In occasione del bimillenario della morte del poeta latino Ovidio, l’articolo analizza l’influenza del poema delle Metamorfosi come fonte primaria di Giordano Bruno. L’esposizione della dottrina pitagorica, esposta nel libro XV del poema, si adatta perfettamente all’ontologia del Nolano e alla sua fede nella metempsicosi. In particolare il mito di Diana e Atteone viene adottato dal filosofo, nel De gl’Heroici furori, come ideale rappresentazione della propria esperienza conoscitiva. La tormentosa vicenda del cacciatore Atteone, tramutato in cervo per aver sorpreso la Diana nuda, simboleggia in Bruno il passaggio dall’amore profano a quello divino. On the occasion of the two thousandth anniversary of the death of the Latin poet Ovid, the article analyzes the influence of the poem of the Metamorphoses as a primary source of Giordano Bruno. The exposition of the Pythagorean doctrine, contained in the XV book of the poem, fits perfectly with the ontology of the Nolan and his faith in metempsychosis. In particular, the myth of Diana and Actaeon is adopted by the philosopher, in De gl'Heroici furori, as an ideal representation of his own cognitive experience. The tormenting story of the hunter Atteone, turned into a deer for having surprised the “naked Diana”, symbolizes in Bruno the passage from the profane love to the divine one.

L'incontro con Bianca Garufi ha rappresentato un momento fondamentale nella vicenda autoriale di Cesare Pavese. Nessun'altra donna-né la Tina dalla «voce rauca», né Fernanda Pivano, né la fatale Constance Dowling-ha saputo mettere in moto il meccanismo creativo di Pavese come lei, ingenerando peraltro un radicale cambiamento nelle forme e nei temi dell'opera pavesiana. Varrà la pena ricordare che dal sodalizio tra i due scaturiranno l'intenso canzoniere di La terra e la morte, inauguratore di una nuova via della poesia dell'autore, ben diversa dalla precedente esperienza di Lavorare stanca, caratterizzata da un tono fortemente narrativo-descrittivo, e i Dialoghi con Leucò, per Pellegrini «il libro che raccomanda veramente il nome di Pavese ai posteri», eppure - com'è noto - del tutto incompreso da larga parte della critica.

A small, unpretentious contribution focusing on a well-known design by Andrea Palladio for a bridge over the Piave River in Belluno

The archeological complex of Brentino Belluno (VR) in Val d’Adige is of great interest for several aspects: for its location near the Atesis river in an area characterized by the presence of the via Claudia Augusta, and for the development and organization of the various complexes forming it. It is an enclosed building of rectangular shape, made by a complex of buildings organized around a long and narrow central courtyard fitted with a system of porches arranged at 90 degree angles only along the southern and western side. The building consists residential quarters in the west and south side, and quarters of utilitarian type in the south and east side, with a separation not always clear between the two. The entire property was organized in indoor and outdoor spaces, two water tanks covered with hydraulic mortar, some pipes in bricks and stones to bring water inside the farm, and enclosed agricultural land plots likely utilized as vineyards, according to the agricultural vocation of the valley and the evidence of ancient sources. The archeological surveys required between 1968 and 1972 following the construction of the Brennero highway have allowed to highlight a proto-historic phase (III-II century B.C.) and a system of settlements from the imperial age – characterized by the presence of the great road built by the emperor Claudius in 46 A.D. – organized into two rural buildings separated by a secondary road (viaglareata) that separats the two rural complexes and likely connected to a major route: the via Claudia Augusta. The proto-historic building has three rooms and one open space at north side, floors clay, and a hearth. The interpretation of these buildings is not unam biguous: they have been described both as mansio and as a rural villa. Today, even though the available data are incomplete since the excavation campaign has not been completed, we can identify certain peculiar characteristics of these buildings typical of both a rural villa and a mansio, and propose a flexible interpretation of its planimetric design and architectural characteristics, aware of the fact that if the excavation campaign is allowed to continue, it will be possible to modify and better characterize the overall data and the identification of specific functions for each architectural unit.

The experience of the year '68 revolution in a small town in the North-East Italy.

Le rivelazioni di Maria Valtorta sulla formazione dell'immagine sindonica cambiano quasi tutte le ipotesi fatte fino ai nostri giorni.

Lettera del Signor Francesco Bernardino Ferrari al Chiarissimo Signor Eustachio Zanotti sul grande sostegno ora distrutto chiamato la conca Grande di Paderno sopra l'Adda (1777), con disegni che documentano il manufatto prima della sua distruzione - Monografie di GCM, n. 55