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Chapter Forme e funzioni della documentazione contabile nelle signorie rurali italiane (secolo XIII-inizio secolo XV): appunti per un questionario
(2023)
The essay aims to develop a questionnaire for the study of the accounting records of late medieval rural lordships, combining the problems and methods of medievalist historiography and diplomatics. Firstly, the textual ...
Chapter Libero, liberato, liberatorio liberticida. I mutamenti del leisure time tra modernità e postmodernità
(2024)
Leisure can be defined as a condition in which one finds oneself when engaged in activities that one has chosen to perform in the absence of compulsion, for one's own pleasure, and, most often, but not necessarily, perceived ...
La libertà viene prima. La libertà come posta in gioco nel conflitto sociale
(2021)
What is left of socialism ? This question, too, must be answered in a "project left." Certainly, socialism is no longer an accomplished or well-known model of society to tend tothrough daily political action. It can only ...
Profili di contrattualizzazione a finalità successoria
(2012)
The book aims to study the relationship between the contractual instrument and succession law, in order to identify the categories into which the general device of the succession contract currently seems to be divided. The ...
Essai sur la Monarchie autrichienne en son état actuel en 1790
(2018)
L'Essai sur la Monarchie autrichienne en son état actuel en 1790 offers a complete and unprecedented overview of the conditions of the Hapsburg monarchy on an international levell at the beginning of the French Revolution. ...
La teocrazia
(2016)
This study analyses the crisis and transformations of theocracy as a political model in Europe in the first half of the 18th century. The work focuses on the transition from a positive and normative seventeenth-century ...
Chapter Lavoro intelligente e potenza digitale
(2024)
Essay that deepens the opinions of scholars, managers, workers of innovative companies, obtained from a research carried out in 2022, aimed at focusing on problems related to the impact of digitalization and AI on work, ...
Chapter Valori e diritto del lavoro: tra mercato globale e principi di dottrina sociale
(2024)
The author reconstructs the values of labour law and emphasises the relevance and continuing effectiveness of the values that emerge from Catholic social doctrine, both with reference to the more labour-related issues and ...
Chapter Lavoro, tecnica e società in Platone: uno sguardo d’insieme
(2024)
During the 5th century B.C., skills (technai), including manual ones, assume an exceptional role in Greek society and culture. Plato's attitude appears to be twofold: on the one hand he credits the possessors of these ...
Quanti generi di diversità?
(2023)
Part of a series that aims to raise awareness of Gender Equality issues among the entire academic community, the book analyses in particular the various forms of discrimination linked to sexual orientation and gender ...
Crescita economica e coesione sociale nelle democrazie avanzate
(2017)
After the Second World War, the economies of advanced Countries have long been characterized by inclusive economic growth. In recent decades, on the other hand, there has been a steady increase in inequalities and a worsening ...
Chapter Carolingian frontiers: Italy and beyond. An introduction
(2024)
In this short introduction, I will cover two topics. The first is a presentation of the research project on Lothar’s rule in Italy, which is behind the conference. The second is a brief discussion of the way in which the ...
Vico Wallari – San Genesio ricerca storica e indagini archeologiche su una comunità del medio Valdarno inferiore fra alto e pieno medioevo
(2010)
The volume collects the reports presented during the study day held in San Miniato on December 1, 2007, dedicated to the historiographical investigation and to an assessment of the long archaeological research conducted ...
Chapter John Stuart Mill
(2024)
The entry offers a brief examination of J.S. Mill’s views on work by attending especially to the Principles of Political Economy. Mill was greatly concerned with improving the conditions of the working classes yet his aim ...
Chapter Cittadinanza e diritti nelle città italiane del basso medioevo: dalla classificazione alla selezione
(2024)
The author proposes a classification of the mechanisms of citizenship in "popolo" regimes, placing them against the background of belonging to the civic body without participation, the result of the rigidification of the ...
Conflitti, paci e vendette nell'Italia comunale
(2009)
This book is a collection of seven essays with an introduction by the editor. The contributions propose first-hand studies of some of the less researched aspects of the history of the Italian communes: the practices of ...
Chapter Des poêles, des chaudrons et des couvertures. Payer son impôt par des objets dans le bourg de Najac (1258-1273)
(2024)
This paper analyses the role of objects in the payment of taxes in the market town of Najac, in Rouergue, through a study of the first register of accounts of this place, between 1258 and 1273. This document, which was ...
Chapter La tutela del giocatore d’azzardo patologico: la prospettiva privatistica
(2024)
The essay explores the legal effects of gambling from the perspective of relevant civil law regulations. Starting from the premise of the legal system's neutrality towards gambling, it investigates the implications of loans ...
Chapter Institutional Learning in Higher Education and Graduate Transitions
(2023)
The ‘learning exclusion equilibrium’ strategy in Italy also governs young adults’ possibilities of accessing higher education institutions (HEIs) and entering and being successful on the labour market. The upshot of this ...
Chapter Lavoro e ozio in Richard Baxter
(2024)
In the author's opinion, Baxterian vision of work is not a modern one (if by modern we mean secularized or even just secularizing vision), what its 'history of effects' may have been. On the one hand, given the Calvinian ...
Tell Barri / Kahat. La campagna del 2003
(2008)
In the undulating plains of north-eastern Syria is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat. The archaeological sequence which has been brought to light stretches without interruption from the start of the ...
Chapter Presentazione
(2023)
The volume here presented aims to commemorate the Portuguese poet António Correia a year after his death with the translation, for the first time in Italian language, of two collections of sonnets: Deideia and Amagao meu ...
Chapter Cartesian and Malebranchian Meditations
(2023)
In his Christian and Metaphysical Meditations (1683) Malebranche develops a reflection in which the self discovers in its interiority that the interlocutor able to answer some of its questions is the divine Word. Through ...
Chapter Dottorato e qualità nell’orizzonte della Terza Missione dell’Università. Per introdurre
(2024)
The essay analyzes the evolution of the doctoral program in Italy over the last forty years, emphasizing its role in Higher Education and the Third Mission of the University, that is, its social and cultural impact beyond ...
Chapter Guerre, dirigisme, approvisionnement. Les marchandises de luxe, monnaie d’échanges alternative sous la Terreur
(2024)
From 1792 to 1795, the war absorbed half of the French state budget at a time when the fiscal situation was disastrous. The political authorities decided to set up a managed economy to support production, supply the armies ...
Chapter Alle origini del patto sociale. Filosofia del principio di solidarietà oltre il neocontrattualismo
(2024)
The solidarity pact constitutes one of the main justifications of the social pact and establishes the relationship of sharing in public costs between the state and the citizen, for this reason its philosophical and legal ...
Chapter paru o faru? Sulla realizzazione fonetica del fonema /*p/ nella lingua giapponese dei periodi Nara e Heian
(2024)
Starting with Hashimoto's work in 1928 and continuing until recent times, the prevailing belief was that the reflex of the phoneme /*p/ of Proto-Japanese was a bilabial fricative [ɸ] as early as the Nara period. This ...
Chapter La signoria rurale in Italia alla fine del medioevo e le istituzioni ecclesiastiche
(2023)
The essay illustrates some aspects of the control exercised by Italian rural lords in the 14th and 15th centuries over ecclesiastical institutions located on lordly territory (parish churches, chapels, monasteries). It ...
Technological innovation and change in the university
(2003)
It is by now common knowledge that one of the aspects upon which the survival of the University depends is how it will make the best possible use of the new technologies (e-learning). Despite the acceptance of this principle, ...
Chapter Il lavoro utile e onesto secondo il De officiis di Cicerone
(2024)
The three books of Cicero’s De officiis were written under the influence of the Stoic Panaetius, who explained what kinds of officia or «duties» must be fulfilled by ordinary (= non-wise) human beings. These consists in ...
Chapter Operosi e sabbatici. Lavoro e non-lavoro negli scrittori cristiani antichi
(2024)
This chapter focuses on a carefully selected body of representations from ancient Christian writers concerning both work and non-work (in the sense of inoperativity). Spanning almost four centuries (i.e, from Paul to ...
Una voce parigina nel Futurismo russo: la poesia di Ivan Aksenov
(2017)
Ivan Aksenov is one of the most neglected figures of early 20th Century Russian literature. The few scholars who have noticed his great originality interpret his verses above all as an application of the principles of ...
Entity modeling: la terza generazione della catalogazione
(2024)
Investigating the concepts of entity and identity in the cataloguing field constitutes the starting point of this work. Little explored in their most profound meaning and cataloguing application, the two concepts have never ...
Chapter Wax, cash and the mass. Making candles affordable in late medieval economies
(2024)
By the later middle ages wax had become an indispensable element in Christian religious observance, used throughout churches, liturgical services and lifecycle events. Wax was therefore both essential and ubiquitous. It ...
O la capra o i cavoli
(2020)
We cannot have the goat and the cabbages together. We cannot jointly achieve the preservation of the planet, economic growth and the improvement of individual and collective well-being. Climate and energy issues are not a ...
Le Corbusier e la villa Savoye: un caso di restauro autoriale / Le Corbusier and the villa Savoye: a case of authorial restoration
(2023)
Following the investigative paths, the author interlaces a series of documents and clues to delineate the events of the restoration of the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, but above all the role played by the various actors ...
Il paesaggio nel governo del territorio
(2018)
Can today’s landscape become a living construct again, moved and shaped by a plurality of actors working for its maintenance with shared modalities? This text investigates the landscape’s role and its structural features ...
Sub-Wavelength Probing and Modification of Complex Photonic Structures
(2010)
The aim of this thesis consists in the study and modification of complex photonic nano-structures. Nowadays, propagation of light in such materials is a rich and fascinating area of research, both for its fundamental ...
Camere Azzurre
(2020)
The Mediterranean world has been seen for centuries as a ‘hyperbaric chamber’ in which the production of idyllic images by Grand Tour travellers has led its actual architectural evolution to the abysses, as a result of ...
Sette scritti politici liberi
(2011)
At the end of the eighteenth century, before and during the French Revolution, Kant wrote intensively about politics. This book brings together the translations of his principal philosophical-political works, with the ...
Diario social di un Rettore
(2016)
Download the free epub version Listen to the interview on Radio Treccia Ischia TV Is it possible to disseminate science through social networks? Facebook was created to share thoughts, ideas, sensations and anything mild ...
Chapter John Florio e Giuseppe Baretti tra nostalgia e lessicografia
(2024)
My article is a comparative analysis of John Florio and Giuseppe (‘Joseph’) Baretti centred on the themes of exile and lexicography. The founder of Italian-English lexicography with his Worlde of Wordes (1598) and Queen ...
Chapter In kind wages between city and countryside: Northern Italy in the Eighteenth Century
(2024)
The paper aims at clarifying the characterisation and the role played by in-kind payments in wages’ composition both in the cities and in the countryside in Eighteenth century Northern Italy. Case studies mainly from ...
Chapter Otium e otiosi nella riflessione dei teologi-giuristi della prima modernità (XVI-XVII sec.)
(2024)
Fifteenth- and seventeenth-century theologians-jurists, and in particularthe Early Modern Scholastics, are confronted with the issue of otium as a real problem, not just as an object of rhetorical speculation. They question ...
Dopo gli apocalittici
(2013)
Since the mid 20th century, the criticism of mass culture has been marked by the "apocalyptic" positions of many authors. Through the texts and ideas of three these "apocalyptic" authors (or, at least, of three authors ...
Chapter Il testo bergamasco: archivio e mappatura delle relazioni culturali tra la città di Bergamo e la Russia
(2019)
This article presents the “Russo-Bergamo Map Collection” (Cartoteca russo-bergamasca, ), a website representing the culmination of a research project conducted at the University of Bergamo under the title “Archiving and ...
International Workshop on Finite Elements for Microwave Engineering
(2016)
When Courant prepared the text of his 1942 address to the American Mathematical Society for publication, he added a two-page Appendix to illustrate how the variational methods first described by Lord Rayleigh could be put ...
Chapter Acqua e carbone in Casentino tra XII e XV secolo: elementi di analisi archeologica dei paesaggi medievali
(2024)
Water mills and charcoal pits have constituted two of the main economic factors of the Tuscan Apennine mountains. Between the 12th and 15th centuries, they were used by noble powers and rural communities, thus being the ...
Oltre gli stereotipi
(2018)
This volume collects a series of writings by Renzo Rastrelli (1948-2008), a long-time professor of Political and diplomatic history of East Asia at the Faculty of Political Sciences "Cesare Alfieri" of the University of ...
Cooperative Enterprises in Australia and Italy
(2015)
This book arises from a three-year comparative research program concerning co-operative enterprises in Australia and Italy. The book explores the historical development, legal framework and the peak organisations of ...
La mostra “Fiorentina Primaverile” del 1922
(2020)
Inaugurated in Florence in 1922, the “Fiorentina Primaverile” was an important exhibition of Italian contemporary art, conceived by the writer Sem Benelli. This exhibition remains unique to Florence because of the number ...
Sull'immagine sonora della città
(2012)
The dissertation deals with the contemporary city soundscape and fits into the disciplinary field of sensuous urbanism, soundscape studies and emotional geography. The key term, soundscape, is to be understood as all the ...
Chapter Monarchia, signori e feudi nei regni di Sicilia e Napoli (secoli XIII-XV)
(2023)
The essay looks into the troubled relationship between sovereign power and feudal power in the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily after the Vespro. Moving from the analysis of the European and Mediterranean political space in ...
Le grandi infrastrutture: approcci di ordine giuridico, economico ed estimativo
(2005)
The volume collects the proceedings of the XXXIV study meeting of Ce.S.E.T. - Centro di Estimo e di Economia territoriale (Centre for Estimation and Territorial Economics) held in Florence on 15-16 October 2004.
Gli spazi immaginati
(2005)
This volume represents the third publication in the series devoted to the theme "Figures in space, politics and society", promoted by a specific interdisciplinary study group, and is the result of the study day held in ...
Chapter I viaggi europei di Ljubomir Nenadović
(2019)
This article examines travel letters that Ljubomir Nenadović (1826-1895) wrote from Switzerland (1847), Italy (1850-1851) and Germany (1870). Marking three different phases in the literary biography of their author, these ...
Chapter Парадоксальность как специфика художественного творчества Ф.М. Достоевского: приемы, стилемы, воздействие
(2023)
Paradoxality as a Specific Feature of Dostoevsky’s Literary Works. Techniques, Stylistics, Mechanisms of Action. All works by Dostoevsky reveal the presence of paradox. These paradoxes act according to mechanisms that ...
Chapter L’inquieto diritto del lavoro. Rileggendo il siddhartiano Riccardo Del Punta
(2024)
The restless Riccardo Del Punta was culturally and scientifically resistant to ideological simplifications. This was due to his refined culture, not only in legal matters, which made him a scholar of labor law capable of ...
L'Archivio Edoardo Cavallini presso la Biblioteca del Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini di Firenze
(2019)
Edoardo Cavallini (Florence, 1911-1968) was one of the most original and interesting personalities of the Italian music scene, but also one of the most overlooked. He was a prolific composer and a respected theorist, as ...
Chapter La documentazione dell’archivio Cerrito per la storia sociale del Novecento
(2021)
The contribution illustrates the figure of Gino Cerrito as a scholar and the importance of his archive for the social history of the twentieth century