La curiosità del lettore. Momenti della formazione culturale di Ezio Raimondi

L’elaborato si propone di esaminare le tappe principali della formazione intellettuale di Ezio Raimondi (Lizzano in Belvedere, 22 marzo 1924 – Bologna, 18 marzo 2014). Dopo aver illustrato i riflessi dei maestri (Lorenzo Bianchi, Franco Serra, Roberto Longhi, Carlo Calcaterra) nella produzione critica dello studioso, il nostro lavoro, grazie al materiale archivistico dell’Accademia della Crusca, ha tentato di ricostruire da una parte le dinamiche del dialogo instaurato da Ezio Raimondi con Gianfranco Contini, Giorgio Pasquali e Francesco Pagliai, e dall’altra i criteri ecdotici e filologici fissati nell’edizione critica dei Dialoghi di Torquato Tasso (1958). La lunga consuetudine con uno dei massimi poeti nostri, e con un testo di grande rilievo nella storia della cultura nell’età della Controriforma, offrì al giovane studioso la prospettiva più felice, e insieme un saldo fondamento filologico e storico, all’interesse che era venuto crescendo in lui per il Manierismo. Con il sostegno dei documenti del Fondo Riccardo Ricciardi editore, conservati al Centro Apice di Milano, non è sembrato inopportuno discutere, tramite il carteggio tra Ezio Raimondi e Gianni Antonini, le ‘scelte di canone’ dell’antologia Trattatisti e narratori del Seicento (1960). L’analisi della corrispondenza tra Charles Singleton ed Ezio Raimondi si è rivelata, invece, particolarmente stimolante per avanzare qualche proposta interpretativa sulla critica simbolica, della quale lo studioso fu uno dei maggiori promotori. La tesi si conclude con un’Appendice, in cui compare, per la prima volta, un elenco provvisorio del materiale documentario allegato ai libri del professore, da noi inventariato dopo che l’archivio culturale Ezio Raimondi è stato donato dagli eredi dello studioso alla biblioteca del Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica dell’Università di Bologna.

Design and Setup of a New HPGe Detector Based Body Counter Capable of Detecting Also Low Energy Photon Emitters

The present work describes the development of a new body-counter system based on HPGe detectors and installed at IVM of KIT. The goal, achieved, was the improvement of the ability to detect internal contaminations in the human body, especially the ones concerning low-energy emitters and multiple nuclides. The development of the system started with the characterisation of detectors purchased for this specific task, with the optimisation of the different desired measurement configurations following and ending with the installation and check of the results. A new software has been developed to handle the new detectors.

Essays on Atypicality: A narrative perspective to illuminate how atypical actors can counter the disciplining effect of categories

Using Big Data and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, this dissertation investigates the narrative strategies that atypical actors can leverage to deal with the adverse reactions they often elicit. Extensive research shows that atypical actors, those who fail to abide by established contextual standards and norms, are subject to skepticism and face a higher risk of rejection. Indeed, atypical actors combine features and behaviors in unconventional ways, thereby generating confusion in the audience and instilling doubts about their propositions' legitimacy. However, the same atypicality is often cited as the precursor to socio-cultural innovation and a strategic act to expand the capacity for delivering valued goods and services. Contextualizing the conditions under which atypicality is celebrated or punished has been a significant theoretical challenge for scholars interested in reconciling this tension. Nevertheless, prior work has focused on audience side factors or on actor-side characteristics that are only scantily under an actor's control (e.g., status and reputation). This dissertation demonstrates that atypical actors can use strategically crafted narratives to mitigate against the audience’s negative response. In particular, when atypical actors evoke conventional features in their story, they are more likely to overcome the illegitimacy discount usually applied to them. Moreover, narratives become successful navigational devices for atypicality when atypical actors use a more abstract language. This simplifies classification and provides the audience with more flexibility to interpret and understand them.

Power in public art spaces. F(r)ictions, performativity and the generation of counter-hegemonic narratives

Abstract This thesis applies queer theories to the examination of experiences which go beyond queerness. Queer, decolonial, antiracist and feminist new materialist concepts are implemented to the analysis of four case studies dealing with power and art in public spaces. By applying concepts as methodologies, autoethnographic reflections and f(r)ictions as research alternatives, the thesis brings up new diffractive readings from where to perform those scenarios differently. In doing so, the thesis disentangles the historical, material, philosophical, political and disruptive meanings which haunt the four case studies and triggers the artivist potential of their counter-hegemonic narratives.