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The paper examines the concepts of pater patriae and maiestas, as new models of normative schemes. The survey, part of a larger study, aims to express the first impressions of the change we are witnessing between the end of the Republic and the beginning of the ‘Principato’. From a juridical point of view, the first historical period was influenced by dictatorships that alternated and also marked a new modus agendi, introducing rhetorical concepts and categories in the legislation, read differently, centered on the personalization of power. Contrary to what may appear, the emperors of the first phase of the principality, in many ways, sought to orient these concepts in a less personal ideological context. In any case, prudentes seem to bring the crimina born from such mechanisms, in particular, laesa maiestas, in the wake of typicality, as technical as possible, limiting the scope of its application. The severians are the last jurists to put themselves in dialectical ways, through law, with the central power. Subsequently, as soon as this confrontation ceases, the attempts to bring back these concepts, especially the maiestas, within the framework of the stricti iuris ratio will cease

We analyse the expenditures of Apulia municipalities in two areas: “Grecìa-salentina” and "Jonico-salentina". Using fiscal needs estimated by SOSE, this work evaluates twelve expenditure functions by identifying expenditure and output gaps arising from the merger of these municipalities.

By showing the effects of geographic mobility for study and labour purposes, the aim of this study is to explain which are the main factors of earning differentials among graduates and to estimate the employment probability with relation to different Italian universities and different degree courses. In particular, the report aims at providing an estimate of the effects of geographic mobility on graduates' earning differentials and employment probabilities by comparing southern universities and those in other Italy's areas. In addition, in order to compare national results with local results, this report includes in the analysis a sub-sample of residents in southern regions. Focusing on territorial features and different academic offerings enables to outline incoming and outgoing mobility patterns, highlighting the effects of southern human capital migration towards North-Central regions' universities.

From the second half of the nineteenth century, urban planning was understood, according to a top-down approach managed by government systems, as a cure for the city affected by the disease, injustice, and violence. This approach, aimed at regulating the behaviour of producers in cities and territories, aims at favouring the strongest economic and social actors to the detriment of the weakest social tissues. Today, the various factors of economic and social crisis, which act on a global scale, have made the picture of inequalities even more complicated and uncertain than in the past. Consequently, the technocratic responses provided by central governments are no longer enough and indeed sometimes create problems of segregation and isolation. Fortunately, in some cases, active citizenship, by expressing new social demands without waiting for the help of the competent authorities, has begun to experience some changes at the local and territorial levels. These positive trends are interpreted here as the signal of a phase of the resilience of citizens who, with their own strength and some external help, regain full possession of the cities and territories. These phenomena of resistance and profound change in the cities also signal the urgency of a disciplinary change that the social sector seems to ask of specialists and of the dimension of political action. The perception of the future of cities appears to be dominated by these new behaviours that lead the city community no longer to wait for the care of central governments but to find their own care, through the reuse of urban spaces.

A partire dall’Ottocento si assiste ad un fenomeno che porta le città europee ad ingrandirsi ed espandersi. Non si tratta solo di un’estensione territoriale, ma anche di un incremento della densificazione dovuto agli ingenti spostamenti di popolazione dalle campagne ai centri urbani. Il fenomeno della densificazione non deve essere inteso solo come rapporto tra la superficie e il numero degli abitanti, ma anche come complessità delle relazioni sociali ed è un processo che dalle città si estende alla dimensione planetaria a causa delle tecnologie che hanno trasformato il mondo in un villaggio globale. Dopo aver messo a fuoco le componenti storiche, economiche politiche e sociali che determinano questa iper–densificazione delle città, mostreremo come la conseguenza è la negazione della qualità della vita che può portare persino all’abbandono della città stessa. Starting from the nineteenth century we witness a phenomenon that leads European cities to grow and expand. Do not it is only a territorial extension, but also an increase in densification due to large displacements of the population from the countryside to urban centres. The phenomenon of densification is not to be understood only as a ratio between the surface and the number of inhabitants, but also as the complexity of social relations and it is a process that extends from cities to planetary dimension because of the technologies they have transformed the world in a global village. After focusing on the historical, economic, political, and social components which determine this hyper-densification of cities, we will show how the consequence is the negation of quality of life that can even lead to the abandonment of the city itself.

Viviamo nella “società dell’immagine” che ottunde la sensibilità e produce indifferenza. Il saggio mette a fuoco la ricerca ossessiva di una bellezza superficiale e apparente in ogni ambito della vita quotidiana e la conseguente perdita dei valori morali. Per contrastare questa anestetizzazione dovuta all’esasperata tendenza all’eccesso e al superamento dei limiti del giusto, del necessario, del conveniente e del bello, il saggio propone di recuperare l’antica dimensione etico-estetica del bello in linea con alcuni interessi dell’Everyday Aesthetics. We live in the "society of the image" that obtunds sensitivity and produces indifference. The essay focuses on the obsessive search for a shallow and superficial beauty in every sphere of daily life and the resulting loss of moral values. To counteract this anesthetization due to the exasperated tendency to exceed the limits of the right, the necessary, the convenient and the beautiful, the essay proposes to retrieve the ancient ethical-aesthetic dimension of beauty. This aim is in line with some interests of Everyday Aesthetics in the key proposed by the Japanese-American philosopher Yuriko Saito

Sulla falsariga di James Hillman, il saggio mira a capire se la bellezza può suggerire delle strategie politiche – con riferimento etimologico al termine greco polis, città, o meglio comunità – al fine di costruire un nuovo umanesimo. Dopo aver messo a fuoco il concetto di politica e il nesso con la bellezza, si prenderanno in considerazione le teorie della filosofa nippo-americana Yuriko Saito, esponente dell’Everyday Aesthetics e si metterà a fuoco la nozione di cura. Questa nozione può costituire il fondamento di una politica intesa come “strategia relazionale”, in cui le pratiche comunitarie e la cittadinanza attiva possano costruire un mondo più sano e sostenibile. Along the lines of James Hillman, the essay aims to understand if beauty can suggest political strategies - with etymological reference to the Greek word "polis", city, or rather community - in order to build a new humanism. After focusing on the concept of politics and its link with beauty, we will consider the theories of the Japanese-American philosopher Yuriko Saito, exponent of Everyday Aesthetics and we will focus on the notion of care. This notion can be the basis of politics understood as a "relational strategy", in which community practices and active citizenships can build a healthier and more sustainable world.

In alcuni periodi della storiografia croata furono espressi certi giudizi negativi sul governo della Serenissima in Dalmazia riguardanti, in particolar modo, l'ambito linguistico-culturale. Si credeva che il governo veneto, mediante una propaganda intenzionale, con l'istituzione di scuole in lingua italiana in primo luogo e con tutti gli altri mezzi a sua disposizione, si adoperasse in realta per la snazionalizzazione dei suoi sudditi oltremarini. Gli storici croati dell'Ottocento, nel periodo del risveglio nazionale, non sapendo spiegare in maniera razionale l'uso della lingua italiana in Dalmazia, attribuirono il fatto alla cosiddetta politica coloniale della Serenissima. E vero che l'amministrazione veneta non fece molto per l'istruzione delle popolazioni dalmate, ma e altrattanto vero che la Serenissima non si ingeriva nelle loro usanze, nella loro lingua ecc., e di conseguenza non conduceva mai una consapevole e intenzionale politica snazionalizzatrice.