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This paper examines the effects of the growing presence of management consultants in policy processes. In particular, it addresses the key concern that consultants employed by governments often operate in new institutional arrangements not subject to the formal rules of political systems. It is argued that the hiring of consultants should be seen not as a move from political to apparently neutral, expert forms of policy-making, but as a shift in the arena of political decision-making. Such shifts can contribute to the emergence of «institutional voids» of governance. The paper examines these issues with reference to a case study of consultants working for the Naples government on the privatizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Russian general and future Ministry of War (1861-1881) Dmitriy Alekseyevich on 7 January 1841 landed in Naples, where he stayed for about a month. His journey in Italy had begun in early December 1840. He was profoundly impressed by the beauty of the town which "can perhaps only compete with Constantinople" and its surroundings, which also arose his wonder. His strong interest in the geological aspect of the volcanic area and the manifestation of the chthonic forces of nature led him to the crater of Vesuvius, from which he would admire an extraordinary panorama against the backdrop of a terse sky. Although he considered it pointless to repeat what had already been reported many times by other more skilled pens he declared his intention to limit himself to reporting only his personal memories; in his Vospominanija Milyutin meticulously reported every impression arisen by what he saw and described his travel experience with precision and abundance of details. The lucid and, at times, severe chronicle of his Neapolitan sojourn (he dwells on every single aspect: from hotel hospitality to the food, the artistic heritage, the local population and the natural environment) alternated with reflections and the externalization of a vivid feeling of astonishment. His recollections and impressions of his trip to Naples are contained in the first volume (Vospominanija) of his vast and valuable memoir, which covers a period between 1839 and 1881 and which so far does not seem to have received any particular attention from scholars of travel literature. The aim of this paper is to analyze the cultural, sociological, and artistic portrait of Naples and its surroundings drawn by Dmitriy Milyutin, with the intention of stressing the author's cultural perception, determined by an intense yet contradictory sensation of extraneousness mixed with the inexplicable and indefinite nostalgia that fueled his regret for his detachment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Complementary sources for the understanding of Neapolitan social history: the arts and crafts mentioned in a collection of Neapolitan funeral posters. This paper presents a subset of approximately 300 funeral posters, taken from a collection of some 1300 such items photographed in Naples and its Province, and giving the deceased person's nickname indicating his or her art or craft. After pointing out how the use of dialect in naming the art or craft sets the intended public of these posters apart from the general population of Naples, the paper goes on to list the posters by category, commenting on each one. There are six in all professionals, employed workers, self-employed workers, street vendors, domestic workers, women workers, practitioners of obsolete crafts. In concluding, the paper points out a peculiarity of these nicknames and associated crafts: they are a sign of Neapolitan resistence to modernization, also seen in the persistence up to the present of an "alleyway economy". An appendix gives the complete list of nicknames studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper takes stock of the relationship between Naples and Düsseldorf on the occasion of the International Congress "Group and Identity in Space and Time" held in Düsseldorf in September 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper contains the talks given by the authors on the occasion of the presentation of Domenico Conte's book Viandante nel Novecento. Thomas Mann e la storia (Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2019) hosted by Goethe-Institut in Naples on February 24, 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper outlines the Neapolitan-Friderician School of Linguistics, focusing on the establishment of the subject as it was first taught in Italian universities and, in particular, at the University of Naples. A brief profile of all lecturers who taught linguistic subjects (i.e. Comparative Languages and Literatures, Grammar or Comparative History of Classical and Neo-Latin Languages, Sanskrit) is provided, tackling their main research interests; where significant, pupils who brought forward research in the spirit of the School are also listed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at describing the magisterium and the scientific legacy of Walter Belardi (1923-2008), professor of historical linguistics at Napoli-Orientale first (since 1956) and then at Roma Sapienza (1964-1998). After recalling the scientific relationship between Belardi and his teacher Antonino Pagliaro (1898-1973), the article focuses on Belardi’s research trajectories, from Indo-European to Iranistics, from general linguistics to classical and romance studies. The article reviews the profiles of Belardi’s many pupils across essentially three generations of professors, all of whom focused on themes inherited from their master. These were explored primarily in light of the common philological-textual approach that is typical, more generally, of the so-called “Roman school of linguistics”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is a reading of Francesco Senatore's Una città, il Regno: istituzioni e società a Capua nel XV secolo, Roma 2018. Moving from the analysis conducted by Senatore on the urban society of a celebrated city in the XV century, the essay aims to discuss three major points: the long-standing comparison between northern and southern cities in Italy; the evolution of the Universitas as an articulation of the Reign; the barons and their presence within the walls of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to explore the interaction between design and archaeology in building Museum engagement experiences. In particular, a case study from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN) will be presented. This study was carried out as part of OBVIA - Out Of Boundaries Viral Art Dissemination, a joint public engagement project sponsored by the Museum and partners such as the Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" and the Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli". The target of the project was to stimulate innovative communication and promotion actions. Specific research activities carried out by the Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale dell'Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", were dedicated to the development of Experience Design strategies for museum engagement and audience development. This study resulted in the creation of kits to be used during hands-on laboratories for children. The kit 'Museum Details' focused on the observation and reproduction of details of archaeological artifacts exhibited in the Museum. These kits included a map, instruments for detailed observation, moulding clay and casts to create 3D reproductions of original archaeological details. The necessity of a high detailed reproduction of small features of archaeological findings was an opportunity to experiment with the acquisition of accurate 3D models. In particular, the work carried out by Mnemosyne3D focused on five findings from the Magna Graecia collection. The main challenge was to detect sub-millimetric details on a reflecting surface. Photogrammetry was chosen as method for 3D scanning, a structure from motion acquisition technique. The post processing, through 3D sculpting and CAD 3D software, aimed to enhance the features of the models in order to make them suitable for casting and plastic reproductions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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According to UNI 11337, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the process of creating and managing information about a building throughout its life cycle. One of the fundamental results of this process is a multidimensional model, i.e. one that goes beyond the three-dimensional description and offers a complete perspective of the built work. This model is developed based on information that is collaboratively entered and updated during the main phases of the project. In this paper, we present the BIM model of the Gradec-Sveti Ivan Žabno railway line developed within the international cooperation activities between the Universities of Naples Federico II and Zagreb to highlight the advantages and limitations of the methodology applied to a real railway project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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After conquering Sicily, at the end of July 1860, Garibaldi's military campaign had to face the problem of landing troops on the peninsula. In the name of Italian unity, the openly declared purpose was to reach Calabria and proceed with the liberation of the Southern Italy. However, the passage of troops in the Strait of Messina could have been hampered by the powerful fleet of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, that was much stronger and more organized than Garibaldi's Sicilian Navy. The text reveals the anti-Bourbon mission entrusted to Captain Paolo Pilotti on 24 July 1860, from its origins up to its rapid development, following the involvement of the Calabrian patriot Carlo Mileti in the enterprise. The action of Paolo Pilotti and the 85 members of the crew of the British steamer Orwell (protagonist, from 1860 to 1863, of a complex judicial affair between the Kingdom of Italy and Great Britain on the civil responsibility for the Piracy Act), if that was implemented, would have affected significantly the continuation of the "thousand" Enterprise, with probable repercussions on the Naples revolution and the conquest of the city [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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