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Chapter Il museo racconta la scuola tra passato e presente
(2022)
The Museums of educational heritage - especially those established in University Departments – represent an extraordinary resource for scientific research, education, and the Third Mission, which is aimed at promoting ...
Chapter Measuring the impact of healthcare indicators on academic medical centers’ scientific production
(2021)
The Italian public-owned Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) are hospitals where the activities of scientific research, teaching, and patients care are fully integrated. AMCs have an enormous impact on society and country ...
Chapter LaCoast Atlas: a consistent database to support sustainable coastal zone management
(2020)
The paper illustrates the LaCoast Project (LAnd cover changes in COASTal zones), a harmonised and consistent geo-referenced database that constitute a base tool for integrated spatial analysis of policies. It is meant to ...
Chapter Introduzione
(2020)
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Chapter Giordano da Pisa e il pubblico. Modelli e comportamenti
(2020)
The production of Giordano da Pisa (1260-1310) offers an excellent example for assessing the relationship between a Dominican preacher and his lay audience. His preaching presents simultaneously all the features that make ...
Chapter Are Teachers Agents of Change? Teacher Training and The Gender Dimension in Adult Education: Italy and Nigeria in Comparison
(2020)
Adult education can play a fundamental role in changing existing gender hierarchies, breaking down gender stereotypes, and promoting gender equality. Teachers can be important agents of change, but they not only have to ...
AKROTHINIA
(2015)
Akrothinia collects the contributions of twenty-three young scholars, with the aim of creating an overall picture of the lines of investigation and of the interests which, in recent years, have animated research in the ...
Chapter Introduction
(2020)
This volume aims to foster the dialogue between two usually distinct scholarly traditions: on the one hand, the studies revolving around cultural and political activity, as well as the didactic, theological, religious and ...
Un poetico sonnambulismo e una folle passione per la follia
(2013)
The work analyses the complex relationship between mental illnesses and curative medicine in the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, highlighting problems deriving from unsuitable practices, and shedding light on the overwhelming, ...
Chapter Atmospheric agents and spatial planning. Case study of the municipality of Rosignano Marittimo in Tuscany
(2022)
In recent years, Tuscan coastal areas have been repeatedly affected by more and more intense weather phenomena, which have caused damage to people and urban settlements. Extreme weather events such as intense downpours, ...
Migrazioni in Italia: oltre la sfida
(2021)
‘Going beyond the challenge’ means looking at the phenomenon of migration in its complexity, through a multi and interdisciplinary approach. The chapters that make up the first part offer an over-view of the phenomenon, ...
Chapter Measuring the effectiveness of COVID-19 containment policies in Italian regions: are we doing enough?
(2021)
A successful fight against COVID-19 greatly depends on citizens’ adherence to the restrictive measures, which may not suffice alone. Making use of a containment index, data on sanctions, and Google’s movement trends across ...
Paolo Mantegazza e l'Evoluzionismo in Italia
(2010)
An eclectic figure – a scientist, novelist, anthropologist, politician and man of his time – Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) played a leading role in Italian society and the cultural scene of the late nineteenth century, even ...
Le emergenze umanitarie complesse
(2005)
The main contemporary crisis situations concern ecology, public health, markets, technology and war. They now manifest themselves not simply as sectoral crisis (of the economy, finance, environment, and so on), but as ...
L’ermetismo e Firenze
(2016)
This is the first of the two volumes dedicated to Hermeticism and Florence published by Firenze University Press (the second one entitled Luzi, Bigongiari, Parronchi, Bodini, Sereni can be purchased separately). Between ...
Chapter Measuring the effectiveness of COVID-19 containment policies in Italian regions: are we doing enough?
(2021)
A successful fight against COVID-19 greatly depends on citizens’ adherence to the restrictive measures, which may not suffice alone. Making use of a containment index, data on sanctions, and Google’s movement trends across ...
Chapter Gli archivi dei movimenti e di altri soggetti sociali: alcuni esempi in Toscana
(2021)
The contribution offers an overview of the archives of the movements preserved in Tuscany and of the critical issues of their conservation and enhancement.
Chapter Con l’occhio di Leonardo. Città fortificate e scenari possibili: paesaggio, cartografia e architettura militare
(2023)
Leonardo’s interest in Vitruvian machinatio, subservient to the needs of military architecture, starts with the return of the Sienese tradition involving mechanisms used both in civil and military fields. Whilst Martini’s ...
Chapter A fragmentary story: episcopal culture in Milan during Lothar I’s reign?
(2022)
Dealing with episcopal culture in Milan during Lothar I’s age (822-855), that is the age of Archbishop Angilbert II (824-859), is a difficult task, because of the lack of sources and uncertain origin of many extant ...
Chapter The economic revolution in book design that went unnoticed. The case of the Southern Netherlands, 1473–c. 1550
(2023)
This contribution discusses the evolution of paper thickness of books produced in the Southern Netherlands in the period 1473 until the middle of the sixteenth century. Changing paper thickness is one of the key elements ...
Chapter Ecological status of the Tuscan Archipelago rocky habitats assessed by the MedSens index
(2022)
MedSens index provides the environmental status of subtidal rocky coastal habitats based on open data collected by trained volunteers using the Reef Check Mediterranean Underwater Coastal Environment Monitoring protocol. ...
Chapter Ecological status of the Tuscan Archipelago rocky habitats assessed by the MedSens index
(2022)
MedSens index provides the environmental status of subtidal rocky coastal habitats based on open data collected by trained volunteers using the Reef Check Mediterranean Underwater Coastal Environment Monitoring protocol. ...
La Nostra Vita con Ezio e Ricordi di guerra
(2021)
Our life with Ezio and Memories of War, written by Flora Aghib Levi D’Ancona traces the life of her husband Ezio Levi, a Jewish Italian philologist and hispanist, their experiences of exile in the US where the couple fled ...
Chapter Studi italiani su Dante nel mondo slavo: alcune considerazioni
(2022)
The aim of this article is to provide a review, albeit not exhaustive, of Italian studies on Dante in the Slavic world. Starting from 1921, and the important essays published in the journal “L’Europa orientale”, the author ...
Chapter Descartes on Selfhood, Conscientia, the First Person and Beyond
(2023)
I discuss Descartes’ metaphysics of selfhood, and relevant parts of contemporary philosophy regarding the first person. My two main concerns are the controversy that surrounds Descartes’ conception of conscientia, mistranslated ...
La Public History tra scuola, università e territorio
(2022)
The volume collects ten essays, followed by thirty Best Practices sheets, which collectively provide an outline of the interconnections between Public History and schools. Through discussing and hypotheses of teaching and ...
Le emergenze umanitarie complesse
(2005)
The main contemporary crisis situations concern ecology, public health, markets, technology and war. They now manifest themselves not simply as sectoral crisis (of the economy, finance, environment, and so on), but as ...
Chapter Jernej Kopitar nella cultura slovena
(2019)
According to 19th-century philologist Jernej Kopitar, elite literary traditions and modern written languages originated in folk literature. Leading Slovenian intellectuals of his day, however, including poet France Prešeren ...
Chapter Wealth inequalities in cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and their changes during the seventeenth century. Sources and methods of measure
(2020)
I would like to determine the evolution of wealth concentration in main cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by comparing the data from different benchmark years. Moreover, I will analyze whether the Gini coefficient ...
Chapter L’ordre dominicain dans le ciel du soleil. Dante Alighieri et la « viva giustizia » du Paradiso
(2020)
This article analyses the dynamic role of Justice in Dante’s Comedy. As the judge of his Otherworld, Dante establishes harsh punishments for the sinners in his Inferno. Moreover, he attacks their earthly fame in a way ...
Chapter The catalyst of change. The clothing of the Viennese servants and their relation to fashion in the period 1760-1823
(2022)
In the eighteenth century, fashion constituted a fundamental criterion for consumption for broader parts of the European (and Viennese) population. This article investigates, through various sources, like probate inventories, ...
Chapter Dai primi trattati portoghesi di astronomia alla «Nube di Magellano» di Haroldo de Campos
(2021)
Starting with the first astronomical treatises of the 16th century, this work focuses on the metaliterary concept of travel and on the attraction that astronomy, specifically the Magellanic clouds, produce in the Portuguese ...
MEREAFaPS: uno Studio di Farmacovigilanza Attiva e Farmacoepidemiologia in Pronto Soccorso
(2016)
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) have a significant impact on the patient’s health. The purpose of this PhD thesis was to analyse the impact of ADRs on the admissions to the emergency room, using the data obtained from the ...
La inutilizzabilità della prestazione
(2017)
The service covered by an obligation corresponds, in the definition offered by the law (art. 1174 of the Italian civil code), to an interest of the creditor. What happens if this interest, in the context of a contractual ...
Raccontare la Resistenza a scuola
(2022)
The book aims at collecting papers discussed during the online webinars Raccontare la Resistenza a scuola organised between April 2021 and May 2021. The book aims at consolidating links between theoretical and historical ...
Chapter Il fenomeno migratorio secondo i dati statistici
(2021)
A thorough understanding of the reality of migration is the best way to manage it and seize its value. For it, statistical data, can help do just that: they show that the foreign presence in Italy has not undergone major ...
Chapter Writing, textuality, politics in the Lucca of Bishops Berengar and Ambrose (837-852)
(2022)
The article consists of two intertwined sections. In the first, I intend to reconstruct the processes of political and social transformation that took place in Lucca under the actions of Bishops Berengar (837-843) and ...
AKROTHINIA
(2015)
Akrothinia collects the contributions of twenty-three young scholars, with the aim of creating an overall picture of the lines of investigation and of the interests which, in recent years, have animated research in the ...
Chapter Docenti e studenti dell’Università di Firenze: una lettura di genere
(2024)
The chapter investigates the issue of the feminization of the University of Florence by looking at both the teaching and student populations. Starting from a synthesis of previous research works we focus more specifically ...
Un poetico sonnambulismo e una folle passione per la follia
(2013)
The work analyses the complex relationship between mental illnesses and curative medicine in the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, highlighting problems deriving from unsuitable practices, and shedding light on the overwhelming, ...