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Chapter North Italian Ports and the Levant in the 16th and 17th Centuries
(2019)
The chapter analyzes, from a diachronic perspective, the role of trade with the Levant in the port industries of Genoa, Livorno, and Venice in the 16th and 17th centuries. An historical period in which the international ...
Chapter The Dutch Republic as Example of Maritime Transport Services Clusters in Preindustrial Europe (ca. 1650-1800)
(2019)
By means of a comparative analysis of the ‘Dutch case’ with the Saintonge in South-West France and Bohuslän in South-West Sweden, this paper analyses the rise and decline of maritime services clusters in preindustrial ...
Chapter Maritime Information Networks between Northern and Southern Europe during the Eighteenth century
(2019)
International trade during the 18th century is a case in point through which to study in-depth the challenges of asymmetric information. The challenges can be divided into three categories: availability, reliability and ...
Chapter Ships and Trade: The Role of Public Navigation in Renaissance Venice
(2019)
The paper aims at understanding the role that public navigation played for the Venetian merchant firms in the Renaissance. Thanks to the use of accountability, two case studies will be analysed to understand the involvement ...
Chapter Le coste dei Nebrodi tra mosaico paesaggistico, beni culturali e criticità complesse. Visioni e Scenari Strategici progettuali nel paradigma della sostenibiltà
(2020)
The coastline that delimits Nebrodi geographical area, includes beaches, coastlines and areas urbanized along a border section of about 104 km with 15 urban centers. The coastline is divided in 3 sections: beaches; dunes; ...
Chapter Lagoon scenarios for the Bassa Friulana plain: a flooding archipelago
(2020)
The paper first focuses on morphological history of a landscape unit, consisting of biological deserts and wrecks of the endangered landscape. Secondly, it analyzes and elaborates hydrological scenarios to explore and ...
Chapter Lo “studium” e la biblioteca di Santa Maria Novella nel Duecento e nei primi anni del Trecento (con una postilla sul Boezio di Trevet)
(2020)
Building on recent scholarship, this article sketches the development of the Florentine studium of Santa Maria Novella in the thirteenth century, before it became a studium generale between 1305 and 1311. The catalogue of ...
Chapter Gli “Ammaestramenti degli Antichi”di Bartolomeo da San Concordio. Prime osservazioni in vista dell’edizione critica
(2020)
Bartholomew of San Concordio translated his Documenta antiquorum into the vernacular presumably around 1297-1302, during his stay at the convent of Santa Maria Novella. Cesare Segre suggested such a date based on the ...
Chapter 転向を語ること ─ 小林杜人とその周辺 / Converters Tell Their Stories: Kobayashi Morito and His Networks
(2020)
After the 'March 15 incident' on Japanese Communist Party members in 1928, many activists converted in prison, and "conversion period" (tenkō jidai) appeared. The converted people (tenkōsha) then wrote notes in which they ...
Chapter 幻の春の声. 近現代日本文学における「亀鳴く」/ The illusory voice of the spring: the motif of ‘crying turtle’ in modern and contemporary Japanese literarure
(2020)
The turtle (kame) is of great importance in East Asian culture and it is seen as a supernatural creature. In Japanese literature, we can find examples of the turtle in works dating back to the Nara period, such as Tangokuni ...
Chapter “What is contemporary Japanese Cinema?”. Questioning the answers, answering with questions
(2020)
The English title of a recent book by renowned film scholar Yomota Inuhiko reads: “What is Japanese Cinema?”. In the preface to the English edition Yomota states that the direction we might take, should we try to provide ...
Chapter Tales of lilies and girls’ love. The depiction of female/female relationships in yuri manga
(2020)
Yuri manga are focused on the representation of sentimental relations between girls. Despite still being a niche within the manga landscape, the popularity of this genre in terms of number of productions and fans is ...
Chapter Chinese migration(s) to Italy beyond stereotypes and simplistic views: the case of the graphic novels Primavere e Autunni and Chinamen
(2020)
The current contribution aims at describing some key-aspects of Rocchi and Demonte’s graphic novels “Primavere e Autunni” (2015) and “Chinamen” (2017), especially in relation to: 1) the historical reconstruction of Chinese ...
Chapter 我是中国人: Identity and social integration of Chinese youth in the Marche region
(2020)
This article analyzes the issues of identity and social integration of Chinese youth in the Marche region. The focus on these two themes arises from the recent increase in the number of Chinese students in schools in this ...
Chapter Adalberto Alves e l'aforisma
(2020)
The aphorism is the literary form choosen by the Portuguese poet Adalberto Alves in the collection A presença dos dias / La presenza dei giorni. The essay aims to analyse the concept of aphorism in Adalberto Alves with an ...
Chapter Commento alla traduzione. Traduttori non sempre traditori
(2020)
Starting from a statement of Pirandello concerning the art of translation, the essay aims to reflect on the concept of translator and on the frequent false attribution of traitor. In addition to this, the essay focuses on ...
Chapter El teatro del Siglo de Oro y su paulatina presencia en la cultura y la literatura teatrales en los países de habla alemana durante los siglos XVII y XVIII
(2020)
The presence of the theatre of the Spanish Siglo de Oro in the theatre and literary culture of Germany (or the German-speaking countries) in the 17th and 18th centuries is a multifaceted one, and was influenced by many ...
Chapter L’ordre dominicain dans le ciel du soleil. Dante Alighieri et la « viva giustizia » du Paradiso
(2020)
This article analyses the dynamic role of Justice in Dante’s Comedy. As the judge of his Otherworld, Dante establishes harsh punishments for the sinners in his Inferno. Moreover, he attacks their earthly fame in a way ...
Chapter Disciplinamento sociale e teologia nei Quodlibeta di Pietro de Trabibus
(2020)
This article analyzes some questiones quodlibetales (1296-1297) delivered by Peter of Trabibus, a Florentine Franciscan of Santa Croce. He reflects on and attempts to regulate Florentine society in times of unprecedented ...
Chapter Poesia e filosofia a Firenze tra Santa Croce e Santa Maria Novella
(2020)
This article draws a comparison between the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century library collection of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella and that of the Franciscan convent of Santa Croce. Such an investigation ...
Chapter Influences et interactions entre Santa Maria Novella et la commune de Florence. Une étude de cas: les sermons de Remigio de’ Girolami (1295-1301)
(2020)
At the turn of the fourteenth century (1295-1301), the Florentine Dominican Remigio de’ Girolami produced a collection of essential texts connected to events in Florentine politics that present the testimony of a well-informed ...
Chapter Nicholas Trevet : le théologien anglais qui parlait à l’oreille des Italiens
(2020)
The commentaries composed by the English theologian Nicholas Trevet at the beginning of the fourteenth century not only bear witness to his connections with Santa Maria Novella. They also testify to the importance of his ...
Chapter Une métaphysique thomiste florentine. Notule sur le traité De modis rerum de Remigio de’ Girolami
(2020)
This article examines Remigio de’ Girolami’s treatise De modis rerum. This metaphysical treatise addresses all aspects of this discipline, which, in the footsteps of his master Thomas Aquinas, Remigio understands as an ...
Chapter Una tragedia cinquecentesca italo-spagnola: La Reyna Matilda di Giovan Domenico Bevilacqua
(2020)
The subject of the intervention, a curious example of Italian-Spanish translingualism of the late 16th Century, the tragedy La Reyna Matilda, written in Naples in Spanish by an Italian writer, Giovanni Domenico Bevilacqua, ...
Chapter L’usura tra Santa Croce e Santa Maria Novella: Pietro de Trabibus e Remigio de’ Girolami a confronto
(2020)
Between 1290 and 1310, two Mendicant friars active in Florence dealt with the controversial issue of usury: the Franciscan lector Peter of Trabibus, who until now has been studied primarily for his relationship to Olivi’s ...
Chapter Introduction
(2020)
This volume aims to foster the dialogue between two usually distinct scholarly traditions: on the one hand, the studies revolving around cultural and political activity, as well as the didactic, theological, religious and ...
Chapter Dante, Remigio de’ Girolami, il sistema angioino: teologia e politica
(2020)
This article draws a comparison between Dante’s vision and the cultural, political, and propagandistic conception promoted by the Angevins, from the divergences in the interpretation of Aquinas’ doctrine of Justice to the ...
Chapter I Doria e la chiesa di San Matteo a Genova nella seconda metà del Duecento
(2021)
The essay addresses the problem of the relationship between large aristocratic families and “noble parishes” in Genoa, by considering the case of the Doria and the church of San Matteo, founded in 1125 and whose reconstruction ...
Chapter Nondimeno. Una nota sul linguaggio dell’eccezione e della circostanza nel Carteggio sforzesco
(2021)
On the basis of the recent monograph by C. Ginzburg and G. Pedullà’s review, it is possible to identify the word nondimanco/nondimeno (nonetheless) as an important element in Renaissance political writing. However, it does ...
Chapter Fisco e mobilità geografica. Il censimento ostiatim in un villaggio della pianura campana (1522)
(2021)
The paper studies a rare record: the census (numerazione dei fuochi) of Fratta piccola (today Frattaminore), a village near Naples, in 1522, focusing on the process of counting the households in the Kingdom of Naples and ...
Chapter Fazioni e popolo in una provincia del dominio pontificio fra XIII e XIV secolo
(2021)
Between the 13th and 14th centuries, a number of cities in the inchoative papal state experimented a system of self-government that allowed the Guelph and Ghibelline factions, formally represented in those same bodies on ...
Chapter «Recevì la vostra litera a la quale e respondo». Qualche nota intorno alle reti epistolari del Trecento padano
(2021)
My essay focuses on the correspondences sent to the Gonzaga of Mantua and received and preserved in the Mantuan chancery during the 14th century. The broad range of correspondences gathered in the Mantuan archives covers ...
Chapter Dante epilettico, o anche isterico. Una storia psichiatriico letteraria di fine Ottocento
(2021)
In the last decade of the 19th century psychiatric sciences in Italy proposed many psychopathological interpretations of exceptional personalities. An important role was played by the psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso with his ...
Chapter «Quel nome pernicioso di nobile»: Uberto Foglietta e la nobiltà di Genova fra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna
(2021)
The present contribution aims at discussing the many late medieval and early modern interpretations elaborated in urban and (post)communal Italy on nobility. It does so by attentively analysing the first book of the La ...
Chapter Carlo Cipolla, Amedeo Crivellucci e l’edizione della Historia Langobardorum di Paolo Diacono
(2021)
During the congress on Paolo Diacono held in Cividale del Friuli in 1899 (eleven centuries after Paolo's death) a scientific committee decided to publish a new edition of Paolo’s opera omnia. A sort of scholar jealousy ...
Chapter Note alla traduzione
(2020)
The Italian translation of the literary work of Adalberto Alves A presença dos dias / La presenza dei giorni is accompained by some usuful translation notes edited by Elena Chiarini in this volume.
Chapter Multipoint vs slider: a protocol for experiments
(2021)
Since the broad diffusion of Computer-Assisted survey tools (i.e. web surveys), a lively debate about innovative scales of measure arose among social scientists and practitioners. Implications are relevant for applied ...
Chapter Thematic atlas of Italian oncological research: the analysis of public IRCCS
(2021)
This paper has been developed in the frame of the research project “V:ALERE 2019” focused on Italian public-owned Academic Medical Centers. The main aim of the project is to provide evidence, advice, and remarks to help ...
Chapter Short-term and long-term international scientific mobility of Italian PhDs: An analysis by gender
(2021)
In the last years, there has been a large increase in high-educated and high-skilled people’s mobility as a consequence of the internationalization and globalization, the weakening of research and university systems of ...
Chapter Random effects regression trees for the analysis of INVALSI data
(2021)
Mixed or multilevel models exploit random effects to deal with hierarchical data, where statistical units are clustered in groups and cannot be assumed as independent. Sometimes, the assumption of linear dependence of a ...