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The purpose of this investigation, conducted through the perusal of the Dizionario dei proverbi salentini (De Donno, 1996), is to group and analyze proverbs about the sea, in order to enhance their presence in the Salento linguistic and cultural tradition, through a classification of the proverbs themselves. The three different classifications proposed have been developed by Soletti, Franceschi, Sevilla and Cantera. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Iris unguicularissensu lato is an endemic species to the Mediterranean region. In Italy, the species is alien and recorded in Liguria, Tuscany, Abruzzo, and Apulia administrative regions. In the latter region, the species was recorded in Salento, Province of Lecce (Southern Apulia), in three main stations: Li Fani, in the administrative territory of the municipality of Salve, Serra del Rio, Castiglione d'Otranto (Andrano) in the residual Mediterranean scrub areas, along with the new station of Serra of Masseria Grande, Spongano, and on a site near Surano. Morphological analyses and genetic investigations made it possible to establish how the specimens from Li Fani (Salve) belong to I. unguicularis subsp. unguicularis, a species of allochthonous origin, while the plants of Castiglione d'Otranto and Spongano represent a taxonomically distinct group, identifiable as I. unguicularis subsp. carica. The presence of this subspecies in Salento redefines the western boundaries of the area known to date, constituting a novelty for the Apulian and Italian flora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ulía is the word for olive in the Salento area of Italy. Ulía is also the word meaning' I'd like to/ love to', in the local dialect. The linguistic assonances are only one of the many dimensions that link olive trees and humanity, past and future, nature and desire. Recently, Salento's hundreds-yearsold olive trees have been attacked by a disease called Xylella Fastidiosa. In this paper, I analyze the presence and role of both Pagan and non-Pagan 'neo-animist' political discourses oriented toward the cure, preservation, tutelage and guardianship of Salento's olive trees under threat of felling and eradication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we will focus on some names of atmospheric phenomena, sweets, animals, rustic ceramics and games in Salento, all areas already explored in past research and rich in food for thought, to test the reading proposals offered from time to time by the different approaches with which the most well-known semantic theories explain the relationship between signifier and meaning, between signs and designated, in such a specific and determined context as those of the dialectal environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The scholarly activity of Gerhard Rohlfs represents an indispensable legacy for all scholars of Romance languages. His most important works are dictionaries and linguistic studies on the regions of Calabria, Apulia and Lucania, together with his Historische Grammatik der italienischen Sprache und ihrer Mundarten (1949-1954), translated and published in Italian during the following decade with the title Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti (1966-1969). The importance of these contributions lies in a) the fact that they have provided excellent dictionaries and linguistic studies on the regions of Southern Italy, attracting renewed attention of scholars towards the linguistic history of Southern Italy; b) the author’s extraordinary ability to establish an extremely fruitful and direct contact with those strata of Italian society that have usually remained alien to any dialogue with university culture (Varvaro 1991, p. 141); c) a way of research which combines the historical-comparative method of neogrammatic descent with geolinguistic research (Tomasin 2017, p. 163). In this regard, the present contribution will draw a compendium of the experiences and factors that have helped shape the composite research profile of Gerhard Rohlfs, who, between tradition and innovation, has managed to earn the esteem and gratitude of generations of scholars, attract criticism, and to fuel important - but necessary - debates. Starting from these premises, we will trace the contribution of field research and linguistic geography in the genesis and structure of the Vocabolario dei Dialetti Salentini, a monumental lexicographical work that, sixty years after its publication, remains an unsurpassed point of reference in the history of Apulian lexicography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lexical heritage of Salento, Apulian subregion, was studied by one of the most eminent lexicographers of the last century, Gerhard Rohlfs, who collected it in the Vocabolario dei Dialetti Salentini (VDS), published in three volumes between 1956 and 1961. Over the years, this work has been recognized as a masterpiece of dialect lexicography, and has attracted the attention of various scholars, who have carefully examined its various components, such as gestation, structure, etc. Yet, despite some investigation has focused on the sources, a specific study on the contribution of the medieval ones to the drafting of the VDS entries is lacking. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to systematically assess such contribution from both quantitative and qualitative terms, setting the sources used by the Vocabulary in the detailed textual panorama of Salento’s vulgar Middle Ages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper regards the lower Pleistocene temperate‐water carbonate deposits disconformably overlying an escarpment made up of faulted Cretaceous to Miocene limestones of the Apulia Foreland (southern Italy). Study deposits discontinuously crop out along the present‐day eastern Salento sea cliff, and form isolated fan‐shaped bodies, up to 1 km wide and up to 40 to 50 m thick, each of them covering an area of a few square kilometres. The internal arrangement of beds is represented by up to 25° to 30° lobate, seaward dipping clinobeds thinning and onlapping onto a rocky foreslope in the proximal sector and passing to gently inclined to sub‐horizontal strata in the distal sector. Seven facies were distinguished, mainly composed of coarse‐grained skeletal carbonates made up of a heterozoan association including coralline algae, large and small benthic foraminifera, echinoids, molluscs, bryozoans and serpulids. Since clinobeds were formed thanks to hyperconcentrated density flows (grain flows) bypassing the upper part of the inherited escarpment, these skeletal grains represent ex situ deposits whose shallow‐marine factory was located upward (landward) with respect to the bypassed zone, likely in the almost flat area on top of the Salento Peninsula. Clinobeds are often affected by tens of metres wide and long channel‐like structures interpreted as landslide scars. Inside these gullies, contorted beds (slumps) or matrix‐supported intra‐bioclastic floatstone/rudstone (massive deposits) are present. The occurrence of supercritical‐flow structures (for example, backset‐bedded beds) indicates the development of hydraulic jumps along the steep slope of gullies. Since these clinostratified, fan‐shaped carbonate bodies represent carbonate slopes, and that the latter are known as aprons, normally related to linear sourced sediments, an acceptable oxymoron for studied fan‐shaped carbonate bodies is suggested: 'isolated base‐of‐slope aprons'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Over the first forty years of the last century the Italian View of Albania has changed in different ways, but always maintaining strong interest. Both the surprised and sometimes the astonished gaze of travelers and the one of those attracted by possible trade exchanges or the gaze on the soldiers convinced of having the task to Italianize Albania in 1939 “the land of dawning sun” separate frontally by a narrow stretch of the sea, symbolized hopes and promises. In the text of the country across the water that borders with itself the story the specific view (from francone wardon) to stand guard inevitably changed in to watch (from Sanskrit) that means to observe and know.

Since the 10th century, Hebrew script of Italian-type draws its origin in the culture of the Jewish communities inhabiting the region of Salento in Southern Puglia, which were important centers of cultural and religious life, as well as literary production. The object of this study are Hebrew fragments, which were dismembered from six ancient Torah scrolls with Italian-type Hebrew script. They were discovered in a 13th-century Greek palimpsest (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Plut. 74.17), consisting of reused parchment sheets with Greek and Hebrew script. These Hebrew fragments will be compared by palaeographic analysis with contemporary palimpsests from Palestine, as well as the first Italian Hebrew manuscripts of Salentinian origin, attempting to demonstrate that the six Hebrew Torah scroll fragments in MS Plut. 74.17 may have also been produced in Southern Puglia, thus bringing further evidence of Italian-type Hebrew script on parchment in Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Over the first forty years of the last century the Italian View of Albania has changed in different ways, but always maintaining strong interest. Both the surprised and sometimes the astonished gaze of travelers and the one of those attracted by possible trade exchanges or the gaze on the soldiers convinced of having the task to Italianize Albania in 1939 "the land of dawning sun" separate frontally by a narrow stretch of the sea, symbolized hopes and promises. In the text of the country across the water that borders with itself the story the specific view (from francone wardon) to stand guard inevitably changed in to watch (from Sanskrit) that means to observe and know. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay deals with the theme of Salento soldiers who fell on the field in the First World War and were buried in the most important military shrines between Veneto, Trentino and Friuli Venezia Giulia. After a focus on the history of the shrines, we examine the case of a small municipality of Capo di Leuca, Gagliano del Capo, hired as a specimen of the whole of Salento.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reconstructs the genesis of the radio drama The paleontologist painter, who wants to be a work of historical dissemination to bring to the attention of the great public the human experience and the work of a character, Paolo Emilio Stasi, who lived on horseback of XIX and XX century. He was an important landscape painter, who portrayed numerous views of the south-eastern Salento, laying the foundations for a school, which saw the birth of painters such as Giuseppe Casciaro and Vincenzo Ciardo. Towards the last decades of his life, Stasi became interested in paleontology, arriving at the important discovery of Grotta Romanelli, testimony to the presence of man in the Salento area in the Upper Paleolithic. The document offers ideas for methodological reflections on public history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent times, the region of Salento in South-Eastern Italy has become one of the most popular gay-friendly tourist spots in the country and several LGBT organisations have operated in this territory over the last few years. This article seeks to map the creation, development and challenges of the LGBT movement in this Italian sub-region by looking at forms of negotiation between 'local' and 'queer' identities and beyond narratives of 'metronormativity' of LGBT identities and from the perspective of 'critical regionality' and 'meridian thought'. Through semi-structured interviews conducted with five local LGBT activists in 2016 and ethnographic observations carried out at Pride events in 2016 and 2017, the article looks at conflicting social processes whereby local activism is rooted in situated allegiances and interactions with the territory and its population, whilst being permeated by the globalising dynamics of LGBT identity politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Iconised Salento. Crystallised and dynamized forms of a territorial identity. This article aims to investigate the crystallized and dynamized forms of Salento’s identity through the analysis of its icons recurring. The starting hypothesis is that the perceived identity of a country is influenced by its main portrayals; therefore, the icon should be analyzed as one of the main signs of Salento’s representation. After such analysis, the research should identify the base building dynamics of icons, and than should propose a semantic map where the Salento’s icon types will be positioned. In conclusion, it will possible to envisage several communication strategies for a more comprehensive and effective representation of Salento.

In this paper we show how cinema, due to the inherent strength of the images it produces, interacts or even interferes with the processes of place image building. The topic under discussion is then absolutely crucial to geography, being it the science of place. The author, starting by explaining the reciprocity (cycling) relation existing between cinema and place, analyzes by means of a qualitative approach the case of Salento and the creation of its “atmosphere” through cinematic images, taking into account those movies that most have contributed to it. Concerning film-induced tourism the author found that, from the supply side, the local tourism system did not still fully adapted itself to the new needs of this segment. However, there is a great potential for its development, since a latent demand seems to exist and the activities of Apulia Film Commission are greatly contributing to it.

The paper aims at providing a linguistic account on the description of agricultural and societal practices during the first part of the XX c. narrated in a recent book written with large excerpts in the Sallentinian dialect of Sava (Tarentum, Southern Italy). Diffuse references are made to popular traditions as seen by the eyes of a young boy and rivisited as an old man with the true words of the local dialect which are here emphasized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper accounts for a selection of words belonging to traditions of the central Salento that are related to water and its uses in everyday life. A difficult etymological analysis often depends on a relative phonetic variation in the attested forms. Furthermore, a significant cultural distance between generations is responsible of changes in the lexis. Language witnesses therefore the coexistence of two broadly autonomous cultures for the old generation and the younger one (vertically connected by an intermediate generation). Through a different linguistic knowledge about techniques and uses of pots and pans, elderly and young people describe their vision of this resource and its civilization value. The main informant is a woman born at the beginning of the XX s. who still remembers the vital role played by water in the countryside whereas younger speakers tend to refer to seawater or town's water supply, just trying to keep a broad memory of pottery in agriculture and domestic use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper gives an essay of an unpublished book written in the dialect of San Pietro Vernotico (Brindisi, Southern Italy) by the author's grandfather. Only the first chapter of a legendary description of the town is reproduced and translated in Italian with a few linguistic comments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The presence of a pedestal rock, locally named Masso della Vecchia, marks a site of relevant geological interest (geosite) in the surrounding of Giuggianello village (Salento Peninsula, Apulia region, Italy). This unusual natural landform and similar others occurring in the same area gave birth to myths and legends. A detailed geomorphological analysis of Masso della Vecchia area has been carried out. The site is placed at about 100 m of altitude on a lower Pleistocene abrasion surface which constitutes the top of the Serra di Poggiardo morphostructural ridge. Locally, the Miocene Pietra Leccese Formation crops out. It is constituted by poorly consolidated, bioturbated, yellowish biomicrites at lower levels rapidly grading upward in massive grainstones rich in glauconite minerals. The entire sequence gently dips northeastward. The geomorphological analysis revealed that the Masso della Vecchia and similar landforms occurring in the area are karstic features produced under a soil cover. Pinnacles, channels, notches, subsoil scallops, half-bells and other typical features have been recognized. The peculiar assemblage of subsoil karst features can be explained taking into account the geological structure, subsoil karst processes and the geomorphological evolution of this area during the Late Pleistocene. Key words: subsoil karren, geoheritage, Salento, Italy.

The Salento peninsula (Apulia, Southern Italy) has been affected for many centuries by quarrying activities; at present 97 authorized quarries have been recorded, 72 % of them in activity. These quarries exploit sedimentary rocks, mainly limestones, calcarenites and clays. In particular, carbonate rocks are used for ornamental and building stones, whereas clays are quarried for various purposes. Exploitation generally takes place in open pit quarries even if in the past underground extraction was common where calcarenites do not outcrop. The Salento peninsula is studded by a number of abandoned quarries which have not received any remediation work. In this paper, some of these are described as they are marked by a very interesting geological heritage and can be defined as ' geoattractors', i.e. potential nodes of a regional geotouristic network. In this context, restoration planning should be promoted by the Regional Administration in collaboration with scientific Associations, local Universities and Environmental Associations whereas funding could be supplied the regional tax on quarry activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT A detailed observational study of squall line thunderstorms, a particular form of mesoscale convective systems arranged in a line that repeatedly affected Salento Peninsula (southern Apulia, Italy) throughout 2015, is presented and discussed. Specifically, three relevant events that occurred in January, at the end of September and in October are described, combining thermodynamic and synoptic analysis with radar imagery delivered by the cutting-edge polarimetric Doppler radar recently installed in Torchiarolo, in the central part of Salento Peninsula. Reported observational information reveals that, regardless of the season of the year, convergence along an approaching cold front represents the common initiating mechanism leading to the formation of linear convective systems. Furthermore, high resolution Doppler data provided by Torchiarolo radar allows better detection and prompt recognition of severe weather signatures, such as bow echoes and cyclonic mesovortices, commonly associated with squall line thunderstorms. Therefore, the present study clearly confirms the key role of the new advanced weather radar installed in Torchiarolo which thus represents a powerful tool giving researchers and forecasters valuable information about kinematic and microphysical properties of severe weather systems crossing Apulia region, especially Salento Peninsula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The topic of this article is the traditional song practice from Salento, in particular in the form of folk song "stornello"considered in the area of Nardò in association with the women workers of tobacco and agricultural workers in general. The considered repertoire, unpublished and not studied yet, is that of Alba Filieri (1939-2016) and of her family. The aim of this research was to verify the possible links of this practice with the rhythms, productivity and work conditions during the tobacco harvesting and manufacture in the same area. The results of the researches carried on this repertoire - together with the framing of contexts, the collected informations from the field and from the available databases and the comparisons of similar repertoiresshow that the song intonation practices were both linked to productivity parameters and specific inclinations, both individual and collective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The presence of a pedestal rock, locally named masso della Vecchia, marks a site of relevant geological interest (geosite) in the surrounding of Giuggianello village (Salento Peninsula, Apulia region, Italy). This unusual natural landform and similar others occurring in the same area gave birth to myths and legends. A detailed geomorphological analysis of masso della Vecchia area has been carried out. The site is placed at about 100 m of altitude on a lower Pleistocene abrasion surface which constitutes the top of the Serra di Poggiardo morphostructural ridge. Locally, the Miocene Pietra Leccese Formation crops out. It is constituted by poorly consolidated, bioturbated, yellowish biomicrites at lower levels rapidly grading upward in massive grainstones rich in glauconite minerals. The entire sequence gently dips northeastward. The geomorphological analysis revealed that the masso della Vecchia and similar landforms occurring in the area are karstic features produced under a soil cover. Pinnacles, channels, notches, subsoil scallops, half-bells and other typical features have been recognized. The peculiar assemblage of subsoil karst features can be explained taking into account the geological structure, subsoil karst processes and the geomorphological evolution of this area during the Late Pleistocene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The long Byzantine presence in Southern Italy has left deep traces in the people's culture and religion. Furthermore, the Adriatic Sea has always been a bridge between East and West, determining - as recently stated by Patriarch Bartholomew - Puglia's intrinsic ecumenical vocation. One of the most obvious aspects, as it is still strongly felt, is the worship of many saints of eastern origin - who entered the liturgical calendars and the iconography of local churches - whose celebrations are still characterized nowadays by a great popular participation. The essay starts from this historical and religious reality, choosing Salento as a specimen, in order to emphasize the ecumenical value of popular devotion, which refers - implicitly or explicitly - to the «theology of the saints», where the «holy» sanctifies the Church, from which the genealogy of the Mystical Body flows. In summary, a reimagining of the theology of the saints which, starting from devotional, iconographic, and anthropological elements, brings out what there was already in the past and what there still is now in common on the path of the ecumenism of holiness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the topographical and archaeological research project is to provide a new contribution to the systematic survey of a Salento peninsula's sector, the territory of "Valle dell'Asso", updating the archaeological knowledge, through the sistematic survey of the territory. The area analyzed (IGM, F. 214 III NE, Neviano), has a variously undulated surface, with elevations ranging from 45m to 140m above sea level, it is characterized by Serra Sant'Eleuterio to the West and SerraMontalto to the East. Among these elevations there is a valley, long and narrow, marked by the Asso's endorheic basin, probably formed in the Middle Pleistocene. The study of the area was integrated with the construction of a mosaic aerial photo and the construction of a Digital Terrain Model (DTM), prepared on base map in scale 1: 5.000 (Regional Technical Map). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the cliffs along the coastal stretch of Melendugno are being interested by coastal erosion. For its environmental, landscape and tourist value, the local authorities are planning several actions to be implemented in the short, medium and long term as part of one of the five regional projects included in the new Territorial Landscape Plan of Apulia. The paper aims to verify the effective interest of residents and tourists in the province of Lecce towards the renovation and upgrading projects for the cliffs of Melendugno through the choice experiment (CE). Such an approach could also define economic and fiscal incentives, as well as improve measures in order to promote bottom-up initiatives, with positive effects on the governance of the shores of Salento. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article concerns the results of the research carried out by Stefano Parenti, Professor of Eastern Liturgies at the Pontifical University of Saint Anselm in Rome. It deals with the retrieval of the euchologion of Galàtone (dating from the 12th century), an interesting Italian-Greek review of the Byzantine liturgical tradition, which had been lost for the first half of the 20th century. The first part of the article describes the procedure adopted by Parenti to achieve a precise retrieval and identification of the euchologion, in its new and recent place (the Duke University Library of Durham in North Carolina). Afterwards, the article offers a general analysis of the sections which make up the euchologion, taking advantage of the reports written by historians who dealt with it when it was kept in the parish archive in Galàtone. Lastly, a future analysis of the specific content of the euchologion is anticipated, but it will be carried out provided that a tangible use of the euchologion is allowed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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