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<i>Public History of Education</i>: riflessioni, testimonianze, esperienze
(2019)
This volume represents the founding act of a proposal for training, didactic, study and research work which aims at enhancing historical knowledge in the field of education and educational professionalism. The contributions ...
<i>Milites elegantes</i>. 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 ...
<i>Honos alit artes</i>. Studi per il settantesimo compleanno di Mario Ascheri. III. Il cammino delle idee dal medioevo all’antico regime
(2014)
The essays gathered in the volume, thanks to a long series of in-depth studies, have resulted in a closer look at many crucial milestones in the history of European legal and political philosophy, both from the perspective ...
<i>Honos alit artes</i>. Studi per il settantesimo compleanno di Mario Ascheri. IV. L’età moderna e contemporanea
(2014)
The studies included in this volume analyze the legal and social history of Europe and North America by the end of the eighteenth century to the contemporary age. The study investigates the relationship between culture and ...
<i>Nessuno poteva aprire il libro...</i>
(2019)
The initiative to offer one Festschrift to Silvano M. Danieli for his seventieth birthday pays tribute to a man and a professional whose work has left a deep mark on human relations and on the world of libraries. Silvano, ...
<i>L'uomo tutto intero</i>
(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 ...
<i>Latinitas</i> in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
(2014)
The volume contains articles concerning the influence of <i>Latinitas</i> in the territory now occupied by Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus’. The articles, all published in English, range from history to literature ...
<i>Mosty mostite</i>
(2016)
This volume intends to pay homage to Marcello Garzaniti on the occasion of his 60th birthday and thirtieth anniversary of his career, in recognition of his generous commitment in the field of research, popularisation of ...
Il '68 dei professori: l'Associazione nazionale docenti universitari, Giorgio Spini e la riforma dell'Università
(2018)
The archive of the Italian National Association of University Teachers sheds light on the little-known contribution a vanguard of university teachers gave to the reform process of Italian Universities, which started in ...
La "stereotomia scientifica" in Amédée François Frézier
(2012)
Cut-stone constructions are made of pre-hewn blocks dry assembled on top of each other. Owing to the formal complexity characteristic of these works, in order to design them it is necessary to have knowledge of the theory ...
'Guardare' il paesaggio
(2016)
This volume was born from a recognition of the experiences and warnings which were needed for the creation of a landscape observatory in Tuscany, and for the definition of the network and interactive methods which the ...
<i>Honos alit artes</i>. 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, ...
<i>Honos alit artes</i>. Studi per il settantesimo compleanno di Mario Ascheri. I. La formazione del diritto comune
(2014)
The articles collected in the book offer insights on major aspects that determined the success and development of the ”ius commune”, progressively spread out across Europe, and from Europe to those parts of the world that ...
<i>Dialogare</i>: compendio di fisica
(2017)
This compendium represents a starting point for those who wish to review the main topics of Physics in view of the admission tests to the scientific faculties. The main purpose of the text is to intrigue the reader, invite ...
<i>Dialogare</i>: compendio di matematica
(2017)
This compendium is designed as a review of basic mathematics topics and is mainly aimed at students who are looking for valuable help to integrate their knowledge and correct their deficiencies in the subject, as well as ...
<i>Dialogare</i>: compendio di chimica
(2017)
This compendium is aimed at all students who, in the transition from secondary school to university, have to face a chemistry exam in their course of study and want to fill their knowledge gaps or, simply, to review the ...
<i>Fear Appeal</i> e <i>Message Framing</i>
(2013)
Our health is largely linked to our actions, habits and lifestyles. This implies greater personal and responsibility and, at an institutional level, the possibility and the obligation to act to prevent diseases and promote ...
<i>Dialogare</i>: compendio di logica
(2017)
“Logic”, as understood in this volume, is the set of knowledge at the basis of man’s reasoning faculties: understanding, analysing, arguing. The text presents a review of topics which are useful to strengthen the skills ...
<i>Elegiarum Libri Quattuor</i>
(2019)
This volume contains the critical edition of the Latin elegies written by the most important poet of the Polish Renaissance, as well as a philological commentary . The comment, in particular, does not only refer to the ...
<i>Ars poetica</i>
(2018)
Despite the many studies on the author and the wealth of data on his academic education, relatively little was known of the high school years of Giorgio Bassani and the decisive encounters during those years. This book, ...
<i>Dialogare</i>: compendio di biologia
(2017)
The compendium collects the basic themes of biology in a very simplified form, ideally following the programmatic criteria of secondary school. The didactic program is articulated starting from the molecules that make up ...
<i>Vorrei</i>. Corso di lingua italiana di livello elementare 1 e 2
(2019)
This volume, born from the fifteen-year-long experience of teaching in classes of monolingual students from North American Universities, and born from many years of training in the fields of philosophy, linguistics and ...
<i>The relentless body</i>. L’impossibile elisione del corpo in Samuel Beckett e la <i>noluntas</i> schopenhaueriana
(2014)
The overbearing affirmation of the body, with its instincts and impulses, and an effort aimed at suppressing that same push: this powerful dialectic deeply marks Beckett's works, and becomes a crucial reflection of the ...
<i>Translatio sanctitatis</i>
(2019)
This volume analyses the phenomenon of the thefts of sacred relics in Medieval Italy, in particular through the stealthy translationes, the hagiographic stories narrating the transfer of the relics from one place to another ...
Il bilancio sociale degli enti non profit: esperienze toscane
(2005)
Social accounting is a way of measuring and assessing the economic and social results achieved by a non-profit body. It is in the light of this observation that the project "SOCIAL ACCOUNTING OF THE NON-PROFIT BODIES" has ...
BIL Bibliografia Informatizzata Leopardiana 1815-1999: manuale d'uso ver. 1.0
(2003)
La Bibliografia Informatizzata Leopardiana (BIL) è il risultato di un progetto di ricerca che ha preso forma in occasione del secondo centenario della nascita del poeta e si è sviluppato nell'arco del biennio ...
Bootstrapping Information from Corpora in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
(2010)
The achievements of Romance language corpus-driven studies deserve more attention from the scientific community at the world level for both their quantity and quality. This book contains papers given at the 3rd International ...
L'autonomia di apprendimento
(2010)
This book presents the most significant contributions of the fifth edition of the <i>Study Days on didactic materials (foreign)</i>, held on 1st June 2007 at the University of Florence, and focused on the issue of "autonomous ...
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Meyer. Attività sanitaria e scientifica 2011
(2013)
The Meyer University Hospital Report on health and scientific activity is a valuable tool for sharing and disseminating information that summarises the working methods, the results and the lines of improvement that must ...
Le biografie di Stefan Zweig tra <i>Geschichte</i> e <i>Psychologie</i>: <i>Triumph und Tragik des Erasmus von Rotterdam, Marie Antoinette, Maria Stuart</i>
(2013)
This thesis work intends to provide a contribution in the field of research on Stefan Zweig through the in-depth study of his most famous and emblematic biographies that made the writer's fortune worldwide in the 1930s. ...
Automi, realtà virtuale e formiche
(2016)
<i>Automi, realtà virtuale e formiche</i> (“Automata, virtual reality and ants”) proposes an analysis of the complexity of the war phenomenon through three different approaches: in the microphysics of the individual ...
Bibliometria e scienze del libro: internazionalizzazione e vitalità degli studi italiani
(2017)
The vitality of a scientific field is usually attested by the fallout that research and publications have on the community of scholars who practice it and, therefore, on the development of the discipline itself and of its ...
Bruno Trentin. Lavoro, libertà, conoscenza
(2010)
<strong>Bruno Trentin. Lavoro, libertà, conoscenza</strong> takes into consideration the figure of Bruno Trentin (1926-2007) and his work as a union leader and politician, his numerous writings in the framework of ...
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 ...
CeSecom
(2010)
Cesecom was founded by bringing together a group of scholars who are experts in the study of the several regions that are between Central Europe and Caucasus, including Central Asia. Our attention is focused on the centuries ...
Catalogue of books printed before 1801 in the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze
(2014)
The present catalogue is the second of three volumes which record the books printed before 1801 currently held by the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali of the Università degli Studi di ...
Catalogue of books printed before 1801 in the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze
(2014)
The present catalogue is the first of three volumes which record the books printed before 1801 currently held by the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali of the Università degli Studi di ...
Città metropolitane e politiche urbane
(2009)
More than fifteen years after the introduction of direct election, the mayors are still the most popular politicians in Italy. The personal relationship set up with the citizens and the strengthening of the city councils ...
Città e territori da vivere oggi e domani
(2007)
Town planning entails the complex task of studying the habitat in its variegated aspects, with the objective of introducing functional transformations in response to the demands of the community. Since it is an experimental ...
Città storica e sostenibilità / Historic Cities and Sustainability
(2012)
A subject that is inexplicably little studied at present, or indeed not at all, is that of the quest for possible applications and feasible objectives in the energy requalification of existing buildings, existing or planned ...
Clarisas y dominicas. Modelos de implantación, filiación, promoción y devoción en la Península Ibérica, Cerdeña, Nápoles y Sicilia
(2017)
Il volume è frutto della ricerca del progetto <i>Claustra. Atlante della spiritualità femminile</i>. Il libro si occupa dell’analisi del paesaggio religioso contrassegnato dalle comunità di clarisse e ...
La civiltà comunale italiana nella storiografia internazionale
(2008)
This book contains the proceedings of the first international conference organised by the Centro di Studi sulla civiltà comunale of the University of Florence, and offers a fine overview of the contribution made by ...
L'Archivio E-Prints dell'Università di Firenze: prospettive locali e nazionali
(2004)
Archivio E-Prints è l'archivio istituzionale dei documenti elettronici (e-prints) dell'Università di Firenze: una risorsa fondamentale per la comunicazione scientifica. Contiene documenti per la didattica e ...
Archivio storico dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze (1860-1960)
(2004)
L'Ateneo fiorentino offre con la Guida Inventario dell'Archivio storico il primo strumento per la consultazione e la valorizzazione del proprio patrimonio documentario. La Guida Inventario riguarda in particolare i documenti ...
Nella terra dei melograni
(2006)
Northern Albania, the "land of the pomegranates", is a region where culture and nature are intimately bound up. This hypertext is proposed as an innovative tool of scientific divulgation for the valorisation of this precious ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. Le collezioni antropologiche ed etnologiche / The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. The Anthropological and Ethnological Collections
(2014)
This volume is dedicated to the Anthropological and Ethnological section of the Natural History Museum. First the historical journey of the collections is traced from the antique nucleus of the Medici to the foundation of ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze VOL. 1 LE COLLEZIONI DELLA SPECOLA
(2009)
The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by the Grand Duke Peter Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. Firenze University Press opens the series dealing with the six sections ...
Per leggere la società
(2003)
Il libro costituisce un riuscito esperimento di ricerca che ha avuto successo anche come risorsa didattica. Propone una valutazione critica degli strumenti concettuali elaborati per leggere e comprendere una società. ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. Le collezioni mineralogiche e litologiche | The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence.The Mineralogical and Lithological Collections
(2012)
The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo d'Asburgo Lorena, is one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific museums in the world. The fourth volume on ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. Le collezioni geologiche e paleontologiche / The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence.The Geological and Paleontological Collections
(2010)
The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, is one of the oldest scientific museum in the world. With this third volume on the collections of the Geology and ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze – Le collezioni botaniche
(2009)
The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand-Duke Pietro Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. With this second volume on the Botanical Collection, Florence University ...
Oggi la città
(2012)
Today the city is experiencing new forms of urban culture, between <i>cityscape</i> and <i>mindscape</i>. The <i>cityscape</i> moulded through tangible forms and values, spatialized in architectural and urban layouts, is ...
Neuroscience
(2017)
This bibliographic material is patrimony of our Laboratory of the Behavior Physiology. This research unit originated in 1972 by will of Aldo Giachetti (until 1990) and with the beginning of the activity of Corrado Bucherelli. ...
Per la priorità di Antonio Meucci nell'invenzione del telefono
(2008)
Nell'Aprile del 2008 ricorre il bicentenario della nascita di Antonio Meucci (Firenze, 13 Aprile 1808 - New York, 18 Ottobre 1889), universalmente riconosciuto come l'inventore del telefono ed uno dei grandi personaggi che ...
Memoria e comunità femminili: Spagna e Italia, secc. XV-XVII – Memoria y comunidades femeninas. España e Italia, siglos XV-XVII
(2011)
Este libro presenta los resultados de un trabajo colectivo sobre un tema de relieve historiográfico internacional, los conventos femeninos como centros de cultura en el Renacimiento y el Barroco. Las investigaciones se ...
Nessuna isola è un'isola
(2008)
This book, the result of research carried out for the PhD in landscape design at the Florence University Faculty of Architecture, elaborates a methodological process for landscape planning in the smaller islands, comparing ...
La multifunzionalità dell'agricoltura nelle zone montane marginali
(2013)
This report contains the scientific results of the research project co-funded by Regione Toscana entitled "La multifunzionalità dell'agricoltura nelle zone montane marginali: una valutazione qualitativa, quantitativa ...
Non finito. Opera interrotta e modernità
(2015)
Unfinished work or interrupted work… It is difficult to find a definition, to identify the theme, to distinguish chance from intentionality. Few 'genres' and / or variations express as the 'unfinished' the same need for ...
L'odyssée de l'Homme en marche: voyage anthropologique
(2004)
Attilio Gaudio (1930-2002) - docteur d'Etat ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines, journaliste et écrivain, membre de plusieurs institutions scientifiques et littéraires françaises et italiennes, et professeur ...
Molecole d'autore in cerca di memoria
(2011)
Based loosely on Primo Levi's <i>Il Sistema Periodico</i>, the play is set in a <i>Fahrenheit 451</i> scenario. In this world without either books or memory, a man of the street arrives with a bundle of not easily decipherable ...
La Materia e lo Spirito
(2008)
The contribution made by Mario Ridolfi to the construction of a modern Italian identity, in its regional aspect, materialised in his Umbrian designs, starting from the watershed of 1961 which marked the voluntary exile of ...
Peer assessment nell’insegnamento di Informatica del Corso di Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia dell’Università di Firenze
(2019)
This volume explores the issues of using e-learning in university and of developing and using a “blended learning” teaching method for the course of Computer Science from the first year of the the Medicine and Surgery ...
Perù frontiera del mondo. Eielson e Vargas Llosa: dalle radici all’impegno cosmopolita / Perú frontera del mundo. Eielson y Vargas Llosa: de las raíces al compromiso cosmopolita
(2013)
Jorge Eduardo Eielson (Lima 1924 - Milan 2006) and Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, Peru, 1936; Winner of the Nobel prize in 2010) are certainly two 'exemplary Peruvians', as they have both started by digging into the history ...
noi-loro. Storia e attualità della relazione educativa fra adulti e bambini
(2010)
The idea behind this book – devoted to the relations between adults and children – emerged within a specific educational experience launched in an experimental manner in 2006 by the faculty of educational science of Florence ...
La morte e i suoi riti in Italia tra Medioevo e prima Età moderna
(2007)
Consciously repressed by the current dominating culture, in Italy and Europe in the late mediaeval and early modern age death was addressed with greater confidence and awareness, and sometimes even with serenity. The modes ...
Multiculturalismo alla francese?
(2009)
In theory, republican orthodoxy does not acknowledge the political dignity of any intermediary body between free and equal individuals, stripped of all particularism, and the sovereign nation. This is why, right up to the ...
Pedagogisti e educatori tra scuola e università
(2018)
Due to his firm belief in the value of a close cooperation between school and university, and also in the commitment to the creation of a form of emancipatory and democratic education, the author collected profiles and ...
Il pensiero estetico di Nikolaj Evreinov dalla teatralità alla 'poetica della rivelazione'
(2015)
This research offers an integral analysis of the aesthetic thought of the director, playwright and art theorist Nikolaj Nikolaevic Evreinov. The work focuses on the analysis of the treaty The revelation of art, written in ...
Percorsi recenti degli studi medievali
(2008)
This book brings together the proceedings of the study days organised to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Florence University PhD course in Mediaeval History. It offers, first and foremost to the broad public of young ...
Poteri signorili e feudali nelle campagne dell'Italia settentrionale fra Tre e Quattrocento: fondamenti di legittimità e forme di esercizio.
(2005)
This volume contains the proceedings of the study convention held in Milan on 11 and 12 April 2003. The objective of these study days was to address the question of the powers of lordship which were exercised in the ...
Il potere e le libertà. Il percorso di un costituzionalista
(2019)
This volume is a collection of the reports and writings presented during the Conference held in Florence on the 1st December 2017, organized by the “Piero Calamandrei - Paolo Barile” centre for political and constitutional ...
Produzione poetica e storia nella prassi e nella teoria greca di età classica
(2014)
In “Poetics”, Aristotle accepts history among the possible themes for poetry, on the condition that the poet reaches the universal plane by narrating events which comply with the rules of <i>eikos</i> and of <i>anankaion</i>. ...
Il racconto e il romanzo filosofico nella modernità
(2013)
In the first pages of the <i>Zibaldone</i>, 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 ...
The Philosophy of the Imagination in Vico and Malebranche
(2009)
This book is a retrospective view of modern philosophical anthropology through the works of two of its greatest exponents. the author demonstrates how mythology, the philosophy of history and language and Vico's concept ...
Pianificare tra città e campagna
(2009)
Agricultural land and woodland in the vicinity of urban settlements appear increasingly to represent a key element and strategic resource for addressing issues of residential quality, and hence the requalification of the ...
Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata for e-Communities
(2002)
DC-2002 marks the tenth in the ongoing series of International Dublin Core Workshops, and the second that includes a full program of tutorials and peer-reviewed conference papers. Interest in Dublin Core metadata has grown ...
Proteins as possible targets for antitumor metal complexes: biophysical studies of their interactions
(2009)
There is considerable interest today for the reactions of anticancer metallodrugs with proteins as these interactions might feature processes that are crucial for the biodistribution, the toxicity and even the mechanism ...
Public Administration, Competitiveness and Sustainable Development
(2003)
The debate over the question of the sustainability of development has been for some time underway in relation to the environment and to public health. More recently attention has turned to other aspects of sustainability ...
L'opportunità dell'innovazione
(2007)
Over the last few years the landscape debate has taken a new turn, shifting from concerns of conservation and protection towards the search for methods of intervention and regulations that consent a development of the ...
Quando avere un lavoro non basta a proteggere dalla povertà
(2020)
Having a job is not always a guarantee against poverty, for oneself and one's family. This depends on the one hand on the level of income acquired through work, on the other hand on the worker’s family situation. While a ...