Moto uniformemente accelerato. Note per una storia delle riforme della scuola in Italia by Massimo Cellerino

“…In Italy, however, the shift to a system focussed on effectiveness, research and accountability appears to be more difficult than elsewhere, due to the peculiar features of the Italian cultural and political tradition. This paper sketches a brief history of school reforms in Italy, from the Fascist regime to the present day: by thus doing, it aims at providing some background information for the current debate on school reform, while attempting to shed some light on the critical issues of the day.…”
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Floating Nautical Heritage. Case Studies and Experimental Proposal for Proximity Museums by Giulia Zappia, Maria Carola Morozzo della Rocca, Massimo Musio-Sale

“…Floating Nautical Heritage is part of the Italian Cultural Heritage. Within the mission of the PNRR, it is considered to be a strategic branch for the economic, social, and cultural recovery of our country. …”
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TRANSLATING THE ZEITGEIST: ZEROCALCARE’S GRAPHIC NOVELS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Anja Đ. Pravuljac

“…Two groups of cultural expressions were analysed: national cultural expressions, related to the Italian cultural environment, and generational cultural expressions, related to members of a certain age, not a territory. …”
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Pessimisme de l’intelligence, optimisme de l’imagination : Calvino et la littérature de l’imaginaire à travers le prisme de Leopardi et ses interprètes by Rosanna Maggiore

“…The “dialogue” among these different authors highlights the Italian cultural context of the fifties, how Leopardi’s work was received during that period and the function ascribed by Calvino to speculative fiction.…”
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Creando si impara by Sciuti Russi, Giovanna

“… This contribution is part of research and teaching undertaken during the year 2015-16 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris (Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi) and follows the didactic approach used in the participatory creation of a comic book with a group of adult French students. …”
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The Poetry of Belonging by Mann, Chris

“… The essay develops a postcolonial perspective on Italy and South Africa based on the writer’s experience of rural developmental work among predominantly Zulu-speaking people and on five main points of connection between that specific locale and the Italian cultural horizon, from Roman times to World War II: Language, Accounting, Spirituality, War and Literature. …”
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«Movimenti religiosi di libertà e di salvezza dei popoli oppressi» di Vittorio Lanternari. Problemi di metodo e fortuna del testo by Valerio Petrarca

“…<p>The method followed by Lanternari in the research, published in 1960, is based on the historic method as understood by Benedetto Croce, the philosopher who dominated the Italian cultural scene in the first half of the twentieth century and is opposed to the revival of religious studies, initiated by Raffaele Pettazzoni, which is often associated with the work of Lanternari. …”
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Natural Stones Used in the Orsi-Marconi Palace Façade (Bologna): A Petro-Mineralogical Characterization by Elena Marrocchino, Chiara Telloli, Martina Pedrini, Carmela Vaccaro

“…Ancient buildings are important components of the Italian Cultural Heritage and, since the Etruscan Period, Bologna (north-eastern Italy) has always been one of the most flourishing cities both culturally and economically in the Italian and European panorama. …”
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«Movimenti religiosi di libertà e di salvezza dei popoli oppressi» di Vittorio Lanternari. Problemi di metodo e fortuna del testo by Valerio Petrarca

“… The method followed by Lanternari in the research, published in 1960, is based on the historic method as understood by Benedetto Croce, the philosopher who dominated the Italian cultural scene in the first half of the twentieth century and is opposed to the revival of religious studies, initiated by Raffaele Pettazzoni, which is often associated with the work of Lanternari. …”
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«Movimenti religiosi di libertà e di salvezza dei popoli oppressi» di Vittorio Lanternari. Problemi di metodo e fortuna del testo by Valerio Petrarca

“… The method followed by Lanternari in the research, published in 1960, is based on the historic method as understood by Benedetto Croce, the philosopher who dominated the Italian cultural scene in the first half of the twentieth century and is opposed to the revival of religious studies, initiated by Raffaele Pettazzoni, which is often associated with the work of Lanternari. …”
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Gender perspectives in the Italian Muslim family: Education, taboos, conflicts, and intergenerational transformations by Martina Crescenti

“…Through the testimonies of young people (18-30 years of age), the nature of intergenerational dialogue and parental position toward the relational transformations that their children are experiencing is analysed within the Italian cultural context. For this purpose, 28 semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2021 with boys and girls aged 18–30 years and belonging to Italian Islamic associations. …”
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L’anomalia Verdi, ovvero la resa del professore: il pensiero di Cesare Lombroso sulla musica by Pierangelo Gentile

“…Lombroso, who considered himself ignorant in matters of music, thus introduces new, previously neglected elements by “technicians” (according to Lombroso’s expression), which allow for a new interpretation of a crucial part of nineteenth-century Italian cultural scenery.…”
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0284 The Role of Antiquities between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany by Daria Brasca

“…During the delicate stages of their alliance in and after 1936, the Fascist regime, which considered itself the legitimate heir of the ancient Roman Empire, intensified the promotion of its role as a leading arbiter of cultural matters. A sense of Italian cultural superiority underlay the antiquities gifted or authorized for export to fulfill the Nazi leaders’ requests. …”
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Correlation between Earthquakes and AE Monitoring of Historical Buildings in Seismic Areas by Giuseppe Lacidogna, Patrizia Cutugno, Gianni Niccolini, Stefano Invernizzi, Alberto Carpinteri

“…For the AE monitoring, two important constructions of Italian cultural heritage are considered: the chapel of the “Sacred Mountain of Varallo” and the “Asinelli Tower” of Bologna. …”
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<em>Influences, Translations, Settings: An Evaluation of the Literary Relations between Ireland and Italy</em> by Chiara Sciarrino

“…Taking as its starting point a booklet published by the Italian Cultural Institute Dublin in 1964, the study surveys the influences of Pirandello and Dante in Ireland and analyses in detail translations of Italian poems made by Denis Devlin, Gerald Dawe, Tom Paulin, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Harry Clifton and Desmond O’Grady (their authors: Ungaretti, Quasimodo, Montale, Leopardi). …”
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Women’s presence in contemporary Italy’s environmental movements, with a case study on the Mamme No Inceneritore committee by Rachele Ledda

“…It was during the Epoca Liberale that the first associations for the protection of the environment and of the Italian cultural heritage appear, an era in which women were excluded from most public activities. …”
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Troubles and satisfactions of a valiant librarian: new documentation about Guerriera Guerrieri from her personal archival file preserved at the Central State Archive by Fiammetta Sabba

“… Guerriera Guerrieri is a protagonist of the Italian cultural history of the last century, remembered for the intensity of her work and for the multiplicity of initiatives and actions that characterized her professional activity as a librarian and which still allow us today to remember her as a figure of absolute importance in Italy; among these, the development of cataloging rules, the cataloging of periodicals and the diffusion of books and reading, activities which he carried out with an awareness not only about librarianship, but also about cultural and bibliographical aspects. …”
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Gli scaffali digitali dell'Accademia della Crusca by Claudio Marazzini, Nicoletta Maraschio

“…The report will illustrate the lines of action followed and tell the story of "Scaffali digitali", in parallel with the growing importance of IT resources applied to the humanities sector in the Italian cultural framework. The first phase of the “Shelves” reproposed the 5 editions of the Vocabulary of the Academy, an operation being completed. …”
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Samuel who? The meeting which never took place by Casanova, I

“…In fact, Portuguese traditions of those times led interest to focus on the French and Italian cultures. The limited range of examples of prefaces and annotations in works of that period demonstrate awareness of works from the French and della Crusca academies. …”

Heritage asset in Italian local governements by Giuseppe Farneti, Carlotta del Sordo, Rebecca Levy Orelli

“…The present contribution proposes a definition of the political-institutional context in which the Italian cultural “services” are allocated along with an interpretational scheme of analysis regarding the variables relevant to their governance. …”
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