proto industry, reuse, pasta museum, Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering, TD1-1066, Architectural engineering. Structural engineering of buildings, and TH845-895

About fifteen water mills settled in the Valley of the Mills of Gragnano. Thanks to new technologies, a few centuries later, fifty-seven new pasta factories were built on the Corso Sancio. The building typology was recurrent and constant. Each of them consisted of a ground floor, three floors in elevation and one or two underground levels that were in the rear close to the Vernotico stream. The complex retreated, for logistical and space reasons, from the road curtain, developing over an area of its own, with a large inner courtyard, a sort of real square, for the movement of horse-drawn carts, then trucks and therefore still several artifacts. For his time Alfonso Garofalo was one of the greatest Italian pasta manufacturers. After more than a hundred years the vertical production processes and the work done in many small building entities proved to be expensive with respect to industrial competitiveness. In other parts of Italy some pasta factories already appeared on a single level, with production in horizontal continuity and mechanized drying. In 1963 the historical Pastificio Alfonso Garofalo closed due to bankruptcy and the industrial activity was closed forever. The real problem that remains today is the reuse of these large abandoned container in the historic center. The building complex in the heart of the town, which is part of Industrial Archeology is now in serious disrepair and deserves to be restored and reused.

BATTLE of Lepanto, Greece, 1571, HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, POETRY (Literary form), MONARCHY, SICILY (Italy), and 1282-1409

La participación catalana en los preparativos para el combate que tuvo lugar el 7 de octubre de 1571 en el golfo de Lepanto y en la expedición misma fue cualitativa y cuantitativamente muy importante. Ello se reflejó después en una poliédrica multitud de manifestaciones para celebrar y recordar la victoria. Si nos ceñimos al ámbito literario en el conjunto de los territorios de la monarquía, fue Cataluña la que más contribuyó, en los compases inmediatos a la llegada de la noticia de Oriente, a glosar la victoria en verso narrativo de largo aliento en lengua vulgar, al menos en lo que a obras impresas se refiere. Reseñamos tres de esos textos y sus autores, prácticamente desconocidos por la historiografía literaria hispánica, y nos extendemos en más precisiones en el más significativo, el primer poema épico de materia lepantina impreso en la península. Se cierra el artículo con una reflexión sobre la necesaria incorporación de los textos de tradiciones literarias peninsulares no castellanas para el diseño inclusivo de un espacio literario común. The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7, 1571. Catalan involvement was highly significant, both qualitatively and quantitatively, in the years preceding the battle and during the expedition itself. This was later reflected in a multitude of multifaceted expressions of celebration and remembrance of the victory. With regard to literature, among the territories of the monarchy, it was the Crown of Aragon and, more specifically, Catalonia that contributed most to detailing the victory in lengthy narrative verse in the vernacular, in printed works at least, and always hot on the heels of the arrival of news from the East. We review three of these texts and their authors, who are practically unheard of in Hispanic literary historiography, and take a more detailed look at the most significant: the first epic poem on the events of Lepanto printed in the Iberian Peninsula. The article closes with a reflection on the need to incorporate texts from the Peninsula's non-Castilian literary traditions for a more inclusive concept of a common literary space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]