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Flâneries, sulla traccia di ricordi e parole. Miscellanea di saggi in onore di Patrizio Collini
(2024)
In this volume, the authors celebrate Patrizio Collini’s distinguished career as a professor and as an essayist, highlighting the significant impact he left in the fields of German Studies and Comparative Literature along ...
Honos alit artes. Studi per il settantesimo compleanno di Mario Ascheri. II. Gli universi particolari
(2014)
The researches accounted in the volume, being reported by historians who had different vocations, illustrate various aspects of medieval and modern history (laws, economy, society, church and civil institutions, architecture, ...
Economia e Diritto in Italia durante il Fascismo
(2017)
The volume collects eight essays on economic and legal culture in Italy in the period between the two world wars. Some of the essays investigate the relationship between the fascist regime and intellectuals, as in the case ...
Strange spirits and even stranger bodies
(2003)
The book examines the works of three English modernists also dealing with the iconic figure of Elizabeth Tudor. They are works focusing on the queen by Giles Lytton Strachey ("Elizabeth and Essex") and Edith Sitwell ("Fanfare ...
Firenze in guerra 1940-1944
(2014)
The volume reproduces the documentary path of the exhibition Florence in the war 1940-1944 promoted by the Historical Institute of the Resistance in Tuscany on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Resistance and ...
Enrico Fermi’s IEEE Milestone in Florence. For his Major Contribution to Semiconductor Statistics, 1924-1926
(2015)
Enrico Fermi, Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1938, taught at the University of Florence just for two academic years (1924-25 and 1925-26). His research activity in these two years saw the publication of the statistics bearing ...
L’Alto Tigri nelle età del Bronzo Antico e Medio
(2016)
The region crossed by the upper course of the Tigris River, in south-eastern Turkey, has long been an area little known from an archaeological point of view. The intensification of field research, starting from the nineties ...
Un incontro lusofono plurale di lingue, letterature, storie, culture
(2018)
The volume Un incontro lusofono plurale di lingue, letterature, storie, culture (A plural Lusophone encounter of languages, literatures, stories, cultures) aims at highlighting one of the specificities of the Lusophone ...
Chapter Fish immune and oxidative stress reaction to emerging parasite in the balearic islands
(2024)
Global change has a deep impact on the distribution and prevalence of diseases in fish, leading to the emergence of new pathogens. A recent observation on Ibiza Island in the Balearic Islands highlighted the presence of ...
Il Telefono & Dintorni
(2011)
Sponsored by the University of Florence, the "National Committee for the celebrations of the bicentenary of the birth of Antonio Meucci" had multiple goals. These included: fostering a knowledge of the historic period in ...
Chapter Il rapporto medico-paziente dall’antichità a oggi: la storia di un rapporto complesso
(2024)
In this Chapter the author retraces the history of the physician-patient relationship from antiquity up to the present. The author focuses on ethical statements and pays particular attention to deontological rules of the ...
Milites elegantes. Le strutture aristocratiche nel territorio lucchese (800-1100 c.)
(2019)
Lucca occupies a special place in the history and historiography of the early Middle Ages in Italy and Europe. It was the heart of a political body of the Carolingian galaxy, namely the marque of Tuscia, which enjoyed ...
Comunicare l’Università di Firenze
(2014)
The volume presents the main results of the first two years of activity of the Laboratorio di comunicazione (Communication Laboratory) of the University of Florence, which brings together knowledge, skills and professionalisms ...
Chapter The Latium coast from Ostia to Circeo: settlement dynamics in a peculiar context
(2024)
The contribution aims to investigate the settlement dynamics of the Latium coastal stretch of approximately 100 kilometres between Ostia and Circeo. This is a strip characterized by peculiar geomorphological and hydrographic ...
I Balcani occidentali tra romanico e bizantino
(2020)
This volume focuses on the ecclesiastical architecture of 12th-century Nemaniad origins (Mother of God, Saint Nicholas and Saint George) by examining the layout preferences of the client and the workforce of diverse cultural ...
Chapter Alles neu? Die Londoner und Hallenser Ausgaben der neugriechischen Übersetzung des Neuen Testaments (1703, 1705 und 1710) als Produkte interkonfessioneller Diskurse und missionarischer Netzwerke
(2024)
This paper explores the nexus between the use of the modern Greek language and interconfessional transfer, focusing on the early modern vernacular Greek editions of the New Testament. The point of reference for later ...
Chapter Funzioni dell’ironia nei Piccoli maestri
(2024)
After a brief introduction concerning the theme of irony in Meneghello’s essay production, this essay focuses on I piccoli maestri. It traces the main functions of irony in the novel: to deflate the rhetoric of deflating ...
Dessin, Design, Projet
(2023)
The contributions gathered in this book are from the eponymous international symposium held in Paris in 2019. They discuss the relationship that drawing, design and the project, understood here as a triad, have with the ...
L’emigrazione intellettuale dall’Italia fascista
(2019)
What happened to the university teachers who were expelled after the racial laws of 1938? And what about the more numerous and less known unstructured scholars who were suspended from service? What did the students who ...
A cento anni dalla Grande Guerra. Vol. 1
(2017)
The volumes on the Great War that are here published 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 ...
Linguaggi dal margine
(2024)
“Who owns Shakespeare?” is a compelling question when one decides to delve into the relationship between the English author and experiences that share, albeit with considerable mutual differences, the category of marginality. ...
Chapter Freud: Il ‘lavoro’ dell’inconscio e i suoi riverberi psicosociali
(2024)
The author points out how meaningful the notion of psychic working is in Freud's writings, especially for the debt to a mechanical-energetic model of mind. At the end, the few hints that appear on the psychological and ...
Chapter Ученики Иоанникия и Софрония Лихудов конца XVII–начала XVIII века и развитие книгопечатного дела в России в 1691–1740 годах
(2024)
The Disciples of Ioannikiy and Sofroniy Likhudov and the Development of Book Printing in Russia, 1691-1740. The article is devoted to the social portrait of several generations of students of Ioannikios and Sophronios ...
Estetiche della percezione
(2007)
This book is a continuation of the lively debate launched in Dall'oggetto estetico all'oggetto artistico which the same editors published with Firenze University Press. The argument of the book is the organic link connecting ...
Prevenzione del mal di schiena di origine meccanica con attività motoria e comportamentale
(2014)
This volume aims at becoming a basic scientific text; by studying the biomechanics of a healthy spine and carrying out a morpho-functional examination of the subject, the possible risks of mechanical damage causing back ...
Chapter Slavi, albanesi e greci nel regno meridionale nella seconda metà del XV secolo
(2024)
The author examines the immigration of Slavs, Albanians and Greeks into the kingdom of Naples following the arrival of the Ottomans in the Balkan peninsula, paying attention to those who were responsible for their placement ...
La edición del diálogo teatral (siglos XVI-XVII)
(2021)
The contributions that compose this book were presented at the XIV Taller Internacional de Estudios Textuales (Perugia 2018), where different issues related to the transmission of Spanish Golden Age plays and its relevance ...
Papato e monachesimo "esente" nei secoli centrali del Medioevo
(2003)
In the XI-XIII centuries the monasteries experienced a bigger freedom from the interference of the dioceses and were able to benefit from the exemption to interact with the local dominant classes. This new dynamic in ...
Chapter I molti volti degli anni Ottanta nella cooperazione allo sviluppo. Nuovi paradigmi, riforme e ascesa delle Ong
(2024)
The 1980s marked a pivotal moment for development cooperation, both globally and in Italy. This chapter provides an analysis of the intertwined economic, political and social issues that shaped development assistance during ...
Chapter Identità religiose tra convivenza e conflitto. Per una lettura psicosociale de I guardiani dell’aria di Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan
(2024)
Rosa Yasin Hasan's novel Guardians of the Air (2009) offers a glimpse into Syrian society prior to the revolution and civil war that devastated the country for over a decade. The novel's central character, Anat, works as ...
Lettere di Margherita Guidacci a Mladen Machiedo
(2015)
The collection of Lettere di Margherita Guidacci a Mladen Machiedo reinterprets the author's cultural and poetic path in the light of the affinities with the Catholic writers from Florence, the bond with her area of origin, ...
Le calamità ambientali nel tardo medioevo europeo: realtà, percezioni, reazioni
(2010)
For some time historiography has set itself the objective of studying the ways in which European society in the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Age has related to environmental disasters, addressing the perceptions ...
La logica dell'evoluzione dei viventi : spunti di riflessione. Atti del XII convegno del gruppo italiano di biologia evoluzionistica: Firenze, 18-21 febbraio 2004
(2005)
The book collects the works presented during the XII meeting of the Italian Group of Evolutionary Biology, held in Florence in February 2004. Evolutionary theories are illustrated with balance from different points of view ...
Dettagli per l'involucro del terminal verde / Envelope's Details for the Green Airport Terminal
(2010)
Envelope's Details for the Green Airport Terminal is a contribution to airport design at working plan level, although its contents may be generalized and applied to the definition of performances as well as to the design ...
Chapter A multiscale analysis of the morphological setting along the susceptible coastal area of the Agri river (southern Italy)
(2024)
Assessment of coastal vulnerability to physical and anthropic processes is a crucial step in coastal risk management, especially in climate change scenarios characterized by sea level rise and increasing human pressure. ...
The Dominicans and the Making of Florentine Cultural Identity (13th-14th centuries) / I domenicani e la costruzione dell'identità culturale fiorentina (XIII-XIV secolo)
(2020)
Florence, the celebrated city-republic, dominates the historiography of medieval Italy still today. The birth and growth of the Mendicant Orders paralleled the rise of urban Europe. As attention to medieval cities has ...
Macroeconomic modelling for policy analysis
(2013)
Over the last 30 years, the Inforum approach to macro modelling has been shared by economists worldwide. Researchers have focussed much of their efforts to developing a linked system of international interindustry models ...
Chapter Le sospensioni della prestazione di lavoro per la cura di altri: alcuni spunti di riflessione
(2024)
In homage to Prof. Riccardo Del Punta, this essay analyses the rules for parental leave and time off from the labour relationship due to right to family care. This issue is faced by analysing the legislation that deals ...
Chapter Bisogni Educativi Speciali e responsabilità scolastico-territoriali: il caso dell’Unione dei Comuni della Val di Bisenzio
(2024)
Due to the particular socio-demographic characteristics, typical of the 'piedmont' territories and the multiple criticalities in the fields of transport, health, commerce and instruction/education/training, the Unione dei ...
Il paesaggio figurato
(2018)
Drawing is a powerful form of communication, and it can activate the imagery. This volume discusses two themes: the representation of landscape, where the image is used for descriptive purposes, and the prefigurement of ...
Il matriarcato slavo
(2010)
This book on Slavic matriarchy is the result of the studies and researches that Evel Gasparini carried out over the span of his lifetime. Intrigued by the possibility of a close link between the collective ownership of the ...
Ricordi. Nuova edizione e introduzione storica
(2019)
Giovanni di Pagolo Morelli’s Ricordi, long known to historians, are published here for the first time in an integral version which is also linguistically faithful to the original manuscript. This new critical edition is ...
Chapter Gli aiuti internazionali. Attori, politiche e pratiche nell’Italia repubblicana
(2024)
This chapter introduces the themes and case studies discussed in the volume and briefly delineates their historical background. It presents the variety of sources and methodological approaches adopted in the volume and ...
Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age
(2024)
Given recent global crises, the imperative to preserve and analyze online content has never been more vital to enhancing our comprehension of contemporary changes. This book, the outcome of the 5th international RESAW ...
Erudizione cittadina e fonti documentarie
(2019)
In the middle decades of the 19th century (also known as the "History century"), the archives opened to historical research in Italy as well, starting to raise new awareness on the importance of documentary sources from ...
Chapter La Giustizia è donna
(2024)
During the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan, ghost stories flourished. Some of these stories are particularly interesting for jurists analysing the Tokugawa legal system through the lens of popular culture. This article ...
Chapter La femminilizzazione dei nomi di professione e di cariche. Un problema recente?
(2024)
In the ongoing debates about the feminization of professional titles and positions, one argument against it suggests that the "demand"; to feminize such titles, when attributed to women, is a recent phenomenon that contrasts ...
Chapter Spazi e tempi della libertà economica
(2024)
The author focuses on the urban world to reformulate the question traditionally interpreted in terms of the entrepreneurial freedom of late medieval merchants: even in this context the notion of libertas, rather than ...
L’aspettualità nel contatto linguistico: lingue slave e oltre
(2023)
This volume investigates the functional-semantic field of aspectuality in relation to the role of language contact in the development of minority languages in Italy and beyond, highlighting hitherto completely unknown ...
Chapter Large-Letter Displayed Writings on Portable Media: Indirect and Direct Evidence from Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt
(2024)
This chapter focuses on a formal feature of displayed writings on portable media from Egypt, in particular whitewashed wooden tablets and papyri, namely the use of large letters. By examining a series of case studies that ...
Chapter Marriage alliances and socio-economic mobility in Venetian Crete (16th century)
(2025)
This study examines socio-economic mobility and marriage alliances in sixteenth-century Venetian Crete, focusing on the Curcumeli family from the middle social stratum (cittadini). It analyzes the marital strategies and ...
Nuove strategie per la traduzione del lessico artistico
(2023)
This collection of studies focuses on the translation of the language of art and cultural heritage in a wide variety of text types from the Renaissance to the present, following different theoretical and methodological ...
La grammatica dei clitici portoghesi
(2007)
This book represents an attempt to create a "grammar" of the Portuguese clitics, that is to illustrate their rules and particularities, to provide them with a description and to supply – through the exposition and application ...
Leggere Istanbul
(2020)
Using the metaphor of the city-text, the volume investigates in a comparative perspective the representations of Istanbul in the works of two pairs of authors: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar/Orhan Pamuk and Yaşar Kemal/Latife Tekin. ...
Chapter Matériaux pour l’étude du plurilinguisme en contexte ottoman. Le cas de Dosithée II de Jérusalem
(2024)
The Patriarch of Jerusalem, Dositheos II (1669-1707), had no classical education and was largely self-taught. Yet, he is known for his important work as an author and editor and for his many exchanges with people of different ...
Chapter Le trasformazioni nel mondo del lavoro come sfida per la giustizia. Prospettive e criteri dell’etica sociale cattolica
(2024)
The transformations of work, which were the starting point for the elaboration of Catholic social teaching in the 19th century, are still a central challenge today. However, precarious work that now seems to prevail is not ...
Evoluzione della scienza e giudizio di rimproverabilità per colpa
(2014)
The growing complexity of production phenomena is causing a progressive expansion of culpable liability assumptions. In particular, the jurisprudence dealing with long-term diseases bases the culpable reproach on scientific ...
Chapter Nel nome del neutro. Problemi e soluzioni
(2024)
The only (non-divisive) way to address the representation of linguistic gender identity is to attempt – albeit not without difficulty – a negotiation between the protection of the common linguistic norm and accommodating ...
Chapter La disciplina del controllo a distanza della prestazione lavorativa alla prova dei social network: il ruolo del principio di trasparenza
(2024)
The essay aims to dialogue with Del Punta’s work about the remote control. The transparency concept, which represents the essential guarantee to protect the dignity of the workers, will be the key of the dialogue. The same ...
Globalizzazione: e la popolazione?
(2021)
Globalization is a huge topic and here we have chosen to describe only a few pieces of a complex mosaic. Its description has a historical perspective and ranges from economic to medical, from social to demographic issues. ...
Chapter Monumental Transformations: Two Copies of a Letter from Hadrian at Aphrodisias
(2024)
How is a document transformed in the journey from text to monument? This chapter explores how the process of inscribing (or recarving) a document could impact its appearance, function, and meaning. Monumental documents ...
Cosa sono questi «appunti alla buona dall’aria innocente»?
(2014)
The construction process of ethnographic notes suffers from a lack of attention, in particular in relation to the conceptualisation of notes as an object in itself. The risk is the one of leaving one of the key aspects of ...
Riforma e profezia
(2025)
Four centuries after his death, Girolamo Savonarola came back to be the subject of lively debates in the Nineteenth Century, a period during which publications on his figure multiplied. This revival was also evident in the ...
Chapter 6. Beni librari e biblioteche di Enti locali (1971)
(2024)
In seguito al trasferimento di funzioni dallo Stato alle Regioni in materia di biblioteche di enti locali, in questo intervento l'autore si interroga sulle modalità operative e organizzative che le Regioni dovranno assumere ...
Progettare parchi agricoli nei territori intermedi
(2015)
In recent years, numerous reflections have pushed on the importance of using agricultural parks to recreate reciprocal relationships between urban and rural realities, through the enhancement of their proximity. The parks ...
Per filo e per segno
(2020)
The wool manufacture, along with the International trade and finance, was one of Florence’s leading sectors in the Late Middle Ages. The sixteenth century has been only touched by the historical-economical studies, perhaps ...
La semplificazione in Toscana
(2011)
The need for reform in Italian Public Administration is a fact that no longer calls for justification: the increasing divergence between expectations and performance in the public sector appears to expand in inverse ...
Knowing Through Consulting in Action
(2017)
Management consulting firms are often discussed as being the firms whose core product is knowledge itself. However, despite the fact that consulting firms are generally aware of the value of knowledge for their own ...
Ivan Aleksandăr (1331-1371)
(2010)
The long reign of Ivan Aleksandăr (1331-1371), the penultimate emperor of Bulgaria prior to the Turkish conquest, was marked by a series of successful military campaigns against Serbia and Byzantium and above all by an ...
Chapter I controlli della malattia
(2024)
The article addresses the topic of disease checks, starting from Del Punta's writings on "The suspension of the employment relationship" of 1992 and on "Disease checks" of 2004, analyzing the discipline provided for by the ...
Chapter Лексические омонимы и квазиомонимы (équivoques) в Грамматике французской и русской 1730 года
(2024)
Lexical Homonyms and Quasi-Homonyms (“équivoques”) in the Grammar of French and Russian of 1730. The article analyzes Russian homonyms and quasi-homonyms with a French translation from the section “Équivoques” of Grammaire ...
Chapter La circolazione e il riuso delle riproduzioni digitali del patrimonio culturale pubblico
(2025)
The digitization of cultural heritage has shifted the concept of “circulation” from material exchange to the immaterial dissemination of digital images. Article 108 of the Codice dei beni culturali e del paesaggio(Cultural ...
Chapter Il lavoro nell’operaismo italiano
(2024)
The chapter deals with a specific current of Marxist thought that took shape in the 1960s in Italy, Operaismo, also known as autonomist Marxism. Against the background of powerful workers’ struggles in the North of the ...
Chapter Lavoro e vita in Benvenuto Cellini
(2024)
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini allows us to understand what work was like for a sixteenth-century craftsman. In Cellini the activity of work detaches itself from necessity and becomes the object of a choice, of continuous ...
Chapter Introduzione. Sulla necessità di parlare di omotransfobia in accademia
(2023)
The introduction intends to focus on the importance of raising awareness in the academic community about the various forms of discrimination related to sexual orientation and gender identity, to understand the dynamics ...
Chapter Flirting and the web: The case study of Luxusbuerg
(2024)
This research examines the role of the user in shaping and defining participatory platforms during the early years of the internet and the web. The focus of the study is Luxusbuerg, a Luxembourgish chat network created in ...
Characteristics of raw and cooked fillets in species of actual and potential interest for Italian aquaculture
(2014)
Heat treatment generally induces structural changes of fish muscle and loss of nutrients. Depending on many intrinsic and extrinsic factors farmed fish qualitative attributes can be subject to changes. The aim of this study ...
Political landscapes in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: the Iberian Northwest in the Context of Southern Europe
(2024)
This book analyses the formation and dynamics of political landscapes in the early Middle Ages. The aim is to check how political action shaped these landscapes through the study of settlements and burials, “central places” ...
A South African Convivio with Dante
(2021)
This book offers a collection of South African university students’ written responses to the Commedia and scholars’ commentary on them. The students’ collection includes writings of all genres and subjects: prose, poetry, ...
Chapter La libertà del popolo. Status popularis e libertas a Firenze, Siena, Lucca e Bologna nella seconda metà del Trecento
(2024)
The author's contribution is dedicated to the Italian cities of communal tradition, which addresses a theme of long tradition, ideological as well as historiographical, namely the connection between libertas and the 'people' ...