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In this paper, we analyze consumption patterns of leisure time among young people belonging to the so-called "second generation" of immigrants in Italy. Leisure time consumption describes how young immigrants use cultural products and services. We analyze data collected by the ISTAT through the survey on the "second generations" (2015). A comparison of leisure consumption patterns between second-generation immigrants and their Italian peers does not show significant differences. Rather, differences in consumption styles are associated to gender (male/female), geographic area of residence (North/South), and size of the municipality (large municipality/small municipality) of residence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to highlight some little-known aspects of the educational and methodological work of Gino Fano, one of the most outstanding Italian algebraic geometers. Fano adopted the main pedagogical and epistemological assumptions of algebraic geometry and its community and developed them in an original way, combining the legacy of Klein’s vision and the challenges of the Italian educational debate of the time. Fano’s commitment, though sporadic, was characterized by some very peculiar elements. In particular, he was engaged in women workers evening schools, and was in favour of mixed university curricula in Mathematics and Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on the life of Elisa Carbonazzi (1838- 1929), reconstructed through her unpublished memoirs. The writings of the noblewoman, daughter-in-law of Luigi Cibrario, offer a personal insight into the last years of the great Piedmontese historian and politician, as well as an interesting glimpse of the Turin salons between the “Decade of Preparation” and the late years of Umberto I of Savoy’s reign. Born in an upper middle-class family from Alessandria, Elisa grew up listening to the speeches of the Venetian and Lombard patriots who gathered in her father’s house. Her subsequent marriage to Cibrario’s eldest son threw her into the world of high politics and allowed her to meet some of the most talked-about characters of the period, such as Maria Letizia Wyse-Bonaparte, Urbano Rattazzi’s wife. Elisa was a privileged witness of her time: a view that allows us to grasp the intimacy of Turin’s clashigh society and the contradictions of a rapidly developing world, which retained many traces of ancient times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay aims to deepen the events linked to Italian affairs in the Horn of Africa, from the first statements of interest during the pre-unification period to the paradigm shift that led our country to promote - albeit unevenly - a colonial policy crowning with the rise of nationalism during Fascism. Eritrea will thus be analyzed as officially proclaimed in 1890 the first colony gained by Italy. The paper will profit from some unpublished manuscript and printed sources found in the historical archives of the Grand Orient of Italy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome by investigating the Masonic presence there from 1891 - shortly after its proclamation - to 1956, with a break from 1925 to 1941. It will show how the lodges were essential centers of sociability and gathering through which the universal Masonic values of brotherhood and solidarity were conveyed. The Freemasons actively boosted the development of the colony, supporting the establishment of public facilities and opposing the regime through the foundation of national liberty movements and antifascist initiatives - such as the National Antifascist Union. From some files preserved in the archives of the Grand Orient of Italy, it emerges how the fascist services - working covertly in Eritrea after the freeing by the English in 1941 - considered Freemasonry and the Eritrean Lodge of Asmara, founded in that very year, as the heart of antifascism, persecuting its members and killing its worshipful master. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Elias extensively studied the socialization process through figurations. However, he never explored specifically gender socialization and gender relations. Integrating the eliasian perspective with the one of Connell about configurations of gender practices, the paper investigates what are the characteristics of the gender socialization process in Italian families and the relationship between family figurations and the configurations of gender practices. We used both quantitative data, collected through the European Values Study survey, and 197 qualitative interviews with the members (parents and children of different genders) of 48 Italian families. The quantitative data depict a country still traditional in terms of gender attitudes, even if with significant differences between generations, while the qualitative ones show a more nuanced picture. Indeed, parents and children share an egalitarian vision of gender roles, but gender practices both inside and outside home continue to be differentiated for men and women, especially between mothers and fathers. Every eliasian figuration inside families, then, is based on asymmetrical configurations of practices of gender. In this way, the socialization process to gender, thanks to the civilization process between parents and children, tends to reproduce familiar figurations that are intimately gendered and asymmetrical and that are not problematized nor by sons nor by daughters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses epistemological issues about major communalities and differences between Sociology and Social work's styles of social research. Compared with conventional methods and contents of macro-sociological research, Social work is ideographical in essence, as micro «clinical » approaches in medicine and psychotherapy. The epistemological domain of Social work research focuses on existential vulnerabilities and severe social diseases where feelings, attitudes and coping capabilities of those human beings involved must to be entirely considered and taken into account. One of the most appropriate research style in Social work research (the participatory research) is briefly described and a possible typology of Social work studies' contents is indicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to analyse the space of reading by specifically targeting an adequate environment: the public library. Here, reading can be grasped in its social dimension and its multiform nature. Given that reading can be understood within the context of the public library, the very act of reading can be considered a decoding exercise within the library itself. This article explains some interpretative approaches that regard the public library as a dense space by connecting heuristic possibilities offered through sociological knowledge and through the lens of the social imaginary. Moving from sociological implications of the public library and the awareness that the imaginary reconfigures and synthesizes relationships and meanings between physical and literary spaces, the research will analyze the visible and invisible aspects of the field in which the library can be subject to social representation, while still keeping its active character of producing meaning through literary spaces as well as through the exhibition and the organization of the library's collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses epistemological issues about major communalities and differences between Sociology and Social work's styles of social research. Compared with conventional methods and contents of macro-sociological research, Social work is ideographical in essence, as micro «clinical » approaches in medicine and psychotherapy. The epistemological domain of Social work research focuses on existential vulnerabilities and severe social diseases where feelings, attitudes and coping capabilities of those human beings involved must to be entirely considered and taken into account. One of the most appropriate research style in Social work research (the participatory research) is briefly described and a possible typology of Social work studies' contents is indicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to analyse the space of reading by specifically targeting an adequate environment: the public library. Here, reading can be grasped in its social dimension and its multiform nature. Given that reading can be understood within the context of the public library, the very act of reading can be considered a decoding exercise within the library itself. This article explains some interpretative approaches that regard the public library as a dense space by connecting heuristic possibilities offered through sociological knowledge and through the lens of the social imaginary. Moving from sociological implications of the public library and the awareness that the imaginary reconfigures and synthesizes relationships and meanings between physical and literary spaces, the research will analyze the visible and invisible aspects of the field in which the library can be subject to social representation, while still keeping its active character of producing meaning through literary spaces as well as through the exhibition and the organization of the library's collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper tries to provide an analysis and some reflections on the space that studies relating to "Ecclesiastical Control", "control of consciences and ecclesiastical organization in the social context", inquisition and heresies, cults, identity and holiness, politics and religion have occupied in the Italian historiographical panorama of the last twenty years. This analysis was drawn using the metaphor of the "parable", as already done by other scholars and in other fields, to indicate the alternating historiographical fortunes of some specific themes within this area of studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the book that V. Camelliti has recently dedicated to «artists and art patronage in Pisa in the 13th-15th centuries». Camelliti shares the criticism expressed by A. Savorelli about the interpretation of Pisan typical «red banner» proposed by local chroniclers in the late 14th century. Although the origin of this Pisan «vexillum» can be effectively traced back to the concessions made to Pisa by emperor Frederick Barbarossa (1162), in the Trecento Pisan citizens believed that the red banner had been granted to the city by the popes of early 11th century, in order to promote the liberation of Sardinia from the Saracens. Not before the end of the 13th century the red banner was added with a white cross, which became the typical sign of the Pisan «Popolo». The pages written about this matter by Camelliti perhaps need a more precise anchorage to the political context of the city between 13th and 14th centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present the unique case of Marino Mauriello, a notarychronicler active in Benevento, papal enclave in the Kingdom of Naples, between the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. It relies on studies dedicated to the propensity of notaries to extend their duty of preserving memory from the habitual transactions recorded in notarial acts to accounts of historical or more personal facts, in order to discuss the (re)discovered short historical notes of Mauriello. It interprets what Mauriello's historical accounts reveal about the man and his work, his cultural and political influences in the context of the notarial profession and the survival of notarial documentation in Benevento. It further investigates his political affiliation through two anonymous epitaphs that the notary copied in one of his protocols. Finally, the complete historical notes are published in the Annex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla, personal surgeon of the Emperor Joseph II and Protosurgeon of Hapsburg Army, worked for several years on the drafting of an unfinished work dedicated to the Italians who made important contributions to the development of medicine and surgery. Among his papers preserved in the historical civic archive of Pavia there is an unpublished profile of Giovanni Battista Morgagni whom Brambilla met personally. The deep admiration shown in the text - here fully transcribed - by the imperial surgeon offers evidence of the consideration that Morgagni's work enjoyed among contemporary scholars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, I put together some preliminary notes on the Latin translation of al-Gāfiqī's Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufrada. This translation, known as Liber de simplici medicina, was translated by a certain, not yet identified, "magister G." in Lerida in 1258, and has not been examined in full so far. In this paper, I provide some new information about the Latin translation and its manuscript transmission, as well as on its characteristic. The article is completed by an appendix in which I provide a transcription of some selected chapters taken from the Liber and the Capitula de simplicibus medicinis, a short pharmacological collection handed over by the same manuscripts transmitting the Liber de simplici medicina, and attributed to Arnold of Bamberg. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses the Passio Miniatis, both BHL 5965 (8th/9th c.) and BHL 5967 (11th c.), recently edited by Silvia Nocentini (2018). In the first part the paper deals with the main features of the new edition; in the second part it raises some historical questions on these texts. In particular, the paper proposes to analyse the Passio in the context of Italic political networks, both in the Carolingian age and in the years of the Emperor Henry II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the end of WWII, Dodecanese was set by the British Army. The Italian administration, that collaborated with the Wehrmacht after September 1943, was arrested and deported. Only very few people were allowed to stay and work for the British Military Administration. Among them, the former Podestà of Rhodes, Antonio Macchi, and the sergeant of the Carabinieri Francesco Corletti, who tried to destroy - in collaboration with the Italian government - the most compromising Italian documents, hiding the misdeeds of the past regime. Although they stated, that they had burned the most relevant documents, recent archival discoveries lead us to doubt their words. In 2013 a small group of scholars from Greece and Italy brought to light the important archive of the Royal Carabinieri Group - Special Central Office, hosted for all these years within the Rhodes police station. Founded in 1932, the archive preserves bureaucratic certificates, such as permits and authorizations, as well as confidential reports, records of personal habits and their political views. The new archive contains about 90,000 personal files that include information of a private nature on Italians, Greeks, Turks, Jews and foreigners who lived in Rhodes and on the other islands. Since some of the documents have, in part to do with Jewish citizens, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum of Washington D.C. has expressed a large amount of interest in this archive, offering a grant in order to digitize part of it. As is shown in the paper, Corletti and Macchi over-exaggerated the level of their authorisation to access files kept within archives to Rome. For these reasons, it is difficult to state exactly, what had been destroyed by Macchi and Corletti in 1945-1947. Actually, the fact that they weren't able to touch any important paper from the former Italian administration is more than a suspicion. At the same time, one can underline the attitude of the new democratic Italy, that appears complicit in trying to cover events and misdeeds of the Fascist Regime in Dodecanese. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Religious Experience, Socialisation and Gender Differences among Millennials: Recent studies on young people conducted at national and international levels have shown an increasing trend towards individualised and plural forms of religious involvement inside and outside the institutional contexts of churches and religious groups. In the last decades, the debate on religious socialisation has been intertwined with the changing gender roles and stereotypes and with the increased level of women's emancipation in society. This paper focuses on young people, their religious experience and their relationships with adults, paying specific attention to the Millennial generation (women and men between the ages of 20 and 36). The main hypothesis is to verify the persistence and breadth of a diversification between women and men, especially among young Millennials, in relation to specific dimensions of the religious experience (belonging and practices) and to religious socialisation. With regard to gender differences, the paper will reflect on the role played by women/mothers in the intergenerational transmission of religious beliefs and on how religious socialisation is still linked to the family and to religious figures or associations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Millennials and Religion: Divergence or Continuity Compared to the Generation of their Parents? This paper deals with the relationship between Millenniab and religion with the aim at determining whether this generation diverges from that of their mothers and fathers cdso from the point of view of religious identity and experience. The paper is divided into two parts: a literature review on the theme of generational differences in religious identity and experience with reference to the Italian context and a second part dedicated to data analysis. We analyse approximately, joo questionnaires on this issue completed by students attending the University of Milano-Bicocca. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of Malta's Magdalen Asylum represents a crucial example for analyzing practices and reformatory methods for penitent prostitutes throughout modem history. From the Santa Maria Maddalena Monastery, founded by Gran Maestro Verdala at the end of the 16th century, the paper will then analyze how the French and English control of the island influenced management and assistance of prostitution. Examining inedited sources, this paper attempts to reconstruct the lives of penitents in the Magdalen Asylum in the second half of the 19th century: beginning with their personal characteristics, alphabetization, health, origins, causes of prostitution, subsequently focusing on the methods and results obtained during their institutionalized period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to show that in the second half of the XIXth Century the European Romantic trend in literature became even in Italy part of the launch pad for the first "Fanta-clinic" and "Medical-thriller" novels. According to the lesson of the coeval French literature it also baptized a kind of modern poetry turned to épater le bourgeois through the transfiguration of Anatomy and later through the use of the scientific method in composing verses and novels. This paper aims to focalize some links between Literature and Medicine by concerning literary inspirations felt by many coeval writers about Paolo Gorini (1813- 1881) and Efisio Marini (1835-1900). The paper tries to demonstrate that the dark suggestions offered by the two scientists to some well known names of the Italian Literature (from Carlo Dossi to Matilde Serao) grew up strong in the Northern part of Italy as well as they did in the Southern part. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the historical context in which I Salmi di David by Pellegrino degli Erri (Venice, 1573) were written and published. Aside from the fact that it is mentioned in catalogues and studies dedicated to Italian biblical edition, this work has drawn very little critical attention, partly because of its wrong attribution to the Benedictine abbot of the same name. This paper demonstrates that it was actually written by a man of letters who had been a member of the heterodox Modenese Academy, before being encouraged in his literary task by Bishop Egidio Foscarari and Count Fulvio Rangoni. The work offers an Italian and Latin translation of the Psalms, based on the Hebraic source and accompanied by a commentary. Its contents reflect a religious position which is both opened to Protestant ideas and concerned with preserving the peace and unity of the Church. These traits are emphasised in the apparatus inserted by the editor, Giordano Ziletti, who is careful to present the work as an aid to liturgical and devotional practices approved by the Church. Nonetheless, it was banned in 1593, not without having circulated, first as a manuscript in Italy and even in Spain and then as a Venetian edition of which a significant number of copies has survived. I Salmi di David by Pellegrino degli Erri are of great interest to religious, editorial, and literary historiography: they are indeed relevant for the study of Modenese and Italian religious history, the Italian editorial production of biblical texts at a time when it was affected by ecclesiastical censorship, and the linguistic and literary issues related to biblical translation and religious writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]