The results of a topographical research carried out in the northwestern territory Abella’s "agro" show the type of population during the first century AD, the distribution of productive settlements in its "agro". While a first revision of the archaeological data deriving from the ancient Abella’s city seems to mark, despite the epigraphic documentation, a lack of historical evidence of the first imperial age, apparently the topographical data collected in the countryside do not seem to suggest the abandonment of the productive sites between the 1st century BC and the early Augustan age, but rather their vitality and persistence over time. Some archaeological data seem to demonstrate not only the continuation of production on the sites, but also a renovation activity of the buildings following the earthquake of 62 AD and of the eruption of 79 AD which certainly struck the territories of Abella as documented epigraphically in the nearby town of Nola. Paola Carfora
Starting from the recent intention of the Italian Prime Minister to include the environmental protection in the Italian Constitution, the article speaks about the lack of environmental protection in the Italian Constitution and analyzes the articles 2, 9 and 32 that – with an extensive interpretation – have guaranteed and guarantee an indirect constitutional protection to the environmental theme. An overview is given of the environmental safeguards present in more recent constitutions than the Italian one and in reformed constitutions of different geographical areas (South America, Africa, India, main European Countries), more in the European Treaties. At the end the text presents an author’s proposal to reform the Italian Constitution to insert the environmental protection both in the Fundamental Principles (art. 9) and in the First Part concerning Rights and Duties of citizens (art. 32 and 54). Mario Anzevino
Filomena Russo Del Prete. Descrizione: Il complesso monastico di Santa Chiara a Nola rappresenta un capitolo significativo della storia architettonica della città. La sua evoluzione, che parte dalla fondazione medievale e attraversa fasi di ampliamento e trasformazione fino all'età barocca, ne fa un caso emblematico del legame tra architettura e identità culturale. Il restauro del complesso, reso necessario dai danni subiti nel corso dei secoli, è oggi al centro di un dibattito più ampio che tocca le questioni fondamentali del restauro architettonico contemporaneo.
