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«D’un mode de parler à la parole vive». Le metafore nom de nom nell’opera di Lorand Gaspar
(Università della Calabria, 2024-09-06) Butano, Paola Anna; Perrelli, Raffaele; Naccarato, Annafrancesca
This thesis aims to study the deep rhetoric of French contemporary literature, specifically in the works of Lorand Gaspar. The methodology is based on rhetorical linguistic theories and discourse analysis contributions in order to investigate the use of metaphors in the noun of noun binomial expression (i.e. the connection between the head noun and its genitive complement) The research will be divided into two main parts : the first one, which includes Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, deals with the theoretical and methodological f rameworks , the second, consisting of Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, presents the analysis of the chosen corpus. The first chapter is focused on the idea of replaceability of the classical tradition and of the French Néorhétorique , the interaction view and the cognitive approach, the syntactic and the pragmatic semantic perspective s . This overview will highlight some of the intrinsic properties of the metaphor so as to delineate a definition that takes into account its grammatical, conceptual and contextual characteristics. The second chapter outlines the conceptualisation of this figure in the field of French discour se analysis. T he characteristics foregrounded in the definition of metaphor will be complemented by t he notions of communication contract, ethos and dialogism , which contribute to the construction and interpretation of conflictual complex meanings. As a matter of fact, these notions convey a communicative and artistic intention whose decoding , entrusted to the reader is based on discursive and extradiscursive elements. The third chapter applies the methodologies previously identified to the critical apparatus, interviews and autobiographical essays that define Gaspar’s existential and literary journey and construct a n image of the author. The fourth chapter examines the noun of noun metaphors that can be found in his literary production and a reflection on the different structural forms of the figure and its functions in a given corpus. In conclusion, the study of binomial expressions allows us, on the one hand, to delineate the formal and conceptual structure of the metaphor and, on the other, to unveil how this figure contributes to the construction of a specific image of the author and convey s a message and a precise standpoint that the reader tries to decode.
Dai cammini ai geoitinerari. Catalogazione e valorizzazione dei cammini in provincia di Cosenza. Il caso di studio del Cammino del Guiscardo: indagini per un patrimonio da valorizzare
(Università della Calabria, 2025-05-07) Pangaro, Daniele; Perrelli, Raffaele; Ronconi, Maria Luisa
Research Project Objectives: The aim of the research project was the study, design, and implementation of a network of thematic geo-itineraries that trace, in Calabria, the places affected by the Norman conquest of the 11th century and reconstruct what is hypothesized to be the "Guiscard Path." The methodology for the collection, cataloging, systematization, and georeferencing of geographical, historical, literary, and biographical sources related to the scientific production on the subject, used for the development of the geo-itineraries, is quantitative-qualitative and interdisciplinary in nature. The research project was divided into three phases corresponding to the three years of the PhD program. First Year: Source research: • Literary sources, • Historical and geographical sources, • Places linked to Robert Guiscard, • Cartography, • Walking routes. Selection of database tools (DB); Design and development of the DBGeSCal database: • Creation of the table, • Creation of forms for: Second Year: Data entry, Data consultation. Testing and normalization of the DBGeSCal database; Selection of IT tools: • QGIS, • QuickOSM, QGIS2web; Selection and georeferencing of the places along the Guiscard Path; Selection of base cartography: WMS, 。 YXZ tiles; Design of GIS_Cardo. Third Year: Implementation of GIS_Cardo: • Thematic geo-itineraries, o Guiscard Path; Drafting of the doctoral thesis. Research Project Goals: The project aims to disseminate, enhance, and promote the cultural heritage of Calabria through geo-itineraries by integrating geographical, travel-related, and historical studies. Focusing on medieval sources, especially the Norman chronicles of southern Italy related to Guiscard, the project explores historical themes and period sources to develop new interdisciplinary approaches. DBGeSCal is the first outcome of the research-an application structured to manage and query historical data using tables, forms, and keyword-based searches. This tool demonstrates how the integration of geo-historical sources and digital technologies can improve the dissemination and accessibility of historical heritage. Digital technologies have been applied to historical sources to create geo-itineraries, representing a significant advance in digital humanities. By georeferencing and digitally mapping historical and geographical data using integrated techniques and sources, the project has transformed the traditional concept of walking routes into digitized geo-itineraries, improving their consultation and dissemination. Using GIS and WebGIS technologies, the project proposes an innovative interdisciplinary method for enhancing Calabria's historical and geographical heritage, which is also applicable beyond the region. Future integration with search functions like Least Cost Path Analysis (LCPA) applications will enable the study of the most advantageous geo-itinerary routes from both economic and timeefficiency perspectives, while also reconstructing ancient communication routes through detailed territorial analysis. GIS_Cardo aims to create a replicable geo-itinerary model in various territorial contexts to promote the history of the Calabria region and foster sustainable socio-economic development. The model facilitates the visualization and analysis of geographical and historical data, supports territorial planning, and promotes the dissemination of geo-historical information to a broad and diverse audience. Additionally, it enhances the historical, cultural, religious, and natural heritage of Calabria, promoting sustainable tourism.
Drammatico romanzesco. Vittorini tra autore e personaggio
(Università della Calabria, 2023-05-23) Sottana, Martina; Perrelli, Raffaele; Vianello, Daniele; Fabiano, Andrea
This study focuses on Elio Vittorini’s work. It is based on a field of research defined as that of the relationship between theatre and novel. In order to explore this phenomenon in its complexity on the direction of the epicization of drama as much as the dramaturgisation of novel, we referred to the modal theory and to the oscillations between the two poles of writing labeled mimetic and diegetic by a long tradition which dates back to Plato. In this process of contamination of forms, a paradigmatic role has been noticed in the narrative work of Elio Vittorini, first of all in the predominant presence of the dialogical dimension and, secondly, in a exploration of form sensitive and attentive to the most innovative international models wich was conducted outside a rigid gender framework. In addition, the autograph documents testify to the existence of a dramatic production that, although ephemeral and inconsistent, feeds in the depth the novels’ mechanism of composition. In particular, we analyzed this approach in the composition of Men and not men, inspired by the unfinished drama Atto primo which, since it does not go beyond the draft stage, reveals the theatrical models of experimentation and helps in the interpretation of the novel.Finally, after assessing the mimetic dimension of the work, we determined its success on stage. The alleged theatricality of the novel has been identified above all in relation to contemporary theatrical experiences that are based precisely on the tension between mimetic and diegetic modes.
Equipaggiamento difensivo, armi individuali e tecniche d’assedio in Calabria e in Italia meridionale (sec. XIII-XV)
(Università della Calabria, 2023-10-05) Di Pietro, Francesco; Perrelli, Raffaele; Salerno, Mariarosaria
This doctoral dissertation examines the development of defensive equipment, individual weaponry, and siege technologies in Southern Italy—particularly in Calabria—between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, within the broader political and military framework of the Angevin domination. The study aims to reconstruct the material culture of war by integrating documentary, iconographic and archaeological evidence, in a region whose sources are often fragmentary due to the destruction of the Angevin Chancery Registers and the uneven survival of local archival materials. The research adopts a comparative and interdisciplinary methodology. First, it examines the Southern Italian case within the evolution of European military historiography and within the field of scientific hoplology, which has redefined the study of arms and armour over the past decades. Second, it relates documentary terminology—drawn from inventories, fiscal records, and administrative documents of both Neapolitan and Provençal origin—with the visual record preserved in sculptures, manuscript illuminations, funerary monuments, and painted cycles. This dual approach allows for a more accurate assessment of morphological changes in equipment, technological improvements, and the circulation of craftsmen, materials, and stylistic models between Provence, Tuscany, and the Kingdom of Naples. The first part of the thesis outlines the historiographical landscape and addresses methodological issues concerning the study of medieval warfare, including the renewed attention to logistics, recruitment, cavalry, operational practices, and the transformation of armies in the late Middle Ages. The second part focuses on the analysis of military equipment: defensive armour, offensive weapons, equestrian tools, and naval outfitting, highlighting technological developments between the early Angevin conquest and the Durazzesque period. Particular emphasis is placed on projectile weapons and the progressive introduction of gunpowder artillery, whose impact altered both battlefield dynamics and siege warfare. The final section examines the organization, recruitment, and deployment of the armies mobilized by the Neapolitan crown, with special attention to the interplay between feudal obligations, urban and rural levies, professional mercenaries, and Provençal contingents. The study reconstructs tactical and strategic patterns across several reigns—Charles I and II, Robert of Anjou, Joanna I, and Ladislaus—highlighting how military practices shaped territorial control, social structures, and the economic life of communities. The dissertation includes an extensive iconographic appendix and database, offering a comprehensive collection of military representations for medieval Calabria. Through this integrated approach, the work contributes to redefining the role of Southern Italy in the broader history of medieval warfare and in the technological and cultural exchanges that shaped European and Mediterranean military development.
Estetica della plasticità. Forma, cultura, morfogenesi
(Università della Calabria, 2025-05-07) Licciardi, Domenico; Vizzardelli, Silvia; Perrelli, Raffaele
Il secondo libro di Tibullo: il proemio. Traduzione "barbara" e commento dell'elegia 2, 1
(Università della Calabria, 2024-05-03) Pandolfo, Piergiuseppe; Perrelli, Raffaele
This work is dedicated to the first elegy of Tibullus’ second book. The compositional complexity, the richness of the themes, and the linguistic innovativeness discerned in Tib. 2, 1 have gradually brought about the need for an organic and autonomous study that would highlight the peculiar status of this proemial elegy within Tibullus’ oeuvre, reflecting on the reasons underlying this specificity. My work certainly does not shy away from critical debate surrounding the rite described in this elegy, generally identified with the Ambarvalia, but its specific aim is not the anthropological-cultural study of the ceremony itself so much as the analysis of Tibullus’ language and style in this cultic context in the light of the Hellenistic compositional model employed by the poet. It is therefore our purpose – speaking conventionally of Ambarvalia – to examine the dual role played in the elegy 2, 1 by Tibullus, who, as poeta sacerdos, finds himself simultaneously representing and celebrating the rite. Following the Callimachean model of the ‘mimetic’ hymn, the occasion is incorporated, through literary fiction, within the poetic text: Tibullus immediately places the reader within the religious ceremony of which the poet is both narrator and officiant. Having identified himself mimetically with the officiant, the poet loses his power as external narrator, so that the reader, suddenly introduced into the ceremony, finds himself without a guide, like an invisible participant among the other worshippers. Some of the consequences brought about by such a coincidence of roles can thus be traced on various levels of the compositional set-up: we have dwelt on the linguistic-formal side of these repercussions, that is, on those choices through which the poet, lyrically guiding the priest’s gestures and voice and remodelling them from within, varies and innovates certain formular locutions of the rite and certain literary expressions codified in the religious sphere. One of the aims is thus to illustrate how the poet actively interprets his role as officiant, transferring to that function the creative resources necessary to soften certain formal rigidities and accommodate them, lyrically renewed, in the poetic composition. In this elegy by Tibullus, a poet generally considered to be faithful to a standard and flat level of language, one finds a large and organically conceived number of significant linguistic innovations, which have been highlighted from time to time in the commentary and evaluated in their microtextual autonomy, as well as in relation to other usages contained in the corpus Tibullianum. It is hoped that this commentary, which attempts to combine the lemmatic and the discursive components, will be part of a critical reappraisal of Tibullus as a whole, in order to show how Tibullus’words conditioned the Latin poetic langue and thus restore the poet, considered by the ancients to be the first of the elegiacs but not perceived as such by modern critical sensibility, to his centrality in Roman literary culture. The thesis is completed by an up-to-date bibliography of the main studies on the elegy 2, 1 and on Tibullus in general and, to accompany the commentary, a translation into barbaric metrics drawn up according to the principle of rhythmic accent, which consists in reproducing, by means of the tonic accents regulating the metric structure of each Italian verse, the ictus sequences of the corresponding ancient metric structures.
Influssi dell'estetica crociana sugli studi classici nella prima metà del Novecento italiano: il caso della letteratura latina
(2014) Sconza, Federica; Perrelli, Raffaele; De Gaetano, Roberto
Insediamenti monastici nell’area del Pollino: modelli di spiritualità, prerogative giurisdizionali e attività produttive (secc. XI-XV). Fonti e testimonianze
(2025-05-07) Castiglia, Gianfranco; Perrelli, Raffaele; Vaccaro, Attilio
This doctoral thesis aims to investigate the religious, economic and political peculiarities of some monastic settlements that arose between the 11th and 15th centuries, in the area of the current Pollino National Park. The study of the historical-archaeological evidences naturally also took into account the broader Calabrian territorial context and the historical events that characterized it. On the Pollino heights, and in particular on the Orsomarso Mountains, there is an interesting settlement evolution which corresponded to profound changes in the local political and religious institutions. Therefore, the objective of this doctoral thesis is to understand the role that both secular and ecclesiastical feudalism had in the historical, religious and political evolution of monastic settlements. Furthermore, I attempted to observe, thanks to the help of fiscal, administrative, documentary sources etc., the legal, economic and social relationships that existed between the feudal lords and the monks. Among the documentary, administrative and fiscal sources used during the research, the foundation diplomas of the monasteries, the pontifical documents, the audiences, the archival sources and the bibliographies were of capital importance. Hagiographic and documentary sources have revealed that Byzantine monks shaped the natural landscape and influenced local social and economic dynamics, contributing to the formation of lasting cenobitic communities. Another element of particular interest is the exploitation of rock salt mines, fulling mills and mills by Cistercian monks. The numerous assignments of large lands, even very far from the monastic settlements, are proof that the right to graze was particularly appreciated by the monks, when stipulating the donations made by the lay feudal lords. All these elements allow us to recognize the lasting influence of Santa Maria de Fontibus in Lungro and Sancta Maria de Sancto Leucio in Acquaformosa over the territory of Pollino and the Orsomarso Mountains. Furthermore, these settlements have left an important imprint on the historical and cultural context of northern Calabria, as the two monastic foundations were also real agents of social and territorial transformation.
La traduttrice si racconta: voci femminili della prima età moderna inglese tra teoria e pratica
(Università della Calabria, 2025-05-25) Parise, Anastasia; Perrelli, Raffaele; Casagrande, Mirko
This thesis aims to reconstruct a female theory of translation for the early modern period in Britain and to assess the role of women in the evolution of the history of translation. Five works by Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Griffith and Helen Maria Williams are analysed by focusing on the gap between the theory they outline and discuss in the paratexts to their translated texts and their own translation practice. The methodology combines reflexive translation studies, paratextual studies and stylistics so as to answer the following research questions: How do these five women intellectuals represent themselves as translators? Which rhetorical strategies do they employ to do so? How is translation defined from a female perspective? The first chapter explores the historical and cultural context of 17th- and 18th-century Britain with particular attention to the female condition on the one hand and to the main theories on translation on the other. The second chapter outlines a methodological framework in which the analysis of the paratexts (their classification, functions, and stylistic features) is complemented by that of the translations (contrastive analysis of source and target texts). The third and fourth chapters are dedicated to the examination of the paratexts and the translations respectively, while the results are presented in the fifth chapter, where the research questions are finally answered. Only by considering the paratexts and the translations together it is possible to identify the gap between the theory and practice of these five women translators. For different reasons, each of them claims to maintain a stronger adherence to the source text than they actually do. The similarities and differences between the translators’ activity and the stylistic features in the paratextual elements are pointed out in order to outline a female (and possibly proto-feminist) theory of translation in early modern Britain that is characterised by a more or less heavy interventionist approach resulting, in some cases, in the rewriting of their sources. Innovative elements in their linguistic choices and translation practice are identified through a comparison with the prevailing theories of the time. For instance, metaphors based on the rhetoric of modesty and morality are often employed and a domesticating approach is adopted
Lo stile tardo in Bassani, Fortini, Pasolini
(Università della Calabria, 2025-10-07) Bianco, Yole Deborah; Gatto, Marco; Perrelli, Raffaele; Luglio, Davide
Late Style in Bassani, Fortini and Pasolini This thesis investigates the aesthetic and hermeneutic category of late style (Spätstil), theorized by Theodor W. Adorno in his fragmentary writings on Beethoven’s late works, and subsequently expanded upon by Edward Said. In its first part, the research offers a reading of Adorno’s reflections on Beethoven’s late oeuvre, unpacking a series of its defining features. The study thus redefines late style not merely as the result of artistic old age, but as an expression of historical crisis, fragmentation, and a “sense of the end.” Furthermore, the thesis seeks to frame late style as a historical-epochal category, highlighting how it reflects the tensions of specific cultural and historical contexts. The second part applies this category to three major Italian authors of the late twentieth century: Giorgio Bassani, Franco Fortini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. L’airone and Bassani’s final poems are read as expressions of nihilistic dissolution; Questo muro, Paesaggio con serpente, and Composita solvantur by Fortini embody an allegorical metamorphosis and a landscape of petrified forms; Pasolini’s La nuova gioventù, together with the unfinished Petrolio and his final film Salò, instead represent a “late style without a late work,” volcanic and disruptive. By bringing these three case studies into dialogue, the thesis demonstrates how late style, beyond biographical aging, reflects a confrontation with historical crisis and with the limits of art. The comparative framework thus highlights divergent responses to the experience of the end: nihilistic closure (Bassani), allegorical dissolution (Fortini), and explosive fragmentation (Pasolini).
Ontologia del sociale, teoria del discorso, ideologia: a partire dal pensiero di Ernesto Laclau
(Università della Calabria, 2024-08-30) Aversa, Andrea; Perrelli, Raffaele; Cacciatore, Fortunato Maria
The purpose of my Ph.D. thesis is to critically delineate the boundaries and constraints of a theory of ideology drawing from Ernesto Laclau’s discourse theory. The plan of the present work is twofold: on one hand, it consists in a theoretical analysis of the presuppositions of a theory of ideology from a post-structuralist and post-foundationalist point of view; on the other hand, it involves a scrutinization of the model of ideology thus circumscribed starting from the case study of the end-of-ideology discourse of the 1950s. The theoretical foundations of this investigation lie in the interpretation of Laclau’s political ontology as an attempt to make sense of the tension between the unity and the dispersion of the social. Accordingly, the theoretical section is divided into two parts, focused respectively on the problem of “unity in dispersion” and of “unity in dispersion.” It takes as a starting point the exploration of Laclau’s conceptualization of the so-called “figures of dispersion” (that is antagonism, dislocation, and heterogeneity) before delving into the “figures of unity” (that is discourse, hegemony, and ideology). This will allow us to bring out a particular representation of the social (the one Laclau called “discursive”), whose main hallmark, according to the interpretation we uphold, lies in its post-topographic character. Here emerges the problem around which the present research revolves: what happens to ideology in a post-topographic representation of society? The solution that can be detected in post-structuralist discourse theory is the following: once the idea of the “ideological instance” as a pre-discursive (ontic) place has disappeared, it is necessary to think of ideology as a temporalized category — what the Essex school of discourse theory called a “logic of the social”. In doing so, once a definition of ideology is established, the final section of the thesis attempts to engage the case of the end-of-ideology discourse, by focusing on the way in which this ideologeme was articulated by three American sociologists: Edward Shils (1910-1995), Daniel Bell (1919-2011) and Seymour M. Lipset (1922-2006). The aim is to isolate the ideological dimension of the end-of-ideology discourse by distancing ourselves from its dominant topographic interpretation, which by contrast understands it as a mere ideological justification of Atlanticism. In light of the discursive theory of the ideological, we will try to interpret this particular discurive formation, not in terms of an intellectual justification of a more basic economic-social and military processes (i.e. the Marshall plan and the Atlantic alliance), but rather to understand it as an integral part of a ramifications of articulatory practices aimed at discursively producing the social.
Orientarsi nel labirinto. Il problema dell’etica nel pensiero di Cornelius Castoriadis
(Università della Calabria, 2022-12-15) Arcuri, Lucia; Perrelli, Raffaele; Lupo, Luca
This thesis aims to demonstrate how ethics constitutes an essential element in the construction of the theoretical project that in Castoriadis' research revolves around the concept of autonomy. Psychoanalysis, education (paideia) and politics, considered not by chance by Freud as "impossible professions" are the practices and knowledge that make the realisation of this project possible. The thesis proposes a path that unfolds over three chapters. The first chapter offers a bio-historical and speculative reconstruction and contextualisation of the path that led Castoriadis to leave Greece; the entire parabola of the group Socialisme ou Barbarie (SouB); the clash with Sartre and Debord; the difference between SouB's anti-bureaucratic theses and those of Rizzi and Burnham. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the Castoriadisian critique of Marx, an analysis that brought to light original elements of Castoriadis' thought such as the notions of rhythm, alienation, non-causal, germen and virtuality. The second chapter is divided into two parts: a pars destruens and a pars construens. The subject of the first part is a critical investigation of the inherited conception of ethics in which an attempt is made to clarify the difference between ethics and morality on the basis that ethics not only opens up to questioning but also criticises the aspiration to the absolute and purism in the moral field. In the second part of the chapter, however, an attempt is made to examine more closely the relationship between ethics and politics in relation to individual and collective action. Castoriadis' analysis and recovery of the Aristotelian definition of virtue is due to the idea that it contains in germ the same aporias common to autonomy. From the possibility of overcoming these aporias, also offered by an unexpected suggestion by Deleuze, he then goes on to outline a different concept of habitus in relation also to what Bourdieu states. Reflection then focuses on Deleuze's analysis of the theory of value in Aristotle and Marx, an analysis that culminates in the communitarian need to create, through concrete praxis, a network of values. Finally, it is shown how a project of autonomy cannot be separated from the creation of a corresponding ethos based on logon didonai and self-limitation. The third and final chapter focuses on Castoriadis conception of psychoanalysis and education. The occasion of the splitting of the Quatrième Groupe from the École freudienne, also due in part to Castoriadis' ideas, provides the pretext to move into Castoriadysian critique of Lacanism. Castoriadis' presence at Lacan's Seminars offers the opportunity for an excursus on the main points of Castoriadis' psychoanalytic theory: the theory of the monadic psyche, the role of the three phases (monadic, triadic and oedipal), socialisation, the role of reflexivity and its presuppositions including sublimation and the lability of investments in relation to society. The concept of Bahnungen or 'facilitation' is introduced as a tool of psychoanalysis and education to promote in the individual the exercise of reflexivity and autonomy. Psychoanalysis is defined, in fact, as a practical-poietic activity capable of bringing the individual to self-alteration through the maturation of reflexivity (réfléxivité). Analytical practice is also aimed at creating a balance between psychic instances by recognising the potential of the Imaginary. The efforts of psychoanalysis and education go in the direction of the autonomy of the subject and substantiate the practice of the institution of autonomy in the political field.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistula ex Ponto III 1: testo, traduzione e commento
(Università della Calabria, 2009) Larosa, Beatrice; Bausi, Francesco; Perrelli, Raffaele; Romeo, Alessandra
Paolo Giovio epistolografo: edizione commentata della corrispondenza con Alessandro Farnese
(Università della Calabria, 2022-07-19) Fantacci, Michela; Perrelli, Raffaele; Figorilli, Maria Cristina; Ruggiero, Raffele
The study aims to reorganize the materials that constitute the corpus of Paolo Giovio's epistolary and to re-evaluate them critically as a whole, in order to update and integrate the results of the valuable, but dated, twentieth-century edition revised by Giuseppe Guido Ferrero. On one hand, the purpose is to provide an up-to-date overview of Giovio's epistolary experience, and on the other, to analyse the extremely dense network of relationships that Giovio established during the course of his career with personalities considered central in the 16th century, thus, making a contribution to studies on the Italian Renaissance. Given the obvious need for a new critical and annotated edition, which takes into account a renewed census of the documents, but also the amount of research carried out over more than fifty years, the present research is intended as a preparation for this impressive work. It attempts to bring order to the intricate mass of information that is essential for its preparation and to clarify the situation of the materials that will be involved. While remaining within this broader perspective, the research pays particular attention to the relations between Giovio and the Roman environment under the pontificate of Paolo III Farnese, with the aim of deepening the analysis of a period still rarely treated by Giovio's critics. In this context, the historians privileged the relationship with Alessandro Farnese: the first appendix of the study contains an annotated edition of the correspondence with the young cardinal, covering the period 1536-1552. The long-lasting sodality, testified only by the consistency of Giovio's correspondence in an almost total dispersion of Farnese's responses, counts a total of 64 letters, mostly preserved in the Archivio di Stato of Parma in their original form.
Persistenze e mutamenti nell’Italia postfascista: il caso Aldo Braibanti
(Università della Calabria, 2024-08-30) Saputo, Andrea; Perrelli, Raffaele; Massara, Katia
The thesis is divided into two macro-sections. The first section deals with the analysis of the evolution of Italian sexual behaviour in the period between the birth of the Republic and the end of the 1960s. The second section examines a specific case study, the Braibanti case. The objective is to provide an interpretation of the process of sexual liberalisation that takes into account the persistence of stereotypes and taboos of a fascist origin even in the new democratic order. To this end the thesis integrates official discourses on public morality with the discourses on sexuality spread by consumer publishing (newspapers, magazines) and media. The study employs a methodology which combines the historiographic category of “continuità dello Stato” used by historian Claudio Pavone with cultural history. The seven chapters of the thesis analyze: post-World War II Italian sexual morality, the irruption of sex in public debate, homosexuality in post-World War II Italy, the life of Aldo Braibanti, the trial against Braibanti and the letters the poet wrote from prison, the reactions of intellectuals and the press to Braibanti’s sentence, the poet’s release from prison, and the memory of the case.
Ricerche su alcuni aspetti della lingua e dello stile di Ovidio negli Amores
(2013-01-29) De Seta, Maria Luisa; Perrelli, Raffaele; Bausi, Francesco
Studi sulla ricezione bizantina di Claudiano
(Università della Calabria, 2025-05-28) Rossi, Gianmarco; Perrelli, Raffaele
Studi sulla terminologia linguistica
(Università della Calabria, 2024-09-06) Palombo, Luca; Perrelli, Raffaele; Gomez Gane, Yorick
The research project conducted during the three years of the doctoral course led to the realization of historical-linguistic studies and insights into the terminology of Italian linguistics. The interest reserved for the diachronicaspect in this lexicographic study is functional to the reconstruction of the history of linguistic phenomena and practices, with the aim of investigating the history of the discipline through its words. The first part of the work was oriented toward the constitution of a basic lemmary of linguistic terminology, obtained through the perusal of Tullio De Mauro's Grande dizionario italiano dell'uso (Turin, UTET 2007), from which it was possible to extrapolate more than three thousand monorematic and polyrematic headwords. The deduced material, which is extremely heterogeneous, was later subdivided into further categories and subcategories, identified on an exclusively semantic basis. This classification work is preparatory to the constitution of a historical vocabulary of linguistic terminology, the basic corpus of which can be constituted from the GRADIT database and supplemented through other lexical reference directories and specific linguistic studies. In particular, the perusal of digital editions of Zingarelli. Vocabolario della lingua italiana (Bologna, Zanichelli 2022) and the Nuovo Devoto- Oli. Vocabolario dell'italiano contemporaneo (Milan, Le Monnier 2022) brought new lexical material to the basic lemmary. The subdivision of the material within semantically homogeneous groups also made it possible to identify deficiencies and omissions in De Mauro's Dictionary, and consequently the opportunity on the one hand to supplement and point out cases of lexicographical inconsistencies, and on the other hand to examine groups of words according to specific individual treatments, through corpora constituted on the basis of manuals and linguistic studies on the subject. Some particular aspects and directions within Italian linguistic studies have been chosen: text linguistics (Ch. II), grammar of valency (Ch. IV), terminology of etymological research (Ch. V) and terminology of sociolinguistics (Ch. VI). However, chapters III and VII constitute partially different treatises from the others. In III I dealt with the history of a single technicism, logonimo ‘logonym’, a neologism introduced in 1997 whose history and fortune I reconstructed. In Chapter VII, on the other hand, I dealt with a number of paragraphemic signs and the technical value they have taken on in the field studies, with particular reference to the different uses of the asterisk – in historical and descriptive linguistics – and the small caps. Each of the terminological groups was compared and integrated first of all with sectoral lexicography, which in Italy has had considerable development only since the late 1960s. Two distinctive directions can be distinguished in Italian linguistic lexicography. On the one hand are the works that appeared in Italian as translations of foreign works: Jean Dubois's Dictionary of Linguistics (Bologna, Zanichelli 1979), Hadumod Bußmann's Lexicon of Linguistics (Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso 2007), but also the third edition of Jules Marouzeau's Lexique de la terminologie linguistique (Paris, Geuthner 1951), which – although written in French and thus intended for a mainly French-speaking audience – presents the translation of lemmas into Italian, edited by Bruno Migliorini and Amerindo Camilli. On the other hand, the lexicons produced by Italian linguists, such as Agostino Severino's Manuale di nomenclatura linguistica (Milan, Le lingue estere 1937), the glossary of structuralist structure Linguistica generale (Rome, Armando 1969), the broader Dizionario di linguistica (Rome, Armando 1988), both by Giorgio Raimondo Cardona, and finally the Dizionario di linguistica edited by Gian Luigi Beccaria (Turin, Einaudi 2004, first ed.1994). As we have seen, these repertories cover a period from 1937, the year of the publication of Severino's Handbook, to 2007, the year in which the translation of Bußmann's Lexicon appears, and thus constitute inherently diachronic tools through which it is possible to sift through changes and aporias in linguistic terminology. The comparison of lexicographical repertoires is also linked to the specific study on individual words and phrases, so different text corpora have been constituted in the different chapters, depending on the subject matter. These corpora consist both of studies with a manualistic slant, which are useful for an overview of specific terminology in synchronicity, and of contributions in journals, which are instead useful for a diachronic study. Lastly, each chapter is complemented by a small historical glossary of the terms examined, whose objective is not to trace the first ever attestation of the terms, an operation that is moreover difficult in many cases, nor more generically to point out their backdating, but rather to restore historical depth to the terms treated, documenting and historicizing their uses.