This paper considers the topic of sacred spaces in North America through the vantage offered by Chacoan roads, monumental avenues constructed by Ancestral Four Corners people of the US Southwest from ca. AD 850–1200. I begin with a critique of the concept of the “sacred” as applied to the Chacoan past, suggesting instead that the Indigenous North American concept of power (in the sense of potent, generative force infused throughout the environment) offers a more culturally relevant framing. Next, I present three examples of locations along Chacoan roads that I argue were recognized as places of power due to the inherent landscape affordances of these locales. I close by briefly describing some of the practices carried out along Chacoan roads and drawing a connection between the understanding of “sacredness” evidenced through the archaeology of Chacoan roads and contemporary Native American activist efforts to protect landscapes of great power and meaning.

Este artículo analiza la inserción laboral de los inmigrantes extranjeros llegados entre 2007 y 2015. Las dimensiones seleccionadas para el análisis bivariado y multivariado de esta dimensión crítica de la integración, incluyen el acceso al empleo, la adecuación educativa de las tareas desempeñadas por los ocupados (mismatch) y la prevalencia del empleo informal de la población ocupada. Los desempeños de los inmigrantes en estas dimensiones se compran con los de la población nativa no migrante y retornada, primero de forma bivariada, luego mediante la inclusión de la condición migratoria en la estimación de modelos logísticos binomiales de la probabilidad de empleo, informalidad y sobrecalificación. La fuente empleada corresponde a las Encuestas Continuas de Hogares del período 2012 – 2015.

Art and Revolution: Luigi Lanzi in front of Jacques-Louis David. Diplomacy, moral dilemmas and Artistic Historiography at the end of the Eighteenth Century • Luigi Lanzi in La storia pittorica dell'Italia of 1792, at the end of the Roman school, gives a long and precise description of the famous painting by Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii (1785), appreciating its author. But, in the next edition, of 1795-1796, that passage disappears. The reasons for this absence are known: a censure against the political commitment of the French painter, who sided with the more extremist positions of Robespierre. Those revolutionary ideas raise many questions about the role of the painter and the judgment one must have of him. Certainly they were contrary to the thought of Lanzi, who in this way tried to erase David's memory, without distinguishing between the artist and his art. However, what Lanzi did seems to be in harmony with the foreign policy of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, of which he was an employee, first on good terms with the French regime and then an enemy. Perhaps Lanzi had united his own ideas with those of the Grand Duchy. After all, he had always been attentive to the political implications of his work and therefore such an attitude is not surprising.The relationship between politics and art criticism did not concern only Lanzi, but also other writers of the time, such as Leopoldo Cicognara, even forced by events to change the title of his Storia della scultura. In short, this contribution, in addition to the interesting case of Lanzi and David, intends to reflect and question on the relationships, more important than we think, between political events and the choices of art historians between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This paper addresses new funding issues faced by SMEs. Over a period of nine months, the authors conducted a preliminary study into the problems surrounding stacked funding faced by SMEs and their financial advisers. The study includes a short literature review, the outcomes of three round table discussions and the identification of problems and possible solutions.

The war in Ukraine has severely affected the Italian-and the wider European-energy ecosystem, forcing Rome (and Brussels), to reduce dependence on Russian energy yet at the same time continue the green transition. Short-and mediumterm strategies have been adopted to move away from Moscowsupplied gas and to curb overall demand. Nevertheless, reconciling security and sustainability objectives remains a key challenge for the EU. In the run-up to COP27, the UN climate conference to be held in November 2022, the longterm sustainability of new energy deals between EU countries and climate-vulnerable developing countries will be under the spotlight. The affordability of energy is also a crucial concern, prompting a wide set of European measures that aim to contain rising prices and explore various options for intervention in energy markets. In this regard, Italy's actions have been notable, both domestically, with ad hoc measures, and at the European level.