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«Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774
(2016)
The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to ...
Micro turbo expander design for small scale ORC
(2020)
The Tesla expander was first developed by N. Tesla at the beginning of the 20th century. In recent years, due to the increasing appeal towards micro power generation and energy recovery from wasted flows, this cost effective ...
Wackenroder e Reichardt
(2014)
Wackenroder's conception of music is strongly influenced by the musical thought of the composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who was a romantic music teacher, friend and mentor of Wackenroder, whom he introduced to the ...
Beyond Nuclear Ambiguity
(2019)
The objective of the thesis was to illustrate the trajectory of Iranian nuclear crisis from the origins of the nuclear program to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly referred as the nuclear deal. The ...
Città metropolitane e politiche urbane
(2009)
More than fifteen years after the introduction of direct election, the mayors are still the most popular politicians in Italy. The personal relationship set up with the citizens and the strengthening of the city councils ...
Chapter Un intervento sottotraccia. L’ospedale della Croce rossa italiana in Corea (1950-55)
(2024)
In the summer of 1950 the United States asked Italy for a military contribution, even symbolic, to be used in the war in Korea. The Italian government instead decided to send a humanitarian mission, as Sweden did, and sent ...
Chapter Traduzioni, spiegazioni, commenti: testo e metatesto nella prosa di Meneghello
(2024)
Self-commentary plays a fundamental role in Meneghello’s work. It is part of an intrinsically autobiographical prose, where the individual dimension, constantly dropped into the collective one, is charged with a documentary ...
L’evoluzione della codifica del genitivo dal tipo sintetico al tipo analitico nelle carte del Codice diplomatico longobardo
(2018)
The subject of this work is the morphosyntactic analysis of a corpus of Latin documentary papers which were written in the centre and the north of the Italian peninsula between the 7th and the 8th century. The study focuses ...
Coworking
(2021)
Coworking spaces are now widespread in Italy, and coworking is presented as an organisational innovation able to meet the needs of the new self-employed work. But what kind of work is actually performed in these spaces? ...
Chapter Atto e i Pistoiesi
(2024)
In the relationship between bishop Atto and the Pistoiese people, two periods should be distinguished: the one during his life (1133-1153) characterized by political-economic conflict culminating with the excommunication ...
Corruzione pubblica
(2011)
This book contains the proceedings of the seminar held in Florence on 6 May 2011 within the framework of a research project of national scope funded by the Ministry of Education (MUIR). The principal inspiring aim is the ...
La Libertà di manifestazione del pensiero e la libertà religiosa nelle società multiculturali
(2009)
The balancing of rights of equal status is a question widely debated in all modern legal systems, but the complexity of western societies – increasingly engaged with the interaction of different cultures and traditions – ...
Chapter La mobilità occupazionale a Verona tra tardo Medioevo ed Età Moderna: fonti e questioni metodologiche
(2025)
Recent studies on the relationship between economic inequality and social mobility highlight the significant role of measuring occupational mobility in understanding social mobility. The available data for the city of ...
Short history of Biology from the origins to the 20th Century
(2003)
The book tells the story of the development of both knowledge and theories about the living organisms since Antiquity until the beginning of the 20th century. It also endeavours to link the advances in sciences and the ...
Chapter André Gorz. Il valore del ‘sufficiente’
(2024)
The article reconstructs André Gorz's intellectual itinerary, with a focus on his critique of subject’s alienation due to the functioning modes of capitalist economy. From this point of view, attention is payed to Gorz's ...
Chapter Web archiving in Tunisia post-2011: The National Library of Tunisia’s experience
(2024)
The National Library of Tunisia had undertaken the digitization of written heritage and the "heritagization" of digital documents. To meet the second requirement, a web archiving unit was created outside the legal deposit ...
Tra territorio e città
(2014)
By summarising some selected bachelor and master's degree theses, the volume offers an overview of the study activities conducted within the Degree courses in Planning of the University of Florence, Empoli Campus. The ...
Tra economia e politica: l'internazionalizzazione di Finmeccanica, Eni ed Enel
(2010)
In an economic system dominated by small and medium enterprises, striking among the large companies are Finmeccanica, Eni and Enel, partially controlled by the Ministry of the Economy and Finance. What are the links between ...
Chapter Il corpo fonico di Libera nos a malo
(2024)
Starting with the most recent theoretical studies in the Anglo-Saxon world on relationships between Sound and Literature, this essay reconstructs the presence and function of the phonic corpus (music, nursery rhymes, ...
L'Islam spiegato ai miei studenti. Undici lezioni sul diritto islamico
(2010)
Beyond all instrumentalisation, the rooted Muslim presence in Italy raises problems of various kinds that are not easy to resolve. Inevitably, the need to comprehend the content of the principles and the rules governing ...