Publications
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Social capital, economic growth and well-being
(2012)
In the long run economic growth does not improve people's well-being. Traditional theories – adaptation and social comparisons – explain this evidence, but they don't explain what shapes the trend of subjective well-being ...
Development of novel ultrasound techniques for imaging and elastography. From simulation to real-time implementation
(2013)
Ultrasound techniques offer many advantages, in terms of ease of realization and patients’ safety. The availability of suitable hardware and software tools is condicio sine qua non for new methods testing. This PhD project ...
Chapter L’innovazione degli approcci sociologici per una prospettiva eco-territorialista
(2023)
Eco-territorialism focuses its proposal on the relationship between environmental issues and the territory. For sociology, this is a partly unprecedented challenge. Indeed, environmental sociology has never taken an explicit ...
La Götterlehre di Karl Philipp Moritz. Nell’officina del linguaggio mitopoietico degli antichi
(2020)
The unpublished translation of Götterlehre (1791) by K.Ph. Moritz presents the mythopoietic process of the Ancients by means of the tale of the origins of the numinous and of its ekfrastic structuring into the great mythical ...
Chapter Storia della collaborazione tra Wikidata e le biblioteche della Rete URBE nel controllo di autorità
(2024)
The contribution draws a history of the presence of the identifiers of the authority records of the URBE network libraries in Wikidata, and of the collaboration that has evolved since 2020 between the Wikidata community ...
Invarianti strutturali nel governo del territorio
(2014)
The introduction of the concept of structural invariant in territorial and urban planning has encountered numerous application problems. The purpose of this work is to investigate the reasons and formulate a new definition ...
Reti marittime come fattori dell’integrazione europea / Maritime Networks as a Factor in European Integration
(2019)
This wide-ranging theme takes Braudel’s concept of the “Mediterranean” as its starting point. Braudel’s vision of an enclosed sea as a geographical opportunity for economic integration between nations with different ...
Riflessi d’Oriente
(2021)
The book discusses the experience of two Florentine travellers in the Levant from the 1760s to 1792. During their separate stays in Cyprus and in Istanbul they visited the Holy Land, Anatolia and Mesopotamia providing ...
Chapter Il ‘peso’ della dimensione economica nella costruzione del diritto del lavoro
(2024)
The article analyses the relationship between social rights and the economic dimension in the construction of labour law through an ongoing dialogue with Riccardo Del Punta's writings on the subject, focusing in particular ...
Chapter Lords, Peasantries and the remuneration of labour services in the Southern Low Countries, 13th-18th centuries
(2024)
In the late medieval and early modern Southern Low Countries, servile work gradually disappeared in most lordships. This contribution researches how and why unfree labour persisted in a minority of seigneuries. The main ...
Chapter A proposito del Khazneh al-Faroun
(2024)
One of the most famous monuments of Petra is considered by questioning its nature as a sepulchral monument, generally accepted. In the light of its architecture and its topographical location, other possible functions are ...
Attraversamento di luoghi simbolici. Petrarca, il bosco e la poesia
(2021)
Adelia Noferi (1922-2014) was one the greatest scholars of Petrarch, Bruno, and D’Annunzio and twentieth-century poetry, as well as one of the most refined theorists of the twentieth century and its poetics. This book ...
Ingegneri & Ingegneria a Firenze
(2013)
The initial idea for this volume was born while rethinking the organisation of the University of Florence following the recent reform, with the aim of retracing the evolution of the Faculty of Engineering throughout its ...
Chapter Comprendere un testo su carta o su schermo: il ruolo delle Funzioni Esecutive in età scolare
(2024)
The literature indicates a disadvantage of reading comprehension in digital mode compared to reading comprehension in print mode. The shallowing hypothesis explains this disadvantage by suggesting that on digital, readers ...
Intellettuali e uomini di regime nell’Italia fascista
(2019)
Intellettuali e uomini di regime nell’Italia fascista. This volume collects nine essays on political, economic and legal culture in Italy during fascism. The reconstruction of prominent personalities of the regime, such ...
Chapter Lavoro e amore in Max Scheler. Per la reintegrazione del lavoro nell’intero dell’essere e della vita
(2024)
In his Preface to the second edition of Formalism (1921), Scheler showed no doubts: the false heroism of duty and work, taught widely in German philosophy starting with Kant, is at the origin of the betrayal of joy and ...
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 ...
Diversamente scienza
(2020)
This work originates from the conference organized by the Equity and Diversity Committee of the University of Florence and the National Conference of the Gender Parity Organisms of the Italian Universities held in Florence ...
Chapter Kubaba and other Divine Ladies of the Syro-Anatolian Iron Age: Developmental Trajectories, Local Variations, and Interregional Interactions
(2023)
Already by the Late Bronze Age, culturally distinct cults of Kubaba existed throughout the region controlled by the Hittite Empire. After the fall of the empire and the fragmentation of the political landscape of the ...
Il piccolo Pantheon
(2018)
In Paris, the Little Pantheon is the theatre on rue de Chartres which, together with other showrooms, competed with the great Pantheon on rue Soufflot between the 18th and 19th century. The Little Pantheon introduced the ...