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The Italian Contribution to Plastic Surgery

The birth of what we now call plastic surgery dates to the fifteenth century, when the diffusion of nose amputation as a punishment was paralleled by the blossoming of surgical procedures for nose reconstruction. The relationship between the Eastern and the Western world fostered the spreading of the so-called Indian method, based on the use of a forehead flap. This technique was first introduced in Italy by the Branca family from Catania, Sicily. Eventually, a member of this family switched to a different approach to nose reconstruction using a cutaneous arm flap. This "Italian" method was followed and theorized by Tagliacozzi in Bologna. From the nineteenth century, distinguished surgeons like Sabattini, Tansini, Sterzi, Pieri, and more recently, Sanvenero Rosselli, with their pioneering work, substantially improved and helped develop plastic surgery in Italy as we know it today.

British Mass Perceptions of the Anglo-American Special Relationship

Immediately after World War II one of the most popular songs was entitled, Seems Like Old Times. Nearly a half century later that title well characterized Anglo-American relations, which appeared to have returned to that earlier era. Despite the breadth of the coalition that the United States built to oppose Iraq, the chief U.S. acolyte was Britain. The French sent a tough, highly trained force, but their contribution was much smaller than Britain's and had initially seemed more hesitant. The Italian contribution was even smaller than the French. The Germans, preoccupied with reunification, hid behind constitutional niceties and just sent money, as did Japan. Once again the Anglo-Saxons, as Charles de Gaulle liked to call them, found that in a crisis they could count only on each other for whole-hearted, ungrudging support. Clearly, relations between Britain and the United States long have appeared to be special (in de Gaulle's view sinister); they differ in some intrinsic fashion from those that have existed between other pairs of friendly countries.

Giovanni Brugnoli and the origin of neuropsychology in Italy

The paper reports an unknown episode of the history of Neurology in Italy, namely the first Italian contribution to the discussion about the cerebral localization of articulate speech.

PASSYS: A CEC-Promoted action aimed at achieving energy savings in buildings: The Italian contribution

PASSYS: A CEC-Promoted action aimed at achieving energy savings in buildings: The Italian contribution

The development of sacred polychoral music to the time of Schutz

The origins and development of cori spezzati the early Italian contribution the Franco-Flemish tradition dissemination and aggrandisement the polychoral works of Orlando di Lasso polychoral music in Rome and Spain Venice - the grand climax across the Alps - the German craze. Appendices: Readings from Vincentino, Zarlino and Troiano Some Vienna choirbooks - list of contents.

Recent Italian research and development of the high temperature design method

In the field of codes practice, Italian activity is characterized by participation in the international R & D and industrial programmes. The R & D programme on LMFBR in the framework of the ENEA Fast Reactor Department concerns the PEC project completion and delivery of a design methodology which will enable any FBR structure to be designed without undue conservatism. The largest part of ENEA activity is the Italian contribution to the European R & D agreement, involving the working groups AGT-5 ‘Thermohydraulics and Mechanics of the Core and Core Components’ and AGT-9B ‘Structural Integrity’. Three main targets (excluding the dynamic and seismic field) are active in the Italian Structural Integrity programme: the review and comparison of the available high temperature regime methodology, with possible amendments; the validation of a design tool for inelastic analysis; the conduct of integral experiments to reveal how commonly replicated design details appearing in the PEC reactor behave in conditions which closely model service operation. A quick overview of the activities in the three targets is given, including the main results already obtained, a brief description of the main sodium loops, and the future work programmes.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History. By John Van Seters. The Hidden God: The Hiding of the Face of God in the Old Testament. By Samuel E. Balentine. Theodicy in the Old Testament. Edited by James L. Crenshaw. Ce Dieu censé aimer la Souffrance. By François Varone. Evil and Evolution, A Theodicy. By Richard W. Kropf. ‘Poet and Peasant’ and ‘Through Peasant Eyes’: A Literary‐Cultural Approach to the Parable in Luke. By Kenneth Bailey. The Biblical Foundations for Mission. By Donald Senior and Carroll Stuhlmueller. New Testament Foundations of Ministry. By Colin Kruse. Church, Ministry and Unity. By James E. Griffiss. Theology of Ministry. By Thomas Franklin O'Meara. Yesterday and Today: A Study of Continuities in Christology. By Colin E. Gunton. I believe in the Holy Spirit. By Yves Congar. Between Jesus and Paul. By Martin Hengel. From Nicaea to Chalcedon: A Guide to the Literature and its Background. By Frances Young. Alan of Lille: The Frontiers of Theology in the Later Twelfth Century. By G.R. Evans. Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe. By Clarissa W. Atkinson. Church, Politics and Society: Scotland 1408–1929. Edited by N. Macdougall. Renaissance and Reform: The Italian Contribution. Collected Essays, Volume II. By Frances A. Yates. Seven‐Headed Luther: Essays in Commemoration of a Quincentury, 1483–1983. Edited by Peter Newman Brooks. Ökumenische Erschliessung Martin Luthers. Edited by Peter Manns and Harding Meyer. Luther's Ecumenical Significance, An Interconfessional Consultation. Edited by Peter Manns and Harding Meyer, in collaboration with Carter Lindberg and Harry McSorley. States of Mind: A Study of Anglo‐Irish Conflict 1780 to 1980. By Oliver MacDonagh. The Parish Clergy in Nineteenth‐Century Russia: Crisis, Reform, Counter Reform. By Gregory L. Freeze. Pusey Rediscovered. Edited by Perry Butler. Between Two Worlds: George Tyrrell's Relationship to the Thought of Matthew Arnold. By Nicholas Sagovsky. The Concept of Glaubenslehre. By Walter E. Wyman, Jr. The Existence and Nature of God. Edited by Alfred J. Freddoso. Faith and Reason. By Anthony Kenny. Logic and The Nature of God. By Stephen T. Davis. Personal Responsibility and Christian Morality. By Josef Fuchs. Morality and Conflict. By Stuart Hampshire. Realism and Imagination in Ethics. By Sabina Lovibond. Intentionality. By John R. Searle. Philosophical Papers, I: Practical Reason. By G.H. von Wright. Philosophical Papers, II: Philosophical Logic. By G.H. von Wright. A Model of Making: Literary Criticism and its Theology. By Ruth Etchells. The Return of the Goddess: Femininity, Aggression and the Modern Grail Quest. By Edward Whitmont. The Power of the Poor in History. By Gustavo Gutierrez, translated by Robert R. Barr. The God of the Xhosa. By Janet Hodgson. Our Hymn Tunes: Their Choice and Performance. By Donald Webster. The Almighty Wall: The Architecture of Henry Vaughan. By William Morgan. An Introduction to Plato's Laws. By R.E. Stalley. Plato's Late Ontology: A Riddle Resolved. By Kenneth M. Sayre. Plato's ‘Parmenides’: Translation and Analysis. By R.E. Allen. Politics in the Ancient World. By M.I. Finley.

Census of pre‐sixteenth‐century portolan charts

Census of pre‐sixteenth‐century portolan charts

The Italian contribution to the mathematical theory of elasticity

The contributions of Italian mathematical physicists to the mathematical theory of elasticity are reviewed, starting from the second half of the last century. The work of Piola, Betti, Beltrami, Volterra, Somigliana, Signorini and many other eminent scholars is briefly outlined, showing how Italian mathematics achieved a leading position, comparable to that unanimously accorded Italy in other areas of mathematics, in this field where theory is so close to application.

Italian contribution to the origin of neurosurgery

Italian contribution to the origin of neurosurgery

Foreign Languages and International Communication: An Italian Contribution

This paper deals with severely practical problems of teaching English to adults in the very large Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Economics and Business Management in the University of Rome. Many of our problems appear to be quite different from those in similar university institutes in other parts of Europe. And we would not wish them upon anybody. However, we do believe that some of our solutions might well have applications outside the university environment, especially in the teaching of English (and the maintaining of high standards of English) among adults who have little time and opportunity to attend well manicured courses in statu pupillaris, but can work effectively for much of the time on their own. The paper concludes with a summary of ways in which we think we could best co-operate with the European Cultural Foundation. Fig. 1 is intended to explain how the Institute English courses are currently being reorganised in order to make them more fully respondent to our students' present needs. Some ten years ago we made a first and at the same time enormous revolution in teaching methods, virtually switching from the teaching of English as a dead commercial language to English for oral intercommunication and for the understanding of modern written messages. In the intervening years there has been a remarkable change for the better in the quality of the students coming to us as freshmen. A decade ago spoken English was very poorly understood by Rome University students; now a great many can understand it and use it. English has become an important part of young people's cultural needs. The reorganisation of the courses now under way is intended to take this change in quality into account. In order to explain why we have reorganised the courses in the way we have it is necessary to look very briefly into the present university structure in Rome [ 1 ] . Because of the adverse student-teacher ratio, most teaching is by ex cathedra lecturing. Scenes of Peter Abelard lecturing at the Sorbonne spring easily to mind. While this method may be eminently suited to those subjects which can be studied through lectures supplemented by lucubration and occasional consultation, the outlook is poor for those subjects, like language teaching, which require small classes, constant dialogue between student and instructor and regular and frequent attendance. In any case, language teaching is still mainly directed, in the Faculties of Letters and of Magzstero, to literary criticism and diachronic language studies. The Italian university still seems unaware that the most important language teaching of English throughout the world today is ESP (English for specific purposes, i.e. as an instrument for the communication of ideas and information). Despite the pressures from the world of work for competent linguists and the lack of

The Italian Contribution to the Four-Stages Theory

Research Article| November 01 1978 The Italian Contribution to the Four-Stages Theory Enzo Pesciarelli Enzo Pesciarelli Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1978) 10 (4): 597–607. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-10-4-597 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Enzo Pesciarelli; The Italian Contribution to the Four-Stages Theory. History of Political Economy 1 November 1978; 10 (4): 597–607. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-10-4-597 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsHistory of Political Economy Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press1978 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The Italian financial contribution to Idc, 1958–68

The Italian financial contribution to Idc, 1958–68

The Italian Contribution to the Problem of Reflex Epilepsy

SUMMARYIn a historical survey the important discoveries of Amantea, Martino, Clementi, Moruzzi and many other Italian scientists and their schools in the field of reflex epilepsy are discussed.RÉSUMÉL'CARauteur jette un coup d'carœil sur l'carhistoire des importantes découvertes d'Amantea, Martino, Clementi, Moruzzi et plusieurs autres savants italiens et leurs écoles dans le domaine de l'carépilepsie réflexe. Il en fait la discussion.

Italian Contribution to Greek Studies in XX Century(Notes and Discussions)

Italian Contribution to Greek Studies in XX Century(Notes and Discussions)

Italy and the Economic Development of England in the Middle Ages

I was asked to illustrate the effects of the economic leadership of adAvanced nations by an example drawn from English economic history in the Middle Ages. I have accordingly chosen the subject of Italian contribution to the economic development of medieval England. What prompted this choice was not only the contribution that the Italians in fact made but also the contribution that they are reputed to have made. Indeed their reputation for economic leadership interests me as much as their achievement. For if their reputation and their achievement are collated, something more interesting than a mere illustration of economic leadership may emerge. The illustration may well turn into a cautionary example. I hope I shall not appear immodest or perverse if I suggest that the Italian example may help to circumscribe the historical and the logical validity of the entire concept of economic leadership. For the concept that appears to mean something in historical accounts of economic forms is apt to dissolve as soon as we reach out to the fundamental forces and processes of economic growth.

Castiglione and the Nicomachean Ethics

As though from a sudden awareness of the ethical void in which we have been living since the first World War, a growing number of scholars, several among them Americans, have lately been turning their attention eagerly and fruitfully to the doctrine of the gentleman. They have studied its varied aspects in different national environments and have examined painstakingly its effects upon human conduct as this is reflected in the various literatures of Western Europe. A large segment of that vast aggregation of dust-laden volumes bearing the forbidding name “didactic literature” has been taken from library shelves and scanned anew in this effort to lay bare the minutest details of the doctrine. The initiator of this contemporary revival of interest in the ideals which nourished the gentleman appears to have been Maurice Magendie, whose study of the doctrine in seventeenth-century France gave rise to a healthy polemic regarding the appropriate scope and methods of literary history. This work was followed by Ruth Kelso's Doctrine of the English Gentleman in the Sixteenth Century, a model of erudite scholarship especially rich in bibliographical lore. Fittingly enough in a German work of the totalitarian period, August Hoyler's Gentleman Ideal and Gentleman Erziehung, dealing with the doctrine in England, sets up the Führerprinzip as the nucleus of the ideal. J. E. Mason's Gentlefolk in the Making continues Kelso's investigations down into the eighteenth century. The Italian contribution to the doctrine has been summarily discussed by F. R. Bryson. Written in semi-popular vein, In Praise of Gentlemen expresses the nostalgic longing of H. E. Sedgwick for a return to the social ideals of our forefathers. Perhaps the most complete analysis of the workings of the doctrine is found in E. Wingfield-Stratford's Making of a Gentleman. The number of these investigations is alone sufficient to show the interest which the subject holds for the literary and social historian, in spite of the doubt cast in some quarters on the present vitality of the ideal of the gentleman as an active social force. There is good reason to believe that we shall presently witness attempts, based upon these studies, to reinterpret the literature of the Renaissance as a reflection, in part, of the workings of the doctrine upon the minds of authors as disparate as Rabelais and Shakespeare or Spenser and Cervantes. Recalling the fruitful results obtained during the past half-century from the application of the investigations of Renaissance Platonism to literary interpretation, who can doubt that a similar success awaits the scholar who will launch forth upon a similar quest concerning the literary influence exerted by the concept of the “perfect gentleman,” of which concept Platonic love was but a part, however important?

THE STATUS OF SERICULTURE IN ITALY

Italy dominates the raw silk market of Europe to about the same degree as the Far East does that of the world as a whole. The proportion in each case is about 90 per cent. Of the total world output of 7S,000 to 100,000 metric tons of raw silk, the Italian contribution of 4,000 to 5,000 metric tons, or about 5 per cent, is of small consequence. Sericulture is one of the oldest Italian industries, the breeding of silk worms having been introduced into Sicily in the early years

Democracy and Assimilation. The Blending of Immigrant Heritages in America, by Julius Drachsler; Old World Traits Transplanted, by Robert E. Park, Herbert A. Miller; The Italian Contribution to American Democracy, by John Horace Mariano; The Cechs (Bohemians) in America, by Thomas Capek

Democracy and Assimilation. The Blending of Immigrant Heritages in America, <i>by Julius Drachsler</i>; Old World Traits Transplanted, <i>by Robert E. Park, Herbert A. Miller</i>; The Italian Contribution to American Democracy, <i>by John Horace Mariano</i>; The Cechs (Bohemians) in America, <i>by Thomas Capek</i>