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Chapter Multi-Aspectual Knowledge Elicitation for Procurement Optimization in a Warehouse Company
(2023)
Efficient optimization of business processes required a profound understanding of expertise provided by domain specialists. However, extracting such insights can indeed be a laborious and time-consuming endeavour. This ...
Chapter Umanità e cecità: nascondigli identitari tra José Saramago e José Ortega y Gasset
(2023)
The text discusses the unfolding of identities, especially in European society, in dialogue with the analysis of Saramago’s blindness and the idea of mass-man in Ortega y Gasset. The objective is to rethink the transits ...
Chapter L’Accademia della Crusca e il linguaggio di genere
(2023)
The article takes stock of the interventions of the Accademia della Crusca on the theme of gender language, retracing the history of the various problems that have emerged over time, and explains the reasons why schwa and ...
Chapter I «gomitoli del tempo». La poetica dello spazio nell’opera di Claudio Magris
(2021)
Both in his novels, such as Illazioni su una sciabola (1984), Un altro mare (1991) and Alla cieca (2005), and in his travel writing, such as Danubio (1986), Microcosmi (1997) and L’infinito viaggiare (2005), Claudio Magris ...
Paesaggio: didattica, ricerche e progetti (1997-2007)
(2007)
A collection of essays such as this is intended primarily as evidence of a disciplinary process, a path that is moreover similar to that pursued in other Italian universities, while also being unique in its evolution and ...
Chapter L’Università di Firenze al crocevia delle arti: cinema, musica, teatro, danza
(2024)
The contribution illustrates the relations maintained by the University of Florence with the world of spectacle by the professors of the History of Cinema, Music, Theater and Dance courses. Particularly highlighted are the ...
Chapter Comparar a Europa. O conceito de literatura europeia como fator de integração política
(2023)
Starting with the last European discourse of David Sassoli, our intention is to reflect on Europe, specifically, on the concept of European literature as a factor of political integration.
Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni 2021
(2022)
Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni 2021 collects the Proceedings of the Seminar that took place in Certaldo Alta on 9-10 September 2021. The Seminar, now in its eighth edition, is configured not only as one of the ...
Chapter Poetic Mapping of the Polish Crown at the Turn of the 16th and 17th Centuries and Its Relation to Cartographic Imitation in Renaissance Poetry
(2020)
The paper is devoted to the problem of imitation of maps in the late Renaissance Polish poetry (between 1580 and 1630). The author first discusses the special interest in cartography that existed among the Polish elite and ...
Chapter Per un progetto della pedagogia italiana
(2022)
Pedagogy is still searching for its own identity and epistemological status. Especially in Italy, where the task of pedagogy, despite the efforts of many and numerous pedagogical colleagues, still has a marginal role, ...
Chapter Challenges and Opportunities for Lifelong Learning in Universities Resulting from Ukrainian Migration
(2023)
The current political conflict in Ukraine has led to a surge in forcibly displaced migrants across Europe. This chapter sets out to look at the meaning of the term ‘forced migrant’ and the challenges faced in integrating ...
Chapter Solar Deities in the Kuwattalla Ritual Tradition: Epithets and Functions
(2023)
Through the contextual analysis of the occurrences of solar deities in the Kuwattalla ritual texts, we will try to sketch a portrait of these deities, focusing on their functions in the ritual process. Special attention ...
Dialogare: compendio di logica
(2017)
“Logic”, as understood in this volume, is the set of knowledge at the basis of man’s reasoning faculties: understanding, analysing, arguing. The text presents a review of topics which are useful to strengthen the skills ...
Chapter La morte del re, le ragioni del diritto e l’etica dei mercanti in una causa fiorentina del Quattrocento
(2021)
The essay analyzes a judicial case of the Mercanzia court in the early Quattrocento Florence, which involved the execution of an insurance deed by the merchant and poet Cino Rinuccini concerning the date of the death of ...
Chapter Il degrado della biosfera
(2020)
The position of man in the biosphere and the interaction of its activities with the different sectors of the earth's ecosphere are bringing the Earth system into a drastically different state from that in which the development ...
Chapter Per uno studio sulla ricezione di Boccaccio volgare: il Filostrato come modello compositivo del libro d’amore tra i secoli XV e XVI
(2022)
Between the 15th and 16th century, the main archetype of court poetry and its “codice lirico”, represented by Petrarca in the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, could be flanked by the model of the lyrical Boccaccio, whose vulgar ...
Shaking Heritage
(2021)
Any moment the earth can shake, but we do not know when or where. If it happens, our Heritage might be in danger. Shaking Heritage addresses the topic of the seismic vulnerability of museum collections. It develops a way ...
Chapter The forgotten nautical astronomical instruments
(2022)
Astrology and meteorology have always had great importance for agriculture and navigation. They are described some measuring and forecasting instruments which, in the past, had a moderate success to navigate the Mediterranean, ...
Chapter A Quantitative Analysis of Theonyms and Panthea in the Hittite Cult Inventories
(2023)
The riches of the Hittite tablet collections are justly famous for the great mass of information they provide about deities, cult, and religious beliefs all over the Kingdom of Hattusa. The sheer amount of available texts ...
Chapter Creation and Acceptance of Low-Threshold Mobile Training on Sustainability in Construction
(2023)
Many recent developments in mixed reality applications are exploited for research on improving training in the construction industry. While immersive technologies offer indisputable advantages over classic paper- or ...