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Chapter Nessun catalogo è un'isola
(2024)
The contribution is arranged according to a tripartite structure, referencing the three fundamental characteristics of the Parsifal project, the economic, technical and cultural aspects, which are examined and treated in ...
Lettere 1935-1972
(2015)
Just over 150 epistolary pieces, from the twentieth-century archives of Florence and Rome, are published for the first time thanks to Alberto Baldi’s careful transcription, which does not only allow the reconstruction of ...
Chapter Le campagne allucinate: sul modernismo rurale nella letteratura giapponese di inizio Novecento
(2024)
In this essay, making use of concepts from the scholarship on rural modernism and Mark Fisher’s aesthetic reflection on the “weird” and the “eerie”, I analyze some texts in Japanese literature from the first three decades ...
Transcending Borders
(2016)
These days, it seems that many people are concerned with borders, confines, and walls more than ever. We chose “transcending borders” as the theme and title of the volume, hinting at the concept of bridging boundaries, in ...
Chapter Il Brasile nel XVIII secolo
(2023)
The third and last section of the volume aims to represent the Brazilian colony in the 18th century through an historical, iconographical and literary point of view, and analyzing three very important Brazilian volumes of ...
Chapter Un eroe, una battaglia, una storia: il nuovo allestimento del Museo Ferrucciano di Gavinana
(2024)
The Ferrucciano Museum of Gavinana, in the municipality of San Marcello Piteglio (PT) is a small museum structure dedicated to the conservation of relics and the memory of the battle of Gavinana on 3 August 1530, during ...
Joseph Guillaume Desmaisons Dupallans
(2006)
In 1840, a French alienist, or psychiatrist, Joseph Guillaume Desmaisons Dupallans, visited a number of Italian asylums with the objective of discovering the best solution for the institute he was planning to set up in the ...
Chapter Gestione dello stato di criticità organizzativa e gestionale del sistema complesso scuola
(2024)
The evolution of the complex school system from its origins to school autonomy explains why it has acquired the connotation of complexity over time. This synergy between organization and institution that has been developing ...
Chapter Algoritmi al lavoro. Riflessioni sul management algoritmico
(2024)
The essay analyzes a specific characterisc of work managed through algorithms: in the absence offormalized, prescriptive and binding employer’s directives, the worker's performance is subject to an apparently spontaneous ...
«Arrivederci tra dieci anni?»
(2024)
The correspondence between Franco Fortini and Rossana Rossanda spans from 1951 to 1993. The long dialogue between the two correspondents addresses the most diverse moments and events of the second half of the twentieth ...
Chapter António Correia e a sua sede de escrita, na ânsia de revelar uma nova humanidade ao mundo
(2023)
The personal memory of Ernesto Matos focuses on the friendship with António Correia, together with their passion for writing and the stones of the city of Macau as a new symbolic way to observe the world and its humanity
Chapter Un esercizio di immaginazione sociologica: se «*» e «ə» fossero persone?
(2023)
In the presentation, an exercise in sociological imagination is carried out: the question is asked if "*" and "ə" were people, what kind of gender would be projected onto them? The area in which an initial answer is sought ...
Chapter Fra Mediterraneo e Giappone. Suggestioni nipponiche nel Parco Filothei di Dimitri Pikionis, Atene, 1961-1964
(2024)
In the later stages of his career, Dimitris Pikionis embraced a new commission, that of crafting a children's park. This endeavour provided him with an opportunity to revisit and expand upon the thematic elements he had ...
Chapter I valori umani di David-Maria Sassoli: un saggio
(2023)
This essay is a contribution to the tribute given to David-Maria Sassoli, highlighting the human values that characterized his presidency of the European Union, namely democracy and freedom, peace, solidarity, which are ...
Small Forgotten Places in the Hearth of Cities
(2021)
This book is the result of a research project designed and carried out at the Department of Architecture, University of Florence. This book discusses urban public spaces and, more specifically, run-down, inactive micro-spaces ...
Senza lavoro?
(2019)
Will the new technological revolution inevitably destroy work? And will we have to get used to a society creating less and less employment opportunities? Shying away from apocalyptic as well as naively optimistic predictions, ...
Chapter Parsifal: un innovativo potente strumento di ricerca bibliografica
(2024)
Parsifal is the fruit of a long collaborative journey that began in 1973 and consolidated in 1991 with the signing of the founding act of the URBE Association. The milestone of Parsifal honours to those in charge of URBE ...
Raccontare la Slovenia
(2008)
Despite being recognised as an exponent of Slovenian culture, the polymath Johann Weichard Valvasor has to date been undervalued in terms of his direct contribution to the aesthetic and literary consciousness of his homeland. ...
Chapter Sprachkontaktdynamiken im aspektuellen System. Neue Evidenz zur Progressivperiphrase aus dem Zimbrischen von Lusérn
(2023)
This article sets out to present a recent study of progressive and prospective periphrases in Cimbrian, a German-based variety spoken in Northern Italy. Our research complements a renewed interest in the grammaticalization ...
Chapter Balancing Between Smart and Inclusive: Learning Cities for Sustainable Urban Communities
(2023)
Since 2012, Global Learning Cities has become a successful network-based movement of UNESCO which demonstrates not only linkages, but also dependencies amongst community development, adult learning and active citizenship ...