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Chapter Global Partnership Building through Adult Education: The African Experiment
(2023)
Against the background of colonial and missionary interventions, Africa’s adult education, influenced by home, work, and religious traditions, soon changed in character and content, frame and forms. Since 1945, global ...
Chapter La voce delle scuole
(2022)
Documentation of the experiences of the experimental project Direct Digital Integrated Internship, partly presented in the accompanying conferences, in the academic year 2020-2021, in which headteachers, school tutors and ...
Le tesi di laurea nelle biblioteche di architettura
(2003)
There is no general legislative framework for theses, although a number of solutions have been devised at local level which may be significant for Italian university librarians. The problems are numerous and of different ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. Le collezioni mineralogiche e litologiche | The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence.The Mineralogical and Lithological Collections
(2012)
The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo d'Asburgo Lorena, is one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific museums in the world. The fourth volume on ...
Chapter Bruno Trentin e l’Europa tra comunicazione politica e rappresentazioni mediatiche
(2023)
Bruno Trentin’s studies on political communication are neither unitary nor exhaustive, that’s why his research is original and innovative. Through the investigation of different communication contexts it is possible to ...
Medicina, chirurgia e politica nell'Ottocento toscano: l'archivio di Ferdinando Zannetti
(2003)
The biography and the works of Ferdinando Zannetti, physician, surgeon, politician and outstanding figure in nineteenth-century Tuscany acquire new light through the organisation and inventorying of the papers from his ...
Housing Frontline
(2011)
Over recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the various possible forms of poverty and housing vulnerability: from the total lack of shelter of the homeless to the risk of losing their home that now threatens ...
Chapter «Perscrutando o passado encontro o mito do tempo». L’Oriente di António Correia
(2023)
This article aims to present the Lusitanian soul of António Correia, focusing on his deep relationship with Asia, specifically with India and Macao and the remembrance of the golden age of the Portuguese presence in Asia.
Chapter Sedimentological consequences of Posidonia Oceanica banquette removal: Sakarun beach case study (Dugi otok, Croatia)
(2022)
Removal of Posidonia oceanica banquettes from Sakarun beach (Dugi otok Island, Croatia) was a common practice to increase recreational use during the summer tourist season. The sandy part of the beach showed gradual erosion ...
Chapter Approssimazioni a Itaca e oltre (1982) o di Salgari e Torino
(2021)
These approximations are a tribute to Claudio Magris and his Itaca e oltre (1982), but also to Turin and to Salgari. I have attempted to push the boundaries of essay writing that, during the 1980s, was still about discovery, ...
Research tools for design. Spatial layout and patterns of users' behaviour
(2011)
The publication proposes a critical reading of the results emerging from the Seminar organised in January 2010 by the Department of Architectural and Design Technology on research tools for the architectural project. The ...
Chapter La città come nodo della rete eco-territoriale della bioregione urbana
(2023)
The regeneration of metropolitan contexts and large planetary urbanizations can no longer be postponed. The use of more and more refined techniques and technologies using metaphor in nature has become increasingly conspicuous. ...
Chapter Drapers and tailors. Fashion and consumption in medieval Catalonia
(2022)
The range of textiles available in markets across the western Mediterranean expanded significantly during the thirteenth century. Cloth retailers, or drapers, constituted a fundamental link between merchants and consumers, ...
Chapter Disegni di Cesare e Pietro Dandini dalla raccolta Dandini-Targioni Tozzetti
(2020)
The essay concerns two drawings by the Florentine baroque painters Cesare and Pietro Dandini, coming from the Dandini-Targioni Tozzetti collection. The naturalist Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti (1712-1783), consort of Maria ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. Le collezioni mineralogiche e litologiche | The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence.The Mineralogical and Lithological Collections
(2012)
The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo d'Asburgo Lorena, is one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific museums in the world. The fourth volume on ...
Chapter Bruno Trentin e l’Europa tra comunicazione politica e rappresentazioni mediatiche
(2023)
Bruno Trentin’s studies on political communication are neither unitary nor exhaustive, that’s why his research is original and innovative. Through the investigation of different communication contexts it is possible to ...
Critica sociale e individuazione
(2004)
The process of individuation (according to Jung) aims to free us from what is not for us, to strip us of encrustations, of fashions. However, this process should not be the prerogative of the development of the person: it ...
Chapter Il fascismo immaginario di Odon Por
(2021)
A minor but frequent editorialist and contributor to the Fascist press over the 1930s, Odon Por reached the apex of his visibility when he joined Ezra Pound in the attempt to promote policies based on Major Douglas’s Social ...
Chapter A first assessment of microplastics in the sea waters off the Puglia region
(2022)
To meet the objectives of the MSFD, 2008/56/EC, the Puglia Regional Agencies for the Prevention and Protection of the Environment (ARPA Puglia) performed a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the MPs on the basis of ...
e me l’ovrare appaga
(2020)
The volume brings together contributions by many scholars, from Italy and abroad, in honour of Gabriella Messeri, who for many years was full professor of Papyrology at the “Federico II” University of Naples. The first ...
Firenze e Dubrovnik all'epoca di Marino Darsa (1508-1567)
(2010)
This book contains the proceedings of the study day devoted to "Firenze e Dubrovnik all'epoca di Marino Darsa (1508-1567)"which was held in Florence on 31 January 2009. In addition to exploring the work of the playwright ...
Chapter Global Partnership Building through Adult Education: The African Experiment
(2023)
Against the background of colonial and missionary interventions, Africa’s adult education, influenced by home, work, and religious traditions, soon changed in character and content, frame and forms. Since 1945, global ...
Una comunità rurale toscana di antico regime
(2006)
In a perspective of local history that combines problem analysis with a reconstruction accessible even to non-specialists, this book addresses the economy, society and institutions of a rural community of the Tuscan ...
Chapter La voce delle scuole
(2022)
Documentation of the experiences of the experimental project Direct Digital Integrated Internship, partly presented in the accompanying conferences, in the academic year 2020-2021, in which headteachers, school tutors and ...
Chapter La memoria come impegno civile. Il racconto della Resistenza nell’Italia repubblicana
(2022)
In modern societies two processes seem to be carried on simultaneously. On one side, the traditional shape assumed by historical knowledge seems dissolving. On the other side, another exigence has to be affirmed: the ...
Chapter The Revival of Cassiodorus’ Variae in the High Middle Ages (10th-11th century)
(2022)
This paper is based on a number of reuses of Cassiodorus’ Variae that have been found in notarial documents written in Rome and Lazio between the tenth and eleventh century. Given that the manuscript tradition of the Variae ...
Alterità
(2014)
The contributions collected in this volume are the result of the seminars organized by the Laboratory of Modern History during its ten-year activity (from 2003 to 2013) within the Department of Historical and Geographical ...
Chapter Measuring content validity of academic psychological capital and locus of control in fresh graduates
(2021)
Positive psychological capital (PsyCap; hope, resilience, self-efficacy, and optimism) and locus of control (LoC; internal and external) denote psychological dimensions which have been identified as crucial resources for ...
Chapter Odio y venganza en La persistencia de Griselda Gambaro
(2023)
Griselda Gambaro's La Persistencia is one of the Argentine author's most difficult works. In it, she reconstructs a historical event, the school massacre in Beslan, North Ossetia, in 2004, which claimed more than three ...
Chapter Il secondo Ottocento italiano visto dalla Francia
(2022)
This study examines the current reception of second part of the 19th century Italian literature in France. The data come from 4 sources of information: the general book market on foreign literature, the scholarly book ...
Chapter Narrative Approach in the Portfolio Method for Adult Education. Guidance for the Recognition of Competences in the Perspective of Lifelong Learning
(2023)
The present paper is a contribution to the broad field of adult education within a lifelong learning perspective. It starts from literature and theories in this field, and develops a reflection based on empirical work, ...
Chapter A first assessment of microplastics in the sea waters off the Puglia region
(2022)
To meet the objectives of the MSFD, 2008/56/EC, the Puglia Regional Agencies for the Prevention and Protection of the Environment (ARPA Puglia) performed a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the MPs on the basis of ...
Fonti di Weltliteratur
(2012)
53 writers invited to speak, as artists, of themselves and their world at the beginning of the new millennium in no more than 2002 keystrokes. A new research criterion with which Fonti di Weltliteratur. Ungheria obtains ...
Chapter A study of economic inequality in the light of fiscal sources: the case of Catalonia (14th-18th centuries)
(2020)
This essay aims to present the first results of an ongoing research project devoted to study the evolution of the economic inequality in Catalonia based on different documentary sources and parameters. Here we focus on the ...
Chapter Notes on the writings by the University of the Witwatersrand students of Dante
(2021)
I welcomed with enthusiasm the invitation to participate in the project of the young dantisti of the University of the Witwatersrand, as described by Chariklia Martalas: “To think critically about how the 21st century would ...
Chapter Il faculty developer per la formazione del docente universitario. Questioni aperte e prospettive di didattica avanzata
(2022)
The recent Recommendations of the Ministers of the European Higher Education Area (BFUG, 2020) have highlighted how the qualification processes of university teaching are closely related to didactic approaches student’s-centered. ...
Chapter Il socialismo liberale: Carlo Rosselli
(2021)
In order to investigate issues somehow neglected, the paper tries to carefully outline both the economic and institutional aspect and the origins and development of the Florentine anti-fascist thought. Much has been written ...
Chapter Unsheathing the Katana. The Long Fortune of the First Two Japanese Embassies in Italy: Rediscovery and Rereading between Continuity and Discontinuity (1873–1905)
(2022)
At the end of the nineteenth century, Italy welcomed an official embassy sent by the government in Tokyo to make Japan more integrated into the new world scene it was entering. The cultural and political elites of the ...
Chapter La ricezione di Dante in Cechia dopo il 1989
(2022)
After 1989, the reception of Dante in the Czech Republic was no longer determined by the ideological control of the regime and became part of an open cultural context, competing with other themes and authors. The milestones ...
Chapter Simulazione incarnata, estetica e architettura: un approccio estetico sperimentale
(2021)
This chapter, written by a cognitive neuroscientist and an architect, endeavors to suggest why and how cognitive neuroscience should investigate our relationship with aesthetics and architecture—framing this empirical ...
Chapter Dal lezionario all’aprakos. La versione liturgica dei vangeli greci e la tradizione testuale slava
(2018)
The textual tradition of the Slavic Gospels shows clear evidence of reciprocal influence between the liturgical version and the continuous text. The present survey analyzes 17 ‘textual nodes’ of the Gospel of John, i.e. ...
Chapter Data-Driven Construction and Operating Cost Decision Support Through Techno-Economic Analysis: Residential Case Study
(2023)
Construction and operating costs of residential buildings are important. Because, it can help designers, builders, owners, and renters make informed decisions about where and what to buy or rent. One of the most significant ...
Конструкции с опорным глаголом в русском и итальянском языках / Support Verb Constructions. A Russian-Italian Contrastive Analysis
(2022)
The monograph focuses on a special type of collocations–Support, or Light, Verb Constructions (SVCs). SVCs consist of a semantically reduced verb together with a noun (as the direct object or embedded in a prepositional ...
Chapter Il Piccolo Masaccio e le Terre Nuove. Creativity and Computer Graphics for Museum Edutainment
(2018)
Since its opening, the Museum of the New Towns, housed in the Palazzo di Arnolfo in San Giovanni Valdarno, has dedicated a particular attention to the relationship with its audiences. In this context, the video “Il piccolo ...
Chapter View management in city-port landscapes. Livorno applicative experience
(2020)
The paper is a synthesis of a multi-year research path carried out by University of Florence with Livorno Port Authority. This research, although born and developed within a specific context, the port one, is part of a ...
Chapter Digital Innovation & Technological Explosion
(2018)
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Chapter L’esperienza formativa di Anton Domenico Gabbiani a Venezia. Disegni e dipinti inediti
(2020)
This paper aims to cast new light on Anton Domenico Gabbiani’s first sojourn in Venice, which took place between 1678 and 1681, by following the two main biographies of the artist, written by Ignazio Enrico Hugford and ...
Paul M. Sweezy
(2022)
Paul M. Sweezy (New York, 1910-2004) was a co-founder and, for over half a century, co-editor of Monthly Review. At the basis of his theoretical thought there is a Marxian approach, open and creative, and an attention to ...
La Basilica di San Miniato al Monte di Firenze (1018-2018)
(2021)
Between the 11th and the 20th century, the monastery of San Miniato al Monte in Florence played a leading role in the religious and cultural life of the city. The volume analyses for the first time the historical and ...
Chapter Signorie e poteri sovralocali nell’Italia centrale. Stato della Chiesa, Toscana e Sardegna
(2023)
The essay analyses the political relations between rural lordships and supralocal powers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries central Italy, on the base of researches carried out during the 2015 project PRIN. The areas ...
Chapter I prelievi non fondiari
(2023)
The essay attempts a survey of the economic and social impact of non-landed levies, meaning by this all the drainages of wealth in which the exercise of coercive powers played a decisive role. It follows a “macro” and “geo” ...
Chapter L’immagine di Magellano nei primi racconti della circumnavigazione del globo
(2021)
The journey of the Portuguese Magellan, one of the greatest adventures attempted by a man in the sixteenth century, had an inauspicious end for its deviser (Magellan died in Mactan on April 27, 1522). But even more ...
Chapter The Financial Wellbeing Index: “Donne al quadrato” and the relevant impact measurement
(2021)
How can we reduce economic violence? Can financial literacy and education enhance economic wellbeing? The present paper reports the results of a research conducted by ALTIS – Università Cattolica and Global Thinking ...
Chapter The Coastal village of Zvërnec
(2020)
Part III of the book focusses on Zvërnec, a small village located in the southern part of the Lagoon of Nartë, on a promontory over a small gulf (Gjiri i Vogël), which looks like a miniature of the ‘great’ Gulf of Vlorë ...
Chapter La disuguaglianza economica in area marchigiana: uno studio di lungo periodo (1400-1800)
(2020)
The research aimed at bringing new data to the study of inequality in the distribution of wealth in the long run using the fiscal documentation available to many communities of the Marches region over a period covering the ...
Alterità
(2014)
The contributions collected in this volume are the result of the seminars organized by the Laboratory of Modern History during its ten-year activity (from 2003 to 2013) within the Department of Historical and Geographical ...
Chapter Da Firenze al mare: Leonardo e l’Arno tra ingegneria idraulica e visione territoriale
(2023)
The vision related to the territorial project of the navigable canal, which was supposed to connect the cities of Florence, Prato and Pistoia and, passing through the Nievole Valley, reach the Arno and then the sea, stems ...
Critica sociale e individuazione
(2004)
The process of individuation (according to Jung) aims to free us from what is not for us, to strip us of encrustations, of fashions. However, this process should not be the prerogative of the development of the person: it ...
Конструкции с опорным глаголом в русском и итальянском языках / Support Verb Constructions. A Russian-Italian Contrastive Analysis
(2022)
The monograph focuses on a special type of collocations–Support, or Light, Verb Constructions (SVCs). SVCs consist of a semantically reduced verb together with a noun (as the direct object or embedded in a prepositional ...
Chapter Ti devo tanto di ciò che sono. Il carteggio tra Claudio Magris e Biagio Marin
(2021)
The correspondence between the elderly Biagio Marin and the younger Claudio Magris shows the evolution of an intense relationship from both an emotional and an intellectual point of view. Their letters help us develop the ...