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This book offers the first English translation and comprehensive analysis (inclusive of introductory study and endnotes to the translation) of the longest and most complex Italian Renaissance utopia, Ludovico Agostinis Imaginary Republic. It not only reveals the significance of a text that has been mostly forgotten; it also shows how an investigation of Imaginary Republic uncovers neglected and surprising facets of Renaissance utopianism. The current scholarly image of Renaissance utopianism is based, predominantly, on English texts. Other European utopian traditions are considered only tangentially and do not substantially inform the overall picture of the nature of Renaissance utopias. This books study of Imaginary Republic, within the context of Italian sixteenth- and seventeenth-century utopias, contributes to filling this gap in the critical literature by expanding the current understanding of Renaissance utopianism. Antonio Donato is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at Queens College, City University of New York, USA. He is the author of Boethius Consolation of Philosophy as a Product of Late Antiquity (2013), Italian Renaissance Utopias: Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo (Palgrave, 2019), and Boezio. Un pensatore tardoantico e il suo mondo (2021).

El proceso moderno de escolarización que persigue el plan económico y político para establecer un cuerpo dócil, útil y productivo, funcional a la reproducción de la cultura burguesa y al sistema económico capitalista, es ahora más que nunca en el centro de muchas críticas. Las formas crecientes de normalización educativa, que en el ejemplo particular italiano excluyen o medicalizan las resistencias encarnadas, están produciendo, de hecho, reflexiones particulares y una politización que a partir del bios y de los cuerpos van a establecer nuevos procesos educativos fuera del sistema del welfare, hacia una biopolítica afirmativa

El proceso moderno de escolarización que persigue el plan económico y político para establecer un cuerpo dócil, útil y productivo, funcional a la reproducción de la cultura burguesa y al sistema económico capitalista, es ahora más que nunca en el centro de muchas críticas. Las formas crecientes de normalización educativa, que en el ejemplo particular italiano excluyen o medicalizan las resistencias encarnadas, están produciendo, de hecho, reflexiones particulares y una politización que a partir del bios y de los cuerpos van a establecer nuevos procesos educativos fuera del sistema del welfare, hacia una biopolítica afirmativa.

Ergatandromorphism is the result of an aberrant development in which part of the body of a social insect shows the traits of the worker caste, while the other resembles a male. It is considered a specific case of gynandromorphism. Specimens with these characteristics have rarely been collected in different ant lineages across the world. Here, we provide the first description of ergatandromorphism in the ant Myrmica lobulicornis Nylander, 1857: an ergatandromorphous specimen was recovered during an arthropod sampling campaign across altitudinal and ecological gradients on the Italian Alps (Stelvio National Park), together with 480 workers and 4 queens of the same species, which expressed the normal phenotype.

We conducted a survey on the Alpine fauna of one of the largest Natural Park of the Italian Alps (Stelvio National Park) in the framework of a broad ecological monitoring of Alpine biodiversity. A two-years standardized sampling employing pitfall traps along a 1200 m altitudinal gradient led to the discovery of two interesting inquiline social parasite ants of the genus Myrmica: M. myrmicoxena Forel, 1895 and M. microrubra Seifert, 1993. Myrmica myrmicoxena, which is classified as Vulnerable according to the IUCN Red List, was so far known from only three sites across a narrow geographic range between Italy and Switzerland. Our data support the previous hypothesis over its ecology and host association. Myrmica microrubra is considered an incipient species of high evolutionary interest, sometimes regarded as an intraspecific form of M. rubra. While having a wide distribution in Europe, its presence in Italy was hitherto known only from a single site, and our record extends its altitudinal distribution limit in Europe upwards by about 600 m.

This book considers how the movement of existentialism--and the religious existentialists in particular--have contributed to a rethinking of the role of subjective experience for the philosophical enterprise in contrast to the rationalist and idealist traditions. It contributes to a rethinking of the cannon of existentialism.