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With the opening of the twentieth century, the beneficial river of the avant-gardes seemed to flood the entire European continent in a happy contamination of national cultures, giving life to an authentic supranational koine of artists: it was sometimes fusion of forms, styles, environments, cultures, a salutary effort to rejuvenate languages. The particular attention of the Italian Futurists to the new national realities was among the factors of particular attraction to the movement for South Slavs whose representative was Josip (Sibe) Miličić, who called for cultural and political renewal of his country. His direct encounter with Marinetti and Boccioni seems to leave its mark on his poetry both structurally and thematically: in the collection from 1914, Miličić reveals a new sensibility and a new rhythm: in one of his war lyrics, the futurist suggestions materialize in his first onomatopoeic attempt, suitable to undermine the lyricism of the verse by intensifying the link between the phonic aspect and the meaning. Despite their common interventionism, the Great War found the Croat and the Italian Futurists on opposite political positions concerning the Dalmatian islands and the Italian expansionism on the Adriatic. The poet’s war experience lead him to a “mature” phase starting in the twenties with his first article-manifesto. At this time he was able to reprocess his own critical identity: affirming his deeply anti-materialist and anti-industrial spiritualism, his standpoints by then had become very distant from Marinetti’s insights.

The term maslo represents a curious case of polysemy in whose microcosm two civilizations seems to meet and collide, Northern and Southern Europe: two universes, butter and oil, silently facing and challenging each other for centuries. The lexeme will be investigated in the relations of form and meaning observed in diachrony, in an attempt to grasp the representation of the polysemic word as a whole, with a dynamic structure constantly changing over time”.

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La vita del medico e maestro padovano Alessandro Benedetti (1450-1512), tra Italia, Dalmazia e Grecia, sembra a tratti intersecarsi a quella del suo allievo croato Grisogono (1472-1538). Entrambi preoccupati delle pandemie che ciclicamente flagellarono l’Europa tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento, scrissero brevi trattati sulla peste. Lo studio analizza in dettaglio il loro approccio eziologico, diagnostico e prognostico alle malattie epidemiche. La loro testimonianza, in forte debito verso il pensiero medico tradizionale, rivela tuttavia il continuo evolversi della riflessione scientifica e del dibattito che da essa scaturisce.