Publications
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Chapter Linguaggio di genere e insegnamento della grammatica
(2024)
The article presents some considerations on the non-sexist use of the Italian language, which arise from an Italian L2 grammar, in which there is a specific section on the topic of gender language. The grammar takes into ...
Resistenza e diritto pubblico
(2016)
What do the words Resistance and public law suggest? On the one hand, they evoke the close relationship between the Resistance, intended as a historical phenomenon, and the institutional solutions and legal problems which ...
L'uomo tutto intero
(2018)
This volume reconstructs Carlo Livi (1823-1877)’s biography, focusing on his medical and psychiatric work and on his path as a man and intellectual who lived during the Italian Risorgimento. Livi was a key figure in Italian ...
Chapter Istruire le masse: sul mabiki negli scritti dei kokugakusha
(2024)
This article delves into the issue of mabiki (infanticide) in the late Edo period by analysing three texts authored by prominent scholars belonging to a circle of philologists and historians known as kokugakusha. During ...
Storia delle telecomunicazioni
(2011)
Focusing on the history of scientific and technological development over recent centuries, the book is dedicated to the history of telecommunications, where Italy has always been in the vanguard, and is presented by many ...
Serviceability and post-failure behaviour of laminated glass structural elements
(2019)
Glass structures are being built ever more frequently all over the world, in a growing architectural trend towards light, transparency and sustainability. The engineering design of laminated glass elements being profoundly ...
Abbazie e paesaggi medievali in Toscana
(2014)
The volume collects the contributions of the 'study day’ held on June 16, 2010 at the University of Florence on Abbeys and medieval landscapes in Tuscany, that is, on the forms of the territory that have structured the ...
Primavera di Praga, risveglio europeo
(2011)
The passage of time has not dulled the interest and fascination of the Prague Spring. Proof of this was provided on the occasion of the celebrations for the fortieth anniversary of the events in Czechoslovakia in 1968, ...
Chapter Marco Biagi e un progetto per la regolazione del lavoro che cambia
(2024)
Marco Biagi was a jourist who most felt the need to tie theoretical studies to the practical needs of the labor market. There is a profound continuity between his scientific publications and his work in the service of ...
L'ingegneria del vento
(2006)
The volume aims to give the most comprehensive answer to to the question “Why has wind engineering taken on such an important role today?”. In their work, the authors proceed by stages. First, they accompany the readers ...
Altri orientalismi
(2012)
Other Orientalisms analyses various forms of knowledge about India through the circulation of people, ideas, knowledge, images and objects between Florence and Bombay. In the second half of the nineteenth century Florence ...
Introduzione ai Sistemi di Localizzazione Indoor
(2017)
Introduzione ai Sistemi di Localizzazione Indoor (“Indoor Positioning Systems”) is the second issue of the series “Quaderni del Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria dell'Informazione” ("Issues of the PhD course in Information ...
Chapter Conclusioni
(2024)
The conclusions of the volume offer a synthetic look at the work with an eye to the future prospects of the studies.
Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence
(2025)
This book is an objective, evidence-based analysis of the empirical findings, methodologies and conclusions of the main inquiries into child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Europe, the US/Canada, the UK and Australasia. ...
Chapter Gramsci e la ‘civiltà del lavoro’
(2024)
When Gramsci theorizes the Factory Councils (in 1919-1920), he looks at work as the center of social and political life: the Factory Council brings together economics and politics, society and the state. The root of the ...
Studi per l'insegnamento delle lingue europee
(2005)
On 12, 13 and 14 May 2003 the second edition of the study days on didactic materials for the teaching of foreign languages was held in Florence. Numerous language teachers, mainly active in Italian universities but also ...
Chapter Semantic analysis of web archive historical data: 1983 “Marche pour l’égalité et contre le racisme”
(2024)
Based on a corpus composed by data obtained from the web archive of the French National Audiovisual Institute, including web pages referencing the history of the 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism, we explored how ...
5 European & African Conference on Wind Engineering
(2009)
The 5th European-African Conference of Wind Engineering is hosted in Florence, Tuscany, the city and the region where, in the early 15th century, pioneers moved the first steps, laying down the foundation stones of Mechanics ...
VERSUS: Heritage for Tomorrow
(2014)
Vernacular architecture represents a great resource that has considerable potential to define principles for sustainable design and contemporary architecture. This publication is the result of an overall aim to produce a ...
Diario epistolare a Corrado Pavolini
(2014)
Vulcano, Sicily 1964. After a meeting with him in Cortona, Helle Busacca, a poet and writer from Messina, began drafting an epistolary diary dedicated to Corrado Pavolini, a well-known intellectual and film director of ...
La storia di Firenze fra Bruni e Machiavelli
(2025)
The last historiographical work of Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), the Historiae Florentini populi, is composed of eight books, of which only four have survived in their original draft. In 1472 Poggio’s son, Iacopo Bracciolini ...
I controlimiti al primato del diritto dell'Unione europea nel dialogo tra le Corti
(2021)
The book challenges the ‘counter-limits’ (controlimiti) doctrine devised by the Italian Constitutional Court, in the light of the developments that have taken place within the EU framework over the last decades. The subject ...
La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 4. Quadri di sintesi e nuove prospettive di ricerca
(2023)
In late medieval Italy, the importance of lordship has often been overlooked by studies. Yet its diffusion was far from marginal: indeed, in most Italian regions it stretched over larger portions of population and territory, ...
Appunti di metrologia mercantile genovese
(2014)
This work starts from one of the most complex issues that the economic operator of the late Middle Ages had to face in order to carry out his activities, namely a constantly up-to-date understanding of the systems of weights ...
Il Settecento portoghese e lusofono
(2023)
The volume aims to fit into the existing studies in Italy and Portugal on the Portuguese 18th century, however describing the 18th century from a new, inclusive (and no more separatist), point of view between Portugal, ...
Chapter Andrea Mantegna e le sorelle Williams. Luigi Meneghello e la Storia dell’arte
(2024)
This paper endeavours to provide a concise overview of Meneghello’s engagement with art history from two distinct perspectives: first, as a student (behind the chair), and subsequently, as a scholar and educator (behind ...
Chapter La Facoltà di Scienze politiche “Cesare Alfieri” dalla crisi al primato (1938-2001)
(2025)
The forced fusion into the University of Florence along the headmastership of Rodolico compelled the new Faculty to reform its educational system and to follow the Fascist doctrine 1938-1943. As a consequence of the regime’s ...
Notturni e musica nella poesia moderna
(2018)
What is the night? How can we define it and mark its edges? The gaze of those observing it is more or less mobile; does the night maintain its function as a frame? How does the difficulty to see clearly favour the artistic ...
Chapter Donne che corrono sulla montagna. I primi romanzi di Tsushima Yūko (1947-2016)
(2024)
A significant portion of Tsushima Yūko’s body of work, particularly her early novels that brought her fame – Chōji (Child of Fortune, 1978), Hikari no ryōbun (Territory of Light, 1979), Yama o hashiru onna (The Woman Running ...
A cento anni dalla grande guerra. Effetti inattesi. Vol. 4
(2017)
The volumes on World War I which are published here are the result of a series of seminars held at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Florence between 2014 and 2015. Starting from the ...
Chapter La cultura sindacale e del lavoro della CISL: tratti originari, peculiarità e successivi sviluppi
(2024)
The aim of this essay, far from any ambition to be exhaustive, is to recall the path of construction and evolution of an autonomous trade union and labour culture, within Italian trade union pluralism, such as that which ...
Regole e progetti per il paesaggio
(2012)
This book brings together the materials of a study carried out by the Florence Faculty of Architecture in liaison with the Tuscan scientific community (five universities, research institutes and technicians from the Regional ...
La pianificazione paesaggistica in Italia
(2016)
In recent years, the in-depth analysis of landscape issues, the approval of the first regional Landscape Plans, the reflection on the action carried out by the Superintendencies are introducing a change of perspective in ...
Chapter Forme e funzioni dell’ironia in Libera nos a malo
(2024)
Irony is the most evident stylistic trait in Meneghello’s writing and personality. Widely recognized by critics, and by the author himself, it appears first and foremost as a mechanism for controlling emotion and opposing ...
Chapter Gli studi statistici e demografici
(2025)
A history of the social sciences over the last 100 years cannot ignore the relationship between scientific research and intellectual and academic debate on the one hand, and political events and ideologies on the other. ...
Chapter Decomposing tourists’ sentiment from raw NL text to assess customer satisfaction
(2021)
The importance of the Word of Mouth is growing day by day in many topics. This phenomenon is evident in everyday life, e.g., the rise of influencers and social media managers. If more people positively debate specific ...
Chapter L’agro-ecologia come supporto fondativo dell’eco-territorialismo
(2023)
Agroecology stems from the intelligence of territories; it is a contextualised process of active and participatory cultural, scientific, technological and social elaboration. It can provide a founding humus for eco-territorialism ...
Chapter Careening areas in marinas, anchorages, and private shipyards. Status of implementation of the MSFD measure
(2020)
Ship careening, which consists of stripping antifouling paint, generates waste. These residues contain different chemical contaminants that can have an impact on the marine environment. The implementation of the Marine ...
Chapter Comunità online e sviluppo professionale degli insegnanti: riflessioni sul caso di eTwinning nel quadro di un approccio data-informed
(2022)
This paper investigates the potential of data-mediated reflective practice for teachers, members of the eTwinning professional community, within a research strategy that explores big data in education. The chapter begins ...