Enrico Pellegrini Livres

Sympathetic, good-for-nothing Rosso Fiorentino leaves the beautiful Italian Riviera to follow the woman he loves to America, and soon finds himself the hero of a darkly funny tale when his improbable business plan becomes the rage on Wall Street. Rosso Fiorentino, a charming loser who dreams of becoming a writer, falls in love with Chloé, a brilliant young woman with a troubled past. They meet in India, where famous Italian novelist the Maestro has decided to spend his last days. They cross paths again in Portofino, and Rosso, following the Maestro's injunction to finally do something worthwhile with his life, enlists the help of his friends, a baker and a street peddler, to follow Chloé to America and sell focaccia on the streets of New York. While Rosso struggles to make a living with odd jobs, Chloé, now armed with a law degree from Chicago, gets hired by a top Wall Street firm. Rosso is eventually able to achieve his dream, opening a little bakery in Queens, followed by a second on Broadway. The business is an instant success. The banks start throwing money at him, and overnight the company undergoes the largest IPO in U.S. history. At least until the bubble bursts and all plays out in a New York courtroom. This modern fairy tale about ambition, hubris, love, and redemption exposes the absurdity of the 2008 global meltdown, and foreshadows the future, all with scintillating wit.

This Thesis presents new approaches for control of semi-active suspension systems. In particular, towards maximizing the utilization of these fast modern devices, it focuses on three aspects: semi-active device modeling, force tracking control and vertical dynamic suspension control. In the first part the dynamical properties of the semi-active devices are analyzed and modeled. In the second part the obtained damper model is integrated into a controller structure, which consists of a feedforward and feedback part. The hysteresis effects of the device are taken into account in the control design structure and, therefore, the force tracking can be improved independently from the global suspension controller. In comparison to existing strategies, the third part of this Thesis presents a global suspension control concept, based on the optimality principle, which takes into account the damper limitations.

Questo libro racconta le feste: le racconta con scrupoloso impegno, con una voluta iterazione che ne fa degli "eventi", con l'attenzione ai dettagli, alla maniera della "short story" americana. Racconta la voglia di piacere e di stupire dei giovani di una classe sociale che si sposta dall'Italia all'Europa, all'America, seguendo il jet set dell'aristocrazia, lo "smart set"californiano, i "nouveaux riches" dell'Est. Quattro stagioni, dodici personaggi, dodici feste e poi l'epilogo che festa non è.