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Chapter Representations of Lothar I in the Liber pontificalis Ravennatis
(2022)
Lothar looms large in the Liber pontificalis of Ravenna, an episcopal gesta composed after 846 by a local cleric of that city named Agnellus. In its prefatory verse, Lothar was tied to the memory of his grandfather ...
Chapter Script as Image: Visual Acuity in the Script of Poggio Bracciolini
(2020)
The fact that the graphic substance of writing oscillates between text and image is a potential which writing carries in itself from the very beginning. Every graphic trace on the manuscript page relates to the conventions ...
Chapter The Historiae Florentini populi by Poggio Bracciolini. Genesis and Fortune of an Alternative History of Florence
(2020)
During the last years of his life, Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), former Apostolic Secretary and Chancellor of Florence, was working on a long text that he characterized, in a letter written in 1458, as lacking a well-defined ...
Chapter How to become a pastry chef: a statistical analysis through the company requirements
(2021)
The definition of requested requirements by the companies represents one of the key aspects for the entrance of new professional figures. In particular, focusing the attention on food & beverage sector, in this study two ...
Chapter Osservazioni tassiane a margine dell’opera di Boccaccio
(2022)
The essay proposes a study of the relationship between Tasso and Boccaccio, analysing the references to the ancient auctoritas present in Tasso's theoretical production. The sixteenth-century poet's interest in Boccaccio's ...
Networks of bishops, networks of texts
(2022)
This volume is the first one in a collection connected to the PRIN project on Ruling in hard times. Patterns of Power and practices of government in the making of Carolingian Italy. Its focus lays on bishops and their ...
Computers, Literature and Philology CLiP 2003
(2005)
The book presents the proceedings of the international conference CLiP 2003, Computer Literacy and Philology, held in Florence on 4 and 5 December 2003 within the framework of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of ...
Chapter Defining the Hittite “Pantheon”, its Hierarchy and Circles: Methodological Perspectives
(2023)
For the Hittite religion of the “Thousand Gods of Hatti” the scholarship has identified different ways of categorization: State pantheon, Local cults, “circle” and numeric group are the most widely used categories based ...
Chapter I prestiti verbali nei dialetti sloveni del Friuli: tra integrazione aspettuale e biaspettualità
(2023)
The article analyses the morphological means used by the Slovenian dialects of Friuli in adapting loan verbs to their aspectual system in comparison to the traditional means of expressing verbal aspect in the indigenous ...
Chapter Linked Data for the Categorization of Failures Mechanisms in Existing Unreinforced Masonry Buildings
(2023)
Assessing the structural integrity of unreinforced masonry structures is a complex and time-consuming process that necessitates the knowledge of various experts and meticulous cross-referencing of diverse data to achieve ...
Chapter Dall’idea al progetto
(2022)
The Integrated Direct Digital Internship (TDDI) represented a new and important method of internship of an experimental nature (in collaboration with the Regional School Office for Tuscany) which had as its primary objective ...
Chapter Memorie autobiografiche come patrimonio di comunità
(2019)
We live in a historical period in which it is necessary and urgent to know and relate to stories. Today, the social function of memory is stronger and more evident than ever. The concept of memory, as well as that of ...
Chapter A Collaborative Planning Model for Offsite Construction Based on Virtual Reality and Game Engines
(2023)
Accurate process planning is essential for successfully implementing offsite construction projects. New technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), have been proposed as potential proactive solutions that allow users to ...
Chapter Using diver-operated stereo-video to monitor juvenile fish assemblages in Mediterranean coastal habitats formed by macrophytes
(2022)
Littoral systems with macrophytes are nursery areas for fish. We aim to develop a combination of stereo-video and habitat mapping methods for studying fish recruitment at various temporal and spatial scales. Some benefits ...
Chapter After Picasso: Reinterpretations and recreations of Les Demoiselles D’Avignon in Contemporary Art
(2022)
Another way of showing interpretations of Picasso's Demoiselles is to heed the replicas, copies, pictorial or artistic versions made by contemporary artists. This chapter presents the artistic versions of the work done by ...
Chapter Interpretations. Market, Work, Training
(2018)
What of the job market in the era of Brexit and in the international arena of the Trump presidency? Naturally, there are various perspectives, but forms of emotive or propagandist rhetoric threaten to hold sway here. Above ...
Chapter Caterina Colombini e le origini della congregazione delle gesuate
(2020)
The results of new archival research, compared with some epistles of Blessed Giovanni Colombini, allowed to frame the mystical experience of his cousin Caterina Colombini, which matured in the Sixties of the fourteenth ...
Chapter Effects of an experimental online education support on lectures fruition and teaching effectiveness
(2021)
In this paper, we describe and discuss the implementation, the effects, and the consequences of an experimental service designed to capture, record, edit and stream video lectures. This service, named ONELab, is operating ...
The Philosophy of the Imagination in Vico and Malebranche
(2009)
This book is a retrospective view of modern philosophical anthropology through the works of two of its greatest exponents. the author demonstrates how mythology, the philosophy of history and language and Vico's concept ...
Chapter Economic inequality in the rural Southern Low Countries during the Fifteenth century: sources, data and reflection
(2020)
This chapter seeks to explore local and regional variation in levels of inequality in different types of rural localities and regions within the late medieval County of Flanders. Our research indicates that fiscal sources ...
Chapter Piattaforme magre
(2022)
The chapter focuses on 'lean platforms' such as Airbnb, Uber, Flixbus and illustrates their spatialities in our society.
Chapter Unione per mezzo della democrazia
(2023)
This article brings an implicit problem: How to unite different peoples and cultures, that are in constant tranformation, around a commom project? The democratic regime is the most approprieate for this task, as it respects ...
Chapter Valori modali dell’imperfetto in italiano e in bulgaro. Una rassegna contrastiva
(2023)
Besides its temporal semantics, the imperfect tense can express a wide range of modal meanings, which occur most typically in spoken varieties of language. The paper contrastively explores the modal uses of the imperfect ...
Chapter Variazioni in tema di linguaggio e giustizia amministrativa di fronte al regime
(2021)
The paper focuses on the issue of the impact of the Fascist regime’s own language on the activity of the administrative judge. After recalling the problem of the context in which the language of the administrative judge ...
Chapter Careggi: nascita di un ospedale
(2024)
The construction of the Careggi complex, today the largest healthcare center in Tuscany, took up much of the 20th century and is a process still in progress, which documents, from a particular perspective, the relationship ...
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 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 ...
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.
Authority control
(2003)
The proceedings published here relate to a conference that was proposed to focus on a decisive aspect of cataloguing. Authority control is the process that ensures the formal uniformity of the options selected for access: ...
La cooperazione sociale nell'area metropolitana fiorentina
(2009)
This study proposes a reading of the financial statements of co-operatives operating within the Florentine metropolitan area, with a view to underscoring business aspects of a quantitative and monetary nature. The ...
Chapter Epigraphic Stratigraphy: is There Any Trace of the Ostrogoths in Early Medieval “Layers” (6th-9th Century)?
(2022)
The short but significant experiment of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy left politically ephemeral albeit culturally surprisingly durable traces in the peninsula. Among them, epigraphy takes centre stage when discussing ...
Chapter An integrated approach for marine litter hot spots identification
(2022)
Marine litter is defined as any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment, and it is among the most important environmental problems which ...
Chapter «Учиться у Горького»: “отступничество” японского пролетарского писателя Токунага Сунао
(2023)
“Learn from Gorky”: “conversion” of Japanese proletarian wrier Tokunaga Sunao. In the proletarian literary movement that flourished in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, the main goal of proletarian literature was considered ...
Chapter Cognitive Dynamics for Construction Management Learning Tasks in Mixed Reality Environments
(2023)
Technologies to communicate construction project information (engineering designs, schedules) have evolved into a wider range of innovative ecosystems for engineering practices (e.g., cloud-based 3D representations and ...
Chapter Le fonti orali negli archivi di persona: descrizione, conservazione e fruizione
(2021)
The contribution discusses oral sources, their use for historical and social research, their authenticity and reliability, considering the relevant perspective of legal protection.
Chapter Temi occidentali e loro variazioni russe nelle narrazioni letterarie sul Gulag: Ju. Margolin, V. Šalamov, Ju. Dombrovskij, A. Solženicyn
(2017)
Testimonies about the Gulag use several recurring motives. Inspired by narratives of Western culture and their Russian counterparts such as hell or the fragmented body, these motives constitute a metatext on the rupture ...
Chapter Temi occidentali e loro variazioni russe nelle narrazioni letterarie sul Gulag: Ju. Margolin, V. Šalamov, Ju. Dombrovskij, A. Solženicyn
(2017)
Testimonies about the Gulag use several recurring motives. Inspired by narratives of Western culture and their Russian counterparts such as hell or the fragmented body, these motives constitute a metatext on the rupture ...
Chapter Chiese e cappelle dello spazio signorile
(2023)
The purpose of the essay is to illustrate the role of territorial ecclesiastical institutions in the organization of the Trentino lordships of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. From a de facto hegemony and control, ...
Chapter Chiese e cappelle dello spazio signorile
(2023)
The purpose of the essay is to illustrate the role of territorial ecclesiastical institutions in the organization of the Trentino lordships of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. From a de facto hegemony and control, ...
Diritti, Europa, Federalismo
(2023)
Based on a research project of the University of Tuscia and of the Alta Scuola SPI-CGIL, the volume delves into Bruno Trentin’s intellectual and political thought, from the CGIL General Secretary to his role in the European ...
Diritti, Europa, Federalismo
(2023)
Based on a research project of the University of Tuscia and of the Alta Scuola SPI-CGIL, the volume delves into Bruno Trentin’s intellectual and political thought, from the CGIL General Secretary to his role in the European ...
Chapter Una dottrina rivoluzionaria della sistemazione dello spazio. Massimo Quaini geografo-pianificatore
(2021)
The idea of a planning-oriented geography was part of the ‘revolutionary’ renewal program of the discipline proposed by Massimo Quaini since the 70’s. First through an analysis of how human geography was built in the ...
Chapter Una dottrina rivoluzionaria della sistemazione dello spazio. Massimo Quaini geografo-pianificatore
(2021)
The idea of a planning-oriented geography was part of the ‘revolutionary’ renewal program of the discipline proposed by Massimo Quaini since the 70’s. First through an analysis of how human geography was built in the ...
Chapter Introduction. An Archaeology of Modernism
(2022)
The book meticulously analyses the history of the critical reception of avantguard art through the interpretations received by one of its greatest emblems, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso, 1907. Since Les Demoiselles ...
Chapter Introduction. An Archaeology of Modernism
(2022)
The book meticulously analyses the history of the critical reception of avantguard art through the interpretations received by one of its greatest emblems, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso, 1907. Since Les Demoiselles ...
Chapter Movimenti e archivi. Punti fermi e questioni aperte
(2021)
The contribution reflects on the archives of the movements and on the relationship between the characteristics of the productive moment of the documents, their conservative and descriptive destiny and the role of State ...
Chapter Movimenti e archivi. Punti fermi e questioni aperte
(2021)
The contribution reflects on the archives of the movements and on the relationship between the characteristics of the productive moment of the documents, their conservative and descriptive destiny and the role of State ...
Challenging Centralism: Decentramento e autonomie nel pensiero politico europeo
(2011)
This book, which is the result of a project of Research of Relevant National Interest (PRIN 2007), presents an overview of theoretical-political thought as a challenge to centralism, starting from the late Middle Ages and ...
Challenging Centralism: Decentramento e autonomie nel pensiero politico europeo
(2011)
This book, which is the result of a project of Research of Relevant National Interest (PRIN 2007), presents an overview of theoretical-political thought as a challenge to centralism, starting from the late Middle Ages and ...
Chapter Between Kafka and Gogol’. ‘De-territorialising’ National Narrative(s) in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in Russian
(2017)
Between Kafka and Gogol’. This suggestive title reflects the path that will be undertaken in this paper, approaching the two authors as privileged interlocutors in order to analyze the specific artistic dimension of the ...
Chapter Between Kafka and Gogol’. ‘De-territorialising’ National Narrative(s) in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in Russian
(2017)
Between Kafka and Gogol’. This suggestive title reflects the path that will be undertaken in this paper, approaching the two authors as privileged interlocutors in order to analyze the specific artistic dimension of the ...
Chapter Advocacy, Adult Learning and the Pursuit of Social Justice
(2023)
The chapter highlights the centrality of advocacy work for adult learners, particularly from marginalised and excluded communities, as a key feature of the work of Lalage Bown and its scope nationally and internationally. ...
Chapter Advocacy, Adult Learning and the Pursuit of Social Justice
(2023)
The chapter highlights the centrality of advocacy work for adult learners, particularly from marginalised and excluded communities, as a key feature of the work of Lalage Bown and its scope nationally and internationally. ...
Chapter Come fermare una grande recessione. Il dibattito sulla crisi economica del 1929 in Italia
(2021)
The aim of this essay is to assess how the debate on the Great Depression of 1929 changed Italian economic culture in the transition from Fascism to the Republic. The essay is divided into three paragraphs. In the first, ...
Chapter Scheduling Optimization of Electric Ready Mixed Concrete Vehicles Using an Improved Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
(2023)
Decarbonizing the construction sector has become an imperative global agenda, with electric machinery playing a pivotal role in realizing this objective. This research concentrates on devising an operational scheduling ...
Chapter Scheduling Optimization of Electric Ready Mixed Concrete Vehicles Using an Improved Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
(2023)
Decarbonizing the construction sector has become an imperative global agenda, with electric machinery playing a pivotal role in realizing this objective. This research concentrates on devising an operational scheduling ...
Chapter Ritirata sostenibile! I tanti modi con cui possiamo adattarci al cambiamento
(2020)
This Chapter examines the paths along which we humans could create an economy within planetary boundaries. To prevent the contraction of human activities from translating into a traumatic collapse, we should accept that ...
Primate Cytogenetics and Comparative Genomics
(2006)
This volume is a collection of contributions of a Florentine post congress symposium on "Primate Cytogenetics and Comparative Genomics" held on occasion of the XX International Primatological Congress (Turin in 2004). ...
Early cross-modal interactions and adult human visual cortical plasticity revealed by binocular rivalry
(2014)
In this research binocular rivalry is used as a tool to investigate different aspects of visual and multisensory perception. Several experiments presented here demonstrated that touch specifically interacts with vision ...
Chapter Use of mixed study techniques in the evaluation of coastline dynamics - the “Porto Cesareo” MPA case of study
(2022)
The rise of the mean sea level is affecting negatively the entire coastal system, mainly due to the increase of the erosive phenomenon along the shorelines. We studied the erosion of a well knows tract of coastline, in a ...