La tesi tratta delle circostanze della fondazione del convento dei frati Predicatori di Bergamo, che ebbe inizio attorno al 1220. Tale fondazione si inserisce in un ampio progetto di diffusione dell’Ordine dei Predicatori concepito dal cardinale Ugo d’Ostia in collaborazione con il fondatore Domenico di Caleruega. Ugo stesso nella sua seconda legazione apostolica in Lombardia pose le basi per la realizzazione di questo progetto. Il convento di Bergamo fu il primo ad essere fondato grazie alle relazioni che vi erano tra il vescovo locale Giovanni Tornielli e la sede apostolica e grazie anche alla presenza di Guala de Roniis, un frate Predicatore di origini bergamasche, anch’egli conosciuto dagli ambienti della curia papale. / This dissertation deals with the foundation of the convent of the Preacher Friars in Bergamo, which started around 1220. This foundation was part of an ample project to spread the Order of Preachers, drawn by Cardinal Hugh of Ostia in a joint effort with the founder Dominic of Caleruega. Hugh of Ostia himself laid the foundations of this project during his second apostolic legation in Lombardy. The convent of Bergamo was the first to be founded probably because of the friendship between the local bishop, Giovanni Tornielli and the Holy See, and also thanks to the presence of Guala de Roniis, a bergamask Preacher, who was known by the Roman Curia.

The pictorial elements of the first six books of the Aeneid can be evidenced through an examination of its structural components. With commentaries on such literary devices as parallels and antipodes, interwoven themes, cyclic patterns, and strategic placement of words in the text, three genres of painting are treated individually in Chapter 1 to illustrate the poet's consistency of design and to prove him a craftsman of the visual arts. In the first division, "Cinematic progression," attention is directed to the language which conveys movement and frequentative action, with special emphasis placed on specific passages whose verbal components possess sculptural or third-dimensional traits and contribute to the "spiral" and "circle" motifs, the appropriate visual agents for animation. Depiction of mythological subjects comprises the second division entitled "Cameos and snapshots." Three selections, dubbed monstra, are explicated with such cross references as to illustrate the poet's use of epithets which he distributes passim to elicit verbal echoes of other passages. The final division, "The Vergilian landscape," addresses two major themes, antithetical in nature, the martial and the pastoral. Their sequential juxtaposition in the text renders a marked contrast in mood which is manifested pictorially in the transition from darkness to light. A panoramic chiaroscuro emerges which is the tapestry against which Aeneas makes his sojourn through the Underworld. It is the perfect backdrop to accompany the overriding theme of "things hidden," res latentes, which encompasses a greater part of the epic and becomes the culminant motif of the paintings which comprise the visual presentation. Chapter 2 functions as a catalogue raisonne for art inspired by the Aeneid from early antiquity up to the present day. Such examples of artistic expression provide a continuum with which to appropriate Horace's maxim, ut pictura poesis, in their evaluation. The verbal exegeses in Chapter 1 have been programmed to comport with the thematic content of the visual presentation in Chapter 3, a critique exemplifying the transposition of the verbal to the pictorial. With these canvases I have attempted to render a new perspective of Vergil's epic in the genre of abstract expressionism. / Art / D. Litt. et Phil.

Depuis une vingtaine d’années, les historiens de l’art s’intéressent de près à la microarchitecture, c’est-à-dire la miniaturisation d’édifices dans les oeuvres d’art, en particulier dans l’orfèvrerie. Les études sur le sujet se concentrent toutefois essentiellement sur la période médiévale et s’attachent à définir dans quelle mesure ces oeuvres imitent des édifices existants. Elles sont rarement étendues à d’autres périodes. Or, la Renaissance florentine, marquée par une mutation profonde de l’art d’édifier et de concevoir l’architecture, constitue une fenêtre d’observation privilégiée, que nous mettons à profit pour explorer les liens que les édifices miniaturisés en orfèvrerie entretiennent avec leurs homologues monumentaux architecturés. Pour ce faire, nous identifions trois fonctions de la microarchitecture : celle d’objet ou de partie d’un objet (Objectum), celle d’assemblage d’éléments architecturaux (Ædiculum), celle d’image offerte au regard du spectateur (Imago). Dans Objectum, la microarchitecture est envisagée à travers la pièce d’orfèvrerie qu’elle contribue à orner, son contexte de fabrication et sa matérialité. Cet examen est aussi l’occasion de présenter les matériaux et les techniques utilisées en orfèvrerie. Ædiculum est consacré à l’étude des éléments architecturaux qui composent les petits édifices. Ces éléments mettent au jour des correspondances entre l’orfèvrerie et d’autres arts, tels que la sculpture ou la peinture. Dans Imago, nous montrons que les petites dimensions de la microarchitecture, qui la rendent propre à être embrassée du regard, en font une image qui engage un dialogue privilégié avec le spectateur grâce à un ensemble de dispositifs, qui vont de ses qualités esthétiques à sa capacité évocatrice en passant par les significations religieuses et politiques dont elle est chargée. Au total, cette étude montre que la microarchitecture ne se définit pas nécessairement dans son rapport avec la grande architecture mais consiste plutôt en un phénomène artistique indépendant et universel. / For the last twenty years art historians have developed an interest in microarchitecture: the miniaturization of architecture in works of art, especially in goldsmithery. Studies dedicated to the topic mostly focus on medieval period, trying to define which large-scale buildings these works might imitate. However, these studies are rarely extended to other periods of time. Renaissance Florence, characterized by a deep transformation of the art of architecture, is a significant period we chose in order to observe the connections between miniaturized and monumental buildings. This requires the identification of three aspects of microarchitecture: being an object or part of an object (Objectum), combining different architectural motives (Ædiculum) and presenting itself as an image to be seen by a viewer (Imago). With Objectum, we examine the microarchitecture in relation to the work it contributes to ornate as well as within its context of production. This inspection is also a relevant opportunity to present the materials and the techniques used by the goldsmiths. With Ædicula, we study the architectural motives that compose the miniaturized buildings. The motives show the similarities between goldsmithery and other arts like sculpture and painting. With Imago, we consider the dialog that microarchitecture establishes with the viewer thanks to several dispositives such as the æsthetic qualities of the pieces, their ability to evocated something familiar (a building) and, sometimes, their religious and political meanings. In total, this study argues that micorarchitecture does not necessarily define itself within its relationship to large-scale architecture but should rather be understood as an independent, universal artistic phenomenon.

The purpose of this thesis is to give an account of the comparable use of dissonance of Palestrina, Lassus, and Victoria through harmonic analysis and statistical comparison, illustrating the stylistic differences among the three composers works. The thesis does. not attempt to cover text setting, melodic construction, ranges, or aesthetic evaluation of composition other than that which pertains to dissonance. The analysis of dissonance was done with primary consideration being given to the vertical structure of the harmony, observing the linear structure only with relation to the approach and resolution of that dissonance.

Annotation: The presented work deals with the contemporary Salesian education on the background of pedagogical principles of the preventive system of Don Bosco, which was formulated as a response to concrete historical conditions of life and needs of young boys in Turine in the second half of the 19th century and was based on a personal experience of a young priest and tutor John Bosco. The goal of the work is to ascertain through an analysis of the contemporary Salesisan education and concrete activities of Czech Salesian Youth Centres, whether and in what extant the Salesian activities can be considered as a social pedagogical work. The work is divided into five parts. Part One is focused on the historical context of the origin of the Salesian movement, whereas Part Two on the preventive system, as was applied by Don Bosco in his work. Part three is dedicated to the contemporary Salesian education and Part Four describes the functions, methods and forms of work in Czech Salesian Youth Centres. In Part Five I examine through the analysis of the contemporary Salesian education and activities of selected Czech Salesian Youth Centres, whether and in which extant the Salesian activities reflect and fulfil social pedagogical aspects of youth work. Key words: Social pedagogical work; Bosco Giovanni; Salesians of...

Marcado por fortes tendências para o gênero ensaístico, num intercâmbio constante e instável entre Ficção, História e Experiência Pessoal, o presente estudo tem por base os romances Os Malavoglia (Giovanni Verga), Pai patrão (Gavino Ledda), Vita e Stória de Nanetto Pipetta (Aquiles Bernardi), O quatrilho, A cocanha e A babilônia (José Clemente Pozenato), Juliano Pavolini e A suavidade do vento (Cristovão Tezza), Mamma, son tanto felice, O mundo inimigo e Vista parcial da noite (Luiz Ruffato). O corte epistemológico pode ser representado por duas trajetórias: a) da Itália para a América – Brasil; b) das pequenas comunidades do interior para a cidade grande. No mundo de descendência italiana imigrante, as simulações e as ilusões elaboradas pela Ficção estão mais próximas da Realidade que aquelas proporcionadas por institutos e associações, em seus argumentos e artimanhas para “resgatar as raízes” e “cultivar as tradições”, representadas por eventos como noites italianas, jantares típicos, encontros de famílias e programas radiofônicos. Nos romances, a ausência desses “eventos” é absoluta; não há brindes, nem missas de encomendação e sepultamento. Ao fim e ao cabo, o homem do campo, pós-moderno, descendente dos antigos imigrantes italianos, tornou-se um ser globalizado sem sair de casa. / This study in the manner of an essay reflects a constant but unstable interchange between Fiction, History and Personal Experience. It is based on the following novels: Os Malavoglia (Giovanni Verga), Pai patrão (Gavino Ledda), Vita e Stória de Nanetto Pipetta (Aquiles Bernardi), O quatrilho, A cocanha and A babilônia (José Clemente Pozenato), Juliano Pavolini and A suavidade do vento (Cristovão Tezza), Mamma, son tanto felice, O mundo inimigo and Vista parcial da noite (Luiz Ruffato). Two epistemological paths have a point of departure and a point of arrival: a) from Italy to Brazil / America; b) from small backcountry communities to the big city. Among the descendants of italian immigrants the simulations and illusions processed by fiction are closer to reality than those offered by institutions and associations in their argueing and tricking for "retrieval of the roots" and "reclaiming traditions", embodied by events like italian evenings, typical dinners, family encounters, and radio programs. In the novels, there is an absolute absence of such "events", no glasses are raised in honor of anything, no requiem and inhumation masses are held. Post-modern countryside people of Italian descent in Brazil have become globalized without even leaving home.

Dans cette thèse, il s'agit d'observer les logiques de fonctionnement de la monarchie polycentrique des Habsbourg à travers l'exposition d'une étude de cas centrée sur Gênes. En 1528, emportée dans le giron du condotierri génois Andrea Doria, la seigneurerie de Gênes s'était affranchie de la domination du roi de France et avait intégré le système impérial des Habsbourg en tant que république indépendante et alliée. L'entretien du système politique, militaire et financier hispano-génois dut beaucoup aux liens entre les maisons Habsbourg et Doria. Si la figure d'Andrea Doria a été mise en valeur par une importante production historiographique, son petit neveu Giovanni Andre - qui fut pourtant capitaine général de la mer entre 1584 et 1602 - n'a pas encore été l'objet d'études abouties. Par l'observation de sa trajectoire individuelle, l'objectif est de créer un outil permettant de questionner le rôle et la figure de l'entrepreneur de la guerre dans la politique impérialiste des Habsbourg. En croisant les perspectives empiriques et micro-analytiques et en redimensionnant les échelles analytiques, l'enjeu est de comprendre la stratégie du roi qui consistait à confier des parcelles de pouvoir politique à des particuliers et d'observer comment certains génois en tiraient profit. Enfin, il s'agit de mesurer les conséquences que ce modus operandi eut sur la politique guerrière des Habsbourg en Méditerranée. Par ces questionnements, c'est l'incidence de l'intérêt privé dans la construction de la monarchie polycentrique qui est soulevé. / In this thesis, we study the articulation of the polycentric monarchy of the Habsburgs through the exposure of a case study centered on Genoa. In 1528, trained in the lap of the genoese condotierri Andrea Doria, Genoa was freed from the domination on the king of France and had integrated the Habsburg imperial system, as an independent and allied republic. The Hispano-Genoese political military and financial system owed much to the links between the Habsburg and Doria houses. If Andrea Doria was highlighted by an important historiographical production, his little nephew Giovanni Andrea, - who was admiral for the Spanish between 1584 and 1602 - has not yet been the object of completed studies. By observing his individual trajectory, the objective is to create a tool to question the role of the figure of the war contractor in the Habsburg imperialist policy. By crossing the empirical and micro-analytical perspectives, and resizing the analytical scales, the challenge is to understand the king's strategy of entrusting parcels of political power to individuals and to observe how Genoese took advantage of it. Finally, it is a question of measuring the consequences that this modus operandi had on the Habsburg war policy in the Mediterranean area. Through these questions it is the impact of the private interest in the construction of the polycentric monarchy that is raised.

La tesi prende in esame la figura di Giovanni Iacopo Dionisi (1734-1808), canonico della cattedrale di Verona e bibliotecario della Capitolare, noto come uno "degli uomini più benemeriti di questi studi danteschi, [...] nello scorcio del secolo passato, l’instauratore d’una critica nuova su le opere del poeta” (G. Carducci). Vengono per la prima volta analizzate a fondo, alla luce della critica dantesca successiva, gli otto "Aneddoti" e la "Preparazione istorica e critica alla nuova edizione di Dante Allighieri", opere ricche di spunti esegetici e notazioni testuali relativi alle opere dantesche. La tesi tratta anche dell'edizione bodoniana della "Commedia", pubblicata da Dionisi nel 1795, e delle polemiche di Dionisi con Baldassarre Lombardi, che nel 1791 aveva pubblicato un'edizione commentata del poema dantesco. Le risultanze dell’indagine dimostrano che il canonico veronese ha sciolto molti nodi testuali intricati, tanto che sono molte le lezioni proposte per la prima volta da Dionisi che si ritrovano anche nell’edizione Petrocchi della “Commedia” e Brambilla Ageno del “Convivio”, come risulta da una sinossi pubblicata in appendice. Nella stessa appendice vengono inoltre pubblicate sette lettere inedite di Dionisi a Bartolomeo Perazzini, parroco di Soave, anch’egli cultore di Dante, e stralci tratti da altre ventuno lettere fra i due, al fine di dimostrare quanto stretta fosse la collaborazione fra i due studiosi. / The thesis is about Giovanni Iacopo Dionisi (1734-1808), canon of Verona’s cathedral and librarian of the Biblioteca Capitolare, known as one “of the most well-deserving man of the Dante studies, […] at the end of the previous century, the beginner of a new criticism on the poet’s works” (G. Carducci). Dionisi’s books, i.e. the eight “Aneddoti”, the "Preparazione istorica e critica alla nuova edizione di Dante Allighieri" (full of exegetic and textual hints about Dante’s works), and his edition of Dante’s “Commedia” (published by Bodoni in 1795), are for the first time analysed with the point of view of modern Dante criticism. The controversy between Dionisi and Baldassarre Lombardi, editor of the “Commedia” in 1791, is taken in account as well. My thesis proves that Dionisi solved many difficult textual points in Dante’s works, so that many are the readings proposed by Dionisi you can find also in Petrocchi’s edition of the “Commedia” and in Brambilla Ageno’s edition of the “Convivio”, as is shown in a table in the thesis’ appendix, where the reader also finds seven unpublished Dionisi letters to Bartolomeo Perazzini, parish priest of Soave and fond of Dante, and twenty-one extracts from other letters between the two, that show how tight was the collaboration between the two scholars.

A fronte dell’ampia e varia tipologia di studi dedicati all’episodio del “beato” Simone da Trento (1475), emergeva la mancanza di informazioni riguardanti uno dei maggiori protagonisti della vicenda: il bresciano Giovanni Mattia Tiberino, autore della Passio beati Simonis tridentini, ovvero il testo che determinò la fortuna letteraria degli avvenimenti trentini. A lungo limitato al ruolo che svolse nella difesa della causa di Simonino, l’interesse nei confronti di questo personaggio non ha mai varcato il confine dell’erudizione locale, impedendo una ricostruzione esauriente della sua figura di uomo e d’intellettuale: questa tesi desidera definire meglio i lineamenti biografici e culturali del Tiberino, per mostrare le varie sfaccettature di questo complesso profilo di letterato e umanista, pur riconoscendo l’importanza che ebbe l’esperienza trentina per la sua formazione e affermazione come intellettuale. La tesi presenta tre capitoli: il primo si concentra sulla vita e le opere del Tiberino, delineando una biografia completa e documentata; il secondo comprende il censimento e la catalogazione di tutti i testimoni, manoscritti ed edizioni a stampa, delle opere dedicate a Simone da Trento, mostrando l’entità della loro diffusione e le modalità di circolazione; il terzo è dedicato all’edizione della Passio, corredato di un apparato delle fonti ed un commento. / Considering the wide and various kinds of studies dedicated to the case of the “blessed” Simone from Trento (1475), it stood out the lack of information about one of the most important actors of this story: Giovanni Mattia Tiberino from Brescia, author of the “Passio beati Simonis tridentini”, that is the text which established the literary success of these events. For a long time the only interest for this character was related to his role in defence of Simonino’s case, and this interest never crossed the borders of local erudition; in this way it was not possible to have a full image of his figure as a man and as a scholar. This thesis aims to define better his biographical and cultural outlines, in order to show all the different faces of his complex profile as a man of letters and scholar. This thesis is composed by three chapters: the first one is about Tiberino’s life and works, and it outlines a complete and documented biography. The second one comprehends census and cataloguing of all attestations, manuscripts and printed editions of works related to Simone from Trento; it also shows the extent of their spreading and the manners of their circulation. The third is dedicate to the Passio’s edition, with enclosed an critical apparatus and a commentary.

La présente thèse, intitulée « De chaînes en trames: histoire nationale et vie privée dans le roman naturaliste et vériste », traite des liens d'ordre métaphorique et symbolique par lesquels la mise en scène de l'espace familial et du corps exprime la dynamique sociopolitique dans Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-1893) d'Émile Zola, I Vinti (1881-1889) de Giovanni Verga, I Viceré (1894) de Federico De Roberto et I vecchi e i giovani (1913) de Luigi Pirandello. À la jonction d'un certain nombre d'articles et d'essais critiques ayant interrogé, depuis le début des années 2000, l'écriture de la sphère domestique et de la « mécanique » biologique humaine dans le roman français et italien du long XlXe siècle, l'analyse comparatiste effectuée aborde divers motifs et figures du privé et de l'intime à l'intérieur des oeuvres à l'examen. Elle embrasse, plus particulièrement, quatre avenues de recherche principales, soit: 1) la dynamique intergénérationnelle et les rituels sociaux se déployant dans l'enceinte du logis ouvrier, de la casa patrimoniale, de l'hôtel bourgeois ou du palazzo aristocratique; 2) le mode d'inscription narrative du « personnage-mémoire » et des actants féminins, qui, dans les fictions envisagées, laissent entrevoir le sens de la fiumana deI progresso [du « fleuve du progrès »]; 3) la description des édifices et des espaces privés, qui gardent la trace de l'évolution des clans et de la mouvance des « strates » sociales; 4) enfin, le caractère expressionniste des pathologies, des dégénérescences physiques et des décès qui, à l'intérieur des récits considérés, renvoient l'image des « convulsions » historiques nationales. Privilégiant une approche avant tout sociohistorique et thématique, la réflexion critique entreprise s'appuie, notamment, sur les développements de Michelle Perrot, Marzio Barbagli et Michela De Giorgio sur la vie privée, la famille et la condition féminine en Europe et, notamment, en France et en Italie au XlXe siècle. Elle met également à profit des éléments de rhétorique et des concepts psychanalytiques lors même qu'elle adopte, ponctuellement, la méthode ethnocritique d'appréhension du texte romanesque, qui permet de déceler la marque de traditions populaires tels le carnaval et le charivari dans la structure dramatique des narrations à l'étude. Les conclusions dégagées en fin de parcours analytique s'accordent pour prouver que les intrigues du corpus, nourries de sujets historiques plus ou moins contemporains de l'époque de leur genèse -soit le Second Empire (1852-1870) en France de même que l'avant et l'après fondation du royaume d'Italie (1861) -, déploient un imaginaire littéraire associant intimement histoire sociopolitique et chronique familiale. Plusieurs facteurs sociaux majeurs, desquels on citera les révolutions française et darwinienne, l'ébranlement de l'idée de transcendance, la mutation des visées de l' histoire et l'essor de sciences humaines comme la sociologie et l'anthropologie, expliquent, en effet, que les auteurs à l'étude ait révélé, au travers de la dynamique des corps et de l'évolution des clans, la physionomie différenciée de leur époque. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Naturalisme, Vérisme, Émile Zola, Giovanni Verga, Federico De Roberto, Luigi Pirandello, Littérature, XIXe siècle, Vie privée, Histoire, Politique, Société, Corps, Représentation.