La musa bambina. 1911-2011: un secolo di letteratura mitologica per ragazzi in Italia tra storia, educazione e narrazione

Questa ricerca mostra l’evoluzione della letteratura mitologica per ragazzi in Italia. Il primo libro italiano di mitologia per bambini è stato pubblicato nel 1911 (lo stesso anno di un’importante e violenta guerra coloniale tra l’Italia e la Libia): la scrittrice italiana Laura Orvieto pubblicò allora “Storie della storia del mondo”, in cui riunì antichi racconti greci per giovani lettori. Queste storie erano ispirate al libro mitologico per bambini “Il libro delle meraviglie” di Hawthorne (titolo originale “A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys”). In seguito molti scrittori italiani scrissero libri mitologici per giovani lettori: serie importanti di libri di mitologia per bambini furono pubblicate durante il regime mussoliniano – talvolta per diffondere l’ideologia fascista della superiorità romana. Durante questo periodo, i libri mitologici spesso mostravano uno stile letterario solenne. Dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, la letteratura mitologica per bambini cambiò lentamente prospettiva: gli scrittori italiani cominciarono ad usare il mito per parlare di problemi sociali (p.e. Gianni Rodari descriveva re Mida come un capitalista) e per spiegare le diverse condizioni umane (p.e. Beatrice Masini fa riferimento alle dee e alle eroine greche per descrivere la condizione femminile). La ricerca analizza anche la relazione tra mito e scuola in Italia: i racconti mitologici hanno sempre fatto parte dei programmi scolastici italiani per bambini dagli 8 agli 11 anni. Le riforme scolastiche – deliberate negli anni ’20 e ’40 – fissarono pratiche didattiche sui miti ancora oggi in uso. I racconti mitologici erano soprattutto un supporto per gli studi storici e letterari. Tuttavia, negli ultimi decenni, i miti sono divenuti un importante aiuto per gli insegnamenti scientifici e artistici.

Il rapporto tra azione causale ed azione cartolare

Il presente lavoro affronta la questione del rapporto tra l’azione cartolare e l’azione causale nell’ambito dei titoli cambiari; nonché il problema della relazione, di diritto sostanziale, che intercorre tra i menzionati titoli ed i rapporti causali che soggiacciono alla loro emissione e circolazione; con costante riferimento sia al diritto italiano che al diritto paraguaiano. Vengono così analizzati i concetti tradizionali della causa della cambiale e della convenzione esecutiva, per poi passare alla analisi della funzione economica tipica dei titoli cambiari e, segnatamente, la previsione del loro rilascio o negoziazione nell’economia del rapporto fondamentale. Si affrontano, così, i noti problemi della novazione e della dazione in pagamento attuate mediante questi titoli, tenendo in particolare considerazione anche la struttura delegatoria che presentano alcuni di essi. Particolare attenzione viene dedicata al fatto che, nella maggior parte dei casi, le parti non prevedono specificamente l’incidenza del rilascio o girata del titolo cambiario sul rapporto sottostante. Per questa ragione, si mette in luce che nella maggior parte dei casi la fattispecie configura una modificazione della relazione causale intercorrente tra le parti, proprio per l’assenza di pattuizione espressa al riguardo. Strettamente connesso con quest’aspetto risulta l’esame dell’emissione dei titoli cambiari solvendi causa, problematica nell’ambito della quale non si è mancato di tener conto della disciplina antiriciclaggio e dei moderni contributi dottrinari sull’oggetto dell’obbligazione pecuniaria. Viene, infine, vagliata anche l’incidenza dell’ulteriore circolazione del titolo sul rapporto causale che giustifica il suo possesso da parte del girante; per poi passare, come conclusione del lavoro, a stabilire l’interpretazione non solo processuale ma anche sostanziale che deve darsi, alla luce dei risultati raggiunti, alla disciplina degli artt. 66 della legge cambiaria e 58 della legge assegni.

Il collegamento contrattuale, buona fede ed equilibrio tra i contratti

Il fenomeno del collegamento contrattuale prevede la presenza di due o più contratti, diversi e distinti, che, pur caratterizzati dagli elementi e dalla disciplina propri di ognuno, risultano coordinati teleologicamente da un nesso di reciproca dipendenza, in modo che le vicende dell’uno si trasmettono all’altro, influenzandone la validità e l’efficacia. Tale nozione è il frutto dell’elaborazione della dottrina e della giurisprudenza, poiché la disciplina positiva difetta di previsioni recanti la definizione di operazioni in cui si ricorra all’impiego di più contratti in vista di uno scopo economico unitario. Fra le molteplici classificazioni realizzate in relazione a tale strumento, la tipologia che è oggetto di analisi nel presente lavoro è espressione dell’autonomia contrattuale dei contraenti che istituiscono fra i negozi un nesso bilaterale, funzionale e volontario. I presupposti del fenomeno de quo sono, allora, rappresentati dalla necessaria intenzione delle parti di attuare il collegamento, del vincolo che viene creato in concreto e, soprattutto, dal fine pratico unitario ed ulteriore, che esse intendono perseguire coordinando i vari atti. Da qui, l’inquadramento di siffatta figura di collegamento nel fenomeno dell’atipicità contrattuale, frutto dell’attività creativa dei privati di autoregolamentazione dei propri interessi. Dottrina e giurisprudenza, in particolare, reputano il collegamento un meccanismo che agisce sul piano degli effetti dei contratti. Infatti, ogni negozio coinvolto, pur conservando una causa autonoma, è finalizzato ad un unico regolamento di interessi, di talché le vicende che investono uno dei negozi possono ripercuotersi sull’altro (che in sé considerato è immune da vizi) e, pertanto, tutti i contratti simul stabunt simul cadent. In definitiva, così opinando, le patologie che riguardano un atto finiscono per condizionare non solo l’esecuzione, ma anche la validità dell’altro. Successivamente, l’indagine si incentra sull’esegesi dei rari interventi normativi, quasi esclusivamente ascrivibili alla legislazione speciale, che trattano del meccanismo de quo e che si pongono nel solco di quanto affermato dagli interpreti. Muovendo, poi, dal presupposto che l’ordinamento riconosce ai contraenti il potere di dar vita ad autodeterminazioni strutturalmente semplici ovvero come in tal caso più articolate, si cerca di dimostrare che in tali fattispecie l’apprezzamento non va condotto sul singolo contratto, bensì sull’operazione economica unitariamente considerata, come risultante dal collegamento fra più contratti. Infatti, una volta accertata l’interdipendenza funzionale delle diverse prestazioni, l’analisi su di esse assume un rilievo diverso se è compiuta per valutare l’assetto complessivo dell’intera operazione giuridico-economica posta in essere dalle parti: solo a fronte di una valutazione globale dei diritti e degli obblighi, anche in termini economici, si può appurare la reale portata giuridico-economica dell’affare. In forza di tali premesse può, quindi, procedersi ad un compiuto approfondimento del possibile ruolo svolto dalle clausole generali di buona fede ed equilibrio, quali strumenti di garanzia della giustizia negli scambi. Ne consegue l’abbandono di una prospettiva atomistica e, tenendo conto dell’unicità degli interessi perseguiti che vanno oltre le cause proprie dei singoli contratti collegati, si tenta di superare l’assunto per il quale il difetto che inficia uno dei contratti comporti l’automatica caducazione dell’altro. In una visione complessiva dell’operazione, la verifica attinente all’equilibrio tra i singoli atti nei quali essa si svolge ed alla sua possibile alterazione a causa di circostanze sopravvenute o originarie potrebbe sovvertire le certezze interpretative sotto il profilo della disciplina del collegamento, degli effetti dello stesso e delle patologie.

La professione docente tra rappresentazioni e progetto formativo. Un'analisi pedagogica della competenza degli insegnanti secondari

This thesis deals with the professional characteristics of secondary school teachers, with particular regard to their competence and their education. The topic will be approached starting from the characteristics and trasnformations social research has identified concerning Italian teachers, focusing on secondary teacher training. After a brief look at Europe, the attention will be directed to Italy, with particular regard to the Postgraduate Schools of Specialisation for Secondary School Teachers (SSIS); hence the need for an analysis that focuses on teaching per se and its concrete pratice. For its nature to be fully grasped, teaching must be reconsidered as an independent object of study, a performance in which competence manifests itself and a form of action involving a set of tacit and personal knowledge. A further perspective opens up for analysis, according to which the professional characteristics of teachers are the result of an education in which the whole history of the subject is involved, in its educative, formative, professional and personal aspects. The teaching profession is imbued with implicit meanings which are inaccessible to conscience but orient action and affect the interpretation of experience. Through the analysis of three different empirical data sets, collected among teachers-in-training and teachers qualified at SSIS, I will try to investigate the actual existence, the nature and the features of such implicit knowledge. It appears necessary to put the claims of process-product approaches back in their right perspective, to the benefit of a holistic conception of teaching competence. The teacher is, at the same time, “he who is teaching” and offers a concrete receiver the fruit of an endless work of study, reflection, practice and self-update. To understand this process will mean to penetrate more and more deeply into the core of teaching and teaching competence , a competence that in some respects “is” always “that” teacher, with his or her own story, implicit knowledge and representations.

Il conflitto tra libertà del mercato interno comunitario e diritti fondamentali nel diritto dell'Unione Europea: la posizione della Corte di Giustizia di Lussemburgo quale garante dei diritti fondamentali

Come indica il titolo, questa ricerca studia il conflitto tra libertà fondamentali del mercato interno dell’Unione europea e dei diritti fondamentali e la posizione della Corte in quanto garante dei diritti nella risoluzione di tali conflitti. La Trattazione considera non solo la Giurisprudenza della Corte di Giustizia, che risolve i conflitti tra libertà del mercato e diritti fondamentali; ma anche l'ordinamento europeo, e il suo rapporto con il diritto nazionale, considerando anche la giurisprudenza delle corti costituzionali e supreme degli Stati membri. L’analisi è svolta in una introduzione; in tre capitoli (Capitolo 1, “Integrazione economica e protezzione dei diritti fondamentali”; Capitlo 2, “Conflitto tra libertà fondamentali di mercato e diritti fondamentali”; Capitolo 3, “La tutela dei diritti fondamentali negli stati membri come limiti all’integrazione europea”) e nelle successive conclusioni.

Epos orale russo tra oralità e scrittura: problemi e proposte di traduzione

In the present thesis, I discuss the role of orality in translation, taking into account the problems arising while translating Russian folk epics. I investigate the meaning of orality in the context of folkloristic translation, trying to define a concept of oral poetry, and exploring its consequences for translation. In the first chapter, I try to identify the main differences between written literature and oral modes of expression, with special reference to folklore. Oral verbal art is performed, sung or recited, and based on a vital and dynamic interrelation between kinesics, sound, speech and gestures. According to Muhawi (2006), performance provides an interpretive frame enabling a correct interpretation of the message conveyed beyond the literal meaning. Transposing certain performance elements into print is one of the most controversial problems in folklore studies. However, formulas and formal stylistic devices may be rendered in transcription, building a bridge between oral and written elements. In the translation of oral poetry in transcription, this interconnection between orality and literacy might be emphasized, thus creating a hybrid dimension where oral and literary features coexist. In the second chapter, I introduce and describe the genre of Russian folk epics, transmitted orally, and transcribed between the 19th and 20th centuries, from a historical, linguistic and stylistic point of view. In the third and fourth chapters, I explore the issue of translation of Russian oral poetry. I first analyse existing Italian translations of Russian epics, and then present and discuss my own translation, based on a philological, scholarly approach. Thus, in my translation, which is followed by a rich commentary, I try to focus on the rendering of formulas as one of the most relevant aspects of Russian epics. At the same time, oral devices combine with literary features, thus creating a sort of frozen orality.

Anomalie cerebellari fetali: confronto tra ecografia e risonanza magnetica prenatale e follow up a distanza

Cerebellar malformation are increasingly diagnosed in utero. To assess the effectiveness of ultrasound and fetal magnetic resonance in the antenatal prediction of long term neurodevelopmental delay. STUDY DESIGN: We collected 105 cases of cerebellum malformation in the period 2000-2010 in Bologna and Bari University. Classification included cystic anomalies of posterior fossa and cerebellar hypoplasia. RESULTS: The greater group included Blake’s pouch cysts and mega cisterna magna cases (58/105). These cases seemed to have a good prognosis with a good outcome both in association with other anomalies and isolated. In cases of Dandy Walker malformation, vermis hypoplasia and cerebellum hypoplasia there were few survivors, so it was so difficult to outline some conclusion for child outcome. Despite great neuroimaging advances, in our study, ultrasound and MR reached a similar sensitivity (62-63%) for the diagnosis of posterior fossa anomalies, but the number of MR was lower compared with ultrasonography. CONCLUSION: Ultrasonography remains the screening method of choice for evaluation of cerebellum anatomy but probably MR imaging can improve some details expecially in the third trimester. Despite the data on Dandy Walker, vermis hypoplasia and cerebellum hypoplasia were conflicting and uncertain, for Blake and mega cisterna magna we can considered a rather good outcome.

Study of Italian isolates of Alternaria spp.: molecular and morphological characterization and pathogenesis on apple tree

It was decided to carry out a morphological and molecular characterization of the Italian Alternaria isolatescollected from apple , and evaluate their pathogenicity and subsequently combining the data collected. The strain collection (174 isolates) was constructed by collecting material (received from extension service personnel) between June and August of 2007, 2008, and 2009. A Preliminary bioassays were performed on detached plant materials (fruit and leaf wounded and unwounded), belonging to the Golden cultivar, with two different kind of inoculation (conidial suspension and conidial filtrate). Symptoms were monitored daily and a value of pathogenicity score (P.S.) was assigned on the basis of the diameter of the necrotic area that developed. On the basis of the bioassays, the number of isolates to undergo further molecular analysis was restricted to a representative set of single spore strains (44 strains). Morphological characteristics of the colony and sporulation pattern were determined according to previous systematic work on small-spored Alternaria spp. (Pryor and Michaelides, 2002 and Hong et al., 2006). Reference strains (Alternaria alternata, Alternaria tenuissima, Alternaria arborescens and four Japanese strains of Alternaria alternata mali pathotype), used in the study were kindly provided by Prof. Barry Pryor, who allows a open access to his own fungal collection. Molecular characterization was performed combining and comparing different data sets obtained from distinct molecular approach: 1) investigation of specific loci and 2) fingerprinting based on diverse randomly selected polymorphic sites of the genome. As concern the single locus analysis, it was chosen to sequence the EndoPG partial gene and three anonymous region (OPA1-3, OPA2- and OPa10-2). These markers has revealed a powerful tool in the latter systematic works on small-spored Alternaria spp. In fact, as reported in literature small-spored Alternaria taxonomy is complicated due to the inability to resolve evolutionary relationships among the taxa because of the lack of variability in the markers commonly used in fungi systematic. The three data set together provided the necessary variation to establish the phylogenetic relationships among the Italian isolates of Alternaria spp. On Italian strains these markers showed a variable number of informative sites (ranging from 7 for EndoPg to 85 for OPA1-3) and the parsimony analysis produced different tree topologies all concordant to define A. arborescens as a mophyletic clade. Fingerprinting analysis (nine ISSR primers and eight AFLP primers combination) led to the same result: a monophyleic A. arborescens clade and one clade containing both A. tenuissima and the A. alternata strains. This first attempt to characterize Italian Alternaria species recovered from apple produced concordant results with what was already described in a similar phylogenetic study on pistachio (Pryor and Michaelides, 2002), on walnut and hazelnut (Hong et al., 2006), apple (Kang et al., 2002) and citurus (Peever et al., 2004). Together with these studies, this research demonstrates that the three morphological groups are widely distributed and occupy similar ecological niches. Furthermore, this research suggest that these Alternaria species exhibit a similar infection pattern despite the taxonomic and pathogenic differences. The molecular characterization of the pathogens is a fundamental step to understanding the disease that is spreading in the apple orchards of the north Italy. At the beginning the causal agent was considered as Alteraria alternata (Marshall and Bertagnoll, 2006). Their preliminary studies purposed a pathogenic system related to the synthesis of toxins. Experimental data of our bioassays suggest an analogous hypothesis, considering that symptoms could be induced after inoculating plant material with solely the filtrate from pathogenic strains. Moreover, positive PCR reactions using AM-toxin gene specific primers, designed for identification of apple infecting Alternaria pathovar, led to a hypothesis that a host specific toxin (toxins) were involved. It remains an intriguing challenge to discover or not if the agent of the “Italian disease” is the same of the one previously typified as Alternaria mali, casual agent of the apple blotch disease.

Il giudizio di bilanciamento tra interessi pubblici e privati: un modello formale.

In this work, I argue that administrative discretional decision-making, achieving a public interest to protect, is an evaluation process that occurs through the reasonable and proportional comparison of several private (secondary) interests conflicting with a single public (primary) interest. I suggest that the dynamics of weighing competing interests are similar to the procedure for balancing constitutional rights. Thus, drawing on Robert Alexy's constitutional balancing model, I propose a model that is applicable to discretionary administrative decisions, in which the outcome of the proportional weighing of secondary interests works as a "moderation factor" for the primary interest. In my model, the outcomes of the discretional process can be converted into numerical values, simplifying decision consistency so as to make it simple, complete and reasonable at the same time.

La nutrizione-idratazione artificiale è terapia? All'interfaccia tra scienza, diritto e bioetica, il fine vita in Italia, secondo una prospettiva di comunicazione della scienza post-accademica e Science&Technologies Studies (STS)

The question “artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) is therapy or not?” is one of the key point of end-of-life issues in Italy, since it was (and it is also nowadays) a strategic and crucial point of the Italian Bioethics discussion about the last phases of human life: determining if ANH is therapy implies the possibility of being included in the list of treatments that could be mentioned for refusal within the living will document. But who is entitled to decide and judge if ANH is a therapy or not? Scientists? The Legislator? Judges? Patients? This issue at first sight seems just a matter of science, but at stake there is more than a scientific definition. According to several scholars, we are in the era of post-academic Science, in which Science broaden discussion, production, negotation and decision to other social groups that are not just the scientific communities. In this process, called co-production, on one hand scientific knowledge derives from the interaction between scientists and society at large. On the other hand, science is functional to co-production of social order. The continuous negotation on which science has to be used in social decisions is just the evidence of the mirroring negotation for different way to structure and interpret society. Thus, in the interaction between Science and Law, deciding what kind of Science could be suitable for a specific kind of Law, envisages a well defined idea of society behind this choice. I have analysed both the legislative path (still in progress) in the living will act production in Italy and Eluana Englaro’s judicial case (that somehow collapsed in the living will act negotiation), using official documents (hearings, texts of the official conference, committees comments and ruling texts) and interviewing key actors in the two processes from the science communication point of view (who talks in the name of science? Who defines what is a therapy? And how do they do?), finding support on the theoretical framework of the Science&Technologies Studies (S&TS).

Celiachia e difetti dello smalto in età evolutiva: correlazione tra periodo di esposizione al glutine, forme cliniche di celiachia e aplotipo HLA

The association between celiac disease (CD) and dental enamel defects (DED) is well known. AIM: This study was designed to investigate the prevalence of DED in CD children and to specifically find a possible correlation between DED and gluten exposure period, CD clinical forms, HLA class II haplotype. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was designed as a matched case-control study: 374 children were enrolled (187 celiac and 187 non celiac). Data about age at CD diagnosis, CD clinical form and HLA haplotype were recorded. RESULTS: DED were detected in 87 celiac subject while no dental lesions were found in the remaining 100 patients; in 187 healthy controls enamel lesion were significantly less frequent (5.3 % versus 46.5% ; p<0.005).We found a correlation between DED and gluten exposure period, since among CD patients the mean age at CD diagnosis was significantly (p= 0.0004) higher in the group with DED (3.41± 1.27) than without DED (1.26± 0.7). DED resulted more frequent in atypical and silent forms than in the typical one. The presence of HLA DR 52-53 and DQ7 antigens significantly increased the risk of DED (p=0.0017). CONCLUSIONS: Our results confirmed a possible correlation between CD clinical form, age at CD diagnosis, HLA antigens and DED. The origin of DED in CD children is due to multifactorial events and further studies are needed to investigate other determinants.

Celti e Reti tra V e I sec. a.C. Oggetti tipo LaTène all'interno della cerchia culturale Fritzens-Sanzeno (arco alpino centro-orientale)

The study of the objects LaTène type found in middle-eastern alpine region (Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol, Engadina, North Tirol, Voralberg and Villach basin) is aimed to a better comprehension of the complex net of relationships established among the Celts, settled both in the central Europe territories and, since the IV century b.C., in the Po Plain, and the local populations. The ancient authors, who called the inhabitants of this area Raeti, propose for this territory the usual pattern according to which, the population of a region was formed consequently to a migration or was caused by the hunting of pre-existing peoples. The archaeologists, in the last thirty years, recognized a cultural facies typical of the middle-eastern alpine territory during the second Iron Age, and defined that as Fritzens-Sanzeno culture (from the sites of Fritzens, Inn valley, and Sanzeno, Non Valley). The so-called Fritzens-Sanzeno culture spread out without breaks from the material culture of the final Bronze Age and the first Iron Age. This local substratum, characterized by a ceramic repertoire strongly standardized, by peculiar architectural solutions and by a particular typology of rural sacred places (Brandopferplätze), accepted, above all during the second Iron Age, the strong influences coming from the Etruscan world and from the Celtic one (evident in the presence of objects of ornament, of glass artefacts, of elements of the weaponry and of coins). The objects LaTène type become, with different degrees of reliability, important markers of the relationships existing between the Celts and the Raeti, although the ways of interaction (cultural influence, people's movements, commercial exchanges, gifts among élites etc.) is not still clear. The revision of published data and the study of unpublished materials allows to define a rich and articulated picture both to chronological level and to territorial one.