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Chapter Luoghi impliciti
(2021)
This short article aims to stimulate a rethinking of the deep cultural sedimentations that do not emerge on the surface of Claudio Magris’ critical and narrative work. In this case we are dealing with books, writers, and ...
Chapter Gli archivi delle famiglie signorili trentine
(2023)
The historical vicissitudes of the stately Trentino and Tyrolean archives are extremely complex. Archives have long been preserved in castles and aristocratic homes (and in some cases still are); until the end of the 19th ...
Russia, Oriente slavo e Occidente europeo. Fratture e integrazioni nella storia e nella civiltà letteraria
(2017)
The present book addresses a wide range of problems concerning the history of Eastern Slavic culture in its interaction with cultural models of Western Europe. This collective work is the final result of the French-Italian ...
Chapter Ascetism and Incontinence and Dostoevsky’s Gift of Tears
(2023)
In Dostoevsky’s binary poetics, an opposition can be drawn between two fundamental stances – asceticism and incontinence. Ascetics adhere to an ethos of self-restraint in response to the desires of the flesh. Incontinents ...
Chapter Error of the Heretic, Error of the Controversialist. Error and Deception in Sixteenth-Century Religious Polemics
(2023)
In a confessional age in which Catholics and Protestants accused each other (and for a long time) of misinterpreting the Holy Scriptures and deceiving the faithful, some churchmen made religious controversy their life’s ...
Chapter Gli scenari
(2020)
Chapter seven analyzes some of the most relevant future scenarios, regarding population, energy resources, public health, inequality, democracy on a national scale and forms of social power. On the population, evidences ...
Chapter Аспекты рецепции русской литературы в Италии периода фашизма
(2023)
Aspects of the reception of Russian culture and literature in Italy during the fascist period. Many studies are dedicated to the reception of Russian literature in Italy with a really extensive bibliography on specific ...
Chapter Lost in the Woods: Francis Bacon’s Errant Pathways in Knowledge
(2023)
Recovering Bacon’s valorization of error can shed light on his epistemology as a whole, and even on that of research more generally. Bacon is often known popularly as having established a scientific method to direct inquiry ...
Chapter Building’s Twin Reconstruction
(2023)
The work shows a process that starts from the digitization of cultural heritage and through analysis arrives at the subsequent diachronic holographic representation. The object of the study was the creation of two holograms ...
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 ...
Storia di un dottorato: storia medievale nell'Università di Firenze
(2003)
The PhD course in Mediaeval History of the University of Florence is one of the oldest in the Italian university circuit. Founded in 1983 by Girolamo Arnaldi, Elio Conti and Raoul Manselli, all the cycles of the courses ...
Chapter Il tempo di Leonardo fra territorio e modernità
(2023)
Leonardo’s life and work coincide with the time the modern world was born, involving a strong change in the relationship with the territory and an acceleration of human subjugation of nature. Leonardo’s artistic and technical ...
Chapter Employability as a Global Norm: Comparing Transnational Employability Policies of OECD, ILO, World Bank Group, and UNESCO
(2020)
This article analyses transnational policies on employability to understand the development of employability as a global norm and reflects about its consequences for stakeholders in the field of lifelong learning.
Chapter Application of Smart Technologies for Assessing Users’ Well-Being for Immersive Design Strategies: A State-of-the-Art Review
(2023)
As never before, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the effectiveness of the digital design strategies on the user’s well-being has been questioned. However, a research branch astride digital design and neuroscience able to ...
Chapter Digesting the foreign. Food and Eating in the works of Tawada Yōko
(2021)
This paper aims at analyzing the representation of food and eating in seminal works by Japanese author Tawada Yōko. The first part of this contribution will analyze the connection between food and metamorphosis, focusing ...
Chapter L’Ateneo e l’Arno
(2024)
In this chapter we will address, with quick notes, some research projects that the University of Florence has undertaken and which have seen the Arno basin as a subject of study, in order to define lines of governance and ...
Chapter Genoa: Colonizing and Colonized City? The Port City as a Pole of Attraction for Foreign Merchants (16th-18th centuries)
(2019)
As Michel Balard pointed out with reference to the late Middle Ages and to the relations between Genoa and overseas cities, “Genoa, a colonizer in the East, is colonized by the Orientals”. The aim of this work is to verify ...
Chapter Il Laurenziano Pluteo 42, 3 e la tradizione caratterizzante del Decameron
(2021)
The aim of this article is to illustrate the most relevant results of the philological and textual analysis that I accomplished on a witness of Boccaccio’s Decameron, MS. Firenze, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 42, 3. ...
L’archivio del Regio Istituto delle Signore Montalve alla Quiete di Firenze
(2022)
The Royal Institute of Signore Montalve alla Quiete was born between 1885 and 1886, by the union of the two congregations founded by the venerable Eleonora Ramirez de Montalvo: the Montalve di Ripoli and the Montalve alla ...
Chapter Solidarietà, doveri e cittadinanza europea
(2022)
Europe has been constituted as a community of rights, freedom and equality, but has so far been unable to provide an adequate cultural and regulatory elaboration of the principle of solidarity, an essential tool for the ...
Antonio Rinaldi. Un intellettuale nella cultura del Novecento
(2014)
Antonio Rinaldi, un intellettuale nella cultura del Novecento (Antonio Rinaldi, an intellectual in twentieth century culture) gives new shape the figure of an artist who is only apparently of secondary importance, starting ...
Disturbi del comportamento alimentare: dagli stili di vita alla patologia
(2002)
The Conference, of which the volume constitutes the Proceedings, represented a significant meeting point between psychological and social research experiences (aimed at outlining behaviours and trends), and aspects of ...
Chapter Note al testo e alla traduzione
(2022)
The aim of this article is to offer a textual analysis of the short stories translated by Silvia Cavalletto and some very interesting notes regarding the Chinese translation of A China fica ao lado
Chapter Da un segno a tanti segni. L’emergere della polisemia del termine disegno nelle traduzioni tedesche delle Vite di Vasari
(2023)
This chapter focuses on the German translations of La Vita of Raffaello by Vasari. Ballestracci focuses her attention on translations into German of the word «disegno», on its complex and multifaceted meanings and its ...
Lourdes: storie di miracoli
(2016)
The aim of this work is to identify the factors which contributed to create Lourdes' success. This analysis starts from the comparison between the 18 apparitions in Lourdes with some similar and contemporary episodes ...
Chapter Vie e voci delle diaspore nella narrativa di Claudio Magris
(2021)
Diaspora is one of the most important themes in Claudio Magris’ works, including its interrelations with issues of exile, emigration, deportation. The Jewish Diaspora is the main topic of many of Magris’ essays and essayistic ...
Chapter Comparative Adult and Continuing Education: A Guiding Essay
(2020)
This paper provides a guide for developing a research design for comparative studies in adult and continuing education. To that end, a research methodology will be presented that was developed at the COMPALL and INTALL ...
Chapter Integration Between Enterprise Resource Planning and Building Information Modelling
(2023)
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an integrated business management system aimed at monitoring and maximizing resources and efficiency; on the other hand, Building Information Modelling (BIM) represents a broad series ...
«Fiere vicende dell’età di mezzo»
(2021)
With the present Festschrift written in times of pandemic, the authors wish to honour and thank Gian Maria Varanini, paying tribute to him on the occasion of his retirement from the University. Varanini is a great scholar, ...
Chapter The Student Voice in Higher Education and the Implications of Promoting Faculty Development
(2018)
This chapter presents a literature overview of the student voice in higher education, the main results from a three-year research project conducted at five Italian universities with the aim of investigating students’ voices ...
Adult Education and Social Justice: International Perspectives
(2023)
This book investigates the ways in which the social purposes of adult education are (re)interpreted over time, and between the global south and global north. It brings together thirty-seven authors from fourteen countries ...
Un carteggio di fine secolo
(2006)
The correspondence between Renato Fucini and Emilia Peruzzi, which embraces a period of time comprised between 1871 and 1899, provides a colourful picture of late nineteenth-century Florentine and Italian society. Parading ...
Chapter Antecedenti, origini e tratti caratterizzanti della Public History in Italia
(2019)
The essay outlines an excursus on the historical origins and precedents of Public History (PH) practices in Italy, around three main themes: Cultural Heritage; School and University; Territory. National conferences are ...
Luigi Meneghello
(2017)
Between Luigi Meneghello's writing and the natural world there is an implicit yet profound bound, destined to reverberate in the folds of the text, giving rise to unprecedented and transversal readings. And eco-criticism, ...
Dalla misurazione dei servizi alla customer satisfaction
(2004)
Activities for the evaluation of the Florence University Library System have recently materialised in a customer satisfaction survey. The book recounts this experience and illustrates its premises, the phases of implementation, ...
Chapter Pyrgi: analysis of possible climatic effects on a coastal archaeological site
(2020)
This work refers to an interdisciplinary study on the archaeological site of Pyrgi, an Etruscan harbour still under excavation, located on the Lazio’s coast in Santa Severa, in the province of Rome. The objective of the ...
Chapter Digital Twins for Smart Decision Making in Asset Management
(2023)
This study discusses the classification of Digital Twins (DTs) and their use in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industry, the differences between building information modeling (BIM) and ...
Il racconto e il romanzo filosofico nella modernità
(2013)
In the first pages of the Zibaldone, Leopardi had noted that the "love of learning" induces a passion for philosophy, making it a foundational element of modern culture. In this perspective, then, no doubt remains as to ...
Ragioni d'amore
(2005)
This text proposes a rereading of the Decameron that traces the female figures - 'constrained' as we are told in the Proem, by the 'wishes', 'desires' and 'orders' of fathers, mothers, brothers and husbands - in their ...
Chapter Developing Active Citizenship Through Adult Learning and Education. Experiences from an INTALL Winter School Comparative Working Group
(2020)
Active citizenship became a research issue for adult learning and education in 1995 when the Council of Ministers decided to make 1996 the Year of Lifelong Learning. Moreover, the Lisbon programme, in the year 2000, ...
Educazione degli Adulti: politiche, percorsi, prospettive
(2022)
The volume is made of a series of eighteen studies, all related to the key issues connected to the personal and professional path Paolo Federighi had in more than forty years. This is the time frame he dedicated to adult ...
Il nuovo romanzo
(2013)
The systematic examination of the fluctuations in the definition of the terms "neo-avant-garde" and "post-modern" is at the base of this study, which therefore evolves through the comparative analysis of different contexts, ...
Study and design of topologies and components for high power density DC-DC converters
(2016)
Size reduction of low power electronic DC–DC converters is a topic of major interest for power electronics which requires the study and design of circuits and components working under redefined requirements. For this ...
Chapter Regina della Scala e Bernabò Visconti. Progetti di affermazione dinastica nel dominio visconteo
(2021)
The figure of Regina della Scala, Bernabò Visconti’s wife, is here reconsidered on the basis of available chronicles and documents. About her political agency, Regina was often involved by her husband in a “joint dominion” ...
L'arte del libro in Germania fra Otto e Novecento
(2011)
This book addresses a subject of great interest for German culture, and that of Europe in general: the emergence and development in Germany, indicatively between 1890 and 1930, of an eclectic pan-artistic movement aimed ...
PROGETTO STREAMING - STRategiE di mitigazione e gestione dei rischi AMbientalI: casi di studio Nel territorio reGionale Toscano
(2022)
The STREAMING project (STRategiE di mitigazione e gestione dei rischi AMbientalI: casi di studio Nel territorio reGionale Toscano) was funded by POR FSE 2014-2020. The project supported five post-doc on five different case ...
Chapter The offshore environmental impact by Sarno river in Naples bay (South-West Italy)
(2020)
The goal of this work has been to establish the influence of the Sarno river on the present sedimentation in the Naples bay continental shelf by evaluating organic matter contribution and pollution. Sediments samples were ...
The Shade of the Saguaro / La sombra del saguaro
(2013)
This volume springs from that fruitful project of scientific cooperation between the humanities departments of Università di Firenze and University of Arizona which was the Forum for the Study of the Literary Cultures of ...
Chapter Quantifying the Confidence in Models Outputted by Scan-To-BIM Processes
(2023)
3D spatial data is increasingly employed to generate Building Information Models (BIMs) by extension digital twins for various applications in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector such as project ...
Chapter First investigation of per-and poly fluoroalkylsubstances (PFAS) in striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba stranded along Tuscany coast (north western Mediterranean Sea)
(2022)
Per- and poly fluoroalkylsubstances (PFAS) were measured in liver,muscle, blood and brain of 26 stripped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba stranded along Tuscany coasts (Italy), from 2020 to 2022. Using high performance liquid ...
Chapter The Imperial Image of Theoderic: the Case of the Regisole of Pavia
(2022)
The contribution intends to retrace the history of Pavia’s famous equestrian statue, known as the “Regisole”, destroyed in 1796. The statue, in gilded bronze, represented a Roman emperor and was transferred from Rome to ...
Chapter Lo sguardo territorialista di Leonardo da Vinci fra arte, ricerca e immagine
(2023)
Leonardo’s multifaceted experience has often been celebrated as a key historical legacy placed in a distant past. However, an interdisciplinary investigation of Leonardo’s thought, studies and design intentionality, trying ...
Traslocare, riaggregare, rifondare
(2006)
This book recounts the phases in the set-up of the new Library of Social Sciences of the University of Florence. The move provided the opportunity for bringing together the collections that were scattered over seven service ...
Chapter Saramago e os valores de Sassoli: do mítico e do ético em Caim
(2023)
Cain resumes the biblical story of the genesiacs brothers to recount it in a heterodox way. Based on the canonical biblical texts, the ethical perspective of David Maria Sassoli and in ideological discourses, José Saramago ...
Chapter Potere feudale ed élite locale nel Mezzogiorno alla fine del Medioevo. Note sulla contea orsiniana di Nola
(2021)
This paper takes the cue from the sixteenth-century work of the Nolan doctor and humanist, Ambrogio Leone. In it the forms of itself perception by the political and social élite of Nola during the second half of fifteenth ...
Chapter Storia di un paradosso. Il mito di Giorgio Luti in Età Moderna
(2020)
The essay resumes, with new historical sources, the research concerning the biography of the Sienese Jesuat Giorgio Luti, the prophecy of 1491 attributed to him and the exegetical evolution of this text in the Modern Age, ...
Chapter Beach macro-litter monitoring on Monastir coastal sea (Tunisia): First Findings
(2022)
The macrolitter monitoring was investigated on 3 beaches on Monastir coastal (Palmier, Marina, Karaia) and on Kuriat Island during 4 seasons. The highest abundance and density of macrolitter were recorded on the beaches ...
Territori e piani dopo la crescita
(2021)
The purpose of the book is, on one hand, to try to trace a method and some working perspectives for post-growth planning, and on the other hand, to testify, through a concrete experience, the old and new questions and the ...
Le tesi delle prime donne laureate a Firenze
(2022)
In Italy, women have been able to graduate only since 1875; in Florence, at the end of the century, just fifteen women obtained the graduation at the Institute of Higher Studies. The Libraries of the University of Florence, ...
Chapter Il Darkweb
(2022)
The map shows the distribution of the offer of illicit products in one of the Darkweb markets.