Lecture notes on Diophantine analysis

The present book is a new, substantially enlarged, version of a previous set of lecture notes on diophantine analysis, published first in 2008, and then in revised form a few years later, by the Edizioni della Scuola Normale. The content mixes a number of rather classical results on diophantine equations and diophantine approximation, with the basic theory of heights and a few more recent results and applications of it. The exposition has been generally kept at an elementary and essentially...

Il caso San Rossore di Donatello. Storia travagliata di un busto reliquiario (1889-1976)

Il volume ricostruisce su base documentaria le complesse vicende del busto-reliquiario di San Rossore di Donatello, dalla sua identificazione nella chiesa di Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri a Pisa alla fine dell’Ottocento, fino al clamoroso furto e al successivo recupero nel 1976. A partire dai retroscena della prima pubblicazione a cura di Giovanni Fontana e dal ruolo decisivo di Guido Carocci e Igino Benvenuto Supino, il libro ripercorre quasi un secolo di gestione amministrativa e materiale de...

Urbanistica e politica nella Genova di Antico Regime: innovazioni e persistenze

Representations of Endymion and Selene: Dominance, Objectification, and Necrophilia in The Transformations of an Ancient Myth

A focused study of an ancient myth and its reception, which provokes new consideration of how myth in general can challenge social norms. Analyzing the visual and literary transformations of the myth of Endymion and Selene, Anna Chiara Corradino argues that this myth becomes a valuable tool for understanding the cultural problematization and censorship of female sexuality, as well as the marginalization of alternative forms of male sexuality. The myth's key themes, of dominant femininity, rei...