Gilgameš

Tra il Nilo e il Ticino: la collezione egizia del Museo Archeologico dell’Università degli Studi di Pavia

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The paper aims to provide a historical presentation and a brief
description of the quite unknown manufacts kept in the Egyptian
collection of the Archaeological Museum of the University of Pavia.
The materials, most of them gifts given by scholars, travellers and
scientists, in the fist mid of the 19th century, are a good evidence
both of the so-called “Egyptomania” and the beginning of the
interest in egyptologicals “studies” in Northern Italy. The reader will
find, after a historical introduction, a short overview of the materials
and a presentation of some ongoing projects for the valorization
and the fruition of the collection itself.

Corporéité et liens affectifs féminins: itinéraire d’un rituel pour Diane Nemorensis et Mater Matuta à Satricum

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The religious practices performed in Lazio, for Diane of Nemi, and
for Mater Matuta at Satricum, are well known thanks to literary
sources whose details are sufficient to reconstruct them. They
teach us that these rituals were performed by a group of women to
replay a particular scene in various stages that can be completed or
corroborated by archeology, but they do not necessarily insist on
the importance of their bodies, nor on the emotional ties existing
between the various devotees. Yet this is one of the foundations of
the practice, so that the expected result is positively realized. If they
are palpable in one of the two rituals, they are barely mentioned in
the second, which is why they will be the focus of all the attention in
this article.

“Hic est enim, Hic est ille Calpurnius Fabatus”. Scritture e riscritture cinquecentesche di CIL V, 5267

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This paper examines the sixteenth century tradition of the inscription CIL V, 5267, found in Como in 1511 and currently exhibited at Civico Museo Archeologico P. Giovio. This inscription preserves the cursus honorumof Calpurnio Fabato who, as a political figure of considerable importance, has been mentioned by various literary sources. The text of the inscription is difficult to read, due to the bad state of the conservation of the basis; since the discovery scholars proposed several transcriptions. The aim of this paper is to highlight and analyse some of the variances that can be found in the transcriptions.

Vincenzo Appiani (1850-1932) nel contesto della scuola pianistica milanese

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After an attempt to clarify the general concept of ‘piano school’ in
both its pedagogical and interpretative meaning, the article presents
the most recent research results concerning the pianist, composer
and pedagogue Vincenzo Appiani (Monza, 1850 – Milano, 1932),
an outstanding representative of the Milanese piano tradition. The
paper includes a biographical sketch of the musician and a first
reconstruction of his artistical and teaching activities in the wider
context of the new physiological achievements in piano technique
- arm weight, wrist mobility asf. - and their influences in Italy at the
beginning of the XX c.

Pratiche artistiche di rigenerazione urbana, integrazione culturale e trasformazione sociale attraverso il confine Messico/USA

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This paper was born from a field research started in 2015 in Mexico
City, where I got to know the work of the artists presented: Torolab,
Nortec Collective and Rubén Ortiz Torres.
They have in common a link with the Mexico/USA border, to which
they relate in different ways and for different reasons.
The first paragraphs of the paper are meant to outline a theoretical
introduction to the theme of the border, which is followed by a
study on the generative potential of the border areas.
The central focus of the research is an excerpt of the interviews
and studio visits carried out as part of a trip undertaken in August
2016, to meet the artists already mentioned and the cross-border
dynamics in person: from Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) to Los
Angeles (California, USA), walking through the border.
What emerges is a portrait of the frontier region as a laboratory of
globalization, where contrast, hybridization and cultural exchange
make innovation move faster. In this context, the work of the artists
presented demonstrates the potential of art as an engine of urban
regeneration, cultural integration and social transformation.

The semiotics and politics of the female body: A comprehensive analysis of Elfen Lied and its opening song

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This paper develops an exhaustive analysis of the Japanese animation series Elfen Lied (2004) and its opening song, “Lilium”, which is an exceptional case within its field of production because its lyrics are written in Latin. The purpose of my analysis is to determine if “Lilium” and its visual presentation really have something to do (thematically and stylistically) with the series it presents, or not. My hypothesis is that "Lilium", both in its musical level and in its visual presentation, fulfils all the formal characteristics of both a lied and an overture; and, given the latter, anticipates core thematic and stylistic elements of the work it precedes. Moreover, it even subtly anticipates the ideological content of the series, which consists of a critical reading of gender roles and feminism in contemporary Japanese and global society. To demonstrate these hypotheses, I made a detailed analysis of Elfen Lied, paying special attention to its animated adaptation but not ignoring its original manga version; and then I analyzed "Lilium" in its three aspects: its visual presentation, its lyric and its musical score. I have analyzed and emphasized how the abundant intertextualities present in "Lilium" were productive for creating music and for transmitting the artistic and ideological content present in the series. The paper adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, and uses theoretical tools from the fields of semiotics, intertextuality, and reception theory.

La figura di Niobe silente in Eschilo: la testimonianza del fr. 154a Radt

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In Aeschylean theatre silence reflects the feelings of the characters: anger, sadness, pain are often represented through non-verbal communication. Niobe, as a mater dolorosa, is the best example of an Aeschylean silent character: secluded in her mourning, she decides not to speak and refuses to communicate with the other characters; in this way she lives in her solitude, while she sits on her children’s grave for three days. The fr. 154a Radt testifies this position on the stage and validates the information we were given by Ar. Ra. 911-913; T 1.20 Radt; Σ [BCDMNPPdVWXY] ad A. Pr. 436a; Σ [B*NcP*SjWXcYa] ad A. Pr. 437a.

Training a Chorus in Ancient Greece

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In this paper, I shall analyse the information we can extract from
ancient Greek texts about the training of those citizens chosen to
become members of a chorus during the Athenian festivals, as well
as the importance to become such. I shall offer a revision of the role
of the chorodidaskalos, the person in charge of their instruction,
considered, in a certain way, a maestro di canto in the ancient world,
in order to determine if we can delimit the professional grounds
with which they used to work, from a technical point of view,
especially when, in many cases, they had to deal with members not
professionally educated for their chorus lines. This panorama will
show the importance that the practice of singing within a chorus,
principally on an Athenian theatre, implied for those citizens who
partook their experience at each festival, and how things were
dealt with from the Classical period until we find the phonaskos, a
professional trainer of voice that appears in the Greek world from
the Roman period onwards.

Un sigillum enigmatico: Amm. XXXI, 16, 9

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Many scholars have written about Amm. XXXI, 16, 9, paragraph in
which Ammianus qualifies himself as miles quondam et Graecus.
Generally, it is possible to distinguish two interpretations: it could
be a biographic reference or an apology due to his presumed
incompetence as latin writer. Starting from the comparison
between the whole passage, the two prefaces (XV, 1, 1 and XXVI, 1,
1-2) and other chapters, this paper wants to stress the complexity
of Ammianus work and his awareness as a literary man, giving
particular importance to the adverb quondam.

L’olio del Granduca, le galline per il Patriarca e l’ingenuo Polacco:nuove lettere per l’epistolario di e su Paolo Paruta (1595-1602)

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The analysis of several unpublished letters by or to Paolo Paruta (1540-1598) could be very useful to revalue this underrated Venetian political writer, author of the dialogue Perfettione della Vita Politica ('About Perfection of Political Life’) and Ambassador for the Republic of Venice at the Papal Court (1592-1595). In fact, these letters shed some light on the daily life of Paruta’s political praxis: his travels, his duties as ambassador, his relationships with foreign sovereigns and with Venetian fellow citizens, his growing reputation; thanks to them, we could understand why Ugo Foscolo wanted Paruta to be studied in university courses as politico pratico. Some other letters (such as the one about the dedication of Discorsi Politici’s first edition, 1599), written by Paruta’s brother and sons, proof the hard economical situation of the ambassador’s heirs after Paolo’s death. In the last part of the essay there’s an analysis of a passage of a letter by Polish political writer Krzysztof Warszewicki about the project of a Latin translation of Paruta’s political work: then comes a comparison between Warszewicki’s and Paruta’s political thought.

Fischiare, una metafora: lingua e scrittura di un premio letterario.

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Numerous are the comparisons that contemporary literature opens up to styles, genres and words of tradition. The dichotomy that distinguishes the choices of writing between a norm and a misrepresentation of the same has left (now perhaps more openly) the non-place of the linguistic standard emerging as a directional matrix of a more spontaneous communication, which aims to approach the competences - or presumed such - of the reader.

The analysis chooses to investigate the pages of La vita prodigiosa di Isidoro Sifflotin as the winner of the Campiello Opera Prima Award in 2015; what is proposed is therefore a linguistic reasoning that can interrogate the pages of the novel to understand what expedients and narrative mechanisms have led to assign a certain literary validity to a product that, deliberately, does not choose the linguistic literary standard. .

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