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Giorgio Bonaccorso é monge beneditino da Abadia de Santa Justina, em Pádova (Itália), onde também leciona no Instituto de Liturgia Pastoral vinculado ao mosteiro e ao Pontifício Ateneu Santo Anselmo, em Roma. Suas pesquisas acerca do rito, em diálogo com várias das ciências humanas – História, Biologia, Neurobiologia, Psicologia, Antropologia Cultural, Sociologia, Linguística, Filosofia, Teologia, Fenomenologia, Arte –, têm se destacado e levantado reflexões importantes para a Teologia e as Ciências da Religião. Em 2015, Bonaccorso publicou o livro “Rito”, no qual condensou seu pensamento acerca do tema. Dada a relevância de seu trabalho para pensar o papel da ritualidade na compreensão do fenômeno religioso hoje, pedimos ao professor que nos concedesse uma entrevista, e que também se colocasse em diálogo com a realidade brasileira. A seguir, apresentamos a tradução completa da entrevista, que nesta edição também está disponibilizada no original italiano.

The church of Ss. Faustino and Giovita in Rome was built by the Brescian confraternity in 1575, after they obtained the necessary papal permit for an intervention within the ruins of an unfinished palace of justice (palazzo dei Tribunali) by Donato Bramante. This space played an important role in Rome’s public life, as during the sixteenth century theatrical productions were staged within its walls and one of the first Tiber traghetto dockings was situated nearby. The Brescian community also established a national hospice within the ruins, which was demolished, together with their church, during the late nineteenth-century rebuilding of the Tiber banks. This paper investigates the notion of identity of the Brescian "Nation" (the city of Brescia being ruled by the Republic of Venice, which itself was represented in Rome through different buildings and institutions). It focuses on the activity of Carlo Fontana, the official architect of both the Serenissima and the Brescian confraternity, who designed the new façade of the church of Ss. Faustino and Giovita, as well as many new features of the Venetian embassy in Rome, now known as Palazzo Venezia. Fontana also designed projects in Brescia and neighbouring towns such as Bergamo and Como, as well as different projects in the Veneto, which will be explored here from a comparative perspective.

La acumulación de agua en la superficie foliar puede ser nociva para la planta porque incrementa la colonización de epífilas e interfiere con los procesos fisiológicos de la hoja, disminuyendo la capacidad fotosintética. Para probar si la presencia del acumen en las hojas facilita el drenaje de la superficie foliar en un bosque tropical lluvioso de Costa Rica, (1) medimos experimentalmente la capacidad de retener agua en la superficie foliar de 30 especies antes y después de remover el acumen y (2) analizamos el desarrollo relativo del acumen en los diferentes estratos verticales del bosque. Esperábamos que los acúmenes se encontraran menos desarrollados en los estratos superiores, debido a que las condiciones ambientales allí existentes (i.e., alta insolación, fuertes vientos, baja humedad relativa) favorecen el secado de las hojas. La presencia del acumen incrementó en un 100% la capacidad de drenar agua de la superficie foliar en todas las especies analizadas. Además, el desarrollo del acumen fue menor en las especies de dosel comparadas con las especies de estratos más bajos. Adicionalmente, las hojas de las especies de dosel se hacen menos acuminadas a medida que el árbol crece en altura. Estos resultados apoyan la hipótesis de que la función adaptativa del acumen es facilitar el secado de la superficie foliarWater retention on the leaf surface can be maladaptive to the plant because it increases the colonization of epiphylls and interferes with the physiologic processes of the leaf, diminishing the photosynthetic capacity. To test if leaf driptips facilitate leaf drying after rainfall in a tropical rain forest of Costa Rica, we (1) experimentally measured the capacity to retain water on leaf surfaces of 30 plant species before and after dritip removal, and (2) analyzed the development of driptips along forest strata. We expected leaf driptips to be less developed in the upper strata due to the environmental conditions of the canopy (i.e., high solar radiation, strong winds and low relative humidity), which favor the natural drying of leaves. The presence of driptips increased 100% the water run off capacity of leaves in all the analyzed species. Also, the development of leaf driptips was smaller in canopy species than in understory species. Additionally, they became less developed in canopy species as trees increased in height. These results support the hypothesis that the adaptive role of driptips is to facilitate the drying of leaf surfaces