Prospetto storico dell'immagine di Maria Vergine dipinta dall'evanegelista S. Luca, conservata, e venerata sul Monte della Guardia...

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Storia documentata del santuario di Monte Berico /

Bibliography: p. 29-39.

Correggio Apokryphen : eine kritische Studie über die sogenannten Jugendwerke des Correggio /

The first two chapters were published 1914 under title: Die Madonna mit dem heiligen Franziskus und die sogenannten Jugendwerke des Correggio.

The enchanted woods, and other essays on the genius of places,

Dedication.--Introduction: The enchanted woods.--Pisa and the Campo Santo.--Switzerland again.--Tuscan churches in summer.--Arles.--Nymphs and a river god.--Brive-la-Gaillarde.--Of Paris and the exhibition.--Trent.--The motor-car and the genius of places.--The ilex woods and the anchorites.--German fir trees.--Compiègne and Fontainebleau.--The forest of the Antonines.--Mont St. Michel.--A walk in the Maremma.--Les Charmettes.--In the Euganean hills.--The hospitality of the Black Madonna.--The holy year at Ravenna.--The Generalife.--Couci-le-Château.--The tapestry at Angers.--Germany once more.--The carillon.--The cardinal's villa.--In Gascony.--Era già l'ora.--All souls' day at Venice.--Et in Arcadia.

Saint Eloy in His Goldsmiths' Workshop

Master of the Madonna of the Misericordia; 1 ft. 1 25/32 in.x 1 ft. 3 23/64 in.; gilt, tempera on panel

Per le nozze della nobile Angelina Marcello col barone Giuseppe degli Orefici.

Dedication signed: Francesco dall'Ongaro.

The white shield : stories /

Partly reprinted from various periodicals.

Virgin Territory: Theology, Purity, and the Rise of the Global Sex Trade

Sex sells. A lot. But who exactly is on the market?

What kinds of bodies are calibrated for traffic and consumption, and how exactly do they get there? When it comes to “sex” trafficking—which comprises a minority percentage of human trafficking, yet dominates the moral imagination as an “especially heinous” crime—the rise in predominantly white, evangelical Christian American interest in the trafficked subject galvanizes an ethical outrage that rarely observes critiques of race, ethnicity, sexuality or class as conditions of possibility. Though a nuanced mandate to fight trafficking is all but cemented in the contemporary American political and moral conscience, Virgin Territory accounts for the ways Christian ideas of purity annex both gender and sexuality inside the legacies of racialized colonial encounter, and foreground the market expansion of the global sex trade as it exists today.

In Part I, I argue that the narratives of virginity tied to Mary’s body simultaneously foregrounded the gendered, sexed Other as sparked disdain for the religious Other, for the Jewish body and for Mary’s Jewish identity. Through this analysis I explore the connections of racial identity to the Christian theological elision of Jewish election. I demonstrate how the questions of sexual ethics materialized at the site of the Virgin Mary, and align the moral attachments of sex and purity in the production of whiteness. These machinations, tied to the emerging European identity of empire, irrupt horrifically into the narrative ontology of dark flesh in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

In Part II, I highlight the function of these narratives inside of the moments of colonial encounter, demonstrating how the logics of purity and virginity were directly applied to manage dark female flesh. I map the visual iconography of the Black Madonna first through a Dutch painting entitled The Rape of the Negress. I read this image through the social theological imagination instantiating the idea of the reprobate body and white imperial gaze. This analysis foregrounds a theological reading of Sarah Baartman, the “Hottentot Venus,” as the center of a complex sex trafficking investigation, outlining the genealogy of race, as well as the ideologies of the racial, ethnic and national Other, as mitigating factors in the conditions of possibility of a global sex trade. By restoring these narratives and their theological undertones, I reiterate the ways Christian thought is imbricated in the global sex trade, and propose theological strategies for rethinking humanitarian responses to sex trafficking.

The Punk-Rock King: Musical Anachronism in Period Film

Music has a powerful indexical ability to evoke particular times and places. Such an ability has been exploited at length by the often-elaborate soundscapes of period films, which regularly utilise incidental scores and featured period songs to help root their narrative action in past times, and to immerse their audiences in the sensibilities of a different age. However, this article will begin to examine the ways in which period film soundtracks can also be used to complicate a narrative sense of time and place through the use of ‘musical anachronism’: music conspicuously ‘out of time’ with the temporality depicted on screen. Through the analysis of a sequence from the film W.E. (Madonna, 2011) and the consideration of existing critical and conceptual contexts, this article will explore how anachronistic soundtracks can function beyond ‘postmodern novelty’ or ‘nuisance’ to historical verisimilitude, instead offering alternative modes of engagement with story and history.

Ecophysiology of Adonis distorta, a high-mountain species endemic of the Central Apennines

Morphological, anatomical and physiological plant and leaf traits of A. distorta, an endemic species of the Central Apennines on the Majella Massif, growing at 2,675 m a.s.l, were analyzed. The length of the phenological cycle starts immediately after the snowmelt at the end of May, lasting 128 ± 10 days. The low A. distorta height  (Hmax= 64 ± 4 mm) and total leaf area (TLA= 38 ± 9 cm2) associated to a high leaf mass area (LMA =11.8±0.6 mg cm−2) and a relatively high leaf tissue density (LTD = 124.6±14.3 mg cm−3) seem to be adaptive traits to the stress factors of the environment where it grows. From a physiological point of view, the high A. distorta photosynthetic rates (PN =19.6 ± 2.3 µmol m−2 s−1) and total chlorophyll content (Chla+b = 0.88 ± 0.13 mg g−1) in July are justified by the favorable temperature. PN decreases by 87% in September at the beginning of plant senescence. Photosynthesis and leaf respiration (RD) variations allow A. distorta to maintain a positive carbon balance during the growing season becoming indicative of the efficiency of plant carbon use. The results could be an important tool for conservation programmes of the A. distorta wild populations.

Numerical estimation of Carbonate properties using a digital rock physics workflow

Digital rock physics combines modern imaging with advanced numerical simulations to analyze the physical properties of rocks -- In this paper we suggest a special segmentation procedure which is applied to a carbonate rock from Switzerland -- Starting point is a CTscan of a specimen of Hauptmuschelkalk -- The first step applied to the raw image data is a nonlocal mean filter -- We then apply different thresholds to identify pores and solid phases -- Because we are aware of a nonneglectable amount of unresolved microporosity we also define intermediate phases -- Based on this segmentation determine porositydependent values for the pwave velocity and for the permeability -- The porosity measured in the laboratory is then used to compare our numerical data with experimental data -- We observe a good agreement -- Future work includes an analytic validation to the numerical results of the pwave velocity upper bound, employing different filters for the image segmentation and using data with higher resolution

Un Campidoglio felsineo. Stratificazioni storiche e progetti di valorizzazione del patrimonio monumentale di Villa Aldini a Bologna, dalla rotonda romanica di Santa Maria del Monte agli interventi del fascismo.

Tesi in Storia dell'Architettura che si propone di analizzare il complesso architettonico che corona il colle dell'Osservanza a Bologna, descrivendone le stratificazioni per comprendere come si sia consolidato l'assetto odierno. La ricerca ricostruisce tutte le fasi storiche e si concentra sulla rilettura critica degli interventi passati al fine di trovare nuove funzioni compatibili per riqualificare l'area. Partendo dalla costruzione del primo nucleo, costituito dalla rotonda romanica, si è cercato di ipotizzare la struttura del Monastero di Santa Maria del Monte all'apice della sua estensione, arrivando alla successiva villa neoclassica ottocentesca e alla residenza per vedove di guerra edificata in epoca fascista. Tramite lo studio di piante, disegni e planimetrie conservate negli Archivi, si è cercato di ricostruire la scansione temporale dei numerosi progetti di rinascita che si sono succeduti fino ai giorni nostri, ma anche di rintracciare ogni segno delle demolizioni e le trasformazioni subite nel corso dei secoli dalle strutture, come quelli lasciati sulla villa dalla progettazione dell'enfatica cappella di Antonio Serra per una fallita riconversione in chiesa. La tesi prende in esame in particolare la delicata fase dei restauri della rotonda della Madonna del Monte ad opera di Guido Zucchini, intervento fortemente integrativo avvenuto tra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta del Novecento, il cui approccio stilistico aderiva perfettamente alla concezione di restauro del Comitato per la Bologna Storica e Artistica di quegli anni e del suo maestro Alfonso Rubbiani. Da complesso sacro a vanto architettonico dell'Italia napoleonica, divenuto problema urbanistico e quasi dimenticato, il luogo si trova oggi di fronte a una nuova possibilità: riappropriarsi dei suoi più autentici valori storici, architettonico e simbolici come un moderno “Campidoglio felsineo”, ridefinendo la propria identità nel rispetto delle antiche memorie.