La Montagne et la Manière Noire by Maurice Levy

“…The Via Mala and the "Devil’s Bridge" could be seen as graphic interpretations of certain scenes in The Italian or in Lewis’s Monk. The mezzotint technique, based on the progressive introduction of light on a copper plate which has been uniformly blackened, can be seen as a powerful metaphor of Gothic writing, because of its insistence on the dark side of people and nature, on "mountain gloom" and "mountain glory"…”
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Les formes de régulation de l’activité des élèves by Pier Carlo Bocchi

“…The study is conducted in 2 classes of primary school in the Italian part of Switzerland. In reference to the notion of pattern given by Gerard Vergnaud, we’ll show how the teacher can, during the interaction, promote adjustment leading to the success (pragmatic regulation) rather than adjustment for understanding (epistemic regulation) that implies an interaction focused on the production of conceptualizations. …”
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L’école, de la transmission de la mémoire nationale au lieu de mémoire : le cas espagnol en perspective comparée by Maitane Ostolaza

“…To better understand these relationships, the Spanish case is analyzed in a comparative frame, putting it especially in relation with the republican French model, but taking also into account other South European contexts, such as the Italian, without forgetting the regional identities, like those developed in Catalonia or the Basque Country. …”
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Des œuvres en morceaux et des trous sur les murs. La difficulté d’écrire la vie des œuvres du Pérugin au XIXe siècle by Éloïse Dumas

“…Once in France, the paintings were dispersed to provincial museums, and the curators of the Italian States gave up on recovering them in 1816, concentrating on those in the Louvre. …”
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Gli strumenti di pianificazione territoriale in relazione alla funzionalità dell’agricoltura periurbana by Giulia Giacchè, Chiara Mazzocchi

“…The paper analyses the urban-planning instruments of two Italian regions (Lombardy and Lazio), characterized by wide agricultural areas and important metropolitan areas, as Milan in Lombardy and Rome in Lazio, highlighting the “image” of periurban agriculture, which emerges from these plans. …”
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À propos d’une production céramique indigène dite matt-painted dans le cadre de l’Italie méridionale protohistorique by Clément Bellamy

“…This will allow us to refine the reading grid of Italian protohistory, and to grasp more precisely the identity strategies of these local elites within the Mediterranean world.…”
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La Mostra internazionale francescana ad Assisi del 1927 by Alessandro Paolo Lena

“…At the same time, as part of the centenary celebrations, the exhibition bore significant political significance in the framework of Fascist ideology’s efforts to promote the veneration of Francis of Assisi in order to convey and celebrate the myth of Italian nationality through the figure of the saint.…”
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Pecorino romano : les transformations d’un produit d’origine protégée au cours des xixe et xxe siècles by Rita d’Errico

“…Although its name refers to the Roman countryside, the region of Lazio from which it comes, Pecorino romano –the most exported Italian cheese until the late 20th century– is currently produced mainly in Sardinia, while that produced in Lazio is increasingly marginal and risks disappearing from the market. …”
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Les formes de la concurrence autour de l’orgue italien de la Renaissance by Hugo Perina

“…Political and spiritual, the sound of the instrument is supposed to promote the unity of society (concord) and to participate in the policy of magnificence of the various powers active in the Italian cities of the Renaissance.…”
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Franc Jeza v Trstu by Ivo Jevnikar

“…The paper discusses his life from his escape to Italy in the autumn of 1948 to his death in Trieste on January 20, 1984. Jeza was not an Italian citizen and had no full-time job, so it was hard for him to make a living, especially as a freelance associate of Radio Trst A and the Novi list weekly; he did outstanding journalistic work as an editor, critic, chronicler, translator, as well as original literary author. …”
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Édition et nicodémisme dans l’Italie du xvie siècle by Dominique Fratani

“…Following the Reformation, the Catholic church exercised severe repression against suspected heretics in the Italian peninsular. The Waldensians, the « Spirituels », plus Evangelists and Catholic Reformers could make their views known through the emergence of epistolary compilations. …”
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When ‘Law’ Rhymes with ‘Flaw’: the Sounds of British Justice in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury (1875) by Joël Richard

“…Their already clever play on tessitura, the many echoes of grand Italian opera tunes and their attempt at rendering the comical and ludicrous atmosphere of the courtroom all coalesced to make Trial by Jury a key example of how both their witty words and catchy notes were—back then and are still now—heard as truly British.…”
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Contrastive Markers in Contrast by Maria Josep Cuenca, Sorina Postolea, Jacqueline Visconti

“…In this paper, the main contrastive markers of Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Romanian will be classified and compared as for form, lexical base (or source) and meaning, with the aim of providing a cross-linguistic description of the way in which this class of discourse relations is signaled in these four different Romance languages. …”
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La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien by Liliane Lascoux

“…With Rossini’s La Donna Del Lago (1819), Walter Scott makes his entrance on the stage of Italian opera. His melodramma adapts Scott’s long poem The Lady of the Lake (1810), a true Scottish epic that describes King James V’s rivalry with both Borderers and Highlanders. …”
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Ipse vidit: fotografia antropologica ottocentesca e possesso del mondo by Alberto Baldi

“…In Italian and foreign anthropological research with a positivist imprinting, photography is conceived as a device to make up for the documenting limitations of language: it is understood that nothing better than the image made scientifically “credible” by the optic and mechanic instrument that creates it can faithfully reproduce the analyzed human gatherings. …”
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Biais de genre dans la reconnaissance des maladies professionnelles : l’exemple des troubles musculosquelettiques (TMS) en Italie et en Suisse by Isabelle Probst, Silvana Salerno

“…Statistics of the Swiss and Italian occupational health insurance systems. Results. …”
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Predator responses to artificial aposematic and cryptic colouration in terrestrial isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea) by Lenka Skočková, Barbora Ďurajková, Ivan Hadrián Tuf

“…The common rough woodlice (Porcellio scaber) were used as a model species of terrestrial isopods and the Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus) as a predatory species. …”
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A Population Where Men Live As Long As Women: Villagrande Strisaili, Sardinia by Michel Poulain, Gianni Pes, Luisa Salaris

“…The exceptional survival of men compared to women emerges from the comparison with similar Italian data. Age exaggeration for men has been strictly excluded as a result of the age validation procedure. …”
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The Sexed or Unsexed Voice on the Lyrical Stage in 18th-c. London by Pierre Dubois

“…It is not the least of paradoxes that the castrati that performed in Italian opera both in Italy in the 17th century and on the London stage after the Restoration should have acted the parts of manly seducers, mighty kings or warriors in spite of their high-pitched, ‘feminine’ voices.  …”
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Le corps en Asie vu par Marco Polo by Dominique Boutet

“…After having examined in the encyclopedias, strongly marked by Pliny, the expectations of the Franco-Italian public of the beginning of the 14th century, we address the issue of physical otherness in the Devisement (for men and for their gods), emphasizing the importance of the destruction of the myths or at least of their decrease. …”
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