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Chapter LaCoast Atlas: a consistent database to support sustainable coastal zone management
(2020)
The paper illustrates the LaCoast Project (LAnd cover changes in COASTal zones), a harmonised and consistent geo-referenced database that constitute a base tool for integrated spatial analysis of policies. It is meant to ...
Chapter Introduzione
(2020)
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Chapter Giordano da Pisa e il pubblico. Modelli e comportamenti
(2020)
The production of Giordano da Pisa (1260-1310) offers an excellent example for assessing the relationship between a Dominican preacher and his lay audience. His preaching presents simultaneously all the features that make ...
Chapter Are Teachers Agents of Change? Teacher Training and The Gender Dimension in Adult Education: Italy and Nigeria in Comparison
(2020)
Adult education can play a fundamental role in changing existing gender hierarchies, breaking down gender stereotypes, and promoting gender equality. Teachers can be important agents of change, but they not only have to ...
AKROTHINIA
(2015)
Akrothinia collects the contributions of twenty-three young scholars, with the aim of creating an overall picture of the lines of investigation and of the interests which, in recent years, have animated research in the ...
Chapter Introduction
(2020)
This volume aims to foster the dialogue between two usually distinct scholarly traditions: on the one hand, the studies revolving around cultural and political activity, as well as the didactic, theological, religious and ...
Un poetico sonnambulismo e una folle passione per la follia
(2013)
The work analyses the complex relationship between mental illnesses and curative medicine in the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, highlighting problems deriving from unsuitable practices, and shedding light on the overwhelming, ...
Chapter Atmospheric agents and spatial planning. Case study of the municipality of Rosignano Marittimo in Tuscany
(2022)
In recent years, Tuscan coastal areas have been repeatedly affected by more and more intense weather phenomena, which have caused damage to people and urban settlements. Extreme weather events such as intense downpours, ...
Migrazioni in Italia: oltre la sfida
(2021)
‘Going beyond the challenge’ means looking at the phenomenon of migration in its complexity, through a multi and interdisciplinary approach. The chapters that make up the first part offer an over-view of the phenomenon, ...
Chapter Measuring the effectiveness of COVID-19 containment policies in Italian regions: are we doing enough?
(2021)
A successful fight against COVID-19 greatly depends on citizens’ adherence to the restrictive measures, which may not suffice alone. Making use of a containment index, data on sanctions, and Google’s movement trends across ...
Paolo Mantegazza e l'Evoluzionismo in Italia
(2010)
An eclectic figure – a scientist, novelist, anthropologist, politician and man of his time – Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) played a leading role in Italian society and the cultural scene of the late nineteenth century, even ...
Le emergenze umanitarie complesse
(2005)
The main contemporary crisis situations concern ecology, public health, markets, technology and war. They now manifest themselves not simply as sectoral crisis (of the economy, finance, environment, and so on), but as ...
L’ermetismo e Firenze
(2016)
This is the first of the two volumes dedicated to Hermeticism and Florence published by Firenze University Press (the second one entitled Luzi, Bigongiari, Parronchi, Bodini, Sereni can be purchased separately). Between ...
Chapter Measuring the effectiveness of COVID-19 containment policies in Italian regions: are we doing enough?
(2021)
A successful fight against COVID-19 greatly depends on citizens’ adherence to the restrictive measures, which may not suffice alone. Making use of a containment index, data on sanctions, and Google’s movement trends across ...
Chapter Gli archivi dei movimenti e di altri soggetti sociali: alcuni esempi in Toscana
(2021)
The contribution offers an overview of the archives of the movements preserved in Tuscany and of the critical issues of their conservation and enhancement.
Chapter Con l’occhio di Leonardo. Città fortificate e scenari possibili: paesaggio, cartografia e architettura militare
(2023)
Leonardo’s interest in Vitruvian machinatio, subservient to the needs of military architecture, starts with the return of the Sienese tradition involving mechanisms used both in civil and military fields. Whilst Martini’s ...
Chapter A fragmentary story: episcopal culture in Milan during Lothar I’s reign?
(2022)
Dealing with episcopal culture in Milan during Lothar I’s age (822-855), that is the age of Archbishop Angilbert II (824-859), is a difficult task, because of the lack of sources and uncertain origin of many extant ...
Chapter The economic revolution in book design that went unnoticed. The case of the Southern Netherlands, 1473–c. 1550
(2023)
This contribution discusses the evolution of paper thickness of books produced in the Southern Netherlands in the period 1473 until the middle of the sixteenth century. Changing paper thickness is one of the key elements ...
Chapter Ecological status of the Tuscan Archipelago rocky habitats assessed by the MedSens index
(2022)
MedSens index provides the environmental status of subtidal rocky coastal habitats based on open data collected by trained volunteers using the Reef Check Mediterranean Underwater Coastal Environment Monitoring protocol. ...
Chapter Ecological status of the Tuscan Archipelago rocky habitats assessed by the MedSens index
(2022)
MedSens index provides the environmental status of subtidal rocky coastal habitats based on open data collected by trained volunteers using the Reef Check Mediterranean Underwater Coastal Environment Monitoring protocol. ...
La Nostra Vita con Ezio e Ricordi di guerra
(2021)
Our life with Ezio and Memories of War, written by Flora Aghib Levi D’Ancona traces the life of her husband Ezio Levi, a Jewish Italian philologist and hispanist, their experiences of exile in the US where the couple fled ...
Chapter Studi italiani su Dante nel mondo slavo: alcune considerazioni
(2022)
The aim of this article is to provide a review, albeit not exhaustive, of Italian studies on Dante in the Slavic world. Starting from 1921, and the important essays published in the journal “L’Europa orientale”, the author ...
Chapter Descartes on Selfhood, Conscientia, the First Person and Beyond
(2023)
I discuss Descartes’ metaphysics of selfhood, and relevant parts of contemporary philosophy regarding the first person. My two main concerns are the controversy that surrounds Descartes’ conception of conscientia, mistranslated ...
La Public History tra scuola, università e territorio
(2022)
The volume collects ten essays, followed by thirty Best Practices sheets, which collectively provide an outline of the interconnections between Public History and schools. Through discussing and hypotheses of teaching and ...
Le emergenze umanitarie complesse
(2005)
The main contemporary crisis situations concern ecology, public health, markets, technology and war. They now manifest themselves not simply as sectoral crisis (of the economy, finance, environment, and so on), but as ...
Chapter Jernej Kopitar nella cultura slovena
(2019)
According to 19th-century philologist Jernej Kopitar, elite literary traditions and modern written languages originated in folk literature. Leading Slovenian intellectuals of his day, however, including poet France Prešeren ...
Chapter Wealth inequalities in cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and their changes during the seventeenth century. Sources and methods of measure
(2020)
I would like to determine the evolution of wealth concentration in main cities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by comparing the data from different benchmark years. Moreover, I will analyze whether the Gini coefficient ...
Chapter L’ordre dominicain dans le ciel du soleil. Dante Alighieri et la « viva giustizia » du Paradiso
(2020)
This article analyses the dynamic role of Justice in Dante’s Comedy. As the judge of his Otherworld, Dante establishes harsh punishments for the sinners in his Inferno. Moreover, he attacks their earthly fame in a way ...
Chapter The catalyst of change. The clothing of the Viennese servants and their relation to fashion in the period 1760-1823
(2022)
In the eighteenth century, fashion constituted a fundamental criterion for consumption for broader parts of the European (and Viennese) population. This article investigates, through various sources, like probate inventories, ...
Chapter Dai primi trattati portoghesi di astronomia alla «Nube di Magellano» di Haroldo de Campos
(2021)
Starting with the first astronomical treatises of the 16th century, this work focuses on the metaliterary concept of travel and on the attraction that astronomy, specifically the Magellanic clouds, produce in the Portuguese ...
MEREAFaPS: uno Studio di Farmacovigilanza Attiva e Farmacoepidemiologia in Pronto Soccorso
(2016)
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) have a significant impact on the patient’s health. The purpose of this PhD thesis was to analyse the impact of ADRs on the admissions to the emergency room, using the data obtained from the ...
La inutilizzabilità della prestazione
(2017)
The service covered by an obligation corresponds, in the definition offered by the law (art. 1174 of the Italian civil code), to an interest of the creditor. What happens if this interest, in the context of a contractual ...
Raccontare la Resistenza a scuola
(2022)
The book aims at collecting papers discussed during the online webinars Raccontare la Resistenza a scuola organised between April 2021 and May 2021. The book aims at consolidating links between theoretical and historical ...
Chapter Il fenomeno migratorio secondo i dati statistici
(2021)
A thorough understanding of the reality of migration is the best way to manage it and seize its value. For it, statistical data, can help do just that: they show that the foreign presence in Italy has not undergone major ...
Chapter Writing, textuality, politics in the Lucca of Bishops Berengar and Ambrose (837-852)
(2022)
The article consists of two intertwined sections. In the first, I intend to reconstruct the processes of political and social transformation that took place in Lucca under the actions of Bishops Berengar (837-843) and ...
AKROTHINIA
(2015)
Akrothinia collects the contributions of twenty-three young scholars, with the aim of creating an overall picture of the lines of investigation and of the interests which, in recent years, have animated research in the ...
Chapter Docenti e studenti dell’Università di Firenze: una lettura di genere
(2024)
The chapter investigates the issue of the feminization of the University of Florence by looking at both the teaching and student populations. Starting from a synthesis of previous research works we focus more specifically ...
Un poetico sonnambulismo e una folle passione per la follia
(2013)
The work analyses the complex relationship between mental illnesses and curative medicine in the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, highlighting problems deriving from unsuitable practices, and shedding light on the overwhelming, ...
Chapter Motivation of basketball players: a random-effects logit model for the probability of winning
(2021)
In the sport psychology, the theories of motivation, such as the McClelland's need achievement theory and the Nicholls' achievement goal theory, play an important role in the team sports in motivating and encouraging team ...
Chapter Glossaire terminologique collaboratif et Data-Driven Learning dans le cadre de la traduction du lexique artistique
(2023)
This chapter focuses on the role of corpora, in particular the LBC corpus (Lessico dei Beni Culturali), in the training of (future) translators. First, a variety of teaching methodologies, such as «task», «Learners’ Bilingual ...
Chapter Resisting a Total Loss of Digital Heritage Web 2.0 – Archiving & Bridging Thesaurus for Media Art Histories
(2018)
While Media Art has evolved into a critical field at the intersection of art, science and technology, a significant loss threatens this art form due to the rapid technological obsolescence and static documentation strategies. ...
Chapter Higher Education and Work-Related Learning from Professionalism to Professionality
(2018)
Within a complex economic, political, and social scenario that requires high-level competencies as well as increasingly active citizenship, the European and international agenda for higher education needs to be renewed and ...
L’ermetismo e Firenze
(2016)
This is the first of the two volumes dedicated to Hermeticism and Florence published by Firenze University Press (the second one entitled Luzi, Bigongiari, Parronchi, Bodini, Sereni can be purchased separately). Between ...
La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 6 Le signorie trentine
(2023)
In recent decades, the importance of rural lordship in the history of Italy in the late Middle Ages has been reconsidered and reassessed. On the basis of a wealth of archive documentation, this volume offers a systematic ...
Chapter Intermittenze virtuose. Le istituzioni per i beni archeologici, artistici, archivistici e librari
(2024)
The University of Florence has always maintained very close relationships with the city's cultural institutions: libraries, museums, archives, research institutes. These relationships have been particularly significant ...
Chapter Promotion of high-quality textiles by prize competitions during the Enlightenment in Saxony. From raw material to finished product manufacturing
(2023)
Preisaufgabe, or «prize competitions» were implemented in Saxony in 1764 to promote industry after the Seven Years’ War. We investigated the purpose of them and by whom, by analysing primary historical texts to uncover ...
Chapter Il viaggio come paradigma esistenziale nella Bibbia e nella letteratura ebraica antica
(2021)
The divine command issued to Abraham in Genesis 12,1: «Go (lek-lekà) from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you», presents us with a dramatic image of the human existence ...
Chapter A fragmentary story: episcopal culture in Milan during Lothar I’s reign?
(2022)
Dealing with episcopal culture in Milan during Lothar I’s age (822-855), that is the age of Archbishop Angilbert II (824-859), is a difficult task, because of the lack of sources and uncertain origin of many extant ...
Chapter Forms of government and rhetoric: perceptions of democracy and oligarchy in Demosthenes
(2022)
Demosthenes is recognized as a defender of Athenian democracy and freedom, particularly in voicing his concern about the growth of Macedonian power. While the defence of democracy is a recurring theme in his speeches, ...
Chapter Measuring the impact of healthcare indicators on academic medical centers’ scientific production
(2021)
The Italian public-owned Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) are hospitals where the activities of scientific research, teaching, and patients care are fully integrated. AMCs have an enormous impact on society and country ...
MEREAFaPS: uno Studio di Farmacovigilanza Attiva e Farmacoepidemiologia in Pronto Soccorso
(2016)
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) have a significant impact on the patient’s health. The purpose of this PhD thesis was to analyse the impact of ADRs on the admissions to the emergency room, using the data obtained from the ...
Chapter Dai primi trattati portoghesi di astronomia alla «Nube di Magellano» di Haroldo de Campos
(2021)
Starting with the first astronomical treatises of the 16th century, this work focuses on the metaliterary concept of travel and on the attraction that astronomy, specifically the Magellanic clouds, produce in the Portuguese ...
Chapter Moving from the margins: Palestinian mobilities, embodiment, and agency in East Jerusalem
(2022)
In Jerusalem, intra-urban boundaries are experienced and negotiated in deeply embodied ways, and primarily encountered, undermined, and reinforced through mobility. Palestinians’ movements are regularly restricted in areas ...
Chapter Round Table comment
(2023)
Trying to comprehend and then to describe the process of technological change and its impact is a difficult task. Explaining it is then extremely demanding. Many of the contributions in the papers offered indicate the value ...
Chapter Evolution of the coastal landscape in eastern Veneto: new data from preventive archaeology
(2020)
A preventive archeology study was recently conducted in the Caorle area (Province of Venice). Several new datasets have been now managed by computerized analysis with the aim of protect archaeological heritage and, possibly, ...
Chapter Evolution of the coastal landscape in eastern Veneto: new data from preventive archaeology
(2020)
A preventive archeology study was recently conducted in the Caorle area (Province of Venice). Several new datasets have been now managed by computerized analysis with the aim of protect archaeological heritage and, possibly, ...
Ricovero avicolo polifunzionale per l'allevamento libero
(2011)
The book is arranged in the form of a practical, build-it-yourself manual, complete with general technical information and advice for use in the field. The mobile poultry housing has been designed for extensive breeding ...
Le storie e la memoria
(2002)
This book is a collection of contributions by the Italian scholarship fellows at the Deutsches Historisches Institut of Rome over the last decade. It is intended as a tribute to one of the leading mediaevalists at international ...
Chapter L’interazione tra la diatesi Non-attiva e le categorie di tempo e aspetto. Microvariazione nei dialetti italo-albanesi
(2023)
This article deals with morphological non-active verbal voice, which characterises reflexive, middle and passive structures in Standard Albanian and Arbëresh dialects. The data, compared to those of Italian, show that the ...
Chapter The port of Neapolis: memories and traces of the coastal landscape in ancient times
(2022)
During the excavation for the construction of two new subway lines, which run from East to West along the city of Naples, traces and memories of the Greek-Roman port of Naples and the ancient Neapolitan coastal landscape ...
Chapter «Un arancio in gennaio». La Vita del beato Giovanni Colombini di Feo Belcari da racconto agiografico a testo di lingua
(2020)
Composed between 1448 and 1449, the Vita del beato Giovanni Colombini by Feo Belcari was printed for the first time in 1477 and was destined to growing publishing success over the following centuries both as an independent ...
Chapter La solidarietà finanziaria nel contesto dell'Unione europea
(2022)
The governance of financial resources in a solidaristic key characterises, in the present age, the national systems of European countries, but it is legitimate to ask whether the same is true at the level of the European ...
Pier Candido Decembrio
(2017)
The oldest translation in a modern language (vulgarization) of Caesar's commentaries, published in 1438 by Pier Candido Decembrio and dedicated to Filippo Maria Visconti and Inigo d'Avalos, is published for the first time ...
Chapter Determinants of social startups in Italy
(2021)
The so called "Startup Act" (Decree Law 179/2012, converted into Law 221/2012), has introduced in Italy the notion of innovative companies with a high technological value, denoted as the innovative startups. Among them, ...
Chapter Le vestigia dei gesuati
(2020)
The essay traces the salient historical steps of the Jesuat congregation, highlighting its genesis and development up to the year of its suppression (1668). The focus is on the dynamics triggered by the born of the Jesuat ...
Chapter Project Management Information System (PMIS) Dashboard as a Digital Twin to Enhance Infrastructure Project Delivery: A Case Study of Ameroro Dam Project
(2023)
In supporting the economic growth, Indonesian government has instructed to develop 201 National Strategic Infrastructure Projects, including Ameroro Dam Project. Located in Southeast Sulawesi, the construction process faced ...
Chapter Adapting BIM-Based AR Positioning Techniques to the Construction Site
(2023)
While Building Information Modelling (BIM) can support the management and visualisation of construction projects, Augmented Reality (AR) holds great promise to enhance interaction with these complex models. The accurate ...
Chapter Prediction of wine sensorial quality: a classification problem
(2021)
When dealing with a wine, it is of interest to be able to predict its quality based on chemical and/or sensory variables. There is no agreement on what wine quality means, or how it should be assessed and it is often viewed ...
Chapter A Systematic Review of the Impacts of Digitalization on Project Management
(2023)
This article systematically reviews digitalization’s impacts on project management in the construction industry. The article discusses the challenges the construction industry in successfully applying digitalization during ...
Chapter Gli archivi dei movimenti e di altri soggetti sociali: alcuni esempi in Toscana
(2021)
The contribution offers an overview of the archives of the movements preserved in Tuscany and of the critical issues of their conservation and enhancement.
Chapter Extension, ramification, temporalité et dangerosité d’un grand réseau, situant Raguse (Dubrovnik) au point nodal des échanges entre la Péninsule Ibérique et l’Orient méditerranéen (XIII-XV siècle)
(2019)
The Ragusan maritime network gradually developed from the ancient Venetian one, at the time of Venetian preponderance (1205-1358). But, at the end of the Venetian domination, the Ragusan network developed some characteristics ...
Chapter FCM-Enabled Approach for Investigating Interdependencies of BIM Performance Factors in the Sustainable Built Environment
(2023)
In pursuit of a sustainable built environment, BIM plays a crucial role in the project's performance and has egressed as a powerful technology in the construction industry, impacting the outcome and the project delivery ...
Chapter Extension, ramification, temporalité et dangerosité d’un grand réseau, situant Raguse (Dubrovnik) au point nodal des échanges entre la Péninsule Ibérique et l’Orient méditerranéen (XIII-XV siècle)
(2019)
The Ragusan maritime network gradually developed from the ancient Venetian one, at the time of Venetian preponderance (1205-1358). But, at the end of the Venetian domination, the Ragusan network developed some characteristics ...
Chapter Limiti alla crescita, universalismo e progresso sociale
(2020)
The paradigm of limits to growth has been legitimized by important contributions, both scientific and philosophical. Although it has oriented the political program of the major ecological movements, its weakness is to be ...
Chapter Quando un ‘Tuono’ colpisce uno storico: come può nascere un fumetto sulla Resistenza
(2022)
The paper deals with the metting and the collective work which led to the publication of the comic book "Bandierine. Tutta una storia di Resistenze". It deas with a group of stories linked to a story which works as a frame. ...
Chapter The Role of Adult Learning and Education in (Post-)Covid Times
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions to global education systems, with adult education shifting to a virtual world and relying heavily on digital and ICT tools to maintain continuity of learning. ...
Chapter Commento alla traduzione. Traduttori non sempre traditori
(2020)
Starting from a statement of Pirandello concerning the art of translation, the essay aims to reflect on the concept of translator and on the frequent false attribution of traitor. In addition to this, the essay focuses on ...
Chapter Desinenze di vocativo come formanti antroponimici. I nomi propri maschili in -e e -o nelle lingue slave
(2023)
The study tests the hypothesis according to which the Slavic anthroponyms in -e and -o underwent evolution from vocative endings to hypocoristic derivative suffixes and then to anthroponymic formants. According to the ...
Chapter Adapting BIM-Based AR Positioning Techniques to the Construction Site
(2023)
While Building Information Modelling (BIM) can support the management and visualisation of construction projects, Augmented Reality (AR) holds great promise to enhance interaction with these complex models. The accurate ...
Antinoupolis III
(2017)
Antinoupolis III, yet another volume having as its object an extremely important archaeological area in Graeco-Roman Egypt: the city founded on the left bank of the Nile in 130 AD by Hadrian in honour of Antinoos. Over 700 ...