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Le lauree honoris causa per gli 80 anni dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze
(2005)
On the occasions of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of Florence University, each Faculty was invited by the Academic Senate to nominate a figure of international standing as recipient of an honorary degree. This ...
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 Vescovi e signori rurali nella regione trentino-tirolese tra XIV e XV secolo
(2023)
The essay illustrates the progressive weakening of the figure of the prince-bishop of Trento, feudal lord of most of the holders of castle lordships in the Trentino area. During the fourteenth century and especially the ...
Chapter Dalle strutture del racconto al modello culturale del lignaggio nobiliare: la Vita Mathildis di Donizone in contesto
(2024)
The famous dedication miniature of the Vita Mathildis by Donizo of Canossa and most of the programmatic paratexts of this historiographical work refer to a courtly space as communicative context: the entourage of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 Determinants of social startups in Italy
(2021)
The so called "Startup Act" (Decree Law 179/2012, converted into Law 221/2012), has introduced in Italy the notion of innovative companies with a high technological value, denoted as the innovative startups. Among them, ...
Five Albanian Villages
(2020)
This book is the result of a research project designed and carried out at the Department of Architecture, University of Florence. This research was based on the transfer of knowledge from members of the Albanian Diaspora ...
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 ...
Chapter Predoni a casa nostra e il geografo solidale: Massimo Quaini tra terra e acqua
(2021)
In accordance with the main goals of this collection of essays in honour of Massimo Quaini, the text focuses on a peculiar character of the Ligurian geographer’s sensibility, his attention to landscape protectionresearch ...
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, ...
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 ...
Chapter Descartes on Selfhood, Conscientia, the First Person and Beyond
(2023)
I discuss Descartes’ metaphysics of selfhood, and relevant parts of contemporary philosophy regarding the first person. My two main concerns are the controversy that surrounds Descartes’ conception of conscientia, mistranslated ...