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Diari 1963-1977
(2011)
This book is the fifth and last volume of the Diari of Giuseppe Dessí, a publication made possible by Franca Linari's transcription combined with the attentive editorship of Francesca Nencioni. The series began with the ...
The Security-Development Nexus in the EU’s Policies Towards the Sahel
(2025)
The Sahel has become a focal point of EU foreign policy, particularly following Mali’s security crisis since 2012. This analysis critically examines European policies in Mali, highlighting their limitations and weaknesses. ...
Chapter 2. Problemi del servizio di lettura in una zona sottosviluppata (1963)
(2024)
L'autore descrive la propria esperienza di Soprintendente Bibliografico in Sardegna. Vengono evidenziate le problematiche di natura finanziaria, sociale e culturale che rendono difficile l'istituzione e il funzionamento ...
Chapter Il lavoro di cura alla base della riproduzione della società. La prospettiva critica femminista di Nancy Fraser
(2024)
Critical feminist reflection has made a fundamental contribution in recent decades to rethinking the meaning and value of work. Within the framework of this discussion, Nancy Fraser's research has come to acquire a prominent ...
Disuguaglianza economica nelle società preindustriali: cause ed effetti / Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies: causes and effect
(2020)
In contrast to the debates of the past, which focused mainly on income inequality and the related elements of injustice, the recent interest in economic inequality focuses on its effects on economic growth and social ...
International Teaching and Learning Settings in the Academic Professionalisation of Adult Education
(2023)
Academic education plays an important role in the development of professionalism of adult educators. Given the interconnectedness of adult education with global and international developments, this international and ...
Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
(2018)
Sporadic cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is considered to be among the most commonly known neuropathological processes in the brain, hosting a crucial role in stroke, cognitive impairment, and functional loss in elderly ...
Manuale di batteriologia clinica
(2005)
The manual aims to represent the essence of bacteriology that is carried out in a medium-large sized clinical Microbiology laboratory, stating its operational aspects with simple, easily applicable schemes resulting from ...
Restauro dei giardini europei
(2025)
The historiography of European gardens from the 18th to the 20th century constitutes a key reference point for understanding the process of recognizing the values associated with memory and the ongoing debate on restoration, ...
Mainland and insular lacertid lizards
(2006)
Lacertid lizards have long been a fruitful field of scientific enquiry with many people working on them over the past couple of hundred years. The scope of the field has steadily increased, beginning with taxonomy and ...
Filosofia e storiografia nel dibattito anglo-americano sulla svolta linguistica
(2013)
This book proposes a critical examination of the main approaches of contemporary historiography, with the aim of bringing out their latent conceptual structures. Reinhart Koselleck wrote that «Historical knowledge always ...
Chapter Storiografie italiane del XII secolo. Riflessioni introduttive
(2024)
This essay aims to reconstruct the historiographical framework in which the most recent scholarship on the historiographical production in 12th-century Italy is located. The essay also provides an outline of the structure ...
Chapter La filologia slava in Italia: un trentennio di studi (1991-2021)
(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 philology
Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2018
(2020)
The volume ‘Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni 2018’ is the outcome of the international seminar held in Certaldo on September 6 and 7, 2018, promoted by the ENGB National Association (Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio) ...
Musica, scienziato!
(2014)
Musica, scienziato!, a work that cannot be reduced to pre-existing models, establishes a new literary genre, the scientifantasia, which, although part of a literary tradition which has included eminent figures such as the ...
Chapter Elementi ‘primi’ di progettazione organizzativa negli uffici giudiziari
(2023)
This chapter reflects on Italian courts from the perspective of scholars in management and organizational studies. After a brief conceptual overview of effectiveness and efficiency in courts, two organizational configurations ...
Chapter Assessment of the quality of marine bathing waters using different methods of percentile calculation
(2024)
Escherichia coli (E. coli) and intestinal enterococci (ENT) are the indicator bacteria used to test the microbiological quality of bathing water. In Croatia, the quality of bathing water is assessed by parametric method ...
A Monetary Hope for Europe
(2016)
A Monetary Hope for Europe. This book studies the euro in a global perspective and opens a new series edited by the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence of the University of Florence, Verso l’unificazione europea. ...
La Habana del Este
(2022)
The Atlas of Territorial Heritage in the Municipality of East Havana is a useful tool in order to reach a complete knowledge of an extended Cuban municipality belonging to Havana, Cuba. At the same time the atlas is useful ...
Chapter La schiavitù dei contemporanei
(2024)
Slave labor survived the abolition of slavery. Karl Marx analyzed both the role of legal slavery in the original accumulation of the capital and the forms of forced labor inherent to the “free” labor relationships (wage ...
A Journey to the West. Observations on the Chinese Migration to Italy
(2013)
This volume presents the results of a number of studies about Chinese migration to Italy carried out between 2003 and 2013. The data discussed in the different chapters were collected mostly through ethnographic fieldwork ...
Proceedings of the 11th Toulon-Verona International Conference on Quality in Services
(2008)
The Toulon-Verona Conference was founded in 1998 by prof. Claudio Baccarani of the University of Verona, Italy, and prof. Michel Weill of the University of Toulon, France. It has been organized each year in a different ...
Chapter Unveiling a hidden subject: peasant agency in the Douro river basin (5th- 7th centuries)
(2024)
The peasantry formed the most numerous group in the vast course of history in its dialectical diversity and specificity. However, the peasants’ importance was not matched by an equal research effort from historians. Something ...
Chapter La cooperazione prima della cooperazione. Il movimento dei volontari per il Terzo mondo nei lunghi anni Sessanta
(2024)
This essay examines the Third World volunteer movement that developed within the Catholic world in the late 1950s and the following decade. Groups and associations selected applications from dozens of young people, trained ...
Architetture nel tempo
(2015)
Architetture nel tempo represents the awareness of the duration, permanence and authenticity of places along the centuries and in their continuous contemporaneity, entrusted to the preservation which passes on to the future, ...
Chapter L’Inghilterra: la scoperta di un secondo polo intellettuale
(2024)
The article explores the discovery of a ‘second intellectual pole’ for the writer Luigi Meneghello, identified in post-war England. Thanks to a British Council scholarship, Meneghello undergoes a profound intellectual and ...
Chapter ‘Esperienze d’azzardo’: un approccio etnografico allo studio del gambling
(2024)
The present ethnographic research study has combined observation of gambling practices in commercial venues hosting slot machines, with interviews involving over 100 interlocutors undergoing rehabilitation for gambling ...
Chapter La problematica declinazione solidaristica della tassazione degli extraprofitti: una riflessione sulle scelte normative di riparto dei carichi pubblici tra consociati
(2024)
The solidarity dimension of tax duty requires the legislator to make choices regarding the distribution of tax burdens in the society based on criteria of reasonableness and proportionality. From this point of view, the ...
Esperienze di gestione in una biblioteca accademica: la Biblioteca di scienze sociali dell'Ateneo fiorentino (2004-2015)
(2016)
The volume describes experiences of the first twelve years of the Social Sciences Library of the University of Florence in its new location. We talk about management contexts, organisational structures, analysis, projects, ...
Chapter Under the Shadow of a Central Place: Defining the Landscape with Fortified Places and Their Memory in the Written Sources of the Kingdom of León
(2024)
Castles usually appear in the Kingdom of León’s written sources during the medieval period. The 10th and 11th centuries show an increase in those mentions, including some that helped scribes describe the landscape and ...
Purines as Transmitter Molecules: Electrophysiological Studies on Purinergic Signalling in Different Cell Systems
(2008)
Purinergic nucleotides and nucleosides (ATP, ADP, AMP and adenosine) are essential intracellular metabolites involved in a number of cellular processes, from energy supply to protein phosphorylation. However, in the last ...
Chapter Michel Foucault e il lavoro. Tra assoggettamento e soggettivazione
(2024)
The article gives an overview of the use of the concept “work (travail)” made in Michel Foucault’s writings, drawing a comparison between Truth and Juridical Forms and Discipline and Punish, and The Use of Pleasure. To ...
Chapter La tradizione romanza di Rorgone Fretello tra Terre de Promission e Fazienda de Ultra Mar
(2024)
This paper offers a preliminary analysis of the Romance tradition of Rorgo Fretellus’s Descriptio de locis sanctis, one of the major medieval Latin itineraries of the Holy Land. The study examines key passages from its Old ...
Laboratorio di disegno
(2005)
The present research on the theme of the design of furniture components starts from the didactic experience carried out within a Design Drawing Laboratory. The aim of the course is to apply the themes and methods related ...
Nascere e morire: quando decido io? Italia ed Europa a confronto
(2011)
This book continues the collaboration between the department of BioLaw of the University of Florence and the non-profit association Madre Provetta, to contribute to a project of study and research that can build towards a ...
Vincenzo Consolo: gli anni de «l’Unità» (1992-2012), ovvero la poetica della colpa-espiazione
(2015)
Vincenzo Consolo: gli anni de «l’Unità» (1992-2012), ovvero la poetica della colpa-espiazione analyses the frequent collaboration between Vincenzo Consolo (1933-2012) and the Italian newspaper «l’Unità», which started in ...
La ricezione di Seneca tragico tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento
(2020)
The volume investigates the reception of Senecan tragedies during Humanism, focusing on printed editions and on translations in Florentine vernacular language. The first chapter summarizes the manuscript transmission of ...
Chapter Il maestro e gli allievi
(2025)
Il contributo ricostruisce il rapporto didattico intessuto da Giovanni Cherubini con i suoi numerosissimi allievi, caratterizzato dal piacere di insegnare e di alternarlo con momenti di intensa socialità: una scuola ...
Chapter Linguaggio inclusivo: limiti e potenzialità di uso nei manuali di italiano L2/Ls
(2024)
Instances derived from the need for nonsexist use of language and the new sensibility toward a broader language that considers the expressive needs of all kinds of identities are still scarcely discussed in L2/LS Italian ...
53rd National Meeting of the Italian Society of Biochemistryand Molecular Biology (SIB)andNational Meeting of Chemistry of Biological Systems – Italian Chemical Society (SCI - Section CSB)
(2008)
The 53rd National Congress of the Italian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SIB), which will be held in Riccione from 23 to 26 September, is characterised by the elevated scientific level and interdisciplinary ...
Chapter La professionalità per l’occupabilità in una lettura di genere
(2024)
Laws promoting gender equality are important. Still, they alone are not enough to bring about a significant change in the socio-economic dynamics that are responsible for creating an unequal gender distribution in the labor ...
Introducción a la gramática metaoperacional
(2020)
Grammar will be explained in this book from a new point of view: that of the speaker. He or she is the architect that makes up the sentence using tools provided by the language and with which he or she performs specific ...
Chapter Meneghello, Calvino, Fenoglio e la linea antiretorica
(2024)
The essay places I piccoli maestri in a postulated anti-rhetorical and anti-heroic current in the literature of the Resistance (including Fenoglio and Calvino); and reads the irony, the sense of humour and the hero-comic ...
New information subjects in L2 acquisition: evidence from Italian and Finnish
(2015)
Recent work on second language acquisition within the generative framework has pointed out interfaces (syntax-discourse, syntax-semantics, etc.) as a residual domain of vulnerability in L2. Rather than in core syntax, it ...
Salute e disuguaglianze in Europa
(2010)
This work analyses the relation between social inequality and health by focusing on the social processes and individual mechanisms that construct it within the area of action of the economic sphere, the cultural sphere and ...
La variazione semantica del verbo "essere" nelI'italiano parlato
(2010)
The volume proposes a corpus-driven study on the 14,000 occurrences of the verb “essere” (to be) in a corpus of Italian speech C-ORAL-ROM, in the light of the main proposals for the semantic interpretation of the verb. ...
L'albero della vita
(2007)
The feast represents the quintessence of time, distinguished from time in general by a potent intensity. The dynamics of secularisation have attenuated and blurred the boundaries between sacred and profane, to the point ...
Chapter Diseguaglianze sociali e indicatori archeologici: quali fonti per la lettura del Trecento?
(2025)
The paper concerns the use of archaeological sources and methods as tools for understanding some specific economic and social developments of the fourteenth century. Since the changes that occurred during this period seem ...
Giuseppe Maria Crespi e il Gran Principe Ferdinando de' Medici
(2021)
The iconological analysis of Crespi’s paintings for Grand Prince Ferdinando de’Medici reveals shared ideas rooted in Seneca’s philosophy, basis of their taste for genre and pastoral scenes. Crespi was a leading figure of ...
Chapter Wang Dayuan’s 汪大淵 Daoyi Zhilüe 島夷志略: Did the World Beyond Chinese Borders Stretch to Morocco?
(2024)
Wang Dayuan (14th century) travelled far and wide during the Yuan dynasty. On his two voyages he sailed to hundreds of places in Southeast Asia and India, also reaching the Near East and the coast of Africa. His work, the ...
Chapter Lavoro individuale, lavoro sociale, nuovo senso del lavoro. Teologie del lavoro e cultura economica
(2024)
The introduction proposes an interpretation of the ideas of work of our civilization that problematizes the question of the sociality of work. Remembering that for Karl Marx the novelty of the capitalist mode of production ...
Chapter Gli ospedali e l’assistenza come risposta alle diseguaglianze economiche. Un osservatorio dalla Toscana medievale.
(2025)
Two data points suffice to identify the links between hospitals and social needs at the height of medieval economic growth. The first is the direct responsibility assumed by municipal governments in the field of assistance, ...
Firenze e la lingua italiana fra nazione ed Europa
(2007)
The volume collects the proceedings of the conference “Firenze e la lingua italiana tra nazione ed Europa” (Florence and the Italian language between nation and Europe), which was held from on May 27 and 28 2004 in the ...
Chapter Violazione dei diritti fondamentali ed esigenze di documentazione: un’eccezione al copyright?
(2025)
The conflict between copyright laws and the need to document and disseminate human rights violations and crimes against humanity becomes central, as access to crucial materials for historical memory risks being restricted ...
Il pensiero estetico di Nikolaj Evreinov dalla teatralità alla 'poetica della rivelazione'
(2015)
This research offers an integral analysis of the aesthetic thought of the director, playwright and art theorist Nikolaj Nikolaevic Evreinov. The work focuses on the analysis of the treaty The revelation of art, written in ...
Chapter Dal lavoro agile alla new way of working
(2024)
During the pandemic, in Italy 6 million people worked from home, no longer in the work flow regulated by time and physical presence in the office under the direct control of the hierarchy. A large number of people have ...
Chapter Mapping Yucca gloriosa in coastal dunes: evaluating the cost and time efficiency of photointerpretation, machine learning and field detection approaches
(2024)
Biological invasions threaten biodiversity and cause significant economic and ecological costs. Effective management of invasive species is crucial, as highlighted by the European Community's Regulation 1143/2014 on Invasive ...
Chapter Uso e diffusione della ‘moneta alternativa’ in Sardegna tra XI e XIV secolo
(2024)
Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the economy of Sardinia (which was then divided into four kingdoms or giudicati: Cagliari, Arborea, Torres, and Gallura) was characterized by a limited use of currency, which was ...
Chapter Alternative forms of remuneration at the Holy Spirit Hospital of Marseille in the Fourteenth century
(2024)
The monetisation of exchanges tends to favour economic development, yet many forms of payment persisted throughout the preindustrial era despite rapid growth. Services in particular were remunerated in a variety of forms ...
Chapter Appunti sull’emigrazione bergamasca nelle città della terraferma veneta nel Quattrocento (con particolare riferimento a Verona)
(2024)
The author takes as an example the emigration from Bergamo to offer a picture of its insertion in the Venetian mainland in the fifteenth century, focusing in particular on immigration in those centers which were happily ...