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«Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774
(2016)
The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to ...
Micro turbo expander design for small scale ORC
(2020)
The Tesla expander was first developed by N. Tesla at the beginning of the 20th century. In recent years, due to the increasing appeal towards micro power generation and energy recovery from wasted flows, this cost effective ...
Wackenroder e Reichardt
(2014)
Wackenroder's conception of music is strongly influenced by the musical thought of the composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who was a romantic music teacher, friend and mentor of Wackenroder, whom he introduced to the ...
Beyond Nuclear Ambiguity
(2019)
The objective of the thesis was to illustrate the trajectory of Iranian nuclear crisis from the origins of the nuclear program to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly referred as the nuclear deal. The ...
Città metropolitane e politiche urbane
(2009)
More than fifteen years after the introduction of direct election, the mayors are still the most popular politicians in Italy. The personal relationship set up with the citizens and the strengthening of the city councils ...
Chapter Un intervento sottotraccia. L’ospedale della Croce rossa italiana in Corea (1950-55)
(2024)
In the summer of 1950 the United States asked Italy for a military contribution, even symbolic, to be used in the war in Korea. The Italian government instead decided to send a humanitarian mission, as Sweden did, and sent ...
Chapter Traduzioni, spiegazioni, commenti: testo e metatesto nella prosa di Meneghello
(2024)
Self-commentary plays a fundamental role in Meneghello’s work. It is part of an intrinsically autobiographical prose, where the individual dimension, constantly dropped into the collective one, is charged with a documentary ...
L’evoluzione della codifica del genitivo dal tipo sintetico al tipo analitico nelle carte del Codice diplomatico longobardo
(2018)
The subject of this work is the morphosyntactic analysis of a corpus of Latin documentary papers which were written in the centre and the north of the Italian peninsula between the 7th and the 8th century. The study focuses ...
Coworking
(2021)
Coworking spaces are now widespread in Italy, and coworking is presented as an organisational innovation able to meet the needs of the new self-employed work. But what kind of work is actually performed in these spaces? ...
Chapter Atto e i Pistoiesi
(2024)
In the relationship between bishop Atto and the Pistoiese people, two periods should be distinguished: the one during his life (1133-1153) characterized by political-economic conflict culminating with the excommunication ...
Corruzione pubblica
(2011)
This book contains the proceedings of the seminar held in Florence on 6 May 2011 within the framework of a research project of national scope funded by the Ministry of Education (MUIR). The principal inspiring aim is the ...
La Libertà di manifestazione del pensiero e la libertà religiosa nelle società multiculturali
(2009)
The balancing of rights of equal status is a question widely debated in all modern legal systems, but the complexity of western societies – increasingly engaged with the interaction of different cultures and traditions – ...
Chapter La mobilità occupazionale a Verona tra tardo Medioevo ed Età Moderna: fonti e questioni metodologiche
(2025)
Recent studies on the relationship between economic inequality and social mobility highlight the significant role of measuring occupational mobility in understanding social mobility. The available data for the city of ...
Short history of Biology from the origins to the 20th Century
(2003)
The book tells the story of the development of both knowledge and theories about the living organisms since Antiquity until the beginning of the 20th century. It also endeavours to link the advances in sciences and the ...
Chapter André Gorz. Il valore del ‘sufficiente’
(2024)
The article reconstructs André Gorz's intellectual itinerary, with a focus on his critique of subject’s alienation due to the functioning modes of capitalist economy. From this point of view, attention is payed to Gorz's ...
Chapter Web archiving in Tunisia post-2011: The National Library of Tunisia’s experience
(2024)
The National Library of Tunisia had undertaken the digitization of written heritage and the "heritagization" of digital documents. To meet the second requirement, a web archiving unit was created outside the legal deposit ...
Tra territorio e città
(2014)
By summarising some selected bachelor and master's degree theses, the volume offers an overview of the study activities conducted within the Degree courses in Planning of the University of Florence, Empoli Campus. The ...
Tra economia e politica: l'internazionalizzazione di Finmeccanica, Eni ed Enel
(2010)
In an economic system dominated by small and medium enterprises, striking among the large companies are Finmeccanica, Eni and Enel, partially controlled by the Ministry of the Economy and Finance. What are the links between ...
Chapter Il corpo fonico di Libera nos a malo
(2024)
Starting with the most recent theoretical studies in the Anglo-Saxon world on relationships between Sound and Literature, this essay reconstructs the presence and function of the phonic corpus (music, nursery rhymes, ...
L'Islam spiegato ai miei studenti. Undici lezioni sul diritto islamico
(2010)
Beyond all instrumentalisation, the rooted Muslim presence in Italy raises problems of various kinds that are not easy to resolve. Inevitably, the need to comprehend the content of the principles and the rules governing ...
TRIZ Future Conference 2004
(2004)
TRIZ the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving is a living science and a practical methodology: millions of patents have been examined to look for principles of innovation and patterns of excellence. Large and small companies ...
L’eccezione come regola: il paradosso teorico del restauro / The Exception as the Rule: The Paradox of Restoration
(2025)
Rethinking restoration in its theoretical aspects today means addressing certain epistemic and cultural issues that can lead scholars into the intricate terrain of critical debate. Criticism is a crucial aspect that ...
Chapter Corsi e ricorsi della scultura altomedievale italiana: reimpieghi e rivisitazioni tra Otto e Novecento
(2024)
Starting from a historiographical analysis that highlights the rising, between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, of a strongly innovative glance at sculptural materials ...
«Per amor di poesia (o di versi)»
(2018)
Giorgio Caproni is certainly among the most loved Italian poets of the 20th century. Anna Dolfi used this widespread passion to involve not only well-known scholars of Caproni, but also young researchers, in new research ...
Chapter Estimation of gross and primary production in a coastal forest area undergone to clearcuts
(2024)
The current study presents the application of a model combination strategy to analyse gross and net production in a Mediterranean pine wood ecosystem. The test site is in the San Rossore Regional Park (Central Italy), an ...
Margarete Susman e i saggi sul femminile
(2015)
Margarete Susman (1872-1966), an important figure in German-speaking culture, was an essayist, Kulturtheoretikerin, philosopher, poet and painter. Her vast production - almost unknown in Italy - deals with a variety of ...
Europa e Italia. Studi in onore di Giorgio Chittolini / Europe and Italy. Studies in honour of Giorgio Chittolini
(2011)
With this collection of studies, the Reti Medievali editorial team intends to honour a maestro who, through the example of his research and his constant openness to discussion and debate, showed an entire generation of ...
Chapter La sociologia francese tra fordismo e società postindustriale: Georges Friedmann, Pierre Naville e Alain Touraine
(2024)
The subject at work, in different forms and modalities, is at the center of attention of these three scholars. Labor relations constitute the fulcrum in which the condition and action of workers and their social movements ...
Chapter Fra dispatrio e rimpatrio: Luigi Meneghello nella fase inglese
(2024)
The essay provides a bird’s eye view of Luigi Meneghello’s social and intellectual life at the University of Reading in the early Sixties. It includes his wife Katia’s great contribution as well as those of his main ...
Chapter Diritto del lavoro e diritto civile: profili di confronto e di interazione
(2024)
The essay initiates a comparison between labor law and civil law under the aspect of differences regarding the role of contractual autonomy, the heteronomous intervention of the law and atypical negotiations, as well as ...
Chapter La chiave per leggere la crisi. Il contesto di produzione del textus translationis di san Nicola a Bari, di Niceforo
(2024)
This paper aims to clarify the production context of the textus written in Bari by Nicephorus, about the translation of the relics of St. Nicholas from Myra (Turkey) to Bari. Through the study of narrative and textual ...
Chapter ‘Artigiani’ e ‘salariati’ nello specchio della società urbana dell’Italia tardo-medievale
(2024)
The subject of this contribution is the divergent image that the urban society of late medieval Italy had of craftsmen and wage earners. Although both groups belonged to the broader category of manual workers, the masters ...
Chapter «la vita la zé prima na barba, dopo na gran paura»: uno sguardo su alcuni trapianti inediti da Philip Larkin
(2024)
This paper offers an overview of Luigi Meneghello’s unpublished translations of Philip Larkin’s poems in Vicentine dialect. The materials of the Meneghello Fund – owned by the Maria Corti Foundation and kept at the Centre ...
Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2016
(2017)
The work ‘Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni 2016’ is the outcome of the international seminar held in Certaldo on September 16, 2017, promoted by the ENGB National Association (Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio) and ...
Le manifestazioni per gli 80 anni dell'Ateneo Fiorentino
(2005)
This work was commissioned by the Organising Committee for the Eighty Years of the University of Florence. The volume collects the programs of all the events organised during the academic year 2003-2004. For each category ...
La contabilità ambientale regionale
(2007)
The volume analyses the decision-making process of public entities and defines a regional environmental accounting methodology according to which the environmental variable contributes to the definition of strategic choices. ...
Chapter «Il estoient si mauvés que por leur mauvestés furent il tuit noiés». Diluvi e carestie nelle profezie di Merlino mediolatine e romanze: un’indagine
(2024)
The essay presents an analysis of how different prophetic textual traditions depicted catastrophic natural events between the 12th and early 14th centuries. The focus is particularly on the Latin and Romance prophetic ...
Florentia
(2024)
The volume Florentia. Studi di archeologia: vol. 5 - Special Issue - Studies in Honor of Guido Vannini is a tribute to the career and outstanding contributions of Professor Guido Vannini, former professor at the University ...
Chapter Il contributo dell’archeozoologia alla conoscenza del rapporto uomo-animale nel Medioevo toscano (X-XIV secolo)
(2024)
From 2004 to 2010 the chair of medieval archeology at the University of Florence, led by prof. Guido Vannini encouraged and supported the archaeozoological analysis of the faunal remains recovered at Castel Vaiolo, Prato, ...
Il nazional-fascismo economico del giovane Franco Modigliani
(2019)
Il nazional-fascismo economico del giovane Franco Modigliani. This volume is the first to reconstruct the intellectual profile of the young Franco Modigliani, who adheres to the economic and political theories of fascism ...
La residenza per studenti universitari tra norma, progetto e realizzazione
(2024)
The book illustrates the results of the research activity that the authors, with the contribution of researchers from the TESIS Inter-University Center, have been carrying out for more than twenty years in support of the ...
Chapter Conlusions
(2024)
The summary provides an overview of the essays collected in this volume and places them in the context of research that has innovatively redefined the theme of the “frontier” in the Early Middle Ages in recent decades. In ...
Chapter Ageno il londinese. La vita avventurosa del ministro della Repubblica di Genova in Inghilterra
(2024)
Francesco Maria Ageno was appointed three times minister to the Court of St James's by the Most Serene Republic of Genoa. During his long permanence in London – his mission started in 1760 and ended up in 1780 –, he was ...
“Il tramonto d’Europa”. Ungaretti e le poetiche del secondo Novecento
(2023)
The shift between the first and second half of the twentieth century marked a watershed. It represented the “sunset of modernity” and made tradition unattainable, thereby calling into question the very survival of poetry. ...
Il pensiero della poesia
(2017)
What is the common aspect linking the studies of this volume, which take into account very different authors such as Conte, Palazzeschi, Zanzotto, Caproni, Rosselli, Biagini, some crespuscolar poets, Leopardi, Annovi, ...
Chapter Towards a new history of old mobility: obstacles and prospects
(2025)
A new wave of empirical and data-driven studies on the history of social mobility in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period has been emerging in recent years. This trend bears some resemblance to the wave of historical ...
Agricultural Meteorology and Climatology
(2018)
Agricultural Meteorology and Climatology is an introductory textbook for meteorology and climatology courses at faculties of agriculture and for agrometeorology and agroclimatology courses at faculties whose curricula ...
Chapter Layout and Materiality of the Leukophryena Epigraphic Dossier in Magnesia on the Maeander – Did They Matter?
(2024)
This chapter explores some aspects of the materiality and layout of the Leukophryena epigraphic dossier (I.Magnesia 16-87). Starting from the dossier’s layout, I analyze the location of the documents within the dossier, ...
Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions
(2020)
This collection draws strength from its cross-disciplinarity, featuring contributions by scholars who investigate Bracciolini's contribution to many fields of knowledge in the Western tradition, spanning across politics ...
«Sotto l'ombra della patente del Santo Officio»
(2019)
What was the Roman Inquisition? How did inquisitors operate in the Italian society of the 16th and 17th century? In an attempt to answer these questions, the author analyses the inquisitors’ familia , the Court of Faith's ...
Chapter Site Custody Activism: Sine qua non dell’‘Archeologia di comunità’
(2024)
My goal with this chapter is to share our experience at Tall Hisban in Jordan with what I have chosen to call site custody activism or simply SCA. After introducing the notion of SCA, I briefly examine the historical role ...
Chapter Razzismi. Dall’inferiorità della razza allo sfruttamento del lavoro
(2025)
This essay explores the historical and sociological evolution of racism, tracing its transformation from early biological and cultural forms to contemporary economic expressions. While classical racism was rooted in ...
La democrazia in mutamento
(2010)
«European democracy doesn't need national heroes, ready to die for their homeland, but critical, active citizens who together develop and build the model of society we want to live in.» European integration represents an ...
Lettere 1936-1963
(2012)
Author of Architettura del medioevo in Sardegna which won him the Premio Nazionale Olivetti in 1956, Raffaello Delogu was an art historian and Commissioner for Antiquities and Monuments in Sardinia, Abruzzo and Sicily. His ...
The European Pilgrimage Routes for promoting sustainable and quality tourism in rural areas
(2015)
The International Conference the European Pilgrimage Routes for promoting sustainable and quality tourism in rural areas took place December 4 to 6, 2014 in Firenze (Italy) and was organized by the Department of Agricultural, ...
Chapter Carolingian koinè and documentary frontiers of the kingdom of Italy
(2024)
Even in relation to the history of documentation – given its nature as legal history, social history, history of institutions and ideas – we encounter the theme of frontiers, since the latter is inseparable from that of ...
Chapter I materiali ‘pre-crociati’ di Shobak: il problema della residualità nei contesti ceramici
(2024)
The main aim of this paper is to deal with the “problem” of residuality in archaeology, with a particular focus on pottery assemblages, starting from the medieval contexts of Shobak. Shobak represents a suitable case-study ...
AXMEDIS 2007 Conference Proceedings
(2007)
The AXMEDIS International Conference series has been established since 2005 and is focused on the research, developments and applications in the cross-media domain, exploring innovative technologies to meet the challenges ...
Chapter Multi-level structure of the First Tuesday communities after the 2000 dot-com crash: A social network analysis of economic actors based on web archives
(2024)
The First Tuesday initiative began in the UK in 1998. This series of monthly meetings between IT entrepreneurs and investors played a key role in the development of the new digital economy. In this chapter, we use First ...
Alfavitar radi učenija malych detej. Un abbecedario nella Russia del Seicento
(2008)
The volume presents the edition of a copy of an anonymous Russian manuscript spelling book probably written by the famous scholar Yevfimiy Cudovsky, or by personalities close to him from the Muscovite background of the ...