Nodding syndrome (NS) is a poorly understood condition characterized by repetitive involuntary nodding of the head, mental retardation and stunted growth, which mainly affects children aged five to fifteen years ...read more
During this doctoral research, two novels were studied, written during the sixties and seventies: Corporale by Paolo Volponi (Einaudi, Torino 1974) and Petrolio by Pier Paolo Pasolini (published posthumously: Einaudi, Torino 1992). I ...read more
The tribuni plebis were the traditional proponents of the plebeian cause in the Roman Republic. For the late Republic (100 – 23 BCE), historians disagree about whose interests they truly ...read more
This research focuses on the study of Information Structure and its interaction with syntax and prosody in Kisikongo and Kisolongo, two Angolan varieties of Kikongo, a western Bantu language. It involves an integrated descriptive, comparative ...read more
This research project examines the stylistic features of Robert Schumann’s and Richard Wagner’s Musikkritik. The critical writings of both composers have so far been read as a corroboration of Romantic musical poetics. The current ...read more
This project analyses the representation of Byzantium and its people in the works of vernacular epic (chansons de geste) produced in medieval France in the long twelfth century (1096-1204). It ...read more