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Antonio Rinaldi. Un intellettuale nella cultura del Novecento
(2014)
Antonio Rinaldi, un intellettuale nella cultura del Novecento (Antonio Rinaldi, an intellectual in twentieth century culture) gives new shape the figure of an artist who is only apparently of secondary importance, starting ...
Disturbi del comportamento alimentare: dagli stili di vita alla patologia
(2002)
The Conference, of which the volume constitutes the Proceedings, represented a significant meeting point between psychological and social research experiences (aimed at outlining behaviours and trends), and aspects of ...
Chapter Note al testo e alla traduzione
(2022)
The aim of this article is to offer a textual analysis of the short stories translated by Silvia Cavalletto and some very interesting notes regarding the Chinese translation of A China fica ao lado
Chapter Da un segno a tanti segni. L’emergere della polisemia del termine disegno nelle traduzioni tedesche delle Vite di Vasari
(2023)
This chapter focuses on the German translations of La Vita of Raffaello by Vasari. Ballestracci focuses her attention on translations into German of the word «disegno», on its complex and multifaceted meanings and its ...
Lourdes: storie di miracoli
(2016)
The aim of this work is to identify the factors which contributed to create Lourdes' success. This analysis starts from the comparison between the 18 apparitions in Lourdes with some similar and contemporary episodes ...
Chapter Vie e voci delle diaspore nella narrativa di Claudio Magris
(2021)
Diaspora is one of the most important themes in Claudio Magris’ works, including its interrelations with issues of exile, emigration, deportation. The Jewish Diaspora is the main topic of many of Magris’ essays and essayistic ...
Chapter Comparative Adult and Continuing Education: A Guiding Essay
(2020)
This paper provides a guide for developing a research design for comparative studies in adult and continuing education. To that end, a research methodology will be presented that was developed at the COMPALL and INTALL ...
Chapter Integration Between Enterprise Resource Planning and Building Information Modelling
(2023)
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an integrated business management system aimed at monitoring and maximizing resources and efficiency; on the other hand, Building Information Modelling (BIM) represents a broad series ...
«Fiere vicende dell’età di mezzo»
(2021)
With the present Festschrift written in times of pandemic, the authors wish to honour and thank Gian Maria Varanini, paying tribute to him on the occasion of his retirement from the University. Varanini is a great scholar, ...
Chapter The Student Voice in Higher Education and the Implications of Promoting Faculty Development
(2018)
This chapter presents a literature overview of the student voice in higher education, the main results from a three-year research project conducted at five Italian universities with the aim of investigating students’ voices ...
Adult Education and Social Justice: International Perspectives
(2023)
This book investigates the ways in which the social purposes of adult education are (re)interpreted over time, and between the global south and global north. It brings together thirty-seven authors from fourteen countries ...
Un carteggio di fine secolo
(2006)
The correspondence between Renato Fucini and Emilia Peruzzi, which embraces a period of time comprised between 1871 and 1899, provides a colourful picture of late nineteenth-century Florentine and Italian society. Parading ...
Chapter Antecedenti, origini e tratti caratterizzanti della Public History in Italia
(2019)
The essay outlines an excursus on the historical origins and precedents of Public History (PH) practices in Italy, around three main themes: Cultural Heritage; School and University; Territory. National conferences are ...
Luigi Meneghello
(2017)
Between Luigi Meneghello's writing and the natural world there is an implicit yet profound bound, destined to reverberate in the folds of the text, giving rise to unprecedented and transversal readings. And eco-criticism, ...
Dalla misurazione dei servizi alla customer satisfaction
(2004)
Activities for the evaluation of the Florence University Library System have recently materialised in a customer satisfaction survey. The book recounts this experience and illustrates its premises, the phases of implementation, ...
Chapter Pyrgi: analysis of possible climatic effects on a coastal archaeological site
(2020)
This work refers to an interdisciplinary study on the archaeological site of Pyrgi, an Etruscan harbour still under excavation, located on the Lazio’s coast in Santa Severa, in the province of Rome. The objective of the ...
Chapter Digital Twins for Smart Decision Making in Asset Management
(2023)
This study discusses the classification of Digital Twins (DTs) and their use in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industry, the differences between building information modeling (BIM) and ...
Il racconto e il romanzo filosofico nella modernità
(2013)
In the first pages of the Zibaldone, Leopardi had noted that the "love of learning" induces a passion for philosophy, making it a foundational element of modern culture. In this perspective, then, no doubt remains as to ...
Ragioni d'amore
(2005)
This text proposes a rereading of the Decameron that traces the female figures - 'constrained' as we are told in the Proem, by the 'wishes', 'desires' and 'orders' of fathers, mothers, brothers and husbands - in their ...
Chapter Developing Active Citizenship Through Adult Learning and Education. Experiences from an INTALL Winter School Comparative Working Group
(2020)
Active citizenship became a research issue for adult learning and education in 1995 when the Council of Ministers decided to make 1996 the Year of Lifelong Learning. Moreover, the Lisbon programme, in the year 2000, ...
Educazione degli Adulti: politiche, percorsi, prospettive
(2022)
The volume is made of a series of eighteen studies, all related to the key issues connected to the personal and professional path Paolo Federighi had in more than forty years. This is the time frame he dedicated to adult ...
Il nuovo romanzo
(2013)
The systematic examination of the fluctuations in the definition of the terms "neo-avant-garde" and "post-modern" is at the base of this study, which therefore evolves through the comparative analysis of different contexts, ...
Study and design of topologies and components for high power density DC-DC converters
(2016)
Size reduction of low power electronic DC–DC converters is a topic of major interest for power electronics which requires the study and design of circuits and components working under redefined requirements. For this ...
Chapter Regina della Scala e Bernabò Visconti. Progetti di affermazione dinastica nel dominio visconteo
(2021)
The figure of Regina della Scala, Bernabò Visconti’s wife, is here reconsidered on the basis of available chronicles and documents. About her political agency, Regina was often involved by her husband in a “joint dominion” ...
L'arte del libro in Germania fra Otto e Novecento
(2011)
This book addresses a subject of great interest for German culture, and that of Europe in general: the emergence and development in Germany, indicatively between 1890 and 1930, of an eclectic pan-artistic movement aimed ...
PROGETTO STREAMING - STRategiE di mitigazione e gestione dei rischi AMbientalI: casi di studio Nel territorio reGionale Toscano
(2022)
The STREAMING project (STRategiE di mitigazione e gestione dei rischi AMbientalI: casi di studio Nel territorio reGionale Toscano) was funded by POR FSE 2014-2020. The project supported five post-doc on five different case ...
Chapter The offshore environmental impact by Sarno river in Naples bay (South-West Italy)
(2020)
The goal of this work has been to establish the influence of the Sarno river on the present sedimentation in the Naples bay continental shelf by evaluating organic matter contribution and pollution. Sediments samples were ...
The Shade of the Saguaro / La sombra del saguaro
(2013)
This volume springs from that fruitful project of scientific cooperation between the humanities departments of Università di Firenze and University of Arizona which was the Forum for the Study of the Literary Cultures of ...
Chapter Quantifying the Confidence in Models Outputted by Scan-To-BIM Processes
(2023)
3D spatial data is increasingly employed to generate Building Information Models (BIMs) by extension digital twins for various applications in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector such as project ...
Chapter First investigation of per-and poly fluoroalkylsubstances (PFAS) in striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba stranded along Tuscany coast (north western Mediterranean Sea)
(2022)
Per- and poly fluoroalkylsubstances (PFAS) were measured in liver,muscle, blood and brain of 26 stripped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba stranded along Tuscany coasts (Italy), from 2020 to 2022. Using high performance liquid ...
Chapter The Imperial Image of Theoderic: the Case of the Regisole of Pavia
(2022)
The contribution intends to retrace the history of Pavia’s famous equestrian statue, known as the “Regisole”, destroyed in 1796. The statue, in gilded bronze, represented a Roman emperor and was transferred from Rome to ...
Chapter Lo sguardo territorialista di Leonardo da Vinci fra arte, ricerca e immagine
(2023)
Leonardo’s multifaceted experience has often been celebrated as a key historical legacy placed in a distant past. However, an interdisciplinary investigation of Leonardo’s thought, studies and design intentionality, trying ...
Traslocare, riaggregare, rifondare
(2006)
This book recounts the phases in the set-up of the new Library of Social Sciences of the University of Florence. The move provided the opportunity for bringing together the collections that were scattered over seven service ...
Chapter Saramago e os valores de Sassoli: do mítico e do ético em Caim
(2023)
Cain resumes the biblical story of the genesiacs brothers to recount it in a heterodox way. Based on the canonical biblical texts, the ethical perspective of David Maria Sassoli and in ideological discourses, José Saramago ...
Chapter Potere feudale ed élite locale nel Mezzogiorno alla fine del Medioevo. Note sulla contea orsiniana di Nola
(2021)
This paper takes the cue from the sixteenth-century work of the Nolan doctor and humanist, Ambrogio Leone. In it the forms of itself perception by the political and social élite of Nola during the second half of fifteenth ...
Chapter Storia di un paradosso. Il mito di Giorgio Luti in Età Moderna
(2020)
The essay resumes, with new historical sources, the research concerning the biography of the Sienese Jesuat Giorgio Luti, the prophecy of 1491 attributed to him and the exegetical evolution of this text in the Modern Age, ...
Chapter Beach macro-litter monitoring on Monastir coastal sea (Tunisia): First Findings
(2022)
The macrolitter monitoring was investigated on 3 beaches on Monastir coastal (Palmier, Marina, Karaia) and on Kuriat Island during 4 seasons. The highest abundance and density of macrolitter were recorded on the beaches ...
Territori e piani dopo la crescita
(2021)
The purpose of the book is, on one hand, to try to trace a method and some working perspectives for post-growth planning, and on the other hand, to testify, through a concrete experience, the old and new questions and the ...
Le tesi delle prime donne laureate a Firenze
(2022)
In Italy, women have been able to graduate only since 1875; in Florence, at the end of the century, just fifteen women obtained the graduation at the Institute of Higher Studies. The Libraries of the University of Florence, ...
Chapter Il Darkweb
(2022)
The map shows the distribution of the offer of illicit products in one of the Darkweb markets.
Chapter Professionalisation of Adult Education in Slovenia from a Multi-level Perspective
(2023)
The adult education (AE) research community emphasise the importance of well-qualified personnel working in the field of AE. However, the field is facing with challenges achieving this aim. This chapter research ...
Chapter Alla cieca e il testimone di secondo grado
(2021)
The essay focuses on the modalities adopted by Magris in his novel, Alla cieca, to merge literature and civil engagement through a fine narrative construction. By populating his writing with precise documentary research ...
Chapter Internationalisation in Higher Education: A Virtual Adult Education Academy in Times of COVID-19
(2023)
COVID-19 calls for new ways of approaching internationalisation in adult learning and education. Based on experiences gathered during the 2021 virtual Adult Education Academy, this paper identifies challenges in international ...
Chapter 手塚治虫とグルメマンガをつなぐもの―「あしたのジョー」の減量 / The one which connects a gourmet cartoon with Osamu Tezuka: Cutting of Joe of tomorrow
(2021)
I talk on change in the nature of the character in the cartoon through description of a food and the genre called a gourmet cartoon again. Specifically, the process until the character will be the existence which ‘mediates ...
Chapter La buona fama di un falsario: eruditi, critici e luoghi nel Piemonte del Settecento
(2021)
Giuseppe Francesco Meyranesio (1729-1793) is well known for the ancient and medieval texts he produced and disseminated, the falsity of which has been widely proved. This essay aims to reread his story from another point ...
Chapter Towards new marine-coastal Natura 2000 sites in the central Adriatic Sea.
(2020)
LIFE17 NAT/IT/000565 CALLIOPE aims to improve the coast-sea regional natural connectivity by improving the Natura 2000 Network. The main objectives are: improving the biodiversity knowledge of marine environments, testing ...
Chapter Profiling visitors of a national park in Italy through unsupervised classification of mixed data
(2021)
Cluster analysis has for long been an effective tool for analysing data. Thus, several disciplines, such as marketing, psychology and computer sciences, just to mention a few, did take advantage from its contribution over ...
Fiume, paesaggio, difesa del suolo
(2007)
On 10 and 11 May 2006 the international conference on the theme “River, landscape and land conservation. Overcoming emergencies and grasping opportunities” was held in the main lecture hall of Florence University. The ...
Chapter Intorno a Geografia Democratica. Fra Marx e Foucault, l’Italia e l’‘Ammerica’
(2021)
Two main and sequential topics are emphasized. The first one is Quaini’s attention for the historically and socially determinated building of the Man/Nature relation, which mainly characterizes his first works written ...
Astronomia e Fisica a Firenze
(2017)
The exhibition Astronomia e Fisica a Firenze (“Astronomy and Physics in Florence”) illustrates the evolution of the two disciplines from the eighteenth century until the early decades of the twentieth century. The place ...
Chapter I fattori soggettivi nel «moderno capitalismo». La complicata ricezione italiana e le questioni insolute nel pensiero di W. Sombart
(2020)
W. Sombart has always represented "a significant intellectual puzzle", but, beyond the contradictory (often overemphasised) aspects of his thought, he continues to be an interesting object of study, because of the innovative ...
Chapter Vescovi e monasteri in Tuscia nel secolo XI (1018-1120 circa)
(2021)
The paper deals with foundation and further fortunes of the Florentine abbey of San Miniato, founded by bishop Ildebrando (1018), and discusses the grounds of the strong hostility that Vallombrosan monks demonstrated toward ...
Melancholic Identities, Toska and Reflective Nostalgia
(2015)
This book examines the feeling that we often refer to as ‘nostalgia’ from the perspective of writers and artists located on the (imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet) periphery of Russian culture who regard the center of the ...
Chapter Nicholas Trevet : le théologien anglais qui parlait à l’oreille des Italiens
(2020)
The commentaries composed by the English theologian Nicholas Trevet at the beginning of the fourteenth century not only bear witness to his connections with Santa Maria Novella. They also testify to the importance of his ...
Chapter Galileo’s Mathematical Errors
(2023)
Galileo’s abilities as a mathematician were far below that of many of his contemporaries. He made numerous technical mistakes — including several high-profile, mathematically erroneous applications of his own law of fall ...
Pragmatics and Prosody
(2012)
Most of the papers collected in this book resulted from presentations and discussions undertaken during the V Lablita Workshop that took place at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on August 23-25, 2011. The ...
Chapter Mapping and factoring the 2007 ATECO categories in regard to specialised human capital
(2021)
The paper describes an exercise of classification of a subset of five-digit categories of the 2007 ATECO classification system of economic activities. The analysis is grounded on the hypothesis that economic sectors can ...
Chapter Filosofia e dibattito. Le Meditazioni Cartesiane come esempio di deliberazione filosofica
(2021)
This essay relates the content of an educational experience that applies the methodology of debate to the closer examination of an argumentative philosophical text, in the form of a deliberation with oneself. The text in ...
Ingegneri & Ingegneria a Firenze
(2021)
This volume takes up part of the content of the one published on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Florence and constitutes, after 10 years, only for ...
Chapter Neomodernist trends in Russian and Ukrainian poetry of the second half of the 20th century: theoretical problems and the European context
(2019)
This article considers the presence of modernist elements in poetry from the second half of the 20th century, focusing in particular on Russian and Ukrainian examples. We argue for the necessity of properly recognizing and ...
Chapter Tra nord e sud. Le signorie rurali in valle dell’Adige, nella piana Rotaliana e in valle di Cembra
(2023)
With reference to the 14th and 15th centuries, the essay analyses the specific characteristics of the rural lordships of the Adige valley, on the border between the territory subject to the bishop-prince of Trento and the ...
Chapter Верительная грамота Петра Первого в Светлейшую Республику в контексте российско-венецианских дипломатических отношений
(2018)
In 1710-1711, at the time of preparation for the Prut campaign, Peter I sent three envoys to Venice, namely Urbich, Boris and Karetta. In 1716-1720, Becklemishev was appointed permanent Russuan economic representative in ...
Chapter System, Hypothesis, and Experiments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis
(2023)
Pierre-Sylvain Régis’s Cartesianism is quite singular in seventeenth-century French philosophy. Though, can we speak of a form of experimental science in Régis’s work? After exploring his notions of ‘system’ and ‘hypothesis’, ...
Chapter Quando l’amore colpisce l’udito: La malia della voce di Carlo Gozzi fra Agustín Moreto e Thomas Corneille
(2020)
In the preface to the edition of La malia della voce, Carlo Gozzi declares that the only source of his text is Lo que puede la aprehensión by Agustín Moreto, refusing any filiation with La charme de la voix by Thomas ...
La rappresentazione del paesaggio toscano nel Trecento
(2012)
The book aims to identify the prevalent characteristics of the Tuscan landscape in the fourteenth century through the artistic and literary expressions of two of the main protagonists of the century, Giotto and Boccaccio. ...
Diario social di un Rettore 2
(2017)
Don Carlos Galvèz's dream could very well be a dream of Maestro Manzi. Luigi Dei's book is dedicated to a public school that believes in children, gives value to teachers and wants to wake up every morning to rediscover ...
Chapter Słowacki e l’idea di evoluzione: per una rivisitazione di Genezis z Ducha
(2019)
This article analyzes Juliusz Słowacki’s Genezis z Ducha in terms of Romantic idealism and early attempts at biological thought. We examine Słowacki’s ideas on life and the universe within the context of Western science’s ...
Chapter Bambini in tempo di guerra. Raccontare il passaggio della guerra e la Resistenza attraverso video-interviste di testimonianza: luoghi, memorie, racconti
(2022)
The paper aims at dealing mainly with infantry and it is carried on with methodological reflections, oral history research and audio-visive narrations. It sums up some issues about how to use oral and audio-visive sources ...
Chapter Quality Culture and Innovation in Higher Education
(2023)
The Quality Assurance history and, in general, the building of quality concept have accompanied the humanity history. With the advent of the production systems of the second and third Industrialisations Movement, this meant ...
L'acqua nel paesaggio urbano
(2005)
Exploited for requirements of defence, navigation, transport, irrigation, and the powering of mills, water has progressively diminished in importance to the extent that the relations between the city, the territory and the ...
Public Administration, Competitiveness and Sustainable Development
(2003)
The debate over the question of the sustainability of development has been for some time underway in relation to the environment and to public health. More recently attention has turned to other aspects of sustainability ...
A 150 anni dall’unificazione amministrativa italiana. Vol. VII
(2016)
In 1865, there was the enactment of the laws of administrative unification for the Kingdom of Italy. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary, the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Florence organized a study ...
Chapter Development of a sustainable accessibility model for the Marine Protected Area Gaiola Underwater Park, in Naples, Italy
(2022)
The Marine Protected Area Gaiola Underwater Park was instituted in 2002 for the preservation of natural and archaeological aspects. Due to the urban context, the anthropic pressure has always been high and it has always ...
Chapter Textos y diálogos en diálogo: Barlaán y Josafat, de Lope
(2021)
In this article I will study the hagiographic play Barlaán y Josafat, by Lope de Vega, from two different perspectives. On the one hand, I will analyze the dialogue between the two texts, as the comedia has a version ...
Educational Jobs: Youth and Employability in the Social Economy
(2015)
In Europe the social economy employs almost 15 million workers. During the crisis years, unlike other sectors, it has often generated an increase in jobs. The aim of this comparative study is to investigate how to allow ...
Chapter Нелепые отцы в художественном мире Ф.М. Достоевского
(2023)
Funny Fathers. Types of the ridiculous old man in Dostoevsky’s novels. The first chapters from Dostoevsky’s novel Netochka Nezvanova deal with the fate and the peculiar story of life of the heroine’s stepfather. He is ...
Chapter University Asset Digitalization Guidelines: The Pilot Case of Politecnico di Milano Real Estate
(2023)
This study describes a multi-year project aimed at digitizing the real estate assets of an Italian university, specifically the Politecnico di Milano. The objective is to enhance and streamline university asset management ...
Chapter Innovation and sustainability: the Italian scenario
(2021)
Society and policy makers demand innovation systems oriented towards several goals of sustainable development. Therefore, recent literature has dedicated a growing interest to both innovation and sustainability in the ...
Chapter “Куда бы тебя ни занесло…”. Connettivi concessivi o fraseologismi sintattici?
(2018)
This paper analyses the concessive connectives – like, for example, “Куда бы тебя ни занесло/где бы она ни была…” – introducing universal concessive conditional clauses from the point of view of Construction Grammar. The ...
Modelling of spectroscopic and structural properties using molecular dynamics
(2014)
The work described here was carried out at the European Lab. for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) to achieve a better understanding of molecular vibrations employing computer simulations. H-bonds are the main intermolecular ...