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Chapter Signorie rurali e poteri superiori in Italia settentrionale (secoli XIV-XV)
(2023)
The essay focuses on the relationship between states and rural lordships in northern Italy in the late Middle Ages. Two main questions lie at the core of the investigation: on the one hand, the influence exerted by central ...
Chapter L’usura tra Santa Croce e Santa Maria Novella: Pietro de Trabibus e Remigio de’ Girolami a confronto
(2020)
Between 1290 and 1310, two Mendicant friars active in Florence dealt with the controversial issue of usury: the Franciscan lector Peter of Trabibus, who until now has been studied primarily for his relationship to Olivi’s ...
Testo. Dialogo. Traduzione. Per una analisi del tedesco tra codici e varietà
(2009)
"Testo. Dialogo. Traduzione. Per una analisi del tedesco tra codici e varietà" applies the terminology and methods of various subfields addressing textual analysis in German, namely textual linguistics, semiotics, pragmatics, ...
Chapter Poteri signorili e chiese locali in Valle d’Aosta (XV secolo): d’Aosta: il caso della vallata di Cogne (secoli XIII-XV)
(2021)
Aim of this article is to discuss the relationship between local powers and local churches starting from a peculiar case study: Cogne’s valley between XIIIth and XVth century. Set in Aosta valley, in the heart of Western ...
Chapter Dalla geografia storica all’archeologia del paesaggio e dell’ambiente. Una irrinunciabile eredità di Massimo Quaini
(2021)
This contribution discusses the legacy of Massimo Quaini’s research in the field of postclassical rchaeology and, in particular, in the study of landscape and environment. Its active participation in the archaeological ...
Giovanni Raboni poeta e lettore di poesia (1953-1966)
(2017)
A poet, critic and translator, Giovanni Raboni is one of the most important figures in the literary panorama of the second half of the 20th Century. This volume sheds light on his twofold journey in the chaotic magma of ...
Chapter L’ombra di Don Juan Tenorio sulla scena barocca partenopea: indizi d’archivio e canoni drammaturgici
(2020)
This paper highlights archival evidence and dramaturgic mythemes in order to reconsider the historiographical issues related to the XVIIth-century theatrical reception of El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra outside ...
Chapter Piccola guida per sviluppare strumenti terminologici
(2021)
Developing terminology products as tools for organizing and transferring specialized knowledge requires careful considerations already during the planning stage. The main content of this paper is a checklist, which is the ...
Chapter L’Olandese Volante: da Vasco da Gama a Wagner
(2021)
The legend of the Flying Dutchman has undergone between 1500 and 1800 several metamorphoses. A first hint to it is to be found in the fifth canto of the Lusíadas, where Vasco da Gama’s enterprise is presented as a faustian ...
Chapter L’Ateneo e le istituzioni politiche
(2024)
The essay concerns the Commitment of the University Professors within the most important local Political Institutions: the Municipality of Florence and the Tuscany Region. The chronological period examined in the first ...
Chapter The Impacts of Digital Fabrication on the Construction Industry: A Systematic Review
(2023)
The building industry is a major consumer of natural resources and a large contributor to environmental degradation, leading to a need to rethink current building practices. Digital fabrication (Dfab) technologies, which ...
Chapter Sl.eccl. мудрость. Studi per un lexicon plurilingue dei termini religiosi e filosofico-teologici
(2018)
The article aims at defining the semantics of Church Slavonic мудрость as it emerges from medieval and pre-modern Eastern Slavic sources (from 12th to 18th c.). Occurrences were verified in the historical sub-section of ...
Chapter L. Tolstoj lettore di scrittori e filosofi occidentali: fra indipendenza e appropriazione
(2017)
This article focuses on Tolstoy’s attitude towards the European writers he reads. From what he says about them (in his Diary, notes, letters, prefaces), we can characterize his attitude towards the Western cultural tradition ...
Chapter Transferring useful knowledge. Quality mechanisms in European apprenticeship
(2023)
Human capital is central to current debates about the sources of growth and divergence in the premodern economy. Apprenticeship, the key formal arrangement by which occupational skills were transferred in this period, has ...
Chapter Comparative Adult and Continuing Education: A Guiding Essay
(2020)
This paper provides a guide for developing a research design for comparative studies in adult and continuing education. To that end, a research methodology will be presented that was developed at the COMPALL and INTALL ...
Chapter L’Urbano. Origine e fortuna di una novella pseudo-boccaccesca
(2020)
The paper pursues an investigation on an apocryphal text still underinvestigated by scholars: the Urbano, falsely attributed to Boccaccio. The first part focuses on its fortune in the Boccaccio’s canon, from the first ...
Chapter Fisco e mobilità geografica. Il censimento ostiatim in un villaggio della pianura campana (1522)
(2021)
The paper studies a rare record: the census (numerazione dei fuochi) of Fratta piccola (today Frattaminore), a village near Naples, in 1522, focusing on the process of counting the households in the Kingdom of Naples and ...
Chapter Determinants of spatial intensity of stop locations on cruise passengers tracking data
(2021)
This paper aims at analyzing the spatial intensity in the distribution of stop locations of cruise passengers during their visit at the destination through a stochastic point process modelling approach on a linear network. ...
Spazi e politica nella modernità tecnologica
(2006)
This notebook is the fourth in the series designed to illustrate the results of an interdisciplinary study group, fostered by Lea Campos Boralevi, Vittore Collina and Bruna Consarelli, lecturers in the history of political ...
Chapter Application of the Internet of Things (IoT) for Energy Efficiency in Buildings: A Bibliometric Review.
(2023)
Buildings are experiencing tremendous transformation, where Internet of things (IoT) is been used to transform traditional buildings into smart structures. While there are viable IoT techniques, developing IoT applications ...
Chapter Environmental training of the Italian Coast Guard between tradition and innovation
(2020)
The Coast Guard is an organization committed to safeguarding the marine environment, that requires specialized personnel. Therefore, it is necessary to integrate the "basic" preparation, with "specialist" training in ...
Chapter Post-stratification as a tool for enhancing the predictive power of classification methods
(2021)
It is well known that, in classification problems, the predictive capacity of any decision-making model decreases rapidly with increasing asymmetry of the target variable (Sonquist et al., 1973; Fielding 1977). In particular, ...
Chapter Una finestra aperta sull’Europa orientale: la Piccola biblioteca slava
(2019)
From 1928 to 1932 Italy’s Istituto per l’Europa orientale (Eastern European Institute) published a book series entitled “Piccola Biblioteca Slava.” This was not the first book series devoted to Slavic culture nor the last. ...
Chapter Legge e giustizia amministrativa durante il ventennio fascista
(2021)
The paper focuses on the relationship between the Fascist regime and the administrative justice. Once identified in the “invention” of exclusive jurisdiction (over individual matters) a “revolutionary” act of the early ...
I paesaggi nelle campagne di Roma
(2005)
This book presents the results of research carried out by the author over the three years of the PhD in Landscape Design at Florence University. The first part of the work focuses on the theoretical and methodological ...
Chapter Rappresentazioni transcalari, misure e rilievo dello spazio urbano in Leonardo
(2023)
Compositional and functional elements of the innovative architectures by Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelozzo, Sangallo, seen during its Florentine stay, became for Leonardo a field of experimentation for the development of ...
Chapter Guidance Models and Practices Adopted Internationally to Promote the Exploration of Skills Relating to the Employability of Students with Disabilities. A First Meta-Analysis
(2018)
Employability is defined as an interweaving of a person’s human, social and psychological capital, mediated by situational variables, which allows individuals to enter the job market with a professional personal project ...
Chapter An Automated Framework for Ensuring Information Consistency in Price List Tendering Document
(2023)
Effective cost estimation for tendering plays a critical role in the building construction process, enabling efficient investment management and ensuring successful execution of the construction phase. Traditional cost ...
Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2001
(2004)
In the undulating plains of north-eastern Syria is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat. The archaeological sequence which has been brought to light stretches without interruption from the start of the ...
Chapter La città come contesto e soggetto educativo nel ventunesimo secolo. Pedagogia delle aree urbane: da spazi di crisi a luoghi della relazione
(2022)
The paper resumes the outcomes of the literature review conducted from the general theme regarding the city as an educational context and subject in the twenty-first century and presents a summary of the research design ...
Chapter Competenze e pratiche educative per realizzare la trasformazione verso economie e società sostenibili
(2022)
This work identifies the most significant studies addressing frameworks of ‘competencies’ aimed to be used to sustain a sustainability transformation, for both educators and learners, irrespective of the learning environment ...
Chapter La commercializzazione del vino e dell’olio in Italia settentrionale attraverso lo studio dei daziari tardomedievali
(2021)
The contribution reconstructs the wine and oil trade in Northern Italy, starting from the analysis of late medieval tariff books. The tariff books of the major cities are characterised by a wide range of wine products, ...
Chapter Economic inequality in Germany, 1500-1800
(2020)
The chapter reviews existing evidence regarding four aspects of economic inequality: relative factor rents, which relate to the factorial distribution of income and also underlie the so-called Williamson index (y/wus), ...
Chapter The Idea of Italian Travellers to Iran. Scholarly Research and Cultural Diplomacy in Post-war Italy
(2022)
This essay discusses the formation of “Italian travellers to Iran” as both a popular idea and scientific category. In the three decades after the Second World War, Italy and Iran were going through deep transformations and ...
Chapter Le traduzioni russe della Vita di Cimabue di Giorgio Vasari: strategie traduttive a confronto
(2023)
This chapter takes into consideration two Russian translations of the Vita of Cimabue. One of these presents a selection from Le Vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori by Giorgio Vasari and is dated 1933; ...
Chapter L’impossibile futuro dell’Europa o L’ultimo europeo 2284 di Miguel Real
(2023)
In 2015, Miguel Real publishes O último europeu 2284 (The Last European 2284), where he conducts, through the tale of an ideal and utopian city, an analysis of a European Union crumbling around all sorts of conflicts. In ...
Chapter 1, 1000, 100.000. Quanti e quali attori nei costrutti personali indeterminati?
(2016)
The aim of this article is to suggest a reflection on the indefinite-personal sentences of Russian. After a discussion of the properties of these sentences (1), we consider the grammatical and semantic characteristics of ...
I Corpora LBC
(2020)
Nowadays, lexicographical studies require an interaction with Digital Humanities. This volume presents the genesis and structure of the LBC database, a digital work support tool developed by the Multilanguage Cultural ...
Chapter L’Epistola Alexandri Magni ad Aristotelem nello Zibaldone Laurenziano, Plut. XXIX 8
(2021)
This essay considers the Epistola Alexandri Magni ad Aristotelem de miraculis Indiae copied by Giovanni Boccaccio in the ‘‘Zibaldone Laurenziano’’, the autograph anthology held in the Medicean-Laurentian Library in Florence ...
Valutazioni imprenditoriali per la successione nell'impresa familiare
(2008)
This book addresses the topic of entrepreneurial succession in the family business. This is a fundamental passage, frequently decisive in a type of enterprise that is extremely common in the Italian and European economic ...