The notion of Ficino as a self-styled prophetic, hierophantic figure fits not only within the world of active intellectuals in early modern Europe (Giovanni Mercurio da Correggio and Savonarola come to mind as do
transalpine figures like Jan of Leiden), but more specifically in the context of millenarian Florence at the at the end of the Quattrocento.
Their order, the
Transalpine Redemptorists, is ultra traditional: they even believe the Vatican to be a nest of liberals and have broken with the papacy by refusing to stop celebrating mass in Latin.
This tunnel, which is the second to be built through the Lotschberg in western Switzerland, forms part of a
transalpine rail link between Germany and Italy.
The acquisition mainly concerns a number of BP service stations in Southern Germany (247 stations), a non-controlling shareholding in the Bayernoil refinery as well as output rights from this refinery and a (non-controlling) interest in the
Transalpine oil pipeline.
In turn, medieval Italy was different from
transalpine Europe, where "class division of town and country, urban and castle society, territorial nobility and commercial bourgeoisie" represented a rejection of antiquity (47).
The Swiss authorities have once again delayed the opening of a second
transalpine rail tunnel in central Switzerland
The Brenner and Mount Cenis
transalpine tunnels, and the cross-Pyrenee rail link between Figueras and Perpignan, will also be funded.More than Euro 550 million (20%) for Galileo, the European satellite navigation system.
As the notes to the essays demonstrate, Italian scholars do not (or did not) commonly tap the achievements of transatlantic or
transalpine work either.
On January 23, Italian truckers staged a 12-hour blockade to protest Swiss traffic and transportation policies, which they say have greatly complicated
transalpine transit.
To some extent, this is similar to the system already in use in Switzerland, where the tax disk paid by drivers driving through the country funds work to develop new
transalpine rail links.
The nineteenth-century German traveler Johann Gottfried Seume, who still enjoys a certain fame for walking all the way from his
transalpine home to Syracuse, commented disparagingly on faster modes of travel.
To some extent this is similar to the system already in use in Switzerland, where the tax disk paid by drivers driving through the country funds work to develop new
transalpine rail links.
