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Chapter Along the Caeretan coast and forward on
(2020)
The territory along the coast north-west of Ro me, still well preserved; in the Etruscan period was for the most under Caere control; it had the three important ports. The territory of Caere has been analyzed for a long ...
Traduzione di A presença dos dias / La presenza dei giorni
(2020)
Adalberto Alves is an internationally renowned Portuguese poet, translator and arabist essayist and he is the author of a wide literary activity. The collection of aphorisms A presença dos dias / La presenza dei giorni is ...
Plants and vegetation of NW Ethiopia
(2022)
Pichi Sermolli’s work with his more than 2750 collections of plants from nearly 150 localities on the Lake Tana expedition in Ethiopia in 1937 was interrupted by World War II, but completed in 1947 at the Royal Botanic ...
Chapter L’iconografia di Giovanni Colombini (1304-1367): fondatore dei gesuati
(2020)
This work will try to follow the development of the iconography of Blessed Giovanni Colombini from the first images handed down to us throughout the XV century. By reading the hagiographic sources, we will try to go back ...
Chapter Neuroscienze per l’architettura
(2021)
Discusses the Indian design treatise the Vaastu Veda in relation to visual neuroscience. Relates visual perception in architecture to functional organisation of the brain. Relates Hubel and Weisel’s orientation sensitivity ...
Chapter «A quei tempi». Spagnolismo e teatro all’italiana. Miti e stereotipi
(2020)
The contribution concerns the relationship between Pietro Napoli Signorelli, his Storia critica de’ teatri antichi e moderni (Critical history of ancient and modern theaters), and the defense of Spanish literature by the ...
Chapter L’innovazione degli approcci sociologici per una prospettiva eco-territorialista
(2023)
Eco-territorialism focuses its proposal on the relationship between environmental issues and the territory. For sociology, this is a partly unprecedented challenge. Indeed, environmental sociology has never taken an explicit ...
A Giuseppe Dessí. Lettere editoriali e altra corrispondenza
(2012)
This volume completes the valuable work of cataloguing carried out on the correspondence of Giuseppe Dessí conserved in the 'Alessandro Bonsanti' contemporary archive of Florence. The research, launched by Chiara Andrei ...
La rappresentazione nel progetto di territorio
(2011)
The leitmotif running through this book is a meditation on the various iconographic representations constructed in the course of research and during the drafting of planning instruments on various scales. There is special ...
Chapter Le signorie del Mezzogiorno aragonese attraverso i libri dei relevi
(2021)
The essay provides an overview on fiefs and seigneurial powers in the Kingdom of Naples in the Aragonese era, on the base of findings and research issues drawn on the serie Relevi kept at the Archivio di Stato of Naples. ...
Nessuna isola è un'isola
(2008)
This book, the result of research carried out for the PhD in landscape design at the Florence University Faculty of Architecture, elaborates a methodological process for landscape planning in the smaller islands, comparing ...
Chapter «Débarquer/démarquer»: Voltaire e Magellano
(2021)
Following Voltaire’s Essai sur les mœurs, the first explorers of the new worlds are innocents: they respond to the mythic imagery of the first man. It is on their successors that lays the blame: interested in material ...
Chapter Fast and Secure BIM Design Using Blockchain: An Example of Makeshift Hospital Project for COVID-19 Treatment in Hong Kong
(2023)
A crucial action of COVID-19 combat is the quick design and building of makeshift hospitals (MHs). Although adopting building information modeling (BIM) promotes the digitalization and communication of design collaboration, ...
Chapter Towards a Digital Era in AEC Higher Education: Combining Theory and Technology to Develop and Deliver Architectural Master Classes
(2023)
In recent years, technology has been playing a transformative role in the field of built environment, architecture, and construction education. It can be argued that the emergence of digital technologies has revolutionised ...
Chapter «Di pietra un Villanel, che da lontano par vivo»: il Villano con la falce di Valerio Cioli nel giardino mediceo di Pratolino
(2020)
In the second half of the 16th century, in the garden of the Medicean villa of Pratolino the sculptor Valerio Cioli created, among other groups, the Villano con la falce, which represented a peasant in the act of sawing ...
Chapter Un elenco di beni fra i papiri di Londra
(2019)
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Esercito, istituzioni, territorio. Alloggiamenti militari e «case herme» nello Stato di Milano (secoli XVI e XVII)
(2009)
What was the impact of the armies of the King of Spain on one of the territories of its composite monarchy during the centuries of the early modern age? What changes took place in the relations of power between the local ...
Chapter La governance dell’accoglienza straordinaria in Toscana
(2021)
How was migration multilevel governance implemented at the regional level in Italy during the refugee crisis? The chapter analyses the case study of the Tuscany Region in 2017-2018. The first part focuses on the migration ...
Chapter L’Arno al tempo di Leonardo, fra geomorfologia e geografia storica: un’analisi diacronica
(2023)
The chapter offers a methodology to reconstruct the structure of the Arno course, between Empoli and the mouth, at the beginning of the 16th century. Various documentary deposits have been used: analysis of geological ...
Chapter La lingua italiana come strumento di parità di genere nelle Università
(2023)
The paper examines the studies on the relationship between language, sex and gender in Italian academia; the search for non-sexist linguistic strategies for the representation of women and men; the related support of ...
Le lingue slave tra struttura e uso
(2016)
The volume, originating from the 5th Slavic Linguistics Meeting (Rome, 25-27 September 2014), reflects the state of the most recent research carried out in Italy in this discipline. It aims to continue the tradition already ...
Percorsi di macritica
(2007)
This book is centred on the work of Oreste Macrí: scholar of Italian, French and Spanish literature; comparatist, metricist, theorist and translator in continual dialogue with Europe; historian and friend of the leading ...
Chapter Luoghi impliciti
(2021)
This short article aims to stimulate a rethinking of the deep cultural sedimentations that do not emerge on the surface of Claudio Magris’ critical and narrative work. In this case we are dealing with books, writers, and ...
Chapter Gli archivi delle famiglie signorili trentine
(2023)
The historical vicissitudes of the stately Trentino and Tyrolean archives are extremely complex. Archives have long been preserved in castles and aristocratic homes (and in some cases still are); until the end of the 19th ...
Russia, Oriente slavo e Occidente europeo. Fratture e integrazioni nella storia e nella civiltà letteraria
(2017)
The present book addresses a wide range of problems concerning the history of Eastern Slavic culture in its interaction with cultural models of Western Europe. This collective work is the final result of the French-Italian ...
Chapter Ascetism and Incontinence and Dostoevsky’s Gift of Tears
(2023)
In Dostoevsky’s binary poetics, an opposition can be drawn between two fundamental stances – asceticism and incontinence. Ascetics adhere to an ethos of self-restraint in response to the desires of the flesh. Incontinents ...
Chapter Error of the Heretic, Error of the Controversialist. Error and Deception in Sixteenth-Century Religious Polemics
(2023)
In a confessional age in which Catholics and Protestants accused each other (and for a long time) of misinterpreting the Holy Scriptures and deceiving the faithful, some churchmen made religious controversy their life’s ...
Chapter Gli scenari
(2020)
Chapter seven analyzes some of the most relevant future scenarios, regarding population, energy resources, public health, inequality, democracy on a national scale and forms of social power. On the population, evidences ...
Chapter Аспекты рецепции русской литературы в Италии периода фашизма
(2023)
Aspects of the reception of Russian culture and literature in Italy during the fascist period. Many studies are dedicated to the reception of Russian literature in Italy with a really extensive bibliography on specific ...
Chapter Lost in the Woods: Francis Bacon’s Errant Pathways in Knowledge
(2023)
Recovering Bacon’s valorization of error can shed light on his epistemology as a whole, and even on that of research more generally. Bacon is often known popularly as having established a scientific method to direct inquiry ...
Chapter Building’s Twin Reconstruction
(2023)
The work shows a process that starts from the digitization of cultural heritage and through analysis arrives at the subsequent diachronic holographic representation. The object of the study was the creation of two holograms ...
Chapter Decomposing tourists’ sentiment from raw NL text to assess customer satisfaction
(2021)
The importance of the Word of Mouth is growing day by day in many topics. This phenomenon is evident in everyday life, e.g., the rise of influencers and social media managers. If more people positively debate specific ...
Storia di un dottorato: storia medievale nell'Università di Firenze
(2003)
The PhD course in Mediaeval History of the University of Florence is one of the oldest in the Italian university circuit. Founded in 1983 by Girolamo Arnaldi, Elio Conti and Raoul Manselli, all the cycles of the courses ...
Chapter Il tempo di Leonardo fra territorio e modernità
(2023)
Leonardo’s life and work coincide with the time the modern world was born, involving a strong change in the relationship with the territory and an acceleration of human subjugation of nature. Leonardo’s artistic and technical ...
Chapter Employability as a Global Norm: Comparing Transnational Employability Policies of OECD, ILO, World Bank Group, and UNESCO
(2020)
This article analyses transnational policies on employability to understand the development of employability as a global norm and reflects about its consequences for stakeholders in the field of lifelong learning.
Chapter Application of Smart Technologies for Assessing Users’ Well-Being for Immersive Design Strategies: A State-of-the-Art Review
(2023)
As never before, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the effectiveness of the digital design strategies on the user’s well-being has been questioned. However, a research branch astride digital design and neuroscience able to ...
Chapter Digesting the foreign. Food and Eating in the works of Tawada Yōko
(2021)
This paper aims at analyzing the representation of food and eating in seminal works by Japanese author Tawada Yōko. The first part of this contribution will analyze the connection between food and metamorphosis, focusing ...
Chapter L’Ateneo e l’Arno
(2024)
In this chapter we will address, with quick notes, some research projects that the University of Florence has undertaken and which have seen the Arno basin as a subject of study, in order to define lines of governance and ...
Chapter Genoa: Colonizing and Colonized City? The Port City as a Pole of Attraction for Foreign Merchants (16th-18th centuries)
(2019)
As Michel Balard pointed out with reference to the late Middle Ages and to the relations between Genoa and overseas cities, “Genoa, a colonizer in the East, is colonized by the Orientals”. The aim of this work is to verify ...
Chapter Il Laurenziano Pluteo 42, 3 e la tradizione caratterizzante del Decameron
(2021)
The aim of this article is to illustrate the most relevant results of the philological and textual analysis that I accomplished on a witness of Boccaccio’s Decameron, MS. Firenze, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 42, 3. ...