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Chapter Uniting past and present: Sicily as a locus of identity between Greece and Rome
(2022)
Basing on the accounts of Thucydides and Plutarch, the paper analyses the way Sicily and the proposed Athenian expedition to Sicily, as a strategic bridge to advance over Carthage, define Nicias and Alcibiades, and what ...
Chapter Leonardo da Vinci a Piombino: progetti di ammodernamento delle fortificazioni del litorale toscano
(2023)
The paper describes a research on Leonardo da Vinci’s activity as a military architect in Piombino, Tuscany, in the early years of the 16th century. These studies use modern digital survey technologies in order to recognize ...
Innovative learning models for prisoners
(2016)
Prison education should be a top priority issue in most societies. Prison conditions must not infringe human rights and dignity and must offer meaningful treatment programmes in order to support inmates in their rehabilitation ...
Chapter Парадоксальность как специфика художественного творчества Ф.М. Достоевского: приемы, стилемы, воздействие
(2023)
Paradoxality as a Specific Feature of Dostoevsky’s Literary Works. Techniques, Stylistics, Mechanisms of Action. All works by Dostoevsky reveal the presence of paradox. These paradoxes act according to mechanisms that ...
Chapter Negotiating with the tradition: representations of fish in Alai’s fictional writing
(2021)
Tibet has long been orientalized in fictional representations. Taking as a case study two texts by Alai, this paper investigates how a traditional Tibetan cultural trait–the fish taboo–is mobilized to complicate the ...
Chapter Identifying Hazards in Construction Sites Using Deep Learning-Based Multimodal with CCTV Data
(2023)
The use of closed-circuit television (CCTV) for safety monitoring is crucial for reducing accidents in construction sites. However, the majority of currently proposed approaches utilize single detection models without ...
Un bisogno di complementarità
(2023)
The correspondence between Franco Fortini and Carlo Cassola covers a wide range of time, from 1955 to 1981 and focuses on three core themes: the journey to China in 1955 and the writing of two reportages on this topic; the ...
Chapter Melancholic Humor, Skepticism and Reflective Nostalgia. Igor’ Guberman’s Poetics of Paradox
(2015)
The poetry of Israeli émigré Igor' Guberman, comprising thousands of quatrains (‘gariki’), represents a hybrid genre at the junction of Jewish aphoristic tradition, Russian oral folklore, and classical Russian poetry. The ...
Dialogare: compendio di biologia
(2017)
The compendium collects the basic themes of biology in a very simplified form, ideally following the programmatic criteria of secondary school. The didactic program is articulated starting from the molecules that make up ...
Chapter The politics of washoku: Japan’s gastronationalism and gastrodiplomacy
(2021)
In this paper, we will explore the political construction of washoku by analyzing Japan’s recent strategy of gastronationalism and gastrodiplomacy. We will argue that the definition of washoku, as inscribed in the UNESCO’s ...
Chapter La politicizzazione della questione migratoria tra vecchi e nuovi attori
(2021)
How do right wing populist parties politicize migration in different political, economic and social contexts? The chapter aims to provide an answer to this question by analyzing four parties: the Italian (Northern) League, ...
Chapter La famiglia di parole da base [bog] ‘dio’ nelle lingue slave (con particolare riguardo alle esclamazioni)
(2023)
The Common Slavic *bogŭ ‘god’ displays an astonishingly rich derivation across Slavic languages, both numerically and semantically, with lexemes including almost all parts of speech: inflected (nouns, adjectives, verbs, ...
Arte nell’arte
(2016)
The volume analyses the representation of ceramic artefacts appearing in some Tuscan artistic works dating back to the 14th and 15th century and aims to combine the data emerging from iconographic sources with those relating ...
Chapter The Dutch Republic as Example of Maritime Transport Services Clusters in Preindustrial Europe (ca. 1650-1800)
(2019)
By means of a comparative analysis of the ‘Dutch case’ with the Saintonge in South-West France and Bohuslän in South-West Sweden, this paper analyses the rise and decline of maritime services clusters in preindustrial ...
Chapter Poesia e filosofia a Firenze tra Santa Croce e Santa Maria Novella
(2020)
This article draws a comparison between the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century library collection of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella and that of the Franciscan convent of Santa Croce. Such an investigation ...
Chapter Carbon Tracking in the Building Sector: A ‘CABBAGE’ Framework
(2023)
The great challenge of global climate change urges world economies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainable development, where the building sector plays a vital role. Carbon tracking technology is one of ...
Chapter Action men: martial fashions in Florence, 1530-1630
(2022)
This chapter analyses the influence of contemporary ideals of valour, physical strength, and martial skill on male court fashions. It outlines the various channels that enabled the propagation of martial styles and begins ...
Chapter Da Verri a Cuoco. Il dibattito sul carattere degli Italiani tra Sette e Ottocento
(2020)
Even today, Italians tend to adopt a double imagine of their national character, played on the contrast between an evolved and conscious minority (‘us’) and a backward and typically pre-modern majority (‘them’). As Giulio ...
Raccomandazioni per lo sviluppo dell'Editoria Elettronica negli Atenei Italiani
(2006)
In May 2004, the delegates of the Library Commission of the CRuI had already identified the issue of electronic publishing as one of the strategic aspects to be addressed and explored with the utmost attention. The setting ...
Medievistica del Novecento
(2007)
A comprehensive collection spanning five decades of full-length book reviews and short synopses by Giovanni Tabacco, whose scholarly concerns were never separate from a lifelong engagement as an exacting critical reader. ...
Chapter The two versions of the life of Pope Sergius II in the Liber pontificalis. Anti-Frankish feeling in Rome after Louis II’s expedition of 844
(2022)
The analysis of the two versions of the life of Pope Sergius II (844-847) published by Louis Duchesne in his edition of the Liber pontificalis aims at identifying and discussing the tools developed by the Lateran to ...
Conflitti, paci e vendette nell'Italia comunale
(2009)
This book is a collection of seven essays with an introduction by the editor. The contributions propose first-hand studies of some of the less researched aspects of the history of the Italian communes: the practices of ...
Chapter Round Table comment: From «useful knowledge» to a «culture of growth»
(2023)
we can state that economically useful knowledge could induce innovations which further deepened and widened this economically useful knowledge; and this cycle was at least one of the decisive factors of raising profitability ...
Chapter Architettura e neuroscienze: una doppia elica
(2021)
The founder of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture relates the story of its in-spiration in Jonas Salk’s insistence that his experience at the Abbey at Assissi helped him develop the vaccine for polio. He discusses ...
Chapter Does an entrepreneurial spirit animate fresh graduates in their work-seeking during uncertain times?
(2021)
The labour market is becoming harder and harder even for graduates. The economic difficulties added by Covid-19 restrictions worsened the graduates’ employability. In our opinion, public authorities should intervene to ...
Chapter «La Basilica di S. Miniato al Monte sta a noi se si vuole». Il ritorno dei monaci olivetani nel 1924
(2021)
The paper retraces the negotiations undertaken by the Olivetan monks at the beginning of the 20th century for their return to the ancient abbey of San Miniato al Monte, which they had been forced to abandon in 1552 for the ...
Chapter Tipologie amministrative della signoria in Italia fra medioevo ed età moderna
(2021)
Lordship management is a broad subject scarcely treated by historians; even when analysed, it has never been the object of exhaustive reconstructions and systematic surveys. The article provides a first, provisional overview ...
Chapter Nature protection and local development: a study concerning a natural park located in Sardinia (Italy)
(2022)
Regional natural parks can include areas having high natural and environmental values. Defining appropriate spatial planning tools for these areas is therefore of outmost importance to protect the ecological balance and ...
Chapter Presentazione
(2023)
The volume here presented aims to commemorate the Portuguese poet António Correia a year after his death with the translation, for the first time in Italian language, of two collections of sonnets: Deideia and Amagao meu ...
Una storia, un archivio
(2018)
Idalberto Targioni (1868-1930) was a foundling, peasant, worker, extemporaneous poet, union activist, anti-militarist, socialist and mayor, interventionist and early fascist, man of the regime and lastly a penitent. A ...
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. EVA 2015 Florence
(2015)
Information Technologies of interest for Culture Heritage are presented: multimedia systems, data-bases, data protection, access to digital content, Virtual Galleries. Particular reference is reserved to digital images ...
Il graphic novel. Un crossover per la modernità
(2020)
The graphic novel is one of the most suggestive and successful semiotic phenomena. This collection of essays focuses on the interrelations of image and text, and how they are substantiated and thematized by graphic novels. ...
Chapter Qualche riflessione finale
(2020)
We introduce the concept of "tragic choices": those that concern our vital and identity experiences. As in the tragedies of classical Greek theater, there are circumstances in which there is no right and wrong, since theses ...
La scienza e la rete
(2009)
The advent and spread of Internet and the Web have radically transformed the modes of communication. This book considers a particular ambit of online communication, namely that of science. In the first place, the author ...
Chapter Parte seconda. Buone pratiche di Public History per la formazione e il territorio
(2022)
In keeping with the ten essays collected in the first part of the volume, this section proposes thirty Best Practices files, selected from the most recent and stimulating ones. These are real models of educational action ...
Chapter A statistical information system in support of job policies orientation
(2021)
A significant problem for labour market policies relies on the individuation of the most advisable skills to have and to enhance through focused training offers. Vocational training systems and institutions are called to ...
Chapter Предисловие
(2023)
Foreword. Dostoevsky: Paradox, Humor, Deconstruction. A foreword to the present book and to each of the 15 articles that are part of it. While the analysis of humor, paradox, and deliberate deconstruction has generally ...
ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation
(2021)
This book includes 40 peer-reviewed short papers submitted to the Scientific Conference titled Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation, aimed at promoting new statistical methods and applications for the ...
Strumenti per una medicina del nostro tempo
(2015)
The contribution provided by this publication represents an innovative initiative in the field of training for projects to improve the quality of care. The need for theoretical models, tools and methodologies that favour ...