Publications
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I conventi degli ordini mendicanti nel Montefeltro medievale
(2012)
The remains in Montefeltro of the material structures of the medieval mendicant orders still constitute a fresh archive of data useful for casting light on the formal and technological transformations that took place in ...
Chapter L’impianto metodologico e il disegno di ricerca di una tesi dottorale sulla percezione di employability dei neolaureati dei Corsi di Laurea Magistrale dell’area della formazione non-teaching
(2024)
Doing research in Higher Education means taking care of the different needs of students in order to transform the educational conditions to improve the living and working contexts (Federighi, 2018) and to respond to the ...
Chapter Ricerca e formazione sul Service-Learning per lo sviluppo delle competenze dei docenti nel curricolo di educazione civica
(2024)
The contribution describes an exploratory study, part of a broader doctoral research, in which a training experience on the Service-Learning (SL) approach for implementing the civic education curriculum was carried out. ...
Il territorio, il codice, la rappresentazione
(2005)
What are the cognitive and expressive choices involved in the concrete practices of creation of graphical representations of the territory? And what is the effectiveness of graphics in the government of the territory and ...
Chapter Da Antero de Quental a Mário Soares: dal pensiero alla politica sociale nella vertigine della democrazia portoghese
(2023)
The future has always been the destiny of men of action. We note the roots of the thought and fiction of the Portuguese socialist leader, Mário Soares, in the references of the political thought of Antero de Quental and ...
Teorie sociologiche alla prova
(2009)
Intellectual integrity and a challenge to rhetoric are the two strategic objectives of those who take up the hazardous path of sociological knowledge. This book does not presume to respond fully, but at least attempts to ...
MUSINT 2
(2016)
Musint 2 is a text to be read, accompanying the new MUSINT II website, following and innovating the general features of the previous MUSINT. But, as the two on-line projects differ in both technical aspects and content ...
Social and Institutional Innovation in Self-Organising Cities
(2022)
Today’s scenario is characterized by a global connectivity space where uninterrupted streams of information, people, and goods flow, through multi-scale socio-economic processes. All of this requires rethinking well-accepted ...
Chapter Chiamami con il mio nome: la carriera alias all’università
(2023)
After defining the alias career and outlining its legal basis, the article comments on its diffusion in the Italian and international university context. It then dwells on the case of the University of Florence, discussing ...
Towards a New Curriculum: The DEREC Experience
(2009)
This volume presents the experience of developing a new undergraduate curriculum on "Environmental and Resources Engineering" at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje in FYR Macedonia, in the framework of the ...
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 ...
Chapter Le dinamiche del mecenatismo signorile negli spazi sacri: un percorso per riconsiderare le geografie e le gerarchie del patronage artistico in Italia?
(2023)
The paper aims to outline some of the strategies of aristocratic patronage in sacred spaces in the Italian peninsula. The commissioning of elaborate marble funerary monuments, the choice of location for chaplaincies or ...
Chapter Constructing Territoriality “From Below”: Collective Action, Micropolitics, and Landscape in the Duero Plateau (Tenth–Eleventh centuries)
(2024)
The aim of this article is to analyse patterns of territoriality constructed “from below”, based on evidence drawn from a wide range of territories, which were held together by the presence of local initiatives instead of ...
Le lingue della Chiesa
(2018)
In the central centuries of the Modern Age, Latin was the official language of the Church of Rome, but from the analysis of papal edicts and decrees, it emerges that Vernacular was preferred as common language. While ...
Economics of Institutions and Law
(2017)
This book provides a set of lectures for an intermediate course in Public economics devoted to four topics, in many elements related each other. The first one is the Economics of institutions and political economy, as a ...
A Glance at Work
(2012)
The topics of work flexibility, precarious jobs, and the relationship between work, the market and production are subjects that are widely debated in the sociological, philosophical, economic and political spheres. Yet ...
Studio sulla contaminazione ambientale delle acque causata dall'escrezione umana dei farmaci
(2007)
The use of substances for pharmaceutical use, either as disinfectants or used clinically for diagnostic purposes, cosmetic products or personal hygiene, is widespread in all areas of daily and working life. Recently, the ...
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 ...
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 Marx e la concezione del lavoro
(2024)
The article analyzes the centrality of the question of work in the thought of Karl Marx, focusing in particular on the role that work has in the Marxian conception of man and in the materialistic understanding of history. ...
Social capital, economic growth and well-being
(2012)
In the long run economic growth does not improve people's well-being. Traditional theories – adaptation and social comparisons – explain this evidence, but they don't explain what shapes the trend of subjective well-being ...
Development of novel ultrasound techniques for imaging and elastography. From simulation to real-time implementation
(2013)
Ultrasound techniques offer many advantages, in terms of ease of realization and patients’ safety. The availability of suitable hardware and software tools is condicio sine qua non for new methods testing. This PhD project ...
Chapter L’innovazione degli approcci sociologici per una prospettiva eco-territorialista
(2023)
Eco-territorialism focuses its proposal on the relationship between environmental issues and the territory. For sociology, this is a partly unprecedented challenge. Indeed, environmental sociology has never taken an explicit ...
La Götterlehre di Karl Philipp Moritz. Nell’officina del linguaggio mitopoietico degli antichi
(2020)
The unpublished translation of Götterlehre (1791) by K.Ph. Moritz presents the mythopoietic process of the Ancients by means of the tale of the origins of the numinous and of its ekfrastic structuring into the great mythical ...
Chapter Storia della collaborazione tra Wikidata e le biblioteche della Rete URBE nel controllo di autorità
(2024)
The contribution draws a history of the presence of the identifiers of the authority records of the URBE network libraries in Wikidata, and of the collaboration that has evolved since 2020 between the Wikidata community ...
Invarianti strutturali nel governo del territorio
(2014)
The introduction of the concept of structural invariant in territorial and urban planning has encountered numerous application problems. The purpose of this work is to investigate the reasons and formulate a new definition ...
Reti marittime come fattori dell’integrazione europea / Maritime Networks as a Factor in European Integration
(2019)
This wide-ranging theme takes Braudel’s concept of the “Mediterranean” as its starting point. Braudel’s vision of an enclosed sea as a geographical opportunity for economic integration between nations with different ...
Riflessi d’Oriente
(2021)
The book discusses the experience of two Florentine travellers in the Levant from the 1760s to 1792. During their separate stays in Cyprus and in Istanbul they visited the Holy Land, Anatolia and Mesopotamia providing ...
Chapter Il ‘peso’ della dimensione economica nella costruzione del diritto del lavoro
(2024)
The article analyses the relationship between social rights and the economic dimension in the construction of labour law through an ongoing dialogue with Riccardo Del Punta's writings on the subject, focusing in particular ...
Chapter Lords, Peasantries and the remuneration of labour services in the Southern Low Countries, 13th-18th centuries
(2024)
In the late medieval and early modern Southern Low Countries, servile work gradually disappeared in most lordships. This contribution researches how and why unfree labour persisted in a minority of seigneuries. The main ...
Chapter A proposito del Khazneh al-Faroun
(2024)
One of the most famous monuments of Petra is considered by questioning its nature as a sepulchral monument, generally accepted. In the light of its architecture and its topographical location, other possible functions are ...
Attraversamento di luoghi simbolici. Petrarca, il bosco e la poesia
(2021)
Adelia Noferi (1922-2014) was one the greatest scholars of Petrarch, Bruno, and D’Annunzio and twentieth-century poetry, as well as one of the most refined theorists of the twentieth century and its poetics. This book ...
Ingegneri & Ingegneria a Firenze
(2013)
The initial idea for this volume was born while rethinking the organisation of the University of Florence following the recent reform, with the aim of retracing the evolution of the Faculty of Engineering throughout its ...
Chapter Comprendere un testo su carta o su schermo: il ruolo delle Funzioni Esecutive in età scolare
(2024)
The literature indicates a disadvantage of reading comprehension in digital mode compared to reading comprehension in print mode. The shallowing hypothesis explains this disadvantage by suggesting that on digital, readers ...
Intellettuali e uomini di regime nell’Italia fascista
(2019)
Intellettuali e uomini di regime nell’Italia fascista. This volume collects nine essays on political, economic and legal culture in Italy during fascism. The reconstruction of prominent personalities of the regime, such ...
Chapter Lavoro e amore in Max Scheler. Per la reintegrazione del lavoro nell’intero dell’essere e della vita
(2024)
In his Preface to the second edition of Formalism (1921), Scheler showed no doubts: the false heroism of duty and work, taught widely in German philosophy starting with Kant, is at the origin of the betrayal of joy and ...
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 ...
Diversamente scienza
(2020)
This work originates from the conference organized by the Equity and Diversity Committee of the University of Florence and the National Conference of the Gender Parity Organisms of the Italian Universities held in Florence ...
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 ...
Il piccolo Pantheon
(2018)
In Paris, the Little Pantheon is the theatre on rue de Chartres which, together with other showrooms, competed with the great Pantheon on rue Soufflot between the 18th and 19th century. The Little Pantheon introduced the ...