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This paper examines a short essay by Francesco Muscogiuri, entitled Di alcuni caratteri meno popolari della Divina Commedia, published in Florence in 1889. Here the author, who had been a pupil of Francesco De Sanctis at the University of Naples, analyzes three figures from Dante's poem, Guido da Montefeltro, Belacqua and Piccarda Donati, trying to highlight their "characters". The essay retraces the main points of this study, which deserves to be remembered in the panorama of Dante's criticism of the late nineteenth century because it is one of the few who remain faithful to the method and overall interpretation of the Commedia offered by De Sanctis in a period of clear prevalence of the "historical school", as we try to demonstrate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper argues for the identification of an indeterminate biblical quotation in Augustine' s De consensu evangelistarum III 48 as the second part of Jb 37,10 cited according to Jerome' s first version, a revision indeed of the book of Job based on the hexaplar Greek text. A comparison with Augustine' s Adnotationes in Iob, relying upon the same version of the book of Job, makes the identification sure. The paper also provides a comparison of Jerome' s two versions of Job 37,10, as the second one (based on the Hebrew text) notably differs from the first one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Governments, emerging from periods of intense political violence, wars and dictatorships, confront multiple, delicate choices. One of these concerns is the field of memory and, specifically, the question: which collective memory should the identity of the nation be built upon? The answer varies from country to country, yet one feature spans across many realities, often very different from one another: the difficulty of those in power to face the past of their nation in a non-ideological way. This paper analyzes an example of this phenomenon: the representation of the last Argentine dictatorship promulgated by the Kirchner administrations which, in the last fifteen years, has constituted the dominant version of the memory of the '70s in the country of Cono Sur, as well as on the international stage. In the article, this memory is first analyzed in its most problematic aspects, highlighting silences and inaccuracies; then linked to its social effects, above all the consolidation of a binary logic, which manifests itself in the division of the Argentine society into two antagonistic and apparently irreconcilable fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to describe a Framed Portrait Experience (FPE) that involved individuals convict in prison. This experience combines the technique of photographic portrait and autobiographical narration. These tools have been used to ease the process of integration of thoughts, feelings and memories, and to gain a deeper understanding of himself, and to increase on one hand the awareness of their own present and on the other hand the prospects of planning the future. The intervention was divided into six narrative meetings, followed by photographic sessions. A case is presented, enriched by its related photographs, which will enhance the description of the intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews theoretical, clinical and research studies on the apperance, in a subgroup of obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD), of symptoms related to the disruption of the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity and perception (pathological dissociation). The coexistence of dissociative and obsessive-compulsive symptoms is a relatively frequent clinical occurrence, that seems to be responsible for unsatisfactory response to the cognitive-behavorial therapy (CBT) of OCD. The aim of the review is to clarify the different types of dissociative symptoms and processes that may appear in OCD, their relation to absorption in compulsive responses, and the role played by traumatic expreriences in the association between dissociative and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Such a clarification is a necessary premise to the implementation of modified types of CBT interventions able to yield satisfactory outcomes in cases of OCD complicated by dissociative symptoms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]