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(2024)The author of this chapter worked for more than 30 years in Olivetti and nowadays meets often people interested in the peculiar history of this international industry. This paper aims to facilitate the understanding ...
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(2024)Studies on Olivetti, a world leader in its sector for most of the twentieth century, are constantly increasing. The Company had in great consideration human and professional growth of workers as well as ethical, aesthetic ...
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(2024)How spiritualism was expressed in the thoughts and the activities of Adriano Olivetti. His values were somehow shared by his collaborators and managers like Ottiero Ottieri, Paolo Volponi, Geno Pampaloni. In this chapter ...
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(2024)My article is a comparative analysis of John Florio and Giuseppe (‘Joseph’) Baretti centred on the themes of exile and lexicography. The founder of Italian-English lexicography with his Worlde of Wordes (1598) and Queen ...
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(2024)This brief essay attempts to shed light on some hitherto unnoticed aspects of Baretti’s approach to translation. A close analysis of his Dissertation upon the Italian Poetry, in fact, reveals that behind the Italian ...
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Chapter «The metropolis of Great Britain»: Londra nelle lettere e nel dizionario di Giuseppe Baretti(2024)Giuseppe Baretti was the most famous master of Romance languages in eighteenth-century London, where he spent two long periods, from 1751 to 1760, and from 1766 until his death in 1789. Given his temperament, social attitude, ...
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(2024)Tuscan intellectual Vincenzio Martinelli spent much of his life in London. A teacher of Italian, an amateur musicologist, a great conversationalist, he was also well-versed in the capital's social life. He frequented its ...
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(2024)In the last decades of the eighteenth century, Voltaire sparked off a fierce debate on the merits and demerits of Shakespeare’s plays, to which Baretti responded with his Discours sur Shakespeare et sur M. de Voltaire. ...
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(2024)Francesco Maria Ageno was appointed three times minister to the Court of St James's by the Most Serene Republic of Genoa. During his long permanence in London – his mission started in 1760 and ended up in 1780 –, he was ...
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(2024)This essay aims at outlining Baretti’s attitude toward antiquarianism, which pervaded eighteenth-century Europe and Italy in particular, first with the revival of Etruscan studies and then with the discovery of Herculaneum ...
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(2024)Around 1953, M. M. Rossi wrote a book on the Italian “anglofilia” in the 18th and 19th centuries. For reasons unknown, the book was never published. Here is a brief account of its contents, with emphasis on the role Rossi ...
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(2024)Three centuries ago, Giuseppe Baretti was born in Turin. This essay outlines his personality, voyages and movements, with particular attention to his often challenging relationships with the Italian Enlightenment and his ...
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(2024)This work examines the criminal profiles of gambling, analyzing the types of crimes contained in the penal code and in complementary legislation, with particular regard to the incriminating rules of 'abusive exercise' ...
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(2024)This paper, after a short analysis of the essential discipline of the consumer over-indebtedness settlement procedures, focuses on the judgement of the merits of the debtor with a gambling disorder.
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(2024)The essay explores the legal effects of gambling from the perspective of relevant civil law regulations. Starting from the premise of the legal system's neutrality towards gambling, it investigates the implications of loans ...
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(2024)This dissertation contains an analysis of the legal gambling "rulebook" in Italy, starting from the origins to the latest regulatory and fiscal updates. The dissertation then proceeds to quickly examine the history of the ...
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(2024)The purpose of this contribution is to identify the areas of constitutional law in which legislation and jurisprudence have interpreted the phenomenon of gambling. In fact, in view of the Constitutional Court's increasingly ...
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(2024)This paper investigates the relationship between Italian mafias and gambling in the light of the sector’s rapid growth over the last thirty years. In the Nineties, the Italian government decided to legalize and then ...
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(2024)The gambling sector, given its size and its impact in economic and social terms, has always been the subject of multidisciplinary researches which have investigated its different dimensions. This contribution intends to ...
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(2024)With the liberalization of gambling, since the beginning of the new millennium, not only Italy has become a sort of open-air casino, but we have also witnessed an explosion in gambling and the number of players; almost at ...
