Carmine Crocco e il brigantaggio meridionale

The Linearized Crocco Equation

In this paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of a degenerate parabolic equation, with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions, coming from the linearization of the Crocco equation [12]. The Crocco equation is a nonlinear degenerate parabolic equation obtained from the Prandtl equations with the so-called Crocco transformation. The linearized Crocco equation plays a major role in stabilizatio...

I pidocchi e il Granduca

detail exactly how sparse medical care was in Scotland. Even if it were available, the authors show that the stringency of the Scottish Poor Law may have denied access to it. One of their tables (9.B) "shows how much was actually spent on doctors per head of the population on the poor roll. The Scottish average was £0.0 154, or no more than 3.d per pauper per year in the old money" (p. 217). Th...

A tribute to Carmine Melino.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: Storia e Tempo ne "Il Gattopardo"

La personalità di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, così come la sua opera , sfuggono ad una convenzionale catalogazione. Erede di una antichissima famiglia dell'aristocrazia siciliana, sposato alla psicoanalista lettone Licy Wolff a sua volta discendente di un importante casato baltico,  raffinato conoscitore della letteratura inglese e francese, lo scrittore è di fatto un outsider  nel panorama s...

Carmine Melino and the Institute of Hygiene.

Throughout his 94 years of life, Carmine Melino brilliantly pursued different professional paths, his life being a constant stimulus for students, colleagues, friends and the family. Following the early formative years of study, here, we briefly list his scientific achievements in Occupational Medicine and Hygiene as well as his broad literary interests. Carmine was an inspiration to his genera...