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This article introduces unpublished writings by Grazia Livi, held by the Archivio di Stato in Florence, sketching her biography and highlighting the connection between journalism and creative writing. We pass on to the short story Un complice (1994), examining its genesis by means of the manuscripts presented here. LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente, Vol 4 (2015)

Face à une tradition scolaire qui, se prévalant des méthodes de l’exégèse biblique, prônait pour l’œuvre littéraire la séparation entre la forme et le contenu – entre l’Esprit et la Lettre du texte –, la critique moderne recommande, comme l’on sait, l’unité ; et cela à partir d’une évidence organique qui puise son paradigme dans la tradition romantique, héritière du sensualisme des Lumières (« la forme, c’est le fond », selon le mot de Victor Hugo). Cependant, une unité inarticulée entre la f...

In the context of the FP7 NANOFORART project (Nano-materials for the conservation and preservation of movable and immovable artworks) new nano-materials and responsive systems have been developed and experimented for the preservation of works of art. Conservation of cultural heritage is still mainly based on traditional methods and conventional materials that often lack the necessary compatibility with the original artworks and a durable performance in responding to the changes of natural environment and manmade activities. The main challenge of NANOFORART is the combination of functional materials arising from the recent developments in nano-science with innovative techniques in the restoration of works of art. The research activity has been focused on the development of manageable methodologies, based on nanosized structures and with a low environmental impact. The main tasks include the production of dispersions of nanoparticles, micellar solutions, microemulsions and gels, in order to offer new reliable pathways to restore works of art by combining the main features of soft and hard-matter systems for cultural heritage conservation. Great importance was also given to technology transfer to SMEs that will play an important role in the standardization of applicative protocols, in the up-scale and commercialization of technology and in the evaluation of the eco-toxicity of nano-materials. Important museums, such as the National Museum of Anthropology and History of Mexico City and the National Museum of Denmark, are validating the technology developed in the project, and providing training activities and dissemination of the developed techniques. Department of Chemistry and CSGI, University of Florence, via della Lastruccia 3, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019 Florence, Italy.

In the last fifteen years, research on the Slavic Gospel manuscript tradition have reached new and important achievements especially with the spread of computer technology and digitization process. Taking into account progress in the study of the Greek manuscript tradition, the author explains some basic guidelines: the textual structure of the Gospel book, the Menologion pericopes, the Gospel book ornamentation, the new editions. At the end the main essays on individual manuscripts or on particular issues are introduced. The Slavic Gospel, therefore, is still a key issue of Slavic studies in the field of Slavic paleography, textual criticism, and linguistic analysis.

Children have long been the objects and not the subject of legal rights. Social and political evolution has led to a progressive recognition of a series of rights, which have unfortunately often continued to exist only on paper. The gap between legal norms and practice was visible throughout the twentieth century and one of the focal points was the use of violence in the education of children. In Italy the so-called jus corrigendi, written into law during the Fascist period, continued to have an influence for a long time, and to feed a doctrinal and jurisprudential debate long after the Republican Constitution. This complex relationship among laws, social practices and pedagogic ideas has not been modified in a linear manner over time, but does show some important discontinuities: in particular in the 1970s (during and after the student revolts) and at the beginning of the 1990s (with the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child). A good place to see the situation is in the different weig...

The contribution includes the interventions at the round table of the schools which welcomed the educational initiatives linked to the "School Memoirs" (Memorie di Scuola) project - the first specific Italian experience of Public History in the educational field - and which intertwined their itineraries for the formation of historical thought with that perspective.