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International audience ; Leonardo's political allegories for his patron Ludovico Sforza are discussed considering their dealings with the semantics of the virtue of prudence.

International audience ; Political implications in Leonardo's town planning studies - anticipating some invaluable aspects of Machiavellian philosophy - are examined in the light of a possible influence of Alberti's architectural theory.

The globalization process of the last twenty years has changed the world through international flows of people, policies and practices. International cooperation to development is a part of that process and brought International Organizations (IOs) and Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) from the West to the rest of the world. In my thesis I analyze the Italian NGOs that worked in Bosnia Herzegovina (BH) to understand which development projects they realized and how they faced the ethnic issue that characterized BH. I consider the relation shaped between Italian NGOs and Bosnian civil society as an object of ethnic interests. In BH, once part of former Yugoslavia, the transition from the communist regime to a democratic country has not been completed. BH's social conditions are characterized by strong ethnic divisions. The legacy of the early 1990s crisis was a phenomenon of ethnic identities created before the war and that still endure today. The Dayton Peace Agreement signed in 1995 granted the peace and reinforced the inter-ethnic hate between the newly recognized three principal ethnicities: Serbs, Croats and Bosniak. Through the new constitution, the institutions were characterized by division at every level, from the top to the bottom of society. Besides it was the first constitution ever written and signed outside the own country; that was the root of the state of exception that characterized BH. Thus ethnic identities culture survived through the international political involvement. At the same time ethnic groups that dominated the political debate clashed with the international organization's democratic purpose to build a multicultural and democratic state. Ethnic and also religious differences were the instruments for a national statement that might cause the transition and development projects failure. Fifteen years later social fragmentation was still present and it established an atmosphere of daily cultural violence. Civil society suffered this condition and attended to recreate the ethnic fragmentation in every day life. Some cities became physically divided and other cities don't tolerated the minority presence. In rural areas, the division was more explicit, from village to village, without integration. In my speech, the anthropology for development – the derivative study from applied anthropology – constitutes the point of view that I used to understand how ethnic identities still influenced the development process in BH. I done ethnographic research about the Italian cooperation for development projects that were working there in 2007. The target of research were the Italian NGOs that created a relation with Bosnian civil society; they were almost twenty divided in four main field of competences: institutional building, education, agriculture and democratization. I assumed that NGOs work needed a deep study because the bottom of society is the place where people could really change their representation and behavior. Italian NGOs operated in BH with the aim of creating sustainable development. They found cultural barricade that both institutions and civil society erected when development projects have been applied. Ethnic and religious differences were stressed to maintain boundaries and fragmented power. Thus NGOs tried to negotiate development projects by social integration. I found that NGOs worked among ethnic groups by pursuing a new integration. They often gained success among people; civil society was ready to accept development projects and overcome differences. On the other hand NGOs have been limited by political level that sustained the ethnic talk and by their representation of Bosnian issue. Thus development policies have been impeded by ethnic issue and by cooperation practices established on a top down perspective. Paradoxically, since international community has approved the political ethnic division within DPA, then the willing of development followed by funding NGOs cooperation projects was not completely successful.

International audience ; Le passioni che hanno accompagnato il dibattito sul pacs in Francia sembrano già molto lontane: il pacs è entrato nelle mentalita della societa francese.Tuttavia, il pacs resta contrassegnato per una profonda ambiguità: è questo un inizio, come la sua logica di riconoscenza dell'omosessualità sembra indicarlo, o una fine, come la classe politica, unanime o quasi, lo aveva proclamato.

Our research takes place in the context of a discipline kwown as Communication for Development, sited inside the field of Communication for Social Change, characterized by the use of interpersonal ad mass communication theories and tools, applyied to international development cooperation. Our study aims at pointing out a change of paradigm in this field: our object is Public Administration's communication, therefore, what we suggest is a shift from Communication for Development, to Development Communication. The object of our study, hence, becomes the discourse itself, in its double action of representation and construction of reality. In particular, we are interested in the discourse's tribute to the creation of a collective immagination, wich is the perspective towards which we have oriented the analysis, through a structuralist semoitics-based methodology integrated with a socio-semiotic approach. Taking into consideartion the fact that in our contemporary society (that is to say a 'Western' and 'First World' society), the internet is a crucial public space for the mediation and the management of collective immagination, we chose the web sites of Public Bodies which are dedicated to International Cooperation has our analysis corpus. This, due to their symbolic and ideologic significance, as well as for the actual political responsibility we think these web sites should have. The result of our analysis allows us to suggest some discoursive strategies used in the web sites of Public Bodies. In these sites, there is a tendency to shift the discourses around international cooperation from the ideological axis - avoiding in so doing to explicit a political statement about the causes of injustices and un-balances which lead to the necessity of a support in development (i.e. avoiding to mention values such as social justice and democracy while acknowledging socio-economical institutions which contribute to foster underdevelopment on a global scale) -, to the ethical axis, hence referring to moral values concerning the private sphere (human solidarity and charity), which is delegated mainly to non governamental associations.

My research tells about the origins of Rome. I think that Rome became a civil community under king Tullus Hostilius who transformed a federation of villages in a city. Perhaps he retook a project of his grandfather, Hostus Hostilius. I think also that the tradition on the early Rome was elaborated by Servius Tullius' court and his motivations must be researched in the relations between this king and Tarquin's dynasty. Finally I formulated some particular theories on the comitia centuriata and their evolution and on the international politic of Servius Tullius.

International audience ; La produzione narrativa di Valerio Evangelisti, assai prolifica ed originale, nasce da un connubio del tutto particolare tra vari generi letterari : fantascienza, giallo, noir, western, romanzo storico, horror, fantasy… Gli elementi contenutistici e stilistici che ci permettono generalmente di definire a quale genere appartiene un romanzo tendono così a sovrapporsi e mescolarsi creando una materia insieme ibrida perché difficilmente definibile e identificabile e coerente perché formata da una serie di tematiche ricorrenti : ricostruzioni storiche, viaggi spazio-temporali, proiezioni nere e apocalittiche, incursioni nel campo dello strano e del para-normale ; da una serie di personaggi che circolano da un romanzo all'altro, violenti, spietati e senza scrupoli (come Eymerich il terribile "detective dello strano" al servizio dell'Inquisizione, o Pantera, il pistolero messicano e stregone vudù).

International audience ; A critical overview of French migration studies (1960-2009). Migrations and their interpretations are strongly related to the social, economic and political situation of the country in which they take place. In particular, migration studies often appear as a pensée d 'Etat, revealing vital information on the social issues of the societies that generate them and on the interpretations, evolutions and contradictions that mark them. In this paper we will analyze the French social sciences' publications on migration, from the moment they start, in the sixties, to the present. Following their evolution, observing the concepts and analyses that develop over time, as well as recurrent topics and research streams, will allow us to identify, in a Well-established scientific tradition, some important tools for analyzing and understanding issues in contemporary Italian society. ; Revue critique des études migratoires en France (1960-2009)

International audience ; This article relates the history of conventual libraries in the grand duchy of Tuscany from the 1770s to the Napoleonic times. In Tuscany, as in other italian States, the succession of three waves of conventual suppressions in less than a half century allows to compare their consequences on the libraries, from the partition of the books to the reconversion of the libraries' buildings. It also sheds light on the factors of continuity and change in political and cultural choices. ; Questo articolo ritraccia la sorte delle biblioteche conventuali del granducato di Toscana dagli anni 1770 all'epoca napoleonica. Come in altri Stati italiani, il susseguersi di tre ondate di soppressioni in meno di mezzo secolo permette di confrontare le modalità della loro applicazione (dalla ridistribuzione dei libri alla riconversione degli edifici della biblioteca) e di identificare elementi di continuità e di rottura nelle scelte politiche e culturali.

1-23 ; International audience ; Mentre è ormai assodato - fin dal lavoro pionieristico di Pressman and Wildavsky del 1973 - che le istituzioni si trovano di norma nella condizione di non poter realizzare i progetti pubblici senza qualche forma di collaborazione o assistenza che proviene dall'esterno dell'arena politica, un tema che resta sostanzialmente meno esplorato nel panorama degli studi di policy è il ruolo che tali contributi assumono nella costruzione, piuttosto che nella mera realizzazione, delle stesse politiche. Come hanno spesso evidenziato le analisi empiriche infatti, i processi di policy-making sono densamente popolati da un certo range di attori non convenzionalmente etichettati come politici (fra questi imprese, organizzazioni non profit o religiose, associazioni, gruppi di cittadini, esperti, società di consulenza, sindacati.). Questi attori appaiono talvolta acquisire ed esercitare funzioni astrattamente attribuibili ai decisori pubblici, ed impiegare repertori di azione a tutti gli effetti politici.

International audience ; This article relates the history of conventual libraries in the grand duchy of Tuscany from the 1770s to the Napoleonic times. In Tuscany, as in other italian States, the succession of three waves of conventual suppressions in less than a half century allows to compare their consequences on the libraries, from the partition of the books to the reconversion of the libraries' buildings. It also sheds light on the factors of continuity and change in political and cultural choices. ; Questo articolo ritraccia la sorte delle biblioteche conventuali del granducato di Toscana dagli anni 1770 all'epoca napoleonica. Come in altri Stati italiani, il susseguersi di tre ondate di soppressioni in meno di mezzo secolo permette di confrontare le modalità della loro applicazione (dalla ridistribuzione dei libri alla riconversione degli edifici della biblioteca) e di identificare elementi di continuità e di rottura nelle scelte politiche e culturali.

During the last fifteen years, the applications of experimental method in political science has grown so much that today many political scientists consider it a tool of great utility for their analyses. Given its own characteristics, the experimental design seems to be a methodology at the cut egde for the study of political behaviour, both for interdisciplinary approach, which make easier the dialogue with other social and human sciences, such as cognitive psychology, economics, and sociology, and for its attitude to test research hypothesis according with the theoretical model of causal explanation. After a short introduction on the nature of experimental methods and the validity of the laboratory proof, some of the most interesting experimental results in political science are discussed, paying particular attention to electoral behaviour, voting, decision making, coordination and cooperation mechanisms in international relations. The wide range of applications, including those in the field of genetic and neuroscience, testifies the utility and saliency of the experimental method in answering to new research questions.

International audience ; Lo scambio epistolare fra Elisée Reclus (1830-1905) e Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814-1886), conservato in gran parte alla Bibilothèque Nationale de France, ma completato da alcune lettere conservate all'Institut Mémoire de l'Edition Contemporaine, da pochi anni messe a disposizione del pubblico, è una fonte di estremo interesse. Non solo per gli aspetti biografici che permette di chiarire su entrambi, ma soprattutto perché documenta passaggio per passaggio i rapporti fra autore ed editore nella costruzione della Histoire d'une montagne, consentendo in prospettiva anche un confronto con il contemporaneo corpus di corrispondenze che Reclus intrattiene con i rappresentanti di Hachette per la redazione della sua opera maggiore, la Nouvelle Géographie Universelle. Anche riguardo agli studi sulle «contraintes éditoriales» dovute alle sue idee politiche, un primo problema riguardo al quale si può interrogare questa fonte è quanta sia la libertà di lavoro e quale più in generale il rapporto fra un intellettuale eterodosso e un editore "progressista" nel primo decennio della Terza Repubblica

International audience ; Lo scambio epistolare fra Elisée Reclus (1830-1905) e Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814-1886), conservato in gran parte alla Bibilothèque Nationale de France, ma completato da alcune lettere conservate all'Institut Mémoire de l'Edition Contemporaine, da pochi anni messe a disposizione del pubblico, è una fonte di estremo interesse. Non solo per gli aspetti biografici che permette di chiarire su entrambi, ma soprattutto perché documenta passaggio per passaggio i rapporti fra autore ed editore nella costruzione della Histoire d'une montagne, consentendo in prospettiva anche un confronto con il contemporaneo corpus di corrispondenze che Reclus intrattiene con i rappresentanti di Hachette per la redazione della sua opera maggiore, la Nouvelle Géographie Universelle. Anche riguardo agli studi sulle «contraintes éditoriales» dovute alle sue idee politiche, un primo problema riguardo al quale si può interrogare questa fonte è quanta sia la libertà di lavoro e quale più in generale il rapporto fra un intellettuale eterodosso e un editore "progressista" nel primo decennio della Terza Repubblica

International audience ; Lo scambio epistolare fra Elisée Reclus (1830-1905) e Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814-1886), conservato in gran parte alla Bibilothèque Nationale de France, ma completato da alcune lettere conservate all'Institut Mémoire de l'Edition Contemporaine, da pochi anni messe a disposizione del pubblico, è una fonte di estremo interesse. Non solo per gli aspetti biografici che permette di chiarire su entrambi, ma soprattutto perché documenta passaggio per passaggio i rapporti fra autore ed editore nella costruzione della Histoire d'une montagne, consentendo in prospettiva anche un confronto con il contemporaneo corpus di corrispondenze che Reclus intrattiene con i rappresentanti di Hachette per la redazione della sua opera maggiore, la Nouvelle Géographie Universelle. Anche riguardo agli studi sulle «contraintes éditoriales» dovute alle sue idee politiche, un primo problema riguardo al quale si può interrogare questa fonte è quanta sia la libertà di lavoro e quale più in generale il rapporto fra un intellettuale eterodosso e un editore "progressista" nel primo decennio della Terza Repubblica