The paper highlitghts the role played by comics in stimulating formative and cultural literacy processes held in contemporary world. After having devoted time to the Italian situation, it highlights the potential and the limits comics met on an educational basis, as it is necessary to use them critically and on a reasonable basis. After the First World War, comics were spread extensively for war propaganda aims. Afterwards, the Great War has consolidated its presence in essays and volumes, as several comics about it were published, almost of all for its anniversary.
Idalberto Targioni (1868-1930) was a foundling, peasant, worker, extemporaneous poet, union activist, anti-militarist, socialist and mayor, interventionist and early fascist, man of the regime and lastly a penitent. A controversial figure and protagonist of his time. This volume, through the reorganization of the unpublished papers, the drafting of the archive's consistency list (published here) and the examination of other sources, offers an articulated reconstruction of the life of a significant figure in the Kingdom of Italy. Targioni's story sheds new light on the life of foundlings, peasant culture and socialist municipalism, on the conversions to war and the passages to Mussolinism, on the dynamics within the regime, the contact between public and private dimensions in the biographies of Contemporary Italy.
Roberto Bianchi nació en Montevideo (Uruguay) el 30 de marzo de 1940; radicó en Quilmes, Buenos Aires (Argentina) de 1973 a 1995. A partir de enero de 1996 retorna a su país. En la actualidad reside en Montevideo y también en Villaguay, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Progetto, sperimentazione, modifica e messa a punto di una macchina automatica basata su attuatori pneumatici comandati elettricamente tramite PLC, in grado di assemblare i ganci di chiusura per valigeria tecnica destinata ad impieghi in condizioni estreme. Discussione del progetto a partire dai disegni di massima, e descrizione delle successive modifiche progettuali e delle relative verifiche funzionali.
The current focus on the transformation of Western cities puts forward, in a shared and far-reaching manner, 'degrowth' as an opportunity to renew and update the perspective of sustainability, not only from an environmental point of view, but from a social and economic point of view as well. The most modern updated legislation is also headed in this direction: considering building stock as a resource for renovation, adopting policies and strategies aimed at reducing land and energy consumption, reusing and recycling building stock. Nowadays, the interpretation of the terms Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in relation to urban devel-opment offers the opportunity to create a new generation of spaces and architectures that sees buildings – dilapidated, neglected, worn out or abandoned – as a real resource and, hence, value. Renovations concern new programmes and projects for rethinking the uses, meanings and the values contained in existing construction (from individual buildings to whole neigh-bourhoods) and which can change. Within this scenario, suburbs are now considered part of the contemporary city and they are becoming the object of particular attention from those who are involved in urban planning and managing urban developments. Among the resources that have already been built, social hous-ing stock is a wide field of investigation, from different points of view. This built heritage can involve different levels of building and space transformation and defines various design approaches: the overall architectural quality is to be acknowledged. These design approaches reinterpret regeneration activities and are not just limited to the 'technical' renovation of buildings: they also take into account the consequent urban, social and economic implications.
This paper aims at investigating the presence and the main features of business groups in Emilia Romagna. The research is based on a sample comprising about 48 thousand firms and about 540 thousand employees from Emilia Romagna, the latter representing more than 42 per cent of the total regional employment. First, we find that the presence of corporate grouping in Emilia Romagna is comparable to that documented at national level. Moreover, and surprisingly enough, we show that the extension of the group organizational form is significant also in industrial districts, suggesting that ownership linkages among firms do play a role and should not be neglected in the analysis of these production systems. Although the analysis requires some further investigation, these results support the view that also in Emilia-Romagna the actual size of firms is larger and the number of owners is lower than official statistics reveal. This result has important economic policy implications, as the industrial policy of Emilia-Romagna has traditionally been oriented to supporting small and very small firms.
International audience ; L'articolo presenta i risultati di un progetto di ricerca italo-francese triennale sui rapporti culturali intellettuali tra Francia e Italia dalla Prima guerra mondiale al Fascismo. I contributi raccolti nel dossier analizzano le politiche culturali francesi in Italia soprattutto a partire dall'Istituto francese di Firenze, il primo degli istituti culturali fondati dalla Francia all'estero, e dalle relazioni che Julien Luchaire, ideatore e fondatore dell'IFF, coltivò con gli intellettuali italiani durante la sua direzione. Attenzione particolare è riservata all'anno della neutralità dell'Italia, in cui gli interventi per promuovere la mobilitazione interventista a fianco della "sorella latina" furono particolarmente intensi. Sono inoltre osservati gli sviluppi avvenuti con la rottura sociale e politica che investì i due paesi nel 1917, quando in Francia si consumava la crisi dell'Union sacrée, mentre l'Italia era attraversata da proteste sociali e subiva la disfatta di Caporetto. Vengono infine considerate le trasformazioni innescate della Prima guerra mondiale negli anni di ricostruzione morale e civile del primo dopoguerra, una fase densa di conflitti, caratterizzata tanto dall'emergere di nuovi ideali e nuove utopie, quanto dal riesplodere di vecchie tensioni internazionali.
