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Cardiovascular (CV) diseases account for over 4 million deaths every year in Europe and over 220 000 deaths in Italy, representing the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines have visionary included in the at very high CV risk group patients without previous acute ischemic events, such as those with subclinical atherosclerosis, chronic coronary syndrome or peripheral arterial disease, familial hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus with target organ damage or multiple associated risk factors, and those with high calculated CV risk score, recommending to consider them and to achieve the same LDL-cholesterol targets as for secondary prevention patients. The aim of this position paper is to provide an updated overview of ESC guidelines that focuses on these patient categories to raise awareness within the clinical community regarding CV risk reduction in this specific epidemiological context.

The survival of pediatric cancer patients has significantly increased thanks to the improvement of oncological treatments. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to manage short- and long-term cardiovascular complications. In pediatric cardio-oncology, there are no recognized guidelines as in adults. Several recommendations and many indications have been derived from the data obtained in the adult cancer population, resulting in greater discrepancies in the clinical management of patients. The aim of this position paper of the Italian Society of Pediatric Cardiology (SICP) is to collect the main evidence regarding the diagnosis, prevention, treatment and follow-up of cardiotoxicity in children, to provide useful indications for clinical practice, and to promote a network between pediatric centers.

Technological innovation provides easily accessible tools capable of simplifying healthcare processes. Notably, digital technology application in the cardiology field can improve prognosis, reduce costs, and lead to an overall improvement in healthcare. The digitization of health data, with the use of electronic health records and of electronic health files in Italy, represents one of the fields of application of digital technologies in medicine. The 2023 States General of the Italian Association of Hospital Cardiologists (ANMCO) provided an opportunity to focus attention on the potential benefits and critical issues associated with the implementation of the aforementioned digital tools, artificial intelligence, and telecardiology. This document summarizes key aspects that emerged during the event.

For over 40 years, clinical research has been one of the most important aims of the Italian Association of Hospital Cardiologists (ANMCO), being an essential tool in pursuing promotion and fulfillment of good clinical practices in prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases. Since 1992, with the creation of the Research Center (now part of the Heart Care Foundation), ANMCO is capable of independently and professionally managing all the aspects related to planning, management, and publication of the results of clinical studies. The other strength of ANMCO is the network built in Cardiology Departments on the whole territory of Italy, a human capital that allows ANMCO to deal with the new scientific challenges, in a context of profound changes in the social, economic, technological, and methodological setting. This document is based on the debate about the state of clinical research in Italy and the role of ANMCO in this setting that took place during the 2023 ANMCO States General.

Printed books would be about to die in front of the advantages offered by the digital world. But for 750 million illiterates over 15 worldwide, for two-thirds women (UNESCO, 2017), literature does not go through digital or printing on paper. There is also a disturbing degree of returning or functional illiteracy, significantly affecting a part of European population. Starting from an idea of literature that is above all the art of the word, the article analyzes the (in)utility of digital media compared to the emotional impact and prestige possessed by printed books; the relationship between e-books and printed books in the self-publishing sector; the importance of the human voice as an ancient and very modern means of telling stories and conveying emotions. Recent statistical data (e.g. Pepe Research, 2020) show the success of audiobooks and podcasts in Covid times, in Italy and in the "Westernworld", and for some types of disabilities. The article underlines the need to recompose the competition between digital and printed books into a fruitful collaboration. Finally, it is highlighted that the voice is, still today and everywhere - from the hi-tech world to African storytellers -an extraordinary tool to produce and promote knowledge about literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper provides a survey of Italian critical studies on Russian Symbolism and its reception in Italy over the last thirty years (1994-2022). The paper reconstructs the evolution of this tradition through the analysis of three main streams: 1. works on literary theory and philosophy 2. the study of the 'Italian' text on the basis mainly of archival documents and biographical texts, and 3. the study, based on comparisons and parallels with other literary movements, of Russian Symbolism as a supracultural and supranational movement. In the final part, the paper proposes an overview of current research perspectives on the topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies on the Linguistic Landscape (LL) have become a particularly prolific object of study and research in the last fifteen years. The most recent research perspective has led to new categorizations for the LL, which not only form the basis for further empirical research, but are also of great use in foreign language teaching (Malinowski/Maxim/Dubreil 2020). Indeed, working with the LL that is also interculturally specific fulfils one of the primary goals of foreign language teaching, as the close relationship between language and culture also promotes intercultural communicative competence. Our paper will examine in particular the great potential of this tool in the context of teaching German as a Foreign Language in Italy, in order to stimulate greater language awareness and linguistic reflection in the processes of learning and teaching German in which learners are involved. By means of the administration of didactic sheets prepared by us, we will consider the possibility of applying to a didactic context data on both the German language and culture, taken from the observation of the LL of Alto Adige/Südtirol and collected on several occasions within a corpus, the LLSÜDTIROL, which will be discussed below. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dialect phraseography is, generally speaking, still in its early stage; however, it is booming with some of the first studies in this direction as far as some diatopic varieties of Italy are concerned (additionally to the articles in this special issue, cf. also those contained in Au-telli/Konecny/Lusito 2023a). As to Genoese phraseography, it has been living great development thanks to the Genoese-Italian projects GEPHRAS and GEPHRAS2, whose lexicographic entries can be found in one single, freely accessible online dictionary. As the latter project shows some additional innovative features, those will be further investigated in this paper, paying particular attention, within the numerous innovations, to the new sources and metalinguistic information integrated in the dictionary, to the phonetic transcriptions of the phrasemes as well as to the criteria chosen for creating sample sentences containing selected phrasemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper evaluates the implications of an annotation written in the margins of MS Vat. gr. 1343, containing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, by the Byzantine émigré Demetrios Raoul Kabakes, active in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper adopts a historical-critical approach to highlight the main trends and lines of development in Russian studies in Italy dedicated to the teaching of Russian as a foreign language (rfl) at universities. The research's strengths, gaps, and challenges are emphasized to reveal new perspectives on language education. Specifically, we focus on the last decade (2013-2023) and the following areas: teaching of grammar and vocabulary and didactics of literature and culture. The examination of rfl research devoted to the Italian university context uncovered some specific insights. If we count the numerous studies dedicated to the teaching of grammar and vocabulary versus the didactics of literature and culture, the latter area has seen less success among Italian Russianists. Overall, the transversal and interdisciplinary character of many works and the variety of theoretical-methodological approaches employed can be considered the greatest strengths of the studies reviewed. However, more critical and non-essentialist positions should be explored in future research. Additionally, the field needs to pay greater attention to concrete teaching practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper brings to the scientific attention the increasing diffusion of new forms of volunteering in Italy, centred on targeted initiatives, time-limited and related to specific needs and emergencies. In this line, the article focuses on a request for occasional participation launched in the city of Como with the aim to organize a new temporary homeless shelter for the winter. The ethnographic study at the basis of the paper examines the reasons behind this civic initiative. It also analyses the experience of those who joined the project, investigating both the specificity of their of their caring activities in relation with the homeless population and the ways in which volunteers may redefine their expectations, roles and range of action. Finally, the article summarizes the main implications associated to this form of episodic involvement, identifying a series of stimuli that can be useful for elaborating on the emerging paths of volunteering in Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the context of state implementation of major civil engineering works, the post office program represented in the twentieth century the first experiment in Italy of a coordinated large-scale industrialized building project managed by public bodies. In 1974 the Ministry of Posts delegated the entire organization of the program to ITALSTAT. The project consisted of the construction of more than a thousand small post offices in as many municipalities in every region of Italy. As chairman of ITALSTAT's scientific committee, Florentine architect Pierluigi Spadolini (1922-2000) was the major player in the operation. Spadolini had always been engaged in designing buildings in which prefabricated components were predominant. He designed a single-story typological solution of a post office, adaptable to each municipality. Through unpublished documents, the contribution analyzes the virtuous policies of a government building program of enormous proportions that, in a short period of time, led to the construction of numerous post offices that are still active today and spread throughout the country. The paper also analyzes the long design process that led Spadolini and his research group to conceive a typology that was both an exemplification of an architecture with a recognizable physiognomy and an element susceptible to serial production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at presenting the origins and the evolution of the disciplinary field of history of pedagogy in Italy. It is a process to which the Centro Italiano per la Ricerca Storico-Educativa (CIRSE), founded in 1980, contributed and which continues to this day. After an introduction describing the scientific changes occurred in the two decades preceding the foundation of CIRSE - similar in some ways to what happened in France - this paper consists of four parts describing the definition process of the study of history of pedagogy initiated in the cultural context of the 1968 revolution; the methodological and epistemological renewal established on the basis of the scientific activities carried out by CIRSE; the different legislation steps that led to the development of an independent field history of pedagogy at university level; finally, the current potential of CIRSE in the promotion of networks and scientific collaboration among Italian universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lozinskij, born and raised in Petersburg, is considered the outcast of the Petersburg society at the end of the 19th Century, whose upheavals, nonetheless, he reflects by mirroring all the tribulations left by a kind of romantic Sehnsucht. When travelling in search of the Immense, paths of melancholy are quite often trodden and nature becomes a mere setting for his poetic focus: reflection. Like many of his contemporaries, Lozinskij reckons that constitutive elements of this "setting" are perfectly reflected by the island of Capri, where the author stays in the years 1913-1914. The island's realia, both folkloristic and imbued with melancholy, become functional pillars for Odinočestvo, "random notes" halfway between travel memoirs and an aesthetic essay on life. The paper aims at recalling the poetics and the artistic peculiarities of this Author. At the same time, the work sets itself the goal of highlighting the intimate connections the Author weaves with the island of Capri. The analysis of the images and flashes of everyday life demonstrates how Capri stops being a mere island and becomes an entire world, enriched with myths and legends. We propose an analysis of some passages from Odinočestvo and a few lyric poems, linked to the island of Capri, highlighting the contradictory and multifaceted literary refraction of the island as a symbolic image of Southern Italy, as well as a constitutive part of what determines the "toska po Italii" (nostalgia for Italy). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to place the study of authorship in contemporary Italian cinema within the inherent practices of on-demand culture. Specifically, its objective is to question the author-platform relationship. Starting from here, we can demonstrate how the concept of Auteur— in the sense of commerce of auteurism (Corrigan), prestige economy and Made in Italy (Cucco) and strategic planning of cultural legitimization politics — is, for on-demand streaming services, a fundamental framework in pursuing a structural continuity between old and new forms of media production, promotion and consumption. Despite their «ideology of disruption», which preaches a global revolution of audiovisual practices and identifies a new technological service with a world improving view, on-demand streaming services employ, in their foundational practices, productive, cultural and spectatorship strategies that are already used by traditional studios and net-works. Among these practices, one of the most important is the authorship framework, which use is analyzed here through a theoretical frame defined as «double logic of convergence», where every on-demand authorial action is placed within a spectrum generated by two opposite poles, defined as content and event. To unify factual and theoretical perspective, this paper takes into account Italian authorship within MUBI Italia, localized branch since 2021 of the main streaming service involved in auteur cinema. Specifically, this case study concerns Alice Rohrwacher, whose film Quattro Strade (Four Roads) is not only the first Italian film available exclusively and globally on MUBI, but the perfect ex-ample how on-demand Italian authorship— in its commercial branding and artistic prestige — can serve the cultural politics and the glocal growth of platforms, even within that content/event contradiction which stays ontological to streaming consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on the issues of merit, explored in its complex polysemy, meritocracy, and skills, placing them in relation to those of – educational, social, economic, cultural – poverty and social disadvantage, which afflict, with considerable aggravation especially in the era of Sars-Cov-2 pandemic, even Italy. The essay consists of three paragraphs. In the first two, a reference framework is outlined, on the one hand relating to the polysemic concepts of merit, and meritocracy; on the other, to the situation of poverty and social inequalities in Italy. The third paragraph, which represents the heart of the paper, is linked to the abovementioned frameworks: it highlights the key role that a widespread, accessible, and high-quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) play, both in supporting children’s development, both promoting a democratic and inclusive society; a society characterized by effective “merit dynamics”, open to all, so as to promote skills development and, above all, social ascent and redemption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Italy is a frontrunner in the process of population ageing, which is affecting most high-income countries in Europe and elsewhere. Increasing longevity, paired with decreasing fertility and a much slower pace in the reduction of later life morbidity, has and will lead to an increasing mismatch between long-term care needs and resources. Within this context, it is important to understand the extent to which (scarce) care resources are distributed in society. As a matter of fact, inequality in access to long-term care in later life can add to pre-existing inequalities and further aggravate already existing disadvantages. In the present paper, we present a systematic review of existing studies focusing on the social stratification of access to long-term care among the older Italian population. Three dimensions of social stratification are considered: education, income, and wealth. Previous results suggest that education is a key factor in the unequal distribution of care resources, especially in terms of formal care. Regarding access to informal care and the role of income and wealth, previous literature reports mixed findings. The review also identifies several significant limitations in previous studies on the topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Empirical studies have repeatedly shown a progressive reduction of educational inequalities by social class of origin in most European countries (Breen et al. 2009; Ballarino et al. 2008; Barone and Ruggera 2018). However, in most contributions, parental wealth has been largely overlooked as a specific and independent dimension of parental SES, and only a few contributions have investigated the variation of wealth gaps over time (Pfeffer 2018). This work aims to contribute to the literature in two main directions. First, it aims to provide an empirical assessment of trends in wealth gaps in Upper Secondary and Tertiary education over the last three decades in Italy. Second, it aims to assess whether and how these gaps have varied along different segments of the wealth distribution. Using the Historical Archive of the Household Survey on Income and Wealth (SHIW-HA), the paper analyses the variation of wealth gaps in upper secondary graduation rates for children born in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, and tertiary graduation rates for children born in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Results show a progressive reduction of adjusted wealth gaps in upper secondary education. Compared to the '70s birth cohort, an increase in upper secondary graduation rates is observed around the median of the wealth distribution for children born in the '80s, followed by an increase occurring at the bottom for the '90s birth cohort. Conversely, wealth gaps in tertiary attainment have persisted, if not increased. Between the '60s and '70s birth cohorts, wealth gaps in tertiary widened, following an increase in graduation rates that occurred exclusively at the top of the wealth distribution. Between the '70s to the '80s birth cohorts, tertiary graduation rates converged upwards, with a greater increase in the bottom half of the wealth distribution. The net balance between the '60s and '80s cohorts shows a slight increase in wealth gaps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the Italian Parliament ruled on the Advance Directives (ADs) in December 2017, Albania has not yet adopted a specific law regulating end-of-life situations. This scientific contribution studies the Albanian legal system and the documents published by the two main public health advisory bodies National Bioethics Committee and the National Health Committee as well as the national medical jurisprudence and the Code of medical ethics. After examining the importance of ADs and having considered the national and international literature that emphasized the patient's right to self-determination, this paper provides some suggestions while also taking into consideration the rules adopted by the Italian Parliament in December 2017. In the conclusions, this research highlights the importance of the ad hoc rules governing the ADs based on the findings of the investigation of the Italian model. Furthermore, in light of the current pandemic, an innovative interpretation of the Albanian penal code is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Broad or inclusive language has reached the attention of media and public debate during the last decades. In Italy, the publication by Alma Sabatini "Raccomandazioni per un uso non sessista della lingua italiana" was an important starting point. The paper focuses on the linguistic innovation as a moment of the society/language interaction, within the theoretical framework of the law and language parallel. The opposition between descriptivism and prescriptivism in linguistics will be challenged, by interpreting the linguistic norm and the legal norm as driver for social transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This introduction to the collected essays consists of 3 chapters. The first proposes a definition for the word «fragment» and endorses the use of the English-derived neologism «frammentologia» in Italian. The second chapter focuses on the fragmentological experiences in Italy and describes the research project FRAGMINE, aimed at the systematic recovery and study of vernacular fragments in Western Lombardy and Eastern Piedmont and at the reconstruction of the dispersed manuscripts they belonged to. In the third chapter, the link between FRAGMINE and the present collection of essays is explained and the papers are briefly introduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper offers a survey of the reception of Ivo Andrić in Italy from 1991 to 2021. The most widely translated South Slavic author, Andrić is unique in having not only major but also minor works translated into Italian. In some cases, various translations of the same text have been carried out, and numerous translators have worked with a wide range of publishers, from small to large publishing houses. In addition to novels, short stories represent the part of Andrić’s oeuvre that translators have cultivated more intensely over the last thirty years. Formal studies of the author’s work have increased since the early 1990s, but only one monograph has been published (P. Lazarević Di Giacomo, I romanzi-cronache di Ivo Andrić). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the publishing history in the post-Soviet era of three very prominent works in Gulag literature in Italian translation – Life and Fate by Vasilij Grossman, Kolyma Tales by Varlam Šalamov and The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solženicyn – in order to reconstruct their Italian reception in the years 1991-2022. The controversies surrounding the publication of these works in Italy are also discussed, and it is noted how the Italian press has paid particular attention to them, with major Italian writers reviewing the editions and contributing to their Italian reception. Finally, the lack of critical reflection by Italian Russianists on Gulag literature is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I will try to analyze the way in which food within the patrimonialization processes of material and immaterial assets is intimately connected to the locality and to the dynamics of re-territorialized of the localities on a global scale. The patrimonialization of cultural heritage, among these gastronomic ones, even when it involves specific communities is never a territorially limited phenomenon, as it puts in place cultural, institutional, legislative and economic references of the national and international type (National Institutions, UNESCO, EU etc.), capable of projecting communities in global scenarios. In this sense, the boundaries of the Foodscape on the one hand are structured, and in turn stratify, a flexible and mobile plurality of family, regional, national and global references, on the other hand they stage a local/global dynamic that moves long The delicate ridge of constraints and creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Multiple job-holding represents not only a widespread working condition but also a particularly multifaceted phenomenon. Although it has drawn research attention from various disciplines over the last decades, a comprehensive understanding of its current articulation and its recent transformations is still lacking. Hence, in the light of the changing socio-economic scenario, the paper aims at identifying the structural characteristics of the contemporary forms of multiple job-holding in Italy. It does so through a mixed-methods approach: a quantitative analysis of ISTAT and EUROSTAT data, aimed at identifying the main profiles of the multiple job-holders, is complemented by a qualitative analysis conducted through 27 semi-structured interviews oriented to deepen the main determinants (push or pull factors) underlying the choice to carry out more than one job at the same time and the consequences in terms of individual enrichment or depletion. The empirical analysis points out the emergence of three clusters of contemporary multiple job-holders, each displaying peculiar traits. Overall, the paper offers a threefold contribution. First, it proposes a systematization of the broad debate on the variety of multiple job-holding, still fragmented and discontinuous. Second, it offers an analytical framework for investigating the complex phenomenon of multiple job-holding - lacking in the literature - based on the Italian experience but transferable also to other labour markets characterized by different regulatory and institutional configurations. Third, it updates the debate undertaken in Italy since the 1980s on the issue of multiple job-holding by investigating the specificities of contemporary forms of multiple employment in the light of the transformed socio-economic and regulatory scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper aims to relate the observations of some historians who have dealt with epidemic events in early modern Italy to some central features of Norbert Elias' approach, and to observe some social phenomena related to such events in the perspective of Eliasian sociology. In this way, we will try to suggest that the social implications of great epidemic events that occurred "in the past" can be included among the various fields of investigation in which the Eliasian approach can be tested, and we will attempt to highlight the usefulness of some key concepts of the figurational sociology for the interpretation of what can be observed in that field. With particular reference to seventeenth-century Tuscany, attention will be focused on some dynamics of change that involved - at the same time - both certain institutions engaged in the fight against the plague and certain dimensions of people's attitudes and "sensibilities". Following Norbert Elias, we will also try to suggest that the role played by the plague in defining the direction of those dynamics of change was part of a broader (civilizing) process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes time, modes and techniques of realization in 1908 of a photomosaic, from balloon, of a section of the course of the Tiber river. The photomosaic was carried out by the Brigata Mista Specialisti of Genio Militare headed by Captain Cesare Tardivo, on order of the Genio Civile, as part of a navigation project of the Tiber river from the sea to Orte. The pioneering photomosaic, regarding the 50 km section from Ponte del Grillo to Stimigliano, is kept at the photographic archive of the Aerofototeca Nazionale - ICCD, and it is the first application of the new tecnique called topophotograpy in the civil field: presented as the "true portrait of the terrain" at the main international conferences of the time, earned Italy an undisputed leading place in the field of aerial photography and photogrammetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper stems from some questions regarding the 'digital boom' that involved Culture since the COVID-19 pandemic. What scenarios will open up for cultural institutions once the pandemic crisis is over? While on the one hand now days the ancient art now better know the importance of storytelling, on the other hand it is increasingly crucial to involve users in the co-creation of the digital cultural heritage. Among the strategies of public engagement, I experimented a participatory storytelling process at the "Museo etnografico della vita popolare di Tricase", which contributes to enlivening the reality of the Ethnographic Museum of Popular Life in a peripheral area of Southern Italy, Tricase. The aim is to implement the guidelines of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Property and the Council of Europe's Faro Convention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the defeat of the Italian troops in Africa during the Second World War, the ascari (the African soldiers enlisted in the colonial army) were losing their role of intermediaries of Italian rule. The public memory of the ascari was discarded by the Italians and at the same time by the upcoming national ruling class in the former colonies. The two ascari’s life stories discussed in this paper offer an overview of some different strategies of intermediation with the colonial power. In both stories, the centrality of the relationship with Italy and the Italians emerges in an important way, but along a process of reciprocal negotiation and not only mere subordination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper stems from the «Progetto Pilota Natalità» in the province of Modena of the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy. Run between 2019 and 2021, the project introduces new evidence related to family policies in the Province of Modena. Specifically, we integrate primary qualitative firm-level evidence gathered during the Covid-19 pandemic with data on the voluntary organizations operating in the Italian third sector obtained just before the Covid-19 outbreak. We provide meaningful insights at the intersection of the public, the private and the voluntary sectors, while setting some guidelines to move forward in the design and implementation of family policies that are sensible across the territory. The study is interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic and, as a result, is mainly centered around two themes: (1) the processes involved in the territorialization of public policy, particularly family policies, that entail local collective action levers and bottom-up resilience for the application of national policies; (2) the potential of these policies in terms of social innovation, understood as the joint design of a social infrastructure within a value allocation process between the actors involved, given certain time and space aspects. The paper explores the dimensionality of social innovation through the emergence and the scaling up of innovative processes as a result of devolved governance from national and EU levels to the local level, which gives precisely the framework of this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A shocking event such as the one experienced by the population of central Italy in 2016 highlights two problems that afflict the national heritage: the fragility of historic villages and the conservation of the historical-artistic heritage of these cultural centres. This paper intends to propose an applicative method to address the problem of the documentation and conservation of the material and intangible characteristics of the historic centre of Amatrice following an earthquake that de facto cancelled almost all the material components and therefore prevents a campaign of traditional data acquisition. The applied methodology is based on the complementarity between the analysis of unpublished historical photographic material and the digital reconstruction of each building in the city through the aid of Google Street, creating an integration between digital restitution tools, social media as iconographic sources and the contextual architectural reading of the few building fragments still in situ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]