Edifici Antisismici in Cemento Armato

Nella presente opera si troverà il riflesso di parte del corso di Tecnica delle costruzioni, che da oltre venti anni svolgo nella Università di Bologna, e delle numerose lezioni estemporaneamente tenute in vari Istituti universitari, in particolare quello di perfezionamento per le costruzioni in cemento armato, presso il Politecnico di Milano; naturalmente tono State numerose e ampie le parti aggiunte all'originaria traccia didattica, in vista anche di offrire qualche concreto ausilio nella pratica della professione. …

The world of early 18th century opera was very different to that of, say, Mozart. The story was the thing. Librettos were offered to musicians as a means of getting the poetic drama before the public. Thus the great librettists were set multiple times. So it was with Vienna's imperial poet Metastasio's Catone in Utica. This story, set in the ancient Numidian city of Utica - now a ruin in Tunisia - involves the Roman Cato the Younger and his conflict with Julius Caesar. The plot itself is the usual mixture of love and betrayal, but because it was by Metastasio there were at least two settings, by Vinci and Hasse, even before Vivaldi composed the present piece.

The world premiere recording of an opera by a Neapolitan master who is fast gaining an exceptional modern reputation. Setting a libretto by Metastasio, Leonardo Vinci's opera was unveiled in Rome in 1728 with an all-male cast (women having been banned from the stage by the Pope). Max Emanuel Cencic gathers around him a superb cast led by Riccardo Minaci.