The Italian political crisis of 1992-94, often referred to as Tangentopoli, emerged after the revelation of endemic corruption throughout the political system. First and foremost the crisis saw the collapse of the main political parties, the Christian Democracy and the Socialist Party. In a different manner and only one year prior to this crisis, the former Communist Party, also underwent major changes and evolved into a social democratic party, the Democratic Party of the Left. Though this crisis was sparked by a corruption revelation, it became a catalyst for a change in the deformities of a political system, of the partitocracy, which was itself the product of Cold War conditions faced by Italy in the post-war period. The focus of this study has been to re-evaluate the causes of this crisis with particular attention to the role of the Cold War as the over-arching influence which directly and indirectly influenced many of the internal dynamics of the Italian political process. The hypothesis of this research was that the end of the Cold War in 1991 as a factor which provoked this political crisis, was far more important as a cause than has hitherto been acknowledged. The study examines the other indicated possible causes including the impact of the corruption revelations, the role of the magistrates in uncovering corruption, the economic crisis, the role of the new protest movement of the Lega Nord and finally the especially brutal equilibrium with Italian political forces re-established by the Mafia after 1992.

This thesis is a comprehensive assessment of the life and work of the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello (c. 1397- 1475). It employs an interdisciplinary methodology combining the examination of archival evidence of the artist’s personal, social and professional lives, the scientific examination of his artworks, the interpretation of his iconography based on the contexts his works were made for, and an approach to attributions based on documentary, stylistic and technical evidence rather than tradition. Unpublished documents presented here shed new light on Uccello’s family and early career, underlining the importance of his extended family as a point of contact between the artist and the networks of patronage in and around Florence. New scientific analyses of three works conducted for this study, including infrared reflectography, X-radiography and microsampling, reveal the sophistication of Uccello’s technique and help to clarify the chronology of his works. New interpretations of Uccello’s works proposed here, relating in particular to his use of perspective, address the significance of their contexts, highlighting the subtlety and specificity of Uccello’s imagery. / The catalogue raisonne is the most extensive survey of works attributed to Uccello to date, and presents unpublished documents for the provenances of two works attributed to Uccello. Contrary to the image of Uccello as an isolated and eccentric figure commonly encountered in the art historical literature since Vasari’s sixteenth-century biography of the artist, Uccello emerges from a detailed study of the documentary and physical evidence as an artist of his time, involved in Florentine society, religion and commerce, and an innovative artist, a creator of unforgettable images who was admired by his peers and subsequent generations of artists, ensuring his place as one of the protagonists in the field of early Renaissance art.

Doctor of Philosophy / This thesis analyses language shift in a Sicilian-Australian family, from the parents' use of three languages: Sicilian, Italian and English, to the children's almost exclusive use of English.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-369).

Freie Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2004.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1985. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-257). Also issued in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed November 14, 2007). Advisor: Gustav Medicus. Keywords: Carpaccio; Vittore Carpaccio; Hunting on the Lagoon; Two Venetian Ladies; Social Studies, Venice; Renaissance, Venice; Material Culture, Venice; Gender Studies, Venice; Furniture, Venice; Domestic, Venice; Women's Fashion, Venice; Letter Rack; Venetian Soceity. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-75).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 1898. / Bibliography: 1 p. following p. 33.

Thesis (Revise). / Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-348).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1998. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-311).