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Gli studi slavistici in Italia nell’ultimo trentennio (1991-2021). Bilanci e prospettive
(2024)
This volume brings together the balances of Italian Slavic studies carried out over the past thirty years and outlines the prospects for future ones, with reference to numerous thematic areas, starting with those of a more ...
Chapter Tecnica, lavoro, rivoluzione scientifica
(2024)
In the early modern era new scientific and philosophical conceptions revolutionized the established picture of culture, and marked a strong historical discontinuity. The essay focuses on the role played by artisans, ...
Chapter Lavoro, professione e ozio nei manuali per la confessione della prima età moderna (XVI-XVII sec.)
(2024)
Between the 16th and the 17th centuries, the production of literature on Sacramental Penance rose. Targeted to priests and penitents, manuals for confession were among the Catholic Church’s strategies to discipline its ...
Art Cities, Cultural Districts and Museums
(2004)
The subject of economic valorisation has become a current topic and the idea that culture can be considered a factor of economic production, able to generate wealth, appears to have been generally accepted. The book consists ...
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 Più gender per tuttɜ! Una prefazione alla giustizia e alla libertà
(2023)
The preface broadly reconstructs the cultural panorama of gender studies within which the prefaced volume is inserted, analyzing the fundamental theoretical points and proposing possible lines of future development from ...
Chapter La valutazione come promozione dell’autoregolazione e della sostenibilità dell’apprendimento: un’indagine nazionale sulle concezioni e le strategie valutative degli insegnanti
(2024)
Research in the field of assessment has long emphasized the need to involve students as co-responsible in evaluative processes, also in relation to the opportunity to promote self-regulation skills in learning, essential ...
Chapter Ascetism and Incontinence and Dostoevsky’s Gift of Tears
(2023)
In Dostoevsky’s binary poetics, an opposition can be drawn between two fundamental stances – asceticism and incontinence. Ascetics adhere to an ethos of self-restraint in response to the desires of the flesh. Incontinents ...
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 ...
Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2001
(2004)
In the undulating plains of north-eastern Syria is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat. The archaeological sequence which has been brought to light stretches without interruption from the start of the ...
Il tempio nel tempio
(2015)
The wooden monument in the Panthéon in Paris unfolds its originality in conforming itself as a real small-scale rustic temple. Its formal features recall, on the one hand, the archetypal origin of western architecture, ...
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 Immigrati di lusso. Uomini d’affari forestieri e cittadinanza nelle maggiori città italiane nei decenni a cavallo tra Tre e Quattrocento
(2024)
The author offers a contribution on the representation of citizenship in the major Italian cities in the decades between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries based on a dense network of high-level relationships and without ...
Chapter L’Authority record in URBE: storia di un progetto
(2024)
In 1991, eighteen ecclesiastical institutions formed the URBE network (Unione Romana Biblioteche Ecclesiastiche) with the aim of sharing their documentary resources. Over the years, they have designed and applied common ...
Chapter Internet
(2022)
The pre-requisite of the Platform Society is the 'digital': Internet accessibility and connection speed become determining factors for platforms and users. However, the International Telecommunication Union data confirm ...
Chapter Non solo per profitto. L’idea del lavoro in Benjamin Franklin
(2024)
This essay underlines how the idea of Franklin's work does not correspond to the interpretation developed by Max Weber: on the one hand it was combined with the enhancement of free time and, on the other, as Sombart had ...
1913-2013
(2013)
One hundred have passed, and the journey continues. This work was created by a group of professors of the (former) Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Florence, and has the sole purpose of telling, through a few ...
Chapter Il primo Fondo europeo per lo sviluppo: prospettive dall’Italia e dalla Somalia (1958-1963)
(2024)
This chapter aims to shed light on the results of the first European Community aid in Somalia and the role played by Italian and Somali actors in the allocation of funds. As development policy was not one of Italy's ...
Chapter Il codice del cambiamento: il Terzo Settore come veicolo di trasformazione sociale
(2024)
Although the Third Sector already constitutes a change agent building a sustainable society, a cultural journey, of self-perception and awareness of its identity, is needed. Therefore, the paper maps, through learning hubs ...
Chapter Introduzione
(2024)
Introducion to the book ant its contents
Chapter Предисловие
(2023)
Foreword. Dostoevsky: Paradox, Humor, Deconstruction. A foreword to the present book and to each of the 15 articles that are part of it. While the analysis of humor, paradox, and deliberate deconstruction has generally ...
Chapter The œconomia of iron and steel: Material transformations, manual skills, and technical improvement in early modern Sweden
(2023)
Sweden was a major exporter of iron during the early-modern period, but there was also an important domestic steelmaking. We analyse the Swedish iron and steel trade in a long perspective in a European context. Our approach ...
Memoria Viva
(2015)
“Not forgetting” and “not remembering”. These two contradictory aspects have always furrowed the autobiographical and collective memory of dramatic historical events, such as the Holocaust. This volume, whose origin lies ...
Chapter Smart Factory, dignità del lavoratore ed intelligenza artificiale come forma di autoapprendimento
(2024)
This article analyzes the impact of machine learning in the smart factory on the worker’s safety, freedom and dignity. First, the worker's enhancement is investigated starting from the evaluation of the psychological and ...
Chapter Il lavoro nella ‘società commerciale’ secondo David Hume e Adam Smith
(2024)
David Hume and Adam Smith shared the same philosophical project: the construction of a ‘science of human nature ‘. Then with their writings – Hume in his economic and political ‘Essays’ and Smith in ‘The Wealth of Nations’ ...
Collectio Mineralium
(2022)
This work is the critical edition of the catalog of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold’s II mineralogical collection. The volume, unpublished and preserved at the Historical Archives of the University of Firenze Museum System, ...
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. EVA 2015 Florence
(2015)
Information Technologies of interest for Culture Heritage are presented: multimedia systems, data-bases, data protection, access to digital content, Virtual Galleries. Particular reference is reserved to digital images ...
Chapter Le minoranze ‘desiderate’: i mestieri specializzati
(2024)
The author focuses on minorities eager for their professional skills, in exchange for which the cities offered privileges and special treatments. The analysis focuses on what were the methods of insertion of these immigrants ...
Una storia, un archivio
(2018)
Idalberto Targioni (1868-1930) was a foundling, peasant, worker, extemporaneous poet, union activist, anti-militarist, socialist and mayor, interventionist and early fascist, man of the regime and lastly a penitent. A ...
Chapter An Italian Hero for China. Reading Marco Polo in the Fascist Era
(2022)
This article offers an overview of the readings of Marco Polo’s ventures offered to the Italian public opinion during the Fascist era. Marco Polo’s image was adapted to the needs of patriotic pedagogy, propaganda of Fascist ...
Chapter Conclusioni
(2022)
The Atlas wanted to bring attention to the role of digital platforms as an interface between the space of flows and the space of places by highlighting the digitally-mediated (socio-spatial) effects in the emerging platform ...
Per lo buono istato de la città
(2023)
The volume offers a new perspective for the study of the mendicant orders between the 13th and 14th centuries through the example of the Servites in central and northern Italy. The study, despite considering a so-called ...
Chapter Silvio Pellico's Le mie prigioni: Autobiography versus Religion
(2022)
The popularity of Pellico’s account among some categories of his contemporaries depends on the nature of his self depiction which nevertheless alienated both Italian patriots and supporters of the status quo. This was a ...
Chapter Il legame tra libertà politica e lavoro dalla Rivoluzione francese al 1848
(2024)
In the French Revolution, the extension of the ideal of a political community of free and equal citizens goes hand in hand with a new conception of work. Work becomes the main means of social integration, whether through ...
Rappresentazioni per la pianificazione spaziale
(2023)
The role of images in spatial representation is a central theme; the topic is addressed here with a multidisciplinary perspective - urban and territorial planning, and visual communication design. These two disciplines ...
Chapter Medici Ambitions and Fascist Policies. (Re)reading the Relations between Italy and the Levant in the 1930s through the Historiography on Fakhr al-Dīn II
(2022)
On 13 April 1635, Druze emir Fakhr al-Dīn Maʿn was executed in Constantinople, after years of ambiguous relations with the Ottoman sultan. Exactly three centuries later, a biography of the emir was published in Rome, edited ...
Arte nell’arte
(2016)
The volume analyses the representation of ceramic artefacts appearing in some Tuscan artistic works dating back to the 14th and 15th century and aims to combine the data emerging from iconographic sources with those relating ...
Chapter Friedrich Pollock e l’era dell’automazione
(2024)
In Friedrich Pollock's thinking, the analysis of the impact of technological transformations on the world of work plays a central role. From the essays of the late 1920s that led to the development of the concept of State ...
Innovative learning models for prisoners
(2016)
Prison education should be a top priority issue in most societies. Prison conditions must not infringe human rights and dignity and must offer meaningful treatment programmes in order to support inmates in their rehabilitation ...
Chapter Il lavoro come aretè di Esiodo
(2024)
The Works and Days represent the first complete self-awareness of (manual) work in our culture. Since it is impossible to write a poem without interrupting the work activity it speaks of, the Works and Days are also the ...