https://hdl.handle.net/10807/73 2026-07-13T11:29:49Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/342736 Titolo: Vetri di età bizantina dal Santuario di Tas-Silġ a Malta Autori: Bonzano, F; Uboldi, M Abstract: The sanctuary of Tas-Silġ represents a unique case in the Mediterranean: frequented for almost 4.000 years without interruption from the Late Neolithic, it was transformed by the Phoenicians into a sanctuary of Astarte and remained so until the end of the 2nd and the beginning of the 1st century BC, when the deity venerated was identified with Hera - Juno. In the Byzantine era, a three-nave church with a baptismal font was built in front of the temple. The sanctuary has been investigated by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Malta since 1963. Excavations in this context have yielded glass fragments attributable to beakers, goblets, and hanging lamps. The study is part of the research conducted by the Mission (currently directed by G. Recchia, Sapienza University of Rome) within the PRIN 2022 project “URCHIN - Unravelling changes in island connectivity through integrated studies: the longterm perspective from Malta and the Tas-Silġ sanctuary”. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/342598 Titolo: Non solo ceciliani. Le due anime della musica sacra a Milano a fine Ottocento Autori: Marni, Matteo Abstract: This essay examines the landscape of sacred music in Milan during the final decades of the nineteenth century, challenging the conventional opposition between operatic liturgical practice and the Cecilian reform movement. Drawing upon music periodicals, publishing catalogues, and organ repertories, it demonstrates the long-standing coexistence of two distinct aesthetic and liturgical paradigms sustained by parallel editorial, professional, and cultural networks. Particular attention is devoted to the role of Milanese music publishers and specialized journals, which promoted both the dissemination of operatically inspired sacred repertories and the gradual consolidation of the reformist agenda that culminated in Pope Pius X's Inter sollicitudines (1903). The study argues that the persistence of the traditional repertory depended on its communicative effectiveness and extensive editorial circulation, whereas the success of the Cecilian movement resulted from a broader cultural and normative strategy. The essay ultimately portrays Milan as a crucial laboratory in which continuity and reform shaped modern Italian sacred music. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/342597 Titolo: Lo spazio dell’educazione: patrimoni culturali e welfare urbano di comunità. GPRS Pedagogia del welfare urbano, patrimoni culturali, arti e comunità educanti Autori: Marone, F; Musaio, M; Romano, M Abstract: All’interno di una cornice che riconosce il legame tra pedagogia e territorio, il patrimonio culturale, materiale e immateriale, diviene dispositivo riflessivo e trasformativo, rappresentando una componente essenziale del welfare urbano Abstract: Within a framework that recognizes the connection between pedagogy and territory, cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, becomes a reflective and transformative tool, representing an essential component of urban welfare: 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/342582 Titolo: «De novitate et necessitate processit»: la fondazione della diocesi di Alessandria Autori: Caterina Ciccopiedi Abstract: This paper analyses the foundation of the Diocese of Alessandria (1175), focusing not so much on reconstructing the political and institutional events or on the territorial definition of the new episcopal see, but rather on the canonical prerequisites that made the creation ex novo of a bishopric possible. Drawing on the documentation of Alexander III, and in particular the formula De novitate et necessitate processit, the essay identifies the foundation of the diocese as the true novitas of the entire affair, distinguishing it from the appointment of the first bishop, Arduino, which, whilst exceptional in its manner, was justified by papal prerogatives and the absence of a cathedral chapter. The study is developed through an analysis of the main medieval canonical collections, from late antique compilations to Gratian’s Decretum, with the support of the Clavis Canonum database. It emerges that, up until the 11th century, canon law was confined mainly to reaffirming the principle of the stability of diocesan circumscriptions, without establishing specific rules governing the foundation of new dioceses. It was only with the Gregorian Reform, through the Dictatus papae, the Propriae auctoritates apostolicae sedis and the canonical collections of the Gregorian school, that the principle gradually took hold that the creation of new bishoprics constituted an exclusive prerogative of the Roman Pontiff. Finally, the case of Alexandria is placed within a broader comparison with other diocesan foundations in Italy and the Empire (Bamberg, Bobbio, Brugnato), highlighting how the Diocese of Alexandria represents a significant milestone in the process of consolidating the papacy’s jurisdictional primacy in matters of ecclesiastical organisation. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z