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The augment in Homeric past tenses is an optional feature. In this thesis, I study the coexistence of augmented and unaugmented verbs in Homer, offering an overview and a discussion of the literature on the topic, and suggest a new approach to the phenomenon from a syntactic and textual perspective. The aim of this work is to describe, on a synchronic level, some of the distributional tendencies of the augment and to explore if these tendencies are related to its diachronic reconstruction as a temporal marker. Having first considered the phenomenon within a Comparative Philology framework, I then highlight the distribution of augmented and unaugmented verbs in Homer through a detailed investigation of scholarship on this matter. I then give an account of the different opinions on the reconstruction of the original function and morphology of the augment, also underlining how Homeric data can contribute to this general debate. The comparison and discussion of the various proposals suggest that the more reliable theory is the reconstruction of the augment as a temporal marker. In the second part of the thesis, I present a personal analysis of a corpus of four books from the Iliad. The textual analysis of the data shows that the presence or absence of the augment is often related to narrative effects or strategies. Syntactic analysis, carried out within a Generative Grammar framework, then explores whether augmented and unaugmented verbs have different syntactic behaviour. Results from this investigation illustrate that the syntactic distribution of augmented and unaugmented verbs constistently match with certain narrative effects. In the conclusion, having presented the time related information given by tenses as a complex structure, I try to discuss how the augment in Homer can be considered a temporal marker and I explore whether tendencies which have emerged from my analysis can be related to this interpretation.

Essence and Form. The presence of Aristotle in Hegel’s «Wesenslogik» The aim of this research is to prove the relationship between the Hegelian concept of «Wesen» and Aristotle’s «ti en einai» from a not merely lexical point of view. I will specially attempt the reading of some fundamental moments of the Science of logic using the Lectures on the history of philosophy that Hegel dedicates to the Stagirite. Both signifiers, Wesen and ti en einai, refer to a sense of past, but timelessly past (zeitlos), which is pregnantly speculative. Hegel structures the division of the Objective Logic in two books, “Being” and “Essence”, on the model of the Aristotelian episteme. True science, meaning the one that goes deeply, looks beyond Being (to on) and, once found its Essence (ti en einai), puts this last one as its object. The logical journey from Being to Essence thinks highly this truth. I am convinced that founding such a relationship between the above-mentioned terms has a twofold contribution: On the one hand, which one of clarifying some key-moments of the Doctrine of Essence, so disambiguating expressions, or “formulas” that the Stagirite frequently uses as synonyms (i.e. essence, act, purpose and form); On the other hand, which one of reading, and correctly understanding, the past tense en in the middle of the Aristotelian formula; a past tense definitely metaphysical, which refers to what is necessary, unchangeable, out of time just because it is what time needs most of all and what legitimates time. The dissertation articulates into four chapters, corresponding to four distinct moments of investigation: Chapter I starts with some methodological remarks, and then provides my first general interpretation of the Hegelian Essence as dynamis. I will found this kind of reading on the Aristotelian concepts of essence, act and purpose. The analysis focuses on Aristotle’s Metaphysics and approaches a germinal connection between Wesen, An-sich, ousia, dynamis. Chapter II concerns the recollection (sich erinnert) of Being in Essence, that is, switching to a different level of logical argumentation, its connection on one side with Platonic anamnesis, on the other one with the Aristotelian ti en einai. Both anà and en refer to a past that is not truly such: it has no-time significance but clearly a logical-metaphysical one. Logical development is not made up of continuity but rather of breaks and always-new demotions; it recalls some famous words Socrates says to Meno: “And isn’t finding knowledge within oneself recollection?” (Meno, 85e-86a). Chapter III, in a direct link with the previous ones, thematizes the role of Reflexion as that immanent process of Essence, rethinking the complex balance of Being and Essence as, respectively, proteron pros hemas and proteron te physei, in turn corresponding to the Aristotelian formulas ti esti and ti en einai. Chapter IV, which takes crosswise the themes of the previous chapters, deals with the problem of Wirklichkeit at the end of the Doctrine of Essence, interpreting it in its twofold meaning of energeia and entelecheia. Despite Hegel, in his Lectures on the history of philosophy, apparently considers entelecheia as the most proper determination of energeia, he actually reveals two distinct senses, which correspond to different ranges of use. Wirklichkeit is then determined both as effectuality and as the determinacy of purpose. If, on the one hand, Hegel accomplishes a great ontological building, on the other hand he grounds an effectual reality that is only possible, still to submit to the scrutiny of the Subject, Concept, and Idea.

Il presente contributo si propone di esaminare alcuni aspetti del rapporto che lega uso memoriale del passato ed emancipazione politica, nella prospettiva ambivalente dell’esercizio di un dominio o di un processo di liberazione. In una prima sezione si mette in evidenza il valore di emancipazione che nella Cité divisée Nicole Loraux attribuisce alla pratica storica, opponendola alla memoria pubblica della Francia della fine del XX secolo. In una seconda sezione vengono presi in considerazione alcuni passaggi de Il principe e dei Discorsi di Machiavelli, dai quali si evince una concezione ambivalente della memoria, sempre inserita all’interno di un quadro storicamente situato di conflitti e di lotta per l’egemonia. Il lavoro infine prende in considerazione alcune variazioni intervenute nel ricorso alla memoria della dittatura e del fenomeno dei desaparecidos nei discorsi di Hebe Bonafini, portavoce delle Madres de Plaza de Mayo, per individuarvi il riconfigurarsi di un rapporto con il passato all’interno di pratiche sempre nuove di emancipazione politica. The article analyzes some aspects of the relationship between memorial use of the past and political practice, considered in the double perspective of domination and emancipation. In the first section we address the value Nicole Loraux’s La cité divisée attributes to the practice of history as an emancipatory tool in opposition to the public memory in the late XXth century France. The second section considers some passages of Machiavelli’s Il Principe and Discorsi, in which emerges an ambivalent concept of memory, always placed in historical set of conflicts and fight for hegemony. Finally, the paper considers the public speeches of Hebe Bonafini (leader of Madres de la Plaza de Mayo) and their varying memory of the crimes of the dictatorship period and of the phenomenon of desaparecidos. The ultimate aim is to shed light on the variation in the reference to the past according to changing practices of political emancipation. Fil: Greco, Giuseppe. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba; Argentina

Boom economico e italian deam: gli abusi dell'espansione degli anni Cinquanta in una Napoli presa d'assalto dagli interessi malati dell'economia italiana. Sviluppo e "arretratezza" in un contesto da Mani sulla città.

La thématique du train est intimement liée à la pensée d’Antonio Tabucchi. Les personnages, errant à la périphérie de la vie, y cherchent un sens et se perdent dans leurs souvenirs et leurs rêves. Le train accompagne l’errance de ces voyageurs sans attaches et devient le réceptacle de leur quête. La tematica del treno è strettamente legata al pensiero di Antonio Tabucchi. I personaggi tabucchiani vagano alla periferia dell’esistenza e, cercando un senso, si smarriscono nei propri sogni e ricordi. Il treno accompagna l’erranza di questi viaggiatori senza legami e diventa il ricettacolo della loro ricerca.

The essay studies the dominant role of the return jorney in La luna e i falò, the last novel of Cesare Pavese. Thanks to this double mouvement (going and returning), present in the Pavesian work, this article demostrates that the principal characters of Pavese cannot return to their original space. They can only look at the childhood scenaries through the evocative memory. They reach in this way the lyric, tragic and elegiac poetry. It consents them to look at the melancholic world of their own past time. Il sistema della memoria ne La Luna e i falò Il saggio studia il ruolo determinante che il viaggio, di partenza e di ritorno, svolge all’interno de La luna e i falò, l’ultimo romanzo di Cesare Pavese. Grazie a questo doppio movimento di andata e ritorno, presente in gran parte dell’opera pavesiana, questo lavoro mette in rilievo come il protagonista del romanzo non sarà mai in grado di ritornare nello spazio delle origini. Sarà solo capace di attivare tutta la forza evocativa della memoria, fino a raggiungere la poesia, lirica, tragica ed elegiaca, inerente all’impossibile e malinconica incapacità di ritornare nel proprio mondo passato.

[Abstract] Also Law-scholars (and, above all, scholars devoted to legal systems of classical antiquity and to the rebuilding of a new European legal system) shall be interested in the work-notes Hannah Arendt was collecting among 1950 and 1973. The notes were published in 2002 in German, i.e. the language in which, in the most part, they had been originally written, and translated in Italian in 2007. The essay, that confirms such an interest, presents several remarks by the eminent thinker involving, the most direct way, themes related to juridical topics and besides personal observations of the author. By reading it, indeed, one shall have knowledge of Arendt’s ideas about humanitas and past’s significance and core, about ‘tradition religion and authority’ (i.e., in her opinion, the three Western World pillars which have been torn down by now), about power, law, justice, murder, nullum crimen sine lege principle and, eventually, about university, the very place in which scholars of legal science continue to be educated.

The essay aims at investigating John Banville’s experimentation with the form of the novel. The focus is on the author’s attitude towards the traditional Irish trend of literary experimentation which, though tracing its origins in a remote past and emerging in Modern age through the work of distinguished writers, identified its best and extreme representative in James Joyce at the beginning of the twentieth century. The analysis of Banville’s work implies to face two strictly connected fundamental issues in the history of Irish literature: first, the relationship of Irish writers with their history and tradition, second their relationship with the ghost of their Master (“The Dead Father”). Within Banville’s wide production, the works here analysed are just a few: Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus, The Book of Evidence. They were chosen since they proved particularly suitable to carry out the proposed investigation.

Si delinea il processo di etnogenesi delle popolazioni barbariche introdottesi all'interno dell'Impero romano

Gli itinerari culturali proposti nei lavori riuniti in questo volume (14) si situano fra l'ottocento e il primo novecento. Dal Journal di Delacroix, a Jules Verne, a Gabriele D'Annunzio, a Gide e Valéry. Les itinéraires culturels envisagés dans les travaux regroupés dans ce volume (14) se situent entre le XIXe siècle et les premières décennies du XXe. Du Journal de Delacroix, à Jules Verne, à Gabriele D'Annunzio, à Gide et Valéry.

This article constitutes the slightly modified italian version of a conference held at Trinity College in San Antonio, Texas, the text of which is being published in Lives of the Laureates - Enlarges Edition, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. In it, Nobel laureate Franco Modigliani offers readers an informal lesson on modern economic thought through an autobiographical essay touching on his life, career and intellectual development. JEL Codes: B31, Moneta e Credito, V. 42, N. 168 (1989)