Discourse on Pisa (Italian: Discorso sopra le cose di Pisa) is a 1499 work by Italian Renaissance historian and political scientist Niccolò Machiavelli...

such instances, PISA assessment data are used selectively: in public discourse governments often only use superficial features of PISA surveys such as...

Pisa (/ˈpiːzə/ PEE-zə; Italian: [ˈpiːza] or [ˈpiːsa]) is a city and comune (municipality) in Tuscany, Central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it...

The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, lit. 'Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy') is a work of political history...

arms have been shown since 1947 on the flags of the Italian Navy and the Italian Merchant Navy: Amalfi, Genoa, Pisa, and Venice. In addition to the four...

engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. He was born in the city of Pisa, then part of the Duchy of Florence. Galileo has been called the father of...

Ertl: Educational Standards and the Changing Discourse on Education: The Reception and Consequences of the PISA Study in Germany. Oxford Review of Education...

that time Muslim raiders were attacking coastal cities on the Tyrrhenian Sea. Muslims raided Pisa in 1000, and in 1015 they escalated their attacks, raiding...

Prince, the Discourses on Livy (composed c. 1517) has been said to have paved the way for modern republicanism. His works were a major influence on Enlightenment...

important concept for different reasons and on different levels: first, anaphora indicates how discourse is constructed and maintained; second, anaphora...

Political Science, University of Pisa (Italy), 156 pp.. Corchia, Luca (February 2016). Jürgen Habermas. A bibliography. 2. Studies on Jürgen Habermas (1962–2015)...

in the summer of 1979 when two young gay men were killed in Livorno. In Pisa in November of that year, the Orfeo Collective [it] organized the first march...

: 164  Preservation efforts were also completed on the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and it reopened to the public on December 15 after 12 years of reconstruction...

of a third. He was found guilty and executed by hanging by the Army near Pisa in July 1945. Mamie Till-Bradley and her family knew none of this, having...

Galeazzo died from it on 3 September 1402. The Visconti domains were divided between three heirs. Gabriele Maria Visconti sold Pisa to the Republic of Florence...

cathedrals at Meißen and Schwerin. Nicola Pisano sculpts the pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery. The newly formed Sukhothai Kingdom of Thailand adopts Theravada...

with Vitelli first at Pisa and then in Naples for the French. In 1499, the two were fighting for the Florentines against Pisa, but both were accused...

evaluations. In the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), Japan ranked eighth globally, with an average score of 520 compared to...

European History: Representations, Jurisdictions, Conflicts. Pisa, Italy: Edizioni Plus – Pisa University Press. ISBN 978-88-8492-462-9. Ancient Macedonia...

over Pisa, which was in revolt against Florence from 1502–1509, Leonardo da Vinci is consulted on a scheme to divert the river Arno around Pisa to the...

12 – The Treaty of Pisa is signed between France and the Papal States to bring an end to the Corsican Guard Affair that began on August 20, 1662, when...

The Hague: Mouton. p. 15. Chomsky, Noam (1993). Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures (7th ed.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-014131-0...

spoken by Apuleius is still extant. This is known as the Apologia (A Discourse on Magic). Apuleius accused an extravagant personal enemy of turning his...

comes to the University of Pisa as the chair of botany, where he had the year prior established the Orto botanico di Pisa. Rats make their first appearance...

Accademico Sull'istoria Letteraria Pisana [Academic discourse on the history of Pisan literature] (Pisa, (Italy): 1787), pages 60–61. Lorenzo Cantini, Saggi...

becomes identified with effeminacy, for example, or in opposition to a discourse of manliness. In this regard Ian McCormick has argued that an adequate...

58-meter Italian telescope, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. The TNG is operated by...

Edwards, Pail N. (1996). The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-55028-4...

Chomsky, N., 1981. Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures. Foris, Dordrecht. Hale, K., 1989. On nonconfigurational structures. In:...

extensively in Europe. He lived for seven years in Italy, in Venice, Ravenna, Pisa and Genoa after he was forced to flee England due to threats of lynching...