Thanks to the dialogue between the American photographer Paul Strand and Cesare Zavattini, who has been one of the most relevant exponent of Italian neorealism, in 1955 was published Un paese, first volume of the series «Italia mia» edited by Einaudi. Oscillating between the ‘shooting’ of landcapes, faces, objects and oral testimonies, the book recognize in Luzzara, the Zavattini’s hometown, a privileged observation point of rural culture «un attimo prima della sua completa scomparsa» (Russo,...

This article presents an English translation of an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, explaining the background to the play and its writer, the Congolese novelist and playwright, Sony Labou Tansi. Best known in the West for his novels, he wrote and directed several plays which were performed in France and the Republic of Congo. This play is an updated and racially aware version set in South Africa which focuses on the endless violence perpetuated by...

At Guardia Sanframondi(BN), every seven years, the Madonna Assunta is celebrated with a very complex religious ritual that “stages” the corporal mortification of penitents; the immobile bodies of the figures engaged in representing episodes taken from the Bible and from the biographies of the saints; religious songs, composed for the occasion, performed by the choirs of the four districts of the town. The entire traditional ritual, investigated and interpreted ethnographically, seems to constitute a sort...

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The word memory in the Delsartean writings can refer to two different phenomena. On the one hand, there is the individual memory, a sort of archive that man builds during his existence and that allows him to connect several data. On the other hand, the existence of a much higher Memory is assumed, whose nature is ancestral and celestial, and which is similar to the one conceived by Plato. Once we gain access to it,...

This essay critically examines the autobiography of Eduardo Scarpetta, problematizing the idea of the author’s memoir as an authentic confession. Analysing several declarations written by Scarpetta, the study shows how they do not constitute an accurate representation of reality. The main topics addressed in this paper are: the way Scarpetta claims his role as a playwright; the relationship with his son Vincenzo, who he designed as an heir to his theatre legacy; the conflict between...

Report of the Conference about the Mediterranean held at the University of Salerno in September 2017, involving scholars of several disciplines.

The question of forgiveness arose for Paul Ricoeur from the first moment of his phenomenology of the will. Isolating consciousness in order to describe its structure, especially that of its willing dimension (freedom), presupposes a distancing from the world, but also a distancing from evil. The precondition of this distancing is forgiveness. Forgiveness appears when consciousness is ready to reject the finitude that, of necessity, opposes itself to freedom: this ‘face’ of forgiveness, distinguished from...

La Società Salernitana di Storia Patria aderisce al progetto EleA e autorizza la pubblicazione del fascicolo

This paper discusses the manner in which modern spectator sports developed in Colombia in the decade of the 1920s as part of the country’s efforts to modernize. An examination of the dominant theories of the diffusion of European sports to the Latin American elites and eventually to the populace as a technique for social control is undertaken. Scant immigration into the country as well as high mortality rates for men and women resulting from civil...

Antonio Tabucchi gives many definitions of saudade, that from time to time show the peculiar and exclusive side of this entirely Portuguese feeling, that torments many writers since the kingdom of Duarte in the 15th century. The saudade has two fundamental psychological consequences: both the pleasure of delight and the pain. The manifestations of this complicated feeling, according to Tabucchi’s statements through his short stories and his critical essays, result to be basically two: the...

The essay has as its object of analysis of the Cesare Pavese’s anthology of poetry, entitled La terra e la morte and dedicated to Bianca Garufi. It is a complex and highly symbolic poetry, of which we try to provide possible further points of reading. It also pays attention to the symbolic dimension of female character, known theme in the writing of Pavese; interesting, in this regard, is a fascinating parallelism between Neruda and Pavese....

This study aims to investigate The Island (1973), a South African rewriting of the Sophocles’s Antigone. The drama was conceived by Athol Fugard, the most acclaimed contemporary South African playwright, assisted by John Kani and Winston Ntshona, two actors-activists, as well as the unique interpreters of the pièce. In Fugard’s play, the existential path of the young Theban heroine intersects itself with the circumstances of a story that really happened in full apartheid interregnum: the...

The study of morphosyntactic development in children has a long tradition in both first (L1) and second (L2) language acquisition theories and literatures. In particular, «researchers of child language acquisition have long noted that children pass through developmental stages of grammatical morphology with […] variable or optional production rates of morphosyntactic inflection» due to incomplete inflectional representations of features. In spite of the large number of studies on these issues, specific cross-linguistic research which could...

The paper deals with the famous passage by Tito Livio, Ab Urbe Condita 8. 18, concerning the terrible plague caused in 331 b.C. by some Roman matrons through the diffusion of poisons prepared by themselves.The episode testifies the role played by the Senate in the criminal repression, when it began to entrust to the consuls or the magistrates - assisted by a consilium of senators - the investigation and the punishment of particularly serious crimes....

The paper deals with the Games Theory in social and juridical fields and mainly in ADR, Alternative Dispute Resolution. The focus is the analysis of cooperative and non cooperative contexts, where the asymmetry of positions in the game affects the player's strategic behavior and there are no dominant strategies, as in the case of Nash equilibrium. In such cases it is up to collusive behavior or to bargaining to look for a possible point of...

La pubblicazione conservata in Archivio di Stato di Salerno è rilegata con Anno 1865