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Chapter Introduction. East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries)
(2023)
«History has to reorient», as the historian and sociologist Andre Gunder Frank observed. In the global or globalised age, a culture is no longer regarded as a discrete entity, but rather as a hybrid formation that interacts ...
Chapter Funduq, Fondaco, Feitoria. The Portuguese Contribution to the Globalisation of an Institution of Overseas Trade
(2019)
A particular kind of institutions contributed importantly to the organisation of overseas trade: funduqs and fondacos which originated around the medieval Mediterranean. This article aims to contribute to the debate on ...
Chapter San Miniato al Monte in età moderna: spiritualità, devozione, pubblica utilità e autorappresentazione borghese
(2021)
The essay analyzes the identity changes that the religious complex of San Miniato al Monte experienced in the modern age, covering both the civil plot that leads the place back to a symbol of the struggles for Risorgimento ...
Chapter Telling Transversal Competences… to be Professionally Promoted
(2018)
This article introduces experimental reflection on the experiences at an ‘Employability Skills’ laboratory of a group of young volunteers from the National Civilian Service under the ‘Support and Inclusion’ project of the ...
Chapter Adult Education Policies and Sustainable Development in Poland and Portugal: A Comparative Analysis of Policies and Practices
(2020)
Education for sustainable development is presently a relevant topic in the policies of international organisations (such as UN/UNESCO and the European Union) and in national contexts such as Poland and Portugal. Within the ...
Chapter L’Istituto di Studi Superiori dal 1859 al nuovo secolo
(2024)
The essay is devoted to reconstructing the events of the Istituto di Studi superiori, especially from an institutional and political point of view. It highlights its specificity on an administrative and financial level ...
Chapter Higher Education in Post-Covid19: The Digital Transformation of Work-Integrated Learning Programmes
(2023)
Due to the Sars-Cov-2 health emergency and the forced stoppage of regular teaching and traineeship activities, digital work-integrated learning models have been widely proposed to Higher Education students. Blended practices ...
Tra sensi e spirito
(2009)
Tra sensi e spirito investigates the origins of a sort of 'Copernican revolution' that took place in western culture when music acquired an undisputed primacy over the other arts, becoming the privileged medium of metaphysical ...
Chapter Collaborative Site Layout Planning Using Multi-Touch Table and Immersive VR
(2023)
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is changing the way architects and engineers produce and deliver design results, and object-oriented 3D models are now starting to replace traditional 2D drawings during the construction ...
Chapter Per una lettura dell’Epistola XIII di Giovanni Boccaccio
(2021)
The contribution proposes an analysis of some stylistic, thematic and intertextual aspects of Giovanni Boccaccio’s letter to Francesco Nelli (1363). In particular, through the highlighting of some significant points of ...