Basilicata University Press

Discourses on Urban Order

2025-08-25T09:27:10+00:00

Series: Mondi Mediterranei, 15

Pages: 271

Language: English

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-43-1

Abstract: this collection of eleven studies on Discourses on the Peculiarities of
Urban Order concludes the four-year programme on Urban Order initiated
in 2021 by the International Commission for the History of Towns (ICHT).
It contains contributions by scholars from various European countries,
from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age as well as covering a
broad geographical area stretching from southern Italy to Norway. The
various aspects of the broad theme of Urban Order are dealt with by
concentrating on four sub-topics adopted by the ICHT: Protagonists of
Urban Order (2021), Crisis in Urban Order (2022), Mediating Urban Order
(2023) and Discourses on the Peculiarities of Urban Order (2024).
This volume contains contributions by scholars from various European
countries covering a broad geographical area stretching from southern
Italy to Norway. It investigates the various discourses of Urban Order and
their tangible effects on city’s space, culture, and material environment
from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age.

Summary

Francesco Panarelli, Rosa Smurra, Introduction

Francesco Panarelli, Francesca Sogliani, The medieval origins of the city of Matera

Irena Benyovsky Latin, Discourses of urban order in the transformation of Dubrovnik’s suburbs into a city centre during the Venetian rule

Rosa Smurra, “...ipsum studium perpetuo in civitate Bononie ut thesaurum pretiosissimum conservare”. The relationship between the urban order and the university in Bologna (12-15thcenturies)

Roman Czaja, The political order of the cities of Könisgberg. A contribution to the discourse on the specificity of the urban political order in Eastern Central Europe at the turn of the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Period

Jana Vojtíšková, The Town Law of the Kingdom of Bohemia from 1579 as a significant stabilising element of urban order in early modern Bohemia

Olga Kozubska, Quoniam anima civitatis sit ordo... Discourse of urban prder in Kamianets Podilskyi during the 18th century

Remigijus Civinskas, Responses of Lithuanian urban élites to Russian imperial reforms (1795-1863)

Steinar Aas, Miriam Tveit, Urban history in Norwegian historiography: Discourses of urban order

Gilles Genot, Linguistic diversity, but no threat to urban order: the city of Luxembourg (1862-1984)

Mariavaleria Mininni, Matera, an urban story still to be told

Martina Stercken, Urban order. Closing remarks

Pathicity, Subjectivity and Relationship. Studies in memory of Paolo Augusto Masullo

2025-07-02T08:17:28+00:00

Series: Mondi Mediterranei, 14

Pages: XI, 120

Language: Italian

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-42-4

Abstract: this volume stems from the desire to remeber the figure and studies of Paolo Augusto Masullo by keeping alive, albeit reshaped in new and autonomous forms, the current of his interests and research. Starting from a profound reflection on the Weizsäcker’s concept of the pathic, Masullo has investigated the ethical-epistemological implications of the relationship between subjectivity and biological structure, the reconfigurations and deconstructions to which the concept of subjectivity has undergone in the 20th century, up to arriving at a true rethinking of the human being, centred on its corporeal, affective and relational dimension. Paticity, subjectivity and relationship are the conceptual guidelines along which the authors of the essays collected in this volume have also articulated, with different accents, nuances and sensitivities, their contributions, weaving a dialogue that, despite everything, has not ceased to produce its fruits.

Summary

Mariafilomena Anzalone, Anna Donise, Maurizio Martirano, Premessa

Ignazio Marcello Mancini, Ricordo

Mariafilomena Anzalone, Tra biologia e storia. Etica medica e relazione patica in Viktor von Weizsäcker

Giuseppe Cantillo, Fenomenologia della persona e antropologia critica. Note su Paolo Augusto Masullo interprete di Husserl

Guido Cusinato, Vita e sentire primordiale. Alcune riflessioni a partire da uno scritto di Paolo Augusto Masullo

Anna Donise, È possibile un’etica del sentire? In dialogo con Paolo Augusto Masullo

Adriano Fabris, Questioni antropologiche ed etiche negli ambienti digitali

Franco Miano, Persona e etica. Paolo Augusto Masullo in dialogo con Romano Guardini

Oreste Tolone, Adolf Portmann e il ruolo della storia nella biologia

Appendice

Alessia Araneo, Caramen Caramuta, Alessandra Zito, Lo scenario antropologico tra bioetica e biopolitica

Carlo Levi‘s memory and relevance

2025-06-29T18:59:46+00:00

Series: Mediterranean Worlds, 13

Pages: XII, 322

Language: Italian

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-41-7

Abstract: Published fifty years after the death of Carlo Levi, the volume proposes a ‘holistic’ approach to the personality of this great intellectual of the twentieth century, in the belief that his work can be effectively investigated only by considering its different components as a whole, understood not so much as manifestations of ‘multi-facetedness’ but as an inseparably unitary whole of which each aspect is linked to the other. For this reason, a hermeneutic orientation has been chosen based on the comparison and intertwining of multiple perspectives of investigation by scholars from the most varied disciplinary backgrounds, from the history and criticism of art to literature, from anthropology to philosophy, from political history to economic history. The eighteen contributions that make up the book form a discourse of many voices in which multiple aspects are explored in an inter- transdisciplinary perspective, brought into play by the analysis of Levi as a painter, critic and art theorist, writer and politician, reflecting on his historical influence, on the relationships he established with the world of art and culture, and on the authoritative legacy that his artistic production and his social action have left to our time.

Sommario

Mariadelaide Cuozzo, Introduzione

Maurizio Martirano, Carlo Levi e il problema della storia

Ferdinando Mirizzi, Carlo Levi e l’antropologia in Italia negli anni del secondo dopoguerra

Donato Verrastro, Nelle spire della repressione. Carlo Levi, il confino lucano e la storia di un ininterrotto impegno politico

Pier Giorgio Ardeni, La Basilicata e il Mezzogiorno tra autonomia e sviluppo

Carmela Biscaglia, Levi e la Basilicata: relazioni politiche e intellettuali

Maria Teresa Imbriani, Sondaggi e materiali sulla ricezione del Cristo si è fermato a Eboli di Carlo Levi (1946)

Filippo La Porta, Carlo Levi in due letture recenti. Discese agli inferi dall’esito sorprendente e pericolose mitologie estetizzanti

Stefania Zuliani, Nel cuore delle modernità. Carlo Levi critico delle arti

Daniela Fonti, Rileggendo Paura della pittura

Paolo Bolpagni, Carlo Levi intervista Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. Un documento inedito dei tempi del Comitato Toscano di Liberazione Nazionale (1944-1945)

Michele Tavola, «Amleto era socialista». L’eterna lotta tra Contadini e Luigini nei disegni politici di Carlo Levi per «L’Italia Socialista»

Alessandro Del Puppo, Situazione di Carlo Levi, 1950

Rosalba Galvagno, «L’artista a cui tutte le arti di Apollo furono rivelate». Un sogno surrealista di Carlo Levi

Maria De Vivo, Il ruolo di Pia Vivarelli nella riscoperta di Carlo Levi pittore

Giuseppe Appella, Carlo Levi, Pasolini, Sinisgalli, Scialoja, Mazzarone, Guerricchio, a Roma per la mostra a La Nuova Pesa, 18 aprile 1962

Mariadelaide Cuozzo, Eredità di uno sguardo. Su Carlo Levi e Luigi Guerricchio

Annamaria Mauro, Levi nel Museo Nazionale di Matera: percorsi espositivi e tematici

Lorenzo Rota, Levi oggi. I territori della memoria e dell’attualità: per una rete di luoghi e ‘istituzioni leviane’

Latin and Its Legacy

2025-06-17T16:37:12+00:00

Series: Akribos anaginoskein, 4

Pages: XXXIV, 431

Language: Italian

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-39-4

Abstract: What is the legacy of Latin in the contemporary world? How does this language—often deemed “dead”—continue to live on in culture, science, law, and literature? Spanning a trajectory from antiquity to the present day, this volume investigates Latin’s enduring role as a vehicle of knowledge, a tool of communication, and a symbol of cultural identity across the centuries. From cancel culture to legal terminology, from the Jewish inscriptions of Venosa to the language of medicine, from medieval rhetoric to Carolingian propaganda, the scholars gathered here demonstrate that Latin is far more than a schoolroom memory: it is a key to understanding the past and interpreting the present. A journey through words, texts, and ideas that reminds us how Latin remains, even today, a language capable of speaking to the future.

From Montpellier to Rhodes

2025-06-09T14:31:39+00:00

Series: Mediterranean Worlds, 12

Pages: 244

Language: Italian

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-40-0

Abstract: The acts of the general chapters and the statutes of the Order of the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem issued during the magisterium of Hélion de Villeneuve vividly attest to the vitality of the Hospitallers within the geopolitical framework of the fourteenth-century Mediterranean. These normative texts – addressing administrative, financial, ethical, and liturgical matters – were disseminated in various languages, reflecting the international character of the Order, whose possessions extended across an exceptionally wide territory, from Cyprus to the British Isles.

Following the fall of Acre and the conclusion of the Crusader presence in the Holy Land, the Knights of Rhodes demonstrated remarkable adaptability to the new circumstances: they secured control of the Dodecanese, acquired a significant portion of the Templar assets, and reoriented their mission of defending Christendom toward an anti-Ottoman purpose. To achieve this, Hélion de Villeneuve – appointed by the Pope to resolve an internal crisis – had to reinforce the constitutional structure of the Order, redefining the relationships between the Grand Master, the papal curia, the oligarchy of the convent of Rhodes, and the fratres living in both the cis-Mediterranean and overseas territories.

Conversano and the territory to the South-East of the Bari Land between the Middle Ages and Modern Age (XI-XV centuries)

2025-03-11T12:12:47+00:00

Series: Mediterranean Worlds, 11

Pages: 257

Language: Italian

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-38-7

Abstract: The town of Conversano was in the Middle Ages one of the most important centers of the territory to the South-East of the Earth of Bari, among the districts more known and of greater interest for the political, economic and historical artistic issues of Apulia and, in general, of the South of Italy. The essays in this volume focus on the history of Conversano, the landscape peculiarities of its territory, the characteristics of the archaeological heritage, the artistic and architectural evidence of the city and its hinterland, With the intention of strengthening knowledge and promoting and enhancing the city’s artistic heritage, archaeological contexts, political and institutional aspects, economic history, documentation and narrative sources. In this way, it reflects on the construction of the cultural identity tout court of Conversano and its hinterland, offering a reasoned review on the main issues so far debated by critics.

Commentary on Alfonsi regis dicta aut facta memoratu digna by Antonio Panormita

2025-01-13T09:17:27+00:00

Series: Digital Humanities, 9

Pages: 232

Language: Italian, Latin

Published: 2024

ISBN: 978-88-31309-37-0

Abstract: On April 22, 1456, Enea Silvio Piccolomini (the future Pope Pius II) completed his Commentary on Alfonsi regis dicta aut facta memoratu digna, which had been written the previous year (immediately following August 26) by Antonio Beccadelli, known as Panormita. Panormita was a prominent figure at the court of Alfonso the Magnanimous, King of Aragon and Naples, and a key organizer of his “propaganda.” The atmosphere was fraught with fears and expectations: on May 29, 1453, Constantinople had fallen after a long siege by Mehmed II, and King Alfonso had recently made a solemn promise to lead a crusade against the Turk.

Drawing inspiration from an ideologically structured text, such as that of Panormita, Piccolomini sought not only to exert political pressure for the realization of a crusade – which ultimately remained unfulfilled – but also to contribute to the development of a new literary form. This was the narratio brevis with a humorous tone, which was being redefined during those years. It evolved not only through the original works of contemporaries like Poggio Bracciolini and Panormita but also under the influence of illustrious examples found in ancient Greek authors (such as Plutarch and Xenophon), whose works were being retranslated at the time. These classical authors were regarded as exemplary models for defining the political and ideological virtues of the ideal prince.

Digital edition in XML and PDF, with the first italian translation.

Publication made with the contribution provided by the Directorate-General for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes of the Ministry of Culture.

In cooperation with PRIN 2022 HISTORIALE MARE

CESURA - Rivista

2025-03-19T09:46:16+00:00

Sinopsis

Divided into two issues, the third volume (2024) opens with the section dedicated to Studies, featuring articles by Sara Bova, Lucas Fonseca, Alejandro Coroleu, and Lluís Cabré. The section continues in the second issue with an article by Raimon Sebastian.

The Discussions section hosts a remote dialogue between Guido Cappelli and James Hankins. The second issue, instead, includes the monographic section At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean. 1. Institutional and Ideological Lines, introduced by Fulvio Delle Donne and Guido Cappelli, with contributions by Flocel Sabaté, Lydwine Scordia, Lluís Cabré, Alejandro Coroleu, Montserrat Ferrer, Marta Celati, Luca Ruggio, Sondra Dall'Oco, and Alessandro Rizzo.

The articles, along with their authors and abstracts, can be found here (primo fascicolo) e here (secondo fascicolo).

CESURA - Rivista, 3 (2024) - entire volume (issues 1 and 2)

ISSN: 2974-637X

Hypogeous fungi of Basilicata

2024-11-07T13:33:28+00:00

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 392

Language: Italian

Published: 7/11/2024

ISBN: 978-88-31309-32-5

Abstract: The first five of its 17 chapters are of introductive kind and contain the basic knowledges on geology, geomorphology, pedology and clima of Basilicata region as well as on fungi (s. l.) and mycorrhizae. Chapters from n. 6 to n. 16 are dedicated to the following truffle topics: taxonomic classification, biological cycle, distribution, phylogenetic groups, chemical composition and aroma, electronic nose, symbiotic plants, habitat, harvest and safeguard, strategies aimed at their economic improvement in Basilicata, macro and microscopic features of marketable and non marketable species and types, cultivation, preservation, use in gastronomy, coupling with wines.

Chapter 17 deals with the false truffles so far found in Lucanian territory. The book has a scientific-popular character thank to the numerous bibliographical references in it reported, the extended Glossary and the more than 300 pictures which illustrate and render agreable its reading.

Refutationes theologicae doctrinae Latinorum

2024-10-24T11:27:42+00:00

Series: Akribos anaginoskein, 3

Pages: 196

Language: Italian

Published: 2024

ISBN: 978-88-31309-36-3

Abstract: During the ‘long’ twelfth century which saw the deepening of relations between the Byzantine East and the Latin West, in a profound and mutual fascination, often along the lines of the strategic orientations of a pro-Western emperor like Manuel Komnenos , Nicholas of Methone was eminently a “guardian of orthodoxy.” In the polemical corpus of the bishop of Methone, often understudied and under-esteemed, the Refutationes theologicae doctrinae Latinorum are undoubtedly the text characterized by the most stratified and complex manuscript tradition, whose first comprehensive critical reconsideration is proposed in this volume, together with its first critical edition and Italian translation.