La dimensione regionale del teatro italiano: la sicilianità nazionale e l’alternativa pirandelliana

Il discorso nazionale sulla meridionalità diffonde attraverso il teatro verista un modello di sicilianità passionale e tradizionalista. Questo modello integra la sicilianità all’italianità ed è presentato come ‘essenziale’ attraverso la drammaturgia del vero. Utilizzando la ripetizione straniante di elementi strutturali del teatro verista Pirandello contesta l’immagine della Sicilia come luogo di passione e baluardo della tradizione.

The Poetics of Imitation in the Italian Theatre of the Renaissance

Scritti giovanili inediti

Minimal Departures: Narratives of Younger Female Mobility in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Italian Children’s Literature

Mobility narratives in late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century Italian literature for children reflect the dramatic conditions of vagrancy, abandonment and forced relocation, as well as the situation of child-labor exploitation and child trade through apprenticeship contracts. They also document experiences of mass emigration. In my essay I intend to: i) acknowledge that children’s conditions have been the object of an extensive multi-disciplinary debate in the 1800s and early 1900s; ii) briefly discuss the specifics of Italian children’s literature and the representation of young male mobility; iii) identify some recurring narrative patterns of female (im)mobility; iv) point to three specific narrative plots that relate the mobility of younger female characters to national-identity and national-development issues; v) analyze two of these narratives, Maria Messina’s Cenerella and Olga Visentini’s La zingarella e la principessina, which were written during or in the aftermath of World War I.

In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Literary and Social Contexts for Women’s Writing

Early Modern Habsburg Women: Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities

Contents: Introduction, Anne J. Cruz Part I Transnational and Transcultural Ties: 'Bella gerant alii': Laodamia's sisters/Habsburg brides: leaving home for the sake of the house, Joseph F. Patrouch Maria Maddalena, Archduchess of Austria and Grand Duchess of Florence: negotiating performance, traditions and taste, Maria Galli Stampino The three lives of Margherita of Savoy-Gonzaga, Duchess of Mantua and Vicereine of Portugal, Blythe Alice Raviola. Part II Epistolary and Spatial Power: 'Lord of my soul': the letters of Catalina Micaela, Duchess of Savoy, to her husband, Carlo Emanuele I, Magdalena S. Sanchez An illegitimate Habsburg: Sor Ana Dorotea de la Concepcion, Marquise of Austria, Vanessa de Cruz Medina From Castile to Burgundy: the evolution of the queens' households during the 16th century, Felix Labrador Arroyo. Part III Birthing Habsburgs: Giving birth at the Habsburg court: visual and material culture, Maria Cruz de Carlos Varona Habsburg motherhood: the power of Mariana of Austria, mother and regent for Carlos II of Spain, Silvia Z. Mitchell. Part IV Visual and Sartorial Politics: Mariana of Austria's portraits as ruler-governor and curadora by Juan Carreno de Miranda and Claudio Coello, Mercedes Llorente Isabel of Borbon's sartorial politics: from French princess to Habsburg regent, Laura Olivan Santaliestra The making and meaning of the monastic habit at Spanish Habsburg courts, Cordula van Wyhe Index.

Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe: The Iconography of Power

Central Venous Catheter-related Fungemia Caused by <I>Rhodotorula glutinis</I>

Bloodstream infection due to Rhodotorula glutinis is extremely rare and mostly associated with underlying immunosuppression or cancer. Vascular access devices provide the necessary surfaces for biofilm formation and are currently responsible for a significant percentage of human infections. In this work, we describe a rare case of central venous catheter-related Rhodotorula glutinis fungemia in a female patient with acute myelogenous leukemia in remission. The timely removal of central venous catheter was an essential element for overcoming this CVC-related Rhodotorula fungemia.

Long-term ustekinumab therapy of psoriasis in patients with coexisting rheumatoid arthritis and Sjögren syndrome. Report of two cases and review of literature.

Inteleukin (IL)12 and IL23 are two main cytokines involved in the pathogenesis of immune-mediated disease. IL12 is produced by macrophages and B lymphocytes and mediates differentiation of Th1 lymphocytes, while IL23 is a pro-inflammatory cytokine essential for the differentiation of Th17 cells. Ustekinumab is a human monoclonal antibody directed against the p40 protein subunit shared by IL12 and IL23, therefore it blocks the signal transmission of both cytokines.

Envelhecimento e os desafios à investigação e intervenção: processos de infoexclusão e infointervenção

Este trabalho e financiado por Fundos Nacionais atraves da FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia, no âmbito do projeto UID/CPO/00713/2013.