Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Tesi di Dottorato

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    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.
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    La responsabilità dell'inconscio a partire dalla psicoanalisi di Jacques Lacan
    (Università della Calabria, 2021-07-21) Marino, Caterina; Palombi, Fabrizio; Colonnello, Pio
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    Le lettere d’artista. Vicende di un patrimonio nell’Italia dell’Ottocento
    (Università della Calabria, 2021-12-06) Laganà, Annalisa; Colonnello, Pio; Capitelli, Giovanna; Donato, Maria Pia
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    Lo sperimentalismo degli Inni di Giovanni Pascoli. Testo, metrica, fonti
    (Università della Calabria, 2021-07-24) Corapi, Arianna; Bausi, Francesco; Colonnello, Pio
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    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.
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    Tra contemporaneità e tradizione. Forme, motivi, tendenze del cinema del reale italiano
    (Università della Calabria, 2021-04-30) Capocasale, Antonio; Dottorini, Daniele; Colonnello, Pio
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    Il confine tra uomo e animale nell'Inghilterra anglosassone
    (Università della Calabria, 2021-06-29) Bria, Jasmine; Riviello, Carla; Colonnello, Pio
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    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.
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    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.