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Chapter Libertà e non conformismo religioso: alcune riflessioni a margine per i secoli XII-XIII
(2024)
The author revisits the issue of religious "non-conformism" by focusing attention on the passage, between the 12th and 13th centuries, in which the overlap between Christian heresies and other religions was determined. ...
Chapter Alternativo ma non arcaico
(2024)
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Chapter Premesse e promesse del postfordismo
(2024)
The term post-Fordism encompasses a set of economic as well as cultural and social aspects that, as far as labor is concerned, stand in continuity and rupture with the past. The transformations triggered by this phase have ...
Agricoltura paesaggistica
(2013)
“L’agricoltura è la prima delle arti” was born from a project, from the conscious modification of a context, using knowledge which had been shared and accumulated over time. Contemporary agriculture, the daughter of the ...
Il vino nel legno
(2015)
The woods have provided and still provide essential products and services for the survival of the human population, which may be identified in values of direct and indirect use. This volume presents the management strategies ...
Chapter Respondentia: The alternative contract for global trade finance in the Early Modern period
(2024)
By specifying the specie on which returns were to be repaid respondentia was an efficient instrument to carry trade in which silver was «essential» for the continuation of commerce. As silver was imported as specie, where ...
SMOC-Metodo Aperto e Semplificato di Coordinamento da 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 ...
La scienza e i segreti della natura a Napoli nel Rinascimento
(2018)
This volume deals with the 'hidden secrets of nature' in the natural magic of Giovan Battista Della Porta (1535-1615). The topic is analysed in relation to the internal debates of the Neapolitan Aristotelianism of the 16th ...
Chapter La disciplina del rapporto di lavoro nella logistica (art. 1677-bis cod. civ.)
(2024)
The contribution deals with the controversial qualification of the logistics contract, which is the subject of a recent legislative intervention (introduction of Article 1677-bis in the Civil Code), debating whether it can ...
Cristiani orientali e Repubblica delle Lettere (XVI-XVIII sec.) / Chrétiens orientaux et République des Lettres (16e-18e s.) / Östliche Christen und die Gelehrtenrepublik (16.-18. Jh.)
(2024)
The Republic of Letters was a network of scholars, scientists, artists, and other actors that emerged in Western Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries as a space for communication, dialogue, and debate. Gradually, an ...
Chapter Christoph Pfautz as a Reviewer for the Acta Eruditorum: the Invention of a German Tradition in the Sciences
(2025)
In 1682, Otto Mencke and Christoph Pfautz founded the Acta Eruditorum, the first fully-fledged German scientific journal. In this paper, I argue that this journal had a fundamental role in shaping the narrative on the rise ...
Errors, False Opinions and Defective Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
(2023)
This volume offers a series of insights into the fascinating topic of errors and false opinions in early modern Europe. It explores the semantic richness of the category of ‘error’ in a time when such category becomes ...
Mutamenti delle democrazie europee contemporanee
(2019)
This volume, on the basis of France and Italy’s cases, analyses the changes in party systems and, more generally, in our democracies. The author underlines how it is possible to glimpse the personalization and mediatisation ...
Oltre la globalizzazione: le proposte della Geografia economica
(2012)
In 1980 Froebel, Heinrichs and Kreye published the English-language The New International Division of Labour, trying to highlight the consequences of market reorganization after the crisis of the mid 1970s, which was soon ...
Chapter Effects of Abiotic (Salinity) and Biotic (Ectoparasite) Stressors on Coris julis (Linnaeus, 1758) in Ibiza, Balearic Islands: A Biomarker Analysis
(2024)
Stressful situations include abiotic factors such as exposure to hypersaline waters derived from desalination plants and biotic factors such as infection by new parasites introduced by human activities. The aim was to study ...
L’ultimo canto del cigno
(2019)
The murder of Emanuele Notarbartolo, former director of the Banco di Palermo, at the hands of the Sicilian Mafia in 1893 represents a controversial and obscure event in Italian history. There were three trials (Milan, ...
Inquietudine spettrale
(2018)
Inquietudine spettrale. Gli uccelli nella concezione poetica di Jacob Grimm covers a peculiar aspect of Jacob Grimm’s poetry: in the framework of a nature pervaded with spirituality, whose hard-to-reach secrets inspire ...
Il ruolo di TAF12B e UVR3 nel ciclo circadiano dei vegetali
(2013)
The book goes over the studies carried out on the circadian oscillators in plants, performed using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The plant's oscillators seem to include similar components to those described for ...
Chapter Le dinamiche demografiche dell’italia medievale: nuove prospettive
(2024)
The authors offer a summary contribution on the demographic perspective which takes stock of the studies by proposing new analyzes of the increase in population up to the fourteenth century and of the low impact of migrations ...
Epigrafia tra erudizione antiquaria e scienza storica
(2019)
Detlef Heikamp's is one of the greatest scholars of the collections of historical pieces in Florence; to celebrate his 90th birthday, on the 10th an 11th November 2017, a study meeting dedicated to the birth of epigraphy ...
Chapter Decastellamento e ‘nuove’ forme dell’abitare in un territorio alle porte di Firenze
(2024)
The contribution intends to analyse, by comparing documentary sources and material reality, the processes of decastellation that occurred between the 13th and 14th centuries in a territory immediately outside the city walls ...
Biopolitica ed ecologia
(2021)
One of the core issues in Michel Foucault’s and Georges Canguilhem’s works is the study of the epistemological status and political functioning of biological discourse, explored in its fully heterogeneous, plural, and ...
Chapter Studio multidisciplinare dei resti mortali mummificati di sant’Atto da Pistoia († 1153)
(2024)
In December 2019 the canonical recognition and the multidisciplinary study of the human remains of sant’Atto da Pistoia († 1153) took place in the cathedral of San Zeno in Pistoia. The investigation, which continued in the ...
Decidere per chi non può
(2005)
For centuries, the philosophical thought has questioned notions such as "person", "value" and "quality" of life, "rights", "suffering", "life", "death"; but the problems that have arisen in recent decades due to the ...
«Ora diremo di Napoli». I traffici dell'area campana nei manuali di commercio
(2012)
This work aims at filling some historiographical gaps concerning the economy and the commercial activities of Naples and its satellite ports in the decades around the turn of the fifteenth century using unusual and complicated ...
Dopo la morte dell’io
(2017)
The death of the self passes through modern culture. However, chooses for himself the role of Psychopomp in obeyance not only to stylistic but also to profoundly ethical reasons. Bassani interrupts his narrative writing ...
New insights into creatine transporter deficiency
(2020)
Creatine (Cr) transporter deficiency (CCDS1) is a very rare and severe condition due to impaired energetic metabolism. In this work we showed for the first time the following facts: this diseases is a progressive ...
Contributi Italiani al XV Congresso Internazionale degli Slavisti
(2013)
This volume contains Italian contributions to the XV Slavists’ International Congress (Minsk, 20-27 August 2013). In the wake of the best Italian Slavic tradition, the lecturers present a wide range of themes in different ...
Use of microorganisms in the removal of pollutants from the wastewater
(2009)
The aims of this thesis were to test the adsorption efficiency of cyanobacterial biomasses of polysaccharide producing strains and to realize a pilot plant for galvanic waste treatment based on biosorption. First of all ...
Chapter Dialogo su parità e non discriminazione
(2024)
The paper is in ideal dialogue with Riccardo Del Punta on a topic that has prompted his attention and reflexion, highlighting some significant passages from the “Manifesto per un diritto del lavoro sostenibile”, of which ...
Chapter К проблеме исследования церковнославянской письменности в Речи Посполитой XVI–XVIII веков. Религиозно-дидактические издания двух подляшских типографий
(2024)
On the Problem of Church Slavonic Writing in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16–18th Centuries: Religious and Didactic Editions from Two Podlasie Printing Houses. The boundary of Eastern and Western Christianity ...
L’immagine del cane in Franz Kafka
(2015)
Within the Kafkaesque bestiary, the dog is undoubtedly the animal that deserves a more careful study: it is the image which the author uses the most, in literary writing but also in the private one, and which occupies a a ...
Chapter La formazione della classe dirigente somala: la prima coorte di studenti somali dell’Università di Padova (1956-69)
(2024)
This chapter looks at Italy’s scholarship programmes to promote higher education in Somalia. It focuses on a group of Somali students who, in between 1956 and 1969, started their university career in Mogadishu and completed ...
L’edilizia rurale tra sviluppo tecnologico e tutela del territorio
(2013)
The second Section of the AIIA promoted an opportunity to meet, discuss and reflect on the theme "L’edilizia rurale tra sviluppo tecnologico e tutela del territorio" (Rural construction between technological development ...
Chapter Il fabianesimo. La causa del Minimum nazionale e le sue declinazioni
(2024)
This paper reconstructs the Fabian conception of labor through the comparison of the most mature works by the Webbs on industrial democracy with the scattered references to the Fabian Essays in Socialism contained in ...
Chapter Prendersi cura del paziente anche quando non è possibile guarirlo
(2024)
The crucial topics of this chapter focus on the recognition of the meaning of life and death as part of a natural cycle and a new approach for taking care of patient at the end of life. The author discusses and describes ...
Storiografie italiane del XII secolo
(2024)
The essays collected in this volume are dedicated to the pragmatic dimension of the writing of history in 12th-century Italy. All the contributions can be read by following a few guiding questions: why and by whom were ...
Magnetic Nanostructures
(2017)
This thesis reports the results of studies conducted at LAboratory for Molecular Magnetism (LA.M.M.) of the University of Firenze concerning the synthesis and characterization of rare-earth free nanostructured materials ...
Hydrogen production using Purple Non-Sulfur Bacteria (PNSB) cultivated under natural or artificial light conditions with synthetic or fermentation derived substrates
(2013)
The aim of this thesis was to verify the feasibility of the hydrogen production process with purple non sulfur bacteria both under sunlight irradiation in an up-scaled system and with the use of low cost substrates. Among ...
AIMETA 2005. Atti del XVII Congresso dell'Associazione italiana di meccanica teorica e applicata. Firenze, 11-15 settembre 2005
(2005)
The volume collects the contributions presented at the XVII national congress of AIMETA. The contributions are grouped according to the various sectors of theoretical and applied mechanics and are offered by a vast scientific ...
Chapter Il ruolo del commercio internazionale fra Oriente ed Occidente nel processo di cristianizzazione. Il caso dei Petici e dell’Abruzzo. Alcuni appunti
(2024)
This article explores the intertwined dynamics of trade, religion, and geography through the lens of the Petici family, prominent merchants engaged in long-distance trans- Mediterranean commerce during the Roman Empire. ...
Chapter Prolusione
(2024)
The rejection of barter outside of monetised exchanges goes hand in hand with an apprehension of this practice as a ‘primitive’ mode of exchange, and proclaims the 'modernity of money'. At the heart of monetary economies, ...
Chapter Come si rende visibile l’omo-bi-transfobia? Nodi critici, sfide e riflessioni a partire da una ricerca empirica
(2023)
This contribution intends to reflect on the attempt by social research in Italy to put the spotlight on violence and discrimination against LGBT+ people. The analysis is mainly based on two recent empirical research works: ...
A partire da «Underworld»
(2020)
The volume is a commentary on Don DeLillo’s hypertrophic novel Underworld (1997). Starting from the analysis of the text – which intertwines several plots, locations and point of view –, Nicola Turi retraces the entire ...
The Mahanubhavs
(2005)
The ascetic, devotional sect of the Mahanubhavs -Those of the greatexperience - arose, like the much more popular bhakti movement ofthe Vårkaris centred in Pandharpur, in thirteenth century Maharastra.If in the beginning ...
Chapter Sepulcros, iglesias y construcción de paisajes políticos en la Galicia de los siglos IX-XI
(2024)
Through the combination of two vast databases on archaeological and textual evidence on early medieval funerary and ecclesiastical sites in Galicia, this paper aims to explore the socio-political landscape dynamics around ...
Giuseppe Dessì tra traduzioni e edizioni
(2013)
With the 100th anniversary of Giuseppe Dessí’s birth approaching, in 2009, the Committee in charge of the celebrations launched in a widespread dissemination activity of the writer's work in many European countries. And ...
Chapter Social mobility in the towns and countryside of Late Medieval Crown of Aragon (c. 1300- c. 1550): sources and methodological approaches
(2025)
This chapter deals with the sources and methodologies available to study dynamics of social mobility in Late Medieval Crown of Aragon. We discuss the strengths and limitations of three different kind of sources: fiscal ...
Chapter La slavistica e le arti
(2024)
The article offers an overview of the scholarly publications by Italian Slavists that appeared during the period 1991-2021 on to the subject of Slavic studies and the arts
Le vestigia dei gesuati
(2020)
The book analyses the history of the Jesuat congregation, highlighting the elements of connection and comparison with the social contexts, then describing the origin and the most ancient events of the female branch of the ...
Archeologia Pubblica in Toscana
(2011)
Can archaeology be considered a factor of socio-economic development for civil society? This, in short, is the question underlying the first national workshop devoted to Public Archaeology (Archeologia Pubblica in Toscana: ...
Chapter Le concezioni del lavoro nel Tanakh e nell’Antico Testamento
(2024)
In the Jewish Bible as well as in the Christian Old Testament books agriculture was the mainstay of the Israelite economy both in villages and cities. Working the land and herding was an anthropological given; nevertheless ...
Chapter Paesaggi di resistenza nell’Italia carolingia. Spazi della solidarietà e luoghi della giustizia nei ‘processi di libertà’
(2024)
The essay examines a dossier of placita from Carolingian Italy and analyses them from the perspective of the relationship between local societies and places of justice. In this perspective, it emphasises how the action of ...
Chapter Intelligenza Artificiale in Higher Education: applicazioni, sfide e rischi
(2024)
This contribution represents a synthesis of the literature review conducted on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education, with particular attention to orientation and human learning processes. The ...
Chapter Financing a rebellious city. Social change, revolts, and inequality among the fiscal elite in fourteenth-century Bruges
(2025)
The fourteenth century was a tumultuous period. Europe was disrupted by frequent uprisings. Historians attribute these events to rising inequality. Conversely, the impact of medieval revolts on inequality has remained ...
Struttura e costruzione / Structure and Construction Nuova edizione / New Edition
(2012)
This book explores several aspects of the variegated relationship that connects the operational principles of a structure to its translation into written form, between the laws that govern its structural rationale and the ...
Scienza e arte
(2014)
During the creative act, the artist and the scientist both proceed through the decoding and recomposition of the realities they observe. Based on this method correspondence, art and science offer tools to study the inner ...
Chapter Economic valuation of coastal blue carbon stock’s dynamics. An study in NW Spain using land cover transitions and InVEST
(2024)
Economic valuation of ecosystem services stands as a critical element in comprehending the benefits derived from natural capital and guiding policymakers worldwide. Among these services, the regulation of CO2 fluxes is ...
Sebastiano Ricci impresario d’opera a Venezia nel primo Settecento
(2015)
Sebastiano Ricci was not only one of the greatest Italian and international painters of the eighteenth century, but an opera impresario and a set designer. Thanks to unpublished archival documents, this book reconstructs ...
Chapter An apparent paradox: wool as an alternative currency for merchants and weavers in Dubrovnik (Ragusa) in the 15th century
(2024)
This article examines the use of wool as an alternative currency in Dubrovnik in the first half of the 15th century. The actors of this practice were Catalan merchants who advanced wool to local weavers. In return, the ...