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Recensione di Baldo, G.; Beltramini, L. (a cura di) (2019). ‘A primordio urbis’. Un itinerario per gli studi liviani. Turnhout: Brepols, 572 pp. GIF Bibliotheca 19 e Baldo, G.; Beltramini, L. (a cura di) (2021). ‘Livius noster’. Tito Livio e la sua eredità. Turnhout: Brepols, 901 pp. GIF Bibliotheca 26.

We have decided to welcome the submission of autobiographical pieces, in which the author may reflect on their own intellectual trajectory and the contexts in which they studied and worked: these may take the form of an interview, as is the case with the conversation between Eck and Stefan Rebenich published in this issue, or an essay discussion.

Carlo Sigonio, L’antico regime giuridico dei cittadini romani traduzione italiana e note a cura di Mattia Balbo, Michele Bellomo, Annarosa Gallo e Federico Santangelo introduzione di Federico Santangelo La prima traduzione in una lingua moderna del grande trattato di Carlo Sigonio sulla cittadinanza romana e le istituzioni repubblicane. Carlo Sigonio, The Ancient Legal Regime of Roman Citizens Italian Translation and Notes by Mattia Balbo, Michele Bellomo, Annarosa Gallo and Federico Santangelo Introduction by Federico Santangelo With Facing Latin Text The first translation into a modern language of Carlo Sigonio's great treatise on Roman citizenship and Republican institutions.

Leandro Polverini passed away in Rome on 18 April 2023; he was born in Castelnuovo dei Sabbioni (Arezzo) in 1935. Leandro Polverini’s body of work has been an inspiration to many; without the example he set, we doubt whether our idea of a journal entirely devoted to the history of classical scholarship would have quite materialised in the way it did. HCS loses an unfailingly supportive member of its Editorial Board, who followed the development of the journal with the insight, attention, and warmth that those who had the good fortune of working with him know well. We remember him with gratitude, and we shall miss him deeply.

This essay provides a survey of the historiography on the crisis of the Roman Republic: it charts its key developments from the Middle Ages to our time, and discusses the various definitions of the concept that have been put forward in the scholarly debate.

Basé principalement sur des documents inédits, l’essai illustre les formes d’occupation de l’espace urbain de Naples par certaines familles nobles du Seggio de Nido entre le XIVe et le XVIe siècles. Les stratégies résidentielles dans leur densité relationnelle, les blocs de résidences, les cours communes, les jardins, les portiques, les tours, les églises et les chapelles définissent différentes formes d’enracinement et de contrôle de l’espace urbain. Il s’agit de processus concurrents de construction et de reproduction de la prééminence spatiale, qui traduisent en pierre la position des familles et des clans dans la structure relationnelle du Seggio de Nido. Ils reflètent la signification spécifique attribuée à la vetustas d’enracinement et de contrôle continu de l’espace urbain. Celle-ci doit être comprise comme un critère fondamental de distinction sociale et comme une notion symbolique de l’imaginaire de la noblesse enracinée dans les Seggi, codifiée à la fin du XVe et au début du XVIe siècle.

When we launched the HCS Supplementary Volumes series in April 2020 we anticipated that it would include classic works that have long been out of print, are difficult to locate online or on the antiquarian market, and warrant further attention and discussion. This new edition of Ettore Ciccotti’s La civiltà del mondo antico is the first addition of this kind to the series. The book, published by the Istituto delle Edizioni Accademiche in 1935, is now out of copyright: we present here a searchable PDF version, preceded by an introduction by Federico Santangelo.

This note discusses Cicero’s reference to the contribution of Firmum and the Marrucini to the early stages of the mobilisation against Mark Antony in 43 BCE, and sets them in the context of Cicero’s previous connections with those communities.

Editorial. The inaugural issue of History of Classical Scholarship (HCS): Contents, Methods, Perspectives.

Questo saggio fa luce sulla crisi di legittimità politica che investe l’antica nobiltà di Seggio napoletana tra Quattro e Cinquecento con la fine del regimento oligarchico, gestito in modo esclusivo dai Seggi per quasi l’intera età aragonese. Questa segmentata nobiltà riattiva antichi linguaggi di legittimità, sia unitari sia divisivi, e ispira pratiche e paradigmi del potere a originali opzioni del classicismo politico, sviluppando anche una progettualità per il nuovo governo misto, al fine di legittimare la preminenza del suo nucleo più antico rispetto alla nobiltà di recente aggregazione e ai cittadini del Popolo.

En este artículo se propone una lectura de Los detectives salvajes de Roberto Bolaño (1998) a partir del análisis de algunos procesos de intempestividad y espectralidad que atraviesan, fisuran y cada vez interrumpen la multiplicidad de relatos de la novela. Concentramos la atención en un gesto, el de la poeta Cesárea Tinajero, uno de los personajes clave del libro, para ver cómo se desprende, de manera genealógica, la investigación bolañiana sobre los márgenes de la historia y sus fantasmas. Cesárea deja el Distrito Federal, deja a los estridentistas y a la Revolución mexicana y vuelve al desierto de Sonora. Nos importan los diferenciales de tiempo: los de un gesto pasado que sigue irrumpiendo en un presente que lo narra. Finalmente, se intenta pensar este retorno dialéctico y anacrónico, así como ese desierto, como pre-figuración del lugar donde Bolaño, en su última, póstuma novela (2666) hizo refluir el horror de un siglo entero: santa Teresa, re-inscripción de Ciudad Juárez y de su feminicidio imparable.

Metal ions bind to nucleic acids at various positions. This binding can be modulated by using metal complexes with appropriate ligands. Novel mono- and especially dinuclear metal complexes could be a powerful tool to detect rare, but still physiologically relevant, forms of DNA, e.g. the left-handed Z-DNA. In this review, our recent research activities in this area of bioinorganic chemistry are summarized. A special emphasis is laid on the synthetic challenges that arose upon the synthesis of the polyamine ligands. Further, some rather unusual approaches to elucidate the solution structure of copper bound to guanosine monophosphate with the help of pulsed EPR techniques like ENDOR and HYSCORE are described.

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The article begins with some comments on the comparative method necessary for any research concerning a different culture, owing to the intrinsic ‘anachronism’ and ‘non-equivalence’ of notions and lexicon. In particular, it is explained what the author means for mental structure and the use of categories such as ‘emotions’ and collective imagery. It is shortly explained why the analysis of emotions in fact should be extended to the whole emotional process (which includes nonemotion-terms, such as script, motivations, manifestations and emotion markers, symbolic expressions), and to other phenomena, such as habits and behaviours, temperaments, psychosomatic reactions, beliefs, visions and dreams. Then it is stressed how the manifestations of emotions are ‘social phenomena’ and thus they reflect the deep strata of the cultural environment, and contain information on such elements. The second part of the article presents some characteristics of the emotional imagery representation on the basis of a long-term project on emotions and imagery in late imperial China. Concrete examples are given on the concept of love and on the normal-abnormal feelings in extreme cognitive and affective conditions.