The hedgehog and the fox are the well-known characters, dear to Ceserani, with which Berlin designates two different modes of pursuing the paths of knowledge: the first, the one of the hedgehog, is straight and guided by a universal principle,…

The aim of the essay is to look back at 9/11 from the temporal perspective of 2011 and interpret it as a singularity, that is a moment of destabilization that hit the media sphere, accelerating an already existing shift in…

The Musée du Quai Branly features ethnological findings from four continents: Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. Today scholars and experts are still debating whether in this particular museum/institution the aesthetic concern should prevail - allowing visitors to relate to…

The paper summarizes the first stage of the work for development of a virtual archaeological museum carried under the EU Copernicus ArchTerra project. It describes a new implementation of a database with museum information after the CIDOC standard. The system…

NASA astrobiologist David Morrison coined the term cosmophobia – fear of the cosmos – in response to the plethora of 2012 disaster scenarios that depict Urania, the muse of astronomy, as a wicked destroyer rather than a beautiful inspiration. The…

Se questo è un uomo di Primo Levi e Una giornata di Ivan Denisovič di Aleksandr Solženicyn sono due “atti letterari” che hanno contribuito in modo significativo alla conoscenza storica del XX secolo: il primo nell’Occidente dei campi di concentramento…

The scope of the study is an analysis of Schachnovelle (The Royal Game) by Stefan Zweig, focusing on the opposition between two topics: (1) cultural x\borders and conflicts and (2) intellectual cosmopolitism. The analysis is based on a semiotic approach,…

Nella seconda metà del 2007 il Comune di Milano ha deciso di cofinanziare un progetto della durata di un anno, proposto dal CILEA, denominato “Biblioteca Aperta di Milano” (BAMI) che ha portato nel corso del 2009 alla creazione di una…

We consider, in some different situations, the problem of the reconstruction of the source term in a parabolic problem in a space-time domain $[0, T]Ê\times I \times \overline \Omega$: this source term is assumed of the form $g(t,x) f(t,x,y)$ ($t \in…

The remains of the Mayan civilization describe (among other things) many observations of various astronomical phenomena observed by the Maya. The modern Celestial Mechanics allows us to calculate with great accuracy when astronomical phenomena occurred and were visible in the…