16 articles in this issue
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Roberta Mullini
Alessandra Calanchi,Jan Marten Ivo Klaver
Jan Marten Ivo Klaver
This essay looks at the origin and success of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous maxim: “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”. Arthur Conan Doyle’s repeated use of the phrase in numerous Sherlock Hol... see more
Silio Bozzi
The most famous of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, is not only a relentless solver of mysteries, but is also an enigma himself. Only another investigator may shed light on the hidden contradictions and mysteries of the universe and perhaps on Holmes’s most s... see more
Guido Dall’Olio
This essay focuses on some characteristics of the inquisitorial trial, comparing it with the accusatory procedure. The inquisitorial trial, which resulted in almost inevitable torture of the accused, is certainly in our eyes an injustice and a violation o... see more
Davide Sisti
DNA is a long molecule, which is the basis of the chemistry of living beings. The DNA of an individual is the cause of its uniqueness, whether it is a unicellular organism, a plant or an animal. Until about two decades ago the study of DNA was very diffic... see more
Maurizio Ascari
Although Sherlock Holmes has been considered as the prototype of the scientific detective, Doyle’s curiosity notoriously embraced paranormal phenomena such as spiritualism, clairvoyance and even the existence of fairies… Far from being atypical, this atti... see more
Stefano A.E. Leoni
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries European scholars of natural philosophy often attempted to formalize music in apparently very different contexts. It is fascinating to follow the influence of magic and the symbolic on high culture, often resulti... see more
Marco Rocchi
This paper deals with the relation between the works of Conan Doyle (especially the Sherlockian Canon) and Freemasonry. In the article the Masonic experience of Conan Doyle is described, as well as the Masonic references in his literary works. Both the li... see more
Renato Raffaelli
This essay compares the famous story of Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, published for the first time in 1841, to Walter Scott’s “Wandering Willie’s Tale”, which appeared in Redgauntlet (1824). In Scott’s fantastic story a monkey plays an important r... see more
Alessandra Calanchi,Marco Monari
Pietro Zampa was born in Bologna in 1877 and died in Rimini in 1944. He was an engineer and an expert of the building industry, agriculture, herbalism, chemical fertilizers, methane, municipal waste, and he was also an amateur musician and the author of n... see more
Philip Weller
This article proposes a means of analysing the differences between Detective Fiction and Crime Fiction, in terms of multi genre content, concentrating especially on the development of Italian works in these fields. It also provides a shortened case study,... see more
Beatrice Catenacci
Graphology experts operate in two main areas: verification of the authenticity of a piece of writing in cases of imitations or counterfeits, and the search for the identity of the writer in the case of anonymous letters. Letters have an expressive power r... see more
Cinzia Gimelli
Thanks to the scientist Paul Ekman we are now able to assess the type of influence that our non-verbal behaviour has on other people: we can now judge the ability of people to send non-verbal signals and know how to interpret them. We recognize that infor... see more
Laura Volpini
Investigative psychology as a field of research, study and application of forensic psychology has come into being in our country in the last fifteen years. In particular, act 397 on defensive investigations in 2000, has, at the stage of preliminary invest... see more