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Vēsture: Latvijas Universitātes Žurnāls, Nr.11/12
2021
Evil lords, benign historians: strongman politics in medieval India and Renaissance Florence
2019
Recent developments in Europe and the United States (US) attest to an increasing fascination with and nostalgia for the strong leaders of the past – especially those that emerged in the aftermath o...
Infrastructure as interface. Thinking the urban and the high -speed station: italian case-studies.
2011
This presentation will document some results of an ongoing research focusing on the role of infrastructure in contemporary design practice. The methodology is based on critical design theory and combines theoretical aspects with a case-study approach, at the junction of infrastructure, urban design and architecture. It is already well documented that 19th and 20th century infrastructure have deeply affected their programs in order to face new challenges over the last 30 decades. Railway stations are leading examples in this fields: they have gradually implemented their design, that already integrated commercial spaces and facilities, until involving in public space transformation. Instead, …
Vēstures procesa izpratne Nikolo Makjavelli darbos
2018
Maģistra darbs "Vēstures procesa izpratne Nikolo Makjavelli darbos" ir veltīts vēstures teorijas jautājumiem Nikolo Makjavelli sacerējumos. Pētījuma ietvaros tiek analizēti Makjavelli nozīmīgākie darbi - "Pārdomas par Tita Līvija pirmo dekādi", "Valdnieks" un "Florences vēsture". Pētījuma mērķis ir atspoguļot un analizēt Nikolo Makjavelli darbos paustās idejas par vēstures procesu un to ietekmējošajiem faktoriem. Darba ievadošajā nodaļā ir sniegts ieskats Nikolo Makjavelli biogrāfijā, kā arī Itālijas reģiona un Florences republikas politiskajās un kulturālajās norisēs. Otrajā nodaļā tiek aplūkotas Nikolo Makjavelli politiskās un sociālās idejas. Trešajā nodaļā tiek analizēta metafizisko asp…
Pilsētu vēstures problēmas, 1
1974
Les exilés et l'enseignement de l'espagnol en France
2006
International audience; Au moment où la France accorde l’asile au demi million d’Espagnols qui fuient Franco, la langue espagnole n’intéressait qu’une minorité restreinte d’élèves. Au début des années cinquante, alors que l’anglais et même l’allemand connaissaient les faveurs accrues de la jeunesse, l’espagnol continuait de végéter au sein d’un système éducatif où rien n’était entrepris pour le rendre plus attractif. Au cours des années qui suivirent, l’arrivée au lycée des enfants des exilés républicains, et d’une façon plus localisée, le souvenir du rôle joué par les républicains-résistants dans la libération des certaines villes du sud, modifièrent sensiblement cette situation. Les desce…
The Political Logic of Conflict. A Debate on Machiavelli in Tumult by Gabriele Pedullà. Introduction
2021
This section of the issue offers a debate on G. Pedullà’s Machiavelli in Tumult: The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism (Cambridge 2018). Its ambition is to bring together textual and philological analysis that is «internal» to the great fabric of Machiavellian exegesis, alongside theoretical-political questioning «external» to that fabric. The main objective is to offer a new image of Machiavelli as an author who breaks with a long and authoritative tradition, one which exalted concord as an absolute political value, and to inaugurate a new way of observing political and social phenomena. The book is discussed by A. Brown, J. Hankins, J. Mc-Cormick, and N. Urbin…
3D Map Computation from Historical Stereo Photographs of Florence
2018
The analysis of early photographic sources is fundamental for documenting and understanding the evolution of a city so rich in history and art as Florence. Indeed, by the 1860s several photographers used to work in town, and their images (often obtained through stereoscopic set-ups) can help us to reconstruct Florence in 3D as it was by the time of the Italian unification. The first and most delicate part of such reconstruction process is the computation of disparity maps from the historical stereo pairs. This is a very challenging task for fully-automatic computer vision algorithms, since XIX century photographs are affected by several problems—ranging from superficial damages to asynchron…
Il corallo trapanese nel collezionismo di ieri e di oggi: una raccolta di arte sacra tra Seicento e Settecento alla XXXI Biennale dell’Antiquariato
2020
The collection of works in Trapanese coral exhibited at the XXXI International Biennial of Antiques in Florence demonstrates show such production was characterized by a consistently high cultural level and refined artistic knowledge. Whereas from the 16th Century onwards the main players in this trend were sovereigns, nobles and high prelates, between the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century, antique dealers and wealthy private individuals became the main players, as they were attracted, like their predecessors, by the exquisite beauty of Trapanese coral artifacts, which still commands high prices in the art market. The article proposes a scientific study of the wor…
Innovazione e resilienza nella città intelligente. Pratiche fiorentine al tempo della pandemia
2021
La pandemia ha dato l’opportunità ad alcune città di dimostrare il grado di competitività raggiunto e di divenire un modello di riferimento. In questi contesti non ha prevalso l’immobilismo o la sterile attesa, ma una fervente attività propositiva e creativa. Il presente contributo si propone di approfondire solo una delle esperienze di creatività e di azione all’interno di una città certamente smart, Firenze. Il caso della Galleria degli Uffizi dimostra la capacità dei contesti ad elevato livello tecnologico e di competenze di superare con brillantezza le situazioni critiche che, nella loro diversificata configurazione, possono presentarsi. The pandemic has given some cities the opportunit…