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Item 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, MariarosariaThis 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.Item Drammatico romanzesco. Vittorini tra autore e personaggio(Università della Calabria, 2023-05-23) Sottana, Martina; Perrelli, Raffaele; Vianello, Daniele; Fabiano, AndreaThis 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.Item Paolo Giovio epistolografo: edizione commentata della corrispondenza con Alessandro Farnese(Università della Calabria, 2022-07-19) Fantacci, Michela; Perrelli, Raffaele; Figorilli, Maria Cristina; Ruggiero, RaffeleThe 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.Item Effect of monetary and non-monetary incentives in 3 different fields(Università della Calabria, 2022-12-05) Mosca, Andrea; Rubino, Franco Ernesto; Ordine, PatriziaThis thesis aims to investigate the effects of monetary and non-monetary incentives in 3 different fields. In the first chapter, we analyse whether the behavioural theory of Student Identity Priming has positive effects on student performance. By conducting an experiment on both students and former students - taken as a control trial - we observe that stimulating students' identity through motivational pictures and videos has positive effects on academic performance. The second chapter aims to analyse whether an increase in women's employment through government incentives has led to a reduction in gender-based violence. The results show that greater socio-economic independence leads to a reduction in gender-based violence. Finally, the third chapter examines the effect of regional incentives provided for cutting the waste tax on tax evasion. Analysing data from the municipal budgets of two Italian regions, we find that the tax cut, reduced by incentives, leads to a reduction in tax evasion. To support this, we analyse other taxes that are not cut in the same way.Item La gestione in rete dei musei per favorire dinamiche di turismo e di sviluppo sostenibile in Calabria(Università della Calabria, 2022-05-23) Leandri, Eleonora; Rubino, Franco Ernesto; Mazzotta, RomildaNel corso degli ultimi decenni il dibattito nazionale e internazionale si è concentrato sempre di più sulla necessità assicurare una crescita della società ispirata ai valori della sostenibilità. I modelli di sviluppo che hanno consacrato l'economia capitalistica assicurando a molti Paesi del mondo una crescita esponenziale almeno fino all'inizio di questo secolo, non sono stati in grado di governare in modo adeguato le dinamiche dei processi industriali, lo sfruttamento delle risorse, le emissioni di CO2 e i livelli di inquinamento. Anche l'emergenza sanitaria che ha coinvolto l'intera umanità a causa della diffusione a livello globale del Covid-19 ha evidenziato quanto il nostro pianeta sia fragile e quanto sia necessario intervenire con azioni decise al fine di evitare che fenomeni di questa portata possano ripetersi. L'Agenda 2030, rappresenta un importante programma di azione per i paesi che lo hanno siglato e ambisce ad assicurare la prosperità del pianeta e delle persone richiedendo un impegno collettivo ed il coinvolgimento di tutti i settori della società. Il turismo ad esempio è un fenomeno in grado di contribuire in modo incisivo sull'economia. Tuttavia, se da un lato si rivela essere un importante asset strategico per lo sviluppo economico dei Paesi, dall'altro rappresenta anche la causa di conseguenze negative per l'ambiente, per le risorse naturali e per le popolazioni delle destinazioni più frequentate dai viaggiatori. Data quindi l'importanza economica del settore, è necessario che anche il turismo acceleri il suo processo di trasformazione adeguandosi alle nuove sfide della sostenibilità. La produzione scientifica si è ampiamente occupata del tema e continua a farlo sottolineando il proficuo legame tra la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale e lo sviluppo di un turismo più razionale. Significativi sono i contributi che evidenziano l'importanza strategica dei musei, meglio se aggregati in forme sistemiche, sia per la capacità di attrarre flussi turistici di migliore qualità sia per la naturale predisposizione a favorire dinamiche di crescita nei territori di riferimento. In Italia una forte spinta propulsiva verso la creazione di reti e sistemi museali e di un'offerta turistico-culturale integrata, è stata fornita sia dal processo di riorganizzazione che ha riguardato il settore dei beni culturali a partire dal 2014, con l'istituzione del Sistema Museale Nazionale, sia dal lavoro istituzionale svolto sul tema prima da un'apposita commissione ministeriale e poi proseguito da ICOM Italia con lo scopo di individuare strumenti di gestione integrata e adeguati modelli di governance.Item Orientarsi nel labirinto. Il problema dell’etica nel pensiero di Cornelius Castoriadis(Università della Calabria, 2022-12-15) Arcuri, Lucia; Perrelli, Raffaele; Lupo, LucaThis 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.Item Un'indagine multidisciplinare sul turismo esperienziale in Calabria: il caso studio della Ferrosilana(Università della Calabria, 2022-07-13) Cosentino, Antonio; Jedlowski, Paolo; Servidio, Rocco Carmine; Panarello, MarioIl presente contributo ha l’obiettivo di indagare il fenomeno del turismo esperienziale in Calabria, in particolare nell’area occupata da una delle principali riserve naturalistiche regionali, il Parco Nazionale della Sila. L’analisi verrà affrontata prendendo in esame un attrattore turistico compreso nel territorio del suddetto Parco che fungerà da caso studio; nello specifico si parlerà dell’antica tratta Cosenza-San Giovanni in Fiore, l’unica ferrovia turistica presente in Calabria. Pertanto, lo studio si concentrerà su un tema poco dibattuto nell’ambito degli studi sul turismo in Italia, quello delle ferrovie del patrimonio. Il lavoro di ricerca avrà lo scopo di evidenziare le potenzialità del turismo esperienziale, inteso come risorsa per implementare, migliorare e ampliare l’offerta turistica territorialeItem DEM-CFD simulation of fluid-particle flow in carrier-based Dry Powder Inhalers for pharmaceutical applications(Università della Calabria, 2023-01-05) Alfano, Francesca Orsola; Conte, Enrico; Di Maio, Francesco Paolo; Di Renzo, AlbertoDry powder inhalers (DPI) are medical devices speci cally engineered to ensure maximum and e ective delivery of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) in powder form upon inhalation by a patient. In this work, highly challenging CFD{DEM simulations are utilized to deterministically track the motion of both carrier and API particles in dry powder formulations along their ow from the dose cup through the exit of a swirl- ow-based dry powder inhaler. To achieve this purpose, a combination of di erent solutions is adopted: a su ciently small time-step is coupled to scaled contact/adhesive interaction parameters; grid-based contact detection and uid-to-particle and particleto- uid interpolation of the gas-solid interaction variables, i.e. gas velocity and voidage and drag force; a rolling friction model to allow for appropriate adhesion behaviour of the particles. Single phase air- ow, coupled air-carrier particle ow and coupled aircarrier- API particles are characterized in the device for di erent typical inhalation conditions. The aim is to investigate and gain detailed insight on all stages of the particles' lift-up, aero-dispersion, de-aggregation, interparticle and particle-wall collisions across the scales from few micron sized API powders to a commercial sized device. Thanks to a 4-way coupled CFD{DEM model, inertial, collisional, rotational and inter-particle adhesion e ects can be taken into account in modelling the coupled air and particle dynamics.Item «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, AnnafrancescaThis 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.Item 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 MariaThe 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.