I quattro libri della caccia

1500-luvun puolivälissä ilmestynyt ruonoelma metsästyksestä, sisältää harvinaisen kartan.

[Vespro della Beata Vergine]

Soitinnus: lauluääni (mezzosopraano), orkesteri.

[Aaria Nemico della patria oopperasta Andrea Chénier]

Soitinnus: lauluääni (baritoni), orkesteri.

La traduzione della letteratura per l’infanzia dal finlandese all’italiano: l’esempio degli albi illustrati di Mauri Kunnas

Despite the increasing number of research on translating for children, no study has so far taken into consideration the translations of children’s literature from Finnish into Italian. This dissertation sets out to fill this gap with a comparative study of Finnish picturebooks and their translations into Italian. Besides being the first research in the field analysing the shifts between these two systems, the study thoroughly investigates the characteristics of the translation process of picturebooks. The works chosen as case study are the Finnish picturebooks by Mauri Kunnas and their Italian translations from the period 1979-2009 because they are characterized by a high number of linguistic and cultural complexities which challenge translators’ skills and knowledge. The dissertation establishes whether and how culture-specific elements (anthroponyms, toponyms, food and allusions) and the word-image interaction have a significant impact on the quality and the nature of the target works, and also whether these aspects are still consistent after the translation and the adaptation process to the target system. Since picturebooks are multimodal texts whose message is produced by both the verbal and the visual, it has been necessary to use a multimodal comparative analysis. Such a descriptive comparative study has allowed me to describe the textual and cultural manipulations undergone by Kunnas’s picturebooks translated into Italian. Indeed, it has helped to identify what kind of shifts occur when cultural specific elements are transferred from the source system to the target one, to determine the most frequent translation strategies used to ensure a higher degree of readability, and to establish whether particular translation choices have contributed to modify the word-image interaction. The results of the multimodal comparative analysis have shown that Italian translators have been deeply influenced by the preponderance of the illustrations and for this reason they have often verbalised the visual and added information not originally contained in the source written text. Moreover, the findings of the analysis together with the interviews to the Italian translator and publishing house have also demonstrated that the latter aimed at producing works “good for the child” – and at the same time “good for the adult” – and at minimizing Finnish cultural specificity, even to the detriment of the aesthetic nature of the original picturebooks.

Comparative lifecycle assessment on organic and conventional carrots – case: Carrots from South-Savo and imported carrots from Italy

Organic farming is perceived to be an environmental friendly method of food production, thus assumed to be an alternative means of minimizing food-based environmental footprints. However, lower yield and unproductive years in organic crop rotation raise questions of whether it is really an environmentally friendly farming practice. Thus, the aim of this thesis was to examine the carbon footprint and energy demands of organic carrots cultivated and sold in South-Savo, Finland and compare them with those of local and imported conventional carrots using lifecycle assessment (LCA) as a method. From the investigation, it was found that organic carrots produced in South-Savo have the lowest GHG emissions and energy demand. The GHG emissions of local organic, local conventional and imported conventional carrots were found to be 4g CO2 eq. kgcarrots-1, 142g CO2 eq. kgcarrots-1 and 280 g CO2 eq. kgcarrots-1, respectively. On the other hand, energy demand for those carrots was found to be 1,33 MJ, 1,88 MJ and 3,68 MJ kgcarrots-1. Furthermore, it was also found that local organic carrots would have approximately similar GHG emissions as conventional counterpart if soil carbon stock change was excluded from the study.

Figura della Asia

Julkaisussa: Il mondo e sue parti cioe Europa, Affrica, Asia et America

Carta geographica la quale rappresenta lo stato della Republica di Genova : partita nella Riviera di Levante et di Ponente

Irtokartta

Il Cusco, città pricipale della provincia del Perù

Julkaisussa: Terzo volume delle navigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio nel quale si contengono

Carta particolare della entrata del Mare Botnico ó Boddico : la longitudine comincia da l'isola di Picco d'Asores [i.e. Pico Azores] : di Europa carta XXXXIII

Julkaisussa: Dell' arcano del mare di Ruberto Dudleo ... parte seconda del tomo terzo contenente il libro sesto. Vol III

Carta particolare della terra di Grenlande gia incognita fu scoperta da Inglesi sino a, gradi 80 di latitudine : la longitudine comincia da l'isola di Pico d'Asores [i.e. Pico Azores] : di Europa carta XXXXVIIII

Julkaisussa: Dell' arcano del mare di Ruberto Dudleo ... parte seconda del tomo terzo contenente il libro sesto. Vol III

Carta particolare della Gronlandia orientale : la longitudine comincia da l'isola di Pico d'Asores [i.e. Pico Azores] : di Europa carta LI

Julkaisussa: Dell' arcano del mare di Ruberto Dudleo ... parte seconda del tomo terzo contenente il libro sesto. Vol III

Carta particolare della costa di Finlandia con il capo dell Norto : la longitudine comincia da l'isola di Pico d'Asores [i.e. Pico Azores] : di Europa carta XXXXVI

Julkaisussa: Dell' arcano del mare di Ruberto Dudleo ... parte seconda del tomo terzo contenente il libro sesto. Vol III

Carta particolare della meta inconita con la Gronlandia occidentale è dell' Estotiland scoporto dall' Inglesi : la longitudine comincia da l'isola di Pico d'Asores [i.e. Pico Azores] : di Europa carta LII

Julkaisussa: Dell' arcano del mare di Ruberto Dudleo ... parte seconda del tomo terzo contenente il libro sesto. Vol III

Figura della America

Julkaisussa: Il mondo e sue parti cioe Europa, Affrica, Asia et America