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Chapter Introduzione
(2023)
In introducing the first session, the A. stresses that gender issues are now central to our country’s cultural, political, and social-economic agenda, and how the promotion of inclusive language is important for the social ...
Chapter Migrazione alla ricerca di un’identità in La stagione della migrazione al nord di al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ
(2021)
The novel by Al-Ṭayib Ṣāliḥ The Season of Migration to the North is a classic of the post-modern Arabic literature. The critical literature of the last century has privileged the post-colonial interpretation. One of the ...
Chapter Storage and Food Control in the ‘Amuq from the Late Bronze to the Iron Age: The Archaeological Evidence
(2023)
Ongoing study of the pottery assemblage and its surrounding context in Area 4 at the site of Alalakh has again brought to light a phenomenon that is considered typical for the Iron Age I Levant: the construction of pits/silo ...
Chapter Il lessico del magistero nelle prose erudite di Giovanni Boccaccio
(2020)
The contribution aims to illustrate the results of the research conducted on the lexicon of the Petrarch-Boccaccio magisterium relationship. The research also made use of the comparison between Boccaccio's various masters: ...
Chapter The Role of Higher Education in a Changing World: Why Employability Matters
(2018)
The transformations of work are increasingly introducing new scenarios at a global level. In fact, the disruptive importance of innovation in all workplace contexts anticipates the challenge of skills and capabilities for ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. Le collezioni antropologiche ed etnologiche / The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. The Anthropological and Ethnological Collections
(2014)
This volume is dedicated to the Anthropological and Ethnological section of the Natural History Museum. First the historical journey of the collections is traced from the antique nucleus of the Medici to the foundation of ...
Chapter La cultura nell’Europa umanista di David Sassoli: riflessioni sul progetto delle Capitali Europee della Cultura (CEC)
(2023)
Europe, as the title of this collective book indicates, is a project under construction and David Sassoli, who is honored here, one of its most striking and memorable builders. European construction, despite all the ...
Chapter Išḫara: One Deity – Many Aspects?
(2023)
The goddess Išḫara is attested early in cuneiform sources, and her cult can be traced back in all regions of the Ancient Near East over a period of more than 2000 years. From this point of view, it is worthwhile to look ...
Chapter L’espressione della relazione concessiva fattuale in italiano e in russo
(2016)
The aim of this paper is to compare the means of expression of factual concessive relation in Italian and Russian on the basis of a bidirectional parallel corpus. The study of the expression of purposive interclausal ...
altri canoni / canoni altri
(2011)
The concept of the literary canon is one of the most debated and controversial in the western intellectual tradition. This book offers ten contributions by Italian scholars of Anglo-American culture addressing the way in ...
Chapter Migrazioni e politiche migratorie: uno sguardo europeo
(2021)
In the coming years the European Union will be called to make challenging choices on three aspects of migration policies. The first is that of entry conditions, with particular reference to labour immigration.The second ...
Chapter Il fascismo ‘liberista’ e la ‘quasi abolizione’ dell’imposta di successione del 1923
(2021)
In summer 1923, in the midst of the ‘fight’ to balance the budget, Minister Alberto De Stefani announced the abolition of inheritance tax, pursuant to the ‘full powers’ granted to the government by the Parliament. This ...
Chapter Diritto del lavoro e valori
(2022)
The author argues that the topic of values is strictly inherent to the labour law discourse. Law must not only be provided, but also justified, and this calls values into question. However, discussing values from the ...
Chapter Fikirtepe in limbo: urban transformation, cross-border migration, and re-peripheralization in Istanbul
(2022)
The historical development of Istanbul’s gecekondu areas (informally-originated neighborhoods) can be broadly interpreted as a progression toward the center and subsequent re-peripheralization, both in sociopolitical terms ...
Chapter Da Vienna con amore: il caleidoscopio delle calligrafie settecentesche e il caso Orfelin
(2019)
This article examine handwriting textbooks from 18th-century Europe. In 1774 the court of Vienna charged Johann Ignaz Felbiger with reforming the schools and his book on penmanship (1775) became the standard reference for ...
«Truth is an odd number». La narrativa di Flann O’Brien e il fantastico
(2014)
Starting from the main theories about the imaginary - from the Freudian category of Unheimliche and the Todorovian category of hésitation up to the most recent contributions - the volume highlights the imaginary elements ...
Chapter Introduzione. Umberto Gori e le Relazioni Internazionali in Italia
(2022)
Umberto Gori has held the first chair of International Relations in Italy and has been the first scholar to address a series of central topics in the analysis of foreign policy and international politics. Those who browse, ...
Chapter The struggle for (self-)integration. Manuscripts, liturgy and networks in Verona at the time of Bishop Ratold (c. 802-840/3)
(2022)
Between the 780s and the 840s the episcopal see of Verona was held by bishops coming from beyond the Alps, appointed by the Carolingian rulers and charged with control over a prestigious and strategically key bishopric. ...
Chapter Les tableaux maudits, en France et en Russie
(2017)
I. Repin’s “Ivan the Terrible and his son”, exhibited in 1885, in a very tense social and political context, sparked off fierce reactions. While the Itinerant painter Kramskoj is enthusiastic, the ge-neral-prosecutor of ...
I papiri di Eschilo e di Sofocle
(2013)
The volume contains the transcription of the reports presented at the International Conference held in Florence on 14th and 15th June 2012: there are 15 original essays, written (upon request) by authoritative scholars of ...
Pubblicità, educazione e diritto in Kant
(2023)
The starting point is the conviction that publicity is central to Kantian political thought as part of the wider relationship between politics and morality. In this sense the book aims to outline subjective and objective ...
Conferimento della Laurea magistrale ad honorem in scienze archivistiche e biblioteconomiche a Michele Casalini / Award of the Laurea magistrale ad honorem in Library and information Science to Michele Casalini
(2019)
On the 21st May 2019, the University of Florence awarded Michele Casalini an honorary degree for his dedication and his important contribution in the field of Library and Archival Sciences. The ceremony, which was held in ...
Studi di Archeologia del Vicino Oriente
(2012)
The book presents recent studies and research by the students of Paolo Emilio Pecorella, a lecturer in Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East at the University of Florence. The contributions reflect the ...
Chapter Lo sguardo del geografo: Massimo Quaini, l’archeologia, la storia
(2021)
In this paper we discuss how Massimo Quaini, since the end of the 1960’s, dialogued (or did not) with the sister disciplines of historical geopgraphy: archaeology and social history. We reflect on the experimental path of ...
Esercizi di ricerca
(2022)
Can research today have a political and a transformative commitment? Can this become the engine of Welfare reforms at all levels and therefore a tool for social change? This collection addresses these and many other questions ...
Chapter Italiani brava gente? Sui rapporti cinematografici fra Italia e URSS
(2019)
Numerous and rich materials in yet unpublished archives provide information on the coproduction of several Italian and Soviet films, the first of which is Giuseppe De Santis’s Attack and Retreat (1961-1964), representing ...
Chapter L’Italia, l’arte e la poesia nel Fra Beato Andželiko di Nikolaj Gumilëv
(2018)
The lyric poem Fra Andželiko (1912) was inspired by the vivid impressions Nikolaj Gumilëv gained during his Italian tour in the very same year. The work should be seen in its context that acts as a background for the ...
Chapter Artificial reef along theFrench Mediterranean coastline: toward innovative integrated biodiversity management
(2020)
Coastal zones are subjected to human pressure and it is necessary to protect and manage these productive and sensitive ecosystems. Artificial Reefs (AR) are relevant tools to overcome these challenges. For nearly a decade ...
Chapter The Torre del Marzocco and the widening of the entry channel to the industrial port of Livorno
(2022)
The Torre is an ancient watchtower, (15th century), and is subject to Italian laws for the protection of the historical and cultural heritage. Located in the port of Livorno the Torre del Marzocco symbolizes the past rooted ...
Chapter David Sassoli: Europa, Europa!
(2023)
David Sassoli has best interpreted the great Italian tradition of Europeanism, which had in Giuseppe Mazzini, Vincenzo Gioberti, Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto G. Rossi, the highest and most concrete theoretical and political ...
Burocrazia e fisco a Napoli tra XV e XVI secolo
(2012)
The book outlines the processes of "bureaucratization" of the financial offices of the Kingdom of Naples, dwelling on the administrative praxis of the Regia Camera della Sommaria. It starts from the critical edition of ...
Chapter «Venerabilem preceptorem meum Boccaccium de Certaldo»: i rapporti (intertestuali) fra Giovanni Boccaccio erudito e Benvenuto da Imola
(2022)
The text of the commentary to the Georgics of Benvenuto da Imola allows to illuminate the intertextual relationships between Benvenuto da Imola and Giovanni Boccaccio. Through a series of examples that highlight clear ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze VOL. 1 LE COLLEZIONI DELLA SPECOLA
(2009)
The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by the Grand Duke Peter Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. Firenze University Press opens the series dealing with the six sections ...
Chapter Lo sviluppo della competenza lessicale: incursioni tra le ipotesi teoriche e le applicazioni glottodidattiche
(2021)
The paper analyses the issue of the development of lexical competence in Italian as L2 learners. The notion of lexicon is considered from three different points of view: the point of view of the speaker/learner, the point ...
Constitutionalism and democratic transitions
(2006)
The book - as the outcome of a research performed by the University of Florence and the United States Institute of Peace of Washington - explores the role of law in the process of democratic transition in South Africa. ...
Chapter I sindacati unitari, l’integrazione europea, il crollo del comunismo
(2023)
The author reconstructs, through a path stretched between history and memory, the importance of the European and international dimension in Trentin's political and trade union action, from the experience of the FSM to the ...
Chapter L’Alto e il Basso
(2021)
The essay considers Massimo Quaini’s full scientific production and tries envisioning some episthemological characters of his work, also catching a possible evolution of his geographical thinking and cultural engagement.
Chapter Il Divino amore dalla mistica teologia del sec. XIV alla pietà romana del Settecento
(2020)
This paper shows in its essential points the development of spiritual doctrine of divine love in Italy during four centuries (1350-1750 AD), especially regarding religious ambients, some authors and main texts produced in ...
Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications
(2023)
The International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA) came into being in 1999 from the particularly felt need of sharing know-how, objectives and results between areas ...
Maria Sklodowska Curie
(2013)
In 1911, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Marie Curie, eight years after she had received the Nobel Prize for Physics. An extraordinary scientific adventure ended, and the deification of an iconic character and ...