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L'innovazione per lo sviluppo locale: l'Università per il territorio
(2006)
This book presents the proceedings of the conference held on 12 March 2004 at the "Il Momento" theatre in Empoli. The aim of the conference was to explore the significant aspects of the presence of the University of Florence ...
Rivolte urbane e rivolte contadine nell'Europa del Trecento
(2008)
The book contains the proceedings of the international conference held in Florence in the spring of 2005. It addresses the subject of the urban and rural revolts of the 14th century, which had recently undergone a period ...
Esercito, istituzioni, territorio. Alloggiamenti militari e «case herme» nello Stato di Milano (secoli XVI e XVII)
(2009)
What was the impact of the armies of the King of Spain on one of the territories of its composite monarchy during the centuries of the early modern age? What changes took place in the relations of power between the local ...
La frammentazione del paesaggio periurbano
(2003)
This book presents the results of a study on the fragmentation of the suburban territory in the Florentine plain, developed in the framework of the Florence University PhD course in Landscape Design. Thus the landscape on ...
Uno stato d'animo
(2002)
City life in the Italy of the communes was a unique experience in the Middle Ages, “another world” from that of the countryside in terms of the customs, beliefs and practices that conditioned the attitudes of a complex ...
Le tesi di laurea nelle biblioteche di architettura
(2003)
There is no general legislative framework for theses, although a number of solutions have been devised at local level which may be significant for Italian university librarians. The problems are numerous and of different ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Guida per la valorizzazione della multifunzionalità dell'agricoltura
(2009)
This book publishes the results of the inter-regional project on "Evolutionary dynamics of agricultural enterprises and multifunctionality". Starting from the identification of a shared theoretical framework of the concept ...
Secondo Convegno Nazionale della Società Italiana di Scienze Sensoriali
(2008)
Over the last decade there has been a growing interest in sensory science in Italy. This has clearly resulted in an increase in the number of researchers engaged in this sector and the number of companies that exploit ...
Dal Caucaso al Mar d'Azov
(2007)
This book is the attempt to bring - through the study of the written sources - one of the many faces of the complex Mongol history to its historical dimension. It concentrates on the Mongol dominion in Caucasia, considered ...
Il linguaggio del territorio fra principe e comunità
(2009)
In April 1479, the communities of the marquisate of Mantua pronounced for the first time a general oath of fealty to Federico Gonzaga, the third marquis, inaugurating a custom that was to be repeated with relative regularity ...
Dare et habere
(2002)
The Italian cities of the last centuries of the Middle Ages continued to witness – alongside a progressive crystallisation of the social hierarchies – the economic and social ascent of individuals belonging to the 'middle ...
Descrivere il futuro
(2003)
The book reconstructs the utopian tensions present in positivism, generally projected towards imaginary descriptions of the future, taking its cue from Comte’s doctrine of political positivism in which he describes an ideal ...
La variazione semantica del verbo essere nelI'italiano parlato
(2010)
The book proposes a corpus-driven study conducted on 14,000 occurrences of the verb to be in the corpus of spoken Italian C-ORAL-ROM, in the light of the main proposals for semantic interpretation of the verb. This puts ...
Per la priorità di Antonio Meucci nell'invenzione del telefono
(2008)
April 2008 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Antonio Meucci (Florence, 13 April 1808 - New York, 18 October 1889), universally recognised as the inventor of the telephone and one of the outstanding figures representing ...
La Biblioteca della Külliye di Kavála - vol. I
(2005)
This study represents the continuation and, to an extent, the completion of research relating to an Islamic educational and philanthropic institution, currently located in Greece. Through repeated inspections and a lengthy ...
I sistemi locali turistici in Italia
(2005)
In recent decades tourism has become one of the most important industries in the global economy. Consequently, the study of tourist destinations is increasingly seen as a critical element in the competitiveness of countries ...
Scholarly Communication and Academic Presses
(2002)
The objective of the meeting was to identify concrete ways for implementing proposals to foster the international scientific co-operation of universities and academic societies. Against the background of an assumed tendency ...
Archivio storico dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze (1860-1960)
(2004)
The Inventory Guide to the Historic Archive is an initial instrument offered by Florence University for the consultation and valorisation of its documentary heritage. It concerns in particular the documents relating to the ...
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 ...
Innovazione tecnologica e cambiamento dell'università
(2003)
It is by now common knowledge that one of the aspects upon which the survival of the University depends is how it will make the best possible use of the new technologies (e-learning). Despite the acceptance of this principle, ...
Technological innovation and change in the university
(2003)
It is by now common knowledge that one of the aspects upon which the survival of the University depends is how it will make the best possible use of the new technologies (e-learning). Despite the acceptance of this principle, ...
La cooperazione sociale nell'area metropolitana fiorentina
(2009)
This study proposes a reading of the financial statements of co-operatives operating within the Florentine metropolitan area, with a view to underscoring business aspects of a quantitative and monetary nature. The ...
La lettura dei bilanci delle Organizzazioni di Volontariato toscane nel biennio 2004-2005
(2007)
This study, emerging from workshop activity carried out as part of the course on ECONOMY AND ADMINISTRATION OF CO-OPERATION AND NON-PROFIT, represents an examination of the economic-financial dimension of the work of the ...
Strategien für die regionale Zusammenarbeit im Bereich des lebenslangen Lernens
(2010)
Dieses Dokument ist das Grundsatzpapier des Projekts "Strategien für die Zusammenarbeit im Bereich lebenslanges Lernen", welches unter der Federführung der Universität Florenz, Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaften, Kultur ...
Politiche per la COoperazione REgionale nel settore dell'Apprendimento Permanente
(2010)
This document constitutes the Policy Paper of the Precoll project-Policies for Regional Cooperation in Lifelong Learning, led by the Università degli Studi di Firenze-Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione e dei Processi ...
La filosofia dell'immaginazione in Vico e Malebranche
(2002)
The book, which is a redrafting of the doctoral thesis, represents a retrospective on modern philosophical anthropology through two of its major exponents. More specifically, it shows how mythology, the history of philosophy ...
Le storie e la memoria
(2002)
This book is a collection of contributions by the Italian scholarship fellows at the Deutsches Historisches Institut of Rome over the last decade. It is intended as a tribute to one of the leading mediaevalists at international ...
Medievistica del Novecento
(2007)
A comprehensive collection spanning five decades of full-length book reviews and short synopses by Giovanni Tabacco, whose scholarly concerns were never separate from a lifelong engagement as an exacting critical reader. ...
Alto medioevo mediterraneo
(2005)
This book, generated by the encounter between two schools - the Italian early mediaeval and the Argentine late antique - ranges from Italy to Gaul and the Eastern Mediterranean over a timespan from the third/fourth to 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
William Blake e William Butler Yeats
(2009)
Da Blake a Yeats. Sistemi simbolici e costruzioni poetiche is an investigation into the – from many aspects decisive – influence that the symbolic system and visionary poetry of the great English romantic William Blake had ...
Saggi di anglistica e americanistica
(2008)
"Saggi" brings together the results of the research activity carried out on the PhD course in English and American Studies (Department of Modern Philology, University of Florence). The contributions relate to the theatre, ...
W. B. Yeats e la cultura italiana
(2009)
W. B. Yeats e la cultura italiana examines the "Italianism" of William Butler Yeats and the popularity of the Irish poet in Italian poetry and criticism. Appraising the presence and evocative influence of "learned Italian ...
Elfriede Jelinek
(2008)
This volume consists of a collection of essays by five German scholars from various Italian universities – R. Calabrese, R. Caruzzi, M. Fancelli, L. Perrone Capano, R. Svandrlik (editor) – and N. Šlibar from the University ...
Gli anni Sessanta a Leningrado
(2009)
This book offers a portrait of Leningrad in the 1960s, of its cultural life in those years permeated by a great hope for change. Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, is the heir and witness of the rise and fall of the 'Soviet ...
Tra sensi e spirito
(2009)
Tra sensi e spirito investigates the origins of a sort of 'Copernican revolution' that took place in western culture when music acquired an undisputed primacy over the other arts, becoming the privileged medium of metaphysical ...
Studi confraternali: orientamenti, problemi, testimonianze
(2009)
This book is a collection of articles by Italian and foreign scholars designed to offer an overview of the processes and issues involved in the history of the confraternity movement, as yielded by studies in the historical, ...
«In carne e ossa»: il corpo nelle opere di Georg Büchner
(2009)
In the critical literature on Georg Büchner this monograph represents the first organic work devoted to the subject of the body – a pivotal issue for an understanding of his writings. The book investigates the significance ...
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, ...
Diventare grandi con il «Pioniere» (1950-1962)
(2006)
The conception and creation of the children's magazine "Pioniere" was an integral part of the extensive educational plan implemented by the PCI in the fifties for the construction of a new society. This book studies the ...
Viaggio e politica
(2010)
After the books on "La politica e gli spazi politici", "Metafore dello spazio", "Gli spazi immaginati", "Spazi e politica nella modernità tecnologica", this notebook continues the series devoted to illustrating the results ...
Democrazia e rappresentanza politica
(2004)
During the 13th Legislature of the Italian Republic the phenomenon of parliamentary mobility, that is of the passage of MPs and Senators from one political group to another, assumed significant dimensions in terms both of ...
Una biblioteca in divenire. La biblioteca della Facoltà di Lettere dalla penna all'elaboratore
(2005)
This book illustrates the history of the Library of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Florence, tracing it from the origins up to the present: “from the pen to the computer”, against the backdrop of ...
L'Università degli Studi di Firenze fra istituzioni e cultura nel decennale della scomparsa di Giovanni Spadolini
(2005)
This book contains the proceedings of the conference held on 11 and 12 October 2004 in the Aula Magna of the University of Florence, in collaboration with the Fondazione Spadolini. The aim of the conference was to delineate ...
Strategie di internazionalizzazione e grande distribuzione nel settore dell'abbigliamento
(2006)
The Stanze della Moda project has set up an Observatory with the purpose of economic and management monitoring of the fabric of the Florentine companies through a marketing and research workshop. The analysis of several ...
La metodologia Sei Sigma nei servizi
(2006)
This book explains how the methodological approach of the Six Sigma can be used to provide an effective solution to one of the most widespread problems faced by Small and Medium Enterprises: the frequent undercapitalisation ...
La valorizzazione economica del patrimonio artistico delle città d'arte
(2001)
This book addresses the issue of the potential economic significance of the artistic heritage in an art city – more specifically Florence – taking as a concrete example for the purpose of scientific research the figure of ...
Nascita ed evoluzione del distretto orafo di Arezzo, 1947-2001
(2003)
This book, generated by the creation of a database on the population of enterprises and their characteristics, illustrates the process of development of the Arezzo gold and jewellery system. It is a significant case in ...
4.1 Il realismo strategico nel governo d'impresa
(2006)
Like all the books in this series, this volume proposes wide-ranging reflections and cultural considerations pertinent to business management. Traditionally, realism is identified with a disenchanted approach to reality ...
La valorizzazione economica delle tipicità rurali tra localismo e globalizzazione
(2006)
For over twenty years now, the agri-foodstuffs sector has been marked by an ongoing revaluation of the typical product. Such products encompass an increasingly intangible value connected, not only with their intrinsic ...
Costruire per temi i paesaggi?
(2005)
The current diffusion of a design mentality that proceeds by the assignment of themes, in the design of both sites and individual architectural elements, makes it useful to ponder the subject of the theme park that is the ...
Joseph Guillaume Desmaisons Dupallans
(2006)
In 1840, a French alienist, or psychiatrist, Joseph Guillaume Desmaisons Dupallans, visited a number of Italian asylums with the objective of discovering the best solution for the institute he was planning to set up in the ...
Constitutionalism and democratic transitions
(2006)
The book - as the outcome of a research performed by the University of Florence and the United States Institute of Peace of Washington - explores the role of law in the process of democratic transition in South Africa. ...
Gli spazi immaginati
(2005)
This volume represents the third publication in the series devoted to the theme "Figures in space, politics and society", promoted by a specific interdisciplinary study group, and is the result of the study day held in ...
Autobiografie scolastiche e scelta universitaria
(2006)
The transformations of our society place the onus on the teaching professions to acquire new skills to enable them to respond to the needs of a complex reality in constant evolution. This is why the Degree Course for ...
Gestione delle raccolte e cooperazione nella biblioteca ibrida. Atti del convegno (Firenze, 13 ottobre 2005)
(2006)
This volume contains the proceedings of the Conference on the Management of collections and co-operation in the hybrid library, which was organised in Florence on 13 October 2005 by the Italian Libraries Association (Tuscan ...
Alia: Antropologia di una comunità dell'entroterra siciliano
(2002)
In the spring of 1995, during works for the rehabilitation of a wall that closed the grotto of the Old Cemetery in the Sicilian village of Alia, the skeletal remains of the victims of the cholera outbreak of 1837 that had ...
Valutazioni imprenditoriali per la successione nell'impresa familiare
(2008)
This book addresses the topic of entrepreneurial succession in the family business. This is a fundamental passage, frequently decisive in a type of enterprise that is extremely common in the Italian and European economic ...
Authority control
(2003)
The proceedings published here relate to a conference that was proposed to focus on a decisive aspect of cataloguing. Authority control is the process that ensures the formal uniformity of the options selected for access: ...
Partiti e gruppi parlamentari nell'ordinamento spagnolo
(2005)
This volume represents the natural development of the theoretical conclusions which the author arrived at in a previous publication, devoted to the passage from the mandate prohibition to the party mandate. The analysis ...
Paolo Mantegazza
(2002)
The book presents a selection of the works presented during various encounters held in sites connected with the life of Paolo Mantegazza, aimed at retrieving and valorising his cultural legacy. An eclectic figure - scientist, ...
Traslocare, riaggregare, rifondare
(2006)
This book recounts the phases in the set-up of the new Library of Social Sciences of the University of Florence. The move provided the opportunity for bringing together the collections that were scattered over seven service ...
Art Cities, Cultural Districts and Museums
(2004)
The subject of economic valorisation has become a current topic and the idea that culture can be considered a factor of economic production, able to generate wealth, appears to have been generally accepted. The book consists ...
Un carteggio di fine secolo
(2006)
The correspondence between Renato Fucini and Emilia Peruzzi, which embraces a period of time comprised between 1871 and 1899, provides a colourful picture of late nineteenth-century Florentine and Italian society. Parading ...
Spazi e politica nella modernità tecnologica
(2006)
This notebook is the fourth in the series designed to illustrate the results of an interdisciplinary study group, fostered by Lea Campos Boralevi, Vittore Collina and Bruna Consarelli, lecturers in the history of political ...
Metafore dello spazio
(2004)
This book on Metafore dello spazio, which follows the first dealing with La politica e gli spazi politici, is part of a series designed to illustrate the results of an interdisciplinary study group, fostered by Lea Campos ...
Medicina, chirurgia e politica nell'Ottocento toscano: l'archivio di Ferdinando Zannetti
(2003)
The biography and the works of Ferdinando Zannetti, physician, surgeon, politician and outstanding figure in nineteenth-century Tuscany acquire new light through the organisation and inventorying of the papers from his ...
La politica e gli spazi
(2003)
This notebook is the fourth in the series designed to illustrate the results of an interdisciplinary study group, fostered by Lea Campos Boralevi, Vittore Collina and Bruna Consarelli, lecturers in the history of political ...
Ragioni d'amore
(2005)
This text proposes a rereading of the Decameron that traces the female figures - 'constrained' as we are told in the Proem, by the 'wishes', 'desires' and 'orders' of fathers, mothers, brothers and husbands - in their ...
Rappresentanza e governo alla svolta del nuovo secolo
(2006)
The book presents the proceedings of the conference held in the Aula Magna of the University of Florence on 28 and 29 October 2004. The objective of the conference was to study, through a multidisciplinary approach, the ...
Computers, Literature and Philology CLiP 2003
(2005)
The book presents the proceedings of the international conference CLiP 2003, Computer Literacy and Philology, held in Florence on 4 and 5 December 2003 within the framework of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of ...
Catalogue of books printed before 1601 in the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze
(2005)
The present catalogue seeks to provide a comprehensive record of the 1,532 editions printed in the 15th and 16th centuries held in the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali of the Università degli ...
Dal suono alla parola
(2004)
An up-to-date manual conceived to guide the reader through the most interesting and recent theories in the vast field of psycho-neuro-linguistics. After a review of the latest theories on the perception and production of ...
Dalla misurazione dei servizi alla customer satisfaction
(2004)
Activities for the evaluation of the Florence University Library System have recently materialised in a customer satisfaction survey. The book recounts this experience and illustrates its premises, the phases of implementation, ...
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 ...
Una comunità rurale toscana di antico regime
(2006)
In a perspective of local history that combines problem analysis with a reconstruction accessible even to non-specialists, this book addresses the economy, society and institutions of a rural community of the Tuscan ...
L'uomo, il suono e la musica
(2003)
Among the channels of human expression, perhaps the richest of all is music, through which people can express their emotions – in a continuum ranging from joy to grief, from excitement to depression – in a manner that is ...
Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2002
(2005)
In the undulating plains of north-eastern Syria is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat. The archaeological sequence which has been brought to light stretches without interruption from the start of the ...
An intimate and contested relation
(2006)
The essays in this book explore the political, social and cultural complexity of the relations between the United States and Cuba in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They address aspects ranging from the Cuban exiles ...
Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2001
(2004)
In the undulating plains of north-eastern Syria is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat. The archaeological sequence which has been brought to light stretches without interruption from the start of the ...
Un soffitto viola
(2005)
The book is offered as a reflection on psychological practice which, with a light touch of self-irony and a easy, flowing language, addresses various significant nodal aspects of the profession. The different chapters, ...
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 ...
Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2000
(2003)
In the plains of north-eastern Syria, not far from the course of the Tigris, is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat, a centre famous in the course of the second millennium for the presence of the ...
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 ...
Procedure concorsuali e governo dell'impresa artigiana in Toscana
(2005)
This book presents the results of the work of a research group from the University of Florence aimed at underscoring the consequences on the government of craft enterprises of the inequality of the criteria for recognition ...
3.1 Etica di impresa
(2006)
This book proposes theoretical reflections, tools and techniques for a business ethic that aims at the construction of social welfare. A correct connotation of business ethics is seen in its role of interface between the ...
Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas
(2017)
This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script
and the boundaries of non-scribal communication media in proto-literate and literate
societies. Over the last 30 years, the ...
Strumenti della rete e processo formativo
(2005)
The telecommunications networks offer interesting new opportunities for training. More specifically, in over ten years of studies the research tradition known as CSCL, or computer supported collaborative learning, has ...
Ebrei nella Terraferma veneta del Quattrocento
(2005)
This book is a collection of the proceedings of the study seminar held in Verona on 14 November 2003. This was the occasion for the presentation of the results of archive research performed by young researchers on the ...
Progettare paesaggi di limite
(2005)
This book addresses the issue of the design of urban fringe landscapes, focusing in particular on the experience of the "green belts" and the "green wedges". Experimenting in the urban peripheries of Florence, the fringe ...
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 ...
L'autonomia di apprendimento
(2010)
This book presents the most significant contributions of the fifth edition of the Study Days on didactic materials (foreign), held on 1st June 2007 at the University of Florence, and focused on the issue of "autonomous ...
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 ...
Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millennia
(2001)
Humanity From African Naissance to Coming Millennia arises out of the world's first Dual Congress that was held at Sun City (South Africa) in 1998 that refers to a conjoint, integrated meeting of two international scientific ...