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«Non lasciar vivere la malefica»
(2008)
Yet another book on witches and witchcraft? Although numerous, studies on this phenomenon that had such a profound influence on the political, social and religious history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern age ...
Nuova opera
(2022)
The Florentine Giovanni Cavalcanti (1381-c.1451), a member of a fallen branch of his family, had a life troubled by imprisonment for debt. Desire for justice and revenge informs his writings. Nuova opera is a heterogeneous ...
Il mutamento signorile. Assetti di potere e comunicazione politica nelle campagne dell’Italia centro-settentrionale (1080-1130 c.)
(2017)
The purpose of this book is to explore the transformations in the functioning of power in the countryside of the kingdom of Italy over the fifty years at the turn of the 1100s, and more particularly the process of affirmation ...
Chapter Artigianato digitale
(2024)
The figure of the craftsman, contrary to common opinion, has always represented the tradition that is constantly renewed. Today this figure is even more an expression of contemporaneity, where customization, regeneration ...
Nel segno di Magellano tra terra e cielo
(2021)
This miscellaneous volume aims to commemorate the Iberian and European celebrations about Magellan that started in 2019. Specifically, the volume commemorates: the person and the image of Magellan on earth (celebrating the ...
La Contabilità Analitica per il controllo della gestione nel settore vitivinicolo
(2015)
The volume illustrates the research activity of the UniCeSV Analytical Accounting Observatory presented during the seminar on: La contabilità analitica per il controllo della gestione nel settore vitivinicolo (“Analytical ...
Researches in Cypriote History and Archaeology
(2010)
Researches in Cypriote History and Archaeology collects the Proceedings of an international meeting held in Florence in April 2009. The title and the contributions disclose how the original planning of a workshop in Florence ...
Chapter Riccardo Del Punta: un illuminista radicale
(2024)
The essay starts from some of Riccardo Del Punta's writings to show how , in its author's view, he was a "radical Enlightenment thinker,” torn between passion and doubt. The passion that nourished all of Del Punta's work ...
Chapter Il lavoro dei moderni: antropologia, politica e sapere tra Rinascimento e Illuminismo
(2024)
Examining the ideas and representations of work between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment means focusing on a variety of different aspects and perspectives, in which the elements of continuity and discontinuity with ...
Il passato nel presente: la lingua dei beni culturali
(2020)
As a sign, tangible heritage is the most visible trace of the past in our daily life. In constant dialectic with the intangible heritage, it constitutes a physical presence that forces us to take concrete awareness. Knowledge ...
Chapter Economic inequalities and transformations of the rural world in the Iberian Peninsula before and after the Black Death
(2025)
This article studies economic inequality in late medieval Iberia, from the mid-thirteenth century to the end of the fifteenth century, based on three observatories – Olite, Oriola and Vera – located in the north and southeast ...
Bruges nesso economico tra i popoli romanici e germanici (secoli XIV-XV) / Bruges: The Economic Nexus between Romanic and Germanic Peoples (14th-15th Centuries)
(2024)
In this contribution, presented at the Accademia Belgica in Rome in 1967, Federigo Melis tackled a topic that was much discussed in those years, namely the role of Bruges as a national and international marketplace between ...
Peperoncini
(2010)
The chili pepper is a spice and medicinal remedy used since ancient times by the American peoples who were the first to undertake the domestication of 5 species belonging to the genus Capsicum (Solanaceae): Capsicum ...
Nessuno poteva aprire il libro...
(2019)
The initiative to offer one Festschrift to Silvano M. Danieli for his seventieth birthday pays tribute to a man and a professional whose work has left a deep mark on human relations and on the world of libraries. Silvano, ...
Storia, identità e canoni letterari
(2013)
This volume collects the interventions of the post-doctoral fellows and PhD students of the University of Cluj Napoca, the University of Bucharest and the University of Florence (Mediterranean Cultures; Doctoral School of ...
Da 'città del silenzio' a città delle macchine
(2010)
One of the most beautiful films of Italian cinematic Neorealism, Giovanna, a real pearl by Gillo Pontecorvo dated 1955, is almost completely unknown to the public. Entirely filmed in Prato, inside an old factory, now ...
L’Università allo specchio
(2016)
This second volume of Quaderni “Cesare Alfieri” offers a consideration on some basic aspects of our academic system. Among the many topics worthy of attention, the Scientific Committee has decided to put the accent on the ...
Il tempo del diaspro. La litosfera di Luigi Meneghello
(2023)
In Luigi Meneghello’s work, literary representations of the mineral world play a deconstructive role, in that they authorize unprecedented and transversal readings aimed at unlocking the writer’s material and scientific ...
Chapter Lugares de poder en Auvernia de los Guillèmides. La construcción de un principado y funcionamiento cognático de las estrategias de poder en los siglos IX y X
(2024)
Traditional historiography tends to underestimate the role of women in the local settlement of the power of elite networks during the 9th and 10th centuries. The process of transmission of public offices and inheritance, ...
Il lavoro della ragione
(2012)
In our age now deprived of the traditional metaphysical certainties, to study the moral dimension of subjectivity in Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is to make one's object of investigation that which is one of the ...
Dalla guerra alla pace. L’Arazzo di Bayeux e la conquista normanna dell’Inghilterra (secolo XI)
(2020)
The Bayeux Tapestry (or rather, embroidery) is one of the most famous medieval artworks, which narrates in images the conquest of England by the Normans led by Duke William the Conqueror. Images taken from the embroidery ...
Chapter La letteratura russa del Settecento
(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 Russian 18th-century literature
Chapter Quindici anni di catalogazione in URBE: dalle Varianti locali (2009) alla Commissione sulle Varianti locali e la catalogazione in URBE (2024)
(2024)
The paper describes URBE’s journey towards cataloguing uniformity. Starting with the recognition of the state of the art of cataloguing in URBE and the analysis of the document List of Local Variants to the AACR2/RDA ...
Chapter Empowering student engagement and environmental understanding: the Coastal Health Monitoring Scheme (CHMS) in the Balearic Islands, Spain
(2024)
A partnership between the Iberostar Foundation and the University of the Balearic Islands through the Chair of the Sea, Coastal Health Monitoring Scheme has a dual purpose: training students in marine biodiversity monitoring ...
Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage – Braga 2008
(2010)
COST Action IE0601 "Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage" (www.woodculther.org) aims to improve the conservation of European wooden cultural heritage objects, by fostering research and interaction between ...
Chapter L’Ephemeris di Ausonio e l’autobiografia del quotidiano: riflessioni a partire da un’analisi del carme 1
(2025)
This paper focuses on poem 1 (and partly 2) as a case study to assess the kind of autobiography depicted in Ausonius’ Ephemeris. Our analysis reveals a linguistic and metric poikilía, an interweaving of everyday life and ...
Chapter Outsiders, non per loro scelta. Esperienze artistiche nell’Ospedale neuropsichiatrico di Arezzo 1958-1978 | L’atelier
(2024)
The atelier at Arezzo Neuropsychiatric Hospital transformed the artistic activity from a diagnostic tool to a recognized form of creative expression. Initiated in 1958 by Dr. Furio Martini and influenced by the cultural ...
Chapter Il tema del lavoro nell’utopia rinascimentale
(2024)
In Utopia, an island in the tropics, work is done by all inhabitants, including women and work activity is characterized by social commitment and participation of everybody. The reduced time devoted to daily work and the ...
Economic multisectoral modelling between past and future
(2013)
This book is a tribute to the work of Maurizio Grassini, econometrician and model builder. The selection of his works in the first part of the volume is mainly devoted to research issues of multisectoral modelling. In fact, ...
Chapter L’agricoltura e il lavoro agricolo
(2024)
During the Middle Ages agriculture and agricultural labor was involved in a new system of values, due to the expansion of Christianity, and this valorization had a great impact on society and economic development of Western ...
Studio di ceppi batterici per il biorisanamento di suoli contaminati da Cr(VI)
(2010)
Chromium, in its hexavalent form [Cr(VI)], is a dangerous environmental pollutant. Bioremediation, which exploits the capacity of microorganisms to reduce Cr(VI) to Cr(III), is an interesting alternative to chemical-physical ...
Chapter Linguaggio ampio: una possibile strada verso la convivenza delle differenze
(2023)
The essay asks the following questions: What is broad language (and why not call it inclusive or representational)? What is its social, cultural and metacognitive reflection relevance? What are the possible risks its use ...
Il lavoro dopo il Novecento: da produttori ad attori sociali
(2016)
This volume, born from the collaboration of thirty-four scholars and trade union representatives, has a dual purpose. Firstly, to propose the analysis and theses on the human and political meaning of work contained in Bruno ...
«L’altro, il dialogo, lo specchio che ci rifrange»
(2020)
This volume brings together 474 letters that Luciano Anceschi and Oreste Macrí wrote each other for 50 years. The strong point of the deep (and maybe unexpected) friendship between the two critics – based on the shared and ...
L'Università degli Studi di Firenze 1924-2004
(2005)
The volume collects the texts of the interventions held on December 17, 2004 in the Aula Magna of the University of Florence during the presentation of two volumes of the work published by Olschki publishing house “L'Università ...
Chapter Ernst Jünger: la Mobilitazione totale e il lavoro
(2024)
The essay offers an analysis of the issues surrounding the notion of work and Total Mobilisation in Ernst Jünger. The First World War constitutes a historical event that through its call for Total Mobilisation leads all ...
Rischio di impresa e responsabilità civile
(2013)
The volume analyses the theme of "business risk" with an original and interdisciplinary approach from a dual point of view: the control and internal management of risks by the company, and the criteria for imputing liability ...
Interprétations du discours métalinguistique
(2006)
Ancient linguistic reflection in India was able to combine the analysis of Sanskrit with the awareness that the language through which this analysis is conducted (Sanskrit) is different from the object it examines. Although ...
Una investigación educativa y transformadora para el medio ambiente
(2018)
There are three major emergencies that characterize the contemporary global world: climate change, agriculture, and waste management. Each of them shows specific characteristics, but they are all part of the same problem: ...
Circostanze del reato: trasformazioni in atto e prospettive di riforma
(2014)
The circumstances of the crime contribute both to a best individualisation and definition of the case, and to the judicial assessment of the fine. This double “soul” makes the circumstances of the crime an elected ground ...