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This paper explores the strategic transition of DARIAH-IT, the Italian national component of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), towards recognition and operation as a critical infrastructure within the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) domain [1]. SSH Research Infrastructures are increasingly vital for understanding complex societal phenomena, yet they face growing cyber threats. We detail a methodological framework for enhancing their resilience, drawing on principles of anticipation, withstand, recovery, and adaptation [2]. The paper then describes DARIAH-IT’s core infrastructure, addressing the inherent challenges of SSH data—its sparsity, fragmentation, and heterogeneity—through robust data integration strategies and a commitment to quality [4] [6]. Finally, we present AEON, an innovative platform developed by DARIAH-IT [15], which facilitates complex scientific work-flows through intuitive graphical interfaces, automated controls, and secure, federated access, thereby supporting reproducible and interoperable research [8] [9]. By integrating these technical and methodological advancements, DARIAH-IT reinforces its foundational role in safeguarding invaluable cultural and scientific assets, underscoring the imperative of securing SSH RIs as critical components of democratic and scientific continuity.

This paper focuses on the PRIN 2022 project MEDITA, resulting from the collaboration of the University of Naples Federico II, the University Ca’ Foscari Venice and the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (CNR, Florence). The project aims to build a textual knowledge base of non-literary Medieval Latin texts of the Italian area. In the first paragraph we describe the fundamental characteristics and main purposes of the project, then we dwell on the digital platform’s structure (§ 2) and on the articulation of the project and its units (§ 3). The conclusion (§ 4) focuses on the twofold purpose of the knowledge base integrated within the MED.ITA digital platform, showing both the relevance of Middle Latin practical texts for Romance lexicography and their linguistic value as an object of analysis in itself.

Abstract Now in the British Library, MS Harley 5402 is a collection of astrological treatises from different sources. It consists of two groups of texts, with the first, penned by a 12th-century professional Italian scribe, covering folios 1r-69r, and the second, added in the 14th century, running from folio 70r to 104v. Acting as a watershed between the two parts, folio 69 contains three short texts added by non-professional hands in a deplorable Latin, strongly influenced by the vernacular (Italian and Occitan). – A fourth text, in a variety of Old Italian, was inserted by yet another non-professional hand, with all elements pointing to the city of Pisa in the second half of the 12th century: this conclusion is supported by the palaeographic analysis carried out in this article. The Old Italian text, La rasione dele littere Julii inperator, discovered by professor Charles Burnett of the Warburg Institute in London, has resisted every attempt at interpretation until the present day: for instance, efforts to link this “method for calculating the letters of Emperor Julius” to the Julian calendar with its Dominical letters have proved fruitless. What is clear, however, is that we are looking at the oldest known specimen of Italian scientific prose.

Metastasis to the breast from extramammary tumors are rare, and the most common cancer that metastasizes to this site is malignant melanoma (MM). Unfortunately, metastases from malignant melanoma reveal a widespread of the disease and a high likeliness of poor diagnosis. In this study, a case of left breast metastasis of MM in a young pregnant woman, with a fast progression of the mammary and systemic course of pathology and unfortunately poor prognosis is presented. Despite the role of pregnancy in MM has yet to be unraveled, our study encourages the theory that immunosuppression and hormonal changes due to pregnancy may aggravate melanoma prognosis.

We present the case of a 24-year-old male patient with hemophilia A of 14 years of evolution. The patient presented recurrent hemarthrosis in the right knee, who developed septic arthritis in knee due to Serratia marcescens with a satisfactory response to intra-articular lavage with saline solution and 28 days of treatment whith carbapenems. In patients with septic arthritis, previous hemarthrosis and multiple hospital admissions, the presence of this germ should be suspected. The treatment is surgical and with broad-spectrum antibiotics.

INTRODUZIONE La valutazione del paziente ed il relativo trattamento effettuato dal primo equipaggio sanitario giunto sul luogo dell’evento hanno un’importante impatto sull’evoluzione clinica e sull’outcome del paziente traumatizzato; è necessario infatti applicare un approccio sistematico a queste situazioni guidato da raccomandazioni chiare e semplici che vedono interagire il soccorso tecnico con il soccorso sanitario[1]. È ben noto che il soccorso tecnico è in capo al Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco[2] e al Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico (CNSAS)[3]. È altrettanto evidente che in determinate condizioni cliniche del paziente, sebbene l’evento sia in un’ambiente impervio, il soccorso sanitario non può tardare il suo essenziale intervento[4] [5]. La durata e l’esposizione a fattori ambientali per il paziente stesso convalidano l’importanza delle figure sanitarie di emergenza territoriale anche nei luoghi impervi: il personale sanitario oltre ad avere le necessarie conoscenze per il supporto vitale dovrebbe avere competenze logistiche e sulle operazioni di soccorso[6] [7]. La “Golden Hour”, termine coniato nell’ormai lontano 1961, è un concetto ben noto ai soccorritori del setting pre-ospedaliero; successivamente si è vista la nascita del termine “Platinum Ten Minutes”[8]. In entrambi i casi accorciare il tempo che trascorre dall’evento traumatico alla cura definitiva è di fondamentale importanza per un migliore esito del paziente stesso[9] [10]. Esistono anche pareri contrastanti espressi in letteratura circa l’efficacia della stessa “Golden Hour”[11]; tuttavia se vengono presi in considerazioni quei pazienti traumatizzati con patologie evidentemente tempo dipendenti (es. shock emorragico)[12] [13] [14], l’importanza di un trattamento precoce torna ad essere di grande attualità[15] [16]. Questo case report descrive un soccorso in ambiente impervio dove l’infermiere di emergenza territoriale, quale primo MSA[17] (mezzo di soccorso avanzato) giunto sul posto e quindi prima figura sanitaria, ha raggiunto il paziente sul luogo dell’evento per poterlo valutare e trattare precocemente, in piena collaborazione con il personale del soccorso tecnico giunto sul posto. L’obiettivo è quindi quello di richiamare gli attori del sistema di emergenza territoriale all’importanza della collaborazione fra enti diversi, sanitari e tecnici non sanitari, avente chiaramente come scopo finale un più precoce ed efficace trattamento del paziente sul posto per migliorarne l’outcome.

The introduction of complex mathematical concepts through perceptual and sensorial hands-on experiences is one of the most relevant aspects of the Montessori method proposal. This article aims to investigate the origins of the Montessori’s profound interest for mathematics, studying the history of the education of mathematics, after the unification of Italy, in which her school education took place. Her key concepts and beliefs about the learning of mathematics and, furthermore, the evolution of her proposal will be illustrated through the analysis of her main publications, both the generalist and the specialized ones in the field of mathematics (Psicoaritmetica and Psicogeometria), and handwritten notes about the lessons of XVI° international course, held in Rome in 1931, which the Opera Nazionale Montessori acquired from her students’ archives. Finally, an overview of the actualization of the Montessori method in the contemporary research will be explained, particularly focusing on the neuroscientific discoveries which have proved the effectiveness of the Montessori proposal to empower the cognitive processes involved in the development of mathematical thinking.

Abstract My article focuses on the Franco-Italian poem Attila Flagellum Dei, composed by Nicolò da Càsola, an Italian notary, in the second half of the XIV century for the Estensi in Ferrara, in order to celebrate the heroic origins of the family: actually, it is the first encomiastic poem dedicated to them, before the major works by Boiardo and Ariosto. The poem is witnessed by a single manuscript (divided into two tomes), supposedly in the hand of the author himself. My study provides a new biographic profile of Nicolò and his family, also through an overview of some archival documents from the Archivio di Stato in Bologna. The article also presents a brief summary of the narration, and outlines the principal characters, the positive ones (Forest and Gilius in particular) as well as the negative ones (Attila), seen as prototypes alluding to other fictional or historical figures (Forest = Hector of Troy; Attila = the entire Visconti’s family). At last, my paper offers a sample (the proem) of the critical and commented edition I am working at. The text is preceded by an analysis that illustrates its peculiar linguistic features, with a particular regard on the rhymes: indeed, far from being representative of the generic class of Franco-italian works composed by Italo-Romance authors, the poem Attila Flagellum Dei shows a combination of hypercharacterized French and Italo-Romance dialects of Northern Italy.