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Despite the pandemic is fortunately only a memory, and we hope it remains so, other clouds have meanwhile been gathering on the horizon of our households: war in Ukraine and resumption of inflation, to name but two. The Household consumption monitoring centre at the Department of Human Sciences at the University of Verona, in this new wave of its national survey on consumption in Italy, must once again come to terms with the general impoverishment and the daily difficulties of families. The group of people struggling to make ends meet has, in fact, widened, and strategies for increasingly careful comparison of both purchases and consumption have become a daily occurrence even for those least affected by economic hardship. In addition to the more usual topics of evolving household purchasing and consumption strategies and economic needs, and that of personal networks of support and consumption – with a focus on the resilience shown in the face of the energy crisis – the research investigates the topic of values and principles of social justice that shape consumption, and that of the pursuit of happiness. Although they daily have to struggle to defend their way of life, people are beginning to hope again.

The city of Pavia, longbard capital, is characterized between its historical and artistic values also in the identity of fortified city. The presence of a military wall system originates from the Roman foundation, evolving through the Middle Ages and the Spanish domination with the development of three different circles around the historic center, background of central political events in Italian history in Europe. Through its morphological, stylistic and monumental features, the city wall and gates have influenced urban development and civil and religious heritage, developing a deep system of interaction between city, population and history that has left a marked sign both in the architectural form and in local cultural traditional systems. The implementation of Post-War Regulatory Plans has led to expansion policies careless of the fortified historical identity of the city, sacrificing military memory in terms of expansion and infrastructural actions and leaving to destruction the remaining ruins. In the context of enhancement of Pavia "historical city" identity, the cultural promotion goes through proposals for digital investigation and 3D Structure from Motion documentation of ancient urban walls, with morphological and architectural systems of analysis integrated to historical research, identifying protocols of Virtualization towards possible restoration, urban recovery and cultural enhancement actions.

As shown in a movie by Ettore Scola, a precinematic device called 'mondo niovo' could entertain people by illustrating the 'new world' opened by the French Revolution. After 1797 in the territories of the former Republic of Venice Venetian patricians, Terraferma nobles, officials, landowners, merchants, intellectuals and whoever intended to be part of the ruling class had to deal with this 'new world'. Following careers and lives of those men between 1797 and 1815 is the only way to consider this short but chaotic period as a whole, as Venice and Veneto alternated between Austrian and Napoleonic rule, changing government four times. Therefore, this research adopts a prosopographical approach in order to analyse formal and informal powers of Venetian elites (public roles, kinships and networks). The aim is to examine factors of social mobility in terms of continuity and change, thus describing a regional ruling class at the beginning of the Nineteenth century.

Russia: Major / Minor / Other Over the centuries, within the flexible and dialectic space of Eastern Europe, it is possible to recognize 'major' and 'minor' cultural, linguistic, and political entities, shifting roles and positions. The perspective of the 'foreign' scholar can contribute to build a 'minor' vision of the culture he/she investigates (whether it is placed in the dominant or subordinate space within the general background of a given historical moment). Russia, a frontier territory without the characteristics of the frontier, is characterized by permeable borders, in which two distinct series of "centricity" coexist and intersect: individual and collective; in so doing, they assign to the country the quality of an empire that is both marginal and central.In this perspective, the relationship with history and memory (one's own and that of others) is essential. For the artist (and the inhabitant) of 'minor' Russia, this relationship is complex, because he/she is always the inheritor of his/her own painful and traumatic past. In fact, he/she cannot ignore to be a grain (albeit oppressed and trampled, rebellious or exiled) of the 'major' Russia, of its state mechanism, of its political and ideological condition. In the existential and creative journey of writers who describe their country, imaginary and real, moving between different worlds, languages, regimes, colors, one can perhaps recognize the multifaceted face of a greater, dominant, authoritarian, violent, short-sighted Russia, that is at the same time minor, peripheral, exiled (inside and outside its borders), oppressed, estranged and extra-located. The field of research, therefore, must be placed on the threshold of the 'many Russias', in the space between hegemonic and marginal phenomena.

The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes an unprecedented challenge with very severe socio-economic consequences. We are committed to do everything necessary to meet this challenge in a spirit of solidarity. A coordinated and comprehensive strategy is necessary to deal with health emergency needs, to support economic activity and to prepare the ground for the recovery. This strategy should combine short, medium and long-term initiatives, taking account of the spill overs and interlinkages between our economies and the need to preserve confidence and stability. Several measures have already been taken at the national and EU levels, as set out in the statement of the Eurogroup in inclusive format of 16 March. A subsequent letter of the President of the Eurogroup of 24 March outlined further elements of policy response under consideration. The European Council, in its statement of 26 March, invited the Eurogroup to present proposals on the economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic within two weeks. Replying to the Leaders' mandate, this report takes stock of actions taken thus far and outlines a comprehensive and coordinated economic response. ; The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes an unprecedented challenge with very severe socio-economic consequences. We are committed to do everything necessary to meet this challenge in a spirit of solidarity. A coordinated and comprehensive strategy is necessary to deal with health emergency needs, to support economic activity and to prepare the ground for the recovery. This strategy should combine short, medium and long-term initiatives, taking account of the spill overs and interlinkages between our economies and the need to preserve confidence and stability. Several measures have already been taken at the national and EU levels, as set out in the statement of the Eurogroup in inclusive format of 16 March. A subsequent letter of the President of the Eurogroup of 24 March outlined further elements of policy response under consideration. The European Council, in its statement of 26 March, invited the Eurogroup to present proposals on the economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic within two weeks. Replying to the Leaders' mandate, this report takes stock of actions taken thus far and outlines a comprehensive and coordinated economic response.

City life in the Italy of the communes was a unique experience in the Middle Ages, "another world" from that of the countryside in terms of the customs, beliefs and practices that conditioned the attitudes of a complex society. In order to verify Lopez' definition of the city as a "frame of mind", the issues addressed include the perception and memory of time (both real and mythical), the elaboration of models of behaviour (that of chivalry), and the conditioning of the urban ambience through to the creation of an "acoustic landscape" of the city. The significance of what it meant to be a citizen in mediaeval Italy emerges tangibly from the evidence of contemporaries. - L'esperienza cittadina nell'Italia comunale costituisce per il medioevo un fatto unico: un 'altro mondo' rispetto alle campagne per l'insieme di consuetudini, di credenze, di usi che condizionarono gli atteggiamenti di una società complessa. Per verificare la definizione di Lopez di città come "stato d'animo", vengono considerati temi quali la percezione e la memoria del tempo (tanto reale quanto mitico), l'elaborazione di modelli di comportamento (quello cavalleresco), il condizionamento dell'ambiente urbano fino alla creazione di un "paesaggio sonoro" della città. Nella concretezza delle testimonianze dei contemporanei emerge il significato di "essere cittadini" nel medioevo italiano.

Realtà e memoria di una disfatta does not address either the causes of the Six Day War or the consequences that the military conflict had for Israelis and Palestinians, about which much has been written. It focuses instead on the impact of the war on Arab countries, and the weighty legacy left by the defeat of 1967, which has been much less studied. There are several references to this in the short essay by Samir Kassir, L'infelicità araba, published posthumously in Italy in 2006. In his analysis, Kassir warns against falling into the dual trap that has ensnared the Arab world for the last forty years: on the one hand the Orientalist reading that lays the blame on Islam for the delayed modernisation of this part of the world, and on the other the temptation to heap responsibility for all evils on the West. To avoid this risk, as Kassir sees it, the Arabs have to take their destiny into their own hands, shrugging off victimism and coming to terms with modernity.

The contribution continues the research studies began in 1987 about the anthropization processes, considering the so call "crisis" as opportunity for a radical change of them, having its main base in the ecological vision of territory and city, in an holistic philosophy of social and spatial transformations, in coherence with the Landscape Florence Convention [1], particularly relevant for our country of the "100 town bells". Quoting the 2015 Letter Encyclical Laudato Sii for the Care of the Common House [2[, that goes far beyond the idea of cities as "public space" and underline the care of it, that is its management based on immediate actions, parts of strategies in the short, medium and long term. This proposed new philosophy refers also to scientific works requiring radical changes from a legal point of view in the relationship between man and nature as proposed by F. Capra and U. Mattei [3]) in the book Ecology of Law. Science, Politics, Common Goods. DOI: http://dx.medra.org/10.19254/LaborEst.17.09

The legislative elections in Italy witnessed the success of radical political groups extremely opposed to immigration and specially inclined to intolerant slogans, such as the Northern League (Lega Nord) and other extreme right forces; results reveal many contradictions existing in a society in need of immigrants which, at the same time, finds it difficult to accept them. The country's long transition, begun in 1992, is still far from ending, and the crisis -political, financial and social- seems to turn Italian citizens into more cruel people. Can a country with over 60 million inhabitants suddenly loose, in a short period of time, its historical memory? Meanwhile, in a context of prejudice and associations opposed to the presence of new mosques, in fear of future invasions and legislative disorder, the number of foreigners in Italy is not as high as it is thought of, and many relevant sectors in economy demand the arrival of more immigrants. The integration is longed for but not yet achived. ; Il successo, nelle elezioni italiane, di forze politiche "antisistema" come la Lega Nord o l'estrema destra, piú contrarie all'immigrazione e piú inclini a slogan intolleranti, dimostra le mille contraddizioni di una societá che ha bisogno degli immigrati e che fatica ad accettarli socialmente. La lunga transizione, incominciata nel 1992, é ben lungi dal terminare, e la crisi politica, economica, sociale, sembra aver incattivito gli italiani. Ma puó un paese con 60 milioni di oriundi perdere improvvisamente, nel giro di pochi decenni, la sua memoria storica?.Intanto, fra pregiudizi e comitati che si oppongono alla costruzione di nuove moschee, timori di invasioni e disordine legislativo, si scopre che in Italia il numero di stranieri non é poi cosí alto come molti pensano e che molti settori dell'economia continuano a richiederne di piú. In attesa di una integrazione che ancora non c'è.

Heritage promotion through the Internet finds a privileged context in Great Britain, where the understanding of the relationship between places and cultural memory has led to a widespread awareness of the importance the historical and ethnological patrimony of the territory holds for the public. It is the emergence of heritage politics that has inspired the choice to analyze a sample of websites of British institutions concerned with heritage preservation, in order to identify the communicative strategies, digital genres and text types that may be selected as examples of the best practices of online remediation of the cultural landscape. Worthy of note is the skillful use of social media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, now embedded within the websites, and currently the most interesting innovation in terms of content circulation across different platforms and creation of community networks. Following this intercultural perspective, the analysis may be turned from Great Britain to Italy in order to examine the websites of the city and province of Bergamo as a case study. Also in view of the Expo Milano 2015, Bergamo is working to renovate the representation of its territory and narrate its cultural heritage to a 'glocal' public of citizens and a wide selection of visitors including tourists, businesspeople, students and scientists. Networking through social media might indeed mark a step ahead in the city's rebranding effort and leave a meaningful legacy to the region.

Dealing with marginality as an existential condition inherent to humanity, this dissertation aims at demonstrating that this circumstance is a common ground for Doris Lessing's short story characters, specifically in the two collections African Stories (1964) and London Observed (1992). In the first collection, set in Southern Rhodesia, current Zimbabwe and Lessing's homeland until 1949, the theme of marginality is doubly linked to the characters' subjection to the colonial system, a racist and sexist background, but also to the geographical distance between the African colony and the very centre of power, Great Britain. In the attempt of demonstrating that such a marginal condition of individuals is not a context-related feature but rather a common one for humanity as a whole, I have chosen to explore the same theme in a collection which does not share the same geographical and political coordinates: London Observed, set at the very heart of Great Britain, is the ultimate evidence that no matter how characters approach the very centre in geographical and physical terms, they are still relegated to the margins of life.

Some of the key elements of Claudio Magris' work as an academic surface in his writings on Friedrich Hebbel: the Danubian space, Trieste, the intersection between literature and law, totality, the relationship between literary theory and practice, revisionism of classics, the recovery of historicism as a hermeneutical tool, the legacy of György Lukacs and Scipio Slataper. In Danubio (1989) and in "Davanti alla legge" (2009), Magris discusses Hebbel's Agnes Bernauer (1852) in terms of the power relations between the individual and the State, as a drama where history and chance work silently against the characters. The text captures Magris' attention by virtue of Hebbel's attempt to synthesize history and law in a tragic context. In 2009, Magris writes for Lorenza Rega's (re)translation of Hebbel's Tagebücher a short preface, which mainly focuses on Hebbel's reception in Italy. Slataper, a key figure in Magris' scientific writing, first translated the text to make Hebbel known to the general public. Hebbel's mentions constitute solid evidence of how Magris' work as a Germanist sustains both his prose and his politically engaged writing.

Some of the key elements of Claudio Magris' work as an academic surface in his writings on Friedrich Hebbel: the Danubian space, Trieste, the intersection between literature and law, totality, the relationship between literary theory and practice, revisionism of classics, the recovery of historicism as a hermeneutical tool, the legacy of György Lukacs and Scipio Slataper. In Danubio (1989) and in "Davanti alla legge" (2009), Magris discusses Hebbel's Agnes Bernauer (1852) in terms of the power relations between the individual and the State, as a drama where history and chance work silently against the characters. The text captures Magris' attention by virtue of Hebbel's attempt to synthesize history and law in a tragic context. In 2009, Magris writes for Lorenza Rega's (re)translation of Hebbel's Tagebücher a short preface, which mainly focuses on Hebbel's reception in Italy. Slataper, a key figure in Magris' scientific writing, first translated the text to make Hebbel known to the general public. Hebbel's mentions constitute solid evidence of how Magris' work as a Germanist sustains both his prose and his politically engaged writing.

«Italians know how to die»: a Historical Book Series for the wars of Fascism The article focuses on The Iron Centuria, a historical book series published by Oberdan Zucchi in Milan between 1935 and 1942. Through text-book cases of the culture militarization in the Thirties, the series aspired to be an quick and easy historical reference that contributes to the legitimization of Italy's Fascist wars. A hundred short biographies, each chosen for its voice and ideological content, were grouped together in ten "squadrons" in order to demonstrate that Fascism was the culmination of a secular development and the affirmation of Italian patriotism. From the Risorgimento to the Great War, these one hundred "precursors" were introduced in terms of military virtue, sense of the State, heroism, vocation to the martyrdom, and ingeniousness in the field of the science, art and literature. Inserted in the context of the various expressions of culture and popular propaganda, The Iron Centuria became a precious reference for the exploration of lexical codes, themes and ways of communications of the relationship with the past and of the historical "common sense" during a crucial phase of the fascist regime.

Geographical space is not always corresponding to the economical one. The macro area of Sicily and Sardinia comes out to have different and substantial drawbacks in the short sea shipping (SSS) development. According to the White Books of European Union, a supply and demand analysis of regional transportation has been carried out to investigate the possibility to equilibrate different ways of transportation in Sicily. First aim of this paper is the analysis of import/export goods between Sicily, Sardinia and Mediterranean countries. Detailed information is referred to the typology of goods and main import and export sea traffic roots. At the base of a supply analysis a technical description of Sicilian ports from Palermo to Ragusa has been developed in terms of actual and operational infrastructures. Finally some proposals are presented given the transportation strategy of Sicilian government such as a concentration in a unique vector of import/export flows according to a minimum threshold; SSS potential benefits include inside a multiway chain and some possibility to create incentives for maritime operators.