Publications
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Chapter Risorgimento e identità italiana nel giallo contemporaneo
(2022)
By analysing three Italian crime novels – Piero Soria’s Cuore di lupo (1999), Massimo Siviero’s Il terno di San Gennaro (1999) and Marcello Fois’s Dura madre (2001), – this essay investigates how Italian crime fiction set ...
Language, Cognition and Identity. Extensions of the endocentric/exocentric language typology
(2010)
An endocentric language is a language whose verbs are lexically precise and concrete whereas its nouns are abstract and vague. An exocentric language has lexically precise and concrete nouns and abstract verbs. The Germanic ...
Chapter Lavoro, ozio e mendicità: la disputa duecentesca tra Ordini mendicanti e clero secolare
(2024)
The Middle Ages marked the definitive break with the ancient conception that opposed servile labour to the idleness of intellectual life and the exercise of the liberal arts. Within this paradigm shift, a central role was ...
Chapter Il Progetto Sperimentale di Tirocinio Diretto Digitale Integrato
(2022)
The integrated digital direct internship (TDDI) represents a new and important method of internship of an experimental nature that began in December 2020, in collaboration with the Regional School Office for Tuscany, to ...
Trasformazioni, valori e regole del lavoro
(2024)
The volume collects contributions from colleagues, friends, and companions who wished to honour the memory of Riccardo Del Punta, continuing the dialogue with his academic thought. The writings address many of the numerous ...
Chapter Lavoro, ozio, festa: riequilibrare l’umano
(2024)
The essay aims at proposing a balance between the elements that can realize the human being in itself and in a good relationship within the social living. In a frame like that, work has to be connected with action and ...
Firenze, archeologia di una città
(2010)
The urban evolution of Florence in the first thirteen centuries of its history is delineated here via a census of the archaeological finds, starting from those documented in the second half of the nineteenth century. The ...
Chapter Il canone inverso. Il governo italiano e i missionari cattolici in Somalia (1950-1970)
(2024)
This paper examines the relationships established between the 1950s and 1970s between the Italian government and the Catholic missionaries in Somalia as part of international cooperation. Using mainly unpublished documentation ...
Per una nuova filosofia della cittadinanza
(2014)
After reviewing the development of "citizenship" under a historical and conceptual profile, as well as the many faces of this concept under a philosophical and analytical profile, the author discusses his belief that a ...
Progettando città
(2012)
City and territory are currently experiencing a phase of development, or crisis, depending on whether they manage to form the know-how to respond to the current exponential evolution. Know-how that has to make a critical ...
Design driven strategies
(2022)
The collection of contributions in this volume looks forward, and also backward, regarding the centrality of design between new and traditional production systems, space-environment-sustainability, and identity. The role ...
Femminile e maschile nel Settecento
(2018)
In the 18th century, the relationship between the male and the female became particularly relevant and turned into an excellent test bench within the construction process of the individual’s identity. Many are the images ...
Dei delitti e delle pene nella traduzione di Michail M. Scerbatov
(2007)
After more than two centuries, this work presents the Russian version of “Dei delitti e delle pene” by Cesare Beccaria, translated by Prince Michail M. Šcerbatov. The edition, conducted on the autographed manuscript, is ...
How to face the scientific communication today. International challenge and digital technology impact on research outputs dissemination
(2017)
Dissemination of scientific results is an important and necessary component of research activity. Nowadays research asks to be widely diffused and shared in a larger community in the effort to demonstrate its innovation ...
Chapter Under the Shadow of a Central Place: Defining the Landscape with Fortified Places and Their Memory in the Written Sources of the Kingdom of León
(2024)
Castles usually appear in the Kingdom of León’s written sources during the medieval period. The 10th and 11th centuries show an increase in those mentions, including some that helped scribes describe the landscape and ...
Proceedings of the 11th Toulon-Verona International Conference on Quality in Services
(2008)
The Toulon-Verona Conference was founded in 1998 by prof. Claudio Baccarani of the University of Verona, Italy, and prof. Michel Weill of the University of Toulon, France. It has been organized each year in a different ...
Architetture nel tempo
(2015)
Architetture nel tempo represents the awareness of the duration, permanence and authenticity of places along the centuries and in their continuous contemporaneity, entrusted to the preservation which passes on to the future, ...
Chapter Una singolare epidemia del Settecento: Baretti e la «peste» antiquaria
(2024)
This essay aims at outlining Baretti’s attitude toward antiquarianism, which pervaded eighteenth-century Europe and Italy in particular, first with the revival of Etruscan studies and then with the discovery of Herculaneum ...
Public History in Teacher Education
(2024)
Historical knowledge, often overshadowed by mass media communication, plays a crucial role in educating conscious and critical citizens. We want to explore the transformative potential of history in teacher education, ...
La vita prima della fine
(2008)
In recent decades the clinical condition of the permanent vegetative state has raised debates regarding the treatment of those patients who, as a result of brain damage, have irreversibly lost consciousness while biologically ...