Le travail proposé est centré sur une incription d’Este retrouvée en 1979. Décrite à partir des années 1990 par des chercheurs comme Anna Marinetti ou Aldo-Luigi Prosdocimi, elle n’a cependant jamais été complètement traduite. Nous formulons des pistes de compréhension du texte, en partant d’une analyse la plus précise possible de l’objet en lui-même et en rapprochant les termes de l’inscription d’autres mots figurant dans le corpus vénète. L’étude de ce texte d’Este permet ainsi de parcourir l’ensemble des inscriptions vénètes et d’envisager à la fois la langue de ce peuple et leur civilisation, à travers notamment les rapports entre Este, Padoue et les Celtes. / The proposed study focuses on an inscription found during excavations in Este in 1979. From the 1990’s onwards researchers like Anna Marinetti or Aldo[…] analysed  the text,  but without being able to fully/completely  translate the inscription. Their interpretations form the basis of our (study/work/analysis). After studying the epigraphic characteristics of this inscription we will formulate new hypothesis on its meaning. The text cannot be separated from the rest of the venetic inscriptions. This study encompasses the language of the Venetic  People, its civilization and especially  relations between Padova, Este and the Celts.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This is the study of Engelbert of Admont's unique and practical take on Aristotelian political theory post-rediscovery of Aristotle's ethico-political works. Through the methods of reception theory and a comparative analysis of his first major political treatise, De regimine principum, with those of his contemporaries similar political treatises (i.e., St. Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, and Marsilius of Padua) and their use of Aristotelian sources and concepts--e.g. lex animata--I have shown not only Engelbert's more original, unique, and practical approach to political philosophy within the Aristotelian political tradition of the later Middle Ages, but also a more comprehensively eclectic nature of this tradition. Engelbert's political philosophy as espoused in his De regimine principum is thus a watershed in the development of the use of practical political science.

Traditionally, Arthur Johnston has been judged proxime accessit to George Buchanan in the world of Scottish neo-Latin poetry, and particularly in the versification of the Book of Psalms. The thesis offers a counterpoint to that theme. More of his poetry came under scrutiny at the close of the nineteenth century, when an edition of his Parerga and Epigrammata of 1632, turned scholarly attention to his secular poems. This study examines the poems written between 1599 and 1622 during Johnston’s peregrenatio academica in Europe – poems which depict him at the moment of his emergence onto the public stage, and which offer insights into his life, and the worlds he occupied, during those years. Part one of the thesis will examine his early years and his move into the academic world in Aberdeen and at Heidelberg University. Part two will consider the years he passed as a teacher of philosophy at the Huguenot Academy in Sedan, the independent principality on the northern border of France. It will look, too, at the evidence of his year spent in Padua, where he studied to become a physician. Part three will focus on the years 1619-22 when his longest secular poems were composed. He wrote and published with an eye to achieving a post in the medical circle around James VI and I. The thesis concludes by considering the retreat he made from Europe and London to his home in Aberdeen, and looks briefly at one of the small poems he wrote in 1623-24. Throughout, themes emerge of Johnston’s irenic preferences, and his response to the disturbance to intellectual life brought about by Calvinist division, and by the crisis heralded by the Bohemian Revolt.

Towards the end of the 19th century Oscar Wilde wrote the four society plays that would become his most famous dramatical works: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The plays combined characteristic Wildean witticisms with cunning social criticism of Victorian society, using stereotypical characters such as the dandy, the fallen woman and the “ideal” woman to mock the double moral and strict social expectations of Victorian society. These plays, and to an extent also Wilde’s symbolist drama Salomé (1891), have been the object of a great deal of scholarly interest, with countless studies conducted on them from various angles and theoretical perspectives. Widely under-discussed, however, are Wilde’s two Elizabethan-Jacobean tragedies, The Duchess of Padua (1883) and A Florentine Tragedy (1894). This thesis therefore sets out to explore The Duchess of Padua and A Florentine Tragedy in order to gain a broader understanding of Wilde’s forgotten dramatical works, while also rediscovering two of Wilde’s most transgressive female characters—Beatrice and Bianca. Challenging traditional ideas of gender and female sexuality, Beatrice and Bianca can be read as proto-feminist figures who continually act transgressively, using their voice and agency to stand up against patriarchy and asserting their rights to experience their lives on their own terms. Through an in-depth study of these plays, this thesis will demonstrate that Wilde’s Elizabethan-Jacobean tragedies, with their strong, modern female characters Beatrice and Bianca deserve greater critical attention on a par with the extensive scholarship on Wilde’s well-known dramatical works.

This dissertation examines the practice of embedding devotional objects, such as relics and painted panels, into mural images in Italy between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Examples can be found as far south as Amalfi, and as far north as Lombardy, and in a variety of ecclesiastical institutions, ranging from urban cathedrals, remote hermitages, and influential monastic centers. Yet despite its widespread application—found even in the Arena Chapel in Padua—the practice has never been systematically studied. Older studies of the sites taken up in this dissertation generally omit mention of their embedded objects altogether, either because the objects were seen as incidental to the larger image in which they were set, or because their inclusion did not follow certain post-medieval parameters of artistic progress. The works of this study elide traditional divisions within the study of medieval art, traversing the categories of icon and narrative, portable and monumental, and “image” and “art.” This study contends that medieval image-makers engaged the aesthetic and symbolic potential of mixing diverse media. The introduction gives an analysis of the notions of “medium” and “mixture” in the Middle Ages in order to elaborate the heuristic concepts that drive the ensuing chapters. Chapters 1-3 each examine a specific type of embedded object, and consider the various modes of combination exhibited therein. Chapter 1, “Assimilation,” examines relics that were embedded within mural images, and focuses on the apse mosaic of San Clemente in Rome, ca. 1120. Chapter 2, “Fragmentation,” analyzes the insertion of circular wooden panels in murals, and centers on the apse fresco of Santa Restituta in Naples, ca. 1175. Chapter 3, “Mediation,” considers the rectangular panel of God in the Arena Chapel in Padua, produced by Giotto between 1303 and 1305. To recuperate the intermedial practice of embedding objects in mural images, I examine the technical and aesthetic features of mixed media murals in relation to coeval understandings of mixture, media, and mediation. It was a practice that involved an understanding of the mural image not just as a flat surface for pictorial elaboration, but as a physical and spatial entity that could be manipulated and thematized within the image itself. By incorporating relic or panel into a mosaic or frescoed mural, medieval image-makers nested objects traditionally viewed as portable and venerable, into one understood as fixed and site-specific. This maneuver gave the mural a stratified quality of assemblage, producing registers of difference and ambiguity between container and contained, image and object, surface and depth. Throughout the dissertation, I explore these dialectics, demonstrating how and to what ends embedded objects establish difference, only to transcend it. The ambivalent understandings of mixture in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—sometimes a hybrid, at other times, a metamorphosis— inform my analysis of the mixed representational systems of this study. The period may be characterized by a growing intellectual interest in the observation and manipulation of physical substances, the study of which was seen to reveal the connective fabric of God’s cosmic order. The works studied here participate in this broader attention to the processes of the natural world. I therefore consider how medial combinations were seen to signal analogous behavior in the mixtures discussed by theologians, natural philosophers, and artists. Attending to both the constituent parts and the symbolic value of their combination, I show how the act of embedding worked by analogy to figure the theological processes of assimilation, fragmentation, and mediation.

Cette thèse présente les traductions des trois traités de navigation écrits en latin (et restés à ce jour inédits) par Giovanni Poleni, professeur de mathématiques, physique, astronomie, philosophie mécanique expérimentale, navigation et construction navale à l’université de Padoue : La meilleure manière de mesurer sur mer le chemin d’un vaisseau, indépendamment des observations astronomiques (1733), Dissertations latines sur les ancres portant sur La figure optimale selon laquelle les ancres peuvent être formées, De la technique la plus performante pour forger les ancres, La manière d’éprouver la force des ancres, soit leur résistance (1737), le troisième traité concerne l’amélioration de l’usage du cabestan : De Ergatae Navalis praestabiliore, facilioreque Usu, Dissertatio (1741). Ces trois traités furent primés par l’Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris (prix Rouillé de Meslay). Un corpus traduit de la correspondance latine de Poleni avec les savants européens, la traduction des programmes latins de ses cours de navigation ainsi qu’une enquête in situ à Venise, Vérone ou à Padoue furent nécessaires pour contextualiser les traités. La reconstitution grandeur nature de deux machines de navigation de Poleni : le cabestan et la machine pour mesurer la force du vent, réalisée par des étudiants de BTS Développement Réalisation Bois et des élèves de CAP Serrurerie Métallerie furent testées en mer. Le premier volume propose une biographie de Giovanni Poleni, les « appels à projets » de l’Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris (1733-1741), les traductions commentées des trois traités de Poleni ainsi que la reconstitution de ses machines. Le second tome regroupe les fac-similés des manuscrits ou des imprimés originaux de l’universitaire padouan. / This doctoral thesis presents the translation of the three shipping essays written in latin (and never translated until now) by Giovanni Poleni, professor of mathematics, physics, astronomy, mechanical and experimental philosophy, shipping and shipbuilding in the University of Padua: La meilleure manière de mesurer sur mer le chemin d’un vaisseau, indépendamment des observations astronomiques (1733), Dissertations latines sur les ancres about La figure optimale selon laquelle les ancres peuvent être formées, De la technique la plus performante pour forger les ancres, La manière d’éprouver la force des ancres, soit leur résistance (1737), the third essay relates how to improve the use of the ship's capstan: De Ergatae Navalis praestabiliore, facilioreque Usu, Dissertatio (1741).These three essays were rewarded by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris (prize Rouillé de Meslay). A translated corpus of the Poleni's latin correspondence with the others European scholars, the translation of the latin programmes of his shipping courses and an on-site survey in Venice, Verona and Padua were required in order to contextualize the essays. The full-scale reconstruction of Poleni’s shipping machines: the capstan and the machine to measure the wind force, made by the students of BTS Development Achievement Wood and the pupils of CAP Metal Forming and Ironwork were tested in sea. The first volume provides a biography of Giovanni Poleni, the “Calls forProjects” of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris (1733-1741), the translations commented of the Poleni’s three shipping essays and the reconstruction of his shipping machines. The second one collects the manuscripts or original printouts' facsimile written by the Paduan academic.

The diploma thesis is the proposal of the Christian community and spiritual center near Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Ostrava Kunčičky. The building program corresponds to the catchment area of Kunčičky and includes an existing church building (conversion for the contemporary liturgy) with the addition of a new parish with a living space, a parish office and a meeting room. The existing building of the parish (adaptation for commercial use, bistro and offices) and the community center includes: a social hall with the necessary background, 2 flats 1 + kk and apartment for collective accommodation, clubroom and classroom for leisure activities, music, art workshop and warehouse. Part of the area is new square as the new centre of Kunčičky, the park and green area "open garden" with a children's and sports playground. The proposal is based on the creation of a new public space in the vicinity of the existing church. The pre-church is widened and creates a new square, the center of the city with the potential of meeting, landmark, festivities, Christmas markets, etc. On the contrary, the community center is behind the church and creates a new public space "open garden". Around it all community events are concentrated. Among these spaces is a "filter" set, as a soothing element of two poles. The complex offers people from this locality also a wide range of the city, a new offer of cultural, social and spiritual activities.

Abstract This thesis is proposed as a work of translation, as an attempt to transmit a context that involves bodies, enmeshing genealogical narratives with geopolitics. We have investigated the body in action in the northeast of Italy. This is the context we come from but we view it from an uprooted position, as since 2004 we have been living in southwest Europe (València). We have catalogued and analyzed forms of legitimized artistic expression, including classical ballet, modern jazz dance, Italian futurism's proposals (close to performance), or representations of human anatomy, as well as more popular forms of expression adopted by subordinated women in the course of their everyday working lives during the Cold War, the Fascist era, and the Republic of Venice, all experiences that have been generative of our culture of reference. The contemporary consumerist, capitalist project has aspired to homogenize constructions of contemporary European identity. But subordinated bodies and their cultural legacy are able to resist and transmit genealogies, a heritage of subjugated or assimilated histories that have generated practices such as song or crochet (the poor relations of canonic forms). The latter constitute our methodology; they allow us to unravel the cultural fabric that is presented to us as fact, and to simultaneously re-weave each element, giving it a different order and meaning. An order and meaning that might escape the structure imposed by the ideological and economic perspectives of the dominant frame of reference, proposing a genealogical point of you. For this reason, the chronology of this thesis runs in reverse, ending with the study of the Serenissima (the Most Serene Republic of Venice), an example of proto-capitalist organization that returns us to the present. The diasporas from the global South and East urge us to take responsibility for decolonial processes - a responsibility that the West must assume. The colonial narratives (which bisect our genealogy) demonstrate how the subordinate cultures of our own context and families - in their emancipation towards the dominant- have whitened up, this to say, embraced the nationalist-imperialist project that today merges with capitalism. The process of 'becoming minority,' aspiring to a loss of power, makes it possible to analyze and approach the truth of bodies in action, and to make dominant positions break their innate silence. We consider this a necessary effort, aimed at sharing a daily life that is "otherly communitary": more egalitarian, balanced and peaceful. / Resumen Esta tesis se propone como un trabajo de traducción, como la tentativa de transmitir un contexto que involucra los cuerpos, entrelazando los relatos genealógicos con los geopolíticos. Investigamos el cuerpo en acción en el noreste italiano, nuestro contexto de origen, desde una perspectiva desarraigada, ya que a partir de 2004 estamos afincadas en el suroeste europeo (en València). Recogemos y analizamos algunas expresiones artísticas legitimadas, como el ballet clásico, la danza modern jazz, las propuestas futuristas próximas a la performance, o la anatomía artística, así como aquellas populares de mujeres subalternas realizadas durante el trabajo, en sus vidas y tiempos cotidianos que a lo largo de la Guerra Fría, el Fascismo y la República de Venecia han creado nuestra cultura de referencia. Pese a la construcción de la identidad contemporánea europea, que aspira homologar las diferencias hacia el proyecto capitalista y el consumo del presente, el legado de los cuerpos subalternos es capaz de resistir y transmitir genealogías, herencias de historias sometidas o asimiladas, pero generadoras de prácticas próximas a las artísticas como el canto o el ganchillo. Este último de hecho, será nuestra metodología en cuanto nos permite desmontar tramas que se nos presentan hechas y re-tejer, con una cierta simultaneidad, cada cosa con un orden y un sentido diferente, no estructurado por las perspectivas ideológicas y económicas, propias del contexto de referencia, sino genealógicas. Por esto la cronología de esta tesis es contraria a las series temporales al uso y termina con el estudio de la Serenissima (la República de Venecia) un ejemplo de organización proto-capitalista que nos devuelve al día de hoy. Las diásporas de los sures y estes globales nos ayudan a responsabilizarnos del proceso de-colonial que occidente necesita emprender. Los relatos coloniales que atraviesan también las culturas subalternas de nuestro contexto y nuestras familias demuestran cómo, en su emancipación hacia lo dominante, han elegido blanquearse. Es decir, adherirse al proyecto nacional imperialista que es hoy, también, capitalista. Encaminarse por lo tanto en procesos de "devenir minoritarios" que aspiran perder poder, permite realizar un análisis que intente acercarse a la verdad de los cuerpos en acción, poniendo voz a los silencios que conservan sus posiciones dominantes. Consideramos estos esfuerzos necesarios y dirigidos a compartir un cotidiano "otramente comunitario" más igualitario, equilibrado y pacífico. / Resum Esta tesi es proposa com un treball de traducció, com a temptativa de transmetre un context que involucra els cossos, entrellaçant els relats genealògics amb els geopolítics. Investiguem el cos en acció al nord-est italià -el nostre context d'origen- des d'una perspectiva desarrelada: ja que a partir de 2004 estem establides en el sud-oest europeu (València). Recollim i analitzem algunes expressions artístiques legitimades -com el ballet clàssic, la dansa modern jazz, les propostes futuristes pròximes a la performance, o l'anatomia artística- així com aquelles expressions populars de dones subalternes realitzades al treball, a la vida i temps quotidià. Expressions que al llarg de la Guerra Freda, el Feixisme i la República de Venècia han creat la nostra cultura de referència. A pesar de la construcció de la identitat contemporània europea -que aspira homologar les diferències cap al projecte capitalista i el consum del present- el llegat dels cossos subalterns és capaç de resistir i transmetre genealogies -herències d'històries sotmeses o assimilades- generadores de pràctiques pròximes a les artístiques: com el cant o "el ganxillo". Aquest últim de fet serà la nostra metodologia ja que ens permet desmuntar trames que se'ns presenten fetes i reteixir -amb una certa simultaneïtat- cada cosa amb un orde i un sentit diferent, no estructurat per les perspectives ideològiques i econòmiques pròpies del context de referència, sinó fer-ho a aprtir de referències genealògiques. Per açò la cronologia d'esta tesi és contrària a les sèries temporals més comunes i acaba amb l'estudi de la Serenissima (la República de Venècia) un exemple d'organització proto-capitalista que ens fa tornar a l'actualitat. Les diàspores del sud i est global ens ajuden a responsabilitzar-nos del procés de-colonial que occident necessita emprendre. Els relats colonials que travessen també les cultures subalternes del nostre context i les nostres famílies demostren com han triat blanquejar-seen la seua emancipació cap al dominant. És a dir, adherir-se al projecte nacional imperialista que és hui -també- capitalista. Encaminar-se per tant en processos "d'esdevindre minoritaris" -que aspiren a perdre poder- permet realitzar una anàlisi que intente acostar-se a la veritat dels cossos en acció, posant veu als silencis que conserven les seues posicions dominants. Considerem aquestos esforços necessaris i dirigits a compartir un quotidià "altrament comunitari" més igualitari, equilibrat i pacífic. / Schiavon, C. (2017). Análisis del contexto cultural del noreste italiano en tres épocas distintas: la Guerra Fría, el Fascismo y la República de Venecia según las Genealogías de diferentes cuerpos en acción: bailarinas, feministas, performers futuristas, balie, mondine e impiraresse [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/90529