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...previously remote mountain areas have been developed for skiing and other forms of tourism. Many experts are now concerned that as the glaciers recede, the natural risks associated with them are increasing. "Over the last 20 years, we've seen higher temperatures and more melting," says François Valla, a glacier expert with Grenoble's Cemagref research center. "We're seeing new lakes forming everywhere." To deal with the potential threats, Valla has launched Glaciorisk, a six-country scientific project that aims to improve our understanding of glacier hazards and establish a database that will include "problem glaciers." Valla...
...moated castle. Dr. Sandys then touched upon Naples, where we may see the lofty arch of the Castello Nuovo. Here the centre of classic interest lies in the tomb of Virgil, over which Petrarch is said to have planted a laured tree. At Naples flourished the critic Laurentius Valla, who afterwards lived in Rome under the patronage of Pope Nicholas...
...special feature in it which attracted them. But gradually they found that what they cared for most in the ancient masterpieces was the perfection of their form. Henceforth they studied them for their form alone. Not for their matter. There were exceptions, of course, such as Laurentius Valla, Polilian, Pontanus, Marullus, Ficino, and his fellow Platonists, "amiable browsers in the Medicean park," as George Eliot calls them; but, on the whole, the great aim of Italian scholars was to emulate the form of the ancients to write elegant Latin and Greek." Ciceronianism, the clothing of trifles-often filthy trifles...
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