepts - I argue - are associated with one another inasmuch as they shape, and share with the concept of nomos, an idea of complexity, based on the tension between striation and mobility, which makes them tools for narrating and inchoatively rethinking, reimagining, today's world and also our identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study starts from the premise that the violence suffered by Italian migrant women has not yet been adequately considered. Identify traces of suffering and «large» and «small» violence by rereading the research that had as its object the trafficking of white women, arranged marriages, brides by proxy, women left home by the husbands, women assisted by social workers for intergenerational conflicts. It shows that a good starting point can be to identify the sources for writing the history of this violence by reading between the lines of literature and official documentation: by on-board doctors, judicial reports, social work or asylums files. But, he concludes, it is in the literature and, in particular, in some studies carried out recently in the United States, that the tragedies experienced by women can be found. Also, from memoirs we can understand the reasons for the reticence of historiography to address the topic. The family memories handed down orally and put on paper by descendants of the second or more generation seem in fact to offer the most promising fields to reconstruct their history, in particular for the older migrations of which we cannot have direct evidence, having as protagonists predominantly illiterate women, who spoke neither the language of the new countries and sometimes not even Italian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The peri-urban agricultural landscape has a potential social value linked to the use of agricultural areas, as well as an agricultural-productive value. Multifunctionality has become fundamental in the sustainable management of urban and peri-urban agricultural areas. The paper describes the application of a decision-making support tool, based on a multi-methodological approach, for concerted management policies (Public bodies/farmers) in peri-urban agricultural areas. Three principles guide the proposal: Conservation of the historical landscape as heritage; Valorization of the social potentials of the landscape in the periurban context; Sustainable management, with a public-private partnership perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some papers kept in the Foggia State Archive reveal a little-known crosssection of the migratory phenomenon between the two southern shores of the Adriatic in the early nineteenth century. It consisted in the mutual displacement of "foreigners" who reached the coasts of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and depleted then inhabitants to be used, in all probability, for slave duties. One of the most striking episodes of aggression was recorded in Monte S. Angelo in 1804, when a group of unfortunates was captured by unidentified foreigners. The story can be reconstructed thanks to a series of documents, including the declaration made by the prefect of Lucera who intended to initiate, by faith of slavery, the procedure for their freedom. The expulsive phenomenon, which therefore did not stop at the old regime but persisted even after the Enlightenment claim of fundamental rights, deserves to be reconstructed with particular regard to the historical-juridical implications: it generated - still in the 19th century - serious consequences of public order, which deeply affected the southern society, its perception of insecurity, trust feelings between population and institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literature on mental manipulation is often spoiled by a specious use of the "brainwashing" metaphor. This is sometimes done as a pretext to emphasize its irrationality and its being outside the scientific field. Instead, this paper aims to demonstrate how the knowledge acquired by experimental psychology and behavioural economics leads to the identification of a process of modification of thought and behaviour that can be described in scientific terms. This process is carried out with a slow self-selection of recruits and an equally gradual increase in demands. The classic Milgram experiment is a suitable tool to explain this. The framing effect identified by Tversky and Khaneman, and which is so important in marketing, is perfectly capable of inducing counterproductive choices in a context that makes them reasonable for those who act them. It is intended to demonstrate that there is nothing magical or metaphysical about mind control, as long as it is interpreted as a process of conditioning operating through a progressive selection and that leads to an increase of conformism in a closed environment. Instead, what is thrown out of the scientific field is the idea of Rational Choice on which the defense of manipulative cults is based. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the methodology applied by AIB, during the Covid-19 emergency, to provide information and recommendations in support of libraries and librarians. We focus in particular on the AIB recommended solutions to react to two different emergencies, one related to the public health, and the other to the employment in our sector – which weigh on the prospects of our sector. While the first one is of a contingent nature, but requires expensive solutions even in the medium term, the second one is structural. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem addressed in the paper lies within the field of social robotics of media and social communication studies. The primary objective is to partially verify the occurrence of the phenomenon of the uncanny valley. It would occur in relation to anthropomorphic robots carrying out selected professions of high social respect. The second objective is to establish the level of a person’s sense of security depending on the type of services performed by the robots. The third purpose is to determine the correlation between various professional activities and anxiety of service recipients. The data was collected by means of a survey conducted on a target group of post-millennials by means of a questionnaire which assessed the images of anthropomorphic robots of varying degrees of similarity to humans who performed professions of high social prestige: university professor, physician, nurse, qualified worker, accountant, salesman. Some of the characteristics of the mentioned professions also feature a modern librarian, herein referred to as a librarian – an erudite of the digital era. The inference was carried out based on the distribution of marks and the Chi-squared independence test. The study indicates a premise that there exists the uncanny valley, and that there exists a relationship between the level of trust and confidence and the type of work the robot performs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last fifty years we have witnessed a significant increase in the exposure of the female body and its nudity, first in advertising and cinema and currently in social networks. The pervasiveness of this practice has now become widespread, but it does not stop questioning, especially in relation to the meaning that underlies the representations and the ideal of female beauty they're contributing to spread. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze the thought of Julia Kristeva on pleasure of seeing, beauty and body, in order to question the contemporary public show of the female body to understand if it contains an invitation to admire with pleasure, the pleasure of re-veiling precisely, or rather, as the Bulgarian thinker would say, coincides with a reductive grimace of femininity itself. There seems to be some suspicion that behind this practice there are forms of violence against women, with important ethical and social implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

P.Oxy. 2248 was published by Lobel (1952) as part of a 'oµµ" of Aeschylus' Semele on the basis of a palaeographical standpoint (cf. P.Oxy. 2164). According to modern scholars, the Aeschylean authorship of the papyrus could likely be confirmed thanks to some textual expressions (cf. ll. 2, 5, 12). In fact, the context seems to suggest a dialogue between the Chorus and another character about an adverse fate. The text, however, can be generally reconstructed, though not in detail, and from the reconstruction a more or less clear picture of its contents may be presented. There are still uncertain readings and some unresolved issues in the text, but it is my hope that this paper could overcome some of these difficulties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares the traditional vs carbon-oriented forest management of two coniferous stands in the Alpine environment, quantifying the carbon sink, the carbon credit generated and the economic results. The results show the economic feasibility of the transition from current forest management strategies to a carbon-oriented method in the considered context. Carbon-oriented management provides relevant environmental benefits, combatting climate change, even though some elements of uncertainty still persist, particularly in relation to achieving a profitable management, specifically due to the volatile voluntary carbon credit market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the importance of the city map of Capodistria (Koper) produced in 1619, at the end of the Uskok War, by engineer Giacomo Fino upon commission by the podestà and captain of the people, Bernardo Malipiero. The map, which represents the oldest document of this kind referring to Capodistria and is preserved at the State Archives of Venice, not only has great iconographic value, but also reveals the technical expertise and the vast knowledge of its author. In fact, besides elements of a purely technical nature, Fino included in the drawing all that was of vital importance for the Capodistria of that time: its urban structure with the districts, the distribution of town squares and streets, the monastic complexes, the ports and inner harbours, as well as the pomerium (the space of land immediately outside and inside the walls of a Roman city, considered sacred and kept free of buildings) - all of the elements that provide researchers with an overview of the role and importance of the city as the capital of Venetian Istria at the times of la Serenissima. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The College of Judges played a significant role in the political, institutional and legal world of Vicenza in the modern age. It was composed of legal experts belonging to aristocratic families, who found in this institution the right space to defend the identity, the prerogatives, the privileges and the statutes of the Respublica of Vicenza after the annexation to the Venetian State. Old and new families thus found in the College a suitable space to affirm their authority, enhance their status and manage the administrative and judicial affairs of both the city and the territory. In the past, interest has been given to the relations of power within the Vicenza ruling class, but also between the local power and the central power, to the attraction exercised by the courts of Venice among the elites formed in law, to families of recent nobility, to their path and to their alliances with the ancient aristocratic families within the College and the city councils. It is now necessary to consider an ancient aristocratic house that assumed a prestigious role in the Vicenza society and outside of the Venetian Republic, through the examination of the case of Marco Thiene who, in 1599, tried to be admitted to the College. The paper analyses the operation of the corporation, the recruitment criteria, such as the nobilitas (noble lineage), natalia (place of birth), aetas (age), studium (education), and mores (character) of the applicant Marco, as well as the relationship established among the cousins and uncles within the noble house of Thiene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The analysis of Genoan libraries belonging to the professional associations offers the opportunity to refocus the attention on private specialized libraries. The book collections of the professional associations are made up of often underestimated and/or unexploited bibliographic heritages that, in most cases in Genoa, have gone missing. The paper highlights the critical aspects of a nonprofessionalized management that is not aware of the value represented by documentary materials of specific orientation that have settled over time. At the same time, the potentialities that such book collections could play in local and national documentary networks are assessed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present the contents of Satellite meeting IFLA “Transforming LIS education for professionals in a global information world: digital inclusion, social inclusion and lifelong learning”, held in August 30-31, 2019, at Vatican Library and Palazzo Cardinal Cesi in Rome. The authors pay attention to specific topics about LIS education (derived by globalization, widespread of ITC and changes connected with it): the standardization of curricula to improve the occupational mobility; the ethical implications of digitalization of ‘culturally sensitive’ item to promote the communication, the collaboration and the integration between communities; the introduction of LIS educations in university in order to encourage new classes and increase the dialog between institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents Peter Johan Lor’s book, International and comparative librarianship: concepts and methods for global studies (Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2019). As a result of a long research, the book shows the origins and the evolution of international and comparative librarianship as fields of study and research; it explains professional literature development on the subject; it deals with methodological aspects in terms of approaches, techniques and tools of comparison intended as a research strategy to analyze influences, divergences and consonances between different library contexts. Lor’s book is an opportunity for theoretical study but also a working tool, thanks also to the numerous examples that concern different geographic areas of the world and types of library as well as a variety of themes, functions and services. For its systematic approach, completeness and accuracy it is the most updated reference point for comparative studies, especially for library contexts, such as the Italian one, that are still too poor in reflections and real applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The absence of shared authority files for cataloging manuscripts reflects an intrinsic complexity: a lack of homogeneity in the identification of all authorized access points. This article focuses on the analysis of authorized access points (personal names, corporate body names, family names and geographical names) present in Manus online (MOL), a database containing catalogue descriptions and digital images of manuscripts, private papers and archives held by Italian public, private and ecclesiastical libraries. In particular, personal name authority records are taken into consideration from two points of view: a quantitative (also with the help of graphs) as well as a qualitative, structural, and perspective approach. Workflow protocol, theoretical approach and practical aspects are summarized. From a strictly operational point of view, about name authority records, the XML schema elaborated by the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium is compared with the UNIMARC/Authorities, the universal format for authorities. This comparison allows us to rethink authority and reference records in terms of international standards, also in manuscripts cataloguing. In conclusion, a look at authority files and records of digital library and international digitization projects of manuscripts worldwide: E-codices, the virtual manuscript library of Switzerland, and Biblissima: Bibliotheca bibliothecarum novissima, an observatory for Medieval and Renaissance written cultural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay proposes a reflection on the topics covered during the conference "The privilege of the written word: management, preservation and improvement of personal cards and books" organized by the Department of Sciences of Cultural Heritage of the University of Salerno, with the collaboration of the Library Centre of the University of Bologna, the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna and the National Commission of Special Libraries, Archives and Author Libraries of the Italian Libraries Association. Risks are analyzed, such as those related to the dispersion and fragmentation of materials during the life of the producer, good practices, with the presentation of concrete projects, the approach to new digital technologies. The conference days, organized in sessions, were divided by themes: "Books, papers, maps: the personal workshops of writing and the arts"; "Personal funds in excavation, description and management activities"; "Personal funds between physical space and digital space: the paths of access and enhancement". Part of the event was dedicated to the presentation of the Guidelines on the treatment of personal funds. The publication of the proceedings will certainly encourage new reflections and a remodeling of the same guidelines, also in consideration of the documentary typologies to be treated that were subject of deepening and report during these study days. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper regards the ways archival discipline is treated in DDC. After a short introduction about the discipline in Italy, the essay focuses on the analysis of division 020 of DDC 23, with specific attention to section 025 and with punctual reference to section 651, concerning archival material. The aim of the paper is to point out archival discipline's peculiarities and its differences from library science, as well as underlining the critical issues on how this discipline is handled in DDC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The contribution is aimed at presenting the state of art related to the records management in the public sector and, more specifically, to the main tools required for managing current records according to the Direction general for Archives and its specific competencies which imply a role for defining and approving classification and preservation plans. The article analyses various projects developed for the public sectors in the last 25 years in connection with the innovation processes for the public administration and the crucial role recognized to the records management. The paper illustrates the work done by working groups for universities, municipalities, regions and provinces but also for health environment, chambers of trade, banks and educational institutions. With reference to the State institutions, a general picture is presented for ministries such as Ministry of Justice and Ministry for cultural heritage. In the last case the classification system developed and adopted in 2004 in connection with the electronic registry system is discussed in detail. The paper presents also the project supported by the Agenzia dell'Italia digitale (AGID) dedicated to the definition of a common classification plan for administrative functions in the public sector. Even if not complete the picture is able to provide elements to evaluate the tools and their critical aspects, to stress the need for cooperation, to update the present systems and study general methodologies. The contribution is also dedicated to the role of professionals with specific experience in the records management systems for public sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]