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Chapter Linguaggio di genere e insegnamento della grammatica
(2024)
The article presents some considerations on the non-sexist use of the Italian language, which arise from an Italian L2 grammar, in which there is a specific section on the topic of gender language. The grammar takes into ...
Resistenza e diritto pubblico
(2016)
What do the words Resistance and public law suggest? On the one hand, they evoke the close relationship between the Resistance, intended as a historical phenomenon, and the institutional solutions and legal problems which ...
L'uomo tutto intero
(2018)
This volume reconstructs Carlo Livi (1823-1877)’s biography, focusing on his medical and psychiatric work and on his path as a man and intellectual who lived during the Italian Risorgimento. Livi was a key figure in Italian ...
Chapter Istruire le masse: sul mabiki negli scritti dei kokugakusha
(2024)
This article delves into the issue of mabiki (infanticide) in the late Edo period by analysing three texts authored by prominent scholars belonging to a circle of philologists and historians known as kokugakusha. During ...
Storia delle telecomunicazioni
(2011)
Focusing on the history of scientific and technological development over recent centuries, the book is dedicated to the history of telecommunications, where Italy has always been in the vanguard, and is presented by many ...
Serviceability and post-failure behaviour of laminated glass structural elements
(2019)
Glass structures are being built ever more frequently all over the world, in a growing architectural trend towards light, transparency and sustainability. The engineering design of laminated glass elements being profoundly ...
Abbazie e paesaggi medievali in Toscana
(2014)
The volume collects the contributions of the 'study day’ held on June 16, 2010 at the University of Florence on Abbeys and medieval landscapes in Tuscany, that is, on the forms of the territory that have structured the ...
Primavera di Praga, risveglio europeo
(2011)
The passage of time has not dulled the interest and fascination of the Prague Spring. Proof of this was provided on the occasion of the celebrations for the fortieth anniversary of the events in Czechoslovakia in 1968, ...
Chapter Marco Biagi e un progetto per la regolazione del lavoro che cambia
(2024)
Marco Biagi was a jourist who most felt the need to tie theoretical studies to the practical needs of the labor market. There is a profound continuity between his scientific publications and his work in the service of ...
L'ingegneria del vento
(2006)
The volume aims to give the most comprehensive answer to to the question “Why has wind engineering taken on such an important role today?”. In their work, the authors proceed by stages. First, they accompany the readers ...
Altri orientalismi
(2012)
Other Orientalisms analyses various forms of knowledge about India through the circulation of people, ideas, knowledge, images and objects between Florence and Bombay. In the second half of the nineteenth century Florence ...
Introduzione ai Sistemi di Localizzazione Indoor
(2017)
Introduzione ai Sistemi di Localizzazione Indoor (“Indoor Positioning Systems”) is the second issue of the series “Quaderni del Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria dell'Informazione” ("Issues of the PhD course in Information ...
Chapter Conclusioni
(2024)
The conclusions of the volume offer a synthetic look at the work with an eye to the future prospects of the studies.
Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence
(2025)
This book is an objective, evidence-based analysis of the empirical findings, methodologies and conclusions of the main inquiries into child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Europe, the US/Canada, the UK and Australasia. ...
Chapter Gramsci e la ‘civiltà del lavoro’
(2024)
When Gramsci theorizes the Factory Councils (in 1919-1920), he looks at work as the center of social and political life: the Factory Council brings together economics and politics, society and the state. The root of the ...
Studi per l'insegnamento delle lingue europee
(2005)
On 12, 13 and 14 May 2003 the second edition of the study days on didactic materials for the teaching of foreign languages was held in Florence. Numerous language teachers, mainly active in Italian universities but also ...
Chapter Semantic analysis of web archive historical data: 1983 “Marche pour l’égalité et contre le racisme”
(2024)
Based on a corpus composed by data obtained from the web archive of the French National Audiovisual Institute, including web pages referencing the history of the 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism, we explored how ...
5 European & African Conference on Wind Engineering
(2009)
The 5th European-African Conference of Wind Engineering is hosted in Florence, Tuscany, the city and the region where, in the early 15th century, pioneers moved the first steps, laying down the foundation stones of Mechanics ...
VERSUS: Heritage for Tomorrow
(2014)
Vernacular architecture represents a great resource that has considerable potential to define principles for sustainable design and contemporary architecture. This publication is the result of an overall aim to produce a ...
Diario epistolare a Corrado Pavolini
(2014)
Vulcano, Sicily 1964. After a meeting with him in Cortona, Helle Busacca, a poet and writer from Messina, began drafting an epistolary diary dedicated to Corrado Pavolini, a well-known intellectual and film director of ...
La storia di Firenze fra Bruni e Machiavelli
(2025)
The last historiographical work of Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), the Historiae Florentini populi, is composed of eight books, of which only four have survived in their original draft. In 1472 Poggio’s son, Iacopo Bracciolini ...
I controlimiti al primato del diritto dell'Unione europea nel dialogo tra le Corti
(2021)
The book challenges the ‘counter-limits’ (controlimiti) doctrine devised by the Italian Constitutional Court, in the light of the developments that have taken place within the EU framework over the last decades. The subject ...
La signoria rurale nell’Italia del tardo medioevo. 4. Quadri di sintesi e nuove prospettive di ricerca
(2023)
In late medieval Italy, the importance of lordship has often been overlooked by studies. Yet its diffusion was far from marginal: indeed, in most Italian regions it stretched over larger portions of population and territory, ...
Appunti di metrologia mercantile genovese
(2014)
This work starts from one of the most complex issues that the economic operator of the late Middle Ages had to face in order to carry out his activities, namely a constantly up-to-date understanding of the systems of weights ...
Il Settecento portoghese e lusofono
(2023)
The volume aims to fit into the existing studies in Italy and Portugal on the Portuguese 18th century, however describing the 18th century from a new, inclusive (and no more separatist), point of view between Portugal, ...
Chapter Andrea Mantegna e le sorelle Williams. Luigi Meneghello e la Storia dell’arte
(2024)
This paper endeavours to provide a concise overview of Meneghello’s engagement with art history from two distinct perspectives: first, as a student (behind the chair), and subsequently, as a scholar and educator (behind ...
Chapter La Facoltà di Scienze politiche “Cesare Alfieri” dalla crisi al primato (1938-2001)
(2025)
The forced fusion into the University of Florence along the headmastership of Rodolico compelled the new Faculty to reform its educational system and to follow the Fascist doctrine 1938-1943. As a consequence of the regime’s ...
Notturni e musica nella poesia moderna
(2018)
What is the night? How can we define it and mark its edges? The gaze of those observing it is more or less mobile; does the night maintain its function as a frame? How does the difficulty to see clearly favour the artistic ...
Chapter Donne che corrono sulla montagna. I primi romanzi di Tsushima Yūko (1947-2016)
(2024)
A significant portion of Tsushima Yūko’s body of work, particularly her early novels that brought her fame – Chōji (Child of Fortune, 1978), Hikari no ryōbun (Territory of Light, 1979), Yama o hashiru onna (The Woman Running ...
A cento anni dalla grande guerra. Effetti inattesi. Vol. 4
(2017)
The volumes on World War I which are published here are the result of a series of seminars held at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Florence between 2014 and 2015. Starting from the ...
Chapter La cultura sindacale e del lavoro della CISL: tratti originari, peculiarità e successivi sviluppi
(2024)
The aim of this essay, far from any ambition to be exhaustive, is to recall the path of construction and evolution of an autonomous trade union and labour culture, within Italian trade union pluralism, such as that which ...
Regole e progetti per il paesaggio
(2012)
This book brings together the materials of a study carried out by the Florence Faculty of Architecture in liaison with the Tuscan scientific community (five universities, research institutes and technicians from the Regional ...
La pianificazione paesaggistica in Italia
(2016)
In recent years, the in-depth analysis of landscape issues, the approval of the first regional Landscape Plans, the reflection on the action carried out by the Superintendencies are introducing a change of perspective in ...
Chapter Forme e funzioni dell’ironia in Libera nos a malo
(2024)
Irony is the most evident stylistic trait in Meneghello’s writing and personality. Widely recognized by critics, and by the author himself, it appears first and foremost as a mechanism for controlling emotion and opposing ...
Chapter Gli studi statistici e demografici
(2025)
A history of the social sciences over the last 100 years cannot ignore the relationship between scientific research and intellectual and academic debate on the one hand, and political events and ideologies on the other. ...
Chapter Decomposing tourists’ sentiment from raw NL text to assess customer satisfaction
(2021)
The importance of the Word of Mouth is growing day by day in many topics. This phenomenon is evident in everyday life, e.g., the rise of influencers and social media managers. If more people positively debate specific ...
Chapter L’agro-ecologia come supporto fondativo dell’eco-territorialismo
(2023)
Agroecology stems from the intelligence of territories; it is a contextualised process of active and participatory cultural, scientific, technological and social elaboration. It can provide a founding humus for eco-territorialism ...
Chapter Careening areas in marinas, anchorages, and private shipyards. Status of implementation of the MSFD measure
(2020)
Ship careening, which consists of stripping antifouling paint, generates waste. These residues contain different chemical contaminants that can have an impact on the marine environment. The implementation of the Marine ...
Chapter Comunità online e sviluppo professionale degli insegnanti: riflessioni sul caso di eTwinning nel quadro di un approccio data-informed
(2022)
This paper investigates the potential of data-mediated reflective practice for teachers, members of the eTwinning professional community, within a research strategy that explores big data in education. The chapter begins ...
Chapter La struttura territoriale della bioregione urbana: pianificare sistemi multipolari autosostenibili e solidali. Il caso della Puglia
(2023)
The concept of urban bioregion provides an interpretive and design perspective to the critical vision of planetary urbanisation, pursuing the recovery of co-evolutionary relations between human settlement and the environment ...
Chapter Kubaba and other Divine Ladies of the Syro-Anatolian Iron Age: Developmental Trajectories, Local Variations, and Interregional Interactions
(2023)
Already by the Late Bronze Age, culturally distinct cults of Kubaba existed throughout the region controlled by the Hittite Empire. After the fall of the empire and the fragmentation of the political landscape of the ...
Chapter Arte, storia e prestigio. Per un’introduzione alla ‘ritrattistica genealogica’: la serie Guadagni di Firenze
(2020)
The paper describes the interesting and widespread phenomenon of genealogic portraiture in Florence by analyzing the case of the Guadagni family and its series of portraits. The series was commissioned during the mid-Seventeenth ...
Chapter Guiding at University. The Protagonists’ Point of View
(2018)
Starting from both an Italian phenomenological perspective and some international works that develop the guidance theme in the direction of ‘educational guidance’, this chapter will briefly present the aims, instruments, ...
Chapter Adalberto Alves e l'aforisma
(2020)
The aphorism is the literary form choosen by the Portuguese poet Adalberto Alves in the collection A presença dos dias / La presenza dei giorni. The essay aims to analyse the concept of aphorism in Adalberto Alves with an ...
Chapter Un’educazione all’umano. Letteratura e ideologia in Claudio Magris
(2021)
The essay discusses Magris’ idea of literature through his theoretical interventions. In particular, it addresses the crucial issue in the writer’s work, concerning the complex relationship between political commitment and ...
Chapter Tradutor como mediador cultural. A tradução de intertextos e expressões idiomáticas em Subtilezas e crueldade da cozinha chinesa de Maria Ondina Braga
(2022)
Yao Jing Ming’s article deals with a deep reflection on translation problems from Chinese to Portuguese languages, analysing some specifical examples of idiomatic expressions and intertextual aspects concerning a Maria ...
Chapter Il principe selvaggio (1695) de Francesco Silvani: una curiosa taracea de motivos del teatro áureo español
(2020)
In this paper, I intend to find out which texts inspired the libretto by Francesco Silvani, Il principe selvaggio (1695), whose events, according to the author, are taken "from the Fasti of Castile". The examination of the ...
Chapter Manifesto della Public History of Education. Una proposta per connettere ricerca accademica, didattica e memoria sociale
(2019)
Public History is a great resource that belongs not only to historians, but to all those who, specialists or non-specialists, starting from their specific cultural skills, intend to adopt its dialogical style, social ...
Chapter Il progetto bioregionale dell'Île-de-France: una proposta per la ricomposizione ecoterritoriale della Grande Parigi
(2023)
In the face of the disproportionate “Greater Paris” operation and its unreasonable rhetoric, the “Biorégion Île-de-France 2050” vision tries to anticipate in project a trend already underway in things: namely, the ...
La traiettoria storica dell’Etiopia di Meles Zenawi
(2022)
The present study analyzes the historical framework of contemporary Ethiopia. Particular attention is given to the economic and political events from the regime change in 1991 to the death of TPLF leader Meles Zenawi in ...
Chapter Dall’intuizione all’immersione: architettura e neuroscienze
(2021)
Argues that architect’s have a moral imperative to transform and support living conditions and recommends a hippocratic oath for architects to recognise their responsibility to support human wellbeing. A value change needs ...
Chapter Il potenziale corporeo nell’azione didattica
(2022)
The stimulating reflections in the field of the new cognitive sciences have added breath of life to studies on didactics towards an original reinterpretation of educational practices based on the valorization of the body ...
Chapter Textiles Market in 16th-Century Seville: Business and Mercantile Groups
(2019)
This work offers a new interpretation about the main groups implicated in the textile trade in Seville during the 16th century, proposing a new chronology concerning the substitution processes happened between them and the ...
Chapter Poggio and Other Book Hunters
(2020)
Seeking out rare and precious texts, or book hunting, was a favorite pursuit of the Renaissance humanists, but the activity had been practiced with enthusiasm (and often guile) since antiquity. This paper discusses the ...
Chapter L’impatto del Service-Learning su docenti e educatori
(2022)
The poster describes the first phase of a research on the impact of Service-Learning on in-service and future teachers and educators, as mentioned in the research questions. This study started with a literacy review about ...
Chapter Presentazione - Una costellazione di saperi per l’autogoverno e la cura dei luoghi come beni comuni
(2023)
To become more than a mere intellectual construction, eco-territorialism requires that each science involved looks critically at its own disciplinary boundaries and explores border zones rich of fruitful contaminations, ...
Chapter Attraverso la porta di Lisbona: i generi coloniali volano del commercio luso-genovese tra XVII e XVIII secolo
(2019)
Approaching the subject from a diachronic perspective, the essay sets out to outline a chronology of the Mediterranean prominence in the sugar trade considering port activity and commercial elites. Studies carried out so ...
Models and analysis of vocal emissions for biomedical applications
(2005)
This book of Proceedings collects the papers presented at the 4th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications, MAVEBA 2005, held 29-31 October 2005, Firenze, Italy. The ...
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 ...
Firms and System Competitiveness in Italy
(2009)
Recent evolution of the Italian industrial system shows how the concepts of localization/delocalization of economic production processes have very little to do with geographical and administrative borders. In this context, ...
Maria Skłodowska Curie: the obstinate self-sacrifice of a genius
(2017)
«Luigi Dei takes a very personal approach to presenting the life and achievements of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, setting them in the broader context of the history of science and European culture between the nineteenth and ...
Schopenhauer educatore?
(2012)
The book investigates the reflection of Arthur Schopenhauer on education, calling to mind some of the great figures who have underlined his value as educator: Nietzsche of the Third Untimely Meditation, Hadot and Foucault ...
Chapter Quattro viaggi nel tempo, rimanendo in città: cronotopi nella narrativa brasiliana contemporanea
(2021)
If the concept of time-space, associated to the travel, usually refers to a space-temporal changing from a subject, the aim of this work is to reflect on the possibility to use the same concept for a different process, ...
Chapter Un’anonima relazione delle piramidi d’Egitto del 1743. Appunti preliminari in vista dell’edizione critica del ms. α. G. 5. 27 (BEUMo)
(2021)
This paper provides news of the rediscovery of a new Travel Report in Egypt (with a description of the Pyramids) dated 1743. In view of the critical edition of the document, will be deepened the context of the re-discovery, ...
Chapter Sguardo di confine. Qualche riflessione a partire dalla contemporaneità russa
(2019)
Facing the present in relation to the past, the “outsideness” of Italian Slavic studies can be seen to represent a liminal space between the self and the Other. This article discusses how the image of the Russian poet, who ...
Chapter «Li vostri che tenghono li libri non sanno tenere tanti chonnti». Useful knowledge and accounting as seen through the accountant’s lenses and the logic of capitalism
(2023)
Knowledge of accounting before the evolution of academic economic knowledge was practical knowledge. In the context of the studies about the development of accounting techniques, the debates leave out the bookkeeper. The ...
Chapter L’azione educativa dell’ANPI per la formazione dei cittadini dentro e fuori la scuola
(2022)
The paper highlights some of the initiatives the ANPI carried on in schools for spreading knowoledge about the Resistance movement. The contribution shows the objectives that guide ANPI and its action.
Il giudizio nell’estrazione del terzo molare inferiore
(2022)
The scientific literature and clinical dental practice have in the extraction of the lower third molar an area of wide interest. In fact, parallel to the presence of prejudices and false beliefs on the part of patients, ...
Chapter The Edict Issued by the Hittite King Ḫattušili III Concerning the Priesthood of the Goddess Ištar/Šaušga
(2023)
This essay presents an updated edition of the Hittite document KBo 6.29+. This text is a royal edict issued by Ḫattušili III and establishes that the sanctuary of the Goddess Šaušga will be exempted from any levies. The ...
Chapter «Robbe d’Europa»: Global Connections and the Mailing of Letters, Money, and Merchandise in the Eighteenth-Century China Mission
(2023)
Manuscript reports and letters written in China by the Propaganda Fide and Jesuit missionaries criss-crossed the oceans and the continents to reach Europe on ships, carts, horses, mules, and palanquins, using both European ...
Chapter Lagoon scenarios for the Bassa Friulana plain: a flooding archipelago
(2020)
The paper first focuses on morphological history of a landscape unit, consisting of biological deserts and wrecks of the endangered landscape. Secondly, it analyzes and elaborates hydrological scenarios to explore and ...
Chapter Due autobiografie a confronto: Život i priključenija di Dositej Obradović e Žitije di Gerasim Zelić
(2019)
Dositej Obradović’s Život i priključenija is generally considered the symbolic herald of modern Serbian literature, a paradigmatic text which affected many later writers, including Gerasim Zelić. The paper compares Dositej’s ...
Politiques pour la coopération régionale dans le domaine de l'éducation tout au long de la vie
(2010)
Ce document constitue le Papier d'orientation des projet Politiques Precoll pour la Coopération Régionale dans le domaine de l'Education tout au long de la vie, mené par l'Université de Florence (Italie)-Département de ...
Chapter Evaluation and monitoring of the Livorno’s Fossi System
(2020)
The ditches and canals of Livorno, also called Fossi, are the most characterized elements the city, not only from a historical point of view, but also and above all from an urban landscape characterization point of view. ...
Chapter Enhancing Collaboration with Blockchain-Enabled Digital Twins: Perspectives from Stakeholders in the Built Environment
(2023)
This study explores the potential of Blockchain (BC)-enabled Digital Twins (DT) using qualitative semi-structured interviews to investigate the perception of stakeholders in the Architectural, Engineering, Construction and ...
Chapter Bruno Trentin al Parlamento europeo: macroeconomia ed elementi di socialismo
(2023)
The essay focuses on Trentin's theoretical elaboration and action in the European Parliament. Starting with his involvement in the "Spinelli Group," it analyzes the relationship between work and knowledge conceived as an ...
Chapter La città e il vulcano. Il comune di Como e le conseguenze dell’eruzione del Samalas (1257-1260)
(2021)
The essay examines some measures taken by the commune of Como between 1257 and 1260, relating to the maintenance of roads and rivers and the food supply of the city, reinterpreting them as timely and effective responses ...
Chapter Reducing inconsistency in AHP by combining Delphi and Nudge theory and network analysis of the judgements: an application to future scenarios
(2021)
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a Multi-Criteria method in which a number of decision factors (typically criteria and alternatives) are compared pairwise by one or more experts, using the Saaty scale, with the goal ...
Chapter Aspetto verbale e referenza nominale
(2016)
The paper attempts to examine the relation between the verbal aspect in the Slavic languages and the referential status of nominal arguments of the predicate. As is well known, Slavic languages (except Bulgarian and ...