Samuele Fabbri, Non perfidior Catilinae coniuratio. La strategia comunicativa di Benedetto XI al tempo della legazione fiorentina di Niccolò da Prato (1304)

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Samuele Fabbri, Non perfidior Catilinae coniuratio. La strategia comunicativa di Benedetto XI al tempo della legazione fiorentina di Niccolò da Prato (1304)

The peacemaking mission of the Dominican cardinal Niccolò da Prato, held in 1304, represented one of the key moments in Florentine political history between the 13th and 14th centuries. This article investigates the communication strategy of Pope Benedict XI (former Master of the Order of Preachers) after the failure of Niccolò’s legation. In particular, through the analysis of the Rex pacificus bull, it is shown how the pope attempted to create a negative public image of the black Florentine Guelphs opposed to the cardinal, drawing on themes and figures from the political imagination of Florentine citizens.

Aldo Giuseppe di Bari, Dal Mar Nero a Bologna: un primo sguardo sulla presenza di schiave e schiavi nella documentazione dei secoli XIV-XV

The slave trade in the Late Middle Ages has received consistent historiographical attention and the theme has been the subject of a rich and established scholarship. These works, however, did not take Bologna – a city both far from the sea and distant to the Genoese/Venetian circuits – into consideration in their analysis. By studying a vast range of archival documents, such as sale deeds, emancipation acts and trial records, the present paper explores the connections between the city and the Mediterranean slave routes in order to try establishing the traits and the size of the enslaved population in the area.

Michele Donno, I governi Moro e la crisi economica degli anni Sessanta. La politica finanziaria di Roberto Tremelloni (1964-1965)

Tremelloni was a ‘frontier’ man, because he knew how to reconcile, in his government action, the defense of the market economy and private initiative with reformist policies, open to economic planning. Faithful to Einaudi’s teachings, he joined the social democratic split of Palazzo Barberini and was a protagonist of the De Gasperi governments, but also an active supporter of the ‘organic center-left’. Some measures he promoted during the first two Moro governments, which operated in an unfavorable international economic situation, helped to define the tax system of republican Italy. An economic policy in line with that of other countries belonging to the European Community and which received open US approval.

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François Bougard, L’empereur Lothaire rappelle à l’ordre les notaires toscans: Liber Papiensis Loth. 82

A short text attributed to Lothar I by the Liber Papiensis recalls that the dating of charters must include not only the month but also the day of the month: it is aimed at the Tuscan scribes, who it must be understood had deviated from this rule. The analysis of the Lucchese documents shows in fact that the habit of indicating only the month became the majority for about 25 years, until the mid-810s. The last occurrence is in 824, after which the discipline was strictly applied. The capitulum could be assigned to Lothar’s first stay in Italy, in 822-823.

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Giancarlo Vallone, Verso una storia costituzionale del Mezzogiorno

The two recent volumes (2018) by Francesco Senatore about Capua in the 15th century, deal in depth, on the basis of a very rich documentation, the institutions of the city, the methods of construction and management of the large district, the tax system, without at all excluding from the evaluation the frequent and repeated quarrels which are wisely  considered structural to this type of overlap of territorial powers. Derives from it the possibility of a new story of southern Kingdom of Italy, in terms of constitutional history.

Anna Maria Voci, Ebreo e tedesco. Un nuovo libro sul giovane Richard Krautheimer negli anni di Weimar

This essay reviews a newly published book of the German art historian Ingo Herklotz on the beginning of the academic career of Richard Krautheimer (1897-1994). Its focus is on the German years of this outstanding German-Jewish art historian (1923-1933), who had to leave Germany in 1933 and lived afterwards in Italy and in the USA. Herklotz shows how Krautheimer’s German years were crucial for his intellectual development and his later achievements, the most important of which was the monumental Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae.

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Corrado Zedda, Ai piedi dell’Apostolo. Sede Apostolica e spazio tirrenico (secoli XI e XII) (Mauro Ronzani)

John Oldland, The English Woolen Industry, c. 1200 – c. 1560 (Sergio Tognetti)

Alberto Luongo e Paolo Nanni, Prato, i pratesi e gli enti assistenziali. Ricerche sugli ospedali e sui ceppi tra XIII e XV secolo (Francesco Bianchi)

Clémence Revest, Romam veni. Humanisme et Papauté à la fin du Grand Schisme (Lorenzo Tanzini)

Ester Camilla Peric, Vendere libri a Padova nel 1480. Il Quaderneto di Antonio Moreto. Saggio introduttivo di Neil Harris (Lorenz Böninger)

Lucrezia Borgia, Lettere 1494-1519, a cura di Diane Ghirardo (Francesca Klein)

Girolamo Imbruglia, Utopia: una storia politica da Savonarola a Babeuf (Giacomo Carmagnini)

Giuseppina De Giudici, Sanctitas Legatorum. Sul “fondamento” dell’indipendenza giurisdizionale in età moderna (Frédéric Ieva)

The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of the Empire, ed. by Christophe Dejung, David Motadel, Jürgen Osterhammel (Alessandro Stanziani)

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Matteo Taddei, La nozione della Renovatio Imperii Romanorum nel Chronicon di Titmaro di Merseburgo

This article examines the consequences of Otto III’s renewed policies based on the narrative performed by Thietmar bishop of Merseburg in his Chronicon and other contemporary sources. The concept of Renovatio imperii Romanorum is not taken for [...]]]>

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Matteo Taddei, La nozione della Renovatio Imperii Romanorum nel Chronicon di Titmaro di Merseburgo

This article examines the consequences of Otto III’s renewed policies based on the narrative performed by Thietmar bishop of Merseburg in his Chronicon and other contemporary sources. The concept of Renovatio imperii Romanorum is not taken for granted, so an analysis of the sources that insist on that notion is proposed, focusing on the way in which Ottonian policies have been received and spread in that precise historical context.

Stefano Boero, Lo specchio della frontiera: le monarchie europee e il banditismo in Abruzzo (1647-1660)

The article analyzes the political situation of the provinces of Abruzzo in the decade following the 1647-48 revolt in relation to the phenomenon of banditry, focusing on the Spanish Monarchy’s ability to maintain public order on the border of the Kingdom of Naples. The support offered by the French Embassy at the Holy See to the initiatives of the bandit ‘Martello’ was part of a plan aimed at reducing the Habsburg influence in the Italian peninsula.

Matteo Calcagni, I limiti della neutralità. Commercio, pirateria e tensioni diplomatiche tra Granducato di Toscana, Francia e Inghilterra (1696-1707)

Cosimo III de’ Medici promulgated the neutrality of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to protect its economic interests from late 17th-century European conflicts. However, Medicean policy went into crisis when, in 1696, an English merchant based in Livorno plundered some French vessels in the Levant. This article aims to investigate the long-lasting diplomatic strategies carried out by the Tuscan government during the international crisis generated by the case.

Dino Mengozzi, Vite semplici. Vite da eroi. Necronominalismo e democratizzazione dei nomi dei caduti della Grande guerra

Between 1914-1938, the enormous task of documenting the names of the dead soldiers, which was instrumental in permitting mass mourning processions, was led by nations. This essay analyses the construction of ‘necronominalism’ beginning in mid-nineteenth century, specifically at the time of Garibaldi. The new way of combat during WWI was no longer man against man but moreover machine against machine so that no one was a celebrated hero.  It is for this reason that the list of dead inscribed on the monuments is in alphabetical order. It shows that a common soldier could have a higher rank than his officer. This also diminished any preceding hierarchy and eliminated any idea of sacredness in the ‘red leftist’ funeral ceremonies.  Fascism transformed this ‘democracy of death’ en masse without reference to the individual

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Michaela Valente, Prima e dopo la conversione: a proposito di Salomone-Ercole de’ Fedeli, orafo nell’Italia del Rinascimento.

The essay deals with the discussion of Tamar Herzig’s new book, A Convert’s tale. She wrote the story of a Jewish goldsmith, Salomone da Sessa, who worked for Duke Ercole d’Este and his wife, Eleonora d’Aragona in the Italian peninsula at the end of the XVth century. In 1491 Salomone converted to Christianism as Ercole de’Fedeli. Through this case, Herzig highlights several important features such as the social and religious relationships between Jews and Christians.

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Aldo Angelo Settia, Battaglie medievali (Duccio Balestracci)

The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada between East and West (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries), ed. by Adela Fábregas (Lorenzo Tanzini)

Luciano Palermo, Il mercato romano nel carteggio di Francesco Datini (1377-1409) (Andrea Fara)

Arnold Esch, Roma dal Medioevo al Rinascimento (1378-1484) (Sergio Tognetti)

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, De bello Neapolitano, a cura di Giuseppe Germano, Antonietta Iacono e Francesco Senatore (Lorenz Böninger)

Elisa Novi Chavarria, Accogliere e curare. Ospedali e culture delle nazioni nella Monarchia ispanica (secc. XVI-XVII) (Lucia Sandri)

Massimo Baioni, Vedere per credere. Il racconto museale dell’Italia unita (Christian Satto)

Marcello Flores – Giovanni Gozzini, Il vento della rivoluzione. La nascita del partito comunista italiano (Gianluca Scroccu)

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Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, Rituali di liberazione dei prigionieri nell’Italia del Duecento: il caso toscano tra diritto e religione

Rituals of liberation of poor prisoners condemned for minor crimes on the occasion of Christian feasts have not received specific attention in the historiography of communal Italy. Nevertheless, they can foster our knowledge of [...]]]>

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Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, Rituali di liberazione dei prigionieri nell’Italia del Duecento: il caso toscano tra diritto e religione

Rituals of liberation of poor prisoners condemned for minor crimes on the occasion of Christian feasts have not received specific attention in the historiography of communal Italy. Nevertheless, they can foster our knowledge of the Italian late Middle Ages by shedding light on aspects such as the concept of civic religion and the relationship between criminal justice and spirituality in the communes. This article focuses on the origins of these practices, which seem to occur for the first time in 1270s-1290s Tuscany, but which subsequently became common in other areas of central and northern Italy.

Elena Maccioni, La giustizia mercantile a Genova fra XIV e XV secolo: la gestione delle rappresaglie tra normativa, istituzioni politiche e diplomazia

Between the fourteenth and the fifteenth century Genoa, one of the most important cities in the European financial and mercantile context, experienced a series of important local political transformations. These changes had clear effects on legislation, practices of justice and international relations. Starting from the examination of the sources related to the management of reprisals, this study aims to analyse the relationship between economy, political change, institutions and diplomacy.

Alessandro Lo Bartolo, Alessandro de’ Medici e il Dominio Per una rilettura degli inizi del principato (1530-1537)

Alessandro de’ Medici’s rule has been considered for centuries as a black tyrannical parenthesis between the republic’s crisis and the real foundation of the principality operated by Cosimo I. This article aims instead to read this period as a crucial phase of the wider process of consolidation of the Medicean State. Particularly, the understudied documentation produced between 1530 and 1537 by the Florentine magistracies in charge of the Dominio enlightens that the Medici government started to reform the territorial administration towards the financial protection of the subject communities, in order to better assure their collaboration to the prince’s projects.

Anna Nicolò – Domenico Pace, Forme ed espressioni della tutela bibliografica tra il 1919 e il 1948. Il caso toscano

The article is intended to retrace the activity of Soprintendenza bibliografica toscana since 1919 to 1948, which was a fairly significant period for the definition of boundaries and contents of the legislation related to books heritage protection. By means of a survey of unpublished archival documents and correspondence between Florentine superintendents and central units, the authors describe the function of book heritage protection and its effects in Tuscany and the gradual structuring of an administrative apparatus

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Yoichiro Kamono, Il libro Debitori e Creditori e Ricordanze A di Francesco di Giuliano de’ Medici: una nuova fonte per il commercio fiorentino con l’Impero ottomano

This paper discusses an account book of Renaissance Florence held by the Center for Historical Social Science Literature of the Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). It was written by the Florentine merchant Francesco di Giuliano de’ Medici in 1471-1472 when, aged about twenty, he travelled in Turkey for the commerce of wool fabrics produced by the firm of his father. The paper analyzes the contents of the register and compares them with those of other Florentine account books written in Turkey for the same purpose, in order to clarify the development of the Florentine commerce with the Ottoman Empire.

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Peter Garnsey, A proposito dei primi abolizionisti della pena di morte: Giuseppe Pelli e Cesare Beccaria

The first systematic attacks on the death penalty issued from Enlightenment Italy through Pelli of Firenze and Beccaria of Milano. Only Beccaria’s work was published at the time. This paper investigates the different circumstances and intellectual influences of the two philosophers, and traces the significance of Beccaria’s work for the history of the death penalty and of his alternative penalty of forced labour, with special reference to the emergence of ‘penal servitude’ in Britain and America.

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Los agentes del estado. Poderes públicos y dominación social en Aragón, a cura di Mario Lafuente Gómez e Concepción Villanueva Morte (Giuseppe Seche)

Héraldique et papauté. Moyen Âge – Temps modernes, sous la direction d’Yvan Loskoutoff, Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre (Alessandro Savorelli)

Ermanno Orlando, Strutture e pratiche di una comunità urbana. Spalato, 1420-1479 (Giuliano Pinto)

Enrique Cruselles Gómez, Fortuna y expolio de una banca medieval. La familia Roís de Valencia (1417-1487) (Sergio Tognetti)

Tobias Daniels, Die Verschwörung der Pazzi. Ein politischer Skandal und seine europäischen Resonanzen (Lorenz Böninger)

Paula Hohti Erichsen, Artisans, Objects, and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy. The Material Culture of the Middling Class (Francesco Ammannati)

Gigliola Fragnito, La Sanseverino. Giochi erotici e congiure nell’Italia della Controriforma (Giovanni Ricci)

Mario Bracci, Carte sparse. Riflessioni, pagine di diario, relazioni, discorsi (1934-1945), introduzione, edizione e note a cura di Stefano Moscadelli (Duccio Balestracci)

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Maria Elena Cortese, Le frange inferiori della cavalleria nelle campagne toscane: scutiferi e masnaderii tra inquadramento signorile e mobilità sociale (secc. XII-XIII)

The focus of this essay is a category which included armed men on horseback of humble origins but clearly separated from the simple rustici through military practice, closeness to the local [...]]]>

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Maria Elena Cortese, Le frange inferiori della cavalleria nelle campagne toscane: scutiferi e masnaderii tra inquadramento signorile e mobilità sociale (secc. XII-XIII)

The focus of this essay is a category which included armed men on horseback of humble origins but clearly separated from the simple rustici through military practice, closeness to the local lord  as well as through their lifestyle. Carrying out armed activities, whether or not within a feudal tie, was the primary and the busiest way for upward social mobility within the rural lordships. The economic growth in the 12th century Tuscany also began to offer new possibilities for economic accumulation and investment and ever faster social mobility in the countryside. From the 13^th century onwards the consolidation of the communal power over wider areas of the ‘contado’ opened up to the members of the rural elites a further and more direct channel to access military status.

Renato Pasta, Riflessi d’Oriente: esperienze e memorie di due viaggiatori toscani in Levante (1760-1792)

The essay provides an assessment of the perceptions of the Ottoman Near East in Tuscany and Italy in the late eighteenth century and  discusses their diffusion in Europe on the verge of the French Revolution. The text centers on the travel experiences of Giovanni Mariti and his cousin Domenico Sestini in the Levant, Cyprus and Mesopotamia  tapping on a rich body of printed and unpublished evidence. By analyzing an extended network of correspondents  the essay tries to evaluate the interplay of mobility and information during the late Enlightenement.

Marco Pignotti, Il Meridione ‘accessorio del paese’. L’Italia postunitaria fra nazionalizzazione del Mezzogiorno e politicizzazione di un pregiudizio

The expression ‘Italian dualism’ is responsible for having contributed to building the prejudice of a South characterized only by economic immobility and cultural backwardness. The need to search for the origins of the political use of this prejudice stems from this proven communication strategy. This contribution, in fact, focuses its focus on the chronological segment that ends with the fall of the ‘Destra storica’ from the Unit, because this political phase is identified as a promoter of the stereotypes conventionally attributed to the South. The old ruling class sets up its own electoral campaign (1874-1876) by focusing its political discourse on the superiority of the northern regions, while the ‘Sinistra storica’ responds with an argumentative strategy that overturns prejudice.

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Renzo Sabbatini, Praticare la teoria: come il filo di seta ci ricorda Carlo Poni

These pages are dedicated to the memory of the scientific figure of Carlo Poni, in particular by examining his essays related to the world of silk and collected in the volume La seta in Italia. The unifying element of these contributions and their connection with the other main fields of his commitment (research on agricultural issues and dissemination activities with the foundation of the Museo della civiltà contadina and the Museo del Patrimonio industriale di Bologna) was his constant methodological tension. Poni was a well-rounded historian, curious and critical scholar of what he defined as the Scienza del vissuto, which he practiced with extraordinary empathy; his lesson still has much to teach us.

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Gregorio di Tours, I miracoli di San Martino, a cura di Silvia Cantelli Berarducci (Francesco Borri)

Vittoria Camelliti, Artisti e committenza a Pisa XII-XV secolo. Storie di stemmi, immagini, devozioni e potere ( Alessandro Savorelli)

Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability. Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550, edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia (Lucia Sandri)

Giuseppe Seche, Un mare di mercanti. Il Mediterraneo tra Sardegna e Corona d’Aragona nel tardo Medioevo (Francesco Guidi Bruscoli)

La Disfida di Barletta e la fine del Regno. Coscienza del presente e percezione del mutamento tra fine Quattrocento e inizio Cinquecento, a cura di Fulvio Delle Donne e Victor Rivera Magos (Duccio Balestracci)

Antonello Mattone, Don Juan Vivas de Cañamás. Da ambasciatore spagnolo in Genova a viceré del Regno di Sardegna (Frédéric Ieva)

Giaime Alonge, Un’ambigua leggenda. Cinema italiano e Grande Guerra (Alfonso Venturini)

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