Esegesi e retorica nell'epistola 40 di Paolino di Nola

The letter 40 of Paulinus of Nola stands out from a rhetorical-exegetical point of view because it showcases how the interplay of rhetoric and exegesis in his collection of letters originates a sermo de Scripturis useful for the discussion of complex Biblical passages. Thus, while the letter’s content is an intense reflection on Ecclesiastes (especially Ecl, 3), the Psalms (especially Ps, 101) and the Gospel of Matthew (especially Mt, 19, 21), read by Paulinus in the light of the soteriology ...

Turk’s head knots and links: A survey

We collect and discuss various results on an important family of knots and links called Turk’s head knots and links . In the mathematical literature, they also appear under different names such as rosette knots and links or weaving knots and links. Unless being the unknot or the alternating torus links, the Turk’s head links are all known to be alternating, non-split, prime, fibered, hyperbolic, invertible, and periodic. The Turk’s head links are also both positive and negative amphichiral if...

They came after us: mainstream left’s response to the rise of the populist radical right in Romania and Bulgaria

The electoral success of the populist radical right has posed a significant challenge to the mainstream left over the past few decades. Drawing on qualitative case studies and semi-structured interviews to party elites and experts, the paper shows that the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Romania's Social Democratic Party have adopted, respectively, a positive and negative strategy of engagement vis-à-vis the populist radical after 2020. Such divergence is determined by the socialists’ organisat...

Machiavelli the Tactitian : math, graphs, and knots in The art of war