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Gabriele Malaspina, marchese di Fosdinovo
(2009)
This book focuses on one of the prime movers in the unification of Lunigiana – a region which at the time was still broken up into a myriad of tiny feudal holdings, almost all in the hands of the various branches of the ...
Fare parchi urbani
(2006)
The work addresses the subject of the contemporary urban park, interpreted as an ethical and aesthetic space. Ethical in the proper sense of the word, that is conforming to the character of the place, and aesthetic in the ...
Cuba in the World, the World in Cuba
(2009)
The volume approaches Cuba as a nation that hosts a convergence of extraordinary global developments and, in turn, projects itself onto the world's major cultural, political and economic processes. From different perspectives, ...
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 ...
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'acqua nel paesaggio urbano
(2005)
Exploited for requirements of defence, navigation, transport, irrigation, and the powering of mills, water has progressively diminished in importance to the extent that the relations between the city, the territory and the ...
Illacrimate sepolture
(2006)
The "Medici Project" – launched in 2004 – comprises a palaeopathological study of the corpses of the Medici buried in the Medici Chapels. The exhumations which took place in the past have altered the original state of the ...
La dottrina costituzionale di Sieyès
(2009)
The reception and popularity of the work of Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès has gone through different and erratic phases. Nonetheless, in recent years there has been a remarkable revival of interest in the Abbé's thought. This ...
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 ...