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Florence Nightingale and Henry Dunant are two names which are associated in much that has been written about the Red Cross and army medical services. Only seldom are their outstanding personalities contrasted. Where does the truth lie? In similarity or difference? Let us try to sort things out.

L'Italie est à son tour confrontée à la scolarisation d'élèves étrangers. En général, les enfants de nomades originaires d'ex-Yougoslavie sont ceux qui posent le plus de difficultés à l'institution scolaire. A Florence, en particulier, on met sur pied des pédagogies interculturelles et des méthodes expérimentales initialement prévues pour les enfants de migrants et qui se généralisent à tous les établissements de la ville. Où l'on voit que la proportion assez faible d'élèves étrangers et le contexte général de l'immigration en Italie permettent encore une intégration relativement aisée des enfants.

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Many authors consider this writing as the founding manifesto of civic humanism. Written in the style of rhetoric, it is a piece of propaganda for the Republic of Tuscany. In the excerpts presented here, Bruni describes Florence as a vehicle for the ideal of republican freedom in the manner of Athens and pre-imperial Rome. The Florentina libertas was defined in relation to external powers (notably that of Milan, controlled by a Duke of absolute power whose expansionism has been halted by Dante's city). In addition, it was directed internally, where the republican order involved the rule of law and the equality of citizens before the law, a system that permitted different institutions to mutually balance themselves and a degree of social equality between the rich and the poor. Adapted from the source document.

Résumé Cet écrit est considéré par de nombreux auteurs comme le manifeste fondateur de l'humanisme civique. S'inscrivant dans le genre rhétorique, il constitue un texte de propagande en faveur de la République toscane. Dans les extraits ici présentés, Bruni présente Florence comme porteuse d'un idéal de liberté républicaine qui l'inscrit dans la lignée d'Athènes et de la Rome pré-impériale. La florentina libertas se décline vis-à-vis des puissances extérieures (et notamment de Milan, dirigée par un Duc au pouvoir absolu et dont l'expansion a été arrêtée par la résistance de la cité de Dante), et vers l'intérieur, où l'ordre républicain implique l'Etat de droit, l'égalité des citoyens devant la loi, un système permettant aux différentes institutions de s'équilibrer mutuellement et un certain équilibre social entre les riches et les pauvres.

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale's work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her ""call to service"" into practice: by first learning how the laws of God's world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the fa

This is the first translation into English of Guicciardini's Dialogue on the Government of Florence. Written in the early 1520s by the author of the famous History of Italy, as well as a History of Florence and Political Maxims and Reflections, this dialogue presents what is arguably the most searching and comprehensive analysis of the politics of his times. Like Machiavelli, his contemporary and friend, Guicciardini rejects classical republican arguments in the name of the new political realism and acknowledges the important role of patronage and graft in contemporary politics and the illegitimacy of nearly all forms of political power. In this Dialogue he provides one of the clearest expositions of the term 'reason of state', which he was one of the first to employ and which he uses to justify the priority of state interest over private morality and religion.

A study of the Speziale al Giglio apothecary shop in fifteenth-century Florence, Italy

"An unfamiliar portrait of Renaissance Florence is depicted in this volume where we find not only some celebrated humanist-oriented thinkers but also their scholastic friends and rivals, discussing matters pertaining to moral psychology. The rationale here is to illuminate the shadowlands of Renaissance philosophy and the intellectual history of late 15th century Italy by bringing into focus the important role played by scholastic thinkers in the Italian Renaissance. Questions and problems regarding e.g., the intellect and the will, evil and conscience, cognition and love are treated through detailed accounts of debates and texts which were rarely discussed previously, in the context of the reception of classical and medieval concepts and theories and mainly fourteenth-century scholastic schools and their achievements"--Provided by publisher