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Chapter Adriano Olivetti, la ricomposizione delle ‘due culture’ e il ruolo delle arti figurative
(2024)
The author of this chapter worked for more than 30 years in Olivetti and nowadays meets often people interested in the peculiar history of this international industry. This paper aims to facilitate the understanding ...
Governare la città
(2007)
The social and political organization and the power culture of an important medieval city-state constitute the glue of the essays recollected here. The approach to the history of Genoa concerns different aspects, which lie ...
Giustizia, uguaglianza e differenza
(2012)
At least until the beginning of the 1990s, when the paradigm of recognition seemed to supplant the paradigm of redistributive justice theories, all the biggest contemporary political theories attempted to single out injustice ...
La vita prima della fine
(2008)
In recent decades the clinical condition of the permanent vegetative state has raised debates regarding the treatment of those patients who, as a result of brain damage, have irreversibly lost consciousness while biologically ...
Lo spettacolo senza riforma
(2016)
The San Samuele theatre company from Venice constitutes a perfect example of the extraordinary vitality of the early-eighteenth-century troupes, before the success of Carlo Goldoni’s dramaturgy. Reconstructing the chronology ...
Single molecule magnets sublimated on conducting and magnetic substrates
(2015)
Single Molecule Magnets (SMMs) showing bistability and quantum phenomena are promising candidates for spintronic applications. In recent years, the study of hybrid surfaces composed of SMMs on conductive and magnetic ...
Dall’amministrare all’amministrazione
(2014)
This volume questions the hinges of modern statehood, through the reconstruction of the institutional story of subalpine companies. During the chronological period examined (1717-1853), the companies characterised the ...
Chapter Lo stigma e le sue intersezioni. Effetti moltiplicatori di abilismo e genere
(2025)
With this contribution, we tried to analyze the amplifying effects of stigma, in particular when ableism is combined with gender, highlighting how this perspective can also be reductionist. In particular, the processes of ...
How to face the scientific communication today. International challenge and digital technology impact on research outputs dissemination
(2017)
Dissemination of scientific results is an important and necessary component of research activity. Nowadays research asks to be widely diffused and shared in a larger community in the effort to demonstrate its innovation ...
Chapter Una singolare epidemia del Settecento: Baretti e la «peste» antiquaria
(2024)
This essay aims at outlining Baretti’s attitude toward antiquarianism, which pervaded eighteenth-century Europe and Italy in particular, first with the revival of Etruscan studies and then with the discovery of Herculaneum ...
Public History in Teacher Education
(2024)
Historical knowledge, often overshadowed by mass media communication, plays a crucial role in educating conscious and critical citizens. We want to explore the transformative potential of history in teacher education, ...
Chapter Modelli di inclusione socio-lavorativa nei soggetti vulnerabili
(2024)
Over the last 10 years, the Region of Tuscany, through the European Social Fund - Axis B Social Inclusion and fight against poverty, has developed a process/methodology to foster autonomy and accompany to work disadvantaged ...
La Libreria privata del Marchese Suddecano Gabriello Riccardi
(2017)
This volume reconstructs the events of the private library of the Marquis Subdean Gabriello Riccardi (1705-1798), which at the end of its development will be joined and merged with that of the Family, today known as the ...
Paul Gauguin
(2006)
Gauguin's exoticism, an inexhaustible source of mythical constructions, is subjected to a careful revision of the contemporary, complex interference between symbolist culture and the pressures of colonial policies. Different ...
Chapter Elementi della natura e materiali del simbolico: la biosfera linguistica di Luigi Meneghello
(2024)
The contribution investigates the relationship between Meneghello’s words and the concrete reality of the world he represents, in relation to the concept of the biosphere and its manifestation throughout the work of the ...
Chapter Posizionamenti storiografici. Luigi Meneghello nei più recenti manuali di letteratura italiana del Novecento
(2024)
Luigi Meneghello is a firmly established author in the 20th century Italian literary canon. His critical profile, however, is less stable: on the one hand, he is mainly remembered as one of the main writers of the Resistance, ...
Chapter La presenza del vescovo Atto nella storiografia pistoiese del Novecento
(2024)
The paper critically retraces the twentieth-century Pistoiese historiography dedicated to the figure of Bishop Atto, highlighting its evolution from a prevalent interest in the political dynamics connected to the birth of ...
Chapter Le committenze architettoniche di Atto nella Toscana del XII secolo: uno sguardo d’insieme e un epigono veneto
(2024)
The paper deals with the architectural commissions of Atto, during the thirty years in which the religious was first prior general of the Vallombrosani and then bishop of Pistoia (1125-1153). The churches that still have ...
Diari 1963-1977
(2011)
This book is the fifth and last volume of the Diari of Giuseppe Dessí, a publication made possible by Franca Linari's transcription combined with the attentive editorship of Francesca Nencioni. The series began with the ...
The Security-Development Nexus in the EU’s Policies Towards the Sahel
(2025)
The Sahel has become a focal point of EU foreign policy, particularly following Mali’s security crisis since 2012. This analysis critically examines European policies in Mali, highlighting their limitations and weaknesses. ...