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Chapter Nessun catalogo è un'isola
(2024)
The contribution is arranged according to a tripartite structure, referencing the three fundamental characteristics of the Parsifal project, the economic, technical and cultural aspects, which are examined and treated in ...
Lettere 1935-1972
(2015)
Just over 150 epistolary pieces, from the twentieth-century archives of Florence and Rome, are published for the first time thanks to Alberto Baldi’s careful transcription, which does not only allow the reconstruction of ...
Chapter Le campagne allucinate: sul modernismo rurale nella letteratura giapponese di inizio Novecento
(2024)
In this essay, making use of concepts from the scholarship on rural modernism and Mark Fisher’s aesthetic reflection on the “weird” and the “eerie”, I analyze some texts in Japanese literature from the first three decades ...
Transcending Borders
(2016)
These days, it seems that many people are concerned with borders, confines, and walls more than ever. We chose “transcending borders” as the theme and title of the volume, hinting at the concept of bridging boundaries, in ...
Chapter Il Brasile nel XVIII secolo
(2023)
The third and last section of the volume aims to represent the Brazilian colony in the 18th century through an historical, iconographical and literary point of view, and analyzing three very important Brazilian volumes of ...
Chapter Un eroe, una battaglia, una storia: il nuovo allestimento del Museo Ferrucciano di Gavinana
(2024)
The Ferrucciano Museum of Gavinana, in the municipality of San Marcello Piteglio (PT) is a small museum structure dedicated to the conservation of relics and the memory of the battle of Gavinana on 3 August 1530, during ...
Joseph Guillaume Desmaisons Dupallans
(2006)
In 1840, a French alienist, or psychiatrist, Joseph Guillaume Desmaisons Dupallans, visited a number of Italian asylums with the objective of discovering the best solution for the institute he was planning to set up in the ...
Chapter Gestione dello stato di criticità organizzativa e gestionale del sistema complesso scuola
(2024)
The evolution of the complex school system from its origins to school autonomy explains why it has acquired the connotation of complexity over time. This synergy between organization and institution that has been developing ...
Chapter Algoritmi al lavoro. Riflessioni sul management algoritmico
(2024)
The essay analyzes a specific characterisc of work managed through algorithms: in the absence offormalized, prescriptive and binding employer’s directives, the worker's performance is subject to an apparently spontaneous ...
«Arrivederci tra dieci anni?»
(2024)
The correspondence between Franco Fortini and Rossana Rossanda spans from 1951 to 1993. The long dialogue between the two correspondents addresses the most diverse moments and events of the second half of the twentieth ...
Chapter António Correia e a sua sede de escrita, na ânsia de revelar uma nova humanidade ao mundo
(2023)
The personal memory of Ernesto Matos focuses on the friendship with António Correia, together with their passion for writing and the stones of the city of Macau as a new symbolic way to observe the world and its humanity
Chapter Un esercizio di immaginazione sociologica: se «*» e «ə» fossero persone?
(2023)
In the presentation, an exercise in sociological imagination is carried out: the question is asked if "*" and "ə" were people, what kind of gender would be projected onto them? The area in which an initial answer is sought ...
Chapter Fra Mediterraneo e Giappone. Suggestioni nipponiche nel Parco Filothei di Dimitri Pikionis, Atene, 1961-1964
(2024)
In the later stages of his career, Dimitris Pikionis embraced a new commission, that of crafting a children's park. This endeavour provided him with an opportunity to revisit and expand upon the thematic elements he had ...
Chapter I valori umani di David-Maria Sassoli: un saggio
(2023)
This essay is a contribution to the tribute given to David-Maria Sassoli, highlighting the human values that characterized his presidency of the European Union, namely democracy and freedom, peace, solidarity, which are ...
Small Forgotten Places in the Hearth of Cities
(2021)
This book is the result of a research project designed and carried out at the Department of Architecture, University of Florence. This book discusses urban public spaces and, more specifically, run-down, inactive micro-spaces ...
Senza lavoro?
(2019)
Will the new technological revolution inevitably destroy work? And will we have to get used to a society creating less and less employment opportunities? Shying away from apocalyptic as well as naively optimistic predictions, ...
Chapter Parsifal: un innovativo potente strumento di ricerca bibliografica
(2024)
Parsifal is the fruit of a long collaborative journey that began in 1973 and consolidated in 1991 with the signing of the founding act of the URBE Association. The milestone of Parsifal honours to those in charge of URBE ...
Raccontare la Slovenia
(2008)
Despite being recognised as an exponent of Slovenian culture, the polymath Johann Weichard Valvasor has to date been undervalued in terms of his direct contribution to the aesthetic and literary consciousness of his homeland. ...
Chapter Sprachkontaktdynamiken im aspektuellen System. Neue Evidenz zur Progressivperiphrase aus dem Zimbrischen von Lusérn
(2023)
This article sets out to present a recent study of progressive and prospective periphrases in Cimbrian, a German-based variety spoken in Northern Italy. Our research complements a renewed interest in the grammaticalization ...
Chapter Balancing Between Smart and Inclusive: Learning Cities for Sustainable Urban Communities
(2023)
Since 2012, Global Learning Cities has become a successful network-based movement of UNESCO which demonstrates not only linkages, but also dependencies amongst community development, adult learning and active citizenship ...
Chapter “Just like home.” The Words of online hospitality
(2024)
In 2015, the Singa association created Calm (Comme à la maison "Just like home”), an internet platform for connecting refugees who are looking for housing with private individuals. The analysis of its archives and different ...
Predicatori nelle terre slavo-orientali (XI-XIII sec.)
(2009)
The book offers an overview of homiletic literature in the Kievian period (XI-XIII century) through the figures of four preachers: the Metropolitan Nikifor I († 1121), Serapion Vladimirskij († 1275), Luka Židjata († 1059) ...
Chapter Libertas florentina. Riflessioni sulla formazione di un’ideologia politica
(2024)
The author focuses on Florentine libertas, identifying in the work of Coluccio Salutati the turning point between the polysemy of the notion in the previous ideological tradition of the city and the reorientation in a more ...
Chapter A sculptor and a spy: Francesco Giambaldi (1867-1918) from Lecce to Paris
(2024)
Francesco Giambaldi, an Italian sculptor, went to live and work in Paris shortly before the 1900 Universal Exposition, becoming an acquaintance of Rodin and a friend of Anatole France and Ernest La Jeunesse. Man of letters, ...
Il carteggio tra Luigi Schiaparelli e Carlo Cipolla (1894-1916)
(2020)
More than four hundred letters and postcards remain of the long correspondence between Carlo Cipolla, born in Verona and professor of modern history in Turin and then in Florence, and Luigi Schiaparelli, one of the students ...
Chapter Introduzione
(2020)
The present chapter introduces the concepts and the issues about Italian inner areas, as defined by the Strategia nazionale per le Aree Interne (National Strategy for Inner Areas – SNAI). In particular, it focuses on a new ...
Chapter Una dottrina rivoluzionaria della sistemazione dello spazio. Massimo Quaini geografo-pianificatore
(2021)
The idea of a planning-oriented geography was part of the ‘revolutionary’ renewal program of the discipline proposed by Massimo Quaini since the 70’s. First through an analysis of how human geography was built in the ...
Chapter Tracce dell’invisibile. Poesia e fotografia in dialogo per raccontare il triplice disastro del Tōhoku
(2024)
The paper primarily centres around the volume titled Out of Sight. Fukushima à l’abri du regard. Aimaina sōshitsu, which was published in France in 2020. This composite volume features a collection of photographs by French ...
Giovani Jeunes Jovenes
(2001)
The book illustrates the results of research that emerged within the context of a specific European Union programme. The analysis was carried out by Italian, French and Spanish academics co-ordinated by the Inter-University ...
Chapter La production d’alun en Occident: l’essor d’une industrie nouvelle à la fin du XVe siècle
(2023)
This article explores the conditions under which alum production has developed in the Western Mediterranean, in the second half of the fifteenth century. In two decades, between about 1460 and 1480, several important ...
Low skilled take their qualifications "one step up"
(2010)
Adult learning is recognized as a key component of lifelong learning and Member States are required to remove barriers to participation, to increase overall quality and efficiency in adult learning, to speed up the process ...
Chapter Émile Durkheim: il lavoro dell’ideale
(2024)
To grasp the originality of Durkheimian reflection on labor, it is important to emphasize how it revolves around two substantive aspects: professional groups, understood as the locus of the social reorganization of labor; ...
Architettura e Illuminismo
(2014)
Her work analyses some modes of urban representation in the French culture of the second half of the eighteenth century. Two types of intellectual operations, description of reality and imagination of a better alterity, ...
Chapter 12. Situazione e formazione del personale delle biblioteche (1978)
(2024)
Partendo dalla definizione della figura professionale del bibliotecario, da intendersi non come un mero tecnico delle biblioteche ma come un operatore culturale di alto livello, il contributo si sofferma sulla necessità ...
La medicina della complessità
(2010)
Medicine has coined the concept of 'disease', but individual patients frequently present complicated cases marked by the coexistence of several conditions or syndromes. The doctor needs to reflect on this complexity because, ...
Chapter Il mondo del lavoro e dell’ozio intellettuale: riflessioni introduttive
(2024)
The purpose of this introduction is to explore some of the many themes examined in the various contributions contained in the 'ancient part' of this collection, firstly by intertwining the concepts of work and leisure with ...
Chapter «И скрипка, и контрабас»: фигура парадокса и поэтика недоумения в художественном мышлении Пиранделло и Достоевского
(2023)
“Both violin and contrabass”: The Figure of Paradox and the Poetics of Bewilderment in the Artistic Thinking of Pirandello and Dostoevsky. Pirandello and Dostoevsky are deeply linked at thematic, ideological and textual ...
A 150 anni dall’unificazione amministrativa italiana. Vol. VI
(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 Giordano nel Medioevo
(2024)
The aim of this study is to investigate the nature and the context of the devotional paths linked to Biblical figures in the Levant, with specific focus on the east of the Jordan River during the early Middle Ages. The ...
Chapter Il gioco d’azzardo in una prospettiva di interesse pubblico
(2024)
Combining theoretical reflections and data from the international and national literature, the paper frames the issue of gambling from a public interest perspective, attentive to social inequalities and how contextual ...