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Le lauree honoris causa per gli 80 anni dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze
(2005)
On the occasions of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of Florence University, each Faculty was invited by the Academic Senate to nominate a figure of international standing as recipient of an honorary degree. This ...
Linguaggi dal margine
(2024)
“Who owns Shakespeare?” is a compelling question when one decides to delve into the relationship between the English author and experiences that share, albeit with considerable mutual differences, the category of marginality. ...
Chapter Vescovi e signori rurali nella regione trentino-tirolese tra XIV e XV secolo
(2023)
The essay illustrates the progressive weakening of the figure of the prince-bishop of Trento, feudal lord of most of the holders of castle lordships in the Trentino area. During the fourteenth century and especially the ...
Chapter Dalle strutture del racconto al modello culturale del lignaggio nobiliare: la Vita Mathildis di Donizone in contesto
(2024)
The famous dedication miniature of the Vita Mathildis by Donizo of Canossa and most of the programmatic paratexts of this historiographical work refer to a courtly space as communicative context: the entourage of the ...
Chapter Slavi, albanesi e greci nel regno meridionale nella seconda metà del XV secolo
(2024)
The author examines the immigration of Slavs, Albanians and Greeks into the kingdom of Naples following the arrival of the Ottomans in the Balkan peninsula, paying attention to those who were responsible for their placement ...
Papato e monachesimo "esente" nei secoli centrali del Medioevo
(2003)
In the XI-XIII centuries the monasteries experienced a bigger freedom from the interference of the dioceses and were able to benefit from the exemption to interact with the local dominant classes. This new dynamic in ...
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 ...
Le calamità ambientali nel tardo medioevo europeo: realtà, percezioni, reazioni
(2010)
For some time historiography has set itself the objective of studying the ways in which European society in the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Age has related to environmental disasters, addressing the perceptions ...
Chapter Freud: Il ‘lavoro’ dell’inconscio e i suoi riverberi psicosociali
(2024)
The author points out how meaningful the notion of psychic working is in Freud's writings, especially for the debt to a mechanical-energetic model of mind. At the end, the few hints that appear on the psychological and ...
Chapter Reducing inconsistency in AHP by combining Delphi and Nudge theory and network analysis of the judgements: an application to future scenarios
(2021)
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a Multi-Criteria method in which a number of decision factors (typically criteria and alternatives) are compared pairwise by one or more experts, using the Saaty scale, with the goal ...
Characteristics of raw and cooked fillets in species of actual and potential interest for Italian aquaculture
(2014)
Heat treatment generally induces structural changes of fish muscle and loss of nutrients. Depending on many intrinsic and extrinsic factors farmed fish qualitative attributes can be subject to changes. The aim of this study ...
Chapter La libertà del popolo. Status popularis e libertas a Firenze, Siena, Lucca e Bologna nella seconda metà del Trecento
(2024)
The author's contribution is dedicated to the Italian cities of communal tradition, which addresses a theme of long tradition, ideological as well as historiographical, namely the connection between libertas and the 'people' ...
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 Determinants of social startups in Italy
(2021)
The so called "Startup Act" (Decree Law 179/2012, converted into Law 221/2012), has introduced in Italy the notion of innovative companies with a high technological value, denoted as the innovative startups. Among them, ...
Five Albanian Villages
(2020)
This book is the result of a research project designed and carried out at the Department of Architecture, University of Florence. This research was based on the transfer of knowledge from members of the Albanian Diaspora ...
Chapter Identità religiose tra convivenza e conflitto. Per una lettura psicosociale de I guardiani dell’aria di Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan
(2024)
Rosa Yasin Hasan's novel Guardians of the Air (2009) offers a glimpse into Syrian society prior to the revolution and civil war that devastated the country for over a decade. The novel's central character, Anat, works as ...
Chapter Predoni a casa nostra e il geografo solidale: Massimo Quaini tra terra e acqua
(2021)
In accordance with the main goals of this collection of essays in honour of Massimo Quaini, the text focuses on a peculiar character of the Ligurian geographer’s sensibility, his attention to landscape protectionresearch ...
Lettere di Margherita Guidacci a Mladen Machiedo
(2015)
The collection of Lettere di Margherita Guidacci a Mladen Machiedo reinterprets the author's cultural and poetic path in the light of the affinities with the Catholic writers from Florence, the bond with her area of origin, ...
Chapter Le trasformazioni nel mondo del lavoro come sfida per la giustizia. Prospettive e criteri dell’etica sociale cattolica
(2024)
The transformations of work, which were the starting point for the elaboration of Catholic social teaching in the 19th century, are still a central challenge today. However, precarious work that now seems to prevail is not ...
Chapter Descartes on Selfhood, Conscientia, the First Person and Beyond
(2023)
I discuss Descartes’ metaphysics of selfhood, and relevant parts of contemporary philosophy regarding the first person. My two main concerns are the controversy that surrounds Descartes’ conception of conscientia, mistranslated ...
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 ...
A cento anni dalla Grande Guerra. Vol. 1
(2017)
The volumes on the Great War that are here published are the result of a series of seminars held at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Florence between 2014 and 2015. Starting from the ...
A South African Convivio with Dante
(2021)
This book offers a collection of South African university students’ written responses to the Commedia and scholars’ commentary on them. The students’ collection includes writings of all genres and subjects: prose, poetry, ...
Chapter The Role of Adult Learning and Education in (Post-)Covid Times
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions to global education systems, with adult education shifting to a virtual world and relying heavily on digital and ICT tools to maintain continuity of learning. ...
Chapter Humors, Passions, and Consciousness in Descartes’s Physiology: The Reconsideration through the Correspondence with Elisabeth
(2023)
By pushing Descartes to more clearly explain the union of body and soul beyond the functioning of a ‘strong’ passion, namely sadness, Elisabeth wants Descartes to review his idea of the passions, and his understanding of ...
Chapter L’interazione tra la diatesi Non-attiva e le categorie di tempo e aspetto. Microvariazione nei dialetti italo-albanesi
(2023)
This article deals with morphological non-active verbal voice, which characterises reflexive, middle and passive structures in Standard Albanian and Arbëresh dialects. The data, compared to those of Italian, show that the ...
Ricordi. Nuova edizione e introduzione storica
(2019)
Giovanni di Pagolo Morelli’s Ricordi, long known to historians, are published here for the first time in an integral version which is also linguistically faithful to the original manuscript. This new critical edition is ...
Chapter Bisogni Educativi Speciali e responsabilità scolastico-territoriali: il caso dell’Unione dei Comuni della Val di Bisenzio
(2024)
Due to the particular socio-demographic characteristics, typical of the 'piedmont' territories and the multiple criticalities in the fields of transport, health, commerce and instruction/education/training, the Unione dei ...
Political landscapes in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: the Iberian Northwest in the Context of Southern Europe
(2024)
This book analyses the formation and dynamics of political landscapes in the early Middle Ages. The aim is to check how political action shaped these landscapes through the study of settlements and burials, “central places” ...
Leggere Istanbul
(2020)
Using the metaphor of the city-text, the volume investigates in a comparative perspective the representations of Istanbul in the works of two pairs of authors: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar/Orhan Pamuk and Yaşar Kemal/Latife Tekin. ...
Chapter О славянизмах в Братьях Карамазовых
(2023)
About Slavonicisms in The Brothers Karamazov. This work draws attention to the function of Slavonicisms in The Brothers Karamazov. In the last dialogue between Kolja Krasotkin and Alesha Karamazov, Kolja’s lines about ...
Chapter Dalla geografia storica all’archeologia del paesaggio e dell’ambiente. Una irrinunciabile eredità di Massimo Quaini
(2021)
This contribution discusses the legacy of Massimo Quaini’s research in the field of postclassical rchaeology and, in particular, in the study of landscape and environment. Its active participation in the archaeological ...
XIII Conference "Root and Butt Rot of Forest Trees" IUFRO Working Party 7.02.01
(2013)
The present Proceedings comprise the contributions that were presented at the 13th International Conference of the IUFRO W. Party 7.02.01 “Root and Butt Rot of Forest Trees” that was held in Italy from the 4th to the 10th ...
Chapter Narrative Heroes: giocare per riscrivere il copione del bullismo e del cyberbullismo
(2024)
Bullying and cyberbullying are still relevant issues of national and international concern. The literature has shown that these forms of peer violence have an important cultural basis, linked to shared social norms that ...
Chapter Famiglie signorili delle valli di Non e di Sole
(2023)
With reference to the 14th and 15th centuries, the essay analyses the specific characteristics of the rural lordships of the Val di Non and Val di Sole, territories of the Episcopal principality of Trento, particularly ...
Chapter Le Giudicarie e la val Vestino: i Lodron e i da Campo
(2023)
In the 14th and 15th centuries, the rural lordships of the Lodrone and da Campo families asserted themselves in the geographically complex area of the Sarca valley, open to the territory of Brescia.
Impact of climate change on agricultural and natural ecosystems
(2009)
This book illustrates the main results deriving from fourteen studies, dealing with the impact of climate change on different agricultural and natural ecosystems, carried out within the Impact of Climate change On agricultural ...
Chapter Translating Heritage Tourism in Italy. Churches and Palaces of the Ducato Estense
(2023)
This work reports on an ongoing Italian-English translation project that began in 2018. This project aims at compiling a learner corpus and involves a Government Department as client and a selected group of MA students as ...
Chapter La modellazione di paesaggi simbolici su piattaforma GIS: una proposta
(2024)
This paper aims to evaluate the chance to make GIS based scenarios to study the symbolic in historical landscapes. This is intended in a broad sense. In fact, we consider the symbols of political as well as religious power, ...
Cumani
(2021)
This book is a synthesis of the great migrations of the 6th-13th centuries, focused on the median space between the two extremes of the Eurasian continent: Western Europe and Eastern Asia. In the light of the sources, it ...