Del Popolo Research Articles

Travelling as Political Engagement Controvoglia: Alberto Moravia’s Voyages to China in 1937, 1967, and 1986

ABSTRACT Over a period of half a century, Alberto Moravia visited China three times, producing valuable travel accounts and completely different portrayals of the country, people, culture, and society. As a young reporter for Gazzetta del popolo in 1937, he narrated a dying civilisation facing internal wars and foreign interference. In 1967, he depicted the People’s Republic of China in the years of the Cultural Revolution and the so-called Maoist utopia. In 1986, Moravia produced a disillusioned account of post-Maoist industrial Chinese society. In this comparative study, I situate Alberto Moravia’s travels and his travel writings on China in the canonical production of knowledge on the country in relation to Italy’s intellectual background in three consecutive timeframes: 1930s, 1960s, and 1980s. I argue that Moravia’s travel narratives display a dialogue between the dominant rhetoric on China in each period and Moravia’s political engagement and worldview, themselves changing and evolving over time.

“Telling China’s story well”? Tifa, translation, and discursive power in the Quotidiano del Popolo

ABSTRACT Examining China’s growing efforts to affirm its ‘discoursive power’ (话语权) in the Euro-Mediterranean region, this paper presents a case study of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) communication of its ‘external publicity’ (对外宣传) via news translation. The study focuses on translation strategies of the Italian version (Quotidiano del Popolo) of the official Party newspaper 人民日报 to investigate the implications and effects of translation shifts involving tifa (提法, political formulations and fixed expressions). A qualitative textual analysis applied the Descriptive Translation three-stage methodology to a corpus of articles on the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with reference to ‘constraint’ and ‘relation’ in translation. Understatement, omission, and indirect translation were identified as translation shifts in the corpus, suggesting ideological tensions behind most such shifts. While the first two modes help downplay China’s geo-political ambition, the last results in ineffective translation that can obstruct the intended political message, hindering the ability to ‘tell China’s story well’ (讲好中国故事). This study seeks to elucidate the complexity and political intricacies of ‘correctly’ receiving and replicating the Chinese political message in a foreign language other than English.

MP71-14 SURGICAL TIMING IN PATIENTS WITH RETENTION/DYSURIA AFTER MID-URETHRAL SLING: A MODIFIED DELPHI CONSENSUS

You have accessJournal of UrologyCME1 Apr 2023MP71-14 SURGICAL TIMING IN PATIENTS WITH RETENTION/DYSURIA AFTER MID-URETHRAL SLING: A MODIFIED DELPHI CONSENSUS Cosimo De Nunzio, Riccardo Lombardo, Alberto Saracino, G. Lamberti, G. Di Rienzo, A. Giammo, G. Del popolo, F. Savoca, M. Spinelli, V. Mancini, G. Carrieri, and R. Carone Cosimo De NunzioCosimo De Nunzio More articles by this author , Riccardo LombardoRiccardo Lombardo More articles by this author , Alberto SaracinoAlberto Saracino More articles by this author , G. LambertiG. Lamberti More articles by this author , G. Di RienzoG. Di Rienzo More articles by this author , A. GiammoA. Giammo More articles by this author , G. Del popoloG. Del popolo More articles by this author , F. SavocaF. Savoca More articles by this author , M. SpinelliM. Spinelli More articles by this author , V. ManciniV. Mancini More articles by this author , G. CarrieriG. Carrieri More articles by this author , and R. CaroneR. Carone More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1097/JU.0000000000003339.14AboutAbstractPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail Abstract INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: To develop a modified Delphi consensus statement regarding the surgical timing in patients with retention/dysuria after mid-urethral sling. METHODS: A Systematic review of Pubmed, Embase and Scopus was performed to evaluate the available evidence on the best surgical timing in patients with retention/dysuria after mid-urethral sling. Overall, only 4 studies with poor evidence were identified, therefore a consensus statement was performed. Four rounds of Delphi were performed and final statements were submitted anonymously using Survey Monkey. All statements were voted on a 1 to 10 scale. In order to approve the statement consensus should be >80%. In case of a consensus between 60 and 80% the statement was discussed by all the members of the consensus and submitted again in a fourth round. RESULTS: Overall, four studies were identified evaluating the best surgical timing in patients with retention/dysuria after mid-urethral sling. No randomized clinical trials were retrieved, and the level of evidence was low. In the first round based on four expert opinion and on the evidence retrieved four statements were developed. On round two a group of ten experts discussed and modified the statements to avoid redundancy and improve readability before submitting it to the expert panel resulting in two final statements. On round three the statements (Table 1) were submitted to 40 experts which voted the statements. One statements needed a round four and reached consensus after discussion. Results of the consensus are written in table 1. CONCLUSIONS: The present consensus statement answers some unmet needs on the right timing of surgical treatment of retention/dysuria after MUS. The lack of evidence in this setting warrants well designed clinical trials to answer these questions. Source of Funding: No one Header Statement Agreement Round 3 Agreement Round 4 Early surgical treatment of urinary retention / dysuria after MUS should be preferred 85% Timing of surgical treatment of retention/dysuria after MUS depends on the severity of the urinary retention / dysuria 79% 90% © 2023 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 209Issue Supplement 4April 2023Page: e1020 Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 2023 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.MetricsAuthor Information Cosimo De Nunzio More articles by this author Riccardo Lombardo More articles by this author Alberto Saracino More articles by this author G. Lamberti More articles by this author G. Di Rienzo More articles by this author A. Giammo More articles by this author G. Del popolo More articles by this author F. Savoca More articles by this author M. Spinelli More articles by this author V. Mancini More articles by this author G. Carrieri More articles by this author R. Carone More articles by this author Expand All Advertisement Advertisement PDF downloadLoading ...

Effect of a high-precision semianalytical mass function on the merger rate of primordial black holes in dark matter halos

In this work, we study the effect of a high-precision semianalytical mass function on the merger rate of primordial black holes (PBHs) in dark matter halos. For this purpose, we first explain a theoretical framework for dark matter halo models and introduce relevant quantities such as the halo density profile, the concentration parameter, and a high-precision semianalytical function, namely Del Popolo (DP) mass function. In the following, we calculate the merger rate of PBHs in the framework of ellipsoidal-collapse dark matter halo models while considering the DP mass function, and compare it with our previous study for the Sheth-Tormen (ST) mass function. The results show that by taking the mass of PBHs as ${M}_{\mathrm{PBH}}=30{M}_{\ensuremath{\bigodot}}$, the DP mass function can potentially amplify the merger rate of PBHs. Moreover, we calculate the merger rate of PBHs for the DP mass function as a function of their mass and fraction and compare it with the black hole mergers recorded by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)-Virgo detectors during the latest observing run. Our findings show that the merger rate of PBHs will fall within the LIGO-Virgo band if ${f}_{\mathrm{PBH}}\ensuremath{\gtrsim}\mathcal{O}({10}^{\ensuremath{-}1})$. This implies that the DP mass function can be used to strengthen constraints on the fraction of PBHs.

Textile Painting by Cesare Tacchi

The work of the Italian artists of the Piazza del Popolo School is a unique period in the history of art of the 20th century. The activities of this association marked the birth of the Italian version of pop art. Despite the fact that the American and Italian pop movements existed in parallel and had similar external features, they were significantly different. These differences can be traced in the creativity of the members of the association. Cesare Tacchi was a member of this union. The path of this master represents an individual trajectory of artistic and conceptual development. One of the creative stages of Cesare Tacchi falls into the mid-sixties of the twentieth century. Experimental and innovative paintings of this time were created using industrially produced fabrics. Large-scale textile collages, in addition to being painted with enamel, pastels and felt-tip pens, also acquired a relief texture due to the furniture filler. Cesare Tacchi used a pick with nails or metal staples in accordance with the logic of the created image. That is why the artist ironically called himself “upholstery”, and called his textile collages “upholstery”. In them, we find images of artist’s friends, his own self-portraits or images made on the basis of photographs. The pattern, texture of the fabric and the softness of the emerging relief, together with the conceptual nature of the creative technique, made a great impression on the viewer and gave rise to new associations. Textiles simultaneously demonstrated the consumer culture of that time, turned from a subordinate material into a means of artistic expression, became an object of art and contributed to the emergence of a stream of new associative links, far from the consumer idea.

Militância política e cultura em Antonio Gramsci

Based on research into Antonio Gramsci’s writings, the following text has aimed to analyze the relationship between political militancy and culture. To do so, it identifies how the categories of culture and political militancy reveal themselves in texts published in the Avanti and Il grido del popolo journals, as well as in the socialist journal L’Ordine Nuovo, and how these responded to the political landscape of the time. Such an examination contextualizes the life and thoughts of Antonio Gramsci prior to his imprisonment in 1926 and reveals the presence of the culture category in conjunction with political militancy. Finally, the study points to how the writings emphasize culture alongside the construction of a workers’ state.

Non self-similar Luminosity–temperature relation and dynamical friction

Extending the results of a previous paper (Del Popolo et al., 2005), by taking into account the role of dynamical friction, we recovered the luminosity–temperature relation (LTR) . While by assuming self-similarity, a scaling law in which L ∝ T 2 is obtained, observations show that the relation between luminosity and temperature is steeper, L ∝ T ≃ 3 . This difference can be explained in terms of energy input by non-gravitational processes, like pre-heating, supernovae feedback, and heating from AGN. In this paper, we studied the LTR by means of a modified version of the punctuated equilibria model (Cavaliere et al., 1999), taking into account in addition dynamical friction, thus extending the approach found in Del Popolo et al. (2005). The result is a non-self-similar LTR with a bend at ≃ 2 keV, with a slope 2 . 76 ± 0 . 18 at larger energies and 3 . 4 ± 0 . 18 at energies smaller than 2 keV. This result is in agreement with the XXL survey (Giles et al., 2016). Moreover the steeper slopes at smaller energies is in agreement with some studies claiming a further steepening of the LTR at the low mass end. We also compared the results of our model with the 400d groups sample, finding that in groups the slope is slightly steeper than in clusters, namely 3 . 35 ± 0 . 3 , in agreement with the (Zou et al., 2016) study for the 400d groups sample, that gives a slope 3 . 29 ± 0 . 33 .

Abandoned places, complexes and parts of cities. Regeneration and enhancement of monumental hospitals in the historic centre of Naples

Even before Covid-19 although in the very center of the old town and historic center of Naples there were abandoned buildings and complexes, uninhabited and unused for decades. The cause is attributed to multiple reasons such as functional obsolescence, failure to adapt to intervening European standards in terms of hospital construction, technological facilities to standards, etc. The health crisis which strongly affected European societies revealed the fragilities of our healthcare systems. In Italy, a large number of COVID-19 patients congested hospitals while the continuity of essential services was interrupted at the expense of other needs. At the same time, the process of abandonment of historic buildings affects different monumental hospitals, such as the “San Giacomo degli Incurabili” and the “Carlo Forlanini” in Rome, or the “Gesù e Maria” Hospital, “San Gennaro dei Poveri” and the “Santa Maria del Popolo degli Incurabili” in Naples. This paper reports three case studies of Neapolitan historical hospitals regeneration proposals with the goal of strengthening the existing community healthcare system and developing energy efficiency and seismic improvement strategies in the spirit of sustainable development. Leveraging the flexibility of monumental hospitals, the proposed light retrofit interventions restore the historial healthcare functional destination ensuring also the reuse of such an heritage. The current research delineates an approach to the recovery and enhancement for social and cultural purposes of unused and abandoned historical hospitals. This approach can positively affect the quality of life of citizens and the use of health services, while recovering historical cultural heritage buildings.

Abandoned places, complexes and parts of cities. Regeneration and enhancement of monumental hospitals in the historic centre of Naples

Even before Covid-19 although in the very center of the old town and historic center of Naples there were abandoned buildings and complexes, uninhabited and unused for decades. The cause is attributed to multiple reasons such as functional obsolescence, failure to adapt to intervening European standards in terms of hospital construction, technological facilities to standards, etc. The health crisis which strongly affected European societies revealed the fragilities of our healthcare systems. In Italy, a large number of COVID-19 patients congested hospitals while the continuity of essential services was interrupted at the expense of other needs. At the same time, the process of abandonment of historic buildings affects different monumental hospitals, such as the “San Giacomo degli Incurabili” and the “Carlo Forlanini” in Rome, or the “Gesù e Maria” Hospital, “San Gennaro dei Poveri” and the “Santa Maria del Popolo degli Incurabili” in Naples. This paper reports three case studies of Neapolitan historical hospitals regeneration proposals with the goal of strengthening the existing community healthcare system and developing energy efficiency and seismic improvement strategies in the spirit of sustainable development. Leveraging the flexibility of monumental hospitals, the proposed light retrofit interventions restore the historial healthcare functional destination ensuring also the reuse of such an heritage. The current research delineates an approach to the recovery and enhancement for social and cultural purposes of unused and abandoned historical hospitals. This approach can positively affect the quality of life of citizens and the use of health services, while recovering historical cultural heritage buildings.

The Shoemaker and the Gibson Girl

The Shoemaker and the Gibson Girl

ІКОНИ БОГОРОДИЦІ У ПРОСТОРІ КУЛЬТУРНОЇ СПАДЩИНИ РИМУ

The images of the Mother of God in Italy represent a significant part of the cultural heritage of European and world sacred art and icon painting of various chronological periods and stylistic features. A special place in this dimension belongs to the icons of the Mother of God in Rome. Ever since the first centuries, images of the Virgin have been represented in the paintings of the Roman catacombs. The iconographic heritage of Rome represents different periods and a unique interweaving of styles. Over the centuries, ancient icons of the Mother of God have been kept in Rome, made both in the technique of encaustic, tempera, and later in oil painting. Many images of the Mother of God in Rome represent the original samples of the Byzantine style of icon painting of various origins and the works of masters of the Italian artistic environment at the intersection of Western and Eastern artistic styles. A significant number of these icons are crowned and have the status of miraculous. Some of the most ancient and famous icons of the Mother of God in Rome are «Salus Populi Romani», «Madonna del Conforto», «Madonna Avvocata», «Madonna della Clemenza», «Madre del Perpetuo Soccorso», «Santa Maria del Popolo», «Madonna della Catena», «La Madonna dei Martiri» and others. Common iconographic types are Hodegetria, Agiosoritissa, Kyriotissa, Galaktotrofusa, etc. Often, these icons have several Italian-language names, which must be considered when choosing methodological tools for historiographical analysis. The article provides a general overview of the heritage of the icons of the Mother of God in Rome based on the most famous of them. English-language and Italian-language historiography was analyzed to model further relevant research directions in developing this topic by modern specialists in an interdisciplinary context. It is emphasized that in the churches of Rome, there are still many less-known and less-researched icons of the Mother of God, particularly in terms of stylistic features and painting techniques. Their detailed study and analysis of sources can effectively fill this niche in historiography and become an interesting topic for modern interdisciplinary research in the field of history, icon painting, art, restoration, and cultural heritage, as well as the basis of original concepts for exhibitions, photo catalogs, new excursion routes, etc.

Paleopathological Approach to the Study of a Christian Relic

The Blessed Maria Lorenza Longo, founder of the hospital of Santa Maria del Popolo degli Incurabili and the Order of the Capuchin Poor Clares in Naples, Italy, died on 21 October 1539 and was recently beatified on 9 October 2021. The relic, a fully skeletonized cranium, underwent visual and radiological inspection. The biological profile supports the at¬tribution of female sex of the relic, whereas the age at death is estimated to be younger than that reported by historians. A paleopathological survey was conducted to evaluate the historical reports of poisoning or rheumatoid arthritis affecting Maria Longo. Given the limited skeletal data, it was not possible to confirm the presence of these claims. No obvious in¬dicators of dietary deficiencies were observed, and the tertiary syphilis hypothesized by textual sources was excluded. Postmortem alterations of the relic were clearly visible on the superior aspect of the cranium and testified to the worship of the relic.

Hvem var Olaf Malm? Er det levende modeller bak denne figuren i romanen Fra Piazza del Popolo av Vilhelm Bergsøe?

Based on the Nordic sculptor community in Rome around 1860, the article discusses candidatesthat served as inspiration for the fictional Olaf Malm from Telemark, the protagonist in thechapter “Malms historie” in Vilhelm Bergsøe’s key novel Fra Piazza del Popolo (1866). Some ofthe clues in the text are Malm’s sculptural works. A study of different sources and earlier researchtogether with the candidates’ personality, biography, and travel patterns point in a new directionand strengthen the probability of the Norwegian sculptor Hans Johnsen Budal as being the mainmodel, whereas some traits hint at the Danish sculptor Herman W. Bissen. The candidacy ofthe sculptor Olaf Glosimodt, which is established in Norway, however, is no longer credible.

Mario Ridolfi – Intorno a Palazzo Spada a Terni

In 1957 Mario Ridolfi drew up a variant to the Reconstruction Plan for Terni which involves the entire area of Corso del Popolo. From the land behind Palazzo Spada will emerge, over time, the Franconi Houses, the Pallotta Houses, the new facade of Palazzo Montani and the project for the New Municipal Offices Building. Constructions which will determine a new image of the city, composing together with it a single urban structure capable of taking on the renewed values that Terni needed.

The Relation Between Direct Social Action and Repoliticisation: The Case of the New Case del Popolo in South Italy

This contribution aims to analyse the political effects of direct social action through the case of Potere al Popolo, a young radical left movement born in Italy. The strategy of this movement is based on a network of Case del Popolo where activists participate in direct social action such as free legal advice, alternative cultural activities or food distribution. Focusing our research on South Italy, this form of collective action will be analysed through the concepts of the actionalist theory. This will allow us to understand to what extent these new Case del Popolo can act as hubs for repoliticisation. The data used in this article are based on a qualitative method including interviews in the sites under investigation, a participant observation and the analysis of the communication of the political movement.

Review: Emulating Antiquity: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo

Review: <i>Emulating Antiquity: Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo</i>

La cripta e l’ambone della cattedrale invernale di Santa Maria del Popolo di Pavia: alcune considerazioni sulla decorazione scolpita

The medieval portions of the double cathedral of Pavia, constituted by the basilicas of Santo Stefano and Santa Maria del Popolo, were demolished between the 19th and 20th centuries, saving only part of the Romanesque crypt of Santa Maria, the minor church. In addition to these few remains, many sculpted pieces are preserved in the local Civic Museums, but the exact original location of many of these is still to be clarified. With the help of the photographic material of the demolitions, it is possible to reconstruct the position of some of these objects, such as the carved decoration of the ambo of the crypt. The sculpted decoration of the crypt and presbytery of Santa Maria represents a coherent core within the construction of the cathedrals. The study of this group of sculptures can tell us much of the reconstruction of XI-XII of these buildings, one of the fundamental moments, as well as the most difficult to understand, of the most important season in the Romanesque architecture and sculpture of Pavia.

Rereading Diaspora

The contemporary diasporic experience is fragmented and contradictory, and the notion of ‘home’ increasingly blurry. In response to these moving circumstances, many diaspora and multiculturalism studies’ scholars have turned to the everyday, focussing on the local particularities of the diasporic experience. Using the Italo-Australian digital storytelling collection Racconti: La Voce del Popolo, this paper argues that, while crucial, the everyday experience of diaspora always needs to be read in relation to broader, dislocated contexts. Indeed, to draw on Grant Farred (2009), the experience of diaspora must be read both in relation to—but always ‘out of’—context. Reading diaspora in this way helps reveal aspects of diasporic life that have the potential to productively disrupt dominant assimilationist discourses of multiculturalism that continue to dominate. This kind of re-reading is pertinent in colonial nations like Australia, whose multiculturalism rhetoric continues to echo normative whiteness.

Turnaround radius in ΛCDM and dark matter cosmologies. II. The role of dynamical friction

This paper is an extension of the paper by Del Popolo et al. [Phys. Rev. D 101, 083505 (2020)] to take account of the effect of dynamical friction. We show how dynamical friction changes the threshold of collapse ${\ensuremath{\delta}}_{c}$ and the turnaround radius ${R}_{t}$. We numerically determine the relationship between the turnaround radius ${R}_{\mathrm{t}}$ and mass ${M}_{\mathrm{t}}$ in $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}\mathrm{CDM}$, dark energy scenarios, and an $f(R)$ modified gravity model. Dynamical friction gives rise to a ${R}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{\ensuremath{-}}{M}_{\mathrm{t}}$ relation differing from that of the standard spherical collapse. In particular, dynamical friction amplifies the effects of shear and vorticity already studied by Del Popolo et al. A comparison of the ${R}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{\ensuremath{-}}{M}_{\mathrm{t}}$ relationships for $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}\mathrm{CDM}$, dark energy, and modified gravity models shows that the ${R}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{\ensuremath{-}}{M}_{\mathrm{t}}$ relationship of $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Lambda}}\mathrm{CDM}$ is similar to that of the dark energy models, and small differences are seen when comparing with the $f(R)$ models. The effects of shear, rotation, and dynamical friction are particularly evident at galactic scales, giving rise to a difference between the ${R}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{\ensuremath{-}}{M}_{\mathrm{t}}$ relation of the standard spherical collapse of the order of $\ensuremath{\simeq}60%$. Finally, we show how the new values of the ${R}_{\mathrm{t}}\text{\ensuremath{-}}{M}_{\mathrm{t}}$ relation influence the constraints on the $w$ parameter of the equation of state.

On the Dark Matter Profile Mass Dependence

In this paper, we check the claim of dependence of the halo density profile on the ratio between stellar and halo mass. Namely, we want to continue the work done in a previous paper by Del Popolo (2015), to see to what extent the SN feedback scenario is able to describe the inner structure of galaxies, employing more sophisticated statistical tools than those indicated in the quoted paper. To this aim we compare the data of several samples to the prediction of hydrodynamic simulations. We show that the simulation results do not describe observations properly.