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BACKGROUND: Worldwide mountain regions are recognized as hotspots of ethnopharmacologically relevant species diversity. In South Tyrol (Southern Alps, Italy), and due to the region's high plant diversity and isolated population, a unique traditional botanical knowledge of medicinal plants has flourished, which traces its history back to prehistoric times. However, changes in rural life and culture may threaten this unique biodiversity and cultural heritage. Our study aims to collect and analyze information on native plants used in traditional folk medicine, focusing on the preservation of botanical and cultural diversity. METHODS: Data were collected through a review of published material that documents traditionally used medicinal plants of South Tyrol in order to capture the total diversity of plants and their usage. We evaluated different parameters, comprising the ethnobotanicity index (EI), ethnophytonomic index (EPI), relative frequency of citation (RFC), red list status, and regional legislation with regard to the plant species. RESULTS: A total of 276 species, including 3 mushrooms and 3 lichens, were identified. These belonged to 72 families, most frequently to the Asteraceae, Rosaceae, and Lamiaceae. The most frequently cited species were Hypericum perforatum L., Urtica dioica L., and Plantago lanceolata L. According to 12 ICPC-2 disease categories, the most frequently treated human health symptoms were from the digestive and respiratory systems as well as the skin. A total of 27 species were listed as endangered, of which 16 are not protected and two are now already extinct. Among the 59 predominantly alpine species, 11 species are restricted to the high altitudes of the Alps and may be threatened by global warming. CONCLUSIONS: Our research revealed that the ethnobotanical richness of South Tyrol is among the highest in Italy and throughout the Alps. Nevertheless, it is evident that biodiversity and traditional knowledge have been heavily eroded. Furthermore, we point out particularly sensitive ...

Over the last few years, the European Union has much stressed both the increasing efficiency of passengers and goods' mobility and ports representing crucial links in the whole transport network. Recent documents by the European Commission have largely dealt with European policies on transports trying to find the means to guarantee a free and fair competition both among different ports and for different competitor transport modes to match management and charging in European ports. This paper aims to find the ports and sea infrastructures in the South of Italie, with respect to Naples port, with a view to realize some recovery works, seen by a juridical and cheap poin of view. The paper, leaving from the competitive analysis of big reconversions of the ports at national and international level, analyses the passengers traffic in order to determine a model of development of the Naples port.

Intro -- Raccomandazione -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Art of Raccomandazione -- Chapter 1 - The Ethnographic Setting -- Chapter 2 - Patronage/Clientelism: Some Theoretical Considerations -- Chapter 3 - Toward a Poetics of Patronage -- Chapter 4 - Raccomandazione, Tangente, and Mafia: An "Amoral" Family of Genres -- Chapter 5 - Raccomandazione, Class Relations, and the Southern Question -- Chapter 6 - Employing the "Little Shove": Raccomandazione and Work -- Chapter 7 - "We're Not Uganda, but Almost": Raccomandazione and Southern Italian Identity -- Conclusion: Raccomandazione and the Bourgeois-Liberal World Order -- Epilogue: What Happened When They Read What I Wrote: Mediterranean Clientelism and Corruption Revisited -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Introduction / David D'Andrea, Salvatore Marino -- The language(s) of southern Italian confraternities: a glossary of terms / Marco Piana -- Sacred imagery, confraternities, and urban space in medieval Naples / Stefano D'Ovidio -- The art of power: the Confraternity of Santa Marta in Naples during the reign of the Angiò-Durazzo (1381-1425) / Luciana Mocciola -- Chivalric ideals and popular piety in an early modern metropolis: the Confraternita dei Pellegrini and its hospital / Giovanni Lombardi -- "Spanish" confraternities in early modern Naples / Ida Mauro, Elisa Novi Chavarria -- Confraternities in medieval Benevento / Gemma T. Colesanti, Eleni Sakellariou -- Medieval confraternities in Abruzzo / Salvatore Marino -- Confraternities in Abruzzo and Molise between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries / Valeria Cocozza -- Religious sociability in early modern Terra di Lavoro / Giulio Sodano -- Confraternities and historical memory in the Principato Citra / David D'Andrea -- The religion of the laity: the confraternities of Reggio in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Mirella Vera Mafrici -- An early modern Apulia confraternity: the Real Monte di Pietà in Barletta (ca. 16th-18th centuries) / Angela Carbone -- Beyond the capital: an eighteenth-century survey of charitable institutions in the Kingdom of Naples / Paola Avallone, Raffaella Salvemini -- Medieval confraternities in Palermo / Vita Russo, Daniela Santoro -- Confraternities and public display in Messina: from Antonella da Messina to the Arciconfraternita degli Azzuri and the Arciconfraternita dei Rossi / Salvatore Bottari, Alessandro Abbate -- Medieval and early modern confraternities in Sardinia / Mariangela Rapetti.