Sator

Archeoastronomia: un'interpretazione astronomica del quadrato magico del Sator proposta alla luce dello splendido e recentissimo rinvenimento di Aosta. Nella chiesa dedicata a Sant'Orso, ad Aosta, è infatti venuto alla luce un grande mosaico, risalente al XII secolo, carico di significati simbolici e religiosi. La peculiarità della scritta, disposta in forma circolare, suggerisce una nuova e più convincente interpretazione del Sator.

Love at first sight has always been recognized as a cliché which belongs to the western narrative tradition. Since the Greek novel, this commonplace typically works as a necessary motor of love narratives. Rich studies, such as Jean Rousset's _Leurs Yeux se rencontrèrent_ analyze love at first sight, but without taking into account the gender of the author, the narrator, and the protagonists. This article proposes to revisit this narrative cliché and situate it in the SATOR project, in short, to define it as topos, in order to study its forms, while inscribing sexual differences. Our study of the eighteenth-century novel shows first that this is not a single topos, but a macro-topos combining at least two topoi. Moreover, the introduction of the element of gender in this study suggests an unexpected notion, namely that this «universal» cliché is, in fact, the product of foucaultan exclusively masculine imagination.

I spent some time thinking about the warm and heartfelt relations that I have had with Tatiana Vladykina over the decades, regardless of the distance between Estonia and Udmurtia, and our rarely meeting face to face. In short, she is my kindred spirit, a person with similar thoughts walking the same spiritual road.