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Produzione poetica e storia nella prassi e nella teoria greca di età classica
(2014)
In “Poetics”, Aristotle accepts history among the possible themes for poetry, on the condition that the poet reaches the universal plane by narrating events which comply with the rules of eikos and of anankaion. With the ...
Sviluppo urbano e politiche per la qualità della vita
(2018)
Today's society appears increasingly vulnerable, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. In this context, there is an increased need to create efficient and effective ecosystems to locally promote the quality of life and social ...
Flâneries, sulla traccia di ricordi e parole. Miscellanea di saggi in onore di Patrizio Collini
(2024)
In this volume, the authors celebrate Patrizio Collini’s distinguished career as a professor and as an essayist, highlighting the significant impact he left in the fields of German Studies and Comparative Literature along ...
Honos alit artes. Studi per il settantesimo compleanno di Mario Ascheri. II. Gli universi particolari
(2014)
The researches accounted in the volume, being reported by historians who had different vocations, illustrate various aspects of medieval and modern history (laws, economy, society, church and civil institutions, architecture, ...
Economia e Diritto in Italia durante il Fascismo
(2017)
The volume collects eight essays on economic and legal culture in Italy in the period between the two world wars. Some of the essays investigate the relationship between the fascist regime and intellectuals, as in the case ...
Strange spirits and even stranger bodies
(2003)
The book examines the works of three English modernists also dealing with the iconic figure of Elizabeth Tudor. They are works focusing on the queen by Giles Lytton Strachey ("Elizabeth and Essex") and Edith Sitwell ("Fanfare ...
Firenze in guerra 1940-1944
(2014)
The volume reproduces the documentary path of the exhibition Florence in the war 1940-1944 promoted by the Historical Institute of the Resistance in Tuscany on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Resistance and ...
Enrico Fermi’s IEEE Milestone in Florence. For his Major Contribution to Semiconductor Statistics, 1924-1926
(2015)
Enrico Fermi, Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1938, taught at the University of Florence just for two academic years (1924-25 and 1925-26). His research activity in these two years saw the publication of the statistics bearing ...
L’Alto Tigri nelle età del Bronzo Antico e Medio
(2016)
The region crossed by the upper course of the Tigris River, in south-eastern Turkey, has long been an area little known from an archaeological point of view. The intensification of field research, starting from the nineties ...
Un incontro lusofono plurale di lingue, letterature, storie, culture
(2018)
The volume Un incontro lusofono plurale di lingue, letterature, storie, culture (A plural Lusophone encounter of languages, literatures, stories, cultures) aims at highlighting one of the specificities of the Lusophone ...
Chapter Fish immune and oxidative stress reaction to emerging parasite in the balearic islands
(2024)
Global change has a deep impact on the distribution and prevalence of diseases in fish, leading to the emergence of new pathogens. A recent observation on Ibiza Island in the Balearic Islands highlighted the presence of ...
Il Telefono & Dintorni
(2011)
Sponsored by the University of Florence, the "National Committee for the celebrations of the bicentenary of the birth of Antonio Meucci" had multiple goals. These included: fostering a knowledge of the historic period in ...
Chapter Il rapporto medico-paziente dall’antichità a oggi: la storia di un rapporto complesso
(2024)
In this Chapter the author retraces the history of the physician-patient relationship from antiquity up to the present. The author focuses on ethical statements and pays particular attention to deontological rules of the ...
Milites elegantes. Le strutture aristocratiche nel territorio lucchese (800-1100 c.)
(2019)
Lucca occupies a special place in the history and historiography of the early Middle Ages in Italy and Europe. It was the heart of a political body of the Carolingian galaxy, namely the marque of Tuscia, which enjoyed ...
Comunicare l’Università di Firenze
(2014)
The volume presents the main results of the first two years of activity of the Laboratorio di comunicazione (Communication Laboratory) of the University of Florence, which brings together knowledge, skills and professionalisms ...
Chapter The Latium coast from Ostia to Circeo: settlement dynamics in a peculiar context
(2024)
The contribution aims to investigate the settlement dynamics of the Latium coastal stretch of approximately 100 kilometres between Ostia and Circeo. This is a strip characterized by peculiar geomorphological and hydrographic ...
I Balcani occidentali tra romanico e bizantino
(2020)
This volume focuses on the ecclesiastical architecture of 12th-century Nemaniad origins (Mother of God, Saint Nicholas and Saint George) by examining the layout preferences of the client and the workforce of diverse cultural ...
Chapter Alles neu? Die Londoner und Hallenser Ausgaben der neugriechischen Übersetzung des Neuen Testaments (1703, 1705 und 1710) als Produkte interkonfessioneller Diskurse und missionarischer Netzwerke
(2024)
This paper explores the nexus between the use of the modern Greek language and interconfessional transfer, focusing on the early modern vernacular Greek editions of the New Testament. The point of reference for later ...
Chapter Funzioni dell’ironia nei Piccoli maestri
(2024)
After a brief introduction concerning the theme of irony in Meneghello’s essay production, this essay focuses on I piccoli maestri. It traces the main functions of irony in the novel: to deflate the rhetoric of deflating ...
Dessin, Design, Projet
(2023)
The contributions gathered in this book are from the eponymous international symposium held in Paris in 2019. They discuss the relationship that drawing, design and the project, understood here as a triad, have with the ...
L’emigrazione intellettuale dall’Italia fascista
(2019)
What happened to the university teachers who were expelled after the racial laws of 1938? And what about the more numerous and less known unstructured scholars who were suspended from service? What did the students who ...
A cento anni dalla Grande Guerra. Vol. 1
(2017)
The volumes on the Great War that are here published 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 ...
Linguaggi dal margine
(2024)
“Who owns Shakespeare?” is a compelling question when one decides to delve into the relationship between the English author and experiences that share, albeit with considerable mutual differences, the category of marginality. ...
Chapter Freud: Il ‘lavoro’ dell’inconscio e i suoi riverberi psicosociali
(2024)
The author points out how meaningful the notion of psychic working is in Freud's writings, especially for the debt to a mechanical-energetic model of mind. At the end, the few hints that appear on the psychological and ...
Chapter Ученики Иоанникия и Софрония Лихудов конца XVII–начала XVIII века и развитие книгопечатного дела в России в 1691–1740 годах
(2024)
The Disciples of Ioannikiy and Sofroniy Likhudov and the Development of Book Printing in Russia, 1691-1740. The article is devoted to the social portrait of several generations of students of Ioannikios and Sophronios ...
Estetiche della percezione
(2007)
This book is a continuation of the lively debate launched in Dall'oggetto estetico all'oggetto artistico which the same editors published with Firenze University Press. The argument of the book is the organic link connecting ...
Prevenzione del mal di schiena di origine meccanica con attività motoria e comportamentale
(2014)
This volume aims at becoming a basic scientific text; by studying the biomechanics of a healthy spine and carrying out a morpho-functional examination of the subject, the possible risks of mechanical damage causing back ...
Chapter Slavi, albanesi e greci nel regno meridionale nella seconda metà del XV secolo
(2024)
The author examines the immigration of Slavs, Albanians and Greeks into the kingdom of Naples following the arrival of the Ottomans in the Balkan peninsula, paying attention to those who were responsible for their placement ...
La edición del diálogo teatral (siglos XVI-XVII)
(2021)
The contributions that compose this book were presented at the XIV Taller Internacional de Estudios Textuales (Perugia 2018), where different issues related to the transmission of Spanish Golden Age plays and its relevance ...
Papato e monachesimo "esente" nei secoli centrali del Medioevo
(2003)
In the XI-XIII centuries the monasteries experienced a bigger freedom from the interference of the dioceses and were able to benefit from the exemption to interact with the local dominant classes. This new dynamic in ...
Chapter I molti volti degli anni Ottanta nella cooperazione allo sviluppo. Nuovi paradigmi, riforme e ascesa delle Ong
(2024)
The 1980s marked a pivotal moment for development cooperation, both globally and in Italy. This chapter provides an analysis of the intertwined economic, political and social issues that shaped development assistance during ...
Chapter Identità religiose tra convivenza e conflitto. Per una lettura psicosociale de I guardiani dell’aria di Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan
(2024)
Rosa Yasin Hasan's novel Guardians of the Air (2009) offers a glimpse into Syrian society prior to the revolution and civil war that devastated the country for over a decade. The novel's central character, Anat, works as ...
Lettere di Margherita Guidacci a Mladen Machiedo
(2015)
The collection of Lettere di Margherita Guidacci a Mladen Machiedo reinterprets the author's cultural and poetic path in the light of the affinities with the Catholic writers from Florence, the bond with her area of origin, ...
Le calamità ambientali nel tardo medioevo europeo: realtà, percezioni, reazioni
(2010)
For some time historiography has set itself the objective of studying the ways in which European society in the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Age has related to environmental disasters, addressing the perceptions ...
La logica dell'evoluzione dei viventi : spunti di riflessione. Atti del XII convegno del gruppo italiano di biologia evoluzionistica: Firenze, 18-21 febbraio 2004
(2005)
The book collects the works presented during the XII meeting of the Italian Group of Evolutionary Biology, held in Florence in February 2004. Evolutionary theories are illustrated with balance from different points of view ...
Dettagli per l'involucro del terminal verde / Envelope's Details for the Green Airport Terminal
(2010)
Envelope's Details for the Green Airport Terminal is a contribution to airport design at working plan level, although its contents may be generalized and applied to the definition of performances as well as to the design ...
Chapter A multiscale analysis of the morphological setting along the susceptible coastal area of the Agri river (southern Italy)
(2024)
Assessment of coastal vulnerability to physical and anthropic processes is a crucial step in coastal risk management, especially in climate change scenarios characterized by sea level rise and increasing human pressure. ...
The Dominicans and the Making of Florentine Cultural Identity (13th-14th centuries) / I domenicani e la costruzione dell'identità culturale fiorentina (XIII-XIV secolo)
(2020)
Florence, the celebrated city-republic, dominates the historiography of medieval Italy still today. The birth and growth of the Mendicant Orders paralleled the rise of urban Europe. As attention to medieval cities has ...
Macroeconomic modelling for policy analysis
(2013)
Over the last 30 years, the Inforum approach to macro modelling has been shared by economists worldwide. Researchers have focussed much of their efforts to developing a linked system of international interindustry models ...
Chapter Le sospensioni della prestazione di lavoro per la cura di altri: alcuni spunti di riflessione
(2024)
In homage to Prof. Riccardo Del Punta, this essay analyses the rules for parental leave and time off from the labour relationship due to right to family care. This issue is faced by analysing the legislation that deals ...