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«A maggior gloria di Dio»
(2024)
The book investigates the emergence in Italy between the 16th and 17th centuries of the so-called ‘Jesuitesses’, i.e. congregations of laywomen inspired by the spirituality of the Society of Jesus. Sources in the Archivum ...
Chapter Baretti polemista e traduttore in A Dissertation upon the Italian Poetry
(2024)
This brief essay attempts to shed light on some hitherto unnoticed aspects of Baretti’s approach to translation. A close analysis of his Dissertation upon the Italian Poetry, in fact, reveals that behind the Italian ...
A 150 anni dall’unificazione amministrativa italiana. Vol. V
(2016)
In 1865, there was the enactment of the laws of administrative unification for the Kingdom of Italy. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary, the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Florence organized a study ...
Chapter Oltre il taylorismo-fordismo, il toyotismo e il capitale: senza nostalgia
(2024)
Taylorism-fordism as a labour process consolidated in the 20thcentury. It is based in mass production and more homogeneous products; in control of timing and movements with the chronometer and serial production; in a strong ...
Theoretical Morphodynamics: River Meandering
(2023)
This monograph discusses the mechanics of Meandering Rivers with the help of the mathematical and modeling tools built up in the previous monograph of the same Authors (monograph 1 of the present series). After introducing ...
Estetica della dissonanza e filosofia del doppio: Carlo Dossi e Jean Paul
(2012)
The volume begins with an analysis of the reception of Jean Paul in Italy in order to highlight how the Scapigliatura movement raised this author to prominence. In consideration of the development of Italian culture in the ...
Epigrafia tra erudizione antiquaria e scienza storica
(2019)
Detlef Heikamp's is one of the greatest scholars of the collections of historical pieces in Florence; to celebrate his 90th birthday, on the 10th an 11th November 2017, a study meeting dedicated to the birth of epigraphy ...
Chapter Le dinamiche demografiche dell’italia medievale: nuove prospettive
(2024)
The authors offer a summary contribution on the demographic perspective which takes stock of the studies by proposing new analyzes of the increase in population up to the fourteenth century and of the low impact of migrations ...
L'uomo, il suono e la musica
(2003)
Among the channels of human expression, perhaps the richest of all is music, through which people can express their emotions – in a continuum ranging from joy to grief, from excitement to depression – in a manner that is ...
Saving a World Treasure: Protecting Florence from Flooding
(2017)
The Committee Firenze 2016, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the tragic 1966 flood, invited six engineers and scientists to form an International Technical Scientific Committee (ITSC) to assess the current status ...