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Chapter Introduzione
(2023)
In introducing the first session, the A. stresses that gender issues are now central to our country’s cultural, political, and social-economic agenda, and how the promotion of inclusive language is important for the social ...
Chapter Migrazione alla ricerca di un’identità in La stagione della migrazione al nord di al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ
(2021)
The novel by Al-Ṭayib Ṣāliḥ The Season of Migration to the North is a classic of the post-modern Arabic literature. The critical literature of the last century has privileged the post-colonial interpretation. One of the ...
Chapter Storage and Food Control in the ‘Amuq from the Late Bronze to the Iron Age: The Archaeological Evidence
(2023)
Ongoing study of the pottery assemblage and its surrounding context in Area 4 at the site of Alalakh has again brought to light a phenomenon that is considered typical for the Iron Age I Levant: the construction of pits/silo ...
Chapter Il lessico del magistero nelle prose erudite di Giovanni Boccaccio
(2020)
The contribution aims to illustrate the results of the research conducted on the lexicon of the Petrarch-Boccaccio magisterium relationship. The research also made use of the comparison between Boccaccio's various masters: ...
Chapter The Role of Higher Education in a Changing World: Why Employability Matters
(2018)
The transformations of work are increasingly introducing new scenarios at a global level. In fact, the disruptive importance of innovation in all workplace contexts anticipates the challenge of skills and capabilities for ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. Le collezioni antropologiche ed etnologiche / The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. The Anthropological and Ethnological Collections
(2014)
This volume is dedicated to the Anthropological and Ethnological section of the Natural History Museum. First the historical journey of the collections is traced from the antique nucleus of the Medici to the foundation of ...
Chapter La cultura nell’Europa umanista di David Sassoli: riflessioni sul progetto delle Capitali Europee della Cultura (CEC)
(2023)
Europe, as the title of this collective book indicates, is a project under construction and David Sassoli, who is honored here, one of its most striking and memorable builders. European construction, despite all the ...
Chapter Išḫara: One Deity – Many Aspects?
(2023)
The goddess Išḫara is attested early in cuneiform sources, and her cult can be traced back in all regions of the Ancient Near East over a period of more than 2000 years. From this point of view, it is worthwhile to look ...
Chapter L’espressione della relazione concessiva fattuale in italiano e in russo
(2016)
The aim of this paper is to compare the means of expression of factual concessive relation in Italian and Russian on the basis of a bidirectional parallel corpus. The study of the expression of purposive interclausal ...
altri canoni / canoni altri
(2011)
The concept of the literary canon is one of the most debated and controversial in the western intellectual tradition. This book offers ten contributions by Italian scholars of Anglo-American culture addressing the way in ...
Chapter Migrazioni e politiche migratorie: uno sguardo europeo
(2021)
In the coming years the European Union will be called to make challenging choices on three aspects of migration policies. The first is that of entry conditions, with particular reference to labour immigration.The second ...
Chapter Il fascismo ‘liberista’ e la ‘quasi abolizione’ dell’imposta di successione del 1923
(2021)
In summer 1923, in the midst of the ‘fight’ to balance the budget, Minister Alberto De Stefani announced the abolition of inheritance tax, pursuant to the ‘full powers’ granted to the government by the Parliament. This ...
Chapter Diritto del lavoro e valori
(2022)
The author argues that the topic of values is strictly inherent to the labour law discourse. Law must not only be provided, but also justified, and this calls values into question. However, discussing values from the ...
Chapter Fikirtepe in limbo: urban transformation, cross-border migration, and re-peripheralization in Istanbul
(2022)
The historical development of Istanbul’s gecekondu areas (informally-originated neighborhoods) can be broadly interpreted as a progression toward the center and subsequent re-peripheralization, both in sociopolitical terms ...
Chapter Da Vienna con amore: il caleidoscopio delle calligrafie settecentesche e il caso Orfelin
(2019)
This article examine handwriting textbooks from 18th-century Europe. In 1774 the court of Vienna charged Johann Ignaz Felbiger with reforming the schools and his book on penmanship (1775) became the standard reference for ...
«Truth is an odd number». La narrativa di Flann O’Brien e il fantastico
(2014)
Starting from the main theories about the imaginary - from the Freudian category of Unheimliche and the Todorovian category of hésitation up to the most recent contributions - the volume highlights the imaginary elements ...
Chapter Introduzione. Umberto Gori e le Relazioni Internazionali in Italia
(2022)
Umberto Gori has held the first chair of International Relations in Italy and has been the first scholar to address a series of central topics in the analysis of foreign policy and international politics. Those who browse, ...
Chapter The struggle for (self-)integration. Manuscripts, liturgy and networks in Verona at the time of Bishop Ratold (c. 802-840/3)
(2022)
Between the 780s and the 840s the episcopal see of Verona was held by bishops coming from beyond the Alps, appointed by the Carolingian rulers and charged with control over a prestigious and strategically key bishopric. ...
Chapter Les tableaux maudits, en France et en Russie
(2017)
I. Repin’s “Ivan the Terrible and his son”, exhibited in 1885, in a very tense social and political context, sparked off fierce reactions. While the Itinerant painter Kramskoj is enthusiastic, the ge-neral-prosecutor of ...
I papiri di Eschilo e di Sofocle
(2013)
The volume contains the transcription of the reports presented at the International Conference held in Florence on 14th and 15th June 2012: there are 15 original essays, written (upon request) by authoritative scholars of ...
Pubblicità, educazione e diritto in Kant
(2023)
The starting point is the conviction that publicity is central to Kantian political thought as part of the wider relationship between politics and morality. In this sense the book aims to outline subjective and objective ...
Conferimento della Laurea magistrale ad honorem in scienze archivistiche e biblioteconomiche a Michele Casalini / Award of the Laurea magistrale ad honorem in Library and information Science to Michele Casalini
(2019)
On the 21st May 2019, the University of Florence awarded Michele Casalini an honorary degree for his dedication and his important contribution in the field of Library and Archival Sciences. The ceremony, which was held in ...
Studi di Archeologia del Vicino Oriente
(2012)
The book presents recent studies and research by the students of Paolo Emilio Pecorella, a lecturer in Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East at the University of Florence. The contributions reflect the ...
Chapter Lo sguardo del geografo: Massimo Quaini, l’archeologia, la storia
(2021)
In this paper we discuss how Massimo Quaini, since the end of the 1960’s, dialogued (or did not) with the sister disciplines of historical geopgraphy: archaeology and social history. We reflect on the experimental path of ...
Esercizi di ricerca
(2022)
Can research today have a political and a transformative commitment? Can this become the engine of Welfare reforms at all levels and therefore a tool for social change? This collection addresses these and many other questions ...
Chapter Italiani brava gente? Sui rapporti cinematografici fra Italia e URSS
(2019)
Numerous and rich materials in yet unpublished archives provide information on the coproduction of several Italian and Soviet films, the first of which is Giuseppe De Santis’s Attack and Retreat (1961-1964), representing ...
Chapter L’Italia, l’arte e la poesia nel Fra Beato Andželiko di Nikolaj Gumilëv
(2018)
The lyric poem Fra Andželiko (1912) was inspired by the vivid impressions Nikolaj Gumilëv gained during his Italian tour in the very same year. The work should be seen in its context that acts as a background for the ...
Chapter Artificial reef along theFrench Mediterranean coastline: toward innovative integrated biodiversity management
(2020)
Coastal zones are subjected to human pressure and it is necessary to protect and manage these productive and sensitive ecosystems. Artificial Reefs (AR) are relevant tools to overcome these challenges. For nearly a decade ...
Chapter The Torre del Marzocco and the widening of the entry channel to the industrial port of Livorno
(2022)
The Torre is an ancient watchtower, (15th century), and is subject to Italian laws for the protection of the historical and cultural heritage. Located in the port of Livorno the Torre del Marzocco symbolizes the past rooted ...
Chapter David Sassoli: Europa, Europa!
(2023)
David Sassoli has best interpreted the great Italian tradition of Europeanism, which had in Giuseppe Mazzini, Vincenzo Gioberti, Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto G. Rossi, the highest and most concrete theoretical and political ...
Burocrazia e fisco a Napoli tra XV e XVI secolo
(2012)
The book outlines the processes of "bureaucratization" of the financial offices of the Kingdom of Naples, dwelling on the administrative praxis of the Regia Camera della Sommaria. It starts from the critical edition of ...
Chapter «Venerabilem preceptorem meum Boccaccium de Certaldo»: i rapporti (intertestuali) fra Giovanni Boccaccio erudito e Benvenuto da Imola
(2022)
The text of the commentary to the Georgics of Benvenuto da Imola allows to illuminate the intertextual relationships between Benvenuto da Imola and Giovanni Boccaccio. Through a series of examples that highlight clear ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze VOL. 1 LE COLLEZIONI DELLA SPECOLA
(2009)
The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by the Grand Duke Peter Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. Firenze University Press opens the series dealing with the six sections ...
Chapter Lo sviluppo della competenza lessicale: incursioni tra le ipotesi teoriche e le applicazioni glottodidattiche
(2021)
The paper analyses the issue of the development of lexical competence in Italian as L2 learners. The notion of lexicon is considered from three different points of view: the point of view of the speaker/learner, the point ...
Constitutionalism and democratic transitions
(2006)
The book - as the outcome of a research performed by the University of Florence and the United States Institute of Peace of Washington - explores the role of law in the process of democratic transition in South Africa. ...
Chapter I sindacati unitari, l’integrazione europea, il crollo del comunismo
(2023)
The author reconstructs, through a path stretched between history and memory, the importance of the European and international dimension in Trentin's political and trade union action, from the experience of the FSM to the ...
Chapter L’Alto e il Basso
(2021)
The essay considers Massimo Quaini’s full scientific production and tries envisioning some episthemological characters of his work, also catching a possible evolution of his geographical thinking and cultural engagement.
Chapter Il Divino amore dalla mistica teologia del sec. XIV alla pietà romana del Settecento
(2020)
This paper shows in its essential points the development of spiritual doctrine of divine love in Italy during four centuries (1350-1750 AD), especially regarding religious ambients, some authors and main texts produced in ...
Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications
(2023)
The International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA) came into being in 1999 from the particularly felt need of sharing know-how, objectives and results between areas ...
Maria Sklodowska Curie
(2013)
In 1911, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Marie Curie, eight years after she had received the Nobel Prize for Physics. An extraordinary scientific adventure ended, and the deification of an iconic character and ...
Chapter Development of an Automated Workflow in the Field of Fire Prevention Using Building Information Modeling
(2023)
The research focuses on an approach for the development of an automated workflow in the field of fire prevention for the validation of BIM models regarding “Subjected Activities” (according to Italian law - Presidential ...
Chapter The Role of Prefixation in Old Church Slavonic
(2017)
In this paper, I analyse the role of prefixation in the Old Church Slavonic (OCS) verbal aspect system. For my analysis, I first need to establish how the aspect of OCS verbs can be determined. To that end, I use a combination ...
Chapter Towards a Framework for Railway Network Assets Management Based on BIM/GIS Integration
(2023)
Complex infrastructures such as railway networks face increasing challenges related to resource allocation, external events, constraints, and demands. Therefore, it is crucial to optimize the Asset Management (AM) phase ...
Chapter Analysis and survey of Lake Garda lemon houses: a tool to understand and manage a Mediterranean landscape in Lombardy
(2022)
Lake Garda microclimate allowed the settlement and flourishing of a peculiar cultivation, that of the limonaie (lemon houses), which during its splendour exported citrus all over Central and Northern Europe. We highlight ...
Chapter Going Beyond Energy Consumption: Digital Twins for Achieving Socio-Ecological Sustainability in the Built Environment
(2023)
Digital twins have attracted much of the attention from the researchers and policy makers as a potent industry-agnostic concept to support ambitious decarbonization goals. Consequently, much of the latest research has ...
Chapter La signoria dell’ospedale di Sant’Andrea di Vercelli su Larizzate
(2021)
The paper examines the case of the acquisition and management of the farm of Larizzate, near Vercelli, by the hospital of Sant'Andrea of Vercelli, in a period going from the twenties of the thirteenth century to the early ...
Chapter Modelling the spatio-temporal dynamic of traffic flows with gravity models and mobile phone data
(2021)
The analysis of origin-destination traffic flows may be useful in many contexts of application (e.g., urban planning, tourism economics) and have been commonly studied through the gravity model, which states that flows are ...
Chapter As-Built Detection of Structures by the Segmentation of Three-Dimensional Models and Point Cloud Data
(2023)
At construction sites, as-built management is generally conducted by taking pictures or surveying with total stations and comparing the images or survey data with design drawings or Building Information Modeling (BIM) ...
Viaggio e politica
(2010)
After the books on "La politica e gli spazi politici", "Metafore dello spazio", "Gli spazi immaginati", "Spazi e politica nella modernità tecnologica", this notebook continues the series devoted to illustrating the results ...
Traduzione di Deideia / Dell’idea e Amagao meu amor / Macao amore mio
(2023)
The volume here presented aims to commemorate the Portuguese poet António Correia a year after his death with the translation, for the first time in Italian language, of two collections of sonnets: Deideia and Amagao meu ...
La frammentazione del paesaggio periurbano
(2003)
This book presents the results of a study on the fragmentation of the suburban territory in the Florentine plain, developed in the framework of the Florence University PhD course in Landscape Design. Thus the landscape on ...
Chapter Os reptos e raptos da Europa
(2023)
The project of European unity has oscillated between dream and disillusion. Its future will depend on its ability to know how to think and interpret Europe’s Historical lessons, particularly since the end of the ...
Chapter Robotic Assembly and Reuse of Modular Elements in the Supply Chain of a Learning Factory for Construction and in the Context of Circular Economy
(2023)
Although robotic solutions have been making significant contributions to fabrication environments, implementations in the construction are rare. It seems a disconnect between the industries exists where in construction the ...
Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2020
(2021)
Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni 2020 collects the Proceedings of the Seminar that took place in Certaldo Alta on 10-11 September 2020, in one of the short intervals that the pandemic has left open to face-to-face ...
Chapter Water, heritage, city: urbanized deltas on the line between nature and culture
(2022)
Deltas are extremely rich in natural resources and cultural heritage, but also vulnerable. Along coasts and waterfronts, rivers, irrigation/drainage canals, which shape the land-water transition, a plurality of values, ...
Chapter Verso le neuroscienze del processo progettuale
(2021)
Introduces some key notions of cognitive (neuro)science including mirror neurons and perceptual and motor schemas. Much important processing may be subconscious. Af-fordances link multi-modal perception and action. Three ...
Chapter Assessment of the chemical quality of sediments in the maritime port of Reunion. Concentrations in trace metals and natural geochemical backgrounds.
(2022)
The analyzes carried out in the marine sediments sampled in the port and coastal areas of Reunion show, for certain metallic trace elements, significant variations in their contents and regular overruns of the regulatory ...
Chapter Topological Relationship Modelling for Industrial Facility Digitisation Using Graph Neural Networks
(2023)
There is rising demand for automated digital twin construction based on point cloud scans, especially in the domain of industrial facilities. Yet, current automation approaches focus almost exclusively on geometric modelling. ...
Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2000
(2003)
In the plains of north-eastern Syria, not far from the course of the Tigris, is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat, a centre famous in the course of the second millennium for the presence of the ...
Il premio Laboratorio Matematico “Riccardo Ricci” 2014-2016
(2019)
Si può comprendere la matematica con forbici, colla, spago e mattoncini da costruzione? This volume, which features almost every work from the 2014 and 2016 editions of the Riccardo Ricci Mathematical Laboratory Award, ...
Chapter Multi-Aspectual Knowledge Elicitation for Procurement Optimization in a Warehouse Company
(2023)
Efficient optimization of business processes required a profound understanding of expertise provided by domain specialists. However, extracting such insights can indeed be a laborious and time-consuming endeavour. This ...
Chapter Umanità e cecità: nascondigli identitari tra José Saramago e José Ortega y Gasset
(2023)
The text discusses the unfolding of identities, especially in European society, in dialogue with the analysis of Saramago’s blindness and the idea of mass-man in Ortega y Gasset. The objective is to rethink the transits ...
Chapter L’Accademia della Crusca e il linguaggio di genere
(2023)
The article takes stock of the interventions of the Accademia della Crusca on the theme of gender language, retracing the history of the various problems that have emerged over time, and explains the reasons why schwa and ...
Chapter I «gomitoli del tempo». La poetica dello spazio nell’opera di Claudio Magris
(2021)
Both in his novels, such as Illazioni su una sciabola (1984), Un altro mare (1991) and Alla cieca (2005), and in his travel writing, such as Danubio (1986), Microcosmi (1997) and L’infinito viaggiare (2005), Claudio Magris ...
Paesaggio: didattica, ricerche e progetti (1997-2007)
(2007)
A collection of essays such as this is intended primarily as evidence of a disciplinary process, a path that is moreover similar to that pursued in other Italian universities, while also being unique in its evolution and ...
Chapter L’Università di Firenze al crocevia delle arti: cinema, musica, teatro, danza
(2024)
The contribution illustrates the relations maintained by the University of Florence with the world of spectacle by the professors of the History of Cinema, Music, Theater and Dance courses. Particularly highlighted are the ...
Chapter Comparar a Europa. O conceito de literatura europeia como fator de integração política
(2023)
Starting with the last European discourse of David Sassoli, our intention is to reflect on Europe, specifically, on the concept of European literature as a factor of political integration.
Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni 2021
(2022)
Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni 2021 collects the Proceedings of the Seminar that took place in Certaldo Alta on 9-10 September 2021. The Seminar, now in its eighth edition, is configured not only as one of the ...
Chapter Poetic Mapping of the Polish Crown at the Turn of the 16th and 17th Centuries and Its Relation to Cartographic Imitation in Renaissance Poetry
(2020)
The paper is devoted to the problem of imitation of maps in the late Renaissance Polish poetry (between 1580 and 1630). The author first discusses the special interest in cartography that existed among the Polish elite and ...
Chapter Per un progetto della pedagogia italiana
(2022)
Pedagogy is still searching for its own identity and epistemological status. Especially in Italy, where the task of pedagogy, despite the efforts of many and numerous pedagogical colleagues, still has a marginal role, ...
Chapter Challenges and Opportunities for Lifelong Learning in Universities Resulting from Ukrainian Migration
(2023)
The current political conflict in Ukraine has led to a surge in forcibly displaced migrants across Europe. This chapter sets out to look at the meaning of the term ‘forced migrant’ and the challenges faced in integrating ...
Chapter Solar Deities in the Kuwattalla Ritual Tradition: Epithets and Functions
(2023)
Through the contextual analysis of the occurrences of solar deities in the Kuwattalla ritual texts, we will try to sketch a portrait of these deities, focusing on their functions in the ritual process. Special attention ...
Dialogare: compendio di logica
(2017)
“Logic”, as understood in this volume, is the set of knowledge at the basis of man’s reasoning faculties: understanding, analysing, arguing. The text presents a review of topics which are useful to strengthen the skills ...
Chapter La morte del re, le ragioni del diritto e l’etica dei mercanti in una causa fiorentina del Quattrocento
(2021)
The essay analyzes a judicial case of the Mercanzia court in the early Quattrocento Florence, which involved the execution of an insurance deed by the merchant and poet Cino Rinuccini concerning the date of the death of ...
Chapter Il degrado della biosfera
(2020)
The position of man in the biosphere and the interaction of its activities with the different sectors of the earth's ecosphere are bringing the Earth system into a drastically different state from that in which the development ...
Chapter Per uno studio sulla ricezione di Boccaccio volgare: il Filostrato come modello compositivo del libro d’amore tra i secoli XV e XVI
(2022)
Between the 15th and 16th century, the main archetype of court poetry and its “codice lirico”, represented by Petrarca in the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, could be flanked by the model of the lyrical Boccaccio, whose vulgar ...
Shaking Heritage
(2021)
Any moment the earth can shake, but we do not know when or where. If it happens, our Heritage might be in danger. Shaking Heritage addresses the topic of the seismic vulnerability of museum collections. It develops a way ...
Chapter The forgotten nautical astronomical instruments
(2022)
Astrology and meteorology have always had great importance for agriculture and navigation. They are described some measuring and forecasting instruments which, in the past, had a moderate success to navigate the Mediterranean, ...
Chapter A Quantitative Analysis of Theonyms and Panthea in the Hittite Cult Inventories
(2023)
The riches of the Hittite tablet collections are justly famous for the great mass of information they provide about deities, cult, and religious beliefs all over the Kingdom of Hattusa. The sheer amount of available texts ...
Chapter Creation and Acceptance of Low-Threshold Mobile Training on Sustainability in Construction
(2023)
Many recent developments in mixed reality applications are exploited for research on improving training in the construction industry. While immersive technologies offer indisputable advantages over classic paper- or ...