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Chapter The coastal lakes of Campi Flegrei: between biodiversity and anthropization
(2020)
Campi Flegrei (from Greek phlegraios = burning) is a volcanic area north west of Naples, extended from Agnano crater until Cuma. Pozzuoli, Bacoli, Monte di Procida e Quarto, some northern neighboroughs of Naples are included ...
Chapter Seasonal dynamics of cadmium and plumbum in the Turia and Pripyat rivers
(2020)
The anthropogenic pressure on aquatic ecosystems leads to a significant transformation of their quantitative and qualitative composition. Many rivers of Ukraine are polluted. The object of research was the surface waters ...
Chapter L’Urbano. Origine e fortuna di una novella pseudo-boccaccesca
(2020)
The paper pursues an investigation on an apocryphal text still underinvestigated by scholars: the Urbano, falsely attributed to Boccaccio. The first part focuses on its fortune in the Boccaccio’s canon, from the first ...
Chapter Itinerari amazzonici in Boccaccio: il retroterra romanzo
(2020)
The theme of the Amazons accompanies Boccaccio’s vast literary production, from youth to maturity. The essay explores the interactions between texts of medieval french literature and Boccaccio’s works; at the same time, ...
Chapter Caterina Colombini e le origini della congregazione delle gesuate
(2020)
The results of new archival research, compared with some epistles of Blessed Giovanni Colombini, allowed to frame the mystical experience of his cousin Caterina Colombini, which matured in the Sixties of the fourteenth ...
Chapter La bisbetica domata: proposta di lettura di Decameron IX 9 attraverso i proverbi e i novellieri toscani tra Tre e Quattrocento
(2020)
The essay focuses on the analysis and the use made by G. Boccaccio of a proverb inside Decameron IX.9. After a brief overview of the use of proverbs and auctoritates in the medieval rhetorical treatise and a summary of the ...
Chapter Caterina Colombini, o della cugina sedotta. Una ‘ricostruzione’ della figura di Caterina attraverso i testi
(2020)
In this essay the author demonstrates that it is possible to “reconstruct” the figure of Caterina Colombini (1340?-1387) – Giovanni Colombini’s cousin – through a group of texts: the hagiography of Caterina, the letters ...
Chapter Ira e compassione. Fonti aristotelico-tomiste di Decameron VIII 7
(2020)
This essay aims to examine the philosophic sources behind the representation of passions in Boccaccio’s tale of the scholar and the widow (Decameron VIII 7). If the definition of anger is attributable to Aristotle’s ...
Chapter «Un arancio in gennaio». La Vita del beato Giovanni Colombini di Feo Belcari da racconto agiografico a testo di lingua
(2020)
Composed between 1448 and 1449, the Vita del beato Giovanni Colombini by Feo Belcari was printed for the first time in 1477 and was destined to growing publishing success over the following centuries both as an independent ...
Chapter Il mare, la tempesta, la quiete: un passaggio fondamentale nella trama e nel significato del Filocolo
(2020)
This paper inquires the characteristic elements of Filocolo, linked to sea and tempest elements, interpreted as symbolic transpositions of the love oriented sentiment. In the context of Boccaccio’s youth productions, ...
Chapter Il lessico del magistero nelle prose erudite di Giovanni Boccaccio
(2020)
The contribution aims to illustrate the results of the research conducted on the lexicon of the Petrarch-Boccaccio magisterium relationship. The research also made use of the comparison between Boccaccio's various masters: ...
Chapter Con chi vengo vengo di Michele della Marra fra Calderón e Angiola D’Orso
(2020)
This paper aims at studying the Italian fortune of the Calderonian play Con quien vengo vengo , firstly, by focusing on its first version by Michele della Marra (1665) and then moving on to a triple textual comparison ...
Chapter Poggio Bracciolini’s International Reputation and the Significance of Bryn Mawr, ms. 48
(2020)
Poggius Florentinus delighted in his local identity but he also, famously, had an international career, being in attendance at the Council of Constance, being resident in England for four years (1419-1422) and seeking ...
Chapter Civilisation versus barbarie. L’Ennemi sous la plume des Léningradois assiégés
(2017)
Leningrad under siege (1941-1944) appears to be a privileged context to study the perception of the Enemy by the Soviet people. The diaries kept by hundreds of exhausted and starved Leningraders allow an in-depth study of ...
Chapter Le marche di lista in russo. Segnali riformulativi, estensivi, generalizzanti… i vse takoe
(2016)
This paper offers a survey of list markers in contemporary Russian, i.e. discourse markers that signal the presence of a list and fulfil specific semantic and pragmatic functions, such as generalization (и все такое ‘and ...
Chapter L. Tolstoj lettore di scrittori e filosofi occidentali: fra indipendenza e appropriazione
(2017)
This article focuses on Tolstoy’s attitude towards the European writers he reads. From what he says about them (in his Diary, notes, letters, prefaces), we can characterize his attitude towards the Western cultural tradition ...
Chapter La deissi personale e spaziale nelle epigrafi glagolitiche dell’Istria e della Dalmazia
(2016)
This paper deals with person and spatial deixis in the Glagolitic epigraphs of Istria and Dalmatia collected by Branko Fučić (1920-1999). The focus is mainly on spatial deixis offering interesting insights as far as the ...
Chapter Strategie di formazione delle parole in varietà iniziali di polacco L2
(2016)
This paper describes word formation as observed in the earliest stages of L2 Polish. 31 L1 Italian beginning learners took part in a 14-hour Polish course, which was recorded, transcribed and morphologically tagged in order ...
Chapter L’eredità teatrale e artistica di Savva Mamontov: un ponte tra Oriente e Occidente
(2017)
The present issue focuses on Savva Mamontov as main creator of a theatrical-synaesthetic experimentation in Russia, based on the research of a common Slavic and pre-Helenic civilizations root to create a universal artistic ...
Chapter Between Kafka and Gogol’. ‘De-territorialising’ National Narrative(s) in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in Russian
(2017)
Between Kafka and Gogol’. This suggestive title reflects the path that will be undertaken in this paper, approaching the two authors as privileged interlocutors in order to analyze the specific artistic dimension of the ...