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The purpose of this study is to focus on the coexistence, during the transmission of the doctrine on the Topics in the early Middle Ages, of two different interpretations: although both emerge from two commentaries on Cicero’s Topics, however, they gave rise to two different readings: the one transmitted by Marius Victorinus (ca. 280-365 AC) who thought the topics almost exclusively in the service of Rhetoric, the other conceived by Boethius (ca. 480-524 AC) who intended to restore the centrality that the Topics had in the Aristotelian Logic, by subordinating the rethorical Topics to dialectical Topics. My conclusion is that the Early Middle Ages can be considered, from an epistemological point of view, as a long boetiana aetas. Although the corpus of Boethius’s logical writings was not yet available until the second half of the 11th century, Boethius’s methodological approach on the Topics somehow continued to support the slow but constant absorption of the topical doctrine into the new Christian sensibility.

Chi è Johann Sebastian Mastropiero? Il pubblico ispanico lo sa bene: è il personaggio feticcio dei Les Luthiers. Ma chi sono questi Luthiers? Si sono mai visti in televisione? No, in televisione ci sono stati di rado, ma dopo una storia cinquantennale di successi teatrali in America Latina e in Spagna, gli spettacoli del gruppo comico-musicale argentino Les Luthiers sono ora accessibili a una platea mondiale grazie a YouTube. In questo saggio ci proponiamo dimostrare come l’alto livello musicale delle loro performances, la straordinaria vena inventiva e l’uso raffinato dell’ironia conferiscano una valenza anche educativa alle parodie surreali dei generi musicali (dalla musica antica fino all’opera lirica e al folklore latinoamericano) che i Luthiers hanno proposto nel corso della loro parabola artistica. Who is Johann Sebastian Mastropiero? The Hispanic public knows it well: he is the fetish character of Les Luthiers. But who are these Luthiers? Have we ever seen them on television? No, they have rarely been on television, but after a fifty-year history of theatrical success in Latin America and Spain, the shows of the Argentinean comic-musical group Les Luthiers are now accessible to a worldwide audience thanks to YouTube. In this essay we aim to show how the high musical level of their performances, the extraordinary inventive vein and the refined use of irony give an educational value to the surreal parodies of musical genres (from ancient music to opera and Latin American folklore) that the Luthiers have proposed during their artistic career.

is described and illustrated the parthenogenetic species Otiorhynchus (Eprahenus) cooteri sp. n. from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, close to the amphigonic O. aksudshabaglinus Bajtenov, 1974 from an adjoining area of Kazakhstan. The new species is allied with other central asiatic O. (Eprahenus), with all of which is shortly compared, whereas other members of the subgenus occurring in the Caucasus and surrounding area appear rather distantly related with the ones here considered. Otiorhynchus kasakhstanicus Arnoldi, 1964 is moved to O. (Zariedus) Reitter, 1912 from O. (Eprahenus) Reitter, 1912.

Lo studio presentato fa parte di una ricerca più ampia volta alla documentazione e all’analisi degli edifici a pianta centrale, ellittica e ovale, presenti sul territorio siciliano e realizzati a cavallo del Settecento. La complessa geometria e la spazialità di questi ambienti necessitano di una metodologia di indagine che si avvale delle tecnologie più avanzate per il rilievo e la modellazione 3D – laser scanning - al fine di approfondire la lettura e l’interpretazione del testo architettonico su un supporto metrico accurato e denso di informazioni e comprendere le geometrie utilizzate nel progetto e nel tracciamento in cantiere.

The paper sketches the figure of Wilhelm Griesinger (1817-1868) and briefly illustrates his idea of psychiatry by presenting the Italian translation of a famous speech he delivered at the Conference for the Inauguration of the Berlin Psychiatric Clinic. Griesinger's importance in defining the scientific status of psychiatric science is widely acknowledged, but his theoretical and clinical conception has been the subject of some misunderstandings, which have portrayed him as a simple materialist convinced that mental illness was essentially due to organic dysfunctions. However, this can be considered as a reductionist view, which is to some extent re-dimensioned in this inaugural speech, restoring the image of a psychiatrist attentive to physiopathological dynamics but also sensitive to the human dimension. Indeed, the author aims at a deeper understanding of the "sick soul". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay introduces the Italian edition of some short biographical profiles dedicated by Wilhelm Dilthey to important protagonists of contemporary German historiography, including Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, Leopold von Ranke, Heinrich von Treitschke, Rudolf Haym, Friedrich Wilhelm von Giesebrecht and Johann Gustav Droysen. These are intellectuals of some importance who also contributed not only to the developments of their specific discipline but, more generally, to the European cultural debate of that important period of recent history. Dilthey describes their profiles, thus applying in the best way his idea of a biography, which he interpreted, not as a collection of details about certain figures, but rather as the ability to reread and understand entire historical-cultural segments. Thus, Dilthey presents a concise but effective picture of these authors and their respective contexts of reference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]