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We describe four new species of the genus Dolichopoda from various areas of Greece, namely D. athosensis sp. nov., D. dirussoi sp. nov., D. karoutsosi sp. nov. and D. kotsabasi sp. nov. New locality records for Greece for the genera Dolichopoda and Troglophylus are given, in addition to the presence of Troglophilus brevicauda as a new country record. We discuss the relationship with the already known species of the area.

Abstract Nicopolis foundation betwenn ideology and politics The paper aims at analyzing the multiple meanings that the foundation of Nicopolis by Octavianus implied. Whereas the modern scholarship commonly focuses on the ideological function of the foundation – namely the celebration of Octavianus’ victory over Antonius in the battle of Actium– it will be shown that Octavianus, by means of the foundation of the city, also aimed at conveying precise political messages both to those that supported him against Antonius and to the allies of the latter. The analysis of literary sources and epigraphic documents will also permit to explore some examples of responses among Greek communities to Octavianus’ victory at Actium and to the subsequent foundation of Nicopolis.

The paper presents the initial findings of a research project that investigates the origins of Italian ATAP NNs, such as parolaN chiaveN (keyword) or luogoN simboloN (place.symbol — symbolic place). This study is based on a meticulously chosen sample of 1,924 NN types that include 47 different modifiers as their rightmost constituent, sourced from Google n-grams frequency lists (2020), which represent the most extensive diachronic linguistic data currently available. While recent literature suggests that Italian ATAP NNs emerged in the latter half of the 20th century and gained significant productivity only after 2000, our data indicate that this process occurred approximately 50 years earlier, particularly for a notable subset of N2-based semi-schematic constructions. With respect to the theoretical frameworks of Construction Morphology, Relational Morphology, and Diachronic Construction Grammar, the analysis of the data provides an insight into the interaction between the fully schematic ATAP NN construction and various semi-schematic constructions (N2-based families). Moreover, the study attempts to identify key diachronic stages in the development of the pattern.

The paper examines the guidelines dedicated to Italian teaching and, above all, to the ideal thematic, language and stylistic features of school reading books in the programmes for primary school and in the related instructions for teachers issued by the Ministry of Education from 1860 to 1905: a decisive period for the arrangement of the Italian school system, the literacy processes and the spread of the national language. It can be seen how these official documents significantly shaped the writing of school books. The paper also explores the complex relationship between the institutional attempts to regulate textbook production, as evidenced by relevant ministerial documentation parallel to the programmes, and the rich publishing activity in this field. To complete the overview of the dialectic between school-educational publishing and the regulatory will of the Ministry and of the boards connected to it, responsible for the evaluation of textbooks, the witnesses of two prominent school female authors of the 2nd half of the 19th century are commented on: Ida Baccini and Felicita Morandi.

The aim of this paper is to identify the original locations of dedications of ephebes, their magistrates and gymnasiarchs in the Attic landscape based on their findspots. The analysis covers the early period of their dedication practice (from the end of the 5th century for the gymnasiarchs and from the time of Lykourgos for the ephebes and magistrates) until the end of the 4th century. The close relationship between the categories of dedicators studied (which, in the case of fragmentary texts, sometimes makes it impossible to identify the actual dedicators) allows a parallel analysis of the topographical distribution of their dedications in order to identify similarities and differences, reasons and implications of the presence of these documents (which testify to a cultic act, but also serve as a means of making oneself visible in the social fabric of the polis) in specific locations.

This contribution intends to examine the lexical universe of oil, while paying attention both to production practices (expressions, terms, etc., which are directly related to the production of oil, from the harvest to the packaging phase) and to commercialization practices or expressions etc. used to represent the product from an organoleptic and gustatory point of view. The terminological and phraseological analysis is anticipated by a reflection on the relationship between technical language and phraseology and on the presence of the lexeme Öl in the German language. Excerpts from specialist websites are used to carry out the first terminological and phraseological analysis (concerning the production of oil); the second part of the analysis (product marketing) is carried out by taking the product’s descriptions (different types of oil) of websites into account.

The Amalfi Coast represents a unicum in which the complexity is due to the coexistence of natural singularities and multiple traces resulting from the adaptation made by man to the harsh orography and to the scarcity of resources. Included in the World Heritage List in 1997, the area of the UNESCO perimeter is placed at the centre of the programmatic guidelines of the Management Plan which articulates the objectives around the themes of knowledge, protection, conservation, enhancement, and communication of (and for) coastal cultural heritage. Given these premises, the contribution aims to present a critical balance between the prospects for intervention and the operations concretely defined for the conservation of the cultural landscape of the Amalfi Coast, paying attention to the fate of the proto-industrial heritage (paper mills, ironworks, mills, and hydraulic works), largely abandoned and which requires targeted strategies for the recognition of specificities and the mitigation of intrinsic vulnerabilities.

The main purpose of this essay is to critically analyse the contribution made to the formation of public opinion in favour of the cause of the unity of the Italian nation by a work by Francesco Maria Piave, Lorenzino de’ Medici, set to music by Giovanni Pacini, written to be performed at the “La Fenice” theatre in Venice in the Carnival of 1844. Piave was one of Giuseppe Verdi’s favourite librettists, who had shown interest in this text, but had not been able to complete the work for reasons including political censorship. The anti-Tyrannical and pro-Republican political significance of Lorenzino de’ Medici can be seen in the context of the opera, which brings out the hope of the Italian people to soon see the freedom of the nation.

This article aims at highlighting the metatextual relationships between the works of Yoko Tawada and Paul Celan. The analysis concentrates on Das Tor des Übersetzers oder Celan liest Japanisch and Paul Celan und der chinesische Engel and is carried out in the light of transtextual practices, starting from theoretical premises related to the act of reading (symptomatic reading – surface reading) and including the dimension of transculturality. The encounter between Tawada and Celan generates a multi-faceted textual space, in which texts from different cultures, having the German language as a common denominator, enter into dialogue with each other.

In this account, we provide an overview of the applications that arose from the recently developed synthetic methodology that delivers heptamethine cyanines (Cy7) substituted at the central chain. The ability to easily introduce and manipulate various substituents in different substitution patterns along the cyanine chain enabled rational tailoring of the photophysical and photochemical properties. Exercising this control over the structure–property relationship proved to have a substantial impact in the field of cyanine dyes and was swiftly harnessed in a number of emerging applications in distinct areas, including fluorescent probes, biosensors, dye-sensitized upconversion nanoparticles, phototruncation of cyanines and photocages. While this method unlocked a number of new avenues, many synthetic challenges remain to be conquered in order to fully capitalize on the potential of cyanines, and we provide a short perspective that summarizes them at the end of this manuscript.

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Franz Kafka manteve doze cadernos in-quarto ao longo de quatorze anos e fez neles o registro da sua peculiar existência. Conhecidos como seus diários íntimos, esses cadernos servem de valiosa fonte para a compreensão não apenas da vida do escritor como também – e especialmente – do seu legado literário. Não obstante, pouca atenção ainda é dada pela crítica e pela academia a esses textos como objeto exclusivo de investigação, ora pelo constrangimento exercido pelos resquícios das abordagens pós-estruturalistas, ora pela recepção e pela tradução a que se sujeitaram. Este artigo tem o propósito de apresentar um panorama desses doze cadernos, abrangendo sua origem, sua recepção, sua tradução, suas particularidades, sua estrutura e seu conteúdo. Por ser a crítica em nosso país tanto a respeito do gênero diário quanto dos cadernos in-quarto de Kafka escassa, essa apresentação pode auxiliar potenciais leitores e interessados nesses diários a contextualizá-los e consequentemente permitir o desenvolvimento de pesquisas mais aprofundadas acerca dessas notas.

Questo documento, nel disquisire sui principi costituzionalmente protetti di “sicurezza economica” e di “ordine pubblico economico”, pone l’accento sul combinato disposto degli art. 41 e 47 Cost. al fine di comprendere i dogmi ordinamentali che il Costituente ha voluto sancire: in tal senso il principio della ‘libera iniziativa economica privata’, trova piena attuazione - e nello stesso tempo una ben precisa definizione - nell’intervento dello Stato sull’attività delle banche, giustificato non solo e non tanto dalla necessità di “funzionalizzare” l’esercizio del credito, quanto dall’urgenza di imporre un vero e proprio controllo per tutti gli operatori del settore, benché mitigato dalla preminente finalità di evitare effetti negativi per i risparmiatori e per la collettività. L’ampiezza del tema pone diverse possibilità di sviluppo interpretativo anche in chiave comunitaria: il diritto inconfutabile delle libertà protette dalla Carta Costituzionale va infatti misurato con l’ulteriore principio uniformatore della normativa comunitaria che, attraverso l’indicazione di strumenti adeguati di lotta alla criminalità finanziaria, ha permesso la piena implementazione della composita disciplina antiriciclaggio anche nel nostro ordinamento giuridico. / 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 "𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦" 𝑎𝑛𝑑 "𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟", 𝑒𝑚𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑟𝑡. 41 𝑎𝑛𝑑 47 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑔𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛: 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 '𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 - 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 - 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠, 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 "𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒" 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡, 𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟, 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑖𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡: 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ, 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒, ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚.

The Faces of the World. The Presentation of an Anthropological Critique of Senses --- The Die Einheit der Sinne (The Unity of Senses) by Helmuth Plessner is an “Aesthesiology” that is a philosophy of culture upon perceptual and phenomenological grounds. It is even presented by Plessner as a fourth Critique—a Kritik der Sinne (Critique of the Senses)—, as an exploration of that world of concrete praxis, and its articulations in different kind of languages, to which Kant alluded by outlining the different territories of reason and facing the concrete “fulfillment” of categories, but which had never been deepened. The essay therefore exposes the features of the aesthesiology using the Kantian theory of transcendental schematism as a common thread. On this basis, we also show the centrality of aesthesiology in Plessner’s anthropological project.

The episode of the Black Oppressor («Du Traws») of the Middle Welsh tale Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn(«The Tale of the Lady of the Well») has been considered by many scholars as an addition, mostly because it follows the end of the main plot issue and it is weakly related to the rest of the story. This sequence is a re-elaboration of the Pesme Aventure episode of Chrétien de Troyes’ romanYvain ou Le chevalier au lion, which presents a parallel story to that of the Welsh text. This study seeks to provide an interpretation of the rewriting of the Pesme Aventure episode by analysing the Middle Welsh tale as a translation and drawing on some analytical tools from Translation Studies and Narratology.

La dilatazione della finanza pubblica che caratterizzò il Quattrocento indusse gli stati europei a dotarsi di sistemi di contabilità più efficaci. Alla tenuta dei conti pubblici bassomedievali la storiografia economica ha rivolto un’attenzione scarsissima, soprattutto se paragonata all’interesse dedicato alla contabilità delle compagnie bancarie e mercantili del tempo. Sulla base della documentazione conservata tra l’Archivo del Reino de València e l’Archivo de la Corona de Aragón di Barcellona, il contributo analizza il sistema dei conti della tesoreria centrale della Corona d’Aragona al tempo di Alfonso V (1416-1458), sottolineando come i registri, suddivisi in differenti serie, non assolvessero a una mera funzione di controllo della gestione finanziaria degli ufficiali. Al contempo, lo studio evidenzia i progressi determinati nell’ambito della contabilità pubblica dall’ampliamento dell’attività finanziaria dello stato nel XV secolo.

Non differentemente da altre ripartizioni civiche, le fratrie dell’Attica sembrano aver avuto, in alcuni casi, capostipiti da cui prendevano il nome: l’analisi del fenomeno, tuttavia, è stata affrontata molto sporadicamente. A partire dai nomi di fratrie noti, si sono riepilogati e discussi i possibili eponimi e, quando possibile, tracciati i loro profili. Si è suggerito che alcune di queste figure fossero anche venerate: le iscrizioni che punterebbero in questa direzione sono state riviste, talora proponendo di riconsiderarne la funzione del supporto, come dimostra il caso di IG I3 1383, non più considerabile come una trapeza. Dall’esame, sembra che l’unico indizio della venerazione di un eponimo di una fratria sia la menzione in IG I3 243 di un Therrikleion, forse luogo di culto di Therrikles. Ciononostante, se le fonti su una loro venerazione sono scarse, l’inclusione di alcune di queste figure in racconti o liste con significato pan-attico può essere una spia dell’importanza che uno specifico gruppo poteva arrogarsi, forse analogamente a quanto recentemente messo in luce da Lambert (2015) per alcuni gene. Similarly to other civic divisions, some phratries of Attica seem to have had eponymous heroes. This phenomenon, however, does not seem to have been studied in-depth. After listing the phratries known by name, I shall summarize the evidence concerning their corresponding heroes and, when possible, I shall trace their profiles. In the attempt of verifying if these figures have ever been worshiped, I scrutinize the relevant inscriptions, and I close up by suggesting that the only possible worship evidence is the mention of a Therrikleion (perhaps the sanctuary of the hero Therrikles) in IG I3 243. The analysis on this small cluster of inscriptions leads to re-examine their functions again. I suggest, for example, that IG I3 1383 cannot be considered a trapeza, as proposed in its last IG edition. Despite sources proving the worship of these eponymous heroes are scant, a different matter, though, is their inclusions in tales or lists having a pan-attic significance. This could be a clue of the importance that a specific group could claim for itself. Something similar seems to have happened to some gene, as recently well pointed out by Lambert (2015).

Common control strategies to manage stored product pests are mainly based on the use of synthetic insecticides and fumigants. Consumer’s demand for pesticide-free food, and the increasing resistance of pests to traditional insecticides, dictate the need to evaluate alternative control methods. For this purpose, many sustainable techniques have been tested for the control of stored product pests. Among them, Citrus essential oils can represent a valid alternative to synthetic insecticides. The effects of Sweet Orange essential oil (EO) nanoemulsion applied as cold aerosol were evaluated against adults of Tribolium confusum du Val (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) and Cryptolestes ferrugineus Stephens (Coleoptera: Cucujidae). Both chemical and physical characterization of the EO-based formulation was carried out. The developed formulation had an average size belonging to the nanometer scale and a low polydispersity index. The relatively high zeta potential value confirms the stability over time of the developed formulation. The efficacy of the tested formulation showed a dose-dependent response and the cumulated mortality of the exposed insects increaseduntil 24h of exposure for C. ferrugineus and until 120h for T. confusum. The tested formulation was more effective against T. confusum adults (LD50= 86.30 ppm) than C. ferrugineus ones (LD50= 36.79 ppm). The results of this study coupled with the large availability at reasonable costs of Sweet orange EO, are promising for the potential development of new tools against stored product pests.

RESUMO A fim de nos aproximarmos da singular constelação conceitual que nos permite falar de uma noção de imagem artística na estética adorniana - ainda que na margem do seu pensamento e muito menos manifesta do que na escrita de Walter Benjamin - partimos da conexão entre os conceitos de “aparência” e “expressão”, remetendo-nos à própria materialidade das obras de arte, da literatura à música, para uma maior nitidez teórico-crítica. O intuito de ressaltar a importância do conceito de imagem artística em Theodor W. Adorno visa tanto atualizar alguns pontos opacos de sua estética quanto conectar seu pensamento com o debate acerca da imagem na estética contemporânea, sobretudo em Jacques Rancière e Didi-Huberman.

This paper aims at showing the importance of early Latin theatre with respect to the Roman view of forms of monocratic power such as monarchy and tyranny. While Plautus provides us with fundamentally neutral or positive examples of tyrants and kings, other playwrights of the third and second centuries BC such as Naevius, Terentius, Pacuvius and Accius propose a multifaceted image of these figures, indicating the ambivalent position of kings and tyrants in the Roman collective imagination of that period.

Parasitoids can suppress populations of their host and thus play a primary role in Integrated Pest Management. In the stored product environment, stimuli deriving from plant products, damaged plant products and hosts might be important for host location by the parasitoids. We studied foraging cues in Holepyris sylvanidis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), a larval parasitoid of Tribolium species and Cephalonomia waterstoni (Bethylidae), a natural enemy of the rusty grain beetle Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Cucujidae). Our studies in a fourchamber olfactometer revealed that the host complexes of both Tribolium species and different living host stages attract naive H. sylvanidis females, whereas no reaction was observed to uninfested substrates. The olfactory response of C. waterstoni was found to be strongly elicited both by chemicals emitted by the dust, adult C. ferrugineus and C. ferrugineus third and fourth instar larvae. Our findings may contribute to the development of biological control strategies of T. castaneum, T. confusum and C. ferrugineus with parasitoids.

L’articolo propone una nuova interpretazione delle norme contenute nella Lex Coloniae Genetivae Iuliae relative all’elezione degli auguri e dei pontefici locali. Tramite l’analisi della legge Ursonense alla luce delle norme vigenti a Roma per l’elezione dei sacerdoti, si vuole dimostrare che a livello locale due erano le vie per essere eletti sacerdoti: una (regolare) prevedeva un’elezione comiziale; l’altra, da applicare solo in determinati casi, che prevedeva una nomina diretta, che poteva appuntarsi anche su individui non domiciliati nella colonia. The paper aims at providing a new interpretation of the rules prescribed by the Lex Coloniae Genetivae Iuliae as to the election of the local pontiffs and augurs. Thanks to a comparative analysis between the Lex Ursonensis and analogue norms in force in Rome as to the election of the major priests, the paper shows that the law of Urso prescribed two ways to become priest: either through an election, or through a nomination; the latter, unlike the former, was only applied in specific cases and could also concern persons not belonging to the civic body of Urso.

Il rapporto tra monarchia e baronaggio ha rappresentato, fin dal secolo XVI, un tema fondamentale per l’interpretazione delle complesse dinamiche politico-istituzionali riguardanti il Regno aragonese di Napoli. Per lo più letto in chiave antitetica, alla luce dei ripetuti conflitti armati tra la Corona e i baroni ribelli, questo rapporto merita tuttavia, nell’alveo di una rinnovata storiografia, d’essere ancora indagato, a partire da inediti punti d’osservazione. Questo articolo si focalizza sui principi reali napoletani, impegnati in alti ruoli istituzionali e al contempo titolari di feudi: principi-baroni aragonesi, dunque, attraverso i quali (in particolare Federico d’Aragona, principe di Taranto e di Squillace, il cui caso paradigmatico è più ampiamente analizzato) la Corona sperimenta un superamento dell’antitesi, estendendo la propria prassi politica e la propria ideologia del potere nei territori provinciali, nonché diffondendo e difendendo un proprio modello ideale di barone regnicolo.

This research is based on theoretical alternatives of citizenship, which emphasize on the conquest of rights (T.H. Marshall) and on the configuration of collective identities (Stein Rokkan). Citizen construction corresponds to long-term historical processes associated with the constitution of the nation-state and the consolidation of community identities. Furthermore, its current evolution corresponds to political processes and public policies, which have a partway in the democratizations of the mid 80s. The factors of inequality in the 21st century are presented: poverty and indigence, ethnicity and gender, and the results of democratization processes in favor of equality.

Culhwch ac Olwen is a Middle Welsh prose tale dated to c. 1150 that combines, within the traditional motif of the “Giant’s Daughter”, a series of Arthurian themes and episodes from the legendary and literary traditions known in Wales about Arthur. On the one hand, Arthur is depicted in a heroic tone, that is, with a set of attributes that tend to characterise him in early Welsh poems, in which he appears as the leader of a band of warriors who fight supernatural creatures. On the other hand, Arthur is “chief of the princes of this island”, he possesses a renowned court, and jealously guards customs and values. His court also provides the narrative frame for adventures and the set for their retelling, as well as housing a stable cast of warriors. Therefore, this paper seeks to analyse the figure of Arthur, his court and his warriors as a stage of transition in the Arthurian legend. It will be argued that an aspect that foreshadows the king of courtly literature is added here to the multifaceted character of Arthur. For this reason, this tale combines the heroic traits that characterises the primitive Arthur with others that could be called proto-courtly.

Self-control, Routine, and Free Will. Remarks on Benjamin Libet’s Experiments - This paper aims to show that Libet’s experiment on the existence of free will is based on the assumption that free will is a spontaneous and premiseless urge to act, confined to a single moment. A blueprint for this assumption can be found in David Hume’s philosophy. Libet’s theoretical background will be compared with models from other traditions (for example, that of Aristotle), in which free will is characterized by conscious and self-controlled deliberation over an extended temporal dimension. I argue that applying this “deliberative” model to Libet’s results would yield an alternative interpretation that does not deny the existence of free will. This shows that Libet’s experiment neither confutes nor confirms the existence of free will, if free will is defined using another theoretical framework. It is suggested that experimental research framed by the “deliberative model” should analyze the agent’s capacity to overthrow entrenched routine behaviors.

InIt is theoretically analyzed a type of citizenship that results from the deficit of integration: the sub citizenships. To this end, a conceptual scheme (“locks theory”) is proposed, focusing on the guaranteed commitments between civil society and the State. Finally, a typology of types of sub citizenships is proposed, thought from Latin America.