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Si riconsidera, in questa sede, la questione dell’etimologia dell’epiteto iguvino grabouio-, oggetto negli ultimi due secoli di svariate proposte etimologiche: in particolare, si mette in luce l’opportunità di riprendere in considerazione una proposta di Ugo Bianchi, il quale sospettò che l’epiteto umbro fosse da interpretare alla luce del confronto con il latino Capitolinus. La validità della tesi dello Studioso è qui sostenuta dall’accordo fra i dati linguistici e quelli antiquari e storico-religiosi, inquadrando la spiegazione di grabouioall’interno di un più ampio contesto di condivisione di tratti culturali fra le comunità dell’Italia antica. The etymology of the Umbrian epithet grabouio- has been studied according to a number of etymological proposals over the last two centuries. Among these is Ugo Bianchi’s suggestion to interpret grabouio- in the light of Latin Capitolinus. The merits of the arguments put forward by this scholar are supported through a comparison between the linguistic and the antiquarian and religious evidence. This makes it possible to incorporate grabouio- into the more broadly shared cultural traits of Ancient Italy.

Both commissioned by Duke Federico da Montefeltro, the Urbino Studiolo (executed between 1473 and 1476) and the Gubbio Studiolo (executed between 1479 and 1482 and kept in Gallery 501 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York since 1996) are so similar to seem identical, even if only in appearance. By focusing on the decorative apparatus, in fact, the presence of hallmarks is evident. In this sense a decisive role is played by the analysis of the coffered finishing that, being present both in Urbino and Gubbio, reveals substantial differences (mainly due to the variety in the spatial organisation). Although it regards a delimited part, the analysis of the Gubbio Studiolo (from compositional, constructive and material points of view), underlines the integration between scientific aspects (such as the careful geometrical planning) and artistic ones (such as the introduction of illusionistic devices), that perfectly summarise the principles of mathematical humanism advocated by the Montefeltro court., Opus Incertum, Vol 3 (2017)

Evaluating industrial impact on society and environment. Proposals for indicators from a paradigmatic case of cement production in Umbria Gubbio is one of the most famous towns in Umbria, but only a few know its main economic activity: the production of cement. In Gubbio, in fact, for about a century two important factories have been producing cement. Their impact on the environment and public health has been recently discussed by a part of the local community. Although industrial emissions respect the limits established by law, some residents have organized a committee for the protection of environment and health in the territory of Gubbio. They ask for further investigation, especially on the epidemiological field. In this regard, the community is divided, because the two cement factories and other firms joined to them represent a crucial resource for local employment and economy. In the background, the institutions that since World War II have been connected to the left, which are traditionally more sensitive to environmental themes, appear unwilling to really face the issue and mention the encouraging data on the emissions released by these factories. This paradigmatic case may provide indicators for a proper assessment of complex implications of the relationship industry-environment-health. Evaluation de l’impact industriel sur la société et l’environnement. Propositions d’indicateurs à partir d’un cas paradigmatique de production de ciment en Ombrie Gubbio est l’un des centres les plus connus de l’Ombrie, mais presque personne ne connaît sa principale activité économique: la production du ciment. Depuis presqu’un siècle, à Gubbio sont en fonction deux usines de ciment, dont l’impact sur l’environnement et sur la santé des habitants a été mis en question par la communauté locale. Malgré les émissions des établissements industriels soient conformes à la loi, on a récemment constitué un comité qui vise à protéger l’environnement et la santé et qui demande d’ultérieures recherches épidémiologiques. À ce propos, l’opinion de la communauté n’est pas unanime étant donné que les deux usines et les sociétés associées constituent une source fondamentale pour l’emploi et pour l’économie locale. De l’autre côté, les institutions politiques, guidées depuis l’après-guerre par les partis de gauche, les plus sensibles aux problèmes de l’environnement, se montrent timides mais confortés par les données rassurantes des contrôles des émissions. Ce cas paradigmatique peut fournir des indicateurs pour une évaluation correcte des implications complexes de la relation industrie-environnement-santé., Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 1 (2018)

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Cette contribution se propose de presenter un corpus anonyme de la fin du xiiie siecle en insistant sur l’instance du discours et les enjeux du texte. En effet, a l’occasion de la description et de la presentation d’un animal, le locuteur-poete entreprend un travail d’assimilation de caracteres, developpant une typologie comportementale ou physiologique dont l’objectif est de proposer un enseignement a un public nomme et suggere dont on sait qu’il constitue l’assemblee des fideles, le peuple de Dieu. Le texte se transforme des lors en un point de depart pour un discours autre qui sera active par le lecteur, voire le predicateur, et dont la finalite sera de modifier le comportement, l’habitude du fidele face a sa pratique religieuse ou, plus simplement, dans son quotidien.

The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) was a warming event that interrupted the long-term Eocene cooling trend. While this event is well documented at high southern and mid-latitudes, it is poorly known from low latitudes and its timing and duration are not well constrained because of problems of hiati, microfossil preservation and weak magnetic polarity in key sedimentary sections. Here, we report the results of a study designed to improve the bio-, magneto- and chemostratigraphy of the MECO interval using high-resolution records from two low-latitude sections in the Atlantic Ocean, Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Sites 1051 and 1260. We present the first detailed benthic foraminiferal stable isotope records of the MECO from the low latitudes as well as the biostratigraphic counts of Orbulinoides beckmanni and new magnetostrati-graphic results. Our data demonstrate a similar to 750 kyr-long duration for the MECO characterized by increasing delta(13)C and decreasing 6180, with minimum 6180 values lasting similar to 40 kyr at 40.1 Ma coincident with a short-lived negative delta(13)C excursion. Thereafter, 6180 and delta(13)C values recover rapidly. The shift to minimum 6180 values at 40.1 Ma is coincident with a marked increase in the abundance of the planktonic foraminifera O. beckmanni, consistent with its inferred warm-water preference. O. beckmanni is an important Eocene biostratigraphic marker, defining planktonic foraminiferal Zone E12 with its lowest and highest occurrences (LO and HOs). Our new records reveal that the LO of O. beckmanni is distinctly diachronous, appearing similar to 500 kyr earlier in the equatorial Atlantic than in the subtropics (40.5 versus 41.0 Ma). We also show that, at both sites, the HO of O. beckmanni at 39.5 Ma is younger than the published calibrations, increasing the duration of Zone E12 by at least 400 kyr. In accordance with the tropical origins of O. beckmanni, this range expansion to higher latitudes may have occurred in response to sea surface warming during the MECO and subsequently disappeared with cooling of surface waters. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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En quoi consiste l'histoire des images médiévales ? A partir de trois épisodes de la vie de saint François peints aux XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles

Ampetu in the Eugubinian Tables: "to immolate" - The present paper examines all the occurrences of the Umbrian lexeme ampentu, in order to elucidate its meaning. It also analyses the various methods that can be used for the study of the Iguvine rituals and their limits. In the case of ampentu, it is possible to hypothesise that the phase it designates is, at least as far as its structural position is concerned, comparable to the Latin immolatio., SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Il saggio fornisce un'ampia introduzione al volume di Spartaco Capannelli e Gaetano Rossi sul principale complesso architettonico della città di Gubbio, rintracciando i motivi del profondo interesse dell'autore del saggio per la città umbra. The essay provides an extensive introduction to the volume of Spartaco Capannelli and Gaetano Rossi on the principal architectural complex of Gubbio, tracing the reasons for the profound interest of the author of this essay to the Umbrian town.

A Gubbio (PG) nei giorni 11 e 12 ottobre 2012 si è svolto il XIX Convegno Nazionale di Micologia, in cui sono stati presentati sotto forma di relazione orale, lavori riguardanti tutti gli aspetti della micologia. Alcune relazioni hanno riguardato i macrofunghi ed in particolare quelli appartenenti al genere Tuber, altri lavori presentavano dati inerenti i funghi responsabili di malattie di piante erbacee ed arboree, altri ancora i funghi endofiti. Viene brevemente illustrato il contenuto delle diverse sessioni in cui si è articolato il convegno.

The Cretaceous time scale is the combination of biostratigraphic, magnetostratigraphic data, and of geomagnetic polarity timescale based on the magnetic anomaly patterns, and constrained by rare radioisotopic dating. The cyclostratigraphic approach, based on the analyse of the sedimentary cycles and the study of their relationship with the orbital parameter evolution, has been applied here in order to re ne the Upper Cretaceous time scale by building an astronomical timescale. Signal processing tools (spectral analysis, amplitude spectrograms) used during the cyclostratigraphic analysis have been tested on the Contessa and Bottaccionne reference sections of Gubbio (Umbria Marche, Italy), and the calcareous marl alternations of Bidart (Basque country, France). The cyclostratigraphic study aiming at the astronomical calibration of the Maastrichtian has been performed on sedimentary series possessing a good recovery of the upper Cretaceous and a good bio and magnetostratigraphic frame : series from ODP leg 122 (Indian Ocean), leg 207 (Equatorial Atlantic) and leg 208 (South Atlantic), and DSDP leg 74 (South Atlantic). The Maastricthian formations on these sites are constituted by calcareous marl and nannofossils ooze. Analyses of the recent ODP sites have been performed on magnetic susceptibility and lightness variations. Sudies of the older ODP and DSDP sites have been performed on variations of the sediments colour, expressed in grey level and obtained from the cores photographs. Cyclostratigraphic studies allowed the detection of the orbital control of the sedimentation on every sedimentary series, with the record of the precession, obliquity, and 100 and 405 kyr eccentricity variations. Variations of the sedimentation rate have been identi ed on each site. Cyclostratigraphic analysis of Bidart section has highlitghted an exceptionnal record of the precession. Study of the Contessa section and hole 762C on an intervalle covering the C31r magnetochron allowed the estimation of this magnetochron duration to 2.08 0.03 Ma. The orbital tuning of every sedimentary series from ODP and DSDP sites has then been performed using the La0X astronomical solution, and based on the 405 kyr eccentricity cycles. The association of the sedimentary series possessing the best record of the orbital control has allowed the creation of a detailed cyclostratigraphic frame. Each 100 and 405 kyr cycles within this frame has been numbered according to its position relative to the Cretaceous- Paleogene boundary (K-PgB). This cyclostratigraphic frame is thus a relative time scale covering about 8 Myr, from the upper Campanian to the K-PgB. The duration of each magnetochron, from the C32r2r to the C29r has then been estimation with an accuracy of 0.03 Ma. This study provide thus the rst constraints on the Mesozoïc oceanic accretion rates based on the orbital parameter record in sedimentary series. The astronomical calibration of the tuned records has been performed using the new astronomical solution La10. Due to the chaotic motions of the planets in the Solar System, accurate estimations of the 405 kyr eccentricity amplitude variations can not be calculated. Therefore, these modulations can not be used to anchor the sedimentary series on the astronomical solution. Two time scales, shifted of a 405 kr eccentricity cycle, have thus been created, taking into account the radioisotopic dating available for the K-PgB. Two sets of ages, estimated with a good accuracy, are proposed for each geological event identi ed in the sedimentary series (bio-events, magnetochron boudaries . . .). The age of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary has been estimated to 65.59 0.01 Ma and 66 0.01 Ma. This last age is closer to the estimates obtained by the most recent recalibrations of the 40Ar=39Ar standards. This estimate is the rst dating of the K-PgB obtained thanks to the astronomical calibration of maastrichtian sedimentary series., L'approche cyclostratigraphique, qui repose sur l'analyse des cyclicités sédimentaires et l'étude de leurs relations avec les évolutions des paramètres orbitaux de la Terre, a été employée ici dans le but de construire une échelle de temps astronomique pour le Maastrichtien. Plusieurs sites ont été étudiés : les forages ODP des legs 122 (marge Nord ouest australienne), 207 (Atlantique équatorial), et 208 (Atlantique sud), le leg DSDP 74X et les coupes à terre situées à Gubbio (Italie) et Bidart (Pays Basque). Les analyses ont portées sur les variations de la susceptibilité magnétique, de la réflectance et des niveaux de gris. L'étude cyclostratigraphique a permis de détecter un contrôle orbital de la sédimentation sur l'ensemble des séries étudiées, avec l'enregistrement de cyclicités correspondants aux variations de l'excentricité à 100 et 405 ka, de l'obliquité et de la précession. Un calage temporel de l'ensemble des séries provenant des forages DSDP et ODP a ensuite été effectué à l'aide de la solution astronomique La0x, sur la base de l'identification des cycles d'excentricité à 405 ka. Ce cadre ainsi créé constitue une échelle de temps relative couvrant 8 Millions d'années, depuis le Campanien supérieur jusqu'à la limite K-Pg. La durée de chaque magnétochrone, du C32r2r au C29r, a ainsi pu être estimée avec une précision de l'ordre de 0.03 Ma. La calibration astronomique des séries calées en temps a été effectuée à l'aide de la nouvelle solution astronomique La10.Deux séries d'âges sont proposées pour les événements géologiques reconnus dans les séries sédimentaires. L'âge de la limite K-Pg a été estimé à ~65.59 Ma ou ~66 Ma.