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Summary: The volume deals with the juridical and institutional framework of athletic and artistic games from archaic Greece to late antique Rome. The agones' rules and regulations, the funding by public contributions and wealthy private sponsors were approached as well as the athletes' training and prizes and privileges, which determined the athletes'-and especially the winner's- social status. Moreover attention was drawn onto the end of the classical Greek agones from a Roman perspective.The Second Vienna Colloquium on Ancient Legal History addressed the juridical and institutional framework of athletic and artistic games in classical antiquity. The chronological frame ranged from Archaic times to Late Antiquity (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. CE). The symposium covered three main areas of interest. Firstly, the agones' rules and regulations, the funding by public contributions and wealthy private sponsors as well as the athletes' training were approached. Prizes and privileges, which determined the athletes'-and especially the winner's- social status and were thus crucial to the agones' appeal, were then attended to by several papers. In contrast to the conditions under the Imperium Romanum, where the emperor enforced nation-wide regulations, the "politics of sports" followed different rules in the small-scaled world of the classical Greek poleis. Thus, differences in the conception of sports between Greeks and Romans were traced and exemplarily demonstrated on the basis of the gladiatorial games. Lastly, attention was drawn onto the end of the classical Greek agones from a Roman perspective. The now Christian empire couldn't tolerate the pagan agones anymore and instead developed new forms of athletic competitions and public entertainment: late antique circus games and chariot races.

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This e-book contains articles discussed at the national Symposium on "Electronic Books and the practices of scholarly research", held in Naples, Italy, on 20 June 2003. The advent of new technologies, tools, and digital resources is changing how scholars conduct their work, keep updated in their field or fields of study, and think about research. Moving from the reconstruction of the market of scientific communication, copyright policies, and management of long-term conservation strategies, the published papers aim to discuss the ways in which scholarly practices have changed in the last decades, even since the end of the last century, in teaching and in research, in various disciplines like history, physics and biomedical sciences.

This paper reports on an analysis of the scholarly digital edition of Wittgenstein's Nachlass, produced by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, together with a proposal to extend the ontology currently used to navigate the Nachlass documents, in order to make it conform to the Linked Data principles.

If human mobility is an inalienable right of each individual, it is true that people must not be forced to migrate: work for development in the countries of origin, transit and affected by south-south migration, especially from Africa, by to which a large part of the migration flow comes, it is therefore essential, in order to create conditions that encourage food security, sustainable development and resilience, involving the community, civil society and the private sector, and addressing the complexities linked to changes climate. The right to human mobility is accompanied by the right of each sovereign state to regulate the migratory flows that cross its borders. Finding a sustainable balance between these rights is a challenge for everyone: what is certain, however, is that each country should aspire to "govern" migration processes and not simply suffer them. While the news on landings continues to follow, even if at a slower pace than in the recent past, it is right to stop and reflect. Since last year, landings in Italy have fallen by over 80%, but in the last five years the number of refugees and other beneficiaries of international protection has increased by 180,000, and there are still around 130,000 asylum seekers waiting. In addition, many of the people who see themselves denied a request for asylum cannot be repatriated and will remain in Italy. It is therefore appropriate to ask: is there a distance of integration between the newly arrived and foreigners present in Italy for some time? Is it worth investing in the integration of those who have landed in Italy in recent years? And if so, with what resources? With this joint paper, ISPI and Cesvi want to suggest a way. Which is certainly not the only one, but which opens up new scenarios and new possibilities.

The volume contains a collection of contributions presented at the conference “INVALSI data: a tool for research”, held in Rome the 20th September 2016. On this occasion, scholars from different professional contexts (school, university, research) and selected through a call for papers presented their scientific works, using INVALSI data. The book is divided into two parts: the first part devoted to the use of INVALSI data in didactic research, the second focused on INVALSI data as a tool for supporting policy and decision makers. The eighteen chapters cover in-depth analyses that, starting from different angles and using several methodologies, offer the reader a rich and structured view of the different possible uses of the data that INVALSI gather each year.

"I am sure that, 3,000 years ago, many people criticized the papyrus and regretted the ancient stone support: I am serene about the future of the book and its digitalisation". Thus the American writer R. Banks makes a measure of the progressive and painful change of the tools of knowledge: the juxtaposition of digital documents to paper publications was quickly perceived also by the variegated university world, leaving however many doubts to the users who operate in it . What do we talk about when we mention Open Access? How and with what costs can the texts circulate? How are these perceived by those who manage them, by those who distribute them and by those who read them? The contributions of this miscellany, aimed above all at the audience of users of the humanistic journals, provide some answers to these questions. They are arranged in a wide range of reflections, of different tenor and subject, to discuss an innovative and increasingly widespread publication tool, but still being defined and accepted.

"This volume gathers the contributions related to the call for papers presented on the occasion of the 59th National Conference of AIIG (Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, 29 September - 3 October 2016). It aims to provide a lively and faceted testimony of the inclusive values that geography is able to offer to all operators of education and territory. The theoretical contributions of the first part highlight the irreplaceable role of geography to educate to the realization of a really inclusive human community and also touch other issues with a strong social impact, such as the right to health. In the second part the inclusive theories are translated into teaching practice, so that teachers can get practical and effective ideas for the realization of similar projects in other schools and universities."

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students. This volume contains a collection of contributions from multidisciplinary fields and working environment (school, university, research). The contributions have been selected through a call for papers and submitted to peer review by qualified experts.

The relationship of Elio Vittorini with his own novel Uomini e no (Bompiani, 1945) was undoubtedly problematic and characterized by continuous second thoughts and revisions. This volume explains the reasons for the complex relationship between author and text, starting from the first moments of the genesis of the novel, documented by unpublished autograph papers, preserved in the Elio Vittorini Fund of the Apice Center of the University of Milan and studied here for the first time, together with the editorial materials of the first edition. The reconstruction of the further transformations of the text is testified then by the successive prints and by other unpublished archival documents that explain the literary and editorial project. The path traced therefore covers a chronological span from 1944 to 1966 - the year of the author's death and the last edition due to his will - and tells what were the poetic, ethical and political reasons that initiated the writing of the novel and that have motivated the successive continuous re-elaborations. The close analysis of textual materials allows us to enter the author's writing workshop, to explain the radical changes for the second edition of 1949, and then conclude on the revisions made for the last Mondadori editions of 1965 (Oscar) and 1966 (I Storytellers). The diachrony of a novel, to tell a crucial stage of the literary work of Elio Vittorini and to re-read the critical judgments on Men and no starting from the historical and philological authenticity of the text.