Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence by Mackenzie Finley

“…His works, especially The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954), were translated into numerous European languages, including Italian. Given the chance to speak directly with an Italian audience at Palermo, Tutuola elaborated on the elements of Yoruba culture that saturated his fiction. …”
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Recent Advances in Near-Field to Far-Field Transformation Techniques by Claudio Gennarelli, Amedeo Capozzoli, Lars J. Foged, Jeff Fordham, Daniël Janse van Rensburg

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Lattice Fluid Dynamics: Thirty-five Years Down the Road by Succi, Sauro

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Evaluation of nutrient loads conveyed to the deep subalpine lakes of Northern Italy through their main tributaries by Paolo Dezuanni, Paolo Dezuanni, Diego Copetti, Claudia Dresti, Nicolò Pella, Nicolò Pella, Fabio Buzzi, Andrea Fenocchi, Andrea Fenocchi

“…In this work, we focused on the main tributaries of the Italian DSLs, employing the observed time series of flowrate and nutrient concentrations to estimate the loading levels of nitrogen and phosphorus and their temporal evolution over a period ranging between 13 and 42 years according to data availability. …”
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Psychosocial risks within prison service by Giuseppe Ferrari

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Les premières sauvegardes de mosaïques antiques en France by Capucine Lemaître

“…But it also springs up in the fancy for italian archeological discoveries. The spreading of knowledge and techniques is carried out through oral exchanges and publications between antique dealers and erudition circles who are going to begin to be interested in vestiges on the french territory and try to ensure their safeguard. …”
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Faith – Reason: a Problematic Relationship? Theology as an Extension of Faith in Reason by Marcelo Javier Navarro Muñoz

“…From the perspective of Thomism of the Italian philosopher and by recalling the most urgent theological tasks for the third millennium as indicated in Fides et ratio, the author presents general guidelines for the circularity of faith and reason within the context of fundamental theology. …”
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Fin de régime et migrations en Libye.Les enseignements juridiques d’un pays en feu by Delphine Perrin

“…In relation to Europe, Libya skillfully turned migrants on its soil into a spectrum in transit against which the – already isolated – Italian outpost could not resist, while the reform of its immigration law plunged most of them into irregularity. …”
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Preoperative neck ultrasound combined with pathological data can significantly impact the outcome of medullary thyroid carcinoma by Maurilio Deandrea, Tommaso Piticchio, Alberto Mormile, Francesca Retta, Giovanni Canale, Alessandra Caracciolo, Lorenzo Daniele, Pierpaolo Trimboli

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Calves gastrointestinal nematodes and Eimeria prevalence and associated risk factors in dairy farms, southern Ethiopia by Maireg Hailu, Kassahun Asmare, Endrias Zewdu Gebremedhin, Vincenzo Di Marco Lo Presti, Maria Vitale, Desie Sheferaw

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