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Produzione poetica e storia nella prassi e nella teoria greca di età classica
(2014)
In “Poetics”, Aristotle accepts history among the possible themes for poetry, on the condition that the poet reaches the universal plane by narrating events which comply with the rules of eikos and of anankaion. With the ...
Sviluppo urbano e politiche per la qualità della vita
(2018)
Today's society appears increasingly vulnerable, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. In this context, there is an increased need to create efficient and effective ecosystems to locally promote the quality of life and social ...
Flâneries, sulla traccia di ricordi e parole. Miscellanea di saggi in onore di Patrizio Collini
(2024)
In this volume, the authors celebrate Patrizio Collini’s distinguished career as a professor and as an essayist, highlighting the significant impact he left in the fields of German Studies and Comparative Literature along ...
Honos alit artes. Studi per il settantesimo compleanno di Mario Ascheri. II. Gli universi particolari
(2014)
The researches accounted in the volume, being reported by historians who had different vocations, illustrate various aspects of medieval and modern history (laws, economy, society, church and civil institutions, architecture, ...
Economia e Diritto in Italia durante il Fascismo
(2017)
The volume collects eight essays on economic and legal culture in Italy in the period between the two world wars. Some of the essays investigate the relationship between the fascist regime and intellectuals, as in the case ...
Strange spirits and even stranger bodies
(2003)
The book examines the works of three English modernists also dealing with the iconic figure of Elizabeth Tudor. They are works focusing on the queen by Giles Lytton Strachey ("Elizabeth and Essex") and Edith Sitwell ("Fanfare ...
Firenze in guerra 1940-1944
(2014)
The volume reproduces the documentary path of the exhibition Florence in the war 1940-1944 promoted by the Historical Institute of the Resistance in Tuscany on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Resistance and ...
Enrico Fermi’s IEEE Milestone in Florence. For his Major Contribution to Semiconductor Statistics, 1924-1926
(2015)
Enrico Fermi, Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1938, taught at the University of Florence just for two academic years (1924-25 and 1925-26). His research activity in these two years saw the publication of the statistics bearing ...
L’Alto Tigri nelle età del Bronzo Antico e Medio
(2016)
The region crossed by the upper course of the Tigris River, in south-eastern Turkey, has long been an area little known from an archaeological point of view. The intensification of field research, starting from the nineties ...
Un incontro lusofono plurale di lingue, letterature, storie, culture
(2018)
The volume Un incontro lusofono plurale di lingue, letterature, storie, culture (A plural Lusophone encounter of languages, literatures, stories, cultures) aims at highlighting one of the specificities of the Lusophone ...
Chapter Fish immune and oxidative stress reaction to emerging parasite in the balearic islands
(2024)
Global change has a deep impact on the distribution and prevalence of diseases in fish, leading to the emergence of new pathogens. A recent observation on Ibiza Island in the Balearic Islands highlighted the presence of ...
Il Telefono & Dintorni
(2011)
Sponsored by the University of Florence, the "National Committee for the celebrations of the bicentenary of the birth of Antonio Meucci" had multiple goals. These included: fostering a knowledge of the historic period in ...
Chapter Il rapporto medico-paziente dall’antichità a oggi: la storia di un rapporto complesso
(2024)
In this Chapter the author retraces the history of the physician-patient relationship from antiquity up to the present. The author focuses on ethical statements and pays particular attention to deontological rules of the ...
Milites elegantes. Le strutture aristocratiche nel territorio lucchese (800-1100 c.)
(2019)
Lucca occupies a special place in the history and historiography of the early Middle Ages in Italy and Europe. It was the heart of a political body of the Carolingian galaxy, namely the marque of Tuscia, which enjoyed ...
Comunicare l’Università di Firenze
(2014)
The volume presents the main results of the first two years of activity of the Laboratorio di comunicazione (Communication Laboratory) of the University of Florence, which brings together knowledge, skills and professionalisms ...
Chapter The Latium coast from Ostia to Circeo: settlement dynamics in a peculiar context
(2024)
The contribution aims to investigate the settlement dynamics of the Latium coastal stretch of approximately 100 kilometres between Ostia and Circeo. This is a strip characterized by peculiar geomorphological and hydrographic ...
I Balcani occidentali tra romanico e bizantino
(2020)
This volume focuses on the ecclesiastical architecture of 12th-century Nemaniad origins (Mother of God, Saint Nicholas and Saint George) by examining the layout preferences of the client and the workforce of diverse cultural ...
Chapter Alles neu? Die Londoner und Hallenser Ausgaben der neugriechischen Übersetzung des Neuen Testaments (1703, 1705 und 1710) als Produkte interkonfessioneller Diskurse und missionarischer Netzwerke
(2024)
This paper explores the nexus between the use of the modern Greek language and interconfessional transfer, focusing on the early modern vernacular Greek editions of the New Testament. The point of reference for later ...
Chapter Funzioni dell’ironia nei Piccoli maestri
(2024)
After a brief introduction concerning the theme of irony in Meneghello’s essay production, this essay focuses on I piccoli maestri. It traces the main functions of irony in the novel: to deflate the rhetoric of deflating ...
Dessin, Design, Projet
(2023)
The contributions gathered in this book are from the eponymous international symposium held in Paris in 2019. They discuss the relationship that drawing, design and the project, understood here as a triad, have with the ...