Lecteurs de la Renaissance: le ‘Cycle de Guiron’, source du ‘Roland Furieux’

Smart Elderly Care in China: a preliminary overview

China is facing a dramatic demographic challenge. Because of decades of strict birth control in the recent past, of the low fertility rates and of the in-crease of life quality and expectancy, China has become in a few years a fast ageing society. Since 2016, the government has devoted its attention to the needs of older adults, promoting various policies, at central and local levels, in order to encourage the research and use of new technologies in eldercare. These policies lay a particular ...

Fragments of Scribal Bilingualism in the Hittite Lexical Lists : the choice of verbal nouns in -war (-mar) versus nouns in -(ā)tar and -eššar

This paper aims at analysing the Hittite heteroclite nouns in -war (-mar) which are documented in the Hittite lexical lists, in order to evaluate their correspondence with the respective Akkadian entries and to take into consideration the similarities and the diferences with the forms in -(ā)tar and -eššar occurring in the same texts. Indeed, the bilingual or trilingual lists found at Ḫattuša have sections in Sumerian and/or Akkadian, and an additional column with the Hittite translation...

The Meaning of the Name Dracula (and Dracul) and Its Reconstruction

This article deals with the analysis of the meaning and the origin of the proper name Dracula, belonging to the well-known vampire created by Bram Stoker, from an etymological point of view. Indeed, Dracula is not a fctitious proper name, but it is the epithet of Vlad III (“the Impaler”), ruler of Wallachia in 15th century. The reconstruction of the etymology of this name, which can be analysed as drac +-ul +- a, has triggered a great discussion among scholars, who gave two diferent mean...