Gina Pane and Krzysztof Jung: Queer Love in European Performance Art of the 1970s by Paweł LESZKOWICZ

“…This essay examines how performance art and counterculture in the 1970s opened up the possibility for two queer action/body artists to express an alternative vision of love in its plurality. The French-Italian lesbian artist Gina Pane and the Polish gay artist Krzysztof Jung performed same-sex love, pleasure, and suffering on both sides of the Iron Curtain in Cold War Europe. …”
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Sexual Masochism Disorder with Asphyxiophilia: A Deadly yet Underrecognized Disease by Anna Coluccia, Mario Gabbrielli, Giacomo Gualtieri, Fabio Ferretti, Andrea Pozza, Andrea Fagiolini

“…Episodes of death caused by autoerotic asphyxia seem to be underestimated because it often can be confounded with suicide cases, particularly in the Italian context where family members of the victim often try to disguise autoerotic behaviors of the victims. …”
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Structural Improvements for Tall Buildings under Wind Loads: Comparative Study by Nicola Longarini, Luigi Cabras, Marco Zucca, Suvash Chapain, Aly Mousaad Aly

“…The results from both approaches are compared with those obtained from Eurocode 1 and the Italian design codes, emphasizing the need to further deepen the understanding of problems related to wind actions on such type of structure with high geometrical slenderness. …”
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From the Small Screen to the Big Screen: The Super8's Distribution of Sandokan TV series by Nicole Braida

“…The film is Sandokan, an Italian miniseries from 1976 directed by Sergio Sollima and starring the Indian actor Kabir Bedi as the exotic protagonist of Salgari’s famous adventure. …”
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PERIPHRASTIC CONSTRUCTIONS WITH THE VERB IMET’ (TO HAVE) AND THE PASSIVE PARTICIPLE IN PYOTR TOLSTOY’S TRANSLATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE by Tatiana V. Pentkovskaia

“…They are noted to appear in certain cases instead of the forms of passato prossimo and trapassato prossimo of the Italian version of this text. First of all, they are used in a meta-text function when referring to the above mentioned or to someone’s words. …”
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State and Fate of Glaciers in the Val Veny (Mont-Blanc Range, Italy): Contribution of Optical Satellite Products by Antoine Rabatel, Etienne Ducasse, Victor Ramseyer, Romain Millan

“…The glaciers of the Val Veny (Italian side of the Mont-Blanc Massif) have been the site of numerous field observations during the last decades, in particular for the study of glacial fluctuations or surface processes related to the debris cover. …”
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Les sonnets de Shakespeare revus et corrigés par le XIXe siècle français by Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine

“…Prose was used as a Romantic gesture of defiance against the established rules (Amédée Pichot, 1821 and François-René de Chateaubriand, 1836); but verse was also used, although the original pattern was discarded in favour of the Italian or French one (i.e. two quatrains and two tercets), and the lines were alexandrines (Léon de Wailly, 1834 and Ernest Lafond, 1856). …”
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Un' autobiografia dell’editoria italiana by Giovanni Solimine

“…Da questo osservatorio privilegiato ricostruisce atmosfere e aneddoti e fornisce una grande quantità di dati e informazioni sulle vicende che hanno caratterizzato la vita delle principali case editrici italiane, allargando la riflessione allo sviluppo della società italiana nel suo complesso. …”
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A Review of Three Simple Plant Models and Corresponding Statistical Tools for Basic Research in Homeopathy by Lucietta Betti, Grazia Trebbi, Michela Zurla, Daniele Nani, Maurizio Peruzzi, Maurizio Brizzi

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UNE PERSPECTIVE SÉMANTIQUE INTÉGRALISTE SUR L’INTERFÉRENCE TEXTE-MUSIQUE DANS LE CAS DU THÉÂTRE MUSICAL by Mirona BENCE-MUK

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INSEGNARE LA LINGUA ITALIANA ATTRAVERSO IL CINEMA: UNA PROPOSTA DIDATTICA DEL FILM “LA GRANDE BELLEZZA” DI PAOLO SORRENTINO by Paola Santarsiere

“…Infine, nella terza parte si mostrano vari esempi delle attività proposte all’interno del “Quaderno di cinema”, commentate da riflessioni metodologiche.  Teaching Italian language through cinema: a didactic proposal of the film La grande bellezza by Paolo Sorrentino This article aims to investigate the potential of audiovisual devices in glottodidactics and to present the didactic proposal of the film La grande bellezza by Paolo Sorrentino. …”
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Greta Garbo and the Stock Cube: Film-themed Sweepstakes with Commercial Purposes in the Years of Fascism by Mariapia Comand

“…From this starting point, it examines the relationships between the media industry, the broader industrial sector, the bureaucratic apparatus, political power, and legislative authority, when the international dominance of Hollywood overshadowed the Italian market. The article considers ephemera as a complex discursive system in which the relationships and tensions between different and sometimes competing subjects and interests can be revealed. …”
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The (Draft) European Charter of the Commons – Between Opportunities and Challenges by Anna Simonati

“…In such perspective, a brief reference to the Italian legal system is made. In Italy, there are no systemic rules about the commons, but some procedures to involve the interested local communities in the strategic choices have been experimented, which can serve as an illustration also for other EU countries. …”
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Secret Language of Dante and “fedeli d`amore” by Imani Mansub Basir

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Pre-Planning in Piedmont Areas: the Strategic Plan “Pinerolese Yard: Towards a Plain-Mountain Network” of the Pinerolese Homogeneous Zone (Piedmont, Italy) by Maria Anna Bertolino

“…This paper is about city-mountain relationship as pointed out in a pre-planning work done by the Pinerolese Homogeneous Zone of the Metropolitan City of Turin (Western Italian Alps) and supported by the “Call for technical assistance for the elaboration of local territorial development strategies” of the program “Turin and the Alps” from the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation (Turin). …”
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Neo-Latin Studies in Catalonia (ca. 1830–ca. 1960) by Alejandro Coroleu

“…This interest has an important precedent in the period from 1830 to 1960, when several studies on Catalan Neo-Latin were produced and a considerable numer of Catalan versions of local, Italian and northern European Neo-Latin poets and prose writers were published. …”
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Habitat suitability mapping and landscape connectivity analysis to predict African swine fever spread in wild boar populations: A focus on Northern Italy. by Giulia Faustini, Marie Soret, Alexandre Defossez, Jaime Bosch, Annamaria Conte, Annelise Tran

“…Thereafter, numerous positive wild boars were identified, indicating an expanding wild epidemic, severely threatening Italian pig farming and trade. This study focused on the mapping of the suitable habitats for wild boars and their potential dispersal corridors in Northern Italy, using species distribution models and landscape connectivity analysis. …”
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International mobility programmes, European identity, and the satisfaction with EU policies by Tartaglia Stefano, Inserra Chiara

“…The data of the present study were collected on a sample of 516 Italian university students (62.8% females; mean age 22.7, SD=1.63) through a self-report survey online. …”
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Speranza i Mickiewicz by Katarzyna Gmerek

“…Lady Wilde very likely wrote her own version of the poems that she had found either in English, French or Italian. A hypothesis is suggested that she used a translation from Pushkin, who published Mickiewicz’s poems in Russia without credits to the Polish author because of censorship. …”
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The role of strategic learning skills in the dropout from sport in adolescence by Carla Consoni

“…Sampling included 2,391 Italian and Spanish upper secondary students aged 14-18 years. …”
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