[Ressenya del llibre] Sa Pratza de su Diamante, de Mercè Rodoreda, trad.i notes de Giagu Ledda, Nuoro: Editorial Papiros, 2008

Ressenya de la versió en llengua sarda de la novel·la 'La Plaça del Diamant' de Mercè Rodoreda, traduïda per Giagu Ledda i publicada per l'editorial Papiros l' any 2008

Ressenyes individuals: Romeu i Figueras, Josep: Corpus d’antiga poesia popular, Barcelona, Editorial Barcino, 2000 («Els Nostres Clàssics», B-18)

Ressenya del llibre de Josep Romeu i Figueras, 'Corpus d'antiga poesia popular', editat per Barcino, l'any 2000. Josep Romeu edita amb tota cura i comenta una per una 437 composicions poètiques 'de base popular', procedents de tots els Països Catalans, que van des de l’últim terç del segle XII fins al final del segle XVI

Literatura mallorquina del segle XVIII [Ressenya del llibre Poesia i teatre d' Albert Burguny i Castellò, edició a cura de Ramon Díaz i Villalonga]

Ressenya de l' edició de Ramon Díaz i Villalonga sobre l' obra literària de l'escriptor mallorquí Albert Burguny i Castellò (1707-1770)

Education and training futures in horticulture and horticultural science

Horticultural knowledge and skills training have been with humankind for some 10,000 to 20,000 years. With permanent settlement and rising wealth and trade, horticulture products and services became a source of fresh food for daily consumption, and a source of plant material in developing a quality environment and lifestyle. The knowledge of horticulture and the skills of its practitioners have been demonstrated through the advancing civilizations in both eastern and western countries. With the rise of the Agricultural Revolutions in Great Britain, and more widely across Continental Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as the move towards colonisation and early migration to the New Worlds, many westernised countries established the early institutions that would provide education and training in agriculture and horticulture. Today many of these colleges and universities provide undergraduate, postgraduate and vocational and technical training that specifically targets horticulture and/or horticultural science with some research and teaching institutions also providing extension and advisory services to industry. The objective of this chapter is to describe the wider pedagogic and educational context in which those concerned with horticulture operate, the institutional structures that target horticulture and horticultural science education and training internationally; examine changing educational formats, especially distance education; and consider strategies for attracting and retaining young people in the delivery of world-class horticultural education. In this chapter we set the context by investigating the horticultural education and training options available, the constraints that prevent young people entering horticulture, and suggest strategies that would attract and retain these students. We suggest that effective strategies and partnerships be put in place by the institution, the government and most importantly the industry to provide for undergraduate and postgraduate education in horticulture and horticultural science; that educational and vocational training institutions, government, and industry need to work more effectively together to improve communication about horticulture and horticultural science in order to attract enrolments of more and talented students; and that the horticulture curriculum be continuously evaluated and revised so that it remains relevant to future challenges facing the industries of horticulture in the production, environmental and social spheres. These strategies can be used as a means to develop successful programs and case studies that would provide better information to high school career counsellors, improve the image of horticulture and encourage greater involvement from alumni and the industries in recruitment, provide opportunities to improve career aspirations, ensure improved levels of remuneration, and promote the social features of the profession and greater awareness and recognition of the profession in the wider community. A successful career in horticulture demands intellectual capacities which are capable of drawing knowledge from a wide field of basic sciences, economics and the humanities and integrating this into academic scholarship and practical technologies.

A religião do tamanho do mundo

O presente ensaio aborda a literatura de viagem sobre o Brasil, escrita ao longo dos séculos XVI, XVII e XVIII, com o intuito de extrair, daí, uma pequena amostra da imagem que os europeus construíram de um dos traços que, aos seus olhos, mais se destacavam na população local: a religiosidade desmedida e festiva. Trata-se, pois, de uma tentativa muito limitada de mapear uma pequena parte das “verdades” sobre o Brasil e suas gentes que o habitante do Velho Mundo construiu e partilhou ao longo dos séculos, verdades que, em larga medida, guiaram as suas ações nesta parte do globo.

L'univers féminin du picaresque

Les considérations sur le statut de la femme dans la littérature picaresque sont principalement limitées à la production littéraire espagnole. Nous ne pouvons que constater l’absence d’une étude comparatiste s’attachant aux personnages féminins qui peuplent le monde picaresque des pays où ce genre littéraire s’est majoritairement affirmé : l’Espagne, la France et l’Angleterre. Le but de cette analyse est de proposer une comparaison exhaustive entre les personnages féminins des romans picaresques européens de l’époque classique. Ceux-ci sont présentés selon les âges de la vie féminine : l’enfance, la jeunesse, l’âge d’épouse et de mère et la vieillesse. L’exploration de ces catégories d’âges dans lesquelles les rôles féminins se construisent met en évidence la place déterminante qu’ils occupent dans la narration. Leurs tâches, leurs comportements, leurs modes relationnels sont analysés dans les différents espaces et à l’intérieur d’un cadre temporel qui leur sont propres. Les représentations de la femme qui sont diffusées par les écrivains sont bien souvent marquées par une conduite désordonnée. Que les femmes soient victimes d’une société sexiste ou bien qu’elles fassent sciemment de mauvais choix, elles sont dans la majorité des cas, inexorablement condamnées à accepter la condition d’infériorité qui leur est imposée. Il est pourtant une catégorie d’entre elles qui ne s’en tient pas au rôle qui lui est dévolu à l’époque par la société et ses institutions et qui met en place toute une série de stratagèmes lui permettant de se frayer un chemin dans un monde dominé par la supériorité masculine

I regesti delle carte bolognesi dei secc. X-XII trascritti nei cartulari ecclesiastici del XVII-XVIII secolo. Edizione critica

La ricerca ha come oggetto l’edizione critica di circa tremila regesti di documenti di area bolognese datati al X-XII secolo. I documenti sono stati trascritti tra il XVII e XVIII secolo in undici cartulari ecclesiastici, conservati presso l’Archivio di Stato di Bologna. Il lavoro s’inserisce nel progetto di edizione delle carte bolognesi di epoca medievale in corso presso la cattedra di Paleografia latina e Diplomatica dell’Università di Bologna, attualmente incentrata sull’edizione delle carte del secolo XII. La ricerca si propone come strumento di supporto a tale progetto e come completamento delle carte già pubblicate: i cartulari, infatti, offrono spesso copie di documenti mancanti dell’originale o in cattivo stato di conservazione, e costituiscono l’unica traccia di una memoria storica altrimenti perduta. Le raccolte esaminate si collocano a ridosso del periodo napoleonico, quando la maggior parte degli enti ecclesiastici venne soppressa e i loro beni incamerati dallo Stato; esse quindi rispecchiano la condizione dei principali archivi ecclesiastici cittadini dei primi secoli del Medioevo bolognese. La ricerca è strutturata in una prima parte volta a definire in termini storico-diplomatistici la tipologia di fonte esaminata: oggi i cartulari non sono più intesi come semplici raccoglitori di documenti, ma come sistema organico di fonti in grado di far luce su aspetti importanti della storia dell’ente che li ha prodotti. L’indagine del loro contesto di produzione permette di comprenderne meglio le finalità, la forma e il valore giuridico. Parte della ricerca è stata poi incentrata sullo studio delle ragioni che hanno portato gli istituti religiosi bolognesi alla redazione dei cartulari: a tal fine è stata esaminata la legislazione ecclesiastica cinque-settecentesca in materia di conservazione della documentazione e il rapporto della legislazione stessa con la prassi archivistica. Infine è stata realizzata l’edizione critica vera e propria dei regesti, mirante a descrivere le caratteristiche principali di ciascun cartulario.

A 600 years warm-season temperature record from varved sediments of Lago Plomo, Northern Patagonia, Chile (47°S)

High-resolution records of calibrated proxy data for the past millennium are fundamental to place current changes into the context of pre-industrial natural forced and unforced variability. Although the need for regional spatially-explicit comprehensive reconstructions is widely recognized, the proxy data sources are still scarce, particularly for the Southern Hemisphere and especially for South America. We present a 600-year long warm season temperature record from varved sediments of Lago Plomo, a proglacial lake of the Northern Patagonian Ice field in Southern Chile (46°59′S, 72°52′W, 203 m a.s.l.). The thickness of the bright summer sediment layer relative to the dark winter layer (measured as total brightness; % reflectance 400–730 nm) is calibrated against warm season SONDJF temperature (1900–2009; r = 0.58, p(aut) = 0.056, RE = 0.52; CE = 0.15, RMSEP = 0.28 °C; five-year triangular filtered data). In Lago Plomo, warm summer temperatures lead to enhanced glacier melt and suspended sediment transport, which results in thicker light summer layers and to brighter sediments. Although Patagonia shows pronounced regional differences in decadal temperature trends and variability, the 600 years temperature reconstruction from Lago Plomo compares favourably with other regional/continental temperature records, but also emphasizes significant regional differences for which no data and information existed so far. These regional differences seem to be real as they are also reflected in modern climate data sets (1900–2010). The reconstruction shows pronounced subdecadal – multidecadal variability with cold phases during parts of the Little Ice Age (16th and 18th centuries) and in the beginning of the 20th century. The most prominent warm phase is the 19th century which is as warm as the second half of the 20th century. The exceptional summer warmth AD 1780–1810 is also found in other archives of Northern Patagonia and Central Chile. Our record shows the delayed 20th century warming in the Southern Hemisphere. The comparison between winter precipitation and summer temperature (inter-seasonal coupling) from Lago Plomo reveals alternating phases with parallel and contrasting decadal trends of winter precipitation and summer temperature (positive and negative running correlations Rwinter PP; summer TT). This observation from the sediment proxy data is also confirmed by two sets of reanalysis data for the 20th century. Reanalysis data show that phases with negative correlations between winter precipitation and summer temperature (e.g., dry winters and warm summers) at Lago Plomo are characteristic for periods when circumpolar Westerly flow is displaced southward and enhanced around 60°S.