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Diario social di un Rettore 3
(2018)
«Chemistry and fantasy, art and science, photography and music, education and play, technology and communicative desire, civic passion and didactic commitment did not formerly (or not only) create a nicely original and ...
Il lessico miceneo riferito ai cereali
(2017)
This book constitutes a study of the lexicon of cereals as witnessed by the Mycenaean inscriptions. The study focuses both on the nouns used to designate cereals, on their compounds and derivatives, and on the terms with ...
Carlo Cecchi: funambolo della scena italiana
(2017)
Carlo Cecchi: funambolo della scena italiana (Carlo Cecchi: a funambulist of the Italian stage) constitutes the only monograph on the Florentine actor, director and master of dramatic art of the Italian theatre. The book ...
Introduzione alla Statistica Computazionale con R
(2018)
Nowadays, the information transfer speed (on the web, but not only) requires the predisposition of ever more adequate analysis tools for working with data and increasingly faster algorithms, in order to allow the so-called ...
Chapter L’operosa retorica di un intellettuale cittadino del XII secolo. Damnatio memoriae e altri espedienti politici nel Liber Pergaminus di Mosè del Brolo
(2024)
The Liber Pergaminus by Moses del Brolo is certainly more than a laudatory description of the city. Foundation myths and exempla taken from Roman history are interwoven with an exaltation of the present time that has ...
Enhancing cultural and natural heritage as a lever for the regeneration of rural areas
(2024)
This book presents the results of research carried out by a work team from the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence, promoted and funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation in the Western ...
Chapter Mentore, collega, amico (toscano), e ancora mentore: il mio ricordo e percorso con Riccardo Del Punta
(2024)
This paper is a brief reflection on my relationship with Professor Riccardo Del Punta. Initially, he was my mentor (I am among the few, or perhaps the only, economist to have had Riccardo as supervisor for my PhD research ...
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 ...
Designing Autonomy at home. The ADA Project
(2019)
Designing Autonomy at Home. The ADA Project. An Interdisciplinary Strategy for Adaptation of the Homes of Disabled Persons. Housing adaptations are one of the main tools for improving quality of life for people with severe ...
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 Gli obiettivi della riforma Cartabia: nuovi paradigmi per un processo penale efficiente e garantista
(2023)
As is well known, in implementation of the NRP, the Cartabia reform made significant changes at numerous junctures of the criminal process. Despite the fact that an excessive focus on the efficiency profile of the procedure ...
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 ...
Chapter Il lavoro agricolo tra ideologia e realtà: Columella
(2024)
The point of departure of this paper is the most comprehensive introduction to Roman farming of the four preserved Latin agricultural writers from antiquity. It is written by Columella, and the article presents a short ...
Guida al mentoring
(2024)
The Mentoring Guide is the go-to resource for mentors and mentees. Written by authors with decades of experience in both roles, it compiles a wide array of stories and data providing concrete, actionable advice to make the ...
Chapter Mills and the politics of water management in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1050
(2024)
This chapter aims to present watermills as a component of local political landscapes and as a proxy to power relations and political interactions within early medieval local communities. Research on various European regions ...
Società multiculturali e percorsi di integrazione
(2017)
Governing the complexity of contemporary multicultural societies poses major challenges and a constant tension between substantial equality, the right to difference and social order. Tools, paths and strategies to integrate ...
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 ...
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 ...
Educazione all’uguaglianza di genere ed educazione linguistica
(2024)
The book explores the debate on gender equality in the language that emerged since the end of the 1980s, when Alma Sabatini highlighted the androcentric character of Italian in the linguistic choices of speakers. Today, ...
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 ...
Le prime opere narrative di Don DeLillo
(2013)
This study deals with the first works by Don DeLillo, from Americana (1971) to Running Dog (1978), but it also extends its investigation horizon to his following works. The work deals specifically with the conception of ...
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 ...
Lettere dalla Spagna
(2004)
The book offers a summary of over 1,400 letters on Hispanic matters written by Hispanic senders to Oreste Macrí over the course of fifty years (1950-1998). The salient events of Macrí's intellectual life (editorial ...
Fifth international Symposium on the lacertids of the Mediterranean Basin
(2004)
The volume collects the contributions to the Fifth International Symposium on the Lacertids of the Mediterranean Basinheld on the island of Lipari between 7 and 11 May 2004. The study of the Mediterranean lacertid lizards ...
Old Church Slavic
(2023)
This book, translated by Lev Blumenfeld, contains a synchronic grammar and grammatical dictionaries of Old Church Slavic. The framework is based on a substantially revised version of the classical descriptive methodology. ...
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 Riflessioni (in dialogo) sul contratto collettivo ‘di prossimità’, muovendo dalla sentenza della Consulta n. 52 del 2023
(2024)
The author, starting from the recent sentence of the Italian Constitutional Court No. 52/2023, retraces considerations of the doctrine on the subject of “proximity collective agreements” regulated by Article 8 of Law No. ...
«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 Traduire en français le lexique du patrimoine artistique de la ville de Bologne : le sous-corpus comparable BER du projet LBC
(2023)
This chapter presents a new tun in the research project Multilingual Cultural Heritage Lexicon that consists in extending the LBC French corpus through a sub-corpus on Bologna and the Emilia-Romagna region (BER). After ...
Pensose leggerezze
(2021)
In this peculiar volume, Luigi Dei gathers a collection of his writings, calling them ‘thoughtful lightness’ as a tribute to a writer he loves: Italo Calvino. The reference at the beginning of the collection is intended ...
Progetti di territorio
(2005)
The research is aimed at investigating the changes in the methods of "construction" of representations of the territory due to the communicative evolution of disciplinary statutes and to the increasingly stringent and ...
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics and continuum models for the transport of protein molecules
(2014)
The present work makes use of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations and continuum models to investigate the behavior of biomolecules in experiments such as mechanical pulling and driven transport across nanopores. ...
Chapter L’«agnostico» Baretti. Mario Manlio Rossi (1895-1971) e il suo inedito: Anglomania ed «amicizia tradizionale». Saggio sull’atteggiamento italiano verso la Granbretagna nel Settecento e nell’Ottocento (1953-5)
(2024)
Around 1953, M. M. Rossi wrote a book on the Italian “anglofilia” in the 18th and 19th centuries. For reasons unknown, the book was never published. Here is a brief account of its contents, with emphasis on the role Rossi ...
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 ...
La Habana - Playa
(2023)
Playa is a large strategic municipality located on the west coast of the Havana metropolitan area. Its cultural richness is surprisingly wide and varied as confirmed by this volume, which aims to define a useful tool to ...
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. ...
Chapter «There is no second chance at childhood»: pratiche e politiche di child welfare nella comunità ebraica italiana nell’immediato dopoguerra
(2024)
At the end of the Second World War, recovering, safeguarding, rehabilitating and educating Jewish children who survived the Shoah became a common mission for humanitarian organizations involved in the rescue of European ...
Chapter Russia, Armenia, Europa nella visione di Andrej Bitov
(2019)
The article explores the cultural and linguistic interrelationship of Russia, Armenia and Europe through the lens of quotation and intertextuality in Andrei Bitov’s Armenian Lessons (first edition 1969). This text is the ...
Epistolarum iuvenilium libri octo
(2013)
The three-volume correspondence by Pier Candido Decembrio represents a precious source for the history of northern Humanism and, more generally, for the understanding of the fifteenth-century civilisation. The first ...
Chapter Georgescu-Roegen, entropia, lavoro, miti
(2024)
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen was born in Constanța (Romania) in 1906. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Nashville (Tennessee, USA). He died in 1994 in the US. He held that economic calculations should include ...