Publications
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Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. EVA 2012 Florence
(2012)
The key aim of this Event is to provide a forum for the user, supplier and scientific research communities to meet and exchange experiences, ideas and plans in the wide area of Culture & Technology. Participants receive ...
Il mercato non basta
(2017)
The volume presents the thesis of the social roots of the European crisis, supported by an empirical analysis that highlights the extent to which the inequality between EU citizens, which grew with the 2008 recession, ...
La Fattoria Medicea di Cascine di Tavola a Prato
(2022)
The Medici’s Farm of Cascine di Tavola, commissioned by Lorenzo Il Magnifico in 1477, and the set of agro-environmental areas functional to it, have over time been configured as an extraordinary unitary system of ...
Statistical Modelling
(2004)
The book collects the proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling held in Florence on July 2004. Statistical modelling is an important cornerstone in many scientific disciplines, and the workshop ...
Un soffitto viola
(2005)
The book is offered as a reflection on psychological practice which, with a light touch of self-irony and a easy, flowing language, addresses various significant nodal aspects of the profession. The different chapters, ...
I centri minori italiani nel tardo medioevo
(2018)
In the late Middle Ages, Italy was one of the most urbanized areas in Europe. Its coasts, the Apennines, the perialpine area and the plains were all home to a large number of smaller towns, lands, villages, castra, and ...
L'opportunità dell'innovazione
(2007)
Over the last few years the landscape debate has taken a new turn, shifting from concerns of conservation and protection towards the search for methods of intervention and regulations that consent a development of the ...
Comunicazioni
(2022)
Volume 14 of the Comunicazioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» is divided into three sections: 1. Editions and rieditions of texts; 2. Critical notes; 3. Chronique de lexicographie papyrologique de la vie matérielle. ...
E4 Thematic Network
(2004)
This Thematic Network aims at developing the European dimension of Higher Engineering Education by enhancing the compatibility of the many diverse routes to the profession of engineer, by facilitating greater mobility and ...
La fortuna del 'Secolo d'Oro'
(2018)
The 17th century was the "century of theatre” for Europe, due to the quantity and the quality of dramatic works and to the great number of scenic inventions. Studying this century with focus on France and Spain, in light ...
Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications
(2015)
The Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions with Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA) workshop came into being in 1999 from the particularly felt need of sharing know-how, objectives and results between areas that until then ...
Chapter Treblinskij ad di V. Grossman nell’Europa dell’immediato dopoguerra (1945-1947)
(2019)
The literary essay Treblinskij ad (The Hell of Treblinka), written by Vasilij Grossman and first published in the journal Znamja in 1944, circulated widely at the end of World War II, with editions appearing in several ...
Seafood from Catch and Aquaculture for a Sustainable Supply
(2008)
For the fist time, the WEFTA Annual Meeting takes place in Italy, at Firenze on September 17th to 19th, 2008. The WEFTA 2008 theme is "Seafood from Catch and Aquaculture for a Sustainable Supply". WEFTA 2008 aims the ...
Bibliografia di storia della psichiatria italiana 1991-2010
(2010)
This bibliography renders account of the over two thousand books on the history of Italian psychiatry that have appeared over the last twenty years. The aim is thus to support the demand for a new historiographic approach ...
Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millennia
(2001)
Humanity From African Naissance to Coming Millennia arises out of the world's first Dual Congress that was held at Sun City (South Africa) in 1998 that refers to a conjoint, integrated meeting of two international scientific ...
Chapter Representing the space of papal government at the time of Lothar I: the claim of fines Romani
(2024)
Studying the extent of the physical space over which papal policy was implemented between the late eighth and ninth centuries is extremely complex. The sources are ambiguous and difficult to interpret: the territory over ...
Maria Skłodowska Curie: l’obstination dans l’effort d’un génie
(2017)
«Luigi Dei takes a very personal approach to presenting the life and achievements of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, setting them in the broader context of the history of science and European culture between the nineteenth and ...
Le tecnologie dell’informazione nella scrittura di Italo Calvino e Paolo Volponi
(2020)
Over the last decade, considerable attention has been paid to how the information society and digital tools are changing the cultural and linguistic scene where literary production takes place. But what are the roots of ...
Vita sotto le armi, vita clandestina
(2010)
The diaries of the cavalry lieutenant Carlo Ricciardi (1916-1966) record personal events and impressions of the Second World War in Italy, Yugoslavia and Russia. They bring clearly to the fore the logistic difficulties ...
Chapter La part des anges? Les rémunérations en nature entre truck system et considération sociale
(2024)
The in-kind component of remuneration is not simply a palliative for the absence of money. The article shows that this is a long-standing practice, rooted in custom and sometimes in written texts, whether employment contracts ...
Paolo Mantegazza e l'Evoluzionismo in Italia
(2010)
An eclectic figure – a scientist, novelist, anthropologist, politician and man of his time – Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) played a leading role in Italian society and the cultural scene of the late nineteenth century, even ...
Chapter Alla «dimora degli immortali». I frammenti del Tango no kuni fudoki
(2024)
The present essay addresses the analysis of three fragments from the Tango no kuni fudoki (Record of the Tango province and its customs), which have reached us indirectly through various mediaeval sources. The Tango no ...
Chapter La flessibilità dell’orario di lavoro, tra istanze conciliative e interesse dell’organizzazione (il caso del lavoro agile)
(2024)
In the context of organisational and technological changes and with a focus on remote working, the essay focuses on the legal regulation of working time and its flexibilisation, claiming that the regulation of the law and ...
Chapter Ancora due interventi della Corte costituzionale sul regime sanzionatorio del licenziamento illegittimo
(2024)
The article discusses two recent Constitutional Court rulings, nos. 7 and 22 of 2024, concerning sanctions against unlawful dismissals. The first decision rejected the constitutional challenge (also in relation to European ...
Chapter «Amerai il prossimo come te stesso»
(2023)
You will love the next as you love yourself was the motto of life and work of David Sassoli, born communicator, who understanded that thought art we fight for any United and democratic Europe who innovates, protects and ...
I bandi liturgici nell’Egitto romano
(2017)
The calls for the appointment of the liturgical officers, that is, those who were obliged by the state to carry out public service duties, constitute a category of documents produced within the Roman administration of Egypt ...
La inutilizzabilità della prestazione
(2017)
The service covered by an obligation corresponds, in the definition offered by the law (art. 1174 of the Italian civil code), to an interest of the creditor. What happens if this interest, in the context of a contractual ...
Chapter Piattaforme di lavoro (e di lotta)
(2024)
What are the platforms that intermediate work? And how is it that the maximum in technology is often matched by the minimum in rights? Born not coincidentally after the Great Recession of 2007/2008, the gig economy deludes ...
Un cammino a ostacoli
(2018)
Summer of 1968: two young Spaniards arrive in Rome with a letter and a project to export. They are Francisco (Kiko) Argüello and Carmen Hernández. So, fifty years after its foundation, the Neocatechumenal Way begins, and ...
Chapter Il lavoro dignitoso della Organizzazione Internazionale del Lavoro
(2024)
The author analyzes the concept of 'decent work' in the Ilo from the founding of the Organization in 1919 until the adoption in 1999 of 'decent work' as a fundamental universal principle, passing through some key passages, ...
Quando avere un lavoro non basta a proteggere dalla povertà
(2020)
Having a job is not always a guarantee against poverty, for oneself and one's family. This depends on the one hand on the level of income acquired through work, on the other hand on the worker’s family situation. While a ...
Chapter ‘Wherever they consider it more profitable, for cash, baratto or credit’. Florentine merchants and the export of silk cloth (15th-16th centuries)
(2024)
This article is centred on baratto, or market exchange, which consisted in making payments in kind even in the context of a monetised economy. Documentary evidence shows how frequently this type of commercial transaction ...
History/Histoire e Digital Humanities
(2018)
This volume reconstructs the birth and evolution of the Italian literary history in France and England during the 19th century. In the French context, a comparative reading of the works by Pierre-Louis Ginguené and Jean ...
Chapter Dai distretti sociali alle bioregioni urbane
(2023)
At the intersection of economics and sociology, geography and planning, the concept of social district presents unmistakable assonances with that of urban bioregion. Both refer to (and trigger) a return, the former to the ...
Chapter We’re all experts now? Archiving public health discourse in the UK Web Archive
(2024)
Emerging from COVID-19 collecting initiatives that underscored the fragility of online health discourse, the Archive of Tomorrow was an ambitious collaborative project that set out to curate a representative and diverse ...
The Custodians of the Gift
(2020)
Emerging from more than two decades of research in the field and in the archives, the essays collected here explore the multifaceted topic of the Fijian firewalking ceremony, the vilavilairevo. The collection examines the ...
La riforma universitaria nel quadro dei sistemi di governance europei
(2014)
Over the past 30 years, all European countries have been affected by reorganization processes concerning their higher education systems. In this volume, two aspects of this type of reorganization are discussed: changes in ...
Chapter Inculturazione religiosa o risoluzione dialettica? Fukai kawa (1993) e il Cattolicesimo di Endō Shūsaku nel contesto letterario del Giappone del Novecento
(2024)
Catholic author Endō Shūsaku (1923-1996) has gained worldwide acclaim for his novels and short stories that explore the conflicts between ethnicity, faith, and native Japanese religious sensibilities. A number of international ...
Polish Culture in the Renaissance
(2013)
During the most recent conference of the Renaissance Society of America, two sessions were devoted entirely to the Renaissance in Poland. In fifty-nine editions of what is considered the most prestigious international ...
Alle radici della moderna ingegneria
(2010)
The subject around which the contributions in this volume gravitate is the creation of a higher institute of engineering studies in Florence in the late nineteenth-century. On the eve of the unification of Italy, Florence ...