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Natura, politica e popolazione
(2023)
During the first XXth century, war, violence, forced migration, man-made famines, and epidemics were responsible of tens of million deaths. They left deep scars in the survivors, altered the equilibrium between genders and ...
Chapter Round table comments
(2025)
This brief article expands on the Prolusion given to the LV Settimana Datini, clarifying some additional aspects and proposing a few examples of upward socio-economic mobility. Particular attention is given to two topics: ...
Chapter Wax, cash and the mass. Making candles affordable in late medieval economies
(2024)
By the later middle ages wax had become an indispensable element in Christian religious observance, used throughout churches, liturgical services and lifecycle events. Wax was therefore both essential and ubiquitous. It ...
Chapter Adaptation of the coastal protection system at Marina di Pisa, to extreme sea conditions: experimental analysis of the submerged breakwater and gravel beach
(2024)
The coast of Marina di Pisa has been subjected to strong erosion for decades. The current protective system comprises a large rubble-mound seawall, 6 emerged rubble-mound breakwaters, and 4 cells made up of a submerged ...
Crescita economica e coesione sociale nelle democrazie avanzate
(2017)
After the Second World War, the economies of advanced Countries have long been characterized by inclusive economic growth. In recent decades, on the other hand, there has been a steady increase in inequalities and a worsening ...
Chapter Перенос-перевод-локализация европейских научных знаний в учебниках Копиевского
(2024)
The Transfer-Translation-Localization of European Scientific Knowledge in Kopievsky’s Textbooks. The article examines the methods of introducing European scientific knowledge into the Russian language used by Ilya Fedorovich ...
Enrico Paribeni e la ceramica attica di Populonia
(2024)
The notes presented are part of the Paribeni Fund, received as a bequest from the University of Florence after the death of the illustrious scholar. This is a group of documents containing notes and photographs dedicated ...
Chapter Monitoring beach erosion along the Central Adriatic coast: the case study of Molise Region
(2024)
Coastal areas characterized by sandy shorelines are among the most dynamic environments and subject to deep and rapid changes over time under the influence of natural and anthropic factors. Therefore, reconstructing the ...
Ethnic Domination in Deeply Divided Places
(2021)
This volume examines the concept of ethnic domination and its manifestations in Israel (within the Green Line) and Estonia. Ethnic domination is a method of managing ethnic differences in multiethnic contexts through ...
Chapter Lavoro e riposo sabbatico come imitatio Dei secondo la tradizione ebraica
(2024)
The Talmudic definition of work/labor (melakhah) is based on the activities for building the holy temple in Jerusalem. The list amounts to 39 works which are forbidden on the day of Shabbat. The rest of the seventh day is ...
Quanti generi di diversità?
(2023)
Part of a series that aims to raise awareness of Gender Equality issues among the entire academic community, the book analyses in particular the various forms of discrimination linked to sexual orientation and gender ...
The Heian Court Poetry as World Literature
(2014)
What could be the common points between the Literature produced at the imperial court of 9th-10th century in Japan with the one composed in Italy under the rule of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen? Why the Kokinwakashū in Japan ...
Chapter Food, cooking and health in a selected corpus of websites and connected YouTube channels in France. Collecting and archiving the audiovisual web
(2024)
Based on a collaborative effort between the research project BodyCapital and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), we present a two-step archiving process and analysis of audiovisual web content related to food and ...
Chapter Lavoro, tecnica e società in Platone: uno sguardo d’insieme
(2024)
During the 5th century B.C., skills (technai), including manual ones, assume an exceptional role in Greek society and culture. Plato's attitude appears to be twofold: on the one hand he credits the possessors of these ...
La libertà viene prima. La libertà come posta in gioco nel conflitto sociale
(2021)
What is left of socialism ? This question, too, must be answered in a "project left." Certainly, socialism is no longer an accomplished or well-known model of society to tend tothrough daily political action. It can only ...
Chapter Noi «ragazzi del ’99»: Riccardo Del Punta e la storia del presente
(2024)
The essay proposes a rereading of the long contribution that Riccardo Del Punta dedicated to the reconstruction of the development of Labour law and Labour law science between 1993 and 2008, the year in which he wrote, ...
Chapter Die ikonographischen Kulturen in den ruthenischen Ländern des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts in Relation zur Republik der Gelehrten und Künstler
(2024)
This paper examines selected icons and images from the Ruthenian (early modern Ukrainian and Belorussian) lands to explore forms of cultural and religious exchange, framed within the concepts of interconfessionality, ...
Careggi Campus
(2023)
People everyday live and use open spaces, so these actually are indispensable. The scientific literature is full of evidence about the role open spaces play for human psycho-physical well-being and health. This book deals ...
Visioni critiche
(2016)
Like a two-faced Janus, Siro Ferrone carried out both research on theatre and theatre criticism, combining academic research and stage experience. His reviewer activity, carried out without interruptions, is now for the ...
Chapter Arti liberali e meccaniche secondo Ugo di san Vittore
(2024)
The contribution explores the valorisation of human labour in the Didascalicon by Hugh of Saint Victor. Following a brief outline of Hugh’s life and main works, one underlines the principal points of interest of his ...
Chapter Morus, Mirex, Medica arbor: de herbis in un inedito glossario bobbiese di IX secolo
(2024)
The contribution analyses some glosses de herbis, transmitted in an unedited Latin glossary from Bobbio, written in the IX4/4 century and preserved in Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana, C 243 inf. Two of these glosses (Morus and ...
Chapter Ной и Иафет в ораторской прозе Феофана Прокоповича и Стефана Яворского
(2024)
Noah and Japheth in the oratorical prose of Feofan Prokopovich and Stefan Yavorsky. This article focuses on the functioning of the names Noah and Japheth in the oratorical prose of the main preachers of the Petrine era — ...
Chapter Cryptic diversity of the widespread scorched mussel Brachidontes pharaonis-variabilis species complex
(2024)
The phenomenon of bioinvasions, when species spread beyond their native ranges, is widely studied in terms of biological and ecological characteristics of the species involved. However, some cases need taxonomic deepening ...
Chapter In kind wages between city and countryside: Northern Italy in the Eighteenth Century
(2024)
The paper aims at clarifying the characterisation and the role played by in-kind payments in wages’ composition both in the cities and in the countryside in Eighteenth century Northern Italy. Case studies mainly from ...
Course notes on finite games and rational choice
(2018)
This book collects notes that were prepared for a university course taught in the Spring of 2018, and delivered to an audience of students enrolled in the Master course in Logic, philosophy and history of science of the ...
Chapter John Florio e Giuseppe Baretti tra nostalgia e lessicografia
(2024)
My article is a comparative analysis of John Florio and Giuseppe (‘Joseph’) Baretti centred on the themes of exile and lexicography. The founder of Italian-English lexicography with his Worlde of Wordes (1598) and Queen ...
Caulonia tra Crotone e Locri
(2010)
The work comprises over 30 original contributions and is completed by numerous illustrations, drawings and plans. The topics addressed include historic sources, topography, architecture, town planning, religion, funereal ...
Sull'immagine sonora della città
(2012)
The dissertation deals with the contemporary city soundscape and fits into the disciplinary field of sensuous urbanism, soundscape studies and emotional geography. The key term, soundscape, is to be understood as all the ...
Estetica della dissonanza e filosofia del doppio: Carlo Dossi e Jean Paul
(2012)
The volume begins with an analysis of the reception of Jean Paul in Italy in order to highlight how the Scapigliatura movement raised this author to prominence. In consideration of the development of Italian culture in the ...
La storia di un politico controvoglia
(2014)
The Italian newspaper “La Repubblica” once called him "the most private politician in Tuscany," and perhaps never was there such a fitting definition. In the era of “political posturing”, when the appearance was worth more ...
Chapter Baretti polemista e traduttore in A Dissertation upon the Italian Poetry
(2024)
This brief essay attempts to shed light on some hitherto unnoticed aspects of Baretti’s approach to translation. A close analysis of his Dissertation upon the Italian Poetry, in fact, reveals that behind the Italian ...
Theoretical Morphodynamics: River Meandering
(2023)
This monograph discusses the mechanics of Meandering Rivers with the help of the mathematical and modeling tools built up in the previous monograph of the same Authors (monograph 1 of the present series). After introducing ...
Codici dell’anima: itinerari tra mistica, filosofia e poesia
(2021)
Codici dell’anima: itinerari tra mistica, filosofia e poesia. Con un’antologia di testi al femminile investigates the rhetoric of ‘vision’ at a theoretical, literary and linguistic level: through the analysis of a corpus ...
Diari 1949-1951
(2009)
From a tender age Giuseppe Dessí was in the habit of entrusting to private writings the unquiet story of his formation, recording against the background of significant vital abodes the events of his life, his reading and ...
«A maggior gloria di Dio»
(2024)
The book investigates the emergence in Italy between the 16th and 17th centuries of the so-called ‘Jesuitesses’, i.e. congregations of laywomen inspired by the spirituality of the Society of Jesus. Sources in the Archivum ...
Chapter Явление книжника или Пути изучения рукописного наследия Прохора Коломнятина
(2024)
The Coming of the Bookman or Approaches to the Manuscript Heritage of Prokhor Kolomnyatin Presenting a review of the historiography from 1854 to the present, this article examines the scholarly study of the Russian bookman ...
Wir Kinder. La questione del potere nelle relazioni adulti/bambini
(2004)
The relationships between adults and children requires the presence of two parties involved, but one of the two, the children, has all the rights on their side, while the other, the parents, the adults, has all the duties ...
Vico Wallari – San Genesio ricerca storica e indagini archeologiche su una comunità del medio Valdarno inferiore fra alto e pieno medioevo
(2010)
The volume collects the reports presented during the study day held in San Miniato on December 1, 2007, dedicated to the historiographical investigation and to an assessment of the long archaeological research conducted ...
Profili di contrattualizzazione a finalità successoria
(2012)
The book aims to study the relationship between the contractual instrument and succession law, in order to identify the categories into which the general device of the succession contract currently seems to be divided. The ...
Le Corbusier e la villa Savoye: un caso di restauro autoriale / Le Corbusier and the villa Savoye: a case of authorial restoration
(2023)
Following the investigative paths, the author interlaces a series of documents and clues to delineate the events of the restoration of the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, but above all the role played by the various actors ...
Chapter Donne lavoratrici nell’antichità
(2024)
The paper examines some "scenarios" or theoretical frames of reference, within which there are very different - if not even opposite - readings of the nexus between ἔργον and γυνή. After some remarks of a methodological ...
Il paesaggio nel governo del territorio
(2018)
Can today’s landscape become a living construct again, moved and shaped by a plurality of actors working for its maintenance with shared modalities? This text investigates the landscape’s role and its structural features ...
Diario social di un Rettore
(2016)
Download the free epub version Listen to the interview on Radio Treccia Ischia TV Is it possible to disseminate science through social networks? Facebook was created to share thoughts, ideas, sensations and anything mild ...
Arte ai margini
(2024)
The catalogue of the exhibition Art on the Margins reconstructs the history of the painting atelier of the former neuropsychiatric hospital of Arezzo, once located in the Pionta complex, where the Arezzo Campus of the ...
Chapter Citizen science and machine learning forecasting Ostreopsis cf ovata blooms
(2024)
The toxic benthic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis cf. ovata causes harmful algal blooms in Apulia region of Southern Italy. In this study the volunteers of a citizens’ observatory engaged with public research centres to apply a ...
Tre amici tra la Sardegna e Ferrara
(2013)
A private and distant Sardinia animates the texts of this double correspondence, between archaic landscapes and personal and literary mythologies, in which Ferrara, the town of the authors' youthful years, is occasionally ...
La mediazione penale nel diritto italiano e internazionale
(2011)
This book contains the proceedings of the first day of the conference Strumenti alternativi di composizione dei conflitti: la mediazione civile e penale (Alternative instruments for the settlement of disputes: civil and ...
Le guide touristique: lieu de rencontre entre lexique et images du patrimoine culturel. Vol. II
(2017)
This book is the second part of the work devoted to the tourist guide as a meeting place between lexicon and images of cultural heritage, a work resulting from the colloquium which took place on June 11 and 12, 2015 in ...
Chapter La mediabilità delle liti: un modello operativo innovativo per l’efficienza della giustizia
(2023)
The contribution focuses on the operational model regarding the mediatability of litigation applied to both the aggression of the backlog and the management of incoming flows. In the first part of the chapter, the prodromal ...
L’esperienza del mondo
(2024)
In the second half of the 18th century, the myth of Italy experienced a moment of profound redefinition, offering space for reflection that, compared to the past, took on more anthropological and political traits. A moment ...
Chapter ‘Childismo’. Una parola che non esiste, per capire meglio la discriminazione che non vediamo
(2025)
The contribution addresses the issue of prejudice against children related to age differences. The first two paragraphs refer to contributions from historical research that have highlighted long- lasting processes of ...
SMOC – Sanfte offene Koordinierungsmethode – Soft Open Method of Coordination von Prevalet
(2011)
Seven European Regional Governments, together with Earlall and universities and research centres, have undertaken to refine a first draft of a Joint Progress Report of Regions on Implementation of European Lifelong Learning ...
Chapter Otium e otiosi nella riflessione dei teologi-giuristi della prima modernità (XVI-XVII sec.)
(2024)
Fifteenth- and seventeenth-century theologians-jurists, and in particularthe Early Modern Scholastics, are confronted with the issue of otium as a real problem, not just as an object of rhetorical speculation. They question ...
Chapter La concezione del lavoro in Fichte
(2024)
The following paper tries to show the different aspects of Fichte’s conception of labour. First of all, labour means the activity of appropriation through which man makes the world his own property. It is also a fundamental ...
Oltre gli stereotipi
(2018)
This volume collects a series of writings by Renzo Rastrelli (1948-2008), a long-time professor of Political and diplomatic history of East Asia at the Faculty of Political Sciences "Cesare Alfieri" of the University of ...
L'Archivio Edoardo Cavallini presso la Biblioteca del Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini di Firenze
(2019)
Edoardo Cavallini (Florence, 1911-1968) was one of the most original and interesting personalities of the Italian music scene, but also one of the most overlooked. He was a prolific composer and a respected theorist, as ...
Italian Proteomics Association, 5th Annual National Conference Abstract Volume
(2010)
Abstract volume of the Italian Proteomics Association 5th Annual national conference
A 150 anni dall’unificazione amministrativa italiana. Vol. V
(2016)
In 1865, there was the enactment of the laws of administrative unification for the Kingdom of Italy. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary, the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Florence organized a study ...
Chapter Oltre il taylorismo-fordismo, il toyotismo e il capitale: senza nostalgia
(2024)
Taylorism-fordism as a labour process consolidated in the 20thcentury. It is based in mass production and more homogeneous products; in control of timing and movements with the chronometer and serial production; in a strong ...
Slavica Biblioteconomica
(2007)
Despite having been written at different times and being characterised by a great variety of subject and a multiplicity of approach, the essays of Gabriele Mazzitelli gathered here all appear to have been triggered by a ...