Maurizio Viano
Biographic Data
| ID | 693988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurizio Viano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurizio |
| FAMILY NAME | Viano |
| SIGNATURE | VIANO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eating and Drinking in the Ancient Near East
Eating and Drinking in the Ancient near East
The Vanity Theme and Critical Wisdom in Mesopotamian Literature
The heading “vanity theme” has been attributed to various Sumerian and Akkadian literary compositions that would represent a form of wisdom critical of traditional values. The present article revises those compositions arguing that they do not propound a critical view of traditional wisdom but simply reflect on the finitude of human nature. Critical wisdom only surfaces in a limited number of compositions mostly attested in Middle Babylonian sour…
The Third Column of Šimâ Milka
Šimâ milka is a wisdom composition known from Late Bronze Age sources found at Hattusa, Emar, and Ugarit. Many studies have been dedicated to this composition, but the fragmentary nature of sources prevented the understanding of several passages, and large portions of the text remain unpreserved or incomplete. The present article attempts a new reconstruction of the third column of the Emar manuscript by placing two fragments at the end of the co…
Babylonian Hermeneutics and Heraclitus
On the Location of Irisaĝrig Once Again
The recovery of a few royal inscriptions at Tūlūl al-Baqarat (Iraq) by the archaeological mission of the University of Torino has made it possible to propose the identification of the site with ancient Keš. The present contribution reexamines the location of Irisaĝrig in light of its well-known textual connections with and physical proximity to Keš
Life Is Beautiful
Certain Realism
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films— Accattone , The Canterbury Tales , Medea , Saló —continue to challenge and entertain new generations of moviegoers. A leftist, a homosexual, and a distinguished writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism, Pasolini once claimed that "a certain realism" informed his filmmaking. Masterfully combining analyses of Pasolini's literary and theoreti…
Ancora Su IL Pendolo Di Foucault
Italia autobiografica
Marx beyond Marx
The Left according to the Ashes of Gramsci
In the beginning was Gramsci's body whose brain fascist judges wanted to stop from functioning for at least twenty years. Those were the good, old days when the left's enemy was so visible and so explicit about its undertakings that the tribunal's sentence still enrages those who care to remember. Gramsci's body and brain ended up in a fascist prison, to be released shortly before death. His body was cremated, his ashes gathered in the English ce…
Life Is Beautiful
On the Location of Irisaĝrig Once Again
The recovery of a few royal inscriptions at Tūlūl al-Baqarat (Iraq) by the archaeological mission of the University of Torino has made it possible to propose the identification of the site with ancient Keš. The present contribution reexamines the location of Irisaĝrig in light of its well-known textual connections with and physical proximity to Keš
The Left according to the Ashes of Gramsci
In the beginning was Gramsci's body whose brain fascist judges wanted to stop from functioning for at least twenty years. Those were the good, old days when the left's enemy was so visible and so explicit about its undertakings that the tribunal's sentence still enrages those who care to remember. Gramsci's body and brain ended up in a fascist prison, to be released shortly before death. His body was cremated, his ashes gathered in the English ce…
Marx beyond Marx
The Left according to the Ashes of Gramsci
In the beginning was Gramsci's body whose brain fascist judges wanted to stop from functioning for at least twenty years. Those were the good, old days when the left's enemy was so visible and so explicit about its undertakings that the tribunal's sentence still enrages those who care to remember. Gramsci's body and brain ended up in a fascist prison, to be released shortly before death. His body was cremated, his ashes gathered in the English ce…
Italia autobiografica
Ancora Su IL Pendolo Di Foucault
Certain Realism
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films— Accattone , The Canterbury Tales , Medea , Saló —continue to challenge and entertain new generations of moviegoers. A leftist, a homosexual, and a distinguished writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism, Pasolini once claimed that "a certain realism" informed his filmmaking. Masterfully combining analyses of Pasolini's literary and theoreti…
Life Is Beautiful
On the Location of Irisaĝrig Once Again
The recovery of a few royal inscriptions at Tūlūl al-Baqarat (Iraq) by the archaeological mission of the University of Torino has made it possible to propose the identification of the site with ancient Keš. The present contribution reexamines the location of Irisaĝrig in light of its well-known textual connections with and physical proximity to Keš
Babylonian Hermeneutics and Heraclitus
The Vanity Theme and Critical Wisdom in Mesopotamian Literature
The heading “vanity theme” has been attributed to various Sumerian and Akkadian literary compositions that would represent a form of wisdom critical of traditional values. The present article revises those compositions arguing that they do not propound a critical view of traditional wisdom but simply reflect on the finitude of human nature. Critical wisdom only surfaces in a limited number of compositions mostly attested in Middle Babylonian sour…
The Third Column of Šimâ Milka
Šimâ milka is a wisdom composition known from Late Bronze Age sources found at Hattusa, Emar, and Ugarit. Many studies have been dedicated to this composition, but the fragmentary nature of sources prevented the understanding of several passages, and large portions of the text remain unpreserved or incomplete. The present article attempts a new reconstruction of the third column of the Emar manuscript by placing two fragments at the end of the co…
Eating and Drinking in the Ancient Near East
Eating and Drinking in the Ancient near East
Ancient history (5 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient Near East History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (2 works)