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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-212).

Cette recherche entend examiner les régions de l’Italie méridionale actuelle, exception faite des Pouilles, de la Sicile et des îles. L’objectif de ce travail est d’analyser le contexte des grandes nécropoles afin d’en déduire le plus d’informations possibles concernant l’imaginaire, à savoir l’ensemble des croyances et représentations, relatif aux classes d’âges inférieures parmi les différentes cultures et sociétés, autochtones et coloniales, présentes en Italie méridionale péninsulaire. Afin de mobiliser un échantillon ample et significatif sur lequel fonder notre étude, nous avons donc choisi d’analyser de manière approfondie les contextes funéraires qui présentaient au moins 100 sépultures pouvant être rattachées à la période étudiée ; des éventuels noyaux plus petits et relatifs au même contexte culturel ont tout de même étés pris en compte dans le cadre des comparaisons concernant la culture matérielle, les typologies funéraires et le traitement des corps, de même que pour la représentativité des enfants et adolescents dans la base de données archéologique. De la même manière, bien qu’ils ne soient pas pris en compte dans le catalogage qui constitue le corpus de cette étude, différents contextes et sépultures jugés significatifs ont été examinés et insérés dans l’analyse globale, afin de replacer les données de la sélection analytique dans un contexte historique et socio-culturel plus vaste. En ce qui concerne la base documentaire, cette recherche s’appuie sur l’analyse d’environ 3000 sépultures connues des publications exhaustives, ainsi que sur le catalogage de 969 contextes rattachables à des individus immatures, de l’âge périnatal à l’adolescence incluse. À ce corpus, il convient d’ajouter l’étude d’un lot inédit de nécropoles, constitué de 109 sépultures découvertes dans les années 1980 dans la propriété De Marco à Chiaromonte (Potenza), dans lequel ont été identifiées 26 tombes pour un total de 28 individus, auxquelles il faut ajouter 6 possibles inhumations en vase. Pour cette recherche, il a fallu analyser la documentation publiée sur un autre lot de la même nécropole, composé de 44 sépultures. / The archaeology of childhood developed from 1980s feminist studies trying to enlight the role of women in the reconstruction of the past: even if immature individuals made up between 40 and 65% of ancient communities, for a long time they have been neglected in the archaeological analyses and, as well as women, researchers contributed to the invisibility of children relegating them to the stereotype of passivity. In the last decennies, many archaeological studies focusing on gendered cultural constructions of childhood, mortuary treatments and evidence of social status proved the importance of these individuals in the cultural maintenance, inter- and intragenerational transmission, and cultural change of past communities. This research analyses almost 1000 tombs of children and adolescents in the necropoleis of Southern Italy between the Iron Age and the archaic period (in terms of absolute chronology, from the end of the 11th century to the first half of the Vth century B.C.). The study of the grave goods and tombs typology, the rituals performed out on the burials, the representativity within the necropolis and the mode of aggregation of the burials allowed to highlight a great variability of the funeral treatment of immature individuals, depending on the different cultural components active in this area during the period under review.

Inauguraldiss.--Munich. / Includes index. Bibliography: p. [199]-201.

Inauguraldiss.--Munich. / Includes index. Bibliography: p. [199]-201.

The aim of this research is to analyze the key role that knowledge, Social Capabilities and innovations play in the transfer and diffusion of tacit knowledge in an industrial district and how this creates new knowledge and innovation. The study is also focused on a measure of Social Capabilities within a district using a composite indicator and we investigate the effective role of these inputs in stimulating innovative activity in an industrial district performance. The analysis, measuring Social Capabilities, requires data collection using a questionnaire designed to obtain information which permit the development of qualitative and quantitative indicators. In contrast with the neoclassical production function, where economic growth depends only on traditional resources such as capital, labour and technology, which is an exogenous datum, in the cognitive approach we must consider the residual variables of Social Capabilities and knowledge. These, in fact, represent the key variables to understand the recent structural changes and competitiveness of an industrial district. In this work, the peculiarity of knowledge rests on Social Capabilities or social abilities to increase the process of the accumulation of knowledge and of the network broadening. The former depends on the degree of cumulativeness, and appropriability, represented by the capacity of new knowledge to generate further new knowledge and innovation. The greater is the degree of appropriability of knowledge and in particular of tacit knowledge, the smaller becomes the capacity for its diffusion in a district and its growth. A higher level of knowledge and Social Capabilities corresponds to a higher degree of innovation. The diffusion of the network depends on the degree of cooperation and on the positive externalities of an industrial district. In the theoretical part, the discussion focuses on the concept of knowledge and of Social Capabilities, on the different typologies of knowledge, its creation and diffusion in firm networks utilizing Nonaka and Takeuchi’s model, on the nature and definition of Social Capabilities in the industrial district and on the relationship among these and innovation. The empirical aspect is based upon original results of surveys carried out on a sample of entrepreneurs in Southern Italy specializing in a special industrial district composed of wedding dresses and baby dresses utilizing a multi-method approach. To highlight the relationship existing between innovation and Social Capabilities, we chose our sample within three categories, classical, innovative and traditional/fashion utilizing the academic classification. We measure Social Capabilities, we describe the Social Capabilities diffusion in the case study and finally we present our empirical analysis estimating an innovation equation.

Il sistema scolastico meridionale, nel periodo 1806 - 1861, presenta gradi di efficienza diversi per ciascuno dei tre comparti dell’istruzione qui considerati (istruzione primaria, agraria e secondaria). Per quanto riguarda la scuola primaria, si evidenzia una realtà molto fragile, imputabile principalmente alla povertà dei comuni, che dovevano sopportare i relativi costi. Per i docenti, erano previsti bassissimi livelli stipendiali, che si traducevano in competenze inadeguate. Per quanto riguarda l’istruzione agraria, il governo ebbe il merito di diffonderla in tutto il Regno nel 1840, nel contesto di un organico progetto di riforma. Le scuole di agricoltura si segnalarono tuttavia per una attivazione solo parziale e per un funzionamento incerto, afflitto dai medesimi problemi riscontrabili nella scuola primaria: povertà di risorse, carenza di insegnanti, precari edifici scolastici. In riferimento all’istruzione superiore, il quadro è differente. Collegi e licei possedevano infatti un finanziamento misto, derivante in parte da fondi provinciali e comunali, e in parte dalle rette dei convittori. Le più solide basi economiche consentirono un’ampia offerta didattica, che spaziava fino ai corsi universitari. Quanto ai docenti, a differenza di ciò che accadeva nella scuola primaria, le retribuzioni erano assolutamente dignitose, e questo si traduceva in un’elevata professionalità. / The educational system of Southern Italy since 1806 to 1861 presents different levels of efficiency for any of the three branches of education taken into consideration in this research (primary school, secondary school and schools of agriculture). As for primary school, it was a very frail system, mainly due to the poverty of municipalities, which, according to the law, had to support it. Teachers used to have poor salaries, and, as a consequence, had few skills. As regards the schools of agriculture, the government tried to establish them in the whole Kingdom in 1840, according to a organic government bill. Anyway these schools arose only in one third of the municipalities, and had serious problems, such as scarcity of resources, lack of teachers, and badly-furnished buildings. As for secondary school, the situation is very different. Colleges were financed not only by municipalities and local governments, but also by boarders. Sounder economic bases meant a wide supply of courses, sometimes ranging to university disciplines. Unlike their colleagues of primary school, teachers had relatively good salaries, and, consequently, good professional skills.

Region policy of the European Union seems to be one of the most important policy at the supranational level. While it represented only a negligible item on the european budget in the 80s, today it occupies, from the expenditure volume point of view, a second place already. During this dynamic period of time Cohesion policy has become an object of number of political but also special discussions, gained many favorers and opponents. With regard to the considerable amounts of money it has granted, it is worth of detailed attention. Italy has become the seond largest beneficiary from the Structural funds between 1989 an 2006. Its economy is characterised by a substantial geografic dualism where its Southern "periphery" has been struggling with continuous socio-economic difficulties. These regions have had a change to benefit from the generous Structural funds for a considerable period of time. This study tries to analyse the effectiveness of these financial resources, in other words, it considers empirical analysis of the marginal growth effects of these resources on the Southern Italian regions.

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This thesis sets out to probe the complex artistic contacts between Italy and Cyprus in the visual arts during the High and Late Middle Ages. The Introduction provides a critical review of the subject. Chapter I maps out the various types of links (with respect to trade, religion, warfare, art, culture) between Italy and Cyprus in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Chapters II and III examine the multifaceted artistic negotiations between southern Italy (mainly Apulia) and Cyprus in the thirteenth century, by closely examining a cluster of frescoes and panel paintings. Through a set of historical, cultural and artistic (stylistic and iconographic) approaches, these chapters aim to supersede the somewhat limited style-oriented analyses of previous contributions to this area of study. The hitherto unverified and convoluted relations between the two regions are revisited and affirmed within a new conceptual framework. Chapters IV and V investigate fourteenth-century cross-currents as seen in two cases that have formerly occupied a marginal position in discussions of intercultural exchanges between Italy and Cyprus. The first is the transplantation and manifestation of the cult of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Cyprus, and the second, the hybrid series of icons created by Italian painters working on the island. Both cases are appraised as a record of historical realities and not as the by-products of casual encounters. The thesis historicises these contacts and in doing so, contributes to a broader understanding of cultural transmission and convergence in the Medieval Mediterranean.