'That Puissant City': John Milton's Roman Sojourns 1638-1639

John Milton’s sojourns in Rome (1638-9) are attested by his comments in Defensio Secunda, by the minutes of the English College, by Latin encomia which he received from Roman academicians, and, not least, by his Latin letter to Lucas Holstenius (19/29 March 1639), and several Latin poems which he composed in the course of his residency in the capital city: Ad Salsillum, and three Latin epigrams extolling the praises of the virtuosa soprano, Leonora Baroni. Read together, these texts serve to reveal much about Milton’s participation in, and reaction to, the ‘Puissant City’, (History of Britain, Bk 2).

The present monograph presents fresh evidence of Milton's integration into the academic and cultural life of seventeenth-century Rome. It argues that his links with two Roman academies: the Accademia dei Fantastici and Accademia degli Umoristi constitute a sustained participation in an academic community paralleling that of his independently attested performance in Florentine academies (on which I have published extensively). It also investigates his links with Alessandro Cherubini, David Codner, Giovanni Batista Doni, and the Baroni circle hymned in three published anthologies.

Chapter 1: Milton and the Accademia dei Fantastici investigates the cultural climate surrounding Milton's Ad Salsillum by examining two of that academy's publications: the Poesie dei Signori Accademici Fantastici di Roma (Rome, 1637) and the Academia Tenuta da Fantastici a. 12 di Maggio 1655 (Rome, 1655), the latter celebrating the creation of Fabio Chigi as Pope Alexander VII on 5 April 1655. Read in a new light, Milton’s self-fashioning, it is argued, takes its place not only alongside Salzilli’s encomium in Milton's honour, and his Italian sonnets in the 1637 Poesie, but also in relation to other poems in that collection, and the academy's essentially Catholic eulogistic trend. The chapter also provides fresh evidence of Salzilli’s survival of the illness described in Milton’s poem by his epistolary correspondence with Tomaso Stigliani.

Chapter 2: Milton and the Vatican argues for links between Milton’s Latin letter to Holstenius and a range of Holstenius’ published works: his edition of the axioms of the later Pythagoreans gifted by him to Milton, and his published neo-Platonic works. This is achieved by mutual appropriation of Similitudes in a series of Miltonic similes, the anabasis/katabasis motifs in a reworking of the Platonic theory of the transmigration of souls, and allusion to etymological details highlighted in Holstenius’ published editions. The chapter also reveals Milton’s alertness to typographical procedures and, by association, to Holstenius’ recent role (1638) as Director of the press of the Biblioteca Vaticana.

Chapter 3: Milton and the Accademia degli Umoristi argues for Milton’s likely participation in this Roman academy, as suggested by his links with its members. His three Latin epigrams in praise of Leonora Baroni, the only female member of the Umoristi, have hitherto been studied in relation to the 1639 Applausi in her honour. In a new reading, Milton, it is suggested, invokes and interrogates Catholic doctrine before a Catholic audience only to view the whole through the lens of a neo-Platonic Hermeticism (by echoing the phraseology of the sixteenth-century Franciscan Hannibal Rosselli) that refreshingly transcends religious difference. Crucially, the hitherto neglected L’Idea della Veglia (Rome, 1640) includes further encomiastic verse, sonnets to, and by Leonora, and details of the conversazioni hosted by her family at the precise time of Milton’s Roman sojourns. Milton may well have been a participant. The chapter concludes in an assessment of his links with the youthful prodigy Alessandro Cherubini, and of his audience with Francesco Barberini.

Chapter 4: Milton at a Roman Opera analyses the potential impact of ‘Chi Soffre, Speri’, which he attended on 18/28 February 1639, mounted by Francesco Barberini to inaugurate the recently completed theatre of the Palazzo Barberini. A detailed analysis of the opera's libretto, music, and theatricality casts a backward glance to Milton's Comus, and a forward glance to Paradise Lost. It also assesses Milton’s musical interests at this time, as attested by his links with Doni, and his purchase of works by Monteverdi and others.

Chapter 5: Milton’s English Connections in Rome develops the work of Miller and Chaney by investigating Milton’s co-diners at the English College in Rome on 30 October 1638, and by analysing his links between David Codner (alias Matteo Selvaggio), and the family of Jane Savage, Marchioness of Winchester, lamented by Milton in 1631. It also assesses his potential relations with the Englishman Thomas Gawen, who ‘accidentally sometimes fell into the company of John Milton’ (Antony Wood).

Influencia del polimorfismo del receptor de andrógenos en la masa ósea, masa muscular y condición física en niños y niñas

Programa de doctorado: Actividad Física, Salud y Rendimiento Deportivo

Permanências e perspectivas no ensino de projeto de arquitetura no Brasil: uma análise a partir da produção científica dos Seminários UFRGS (1985) e Projetar (2003-2011)

O objeto de estudo desta tese é o ensino de projeto de arquitetura no contexto acadêmico brasileiro. O trabalho procura analisar esse objeto nos aspectos relativos ao ensinar a fazer e ao aprender a fazer , por meio de uma perspectiva epistemológica e cognitiva, a partir da produção científica dos Seminários UFRGS (1985) e Projetar (2003-2011) sob o olhar de três estados constitutivos: conservação, permanência e transformação. A metodologia de investigação é qualitativa e seus pressupostos são investigad os por meio do método hipotético-dedutivo em busca de um conhecimento aproximativo. Dentro do universo pesquisado, as hipóteses conduzem: primeiro, à investigação e caracterização de estruturas que se conservam; segundo, à investigação e levantamento de valores e conceitos que permanecem adequados por sua capacidade de adaptação às mudanças e paradigmas; e, terceiro, por procurarem destacar práticas pedagógicas que indicam novos caminhos na maneira de agir e de se pensar o ensino de projeto de arquitetura. A pesquisa demonstrou que, embora em menores proporções, ainda se conservam ações e posturas pedagógicas que: valorizam os ideais funcionalistas e racionalistas da arquitetura; adotam posturas deterministas, caminhos prescritivos ou intuitivos no ensino da concepção arquitetural; não apresentam clareza metodológica na abordagem da problemática arquitetônica; os contextos urbanos são pouco explorados na experimentação; utilizam um sistema de concepção baseado em princípios estéticos canônicos e universais, sem problematizar as causas da transformação da arquitetura contemporânea e qual o seu papel numa sociedade complexa e diversificada. Com relação às novas perspectivas encontradas, a análise da produção científica demonstrou que a prática pedagógica do ensino de projeto de arquitetura no Brasil passa por transformações críticas valiosas. Essa constatação foi percebida, por meio, também, de reflexões e de práticas pedagógicas que valorizam a integração de conteúdos; que possuem um discurso crítico e conciliador com relação à necessidade de renovação de práticas, paradigmas, meios e conteúdos; que estão abertas às posturas cooperativas e às estratégias para a constituição de um corpo teórico-prático para o ensino do projeto que não se limite ao campo da arquitetura; que reconhecem a importância das novas tecnologias computacionais na concepção projetual e no ensino do projeto, assim como, as tecnologias e estratégias que atualizam as soluções projetuais no uso adequado dos recursos ambientais; que consideram o espaço acadêmico como um lugar propício para as experiências projetuais e pedagógicas; que manifestam um esforço em considerar a participação do usuário, assim como em realizar um processo de apreensão de contextos complexos como objeto de estudo, adotando uma postura de valorização do processo projetual. O trabalho conclui que a educação do arquiteto deve estar atenta aos aspectos relativos à inclusão da realidade sociocultural e ambiental como referência para o fazer arquitetural em detrimento da primazia dada à racionalidade técnica, uma vez que essa realidade permite a mediação, entre o ser e o mundo , como uma estratégia que supera qualquer antecipação programática e viabiliza a transformação e a construção do próprio ser e do mundo . Assim, se o aprender fazendo é necessário para a formação do arquiteto, que esse fazer seja refletido e retroalimente a prática

A Haptic System for Depicting Mathematical Graphics for Students with Visual Impairments

When teaching students with visual impairments educators generally rely on tactile tools to depict visual mathematical topics. Tactile media, such as embossed paper and simple manipulable materials, are typically used to convey graphical information. Although these tools are easy to use and relatively inexpensive, they are solely tactile and are not modifiable. Dynamic and interactive technologies such as pin matrices and haptic pens are also commercially available, but tend to be more expensive and less intuitive. This study aims to bridge the gap between easy-to-use tactile tools and dynamic, interactive technologies in order to facilitate the haptic learning of mathematical concepts. We developed an haptic assistive device using a Tanvas electrostatic touchscreen that provides the user with multimodal (haptic, auditory, and visual) output. Three methodological steps comprise this research: 1) a systematic literature review of the state of the art in the design and testing of tactile and haptic assistive devices, 2) a user-centered system design, and 3) testing of the system’s effectiveness via a usability study. The electrostatic touchscreen exhibits promise as an assistive device for displaying visual mathematical elements via the haptic modality.

Mujeres indígenas y discriminación de género estudio de la cultura NASA (Departamento del Cauca-Colombia)

En el marco de la presente investigación, buscando encontrar el antecedente constitucional de la protección de la mujer indígena o por el contrario, la falta de señalamiento del mismo en procura de la reivindicación de sus derechos, se analizó la situación de las mujeres indígenas frente a las constituciones expedidas en Colombia, realizando un recorrido histórico de la vida republicana del país, desde las primeras constituciones hasta la actualidad, es decir desde 1810 hasta la Constitución Política de 1991, con el propósito de determinar si se encuentran amparados sus derechos frente a discriminación de género, denominado Mujeres Indígenas. Se hace el abordaje del tratamiento jurisprudencial y normativo de la inclusión de la mujer dentro del panorama social, político, económico y cultural del pais, en especial de las mujeres indígenas, encontrando que existen normas y sentencias que así los consagran, pero que necesitan de la evidencia de su cumplimiento por parte de los organismos y de la sociedad misma.

Occupational therapists’ perceptions of occupation in practice : an exploratory study

Off-label prescription of drugs at hospital

Objectives: To develop a procedure for management of off-label medications, and to analyze the treatments, indications, and hospital units which will request them more frequently, as well as which variables will have an impact on the authorization decision, and its economic impact. Methods: A procedure was designed where clinicians would complete request forms and the Hospital Unit would prepare reports assessing their efficacy, safety, convenience, and cost. The request forms for the past five years were analyzed. Results: A total of 834 applications were received, and 88.1% of these were accepted. The authorization rates were higher for Paediatric Units (95.7% vs. 86.6%; p<0.05). The reasons for considering prescriptions as off-label were: different indication (73.2%), different combination (10.2%), different line of treatment (8.6%) and different age (8%). A 73.4% of requests were for antineoplastic drugs, and the most frequently prescribed were rituximab (120) and bevacizumab (103). The quality of evidence supporting the prescriptions was moderate-low, though no direct relationship with the likelihood of approval was demonstrated (p = 0.413). The cost of the approved medications was 8,567,537 €, and the theoretical savings for those drugs rejected was of 2,268,642 €. There was a statistically significant decrease in the authorization rate (p < 0.05, Student's t test) when spending increased. Conclusions: The responsibility for assessing off-label prescriptions has fallen on the Pharmacy Unit. It has not been demonstrated that the quality of evidence represents a decisive variable for approval of treatment; on the other hand, age and cost have demonstrated a significant impact.

Propuesta del programa vivienda productiva para el desarrollo económico de las familias beneficiadas de la ONG Hábitat para la Humanidad, agencia Usulután. año 2014

La presente investigación se lleva a cabo debido a la necesidad existente en la ONG Hábitat Para La Humanidad El Salvador, agencia Usulután de ayudar a las familias ya beneficiadas por la organización, con créditos para la construcción y mejoramiento de vivienda dados sus bajos recursos a que tengan un desarrollo económico sostenible, esto mediante el Programa Vivienda Productiva que impulsara que las familias tengan los conocimientos básicos para que puedan llevar a cabo una idea de negocio en su hogar, se pretende entonces diseñar este programa de capacitación para las familias el cual estará dividido en tres módulos: Emprendedurismo, Financiero-Contable y Costos. La metodología de la investigación estará bajo un estudio correlacional y la población a estudiar son las 200 familias que están siendo beneficiadas por Hábitat Para la Humanidad de las cuales se determinó una muestra de 131 familias a las que se entrevistara para saber cuáles son sus impresiones del programa a proponer y además saber cuáles son sus necesidades de capacitación, los datos obtenidos se tabularan mediante cuadros en los que se especificaran las cantidades y porcentajes para luego graficarlos. Se espera que con la propuesta del Programa Vivienda Productiva los miembros de la ONG Hábitat Para La Humanidad Agencia Usulután tengan la guía necesaria para desarrollar las capacitaciones de cada uno de los módulos antes mencionados, al mismo tiempo se espera que las familias beneficiadas con el apoyo de la organización estén en la capacidad de desarrollar una idea de negocio en su hogar lo cual les permita mejorar su situación económica, ya que la microempresa familiar es una unidad de trabajo que busca garantizar un ingreso estable que compense el trabajo y el esfuerzo de los que participan en ella.

DESAFIOS E REFLEXÕES NA IMPLANTAÇÃO DE UM PROGRAMA DE EDUCAÇÃO ALIMENTAR E NUTRICIONAL (EAN) EM INDIVÍDUOS COM EXCESSO DE PESO

Objetivo: Relatar a experiência das atividades de educação alimentar e nutricional (EAN) desenvolvidas em pacientes com sobrepeso e obesidade. Síntese de dados: Realizaramse sessões de educação alimentar e nutricional (EAN) com pacientes com sobrepeso e obesidade graus I e II atendidos no ambulatório do Hospital Universitário da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (HU/UFJF), integrantes do projeto de extensão “Saúde na Balança”. As sessões ocorreram em grupo, semanalmente no 1º mês, quinzenalmente no 2º e 3º mês e mensalmente até o 6º mês, no período de setembro de 2012 a setembro de 2013. Durante um ano de atividades, foram realizados 4 grupos, com um total de 46 integrantes, que aceitaram participar das sessões. Nestas, foram abordados temas em nutrição que apoiavam o atendimento individual. A equipe identificou que local, horário, periodicidade das sessões, disponibilidade de tempo e falta de recursos financeiros eram fatores que influenciavam a adesão do paciente ao tratamento, sendo alguns deles modificados, já se observando melhora da adesão no último grupo. Entretanto, ainda foram registradas 17 desistências. Com o autorrelato dos pacientes, foi possível perceber mudanças positivas nos hábitos alimentares e na forma de se relacionar com a obesidade e as comorbidades associadas. Conclusão: No decorrer das atividades, criou-se vínculo entre equipe e participantes, permitindo identificação de demandas e de formas efetivas de atuação nos grupos, demonstrando que a EAN auxilia a abordagem individual, na medida em que permite troca de experiências e informações, ampliando o poder de escolha por hábitos de vida saudáveis.

Substance Use and Academic Outcomes among High School Seniors: Examining the Influence of Emotional Academic Engagement

Substance use is prevalent among adolescents, with two-thirds trying alcohol and half trying an illicit drug by twelfth grade (Miech et al., 2015). Substance use is known to affect academic performance. This study utilized nationally representative data from the 2013 Monitoring the Future twelfth grade survey to examine the relationships between substance use, skipping school, grades, and academic engagement. One-quarter of respondents (26%) had never used a substance. The majority (67%) had used at least one substance during the past year. Substance use during their lifetime but not during the past year was uncommon (7%). Lifetime non-users were less likely than past-year users to skip school during the past month and to have low grades. Lifetime non-users also had greater academic self-efficacy and emotional academic engagement relative to past-year users. These findings underscore the importance of screening and intervention for substance use to promote academic achievement and adolescent wellbeing.

Graphic satire and the rise and fall of the First British Empire: political prints from the Seven Years' War to the Treaty of Paris, c. 1756-1783

This thesis examines the early stages of the transformation of emblematic political prints into political caricature from the beginning of the Seven Years' War (1756) to the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War (1783). Both contextual and iconographical issues are investigated in relation to the debates occasioned by Britain's imperial project, which marked a period of dramatic expansion during the Seven Years' War, and ended with the loss of the American colonies, consequently framing this thesis as a study of political prints during the rise and fall of the so-called 'First British Empire'. Previous studies of eighteenth-century political prints have largely ignored the complex and lengthy evolutionary process by which the emblematic mode amalgamated with caricatural representation, and have consequently concluded that political prints excluded emblems entirely by the end of the 1770s. However, this study emphasizes the significance of the Wilkite movement for the promotion and preservation of emblems, and investigates how pictorial political argument was perceived and received in eighteenth-century British society, arguing that wider tastes and opinions regarding the utilization of political prints gradually shifted to accept both modes of representation. Moreover, the marketplace, legal status, topicality, and manufacturing methods of political prints are analyzed in terms of understanding the precarious nature of their consumption and those that endeavoured to engage in political printmaking. The evolution, establishment, and subsequent appropriation of pictorial tropes is discussed from the early modern period to the beginning of the so-called Golden Age of caricature, while tracing the adaptation of representational models in American colonial prints that employed emblems already entrenched in British pictorial political debate. Political prints from the two largest print collections, the British Museum and the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale are consulted, along with a number of eighteenth-century newspapers and periodicals, to develop the earlier research by M. Dorothy George, Charles Press, Herbert Atherton, Diana Donald, Amelia Rauser, and Eirwen Nicholson.

1940-luvun italialainen neorealistinen elokuva kulttuuriperinnön rakennusaineena

Tutkimus tarkastelee niitä tapoja, joilla 1940-luvun italialainen neorealistinen elokuva rakentaa kansakuntaa yhdistävää kulttuuriperintöä kulttuuriperintöyhteisön ylläpitämäs-sä kulttuuriperintöprosessissa. Neorealistiset elokuvat ovat todellisuutta peilaavia realis-tisia fiktioelokuvia ja kollektiivisia mentaalihistoriallisia todisteita, jotka sisältävät men-neisyyttä koskevaa tulkintaa, jota voidaan käyttää identiteettityössä. Kulttuuriperintöyh-teisön identiteettityön rinnalla kansallisen identiteetin käsite liittyy olennaisesti tutki-mukseen, sillä Italian yhtenäisyys on koettu ongelmalliseksi yhdistymisestä lähtien. Tar-kastelen elokuvien esiin tuomaa yhteisöllisyyttä ja kansallisen identiteetin tulkintoja myös suhteessa aikaisempaan italialaiseen elokuvaan. Tutkimuksen lähdeaineistona ovat italialaisen neorealismin pääteokset Roberto Rosselli-nin Rooma, avoin kaupunki, Vittorio De Sican Polkupyörävaras ja Luchino Viscontin Ossessione sekä Maa järisee. Niiden yhteyteen neorealismista käyty keskustelu yleensä painottuu, joten tutkimuksen aikarajaus on 1943–1948. Menetelmänä tutkimuksessa on elokuvien lähiluku ja teoreettisena viitekehyksenä on kulttuuriperintöyhteisön historioi-van, monumentalisoivan ja omaksuvan identiteettityön teoria. Elokuvien yhteisöllisiin piirteisiin keskittyvän lähiluvun tukena olen käyttänyt italialaista elokuvaa, neorealismia, kulttuuriperintöä ja kansallisesta identiteettiä koskevaa tutkimuskirjallisuutta. Rooma, avoin kaupunki -elokuvan sankarihahmot edustavat kulttuuriperintöyhteisölle yhteisiä menneisyyden symboleita ja keksittyjä perinteitä, jotka luovat ajallista jatku-vuutta. Merkittävinä ja omaksuttavina symboleina hahmot tukevat kulttuuriperintöpro-sessin monumentalisoivaa ja omaksuvaa identiteettityötä sekä muistin paikkana ne vah-vistavat yhteenkuuluvuutta. Neorealistisissa elokuvissa on historioivaa identiteettityötä tukevaa jaettua historiaa, joka liittää kulttuuriperintöyhteisön jäseniä menneisyydestä tulevaisuuteen liukuvaan ajalliseen jatkumoon. Elokuvissa on myös arkipäiväisen natio-nalismin piirteitä, joita omaksuvalla identiteettityöllä omaksutaan kulttuuriperinnön ra-kennusaineeksi. Arkipäiväisinä symboleina ovat koti, perhe ja nainen, jotka liittyvät ita-lialaisuuteen ja toimivat toisista yhteisöistä erottautumisen piirteinä. Elokuvissa konstitu-tiivista ulkopuolta edustavat vihollishahmot ja univormupukuiset toimijat. Hahmot erot-tautuvat yhteisöstä, jolloin erottautumisella vahvistetaan kulttuuriperintöyhteisön osalli-suuskokemusta yhteisön symboleihin. Neorealistiset elokuvat tarjoavat tulkintoja, jotka kulttuuriperintöyhteisö voi ottaa osaksi kulttuuriperinnön rakentamista.

Beyond orientalism: 'The Stranger' and 'Colonial Cosmopolitanism' in the romantic period novel

Going beyond Orientalism in its examination of novels dealing with British colonisation in the West, as well as the East Indies, the postcolonial frame of my thesis develops recent theorisations of the Romantic ‘stranger’. Analysing a range of novels from the much anthologised Mansfield Park (1814), to less well-known narratives such as John Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption (1801) and Sir Walter Scott’s Saint Ronan’s Well (1823), my thesis seeks to account for a model of ‘colonial cosmopolitanism’ within fiction of the period. Considering the cosmopolitan dimensions of the transferential rhetoric of slavery, my thesis explores the ways in which, Jane Austen, Amelia Opie and Maria Edgeworth consider the position of women in domestic society through a West Indian frame. Demonstrating the need for reform both at home and abroad, such novels are representative of a fledgling cosmopolitanism that is often overlooked in current criticism. In seeking to account for ‘colonial cosmopolitanism’ as a new model for reading fiction composed during the Romantic period, my thesis attempts to add further nuance to current understandings of sympathetic exchange during the process of British colonisation. In chapters four and five I will develop my analysis of novels dealing with colonial expansion in the Caribbean to consider novels which deal with the Indian subcontinent. Although stopping short of questioning colonial expansion, discourses of ‘colonial cosmopolitanism’, as my thesis demonstrates, provided a foundation for humanitarian and cultural engagement which was mutually transformative for both the coloniser and the colonised.

Catherine Pozzi y Marcelle Sauvageot: escribir la soledad del alma en un cuerpo de escritura

La escritura de Catherine Pozzi y Marcelle Sauvageot está íntimamente ligada a la soledad que ha determinado sus vidas. La relación existente entre la soledad y la escritura como refugio del ser y a su vez como impulso escritural no se puede separar de los conceptos de alma y cuerpo presentes sobre todo en la obra de Catherine Pozzi. ¿Cómo separar el alma del cuerpo, y el cuerpo del alma? se preguntaba Pozzi en Peau d’Âme. ¿No sería acaso como separar la escritura de la soledad que la alimenta? En sus obras, la soledad se construye en base a dos aspectos que tampoco pueden disociarse: la enfermedad, es decir la tuberculosis que las conduce irremediablemente hacia una muerte prematura, y la necesidad de escapar como mujeres a las normas sociales preestablecidas e impuestas por la sociedad en la que viven. La soledad existencial en la construcción del ser que se forja al hilo de sus palabras es uno de los fenómenos que impulsa la necesidad de expresarse mediante la escritura.