Thesis--Freiburg im Breisgau. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-194).

The dissertation is recorded computer music. It has a duration of fourteen minutes and fifty seven seconds. The source sound material is a reading of a sonnet of the same name by thirteenth century Sienese poet Cecco Angiolieri. It utilizes Linear Predictive Coding and Short-time-fourier synthesis in addition to postprocessing by spatialization and digital filtering. The discussion of the piece includes an explanation of the synthesis techniques, the pitch manipulation algorithms and the programs written by the composer to generate computer scores based on these algorithms, and finally how the individual musical events were generated and mixed together. The computer scores and programs used to generated these scores are provided after the discussion.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:39:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Cecilia Galletti.pdf: 1007649 bytes, checksum: 6aab737158ac940030f6e2bc05de3778 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-09-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The propose of this doctorate dissertation is to map the ways to a mental health service in São Paulo County Centro de Convivência e Cooperativa Parque Previdência , and most specially to raise questions about the management issues that we are experiencing. This management attitude that rearranges the clinical subjectivity system was adopted in this research as a method that moves away from the perspective of analysis of extensive approaches to a process that constituted itself as a political clinical device capable of transversalizing the public domain of health policies in its relation with the State. Intensivist method. This text received the support of authors engaged mainly with the Philosophy of Difference, and goes along with the method in the deconstruction of a traditional model of health care, which identifies the management with the position of a person (as a manager) to give life to a management function that is no longer an individual practice, but rather reaches its fulfillment in the network connective experiment. We call poetic health this experience of network management, which is improving health in new ways of life care, and is promoting the inclusive work processes, since it deals with collective communities and subjectivities / O propósito desta tese de doutoramento é cartografar a trajetória de um serviço de saúde mental do município de São Paulo o Centro de Convivência e Cooperativa Parque Previdência mais especificamente, problematizar um modo de gestão que ali temos experimentado. Essa posição de gestão, que rearranja o modo de subjetividade na clínica, foi tomada, nesta pesquisa, como um método que se desloca da perspectiva de análise das formas extensivas para um processo que se constituiu como um dispositivo clínico político capaz de transversalizar a dimensão pública das políticas de saúde na sua relação com o Estado. Método intensivista. O texto teve a contribuição de autores vinculados, principalmente, à filosofia da diferença, e caminha com o método na desmontagem de um modelo tradicional de atenção em saúde, que identifica a gestão com o lugar de alguém (de um gerente), para fazer aparecer uma função de gestão à medida que não é mais uma prática individual, mas se realiza na experimentação conectiva da rede. A esta experiência de gestão em rede, que tem desencadeado processos de trabalho inclusivos pois constitui comunidades e subjetividades coletivas, chamamos saúde poética que é uma saúde intensificada em novos modos de cuidar da vida

Cecco d'Ascoli (1269?-1327), was burned at the stake in Florence as a heretic on 16 September, 1327. The Inquisitor also set aflame his texts: a Latin textbook on astronomy and Acerba, a 4867 verse "scientific epic" written in his particular Italian vernacular. The Inquisitor also banned the possession of either text on pain of excommunication. Despite the ban, the texts survived and even flourished. However, Acerba never engaged the public to the extent that the tragedy suffered by the text's author has. For almost seven hundred years, this "anti-Comedy" has gone largely uninterrupted due to the difficulty of the language, an enigmatic hybrid of several vernaculars, and due to the difficulty of the content, technical medieval science written in verse by an author habituated to syncopating his arguments for a university audience familiar with the material. In this dissertation, I provide a reading of the two most difficult chapters, Acerba I.i and I.ii, where Cecco sets forth his system of "applied astrology" that serves as a General Unifying Theorem to explain all phenomena in the cosmos. In Acerba, Cecco presents a cosmos bound tightly together by principles of interactions that I term "applied astrology", his Grand Unifying Theorem that unites God, angels and humanity. Just as twentieth and now twenty-first century physics tries to find a "Theory of Everything" that can account for both quantum mechanics and general relativity, theories that seem mutually exclusive, Cecco's intellectual goal was to unite a theory of causative astral influences and independent human intellects. The crux of the problem is this: if we believe that astral influences alter earthly life, how can we claim that we, as humans, are independent agents? Cecco wants to account for astral influences, which he sees as a link between man and God, and save free will, and this forms the base of his ethical theories expounded throughout Acerba but especially in Acerba I.i and I.ii. These chapters are thus key to understanding the entire work. To arrive at an understanding Acerba requires a summation of Cecco's life, an understanding of the intellectual and cultural stakes in his work and a thorough knowledge of his scholastic commentaries in Latin. These, written specifically to make medieval astronomy comprehensible to fourteenth-century undergraduates, are a clear prose exposition of the same "system of everything" that he sets out in Acerba. Before I approach the poem, I will review the content of his Latin prose. Once the basic features of his applied-astrological system are understood, we will then be in a position to understand this notoriously difficult text and examine the merits of Cecco's solution to the problem of free will and material determinism.

The doctoral thesis The World of Italian Comic-Realistic Poetry maps in a mostly chronological order the type of Italian poetry that is often referred to as 'giocosa' or 'comico- realistica' - in Czech translation, this best corresponds to 'poezie komicko-realistická'. The principal themes and individual topoi within the genre are analysed one by one, and examples are introduced to demonstrate the propositions related to the existence, characteristics and quality of the genre and the comic contained therein. The introduction is followed by an analysis of comic-realistic poetry of the first period which saw its heyday, namely, the first half of the 14th century, roughly comprising the years 1280- 1340. Following an analysis of sonnets by Rustico di Filippi, who is considered the emblematic founder of the genre in Italy, various topics are gradually analysed such as Bakhtinian reversal in values and seeming protest against the world, poverty and money, woman and anti-stilnovismo in sonnets of a great number of poets of the time, the most typical of them being Cecco Angiolieri. Topics with a more realistic background are also included, religious and political sonnets in particular. The issue of autobiography or pseudo- autobiography in comic-realistic texts is also covered in detail. Based on the...

xiv, 479 p. : ill. (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / My dissertation examines the ethical engagement of political invective poetry in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy. Modern criticism tends to treat medieval invective as a playfully subversive but marginal poetic game with minimal ethical weight. Instead, I aim to restore these poetic productions to their original context: the history, law, and custom of Tuscan cities. This contexts allows me to explore how humor and fury, in the denunciation of political enemies, interact to establish not a game but an ethics of invective. I treat ethics as both theoretical and practical, referring to Aristotle, Cicero, and Brunetto Latini, and define ethics as the pursuit of the common good in a defined community. Chapter I introduces the corpus, its historical and cultural background, its critical reception, and my approach. Chapter II discusses medieval invective in Tuscany and surveys the cultural practice of invective writing. Chapter III approaches invectives written by Rustico Filippi during the Guelph and Ghibelline wars. Chapter IV explores invectives by Cecco Angiolieri set in Siena, which polemicize with the Sienese government and citizenry. Chapter V examines invectives in Dante's Commedia (Inf. 19, Purg. 6, and Par. 27), focusing on his unexpected humor and his critique of the papacy, the empire, and Italian city governments. My conclusion examines the ethical function of slanderous wit in wartime invective. These poems balance verbal aggression with humor, claiming a role for laughter in creating dialogue within conflict. Far from a stylistic or ludic exercise, each invective shows the poet's activism and ethical engagement. This dissertation includes previously published material. / Committee in Charge: Regina Psaki, Chairperson, Romance Languages; Massimo Lollini, Member, Romance Languages; David Wacks, Member, Romance Languages; Steven Shankman, Outside Member, English