Arhiva Ulcinj

Elio Della Noce

Laurent Bartholdi, Marialaura Noce

AbstractWe study the portraits of isometries of rooted trees—the labelling of the tree, at each vertex, by the permutation of its descendants—in terms of languages. We characterize regularly branched self-similar groups in terms of $$\omega $$ ω -regular languages. We deduce the algorithmic decidability of some problems, such as the comparison of regularly branched contracting groups, and their orbit structure on the boundary of the rooted tree.

Adriana Trematerra

The Mediterranean fortified heritage, as is well known, represents an architectural testimony of considerable interest that has often been subject to destruction, reconstruction and abandonment over the centuries. Significant in the field of the conservation of this heritage was the ICOMOS Guidelines on fortifications and military heritage (2021), which attempted to establish basic principles for restoration work on these artefacts, with the objective of guaranteeing the authenticity and integrity of both morphological and functional works. Among the principles contained in the cited Guidelines is that of conservation through activities and research aimed at a preliminary knowledge of the constructive and material complexity of the heritage under investigation. The present paper, being part of this context and of a wider ongoing research focused on the analysis of the Balkan fortified heritage, proposes the knowledge of the Byzantine Fortress of Trikala in Greece through the discipline of restoration. The research intends to show the state of conservation of the analysed castle in order to propose possible enhancement strategies starting from an instrumental survey carried out using digital cameras and drones. The objective is to obtain an accurate preliminary knowledge of the place, making possible the subsequent elaboration of strategies aimed at the conservation and enhancement of an heritage with a high testimonial value that is little known and not adequately enhanced.

Francesco Venturi

Il saggio prende in esame la recente edizione del Giornale di guerra e di prigionia di Carlo Emilio Gadda (Adelphi 2023), a cura di Paola Italia, mettendone in luce le novità e le differenze rispetto al testo critico procurato da Dante Isella (Garzanti 1992). I quaderni riemersi nel 2019, redatti da Gadda nel novembre-dicembre 1918 durante la prigionia a Celle Lager, rivelano dati cruciali sul suo rapporto conflittuale con Ugo Betti e sulle connessioni tra il Giornale e le prose belliche del Castello di Udine (Edizioni di Solaria 1934).   Delving Into the New Edition of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s “Giornale di guerra e di prigionia”and its Relation to “Il castello di Udine” and Other Works The essay examines the latest edition of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Giornale di guerra e di prigionia (Adelphi 2023), edited by Paola Italia, highlighting its innovations and differences compared to the critical text provided by Dante Isella (Garzanti 1992). The notebooks, unearthed in 2019 and penned by Gadda during his imprisonment in Celle Lager in November-December 1918, unveil crucial insights into his conflicted relationship with Ugo Betti and the interrelations between the Giornale and the war-related prose later collected in Il castello di Udine (Edizioni di Solaria 1934).

Gianfranco Pertot

The aim of the contribution is to present the methods used and results obtained to date, begin to frame the information collected in the broader historiographical framework of the Castle of Milan, to stimulate new research on indirect sources (or their re-readings) and, more generally, to highlight the importance of direct, archaeological readings, even in contexts where knowledge of the historical event is considered mostly complete and not susceptible to significant variations.

Monica Baldassarri, Vincenzo Palleschi, Simona Raneri

Tra il 2010 e il 2020 una serie di ricerche storiche e archeologiche si sono concentrate sul castello di Godano, nell’entroterra spezzino. Tali indagini hanno consentito di definire le vicende di questo insediamento tra medioevo ed età moderna. Tra queste sono state individuate le tracce di attività di una zecca non autorizzata, cui si deve probabilmente anche la distruzione della rocca nel 1524.  Nel contributo sono presentati i dati dello studio archeologico, archeometrico e numismatico dei materiali recuperati con gli scavi che hanno consentito di mettere a fuoco diversi processi produttivi impiegati per la creazione di differenti serie di monete false relative ai prodotti ufficiali di zecche piemontesi, liguri, emiliane e toscane. In modo particolare vengono approfonditi i dati relativi all’argentatura superficiale utilizzata per produrre falsi quattrini di Siena e cornuti di Carmagnola. Prendendo spunto da quanto rilevato in questo sito, si aggiungono alcune considerazioni generali sulla produzione monetale in relazione all’approvvigionamento di materie prime, agli indicatori di produzione, alla trasmissione delle tecniche e alle maestranze dedite a questo tipo di produzione fraudolenta tra medioevo e la prima età moderna.

Elena Casalini

Islamic glass disk weights are common through museums and private collections, although they are usually linked to Egypt due to their provenience or because they bear the finance directors names known to be active in Egypt. Egyptian glass weights have been largely studied, and offered a starting point for studies on the Syrian ones, while jordanian territory is yet to be investigated. Their use is broad and their interpretation not always certain, having usually lost their originally context: coin weights or monetary substitutes for copper and low-value currency, and later re-used tokens. Aim of this study is to analyse the origin, possible use, historical context and economic significance in exchange politics of a glass disk weight fragment from the excavation of the CF 35 in Shobak Castle, a great vaulted structure, built by crusaders and reused by ayyubids, located in the “monumental” area of the castle. It comes from the most recent layer, a thick level of sand and clay, covering the whole excavation area and dating to the abandon period. The item bears part of an inscription and a central design, it is therefore possible to establish a link to official coinage and patronage, and to deepen the knowledge of political and economic interaction of such a crucial area.

Cristina Carbonetti Vendittelli

Nel saggio si considerano i nove cartulari del vescovato di Città di Castello, la cui ricchezza e importanza sono state per la prima volta messe in luce da Robert Brentano nel 1960. Esso si focalizza sui fascicoli prodotti nel xiii secolo, sulla loro particolare struttura codicologica, sulla tradizione e organizzazione interna dei testi nonché sull’apparato ipertestuale, con lo scopo di far luce sulla cronologia e le modalità con le quali, a partire dagli inizi del Duecento, i vescovi di Città di Castello attuarono la loro «rivoluzione documentaria», e di illustrare una tipologia di cartulari ecclesiastici diversa dalle compilazioni prodotte nei secoli precedenti e fino al xii inoltrato: nuova nelle forme, nelle modalità redazionali e, soprattutto, nelle funzioni assolte.

Luca Vespasiano

The castle of San Pio delle Camere is located on a ridge overlooking the plateau of Navelli, in the Abruzzo Apennines. The fortification has a roughly triangular shape, with a pentagonal tower at the top and two rectangular towers on either side. The study, starting from the documentary evidence and the results of an archaeological excavation of 2007, through an architectural survey made ad hoc, analyzes the ruins from a metrological, proportional and constructive point of view and proposes a dating of the construction between the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century. This dating, da un lato esclude l’ipotesi di preesistenze, confermando quella di un impianto unitario, dall’altro evidenzia un fenomeno a phenomenon of late fortification, which leads to rereading the history of the territory and to reconsider the chronology of its transformations.

Eugenio Donato

Il contributo propone una sintesi sui lavori di lettura archeologica degli elevati nel castello di San Lucido (noto come castello Ruffo, sulla costa tirrenica calabrese, in provincia di Cosenza), un sito fino ad oggi inaccessibile, e sostanzialmente sconosciuto per quello che concerne gli aspetti archeologici e architettonici. Il castello (insieme al borgo e al relativo approdo) che insiste nell’areale dell’antica Clampetia (dapprima città brettia, poi conquistata dai Romani), compare nelle fonti medievali a partire dalla seconda metà dell’XI secolo, al tempo della conquista normanna, e per molti secoli costituisce un importante polo feudale dell’alto Tirreno Calabrese, strategico punto di controllo della viabilità terrestre e marittima. Il lavoro, condotto dallo scrivente in collaborazione con la SABAP CS, consiste nella lettura stratigrafica degli elevati coadiuvata dalle più recenti metodologie di rilevamento tridimensionale, ed ha permesso, tra gli altri risultati, di individuare la prima fase dell’incastellamento normanno caratterizzata dalla presenza della torre quadrangolare (donjon) sullo sperone meridionale della rupe.

Giuseppe Cosentino

Il progetto di Pier Louis Faloci per il castello di Laboissière a Fontenay-aux-Roses, si propone di rifunzionalizzare il castello e costruire delle strutture per la scuola di danza e musica, capaci mettersi in comunicazione le varie parti esistenti dell’antico edificio. Un progetto misurato, che con pochi elementi, alcuni ipogei, altri che emergono dalla terra, riesce a ricostruire un’ossatura per il corpo smembrato del castello. Quella di Faloci si propone come un’architettura della prossimità che sente e traduce in forma e spazio l’intorno e che riconosce nella stratificazione del paesaggio un valore primariamente progettuale.
 Pier-Louis Faloci’s project for the castle of Laboissière in Fontenay-aux-Roses, proposes to ascribe new functions to the castle and to build additional structures for the dance and music school that establish a dialogue with the existing parts of the ancient building. A measured project which, using few elements, some underground and others emerging from it, manages to reconstruct a bone structure for the dismembered body of the castle. Faloci proposes an architecture of proximity that both senses and translates the surroundings into form and space while also recognising a primarily design value in the layering of the landscape.

Giovanni Serreli

As part of the study of the medieval castles of Sardinia, since 1997 I studied the Castle of Marmilla (Las Plassas, Sardinia), one of the border castles of the Kingdom of Arborèa. After having published a monograph and various scientific articles on the castle and the historical landscape, in agreement with the municipal administration we have studied, conceived, designed, and built a museum, the MudA multimedia museum of the Kingdom of Arborèa. Built at the foot of the Castle, it was inaugurated in 2013 and immediately met with considerable success among specialists and enthusiasts, obtaining important funding and recognition. In fact, thanks to a multimedia, multi-sensory and playful approach, particularly suitable for school-age children, the visitor is invited to immerse themselves in the daily life of a medieval castle thanks to the most recent technologies; he thus discovers how a medieval castle worked, how people lived inside it, how people lived in the small villages around it and what its historical context was. The archaeological finds from the excavations of the castle conducted in 2007 are exhibited in a corridor of the museum, that gives them back their shape, function, and existence. The finds speak to the visitor in first person in the language of the Mediterranean place of production and tell of their construction, life, and use. A cook then invites visitors to participate in the medieval banquet offered by the castellan to his king, with the tasting of all t

Paolo Golinelli

Rebekka Dossche, Nicola Gabellieri

Il presente contributo affronta il tema della letteratura odeporica come fonte per l’ecologia storica e per la storia dei paesaggi boschivi. Raccogliendo le riflessioni offerte in questo campo da Oliver Rackham e Emilio Sereni, si sperimentano le potenzialità e le criticità euristiche di un corpus di opere di viaggio in un caso studio localizzato nelle Alpi trentine. La costruzione di un Historical GIS consente di sistematizzare, localizzare e consultare spazialmente le fonti. I primi paragrafi presentano gli studi di riferimento nel campo della geografia storica e dei GIS; il terzo paragrafo illustra il caso studio; il quarto paragrafo presenta il metodo utilizzato. Successivamente, il corpus è analizzato riguardo a tre tematiche centrali, ovvero gli itinerari di viaggiatori e viaggiatrici, la storia della copertura del suolo e le pratiche rurali del passato. In conclusione, il saggio permette di verificare l’efficacia della fonte per studi di geografia storica del bosco, e suggerisce l’uso dello strumento GIS per una lettura sistematica di ampi dataset per superare alcune criticità presentate dalla bibliografia.

Lucas A. Noce, DANILO HENRIQUE SPADOTI

Miriam Rejas Del Pino

This article re-reads the Disobedience Archive through the notion of threshold at curatorial, institutional, and spatio-temporal levels. It posits the archive-as-device, activated differently by each display, and asks whether Rivoli’s parliamentary layout can turn the museum into a deliberative arena without neutralising dissent. By comparing it with, The Zoetrope (Venice Biennale, 2024), the paper examines how the shift to a spiral reshapes perception while preserving the archive’s nomadic, critical vocation and its genealogical, constellation-based logics.

Maurizio Dalena

The work of the Sienese architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini is widely discussed within the scientific debate regarding the construction of the Aragonese Castle of Taranto. To date, the discussion is essentially based on two hypotheses: the first suggests the presence of the Sienese architect in Terra d’Otranto during the last two decades of the 15th century, during a journey to the Kingdom of Naples alongside Duke Alfonso I of Calabria. The second hypothesis proposes that Francesco di Giorgio Martini may have contributed to the construction of the fortress indirectly, through directives and design plans that were subsequently executed.Therefore, it has been considered appropriate to verify whether the principles of Martini’s architecture, as outlined by the Sienese architect in his Trattato di Architettura Civile e Militare, can be found in the Taranto castle, thus validating the possible attribution to the great architect. The analysis has particularly focused on two main themes: the towers (Book V, Chapters IV-VIII) (the Annunziata Tower and San Lorenzo Tower) and the chapel dedicated to San Leonardo (Book IV, Chapters III-VI).Furthermore, a comparative architectural and constructional analysis was carried out both on the towers of the Taranto castle and on the religious building, in comparison with other works attributed to Francesco di Giorgio Martini.

Davide Mezzino

Giacomo Martines

The discussion that is intended to be presented consists in a first result of the mission of the Polytechnic of Bari, Architecture, Construction and Design Department, Laboratory of History of Architecture, Archeology and Restoration, carried out on the Fortified Citadel of Berat in Albania as part of the project sponsored by the Italian Foreign Ministry: Albanian - Italian Scientific Cooperation Agreement for the Archaeological Study Program of Berat.The historical analysis of the fortified citadel of Berat can be examined through different phases, tracing its evolution over time characterized by a strong reuse of the same sites and above all of ancient stone materials.The oldest materials, partially ‘in place’, belongs to the Illyrian era, and are characterized by blocks of cyclopean dimensions, (mainly) in limestone, squared and placed with isodomic work. The fortress is strongly stratified starting from a first settlement in the 4th century. B.C. then heavily readapted yet in ancient times, until the Byzantine period with the emperors Theodosius II (5th century) and Justinian I (6th century). The different nature of the stone material, the strong reuse, the introduction of different types of mortar, allows for an extremely complex stratigraphic map which constitutes a thickening of the historical documentary value of the site itself.At the same time, the differences of materials and construction techniques and the conditions of partial ruin constitute an important source

Agnese Bezzera

This paper explores the non-Francophone books preserved in Paul Claudel’s personal library. It focuses on volumes written in the languages known by Claudel (Greek, Latin, German, English, and Italian) and showcases how written annotations reveal his literary interests and the way he learned foreign languages. An investigation of books written in languages which Claudel did not know shows that even books which he could not have read still have much to tell us about his cultural milieu and his professional life.

Riccardo Serraglio

Recent research separates the construction of the Casertavecchia castle from the foundation of the urban settlement, attested in since 861 during the domination of the Lombard dukes of Benevento. The castle was built later, shortly after 1150 in the Norman period, after the constitution of the Comitatus Casertae, approved by the king of Sicily Ruggero II. Composed by successive extensions, the castle at the end of the thirteenth century had taken the shape of a hexagonal building with an internal courtyard, equipped with quadrangular towers, placed on the eastern and western fronts, and defended by an imposing cylindrical keep, located a few meters above the palace. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the construction in the plain of a new Count’s palace caused the decline of the Casertavecchia castle, which was within a few decades completely abandoned. In recent times the castle has been subject to restoration interventions, not definitive because sporadically carried out on the Availability of economic resources each time insufficient for the design of an overall intervention. At different times, the areas outside the building were arranged, the hall on the ground floor of the eastern body was rebuilt, some wall partitions and perimeter towers were consolidated. It is hoped that in the near future a new restoration project can be drawn up with scientific method and that the building can be assigned an adequate and stable use.

Nicola Busino

Archaeological research underway in the castle of Casertavecchia (Caserta, Italy) has highlighted the considerable potential for knowledge that comes from the application of archaeological methodologies (excavation, analysis of wall stratigraphy, study of material culture, etc.). The fortress has been known from written sources since the middle of the XIII century. It was also restored many times, starting in the second half of the XX century. Even in the face of partial archaeological investigations conducted in small sectors of the architectural complex, the new approach is making it possible to pinpoint the characteristics and dynamics of attendance at the castle and the associated chronological problems with greater precision.Also, preliminary examinations of ceramics highlight the last phases of occupation of the fortress, i.e. the years between the end of the Middle Ages and the early Modern Age: among the numerous ceramic specimens found during the excavation, there are interesting fragments of tableware-covered with enamel and with polychrome decoration which adorned the tables of the noble classes who resided in the fortress. The similarities that the clay finds highlight with what is known for the Caserta area also confirm the centrality of the site within the ceramic supply networks for this sector of northern Campania, despite the absence of consolidated knowledge about the production centres during the late Middle Ages.

Paolo Giordano

The text offers an in-depth historical/critical reading and an articulate diagnostic/design analysis of the Baronial Castle of Acerra, a city located in the northeastern province of Naples, founded by the Ausonians and infrastructured at the urban level by the Romans in 332 B.C. The fortified complex represents, through its architectural stratifications, about two thousand years of history. Specifically, the Baronial Castle derives its characteristic plan layout, in the shape of a semicircle, from its ancient pre-existence: a theater building with a semicircular cavea. On the primitive layout of Roman times, through architectural subtractions and additions, a complex fortified structure was built, from the Middle Ages until the eighteenth century, a true testimonial palimpsest not only of Acerra's architectural history but also and above all of its social history. As a whole, the Baronial Castle appeared, until the early years of the 21st century, as a suffering monument devastated in its morphological and linguistic features. In the face of such disturbing neglect, a virtuous design path began in 2007 that allowed for a first restoration of the fortified structure of the Baronial Castle of Acerra including the outer walls with the Renaissance portal, the inner walls and, between these two semicircular linear structures, also the restoration of the interstitial garden.

Carolina Truzzi

Vincenzo Guadagno, Enrico Carafa

The Castle of Ugento is a compact structure made of carparo stone, built in different periods on the highest part of the Serra di Ugento. Between 2014 and 2019, it underwent restoration and repurposing interventions aimed not only at preserving the building from deterioration and the risk of collapse but also at integrating it into contemporary life. This was achieved by introducing hospitality and educational functions, as well as museum spaces. The restoration project of the Castle of Ugento is an excellent example of a public-private synergy. The privately owned building was partially entrusted to the Municipality, which converted the first floor into a self-referential museum (spanning over 1,000 square meters of frescoed surfaces) and into spaces that host temporary exhibitions and events. The ground floor was later privately developed, culminating in the creation of a boutique hotel and an international culinary school operating year-round, the Puglia Culinary Center. What makes this intervention unique is its execution within a stratified context, where Norman archaeological remains were uncovered and seamlessly integrated into the hospitality spaces through a valorization project involving a range of professionals (engineers, archaeologists, restorers, and art historians) coordinated by the Carafa and Guadagno Associated Studio.The project not only addressed architectural, infrastructural, and structural aspects but also delved into bespoke interior design, ensuring t

Annalisa Noce, Nicola Di Daniele

In recent decades, the world has witnessed a major demographic change characterized by an aging of the general population [...]

Aldair Baia Farias, Luisa Margareth Carneiro da Silva, Rosilene Reis Della Noce

Objetivo: Avaliar, por meio de revisão integrativa da literatura, a eficácia da dieta cetogênica clássica (DCC) na redução das crises epilépticas em crianças com epilepsia refratária e seu impacto na qualidade de vida. Métodos: Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura. Foram consultadas as bases de dados BVS, PubMed, Scielo e Periódicos CAPES, e foram utilizados os descritores “epilepsia refratária”, “dieta cetogênica” e “crianças”. Incluíram-se artigos publicados entre 2020 e 2025, nos idiomas portugues, inglês e espanhol, que abordassem a aplicação da DCC em crianças com epilepsia refratária. Excluíram-se estudos com adultos, relatos isolados  e publicações sem texto completo disponível Resultados: Foram incluídos quinze estudos na amostra final. Os estudos evidenciaram redução igual ou superior a 50% na frequência das crises epilépticas, sendo que alguns trabalhos reportaram eficácia de até 85% e ocorrência de casos de remissão completa. Os efeitos adversos mais frequentemente descritos compreenderam constipação intestinal e episódios de hipoglicemia, predominando nas fases iniciais da intervenção dietética. Considerações finais: DDC configurou-se como uma abordagem eficaz e segura para o controle da epilepsia refratária em crianças, demonstrando benefícios clínicos significativos.

Manuela Di Lauro, Annalisa Noce

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents a major global health challenge due to its high prevalence in the general population and its substantial impact in terms of morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs [...]

Xosé Alfredo Pereira Martínez

Proponse o estudio do interese social do aproveitamento da biomasa forestal para as comunidades de montes do Val Miñor, e a xestión dese proceso directamente pola comunidade de montes.