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Archaeological data and written sources suggest that the Longobards were a community “on the move”. To support this hypothesis, we analysed strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) to explore mobility patterns of 24 individuals buried in the Longobard graveyard at Povegliano Veronese (Verona; late 6th - early 8th century). This site, located on the Via Postumia, represents a possible arrival destination from Pannonia.

Results of archaeobotanical analyses carried out in a Renaissance pit situated in the Santi Quattro Coronati complex in Rome are presented. The study focuses on carpological remains, preserved through mummification by desiccation. The complex, first attest- ed in 499 AD, underwent a long series of transformations and ad- ditions over the course of the centuries. In the 13th century it was divided between a monastery filiated with the Umbrian Abbey of Sassovivo and a vast palace, meant to host the cardinals.

The Ceprano human calvarium, dated around 400,000 yr, is a well-known fossil specimen. It represents significant evidence of hominin presence in the Italian peninsula during the Middle Pleistocene and may be considered representative of an archaic variant of the widespread and polymorphic species Homo heidelbergensis. Since its discovery (March 1994), systematic surveys in the Campogrande area near Ceprano, central Italy, identified 12 localities (CG1-12) with archaeological and/or paleontological assemblages.

‘Gio Ponti. Loving Architecture’ exhibition, running from 27 November 2019 until 13 April 2020 at MAXXI in Rome, has the merit to ‘give us back’ Gio Ponti as an architect, in place of Gio Ponti as designer and artist, in his dimension as a practicing architect but also in all his intellectual depth.

Italy and China are two countries that conserve many parts of territory that are essentially agricultural, with the populations strongly rooted to the idea of belonging to the place. This sense of identity descends in both cases from the small scale of the individual inhabited settlements, and this is in spite of the enormous scale of China’s urban settlements.

In a 1983 interview, a journalist of the Italian newspaper La Nazione asked the
architect Giovanni Michelucci: “How would you build a prison?” He replied:
I wouldn’t build it. I would have it done by someone else. […] Unless I were
allowed to build a whole city”.
Italy’s prison-space has been the subject of debates within architecture, and
these debates have been shaped by the country’s political events in the 1970s
and until the late 1980s. In 2000, the Penitentiary System Regulation was passed,

This article discusses the topic of the ‘architecture’ of the prison in the Italian context.
It argues the Italian context data and it deals with issues related to prison’s architectural
typology evolution, the needs and performance approach and examples of good practices.
The prison lacks architecture in Italy. What is the best design approach and the
methodology right? The chapter contends that it’s necessary to consider the prison as
architecture for life linked with urban life and the design can start from needs of users.

The Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) pandemic is rapidly spreading across the world,
representing an unparalleled challenge for health care systems. There are differences in the
estimated fatality rates, which cannot be explained easily. In Italy, the estimated case fatality rate
was 12.7% in mid-April, while Germany remained at 1.8%. Moreover, it is to be noted that different
areas of Italy have very different lethality rates. Due to the complexity of Covid-19 patient

Infectious complications are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with primary or secondary immunodeficiency. Prevention of infectious diseases by vaccines is among the most effective healthcare measures mainly for these subjects. However immunocompromised people vary in their degree of immunosuppression and susceptibility to infection and, therefore, represent a heterogeneous population with regard to immunization.

In 2009, the four laboratories of the Fondazione Italiana Linfomi (FIL) minimal residual disease (MRD) Network started a collaborative effort to harmonize and standardize their methodologies at the national level, performing quality control (QC) rounds for follicular lymphoma (FL) and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) MRD assessment.