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Drawing from material collected during two ethnographic investigations conducted in Rome and Lazio, I will focus on the experience of love triggered by relationships with human beings and archaeological remains. I aim to show how these activities give rise to a romantic experience in a context that paradoxically regards love as a fictional and unreliable reality. Utilizing Ernesto De Martino’s conceptual framework, I describe that for the transitional generation born around 1990, caught between precariousness and the triumphant narratives of their predecessors, romantic discourse serves as a shield against existential annihilation by the uncontrollable forces of the universe. It also serves as a means to attain a distinctive identity validated by Italian tradition and heritage. However, while love offers a stable and trustworthy refuge, it can also render individuals powerless to change their life situation and cope with a lack of future prospects.

Discussing competence in architectural education is the opportunity for Giovanni Durbiano, Nino Saggio, and Ilaria Valente to reflect on the foundations of architectural education in Italy and the Schools where they have been teaching for a few decades, in Torino, Rome, and Milan, respectively. Since their inception, Architectural Schools in Italy have been characterized by the presence of “masters” who mediated via their authorship the effects of design on places, their history, and contexts. Beyond education, this became the Italian way of approaching architecture. The three scholars agree, in different ways, on the value that a similar approach may retain. At the same time, more instances emerge and innovation seems to expand indefinitely the fields in which competencies matter.

The article explores the experimental didactics promoted by the project Gender, labour and technical culture in 2019, which was conducted through a methodology intersecting public history, didactics of history and fieldwork activities. The interdisciplinary and multimedia approach has been successful in involving students, involved into museums, firms and school rooms. Among them, it is worthwhile mentioning the encounter between schools and firms, which took shape thanks to some visits paid by the students to industrial plants and service companies. The campaign against gender violence, with a specific focus on the world of work, has been included in a historical path aimed at raising awareness on women’s rights, which was developed thanks to audio-visual tools and the direct contact with witnesses. The activities have been described as far as specific goals and implementation actions are concerned, with reference to specific experience able to exemplify how the main principle of history teaching came into practice.

Tra la fine del XIX secolo e l’inizio del XX l’Europa visse un’epoca di relativa pace, industrializzazione, affermazione e sviluppo della scienza e della tecnica e fiducia nel progresso scientifico-tecnologico. Nel contesto della Belle Époque ebbe un considerevole incremento anche la Medicina, ma rimanevano molte questioni aperte, prima tra tutte l’impari lotta contro le malattie infettive. Infatti non era ancora stata messa a punto la sintesi di molecole sintetiche antibatteriche, e diverse malattie, in primisla tubercolosi (principalmente nella sua localizzazione polmonare), rappresentavano una vera e propria “calamità” per la popolazione europea - e non solo europea - dell’epoca. La percezione romantica che si ebbe della tubercolosi nella prima metà dell’Ottocento come malattia elitaria, venne scalzata dal dilagante diffondersi negli strati meno abbienti della società, divenendo il corrispettivo di indigenza e alienazione sociale (la cosiddetta “malattia del proletariato”). La paura antropologica della malattia si stigmatizzò in innumerevoli espressioni artistiche letterarie e visive che rispecchiarono un carattere assai cupo dell’”epoca bella”. Della tubercolosi fu vittima anche Florencio Sánchez (1875-1910), che con le sue disposizioni testamentarie espresse l’intenzione di destinare il suo corpo alla dissezione e alla didattica medica, in una sorta di ultima titanica ribalta nei confronti della malattia.

Within the i-MareCulture and Lab4Dive projects, an international partnership is developing different technologies for both in-situ and virtual underwater exploration. In particular, an underwater tablet dedicated to the archaeological sites is being developed to improve the recreational diving experience and support the research activities conducted by the archaeological divers. This tablet allows the diver to recognize his position in the underwater site, to acquire geo-localized photos and notes and to visualize the hypothetical reconstruction of the underwater remains through the augmented reality. In addition, it has been realized a virtual diving application that enables every user to explore some different underwater archaeological sites of the Mediterranean Sea without the need to conduct a proper dive. This virtual visit can be enjoyed by means of different Head Mounted Displays (HMDs), such as the HTC Vive, the Samsung Gear VR or the Google Daydream, exploiting the features of these devices to interact with the virtual environment. During the visit, additional information can be obtained playing some videos realized with the typical approach of the storytelling and a 360° field of view.

Ever since the Middle Ages, the relation between nature and architecture has characterised Mantua’s environmental situation and urban form. The artificial formation of the lakes transformed the city into a peninsula and placed it in the state of a comprehensive artefact whose complexity had to be considered in the case of every new intervention. Water is the limen of the city’s essence: the boundary separating it from the countryside and a defensive barrier; a threshold between nature and artifice by means of embankment-bridges; and a medium of the fluvial interchange. Some design experimentations delineate the principles of a critical continuity in which renewal means belonging to the stratification of the history of the places.

Apresento aqui algumas das teses que Levinas ergue a partir da ideia do infinito em Descartes. Como tônica o texto apresenta uma breve consideraçáo a respeito da alteridade, do desejo e da ética como conceitos, a ponto de desembocar no sentido maior do humano como hospitalidade.

Apresento aqui algumas das teses que Levinas ergue a partir da ideia do infinito em Descartes. Como tônica o texto apresenta uma breve consideração a respeito da alteridade, do desejo e da ética como conceitos, a ponto de desembocar no sentido maior do humano como hospitalidade.

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Lymphadenectomy in germinal tumors of the testis, in spite of the immediate morbility (postoperative complications) and of the permanent morbility (unejaculation), is still, as regards the group of non-seminoma neoplasms, the most suitable for survival. However, groups of oncologists are seeking the possibility of avoiding this technique at stage I and II of the lesions, with the help, of course, of careful observation by CT, NMR, markers. The use of combined therapies (chemotherapy and radius therapy) has increased survival and the patients' life, allowing a highly satisfying percentage of recovery also in the non-initial stages.

For many years diagnosis and management of prostatic adenocarcinoma were straightforward. However, with the advent of medical and less invasive therapies for the treatment of prostatic cancer, it has become necessary to know more about the etiology and pathophysiology of the disease. For example, hormonal factors, growth factors, stromal-epithelial interactions and aging have all been implicated in the etiology of the disease. The pathology of the disease demonstrates heterogeneity in the ratio of the stroma to the epithelium in any given patient, and the pathophysiology varies. Recognizing this heterogeneity in the disease, it is clear that no one form of medical or interventional therapy should be expected to result in a complete response.