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Per l'edizione delle Elegantie di Lorenzo Valla
(2013)
Elegantie lingue latine is the masterpiece of Lorenzo Valla's reflection on language, through which the humanist gave birth to a real re-foundation of Latin. To date we still do not have a modern, scientifically based ...
Chapter Venetian Trading Firm of the Soranzo Brothers (1406-1434) and Its Commercial Network
(2019)
This paper contributes to the discussion of merchant networks in late medieval Europe by presenting a case study of the Soranzo fraterna, a Venetian trading firm which comprised brothers Donado, Giacomo (Jacopo), Piero, ...
Chapter La famiglia di Giovanni Boccaccio nelle pergamene olivetane
(2021)
The essay focuses on a documentary corpus that belonged to the San Miniato archive: the papers of Banco di Francesco Botticini, which came to the monastery at the beginning of the 15th century. Botticini’s legacy can be ...
Chapter Nazionalismo economico e problemi della guerra e del dopoguerra
(2020)
The text investigates nationalist thought during the Italian interwar years, tracing the rising of significant issues of economic policy, such as the Labour Chart, the founding of IRI, corporativism and colonial politics. ...
Chapter La cartografia italiana al tempo di Leonardo. Fra cultura umanistica e progetto territoriale
(2023)
The essay studies the maps produced in the 15th and early 16th centuries by Venice and other states with reference to water management, exploitation of agricultural resources, administrative organization, border control ...
Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Meeting Stakeholder Interests
(2007)
This book collects together 46 papers presented at the Third Biennial Conference of i-Rec, International Group for the Diffusion of Research and Information on Post-Disaster Reconstruction. The various sections of the book ...
Chapter Lingua di genere, inclusione, lingua pubblica: spunti di riflessione in punta di langue e di parole
(2023)
This contribution proposes some general observations on gendered language in a public context. Some specific issues are discussed: 1) language can be neither the only nor the main tool for a truly inclusive society, for ...
Chapter Forme non normative di vocativo in ceco. Accettabilità e valori stilistico-pragmatici
(2023)
In Czech the vocative case is still obligatory and the set of vocative endings is best preserved amongst Slavic languages. However, in spoken Czech the following irregularities in the usage of the vocative can be observed: ...
Chapter Stomach contents of bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821): first results from specimens stranded in the Tuscan Archipelago in the period 1990–2021
(2022)
Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) is a cosmopolitan species; it is found in all tropical and temperate coastal waters of the world. The bottlenose dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea mainly show coastal ...
Chapter A Preliminary Investigation of Knowledge Management Tools for the Construction Sector
(2023)
Knowledge management (KM) is used by construction firms to establish organizational memory (OM) and consequently improve their performance by learning from past mistakes and best practices. Knowledge is the input to ...
Tra altari e barricate
(2020)
The Roman Republic of 1849 is one of the most exciting moment of the heroic season of the Italian Risorgimento, a short adventure in which the contemporaries recognized the opportunity to realize ideals of freedom, tolerance ...
Chapter Impact of cliff erosion on marine sediment composition - indication of local coastline evolution (Vrgada Island, Croatia)
(2020)
Erosive coastal cliffs formed in soft-rocks sediments along the generally carbonaceous Eastern Adriatic are a rare feature. The one from the Vrgada Island gave rise to the idea that local seabed surface sediment may reflect ...
Chapter Re-contextualisation of the Italian Risorgimento in Korea in the Early Twentieth Century. The Example of Chae-Ho Shin’s Three Great Founders of Italy
(2023)
In 1907, Korean independence activist and nationalist historian Chae-Ho Shin translated the Chinese edition of The Makers of Modern Italy into a Korean–Chinese script and published it under the title Three Great Founders ...
Quattro matrimoni e una biblioteca
(2023)
This historical research starts from the books of Ambrósio Fernández Merino and explores the figure of their owner, a mysterious Spanish lawyer who lived in Florence. The result is the discovery of a little-known intellectual ...
Chapter Pragmatic aspects of the vocative-nominative competition in addressative function across Slavic languages
(2023)
The study tests the hypothesis according to which the Slavic anthroponyms in -e and -o underwent evolution from vocative endings to hypocoristic derivative suffixes and then to anthroponymic formants. According to the ...
Chapter Supporting decision-makers in healthcare domain. A comparative study of two interpretative proposals for Random Forests
(2021)
The growing success of Machine Learning (ML) is making significant improvements to predictive models, facilitating their integration in various application fields, especially the healthcare context. However, it still has ...
Chapter Signorie rurali, coscienza nobiliare e autorappresentazione
(2023)
The purpose of the essay is to show the choices made by noble Trentino families to propose an image of themselves, through different choices and thanks to different tools: building policy, iconographic, heraldic, funeral choices.
Chapter Il laboratorio intellettuale di Bruno Trentin (2001-2006)
(2021)
A selection of Trentin’sdiaries from 2001-2006, some unpublished pages on his political activity in the European Parliament and the elaboration of The Freedom Comes First: these works allow us to enter Bruno Trentin's ...
Chapter Exploring competitiveness and wellbeing in Italy by spatial principal component analysis
(2021)
Well being is a multidimensional phenomenon, that cannot be measured by a single descriptive indicator and that, it should be represented by multiple dimensions. It requires, to be measured by combination of different ...
Chapter A drone’s eye view: A preliminary assessment of the efficiency of drones in mapping shallow-water benthic assemblages
(2020)
The study assesses consumer drone efficiency for surveying shallow-water benthic cover. We hypothesised that using a drone would reduce duration, and manpower requirements, while increasing accuracy, relative to manual ...