Italoamericana Durante, Francesco; Viscusi, Robert; Tamburri, Anthony Julian ...
2014, 2014-04-15, 20140415
eBook, Book
To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their ...communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of classic writings on, about, and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience. Originally published in Italian, this landmark collection of translated writings establishes a rich, diverse, and mature sense of Italian-American life by allowing readers to see American society through the eyes of Italian-speaking immigrants. Filled with the voices from the first generation of Italian-American life, the book presents a unique treasury of long-inaccessible writing that embodies a literary canon for Italian-American culture--poetry, drama, journalism, political advocacy, history, memoir, biography, and story--the greater part of which has never before been translated. Italoamericana introduces a new generation of readers to the "Black Hand" and the organized crime of the 1920s, the incredible "pulp" novels by Bernardino Ciambelli, Paolo Pallavicini, Italo Stanco, Corrado Altavilla, the exhilarating "macchiette" by Eduardo Migliaccio (Farfariello) and Tony Ferrazzano, the comedies by Giovanni De Rosalia, Riccardo Cordiferro's dramas and poems, the poetry of Fanny Vanzi-Mussini and Eduardo Migliaccio. Edited by a leading journalist and scholar, Italoamericana introduces an important but little-known, largely inaccessible Italian-language literary heritage that defined the Italian-American experience. Organized into five sections--"Annals of the Great Exodus," "Colonial Chronicles," "On Stage (and Off-Stage)," "Anarchists, Socialist, Fascists, Anti-Fascists," and "Apocalyptic Integrated / Integrated Apocalyptic Intellectuals"--the volume distinguishes a literary, cultural, and intellectual history that engages the reader in all sorts of archaeological and genealogical work.
This paper describes the results of research projects developed at the University of L’Aquila by the research group of the authors in the field of biomedical engineering, which have seen an important ...use of additive manufacturing technologies in the prototyping step and, in some cases, also for the realization of preindustrialization prototypes. For these projects, commercial 3D printers and technologies such as fused deposition modelling (FDM) were used; the most commonly used polymers in these technologies are acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polylactic acid (PLA). The research projects concern the development of innovative actuators, such as pneumatic muscles and soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs), the development of active orthoses, such as a lower limb orthosis and, finally, the development of a variable-stiffness grasper to be used in natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). The main aspects of these research projects are described in the paper, highlighting the technologies used such as the finite element analysis and additive manufacturing.
Purpose: For off-road mobility, some manual or power assisted devices were conceived to be self-driven by paraplegics while for tetraplegics non power-assisted devices were conceived. These devices ...require one or more conductors who are subjected to a high physical demand thus potentially creating: precarious safety condition for the user an elevated physical demand of conductors could reduce the care and the attention to give to the user; the time of the outdoor adventure experience of the user could be limited.
Methods: To address these issues, an innovative user-centered power assisted off-road wheelchair for the transportation of tetraplegics along mountain trails was developed. The device, structured like a trike, is driven by two healthy conductors; the user is placed in the middle of the frame. A movable seat provides for the transfer from the standard to the off-road wheelchair. An electrical motor, powered by a battery pack, provides for the actuation. All the design and prototype aspects, the control system and experimental tests are detailed.
Results: The prototype satisfies mechanical, safety and duration requirements. No physical demand while using the device and for the transfer of the user to the device was identified. Fun and engaging tests were carried out and all the participants were involved.
Implications for Rehabilitation
The device has the potential to enhance the quality of life of tetraplegics in terms of new life experiences.
The device revealed the real possibility of a full recreational experience, an enhanced participation and a better social integration of tetraplegics.
Celso’s Vendetta Vecoli, Rudolph J; Durante, Francesco
Oh Capitano,
06/2018
Book Chapter
During his weeklong voyage from Honolulu to San Francisco onboard the steamerZealandia, Celso had time to brood over his defeat and humiliation at the hands of the “missionary element.” Living up to ...his warning that “whosoever tries to play a mean dirty trick on me does so at his own peril,”¹ he plotted his revenge. Italy was his final destination, but first he had important business in the United States. He regarded General Comly as the chief architect of his downfall, and Moreno sought his removal as the U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Hawaii. He avoided acquaintances in
Moreno, the bold sea captain, the lusty lover, the battle-scarred warrior, the forceful entrepreneur, reduced to tears at the plight of exploited “little creatures”? Here, another persona in Moreno’s ...repertoire stepped onto the stage, the compassionate protector of the weak and helpless. Eschewing the pious rhetoric of the time, he used vivid prose based on personal observations. Accompanying the children to a shanty, there Moreno found two “ferocious lookingpadroniplaying cards and drinking beer … waiting for their little slaves … to bring them the money they had earned and begged.” Questioning thepadroni, he learned that they were
The Treasures of Asia Vecoli, Rudolph J; Durante, Francesco
Oh Capitano,
06/2018
Book Chapter
By taking to the sea, Moreno was following an ancient and illustrious tradition. Motivated by faith, greed, and glory, Italian missionaries, explorers, and traders had since the thirteenth century ...been among the first Europeans to undertake the arduous journeys over land and sea to East Asia. The most famous was Marco Polo, whose bookIl milione(The Travels of Marco Polo, 1271) remained the most important source of information about Asia for hundreds of years. Certainly Celso, who cited Marco Polo as his model, had read it.¹
For centuries, Venice and Genoa were the terminuses of the spice trade with
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