Giornale Research Articles

«Произведение большого дыхания…»: М. Горький о романе «Жизнь Клима Самгина» в интервью итальянской прессе (1926–1928)

The complex creative history of M. Gorky’s novel “The Life of Klim Samgin” is characterized by the constant development of his original idea, which was the result of a writer’s deep artistic and philosophical understanding of the changing sociohistorical context. This process took place in parallel with Gorky’s work on the novel. During his stay in Sorrento, Gorky gave several interviews to the Italian press (in 1926, 1927 and 1928), which were devoted to the writer’s work on “The Life of Klim Samgin”. These are the following interviews: the interview “Maxim Gorky and his new novel “Researcherˮ for newspaper Il Mezzogiorno on March 23–24, 1926; the interview “Gorky’s new novel” — to Corriere della Sera on January 29, 1927, reprinted by Il Giornale d’Italia on January 30, 1927 under the title “Gorky writes a great historical novel in Sorrento”; the interview “At Maxim Gorky’s Sorrento asylum. A conversation with the writer about his new novel “Forty Yearsˮ — to the newspaper Il Messaggerо on June 5, 1927 (its summary was published by Corriere della Sera on June 6, 1927); the interview “Maxim Gorky’s sixtieth birthday” — to the newspaper Il Messaggero on March 30, 1928. During these three years, the writer created the first (winter 1924–1925 or spring 1925 — the end of June 1926) and the second (summer 1926 — the end of February 1928) parts of the “Life of Klim Samgin”. The writer’s interviews reflected the gradual clarification of the time, setting and the scope of the novel, its title, volume and structure, the psychological type and the occupation of the main character.

Adherence to journalistic standards in coverage of religious issues in Ukrainian and Italian media

This article aimed to investigate the adherence to professional standards by the Ukrainian and Italian media in covering the conflict around the UOC MP (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate) during the war in Ukraine. Thanks to the method of scientific literature analysis, Ukrainian scholars’ views on professional journalistic standards and their observance in the media were clarified. With the help of the media monitoring method, we found 97 publications covering the conflict around UOC MP. The content analysis method determined the subject of the relevant publications and the presence of Russian propaganda narratives in them. Quantitative and qualitative adherence indicators to professional standards were also determined using the content analysis method, and the context mentioning the OCU and UOC MP activities was clarified. The main results and conclusions of the study: most of Italian media had a neutral attitude to the conflict, some media ignored it, there were also those openly promoting Russian narratives and even sometimes containing hate speech (Il Giornale) and reacted sharply to the fact of the searches and the statement of Volodymyr Zelenskyi about the banning of the UOC MP (Avvenire). Despite occasional standards violations, Ukrainian media covered the events objectively and in a balanced manner, without inciting enmity towards UOC MP.

Review: Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy

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Rock With Lots Of Holes

We perceive our surroundings differently when fully engaged with them. Interactions with spaces begin to define our experience of the world. This research is a modern story of matter and philosophy, investigating the rock Scoria to produce a series of public architectural spaces that uniquely engage with the beholder. By taking part in the Material Imaginaries Research Collective - AUT Spatial Design department - I ask the following: 'What is our world made of? How might an expanded sense of 'material' and a focus on meaning, provenance, story, and performance recast how we make space?' With an imaginary read on the rock Scoria, the research explores both abstract and tangible ways to unfold a narrative of matter. Engaging with geographical, cultural, and social aspects that define the scoriaceous element and its connection to the “Tamaki Makaurau Volcanic landscape” (Tūpuna Maunga Authority). The exploration of Scoria's materiality becomes the driving aspect of the study, bridging learning and processes into practice-led research to uncover the existing history of the volcanic rock, challenging conventional methods and developing Le Mappe Del Mondo, Lavoro Manuale, and Il Giornale as a creative alternative to organize the various tools and techniques that shape the creative practice. The choice to incorporate Italian terminology becomes a playful way to acknowledge my background through the research. The project wishes to provide a set of interventions that engage with the geographical heritage features of Tāmaki Makarau in shaping a collection of public gathering spaces that activate unfurnished and unutilized areas around the territory. By celebrating the Tūpuna Maunga to showcase the heritage values associated with preserving those sites and considering the broader landscape's role in supporting our growth as a society. By providing a range of public spaces for the collective, such as gatherings and recreation, the designer considers all the components to ensure “sustainable” (Project for Public Spaces) city life engagement.

Guilt by association? The criminalisation of sea rescue NGOs in Italian media

ABSTRACT The non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rescuing migrants off the coast of Libya have been increasingly criminalised. We investigate the discursive underpinnings of this process by analyzing all the articles on sea rescue NGOs published between 2014 and 2019 by two major Italian newspapers located at opposite sides of the political spectrum: Il Giornale and La Repubblica. Our discourse analysis shows that the media salience of non-governmental sea rescue increased enormously following the first public allegations against humanitarians and peaked in 2019 after some standoffs between some NGOs and the Italian government, when the number of migrants rescued at sea had already dropped to a minimum. This inflated and heavily politicised media coverage contains both direct and indirect criminalisation discourses. Though sometimes directly accused of colluding with human smugglers and profiting from irregular migration, sea rescue NGOs have more often been indirectly criminalised through the same framing devices typically used to stigmatise irregular mobility at large, namely associational links, metaphors, frame-jacking, and othering.

Media views of the Stromboli 2002\u20132003 eruption and evacuation: a content analysis to understand framing of risk communication during a volcanic crisis

The 2002–2003 eruption of Stromboli (Aeolian Islands, Italy) was one of Stromboli’s most important effusive events of the last two centuries and began on 28 December 2002. On 30 December 2002, two days after the beginning of the eruption, a landslide entered the sea and caused a tsunami that struck Stromboli’s coastal areas. The events of 30 December led to a “voluntary evacuation” by Stromboli’s inhabitants. To understand the role of the media in framing risk and the evacuation, we analyzed the content of five newspapers, including two national newspapers (Il Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica) and three regional newspapers (La Gazzetta del Sud, La Sicilia and Il Giornale di Sicilia), published during the period covering the onset of the eruption, the tsunami and the voluntary evacuation (28 December 2002–18 January 2003). Our aim was to assess the type of hazard information given, how it was delivered, and how this may have helped (or not) with the population’s resilience, especially in regard to viewing a potential need to evacuate in a favorable light. News regarding the eruption covered a total area of 12,000 cm2 for the national newspapers (~ 6000 cm2/paper) against 41,700 cm2 for the regionals (14,000 cm2/paper); making the regional newspapers the more important sources by quantity. For both newspaper categories, most of this area was occupied by interviews with experts, followed by quotes from residents and tourists, and, finally, those involved in the response (i.e., hazard managers, including civil protection and local government). Out of a total of 9286 words analyzed, the most popular was “tsunami” (426 cases), with the word “volcano” being repeated 315 times (the 6th most popular word); so it would have been difficult for the population not to have known there was a potential risk of tsunami associated with the volcano. In texturally framing the eruptive crisis, negative words, such as “fear”, “terror” and “apocalypse”, were much more frequent than positive words, which were rare and even not present in some newspapers. The reporting focused on the tsunami threat with little link back to the eruption and other hazards, and contrasted with imagery (that took up 41% of the reporting space) which comprised relaxing pictures of a tranquil island surrounded by a calm blue sea. This, coupled with a confused message through selection of quoted expert sources, may have led to an exaggerated and alarmist frame for the eruption and attendant hazards. This was in spite of widespread use of scientific sources, as well as pleas from the population itself, to the journalists and published in the newspapers themselves, to tone the reporting down. The newspaper agenda was, thus, plainly not compatible with effective communication in support of disaster management.

The Dichotomy Karima/Ruby in Italian Online Newspapers: Exclusions and Inclusions of Muslim Femininity in Post-feminist Culture

This paper focuses on the representation of Karima El Mahroug, alias Ruby Rubacuori (‘Ruby Heartstealer’), in the online editions of three Italian newspapers (Il Giornale, Repubblica, Corriere della Sera). Karima/Ruby, a young woman originally from Morocco, was placed in the media spotlight for her implication in a sexual scandal involving the ex-Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi. The analysis shows a dichotomy in the representation of the young woman: as an ‘at risk girl’ or as a ‘post-feminist sex worker’. Karima’s national and religious origins contribute to the construction of her as a vulnerable, voiceless and fragile girl, made so by a traditional and sexist culture of origin. However, as the trial proceeds, a different construction of Karima, now fully identified with the name Ruby, emerges: an agentic, determined and assertive post-feminist sex worker who knowingly employed her sexual desirability for her own personal gains. As part of this evolution, Ruby sheds her ‘otherness’, becoming not only symbolic of Italian younger generations, but of the moral degeneration of the whole country. The narrative parabola Karima/Ruby that is engendered in the newspapers sees the incorporation of the Muslim woman in post-feminist culture, as well as her naturalisation as Italian, as long as she subscribes to its specifically neoliberal gender relations. This article explores the inclusions and exclusions of post-feminist culture, by investigating the normative discourses employed to make sense of Muslim femininity.

Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news

We investigate the existence of an ‘electoral cycle bias’ in the timing of media coverage of news with high political salience. In particular, we analyze how the electoral cycles at the regional level influence the coverage of news about corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La Repubblica (left-wing oriented) and Il Giornale (right-wing oriented). Our findings show that Il Giornalesignificantly increases the number of articles about corruption scandals involving left-wing politicians since eight weeks before the elections, while it reduces the number of those about episodes of corruption without any political connection. On the contrary, La Repubblica increases the number of articles about episodes involving right-wing politicians only between four to eight weeks before the elections and it decreases those about no political episodes just the week right before them.

The Crisis Tsunami. Social Representations of the Economic Crisis in the Italian Press

This research investigates social representations of the Italian economic crisis conveyed by representative Italian newspapers between 2007 and 2013. Its aim is to highlight the content of those representations as well as their objectification through the use of metaphorical language. More than 6,000 headlines were collected from four widely distributed Italian newspapers: Il Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Il Giornale, and Il Manifesto . The texts underwent a lexicometric analysis using the TaLTaC 2 software. The results showed that the crisis was represented for the most part as an “illness coming from afar” or as an “inevitable disaster” that was shaped somehow by an “agentic entity”. These interpretations elaborated an event about which little or nothing could be done except for to suffer/endure or to try to stem the rising tide. Implications for personal attitudes and agency are also discussed.

Euroscepticism in the Berlusconi and Murdoch press

A comparative analysis of Euroscepticism explores what it means in two nations and what is then articulated in specific newspapers. The theoretical terrain, Italy’s and Britain’s post-war relationships with the European Union, the countries’ media structures and the specific context of Il Giornale (owned by Silvio Berlusconi’s family) in Italy and The Times in the United Kingdom (owned by Rupert Murdoch) are mapped out. Some 21 interviews were conducted with relevant journalists and politicians (including reporters covering Europe for the aforementioned) offering further context. A critical discourse analysis of news stories and commentaries then spans the last decade. Although there is some Euroscepticism in Il Giornale, it has historically been localised, yet now seems to be growing in intensity. In The Times, however, the Euroscepticism conveyed is more pervasive and deeper. Its fact-based news can actually be very persuasive – ironically more akin to the commentary-laden news of Il Giornale – as the debate looms ahead of the planned 2017 UK referendum on European Union membership.

Augusto Graziani's Equilibrio generale ed equilibrio macroeconomico: a key milestone in a long journey out of the neoclassical mainstream

Educated in the best Italian cultural and economic tradition, Augusto Graziani was a scholar of great finesse and erudition. These qualities come out clearly in Equilibrio generale ed equilibrio macroeconomico (1965a), interpreted here as the initial step in a process that eventually brought Graziani to the final rejection of methodological individualism and the reconstruction of microeconomics on macroeconomic bases achieved with The Monetary Theory of Production (2003). In his 1965 book, Graziani shows that, save for the Sraffian–Kaldorian heterodox alternative, extending Walras to dynamics in a multisectoral framework requires assumptions logically equivalent to those of single good models. This also points implicitly towards the need of interpreting the mainstream temporary equilibrium method in terms of path dependency when it refers to multiple sectors, and thus precludes that it converges towards a ‘plain’, long-term intertemporal general equilibrium. The latter is a notion generally associated with the name of Walras and early marginalists, but which owes much to later developments by Hayek, Lindahl and Hicks.For the single period, Graziani's work on the monetary circuit can be read as an original variant of the monetary temporary equilibrium of Myrdal, where money and debt, combined with errors in exogenous expectations, explain the path-dependency of short-term equilibria. For continuation analysis, this is completed with insights from Wicksell, Schumpeter, Marx and Kalecki, whereby the circuit provides a simple explanation of the Keynesian fallacy of composition critique of microeconomics.But the book is also an important contribution to an Italian debate on capital theory, which emerged mainly in Il Giornale degli Economisti in the 1960s, in parallel with the more cosmopolitan ‘two Cambridge capital controversies’ that developed at the same time in the top American and British journals. Both originated in Sraffa's famous 1960 contribution and should thus be examined together.

La presse italienne et la persécution des Juifs d’Europe de l’Est en 1941

As of today, there has not been sufficient work done on the information that the German and Italian press provided on the extermination of the Jews during World War II. This paper analyzes the Italian press. When Italian journalists were sent to the Eastern front in 1941 at the beginning of the Jewish extermination in the East, what did they see and what did they hide? How did the Fascist press relay, or rather, conceal and change, the news regarding the tragic fate of the Jews in Eastern Europe? This paper addresses these topics through article analysis and through the examination of archival documents and unpublished memoirs. In our research, we consulted the following daily newspapers: La Stampa, Il Corriere della Sera, Il Popolo d’Italia, Il Giornale d’Italia, Il Tempo, La Tribuna and Il Tevere. The archival documents came from public archives and newspapers such as the Corriere della Sera, which published the first version of the famous Curzio Malaparte article on the Iasi pogrom that was later completely revised. At the end of the paper, a brief analysis is made of the photos that accompany certain texts.

Dad 3

Dad 3 Gerard Malanga (bio) Stories my dad told me, but I could never figure outwhich ones. All mixed up for a kid like me, wide-eyed, sleepy head.Some Southern dialect from Puglia mostly;a rugged countrysidedotted with confino ghosts,scarred memories,reporting each morning il posto di polizia,and then the day was yours basking in the sunof your morning cappuccino. The surrounding laughter,faceless and unknown. Il giornale mattina.They didn’t tell you much.Mornings languishing into sun-dappled afternoonswhere all was quiet. Even the bluebirds remained unsung.Tutto questo tempo.This is what you would’ve done.You were one of the more lucky ones.You were not in Italy, beyond your years.You were in the Bronxtelling me more stories yet to come, as if to comeby way or mornings; the borough waking upwith the forgetfulness of dreams,with the far away and near at heart. [End Page 168] Gerard Malanga Gerard Malanga’s most recent publications are his translations of César Vallejo’s selected poems, Malanga Chasing Vallejo (Three Rooms Press) and the chapbook Tomboy and Other Tales (Bottle of Smoke Press). He is currently completing his memoirs, “In Remembrance of Things Past.” Copyright © 2015 University of Nebraska Press

Grasshoppers against Ants or Malfunctions of Capitalism? The Representation of the European Economic Crisis in the Main Italian Newspapers

How has the Eurozone crisis been covered in the Italian press? Who has been identified as bearing the main responsibility for the crisis? What is the image of the European Union (EU) that has emerged from this coverage? This article aims to answer such questions through a content analysis of four Italian newspapers (Il Sole 24 Ore, Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica and il Giornale) during 11 periods between 2010 and 2012. In our perspective, the topic we address is particularly important for two reasons: first, because the continuing Euro crisis is the most significant threat facing the EU's very existence since its formation, and second, because the media, through the coverage they provide, contribute to build both Europe and the support it needs to prosper.

Filippo Pacini and the discovery of the lamellar corpuscles

The anatomist and pathologist Filippo Pacini (1812-1883) was born in Pistoia, where he worked until 1840, then he moved to Pisa (1840-1846), and Florence (since 1847). When he was still a student in Pistoia, he described the presence of corpuscles along the digital nerves of the hand. Already observed in previous works, Pacini also provided a functional role for the organelles. The presentation of the research at the Societa Medico-Fisica of Florence (1835) and at the Prima Riunione degli Scienziati Italiani in Pisa (1839), and its publication in the Nuovo Giornale de’ Letterati (1836) were quite ignored. Then, just arrived in Pisa, Pacini decided to publish a book entirely dedicated to history, anatomy, and physiology of the nuovi organi, with experimental procedures adopted during dissection [1]. Finally, in 1843 Henle sent a letter to the Quinta Unione degli Scienziati Italiani in Lucca, where he firmly praised the Pacini’s discovery. Indeed, in 1844 Henle and Kolliker published a book with further observations about the new organs, now called Pacinischen Korperchen [2]. The right tribute to Pacini’s merit was accomplished. Pacini described large ovoid corpuscles consisting of concentric layers or lamellae of connective tissue surrounding a nerve ending, their microscopic structure and distribution in the body, and their function as being concerned with the sensation of touch and deep pressure. He also compared the corpuscles to the electrical organs of the torpedo, almost formed like a voltaic pile, and interpreted them as animal magneto-motors, as organs for that peculiar vital energy known as animal magnetism or mesmerism. In this respect, Pacini’s discovery was also highly considered by mediums to explain some paranormal phenomena. Some interesting preparations of lamellar corpuscles were left by Pacini in the anatomical museums of Pisa and Florence.

CHRONICLES: January 1, 2006–December 31, 2006

In Italy the droit de suite, introduced by the European Union (EU) Directive of 2001/84/EEC, entered into force. Legge 18 (118) (February 2006); Gazzetta ufficiale 71 (25 March 2006); Il Giornale dell'Arte, January 2006, p. 1, April 2005, p. 36. Also Germany amended the German copyright act accordingly. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27 January 2006, p. 38, 28 January 2006, p. 45, as well as Austria. Handig, wirtschaftsrechtliche blatter 2006, p. 397, and in France, Le Journal des Arts 29 (April–12 May 2006): 25.

Giacomo Puccini: Catalogue of the Works (review)

REFERENCE BOOKS Giacomo Puccini: Catalogue of the Works. By Dieter Schickling. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2003. [446 p. ISBN 3-7618-1582-2. $167.50.] Music examples. Many readers may remember a popular undergraduate music history text that made only begrudging reference to Puccini, relegating the discussion of his entire oeuvre to a paragraph. The unspoken judgment was that any work that enjoyed wildly popular success in a twentieth-century opera house was somehow unworthy of scholarly scrutiny. I remember my first national American Musicological Society meeting, in the early 1970s, when all opera was relegated to the Sunday morning slot, and even then the only Italians deemed fit for discussion were Verdi and Rossini. Happily that is all behind us, thanks largely to a handful of pioneering musicologists who looked more deeply at Puccini's works and their sources. Linda B. Fairtile's survey of the history of Puccini scholarship documents the history of the increasing interest in the composer (Giacomo Puccini: A Guide to Research [New York: Garland, 1999]). A serious hindrance to Puccini studies, however, has been the lack of a comprehensive catalog of sources. Musical sources for the operas are voluminous, as the composer was seldom content with what he had written, and was one of the great revisers in the history of music, often adjusting things well after the premiere according to what worked best onstage. Relating the manuscript sources to the chronology of the genesis of the work and identifying the relationships between the various printed editions are daunting tasks, further complicated as more sources come to light and knowledge of the composer's work habits increases. With his masterful biography of the composer (Giacomo Puccini: Biographie [Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1989]), and a steady stream of important articles, Dieter Schickling has established himself as one of the preeminent Puccini scholars of our day. And now he has taken on the task of surveying all the musical sources. Cecil Hopkinson's A Bibliography of the Works of Giacomo Puccini, 1858-1924 (New York: Broude Brothers, 1968), essential though it is for collectors, is primarily concerned with printed editions; an appendix lists manuscripts. Schickling's catalog, however, gives detailed attention to all the musical sources, including all editions that show distinct musical states of the work. Where Hopkinson lists 26 works, Schickling accounts for 88. The amount of material presented for any one work shows the same degree of expansion. Schickling devotes two to seven times more space for any given opera than does Hopkinson, partly due to the differing aims of the two authors. A bibliography of the printed editions will not include the scope of material needed for a real understanding of the musical sources. Schickling assigns an identifying number to each of the works in his catalog, in chronological order. Included are all the works that Schickling is reasonably sure were written by Puccini, including 25 composed during his student days in Lucca and Milan, currently inaccessible, but listed in auction catalogs and elsewhere. Schickling includes them, anticipating their eventual rediscovery. After the catalog was compiled, some works listed as unknown by Schickling were uncovered in the Puccini family's holdings in Lucca (see, for example, Michele Girardi, II catalogo e questo, Il giornale delia musica 19/195 [July-August 2003]: 28, and Julian Budden, Letter, Il giornale delta musica 19/195 [July-August 2003]: 10). The organization of information for each work is under several rubrics: Time of Origin, Performances, Cast, Instrumentation, Incipit, Sources, Literature, and Notes. Schickling's great work in establishing a Puccini chronology is reflected in the first two rubrics, as well as in the notes. The performances listed are first performances of all versions, with identification of the principal singers and the conductor. …

The Elections in the Cities: Yet Another Defeat for the Center-Right

<section class="abstract"> In 2004, for the third successive year, the center-left opposition achieved political success in the local elections, while the center-right government suffered a clear defeat. The headlines of the main daily papers were unequivocal: “Cities and Provinces, the Victory of the Center- Left” (Corriere della Sera, 15 June); “Olive-Tree Coalition Victorious in the Cities” (la Repubblica, 15 June); “The Center-Left Wins the Race in Milan” (Corriere della Sera, 28 June); “The Polo Loses Even in Milan” (la Repubblica, 28 June); “The Center-Right Hands Milan over to the DS” (Il Giornale, 28 June). The 2002 and 2003 elections had already registered clear victories for the center-left, not least because of the symbolic importance of the successes of Riccardo Illy in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Enrico Gasbarra in the Rome provincial elections. </section>

The Didactic Activities of the Italian Astronomical Society

The Italian Astronomical Society is one of the oldest Italian scientific associations: founded in Rome in 1871 as the Society for Italian Spectroscopists, it includes professional as well as amateur astronomers and teachers among its 800 members.In the last 10 years, the Society has been concerned with the problems of teaching, as a result of the enormous demand from schools where astronomy is often not well taught at any level because of a lack of suitable qualified teachers.To meet this need, the Society publishes a quarterly journal entitled Il Giornale di Astronomia, which includes news of astronomical events, informative articles and accounts of didactic experiences as well as other information that may be helpful to teachers of astronomy.