Cool pavements mitigation of the urban heat island effect in Mediterranean spaces

Previous research studies have shown the correlation between highly urbanized city environments and the propagation of the urban heat island phenomenon. This is a very important phenomenon to consider because it causes effects and issues not only at the urban level but also affects human perception and health. This research focuses on the Mediterranean spaces, taking as a case study the coastal promenade of the city of Durres in Albania and the University Campus Piovego Nord in Padua, Italy. ...

Scales of violence: the 1916 Central Asian uprising in the context of wars and revolutions (1914– 1923)

La ricerca di un modello per l’architettura della salute: il progetto per il nuovo Ospedale di Padova (1776-1798). Sapere medico e riformismo in architettura

In the second half of the Eighteenth Century it was decided to build a new hospital for the city of Padua, because the Hospital of San Francesco, which had been built at the beginning of the fif- teenth century, showed serious problems. It was indeed the advancements of Padua’s own Medical School that contributed to acknowledging the material inadequacy of the hospital, no longer able to respond to the demands of scientific knowledge. This aspect was very important: starting from 1764 the hos...

Per una rilettura della "Catinia": fra "laus stultitiae", parodia e 'commedia'

The essay discusses the genre classification of the 'fabua' Catinia as a 'humanist comedy'. The first part of this research focuses on the evolution of the 'modi dicendi' theory and the rhetoric of 'dramatic forms', between the late Gothic period and the early fifteenth century, taking into account the traits of the Mid-Latin and Neo-Latin 'theatricality' as well; according to such consideration, the study examines the typology of this play by Sicco Polenton. The second part of the essay pays...