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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Tuscany"”.
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Heroes or Terrorists? War, Resistance, and Memorialization in Tuscany, 1943-1945
… and consequences of the Resistance in rural Tuscany and their affect on the local population. It will examine the changing views of Italian society, from the immediate post-war era and the decades that followed, with a brief examination of the cinematographic influences on the social views. …
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Distribution patterns of riparian plant species across river of Sardinia and Tuscany
… belonging to two different regions (Sardinia and Tuscany). It focuses on the analysis of floristic differences, on distributional trends of functional and ecological groups, alien and endemic species, and also on the application of landscape classifications to be used as surrogate in conservation …
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Investigations into the Notion of Sculptors’ Drawings as a Type in Renaissance Tuscany
The notion of a sculptural type of drawing is often summarily included in critical literature. These references tend to be brief and regularly contradict one another. Furthermore, drawings made by Tuscan sculptors of the sixteenth century are often neglected altogether. This thesis investigates the …
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Artemisia Gentileschi: a reconstructed assessment of her contribution to Caravaggesque tradition in Tuscany
… followers of Caravaggio who traveled through Tuscany, to trips Tuscan painters may have made to Rome, to Caravaggesque painting in the Medici collections or to the presence of Artemisia Gentileschi in Florence between 1613-1620. While the documentary evidence in support of the first two …
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Sound-mediated environmentalisms in contemporary Tuscany: towards eco-ethnomusicological frameworks in central Italy
… on a series of music and sound-based events in Tuscany, Italy, where my personal and professional connections as a native and artist offer unique insights into the region's human–nature relationships. Through applied ethnomusicological research, combined with my own artistic practice, I …
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Waters and Welfare: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, 1549–1609
Over the central decades of the sixteenth century, the Tuscan ducal state formed in the midst of a flood crisis. A cooling climate, excessive rainfall, and deforestation, among other meteorological and anthropogenic changes now associated with the Little Ice Age, caused rivers and streams to more …
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Storytelling on the margins : a theoretical framework for imagining a fashion innovation center in Tuscany
The importance of the margin has long been deemed important in creative processes. At both the level of the individual and the level of the city, research shows that creativity tends to flourish on the philosophical and physical outskirts of society. This thesis expands upon this theory by looking …
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The Florentine Guilds
… of guilds was not confined to the city-states of Tuscany, England, France, Germany, Spain and other parts of Italy were the seats of these effective corporations,
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Travel Log
… Building in New York City to the countryside in Tuscany, my work tells the story of my travels. When I began to create jewelry that contained elements of my paintings, I expanded on the concept of documenting my travels. Further experimentation with new materials used in jewelry making allowed me …
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Le 'Chiose Cagliaritane' alla 'Commedia': edizione critica e commento
… of the 14th century by an author from eastern Tuscany. In addition to preparing a new critical text that can surpass the commendable edition prepared by Enrico Carrara in 1902, the thesis aims to explore the relationships between the Chiose Cagliaritane and other early Dantean commentators, in …
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Historicizing Maternity in Boccaccio's Ninfale fiesolano and Decameron
… form of family structure in fourteenth-century Tuscany, the patrilineage. I first show how the poem's pervasive discourse on resemblance exposes, and undercuts, the importance of the paternal line; I then consider how Mensola's joyful maternity -her beautifully rendered interactions with baby …
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Design and evaluation of integrated waste to energy multigenerational systems
… produced for the communities in Konya in Turkey, Tuscany in Italy, and Kutahya in Turkey. All suggested systems are developed, modelled, and analyzed using thermodynamic-based sensitive simulations and software. According to the calculations, multigeneration system 2 provides the best performance …
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Wolves, Farmers, & Capitalism: A More-Than-Human Political Ecology of Human-Wolf Relations in Italy
… in the context of human-wolf coexistence in Tuscany and Italy: (Q1) how are wolves affected by and responsive to human practices linked to particular political economies, in ways that influence broader human-wolf relations? (Q2) How are wolves a more-than-human force of socioecological …
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The Path of the Political Culture towards a Post Structuralist Theory. The case of the origin of the Tuscany political culture in the 19th century. [Verso una teoria post-strutturalista della cultura politica. Il caso dell'origine della cultura politica toscana nel XIX secolo.]
Questa tesi mira a fornire una nuova teoria della cultura politica. Tenta di superare i paradigmi storicamente dominanti all'interno del campo della cultura politica e fornire una nuova prospettiva post-strutturalista. Per centrare questo risultato, il presente lavoro non si limita ad una modifica …
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Cecil Pinsent: architecture and landscape design
… historically sensitive villas and landscapes in Tuscany, and responsible for the design and construction of more than twenty new buildings and fifteen gardens in Florence and its vicinity. Although successful and sought-after during the active years of his practise, Pinsent1s contribution to …
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The Relations of Saint Gregory the Great, while Pope, with the Imperial Exarch of Ravenna (590-604): Based on the Correspondences
… Piedmont, Milan, part of Venetia, Modena, Parma, Tuscany, the coast of Genoa from Perugia to the Adriatic, Beneventum and the great port of Naples. |For sixty years, with short intervals of peace, savage wars, slaughter, bloodshed swept the land. Pestilence, famine, poverty did their part in …
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Il Gravettiano dell'Italia tirrenica nel contesto mediterraneo: definizione delle strategie di insediamento e mobilità attraverso lo studio delle materie prime e delle industrie litiche
… area. Finally, the site of Bilancino located in Tuscany let to contextualize the Gravettian between the liguro-provençal arc and Italy. The relation between techno-typological aspects and the raw materials provenance gives important advances in our comprehension of the behavior of the …
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Seven peasant communities in pre-industrial Europe. A comparative study of French, Italian and Swedish rural parishes (18th and early 19th century)
… farming, (northern France), share-cropping (Tuscany), middle peasants (Sweden) and one variety of feudal system (Brittany). Traditional society does not seem to have been very homogeneous: many distinct patterns of family and kinship organization, or of geographical mobility, existed in 18th …
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THE ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM; LOCAL VERSUS GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS IN VAL DI MERSE, ITALY
… tourism) have suggested the Merse watershed in Tuscany Italy be developed to absorb tourist overflow from crowded city centers. My findings are that combined local activity of host and visitor populations does not exceed (in terms of ecological footprint) the biocapacity calculated for Val di …
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A look at victim experiences of cybercrime in South Africa and whether the current legislative framework is equipped to deal with this issue
Cybercrime has become extremely prevalent in society. It is an indiscriminate form of crime that permeates all levels of society. This is especially true after the COVID-19 pandemic which resulted in individuals becoming increasingly reliant on technology for everyday tasks such as working, …
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