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Si propone un censimento delle attestazioni di decorazione in bronzo per carri in Italia settentrionale, limitando la ricerca agli elementi figurati. L’indagine, per quanto presumibilmente non esaustiva, ha condotto a un considerevole aumento delle testimonianze note (ora una cinquantina), consentendo alcune osservazioni su botteghe di produzione, proprietari, iconografia, cronologia.

Informazioni riguardanti scoperte fortuite, acquisto o vendita di manufatti antichi, scavi regolari o illeciti riguardanti il Tirreno cosentino, possono essere recuperate dallo spoglio di alcuni documenti del XIX sec. conservati presso l’Archivio di Stato di Cosenza. Il presente contributo si concentra su un fascicolo del Fondo Intendenza di Calabria Citra, contenente un carteggio datato maggio-luglio 1826 e riguardante il ritrovamento fortuito di alcune monete nel territorio di Cirella. Questi manufatti, in particolare quelli in cui sono rappresentati carri in trionfo e vittorie alate ed emblemi della dea Minerva, ben si collocano nel contesto archeologico in questione, caratterizzato da notevoli evidenze di media età romano-imperiale (villa, acquedotto, necropoli, mausoleo). Informations about accidental archaeological discoveries, purchase or sale of ancient artefacts, regular or illegal excavations concerning the Tyrrhenian coast of Cosenza, can be retrieved from the study of some documents of 19th century kept in the State Archive of Cosenza. This work focuses on a File of the ‘Intendenza di Calabria Citra’ Archive, a correspondence dated May-July 1826, concerning the accidental discovery of some coins in the territory of Cirella. These artifacts, in particular those with the representation of triumphal chariots and winged victories and emblems of the goddess Minerva, would be fit for the archaeological context of Cirella, characterized by evidences of the middle Roman-Imperial age (villa, aqueduct, necropolis, mausoleum).

This article studies visual representations of triumphal chariots during the first years of the 19th century in Spain, those that coincide with the reigns of Carlos IV and Fernando VII. It focuses on those representative transports that physically carried monarchs or military heroes at the royal entrances or funeral processions during the turbulent years of the end of the ancien regime and the War of Independence against Napoleon. The work analyses iconographic antecedents and cultural and political references of the historical context where this Roman image of the triumphal vehicle is resurrected.

Literary critics and historians have often stressed the importance of the sensory experience in John Gay’s Trivia (1716) and have concentrated on the visual impact of the London cityscape as being responsible for the sensory impressions in the poem. But, as Trivia’s London is largely represented by street noise, this essay argues that it is above all sound that gives the poem this impressionistic quality. City noise is constantly present as a backdrop to Gay’s eighteenth-century urban setting. Moreover, much of the text reveals social tensions in an urban setting where individual identities are effaced, and Trivia’s speaker is constantly at pains to preserve the integrity of his own self. But as neither silence nor distance are possible in Gay’s London, there is no escape from the crowd’s press or from the continuous invasion of sound. Especially the emphasis on the presence of traffic noise, and the allusions to Homeric and Biblical chariots of war, turns into a powerful symbol of fear of the city as a place of moral degradation and cultural annihilation.

Basilicata, a land of forests and home to a Forest Sciences university program. We talk about the launch, in the eighties, of the higher education program in Forest Sciences at the University of Basilicata, in Southern Italy. Basilicata is a land of beautiful forests that have undergone great manipulation over time. We shortly describe their history in the last two centuries, and talk about some scholars who studied these forests in the postwar period until the early eighties. Afterwards, we recall the early years of Forest Sciences courses at the University of Basilicata. In a separate box, we deal with the possibility to restore the mixed silver fir/beech forest in the mountains of Basilicata: we address the ways in which silver fir natural regeneration can be promoted, where this species is still present; and the reasons and know-how for reintroducing it, where silver fir is no longer present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intellectual puzzles have a tendency to intermix and accumulate in miscellaneous collections, as happens in present-day puzzle magazines. This phenomenon may already be observed in old compilations (cf. Palatine Anthology, book 14, which draws on earlier sources) and theoretical treatises of antiquity (Clearchus' On riddles, Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae book 10). Long before such works, fictional and legendary narratives provided a framework for stringing together multifarious types of mental games. The Near-Eastern Story of Ahiqar and the Greek Contest of Homer and Hesiod use the old theme of the competition between two great sages as a plot structure to accommodate a veritable anthology of genres of riddles. The Greek legend of Homer and Hesiod may have influenced Aristophanic comedies such as the Frogs and the Wasps. But while in the East the narrative form of the miscellaneous riddle contest was a fantastic outgrowth of the mixed compilations of wisdom literature, the corresponding Greek narratives were fictionalizations of the multifaceted entertainments of the symposion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]