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Don Giuseppe Zammit detto "Brighella" non è noto oggi come lo era nei suoi tempi soprattutto perché scrisse poesie occasionali di tono minore che furono poi dimenticate con il passare degli anni. Lo scopo di questa ricerca è di fissare le tappe più importanti della sua vita: nascita, infanzia, gioventù, primo amore, studi, presbiterato, prime pubblicazioni, studi a Roma, il ritorno e la ripresa dell'attività letteraria e giornalistica, il carcere, la sua fama come poeta latino e italiano, la vecchiaia, la sua morte e le sue connessioni con l'Italia e con la realtà storica, sociale, politica, religiosa, letteraria di Malta sotto gli Inglesi nell'Ottocecento. Si cercherà anche di elencare le sue pubblicazioni, libri, giornali in latino, italiano e maltese che gli procurarono il nome di poeta famoso. Si vedrà anche quanto questo scrittore prolifico fosse intelligente e aperto a tutte le influenze del suo tempo di Malta e dell'Italia e quanto fosse impegnato quando lodò o criticò persone importanti dei suoi tempi. Molti suoi lavori sono sparsi in giornali e spesso non sono firmati ma fortunatamente il manoscritto 33 della Biblioteca maltese e il manoscritto "In Hebreos" della collezione del Cavaliere John Frendo Azopardi contengono raccolte ampie delle sue poesie italiane. Inoltre esiste un libro di cento sonetti tronchi dedicati ad un certo Pasquino. Esaminando la sua produzione in italiano si nota che il poeta è collegato alla tradizione letteraria italiana contemporanea. Nei suoi scritti notiamo che la sua posizione ideologica si manifesta sempre a favore della dottrina cristiana, del gesuitismo, dell'antiliberalismo, del papismo e del nazionalismo. È sempre accanito contro gli esuli italiani, Garibaldi e Vittorio Emmanuele II e si schiera contro la corruzione delle istituzioni dell'Ottocento maltese. Alcune poesie che saranno citate e analizzate sono i sonetti Ritratto dell'Associazione Patriottica, Ad un predicatore insulso – che fece la predicina di S. Antonio, un altro contro Gaspard le Marchant, il governatore inglese, un sonetto contro Don Marforio (Quod superest date pauperibus), i cento sonetti contro Pasquino, in cui ricalca Li Tre Giuli di Giambattista Casti, fra cui i numeri LX e C che ricordano il Petrarca, il XXXIV che menziona il tema famoso della libertà di stampa, il LXXXIV, un' invettiva feroce, e il XLVII che ricorda Rustico da Filippo. Inoltre troviamo stilemi danteschi ed alfieriani in O stupidi costumi imperversanti. Interessante l'inno A nostra donna del Carmelo e A Sant'Elena imperatrice che si possono inserire nella tradizione arcadica e manzoniana. Ci sono inoltre le poesie amorose, fra cui L'invito, una canzonetta arcadica con modulazioni metastasiane, rulliane, frugoniane e montiane. Va notato che durante la sua vita e anche anni dopo la sua morte, per molti anni Zammit fu noto come il più grande umanista maltese. ; peer-reviewed

From the dust jacket. In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperial ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior -- an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species. Brantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts -- including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, She by H. Rider Haggard, and The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich Taming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways

In this article, we analyse key policy documents on teacher quality produced by the OECD andthe EU during the period 2005 to 2017 using an educational connoisseurship and criticismapproach. The purpose of this article is to explore how Eisner's concepts of educational connoisseurshipand educational criticism can be understood and used to analyse educational policy,especially how teacher quality is discursively constructed in transnational authoritative texts oneducation policy. Eisner's three aspects of criticism, description, interpretation and evaluation canbe utilised in a differentiated critical approach to the analysis of transnational policy documentson education. While the critical descriptive discourse can be viewed as 'identifying a simplerelationship' between social development and educational needs, the interpretative critical discoursecan be regarded as 'recognising the complexity' of teachers' tasks in changing societies andthe critical evaluative discourse as 'recognising and problematising contradictory interests' thataffect teachers' work. We argue that the philosophical concepts of connoisseurship and criticismcontribute to policy research by demonstrating that a multifaceted concept of teacher quality isneeded to capture the complex nature of education.

Distancing myself from unreflective appropriations, in this article, I trace a brief history of smartness by dwelling mainly on the differentiation of smartness itself from intelligence, digitization or simple competitiveness to propose an idea that focuses on the integration of people, environment, and technologies. Moreover, after analyzing some not insignificant misgivings about the delimitation of places and relations, I offer some useful elements to distinguish progressive criticism, which aims at the empowerment of the majority, from merely regressive and ultimately unhelpful criticism. I conclude by pointing out that smartness, in addition to helping the social sciences, particularly sociology, frame fundamental and still unresolved issues in new ways, is now an unavoidable topic for researchers.

Over recent years there has been increasing criticism of what may be called 'conventional' economic policy-making The methods of forecasting and analysis used at the National Institute and elsewhere are at the centre of this type type of policy formation, and, although there have certainly been forecasting errors, the conclusion of this article is that nothing better has been proposed. This is certainly true of the New Cambridge view of the balance of payments which always had many theoretical difficulties, but which has now, it is demonstrated, also fallen down empirically.The school which is here labelled Monetarist is defined rather widely and probably includes somewhat divergent strains of thinking. They have in common however that they reject the cost-push explanation of inflation in favour of a monetary/excess demand theory. Attention is restricted to those who have commented on the UK situation. It is the central contention of this section of the article that the case is not proven by the sorts of 'evidence' which tend to be adduced. It is much more likely that the relatively painless monetarist cure for inflation is not a real option at all, but a mirage resulting from excessive concentration on statistical correlations of quarterly post-war data. A much broader view considers the important implications of the shift from the pre-war world to the 'full employment welfare state'.

The basic interest of the New Conservatives lies in the field of soc or cultural criticism. They have been unable & unwilling to move from this to the statement of a positive pol'al theory since their self-identification as 'conservatives' is based on a profound misunderstanding of the things signified by that term. The ambiguity in their att's toward contemporary US society arises from the confused & contradictory uses to which the term `conservatism' is put, as meaning either a desire to preserve existing institutions, without implying anything about the nature of the institutions, or involving a specific commitment to aristocratic & feudal values & institutions. If the New Conservatives wish to engage in serious pol'al theorizing, they must abandon either their Burkean ideas about continuity & prescription or their aristocratic ideals. Since neither of these alternatives is acceptable to them, they cannot be expected to play a creative role in pol'al theory, though as cultural critics they can perform a valuable & signif function. IPSA.

The existing research is primarily dedicated to the reflections of motifs and images from Dostoevskii's works in V.Ya. Bryusov's art. This article focuses on Bryusov's direct quotes about Dostoevskii and his art from the pages of his critical works, correspondence and diary entries, which lead the author to the conclusion that Bryusov was not only an attentive reader of Dostoevskii but also a researcher of his work. Unlike other notable authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (I.F. Annenskii, D.S. Merezhkovskii, A. Belyi etc.), Bryusov didn't write a separate article on Dostoevskii, but he planned to write a monograph, a critical work, based on scientific foundations. However, he never finished it. This analysis leads the author to the conclusion that Dostoevskii held a special place in Bryusov's artistic conscience. For him Dostoevskii's literary craft was an art of mystery, capable of lifting the veil from the depths of a human soul. Additionally, the study of the features of Dostoevskii's art became an important factor in the formation of Bryusov's own poetics and in his approach to the traditions of poetics of the writers of 19th century.