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Climate scenarios require the implementation of climate proof actions. The effectiveness of such projects directly depends on the knowledge of local contexts and on the built environment's characteristics in relation to climate risk conditions. Innovative methods of knowledge can be implemented through the use of enabling technologies. Based on these considerations, the paper proposes the Coast-RiskBySea model as support for climate proof decision-making in relation to coastal flood risk, with the aim of developing new synergies between environmental design and enabling technologies. The proposed model was tested on an application case in the city of Naples by simulating a climate proof measure to assess the effectiveness of this solution in terms of damage reduction, and to define the potential and criticality of the approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper outlines the Neapolitan-Friderician School of Linguistics, focusing on the establishment of the subject as it was first taught in Italian universities and, in particular, at the University of Naples. A brief profile of all lecturers who taught linguistic subjects (i.e. Comparative Languages and Literatures, Grammar or Comparative History of Classical and Neo-Latin Languages, Sanskrit) is provided, tackling their main research interests; where significant, pupils who brought forward research in the spirit of the School are also listed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to UNI 11337, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the process of creating and managing information about a building throughout its life cycle. One of the fundamental results of this process is a multidimensional model, i.e. one that goes beyond the three-dimensional description and offers a complete perspective of the built work. This model is developed based on information that is collaboratively entered and updated during the main phases of the project. In this paper, we present the BIM model of the Gradec-Sveti Ivan Žabno railway line developed within the international cooperation activities between the Universities of Naples Federico II and Zagreb to highlight the advantages and limitations of the methodology applied to a real railway project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at describing the magisterium and the scientific legacy of Walter Belardi (1923-2008), professor of historical linguistics at Napoli-Orientale first (since 1956) and then at Roma Sapienza (1964-1998). After recalling the scientific relationship between Belardi and his teacher Antonino Pagliaro (1898-1973), the article focuses on Belardi’s research trajectories, from Indo-European to Iranistics, from general linguistics to classical and romance studies. The article reviews the profiles of Belardi’s many pupils across essentially three generations of professors, all of whom focused on themes inherited from their master. These were explored primarily in light of the common philological-textual approach that is typical, more generally, of the so-called “Roman school of linguistics”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a critical edition of an anonymous and unpublished poem in praise of Caterina Cornaro (1454-1510), taken from the manuscript Bergamo, Biblioteca Comunale "Angelo Mai", Cassaforte 3 01 (copied between 1490 and 1510). Some textual and biographical elements would lead to assigning the operetta to Giuliano Perleoni, known as Rustico Romano, chancellor of the King of Naples, Ferdinand of Aragon, and author of the Perleone (Naples, for the types of Aiolfo de Cantono, 1492). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines a short essay by Francesco Muscogiuri, entitled Di alcuni caratteri meno popolari della Divina Commedia, published in Florence in 1889. Here the author, who had been a pupil of Francesco De Sanctis at the University of Naples, analyzes three figures from Dante's poem, Guido da Montefeltro, Belacqua and Piccarda Donati, trying to highlight their "characters". The essay retraces the main points of this study, which deserves to be remembered in the panorama of Dante's criticism of the late nineteenth century because it is one of the few who remain faithful to the method and overall interpretation of the Commedia offered by De Sanctis in a period of clear prevalence of the "historical school", as we try to demonstrate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the political-administrative genesis of one of the major Italian public infrastructures of the twentieth century: Naples metro Line 1. It is highlighted in the period of time, the project has suffered, and at the same time, the choices of the different "political seasons" that the third city of Italy has undergone. From the beginning of the national railway system, which has become the best practice in terms of public transport, Line 1 has become, year after year, the heart of the Neapolitan and regional transport system, gaining international notoriety thanks to the so-called "Art Stations" and arriving today to transport over 45 million passengers / year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the paper a long and unpublished letter, traced in the State Archive of Naples, is published. The letter was sent, in March 1600, from don Pedro de Tapia y Ribera to Naples to the Flemish painter Hector Crucer from Antwerp. In the letter precise iconographic and technical indications were given to the painter to execute three canvases with a Franciscan subject. In the text it's hypothesised that the triptych was intended for the church of the convent of the Discalced Franciscans of Loja (Granada), founded by don Pedro de Tapia and his wife, doña Clara del Rosal Alarcón, a native of the Andalusian city. Of the Franciscan complex, suppressed in 1835 and demolished in 1951, only the praying statues of the two founders survive. As it's supposed here, they originally looked at the Crucer's triptych from two niches in the presbytery of the church. The statues, now housed in the Museo de la Alcazaba of Loja, are here given back to the Genoese marble sculpture of the early seventeenth century dominated by Taddeo Carlone's workshop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]