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A House in the Form of a City. Casa Ceccarelli in Bologna (1962-63)
No full textThe Casa Ceccarelli in Bologna was designed by Giancarlo De Carlo for the astrophysicist and educator Marcello Ceccarelli in 1961-62, a time when the architect was working on the university settlement Collegio del Colle in Urbino, while his patron was completing the Croce del Nord (Northern Cross) - the first Italian radio telescope - in the Po valley. Born as a sort of experiment between two like-minded and unusual intellectuals, this building was, in De Carlo's words, “a flagrant case of a project-process, or in other words, of architecture” but also a laboratory for studying and testing new spatial inventions in a playful way. The author of this essay has lived in the house since he was a boy, experiencing it as a miniature city surrounded by its countryside and populated by numerous friends who were always there
Dagli atti pubblici alla novellistica: fonti per lo studio della viabilità
No full textin M.L. Ceccarelli Lemut - G. Garzella (curr.), La via Francigena e il basso Valdarno. Vie di terra e d’acqua nel Medioevo fra l’Elsa e il mare. Prospettive della ricerca e primi risultati, Atti del Seminario di studi (Pisa, 4 dicembre 1996), pp. 21-3
Le «idee» per la villa reale di Zola (1805) e un progetto di Giovanni Antonio Antolini per il Palazzo Caprara alle Budrie
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Risky Markets : Marine Insurance in Renaissance Florence
No full textRisky Markets explores a crucial moment in the history of insurance, when
tools designed to tackle sea risks were in their first making. Renaissance
Florence is the setting for one of the first attempts to develop a market specialized
in protecting maritime trade. Drawing on a unique collection of
sources, the book provides a wide ranging account about the players, institutions,
business practices and organizations of the insurance business,
shedding light on the forecasting techniques underwriters used. Ceccarelli
shows that the market was a small club where trust relations and shared
codes of conduct prevail over competition. In a world without probability
this was the way by which a business community managed transforming
uncertainty into a calculable risk
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