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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 ...