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Chapter Fostering Critical Reflection in The Frame of Transformative Learning in Adult Education: Italian and Nigerian Comparative Case Studies
(2020)
Critical reflection (CR) is an important process for making decisions on complex issues that influence individuals and societal life. The ability to inform our perceptions and thoughts through the results of critical ...
Chapter Facilitating Comparative Group Work in Adult Education
(2020)
The purpose of this chapter is to describe and reflect on scholarly-based practices that can help facilitate comparative group work within the international and transnational context of adult education. The first section ...
Chapter Developing Active Citizenship Through Adult Learning and Education. Experiences from an INTALL Winter School Comparative Working Group
(2020)
Active citizenship became a research issue for adult learning and education in 1995 when the Council of Ministers decided to make 1996 the Year of Lifelong Learning. Moreover, the Lisbon programme, in the year 2000, ...
Chapter EAEA Younger Staff Training as a Learning Journey
(2020)
The EAEA Younger Staff Training is a good example of a successful initiative that encour-ages the professional development of adult education staff, builds new collaborations, and explores the diversity of policy and ...
Chapter Il quadro iniziale
(2020)
The present contribution is divided into three sections. The first deals with the features of Italian inner areas and their criticalities; it infers that Community-based cooperatives may well represent a regeneration tool ...
Chapter L’approccio metodologico
(2020)
This contribution presents a methodological path tailored to highlight and manage the generating processes of Community-based cooperatives in Italian inner areas. Some quantitative techniques are involved, in particular ...
Chapter Bodin e la teoria climatica in epoca moderna
(2020)
It was Federico Chabod who recognized in Jean Bodin's theory of climate the merging, in the middle of the sixteenth century, of the «scattered seeds» of an essentially naturalistic idea of nation, still far from the modern ...
Chapter Il caso studio del Molise
(2020)
Basing on multivariate statistical methods, text and sentiment analysis, and profitability analysis, a study is performed, with the aim to define the role of Community-based cooperatives in the development process of the ...
Chapter Il «sistema dell’egoismo universale» e la condizione presente dell’Italia
(2020)
I intend to deal with the political thought of Giacomo Leopardi, especially in the Zibaldone, according to his conceptions on the contrast between reason and nature and on the contrast between ancient and modern, focusing ...
Chapter Aria di casa. Du Bos e il carattere delle piante-nazione
(2020)
Plants-Nations have very different characters in different countries or in different ages in the same country; like wines, in every terroir they have a particular taste and always preserve it, though some years are better ...
Chapter Il carattere di Jules Michelet
(2020)
The article deals with the national character in Jules Michelet. Michelet supports an essentialist version of the character. According him, it is caused by natural elements: geography, food and the various regions that ...
Chapter Da Verri a Cuoco. Il dibattito sul carattere degli Italiani tra Sette e Ottocento
(2020)
Even today, Italians tend to adopt a double imagine of their national character, played on the contrast between an evolved and conscious minority (‘us’) and a backward and typically pre-modern majority (‘them’). As Giulio ...
Chapter Introduzione
(2020)
The present chapter introduces the concepts and the issues about Italian inner areas, as defined by the Strategia nazionale per le Aree Interne (National Strategy for Inner Areas – SNAI). In particular, it focuses on a new ...
Chapter Sentinel-2 e campionamenti in situ per il monitoraggio delle acque marine dell’Abruzzo: primi risultati
(2020)
In this study, the estimate of chlorophyll "a" and the dispersion of sediment in the sea, calculated from Sentinel-2, was compared with real data acquired in situ by a multiparametric probe, along the Abruzzo coast. The ...
Chapter The management of dredged materials: the «long and winding road» from waste to resource
(2020)
Both the dredging operations and the management of dredged materials may have heavy impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems. Dredged materials, in particular, have been considered for a very long time nothing more than a ...
Chapter Towards new marine-coastal Natura 2000 sites in the central Adriatic Sea.
(2020)
LIFE17 NAT/IT/000565 CALLIOPE aims to improve the coast-sea regional natural connectivity by improving the Natura 2000 Network. The main objectives are: improving the biodiversity knowledge of marine environments, testing ...
Chapter Understanding the settlement dynamics of the Ionian coastal area of Salento (Puglia, Southern Italy): the contribution of new archeological data from the fortified Messapian centre at Li Schiavoni
(2020)
Located about 4 km northeast of the Ionian coast, the small fortified Messapian settlement at Li Schiavoni (Puglia, Southern Italy) occupy an extensive plateau, controlling the territory. The stratigraphic research has ...
Chapter View management in city-port landscapes. Livorno applicative experience
(2020)
The paper is a synthesis of a multi-year research path carried out by University of Florence with Livorno Port Authority. This research, although born and developed within a specific context, the port one, is part of a ...
Chapter Water circulation in coastal marine areas - case studies
(2020)
Experimental tests in a physical model have been made to evaluate water circulation within the marinas and over the defence works. The aim of the experimental survey was that of assessing the water circulation intensity ...
Chapter The offshore environmental impact by Sarno river in Naples bay (South-West Italy)
(2020)
The goal of this work has been to establish the influence of the Sarno river on the present sedimentation in the Naples bay continental shelf by evaluating organic matter contribution and pollution. Sediments samples were ...
Chapter The economic-environmental impact analysis in the choice of the management of the dredging materials od a port basin in relation to the classification and the quality of the same: the experience of the port of Termoli (2018)
(2020)
The work to be illustrated shows the comparison of the economic and environmental impact analysis in astudy case: "Dredging work on the seabed of the port of Termoli 2018". The entry into force of Ministerial Decree 173/2016 ...
Chapter The monastic heritage in the Saronic gulf (Greece). Architectural and environmental surveys of the architecture and coastline
(2020)
The research itinerary is aimed at getting to know the monastic complexes in the Saronic Gulf (Greece) with operations of an investigative nature, to which are added references on religious and environmental themes which, ...
Chapter The pressures and the ecological quality status of the Marmara Sea (Turkey) by using marine macroalgae and angiosperms
(2020)
In the present study, the Marine Floristic Ecological Index (MARFEI) was tested to assess the impacts by using marine benthic macrophytes and pressures by using the Macroalgae-Land Uses Simplified Index (MA-LUSI) in the ...
Chapter Ad alta voce: l’essenza fonico-acustica e gestuale del cursus nel Decameron
(2020)
Moving from the studies carried out by Alfredo Schiaffini and Vittore Branca on Boccaccio’s reuse, in its prosaic masterpieces (the Filocolo, the Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta and the Decameron), of mediaeval rhetorical-rhythmics ...
Chapter «A’ quai Lucan seguitava». Su Boccaccio lettore della Pharsalia
(2020)
Lucan was one of the most widely read and studied classical authors during the Middle Ages, a reference point for teaching, historiography and literature. The essay attempts to outline Giovanni Boccaccio’s profile as a ...
Chapter Dal Filostrato ai rispetti di ambiente laurenziano: la ricezione quattrocentesca della prima lettera di Troiolo a Criseida
(2020)
The article informs that some octaves of Boccaccio’s Filostrato can be found since the turn of the 14th century as a single Rispetto d’amore or in series of Rispetti continuati or even under the title Canzona. Boccaccio’s ...
Chapter Boccaccio, il Decameron e la Crusca: le fonti spogliate dagli Accademici
(2020)
This survey concerns the lexicographic presence of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron in the Vocabolario of the Accademici della Crusca (from the first to the fourth edition). Boccaccio is the author that counts 15.600 occurrences ...
Chapter Il fantasma di Alatiel: desiderio, parola e memoria in Decameron II 7
(2020)
The aim of this essay is to analyse the story of Alatiel in its philosophical context, comparing the novella with the erotic and ethic conceptions in Middle Ages. From this point of view, it is possible to recognize two ...
Chapter Boccaccio erudito e il prologo del De viris illustribus petrarchesco
(2020)
Giovanni Boccaccio used prologues and epilogues of his Latin works to discuss relevant topics such as the finding of reliable sources or the dissamination of the knowledge. Francesco Petrarca faced the same issues when he ...
Chapter «Ut testatur Ovidius»: Boccaccio lettore dei commenti alle Metamorfosi
(2020)
The article investigates the relationship between Boccaccio's Genealogie and the exegesis of Ovid's Metamorphoses. For each character included in his genealogy, Boccaccio reports first of all the contents of the myth related ...
Chapter Il Boccaccio di Baldassar Castiglione: la duplice immagine del Certaldese nelle pagine del Cortegiano
(2020)
Giovanni Boccaccio is quoted several times in Castiglione’s Cortegiano, but all these mentions are inserted in two specific contexts: on the one hand, the debate on literary language, developed in the letter of dedication ...
Chapter The Community Education Program: A Reflection on Good Practice in the USA
(2020)
This good practice essay puts the Community Education Program (CEP) as a focus for comparison between West Virginia (USA) and Germany/European Union (EU). The essay is a combination of reflections on qualification frameworks, ...
Chapter Risorse e popolazione umana
(2020)
The history of the genus Homo, and of the sapiens species in particular, is different from that of other species due to the extreme importance of cultural evolution compared to biological evolution. But from the discovery ...
Chapter Ritirata sostenibile! I tanti modi con cui possiamo adattarci al cambiamento
(2020)
This Chapter examines the paths along which we humans could create an economy within planetary boundaries. To prevent the contraction of human activities from translating into a traumatic collapse, we should accept that ...
Chapter Florence 1438: The Encomium of the Florentina Libertas Sent by Poggio Bracciolini to Duke Filippo Maria Visconti
(2020)
This article presents the critical editions of two texts: a letter by the Duke of Milan Filippo Maria Visconti (but written on his behalf by Pier Candido Decembrio) sent to Poggio Bracciolini on 28 July 1438; and the ...
Chapter Poggio and Alberti Revisited
(2020)
The careers of the Curial secretaries Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459) and Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) reveal many parallels. In 1437-1438 the Este court of Ferrara, where Eugenius IV convoked a church council, provided ...
Chapter Poggio and Other Book Hunters
(2020)
Seeking out rare and precious texts, or book hunting, was a favorite pursuit of the Renaissance humanists, but the activity had been practiced with enthusiasm (and often guile) since antiquity. This paper discusses the ...
Chapter Poggio Bracciolini and Coluccio Salutati: The Epitaph and the 1405-1406 Letters
(2020)
Manuscript Magliabechiano VIII.1445 of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze seems to be the only witness of an epitaph that Poggio Bracciolini wrote for Coluccio Salutati. Using this concise yet sincere homage to the late ...
Chapter Poge the Florentyn: A Sketch of the Life of Poggio Bracciolini
(2020)
Thanks to his part in the rediscovery of Lucretius in the Renaissance Poggio Bracciolini has been much in academic news recently. But he was always there as a part of the histories of that moment, in all its twists and ...
Chapter Introduction
(2020)
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Chapter Qualche riflessione finale
(2020)
We introduce the concept of "tragic choices": those that concern our vital and identity experiences. As in the tragedies of classical Greek theater, there are circumstances in which there is no right and wrong, since theses ...
Chapter «Al privato onesto un'arma legittima». Per una genealogia della legittima difesa tra il moderamen inculpatae tutelae e la difesa legittima del diritto penale fascista
(2020)
The contribution is meant to reconstruct the crucial passage from the ‘liberal’ conception of self defence (e.g.: Carrara) to that of the Positive School (for all: Fioretti), which was further articulated by Fascist criminal ...
Chapter L’approccio patrimoniale ai servizi ecosistemici
(2020)
The flourishing of literature on ecosystem services testifies to an increase in awareness of the extent to which economic operations of human societies is due to “natural” factors, so far considered as mere marginal ...
Chapter Ecosistemi, boschi e servizi ecosistemici
(2020)
A series of considerations about the value of the living, the difference between natural ecosystems, neo-ecosystems and artificial systems, self-organization and emerging behaviors, the difference between forests managed ...
Chapter Una montagna di debiti. L'Italia e la gestione del debito pubblico tra le due guerre
(2020)
The surge in public debt during the recent pandemic crisis has made high debt a prominent policy issue. Italy is an interesting case study since it has experienced high levels of debt for a significant part of its history. ...
Chapter Servizi ecosistemici, servizio idrico integrato e componenti tariffarie: l’opportunità dei Payments for Ecosystem Services
(2020)
Having defined the possible relationships between ecosystem services and local public services, the text focuses on the integrated water service, illustrating the regulatory tools that contemplate the "environmental and ...
Chapter Commodification o giustizia ambientale? I PES come strumento di governance del valore della natura
(2020)
Having defined the fundamental concepts related to the debate on ecosystem services within the framework of Socio-Ecological Systems, and starting from a critique of GDP and traditional accounting systems, new tools and ...
Chapter I servizi ecosistemici nella riproduzione dei sistemi territoriali. Osservazioni da una ricerca sugli scambi montagna-città
(2020)
From a research for the Metropolitan City of Turin on the flows of matter, energy, services, people and information between the metro-mountain and metro-urban subsystems, it has emerged that the ecosystem flows always have ...
Chapter La conservazione del patrimonio naturale e paesaggistico mediante la valorizzazione dei servizi ecosistemici offerti dal territorio: considerazioni generali e casi di studio
(2020)
Pragmatically, the same “utilitarian” vision underlying the ecosystem service paradigm seems to allow an easier understanding by large portions of society of the need to keep the ecosystems in an efficient ecological state, ...
Chapter Servizi ecosistemici in chiave progettuale e proattiva
(2020)
Having ascertained that the ecosystem service paradigm is a scientific rather than a “natural” one, the text criticizes the purely analytical attitude with which it is usually used; such an attitude, together with the ...
Chapter Premessa
(2020)
The short introduction reconstructs the external history of the texts collected in this volume, which are a reworking of the authors' contributions to the seminar "From territorial heritage to eco-territorial services: ...
Chapter Gli scenari
(2020)
Chapter seven analyzes some of the most relevant future scenarios, regarding population, energy resources, public health, inequality, democracy on a national scale and forms of social power. On the population, evidences ...
Chapter Il capitalismo manageriale e la nuova centralità del potere sociale
(2020)
Capitalism, in order to reproduce itself, must allocate more and more resources to the enhancement of the wealth already produced, rather than to increasing productive investments. The strategies for absorbing the surplus ...
Chapter Per la critica della crescita illimitata e della crescita verde
(2020)
We focus on two great narratives: unlimited growth and green growth. The problem of the compatibility between the increase of human economic activities and the ecosystem seems to be solved by each of the two narratives. ...
Chapter Il degrado della biosfera
(2020)
The position of man in the biosphere and the interaction of its activities with the different sectors of the earth's ecosphere are bringing the Earth system into a drastically different state from that in which the development ...
Chapter Limiti alla crescita, universalismo e progresso sociale
(2020)
The paradigm of limits to growth has been legitimized by important contributions, both scientific and philosophical. Although it has oriented the political program of the major ecological movements, its weakness is to be ...
Chapter Per una teoria del declino delle società complesse
(2020)
To explain social decline, a first mechanism notes that elites, understood as small and relatively homogeneous groups, have a superiority to act in concert, compared to the masses. When the capitalist dynamics offers great ...
Chapter Kant e il carattere dei popoli
(2020)
Kant deals with national characters in the second part of his Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view of 1798. Firmly rejecting the climatic theory, he advocates an anti-naturalistic stance. However, Kant is skeptical ...
Chapter Milieu et peuples. Entre les traités hippocratiques et Aristote
(2020)
The article compares some of the so-called Hippocratic treatises and Aristotle’s Physics, Meteorologics, Ethics and Politics, on what would define a human community, if not a nation. It shows a common absence of the notions ...
Chapter Introduzione
(2020)
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Chapter Michael Marullus Tarchaniota’s De laudibus Rhacusae and His Early Years
(2020)
This paper deals with Michael Marullus Tarchaniota’s early childhood years marked by exile from the recently fallen Despotate of Morea, a short and unconfirmed stay in Dubrovnik and, finally, by his arrival in Naples. A ...
Chapter Classical Tradition in Czech Renaissance and Baroque Literature
(2020)
The study deals with the influence of the classical tradition on Czech literature of the Early Modern Period (Renaissance, Baroque). The article demonstrates this influence through examples of the use of selected motifs ...
Chapter Humanism, the Renaissance and Russian Culture between the 15th and 17th Centuries: Preliminary Thoughts
(2020)
This study offers a synthetic view of the relationship of the Eastern Slavic world, in particular Russia, with Humanism and the Renaissance, indicating new paths of research on the identity formation of Muscovy and the ...
Chapter Old Russian Translation of Cosmographia, sive De Situ Orbis by Pomponius Mela: Reception of Renaissance Culture in Muscovy (15th-17th Centuries)
(2020)
The article deals with the results of the analysis of the Old Russian translation of the First book of Cosmographia by Pompons Mela. Mela’s Cosmographia was admired and praised by humanists. The research of the way the ...
Chapter Poetic Mapping of the Polish Crown at the Turn of the 16th and 17th Centuries and Its Relation to Cartographic Imitation in Renaissance Poetry
(2020)
The paper is devoted to the problem of imitation of maps in the late Renaissance Polish poetry (between 1580 and 1630). The author first discusses the special interest in cartography that existed among the Polish elite and ...
Chapter Stabilimenti balneari come presidi ambientali. Verso la multifunzionalità dei servizi di balneazione. Alcune riflessioni a partire dal progetto Interreg RE.CO.RD.
(2020)
The progressive degradation of the landscape, the loss of biodiversity, the difficulty of containing pollution and marine waste are just some of the consequences of a process of extreme littoralisation. As a result, coastal ...
Chapter L’applicazione di tecniche innovative nel monitoraggio costiero degli habitat prioritari
(2020)
The aim of the present paper is to define the advantage to use innovative techniques based on sperimental tool to supplement the traditional techniques in marine monitoring, through experience of CRSM-ARPACAL (Centro ...
Chapter Salerno: il porto e le metamorfosi del waterfront
(2020)
The port of Salerno, one of the largest on the Tyrrhenian coast, was implanted in the Middle Ages west of the city. Deteriorated over time due to neglect and serious problems of cover-up afflicting the area, it was replanted ...
Chapter Monitoraggio, conservazione e informazione nella Baia Di Ieranto: un modello circolare per la gestione delle Aree Marine Protette
(2020)
The 7 years monitoring-conservation-information program in the special B zone of Ieranto bay (belonging to the Marine Protected Area Punta Campanella - Naples, Italy) shows good results in terms of reducing illegal activities ...
Chapter Essays on the Spread of Humanistic and Renaissance Literary Civilization in the Slavic World (15th-17th Century). An Introduction
(2020)
In this article the author, after briefly summarizing different interpretations of the Renaissance, shortly outlines some modes that have characterized the reception and study of Humanism and the Renaissance in Slavic ...
Chapter Giudizi universali. Reti devozionali e tensioni escatologiche attorno ai gesuati milanesi
(2020)
This essay provides an outline of the familial, social, and cultural network of the Milanese Jesuati between the end of the fifteenth century and the first decades of the sixteenth century. Particular attention is given ...
Chapter Il Divino amore dalla mistica teologia del sec. XIV alla pietà romana del Settecento
(2020)
This paper shows in its essential points the development of spiritual doctrine of divine love in Italy during four centuries (1350-1750 AD), especially regarding religious ambients, some authors and main texts produced in ...
Chapter I laudari gesuati: la raccolta poetica del Bianco da Siena
(2020)
The extensive poetic collection of Bianco da Siena reflects the rich spirituality of Jesuates as, under the generic definition of «lauds», there are writings belonging to different literary genres, such as the abecedary, ...
Chapter L’iconografia di Giovanni Colombini (1304-1367): fondatore dei gesuati
(2020)
This work will try to follow the development of the iconography of Blessed Giovanni Colombini from the first images handed down to us throughout the XV century. By reading the hagiographic sources, we will try to go back ...
Chapter Il ricettario gesuato lucchese del 1562: prime osservazioni linguistiche
(2020)
The contribution examines the Libro de i secretti et ricette, composed in 1562 by Frate Giovanni Andrea de Farre, which constitutes an interesting testimony of specialistic language related to pharmacology between the ...
Chapter Il complesso architettonico dei gesuati a Venezia
(2020)
This paper aims at explaining exactly how the Jesuati slowly appropriated the Holy Name for themselves, visually incorporating it in their artistic creations. Through an exploration of the uses and practices of the supporters ...
Chapter I gesuati a Chiusi
(2020)
The presence of the Gesuati in Chiusi, although limited in size and length of time, developed beyond all expectation. At the beginning of the seventeenth century the followers of the Blessed Colombini were called to officiate ...
Chapter I santuari gesuati
(2020)
The historical studies on shrines paid little attention to Yesuati’s shrines and this paper starts analyzing the causes of this phenomenon. The essay presents four shrines managed by the povari di Cristo, highlighting both ...
Chapter I gesuati farmacisti di Lucca
(2020)
The essay constitutes the historical premise for the contribution of Marco Biffi, dedicated to the pharmacological Jesuat manuscript (1562), and it describes the context in which was produced this manuscript, the most ...