Publications
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Chapter Rereading Italian Travellers to Africa: Precursors, Identities and Interracial Relations in Narratives of Italian Colonialism
(2022)
This essay considers a number of travellers’ writings about Africa which are reread to construct and deconstruct Italian colonial identity. It focuses on Cesare Cesari’s Viaggi africani di Pellegrino Matteucci (1932), which ...
Percorsi di macritica
(2007)
This book is centred on the work of Oreste Macrí: scholar of Italian, French and Spanish literature; comparatist, metricist, theorist and translator in continual dialogue with Europe; historian and friend of the leading ...
Lourdes: storie di miracoli
(2016)
The aim of this work is to identify the factors which contributed to create Lourdes' success. This analysis starts from the comparison between the 18 apparitions in Lourdes with some similar and contemporary episodes ...
«Fiere vicende dell’età di mezzo»
(2021)
With the present Festschrift written in times of pandemic, the authors wish to honour and thank Gian Maria Varanini, paying tribute to him on the occasion of his retirement from the University. Varanini is a great scholar, ...
Otto meditazioni di architettura
(2024)
“Beauty”, “Light”, “Time”, “Memory”, “Universality”, “Wisdom”, “Sacred” and “Essentiality” are the themes of the eight meditations by two enlightened architects and two kindred spirits, capable of uniting the North and ...
Mezzi di scambio non monetari. Merci e servizi come monete alternative nelle economie dei secoli XIII-XVIII / Alternative currencies. Commodities and services as exchange currencies in the monetarized economies of the 13th to 18th centuries
(2024)
The volume focuses on the importance and placement of alternative exchange practices in the 13th to 18th centuries, specifically examining goods and services used as means of payment in barter or in-kind transactions. ...
Chapter Da Vienna con amore: il caleidoscopio delle calligrafie settecentesche e il caso Orfelin
(2019)
This article examine handwriting textbooks from 18th-century Europe. In 1774 the court of Vienna charged Johann Ignaz Felbiger with reforming the schools and his book on penmanship (1775) became the standard reference for ...
Il premio Laboratorio Matematico “Riccardo Ricci” 2014-2016
(2019)
Si può comprendere la matematica con forbici, colla, spago e mattoncini da costruzione? This volume, which features almost every work from the 2014 and 2016 editions of the Riccardo Ricci Mathematical Laboratory Award, ...
Il governo del consumo di territorio
(2012)
(Good) government of the consumption of the territory is now one of the most difficult challenges facing planning and all the other sciences that contribute to the design of effective urban and territorial policies. With ...
Cronotopi slavi. Studi in onore di Marija Mitrović
(2013)
Cronotopi slavi is a collection of several essays written in honor of Marija Mitrovic by friends, colleagues and collaborators of the Universities of Trieste, Belgrade, Bloomington, Mainz, Turin, Chieti-Pescara, Udine, ...