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This work aims to study the textual tradition of the fourth day of the Passion of Arnoul Gréban, a dramatic text composed around 1450 and printed until around 1550. The four manuscripts and the fourteen ancient editions which transmit the Résurrection are the subject of an interdisciplinary research in three parts. The first chapter is devoted to the material comparison of the different sources listed; the printed tradition of the text is reevaluated following a hybrid approach based on material bibliography and philology. The second chapter takes into account the transition from manuscript to print in order to evaluate the printers’ role in the adaptation of Gréban’s text to a wider audience. In the third chapter, the varia lectio of the Résurrection becomes the basis for a linguistic analysis of the Middle French to Preclassical French transition; the qualitative study of philological variants is corroborated by the data available in digital corpora as well as by modern and ancient lexicographic tools.

Santa Rosa’s Archive is an extraordinary private noble archive, which preserves the documents produced over four centuries by a family that actively participated in public life and who lived through the most significant stages of the profound transformation of Piedmont from the Savoy state into the Kingdom of Italy.

CoME EASY is a European Union H2020 project started in May 2018, which aims to help local public authorities secure a more sustainable energy and climate policy, in line with the New Green Deal and Fit for 55 initiatives. The main idea of CoME EASY is to offer an integrated package of on-line tools that synchronize European Energy Awards (EEA) with Covenant of Mayors (CoM), ISOs, Smart Cities, and other initiatives that allow local communities to have multiple commitments for energy efficiency and climate with less effort. EEA is a quality management and awarding system for municipalities and regions, which started in 1988 in Switzerland and now includes more than 1700 municipalities from 8 countries and 10 new pilot countries with more than 65 million people belonging to the local communities that are involved. There are six main areas of activity in EEA (Development and Spatial Planning Strategy, Municipal Buildings and Facilities, Supply and Disposal, Mobility, Internal Organization, Communication and Cooperation) through which municipalities are driven by advisors so as to receive a score in percentage for each area, which further allows them to compare with other communities. Romania has been an EEA pilot country since 2016 and, despite initial problems in implementing the system, now has three communities, Iași (Romania second largest city), Alba Iulia (the so-called other Romanian capital), and Vama Buzăului, included in CoME EASY. These cities tested frameworking tools and managed to be assessed with EAA tools, and developed a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan synchronously. Owing to the CoME EASY tools, all of these communities were able to deliver key performance indicators that are in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Storyteller, literary critic, University professor, translator, screenwriter, but first of all partisan and protagonist of one of the most significant episodes of Resistance in Piedmont, Mario Bonfantini (Novara, 1904 - Turin, 1978), thanks to his political, social and cultural commitment, can stimulate a multidisciplinary debate around his figure. Starting from the studies so far conducted, the Humanities Department of the University of Turin, in collaboration with the University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale and with the Historical Institute of Resistance in Novara, organized the convention Mario Bonfantini: un salto nella libertà, which took place on December 16, 2016 in Turin. This convention allowed the investigation of Mario Bonfantini’s figure and work through a number of critical looks that have created a dialogue between his life and his readings, his moral ideals, his literary and academic production, returning a complex but extremely coherent image of this writer.

In October 1922, Mario Bonfantini matriculates in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Turin. The essay goes back to the stages of Bonfantini’s student career, through some sources kept at the Historical Archive of the University of Turin, highlighting his literary interests and rebuilding his relationship with the teachers Ferdinando Neri and Vittorio Cian, with whom he discussed a thesis on Giovan Battista Marino e il secentismo, later revised to be published in 1929 as an article in the magazine «La cultura» with the title Ritratto del Marino.