Memorie

Maxime Fulconis, Territoires vécus et dialectique entre de iure et de facto. L’exemple des confins entre Orvieto et Sovana au Xe‐XIIe s.

By studying the different territories to which the inhabitants of Valdilago and Alfina had the feeling of belonging and the resulting games of cospatiality, this article takes a broader [...]]]>

Memorie

Maxime Fulconis, Territoires vécus et dialectique entre de iure et de facto. L’exemple des confins entre Orvieto et Sovana au Xe‐XIIe s.

By studying the different territories to which the inhabitants of Valdilago and Alfina had the feeling of belonging and the resulting games of cospatiality, this article takes a broader look at the functioning of the territories and their limits in the 10th and 12th centuries. By paying attention to the dialectical game that can exist between territories recognized de iure and those whose existence results from factual practices, it offers a new way of understanding the profound social reconfigurations of this period.

Elena Maccioni, «Simpliciter et de plano». Giustizia sommaria e pratica mercantile nel tardo Medioevo genovese

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Mercantile courts (known as mercanzie, merchants’ chambers, domus mercatorum, consulates, etc.) are receiving increasing attention from scholars. They can be investigated on the political-institutional and economic level as well as on the institutional and legal level. The continuous intertwining of these interpretative paths contributes to making the history of mercantile courts a topic of extreme interest. The aim of this study is to investigate the functioning of the Officium Mercancie of Genoa through the continuous dialogue between daily practice and legislation. It is divided into two sections: the first is dedicated to the reconstruction of administrative competences, the second to the daily practice of the court.

Tommaso Somigli Russotto, Camillo Orsini alla corte di Paolo IV: religiosità, politica e propaganda

The study examines the relationship between the inquisitor Paul IV and the heterodox Camillo Orsini through the analysis of unpublished sources. The condottiero’s rhetoric, transversal to the factions of the «intransigenti» and «spirituali», was characterized by strong pro-papal and roman-centric tendencies, expressed also in the formula of the «divine calling» to the pope’s service. Carafa publicly presented these elements as proof of the condottiero’s orthodoxy, functionally placing them in opposition to the heresy he accused the Colonna and Habsburgs of.

Federico Mazzei, Autobiografia e «storia segreta»: le memorie perdute dell’ultimo De Gasperi

Alcide De Gasperi dealt with several proposals of drafting and publishing his memoirs, which nevertheless did not achieve their editorial goal. A rising penchant for autobiography led him to multiply private and public references to his political background. The hindrance that prevented De Gasperi to convert them into a full memoir opera was the self-censorship on the «secret history» related to his underground trouble with the Holy See. On one hand, he refused to authorize portraits and biographies proposed him by journalists and insiders, out of fear they could misrepresent his political laity as religious disobedience. On the other hand, he delayed to write his memoirs which were at last interrupted by De Gasperi’s death, but started over by his daughter Maria Romana and merged in her book of 1964, De Gasperi, uomo solo. This essay reconstructs the interweaving between the attempts to autobiographical reconnaissance that arose from De Gasperi’s political rethinking and the biographical and memorialistic ones which could not reach him as interlocutor.

Documenti

Marco Spallanzani, La concessione di un privilegio in esclusiva per la produzione di vasellame in vetro, Firenze 1361

In 1361 a master glassblower by the name of Andrea di Coverino, a native of San Miniato, requested a license from the Florentine authorities, good for four years, for the exclusive right to produce drinking glasses and other glass objects, with the agreement to sell them at set prices. The privilege was granted.

Discussioni

Marco Natalizi, Etica di servizio, resistenze, progettualità politica: la nobiltà russa da Pietro il Grande a Nicola I

For generations of Russians and Westerners in the 18th and 19th centuries, Russian nobles were lackeys of the autocracy and imitators of foreign cultures. This view shaped much of the scholarship of the second half of the 20th century. The last three decades, however, have seen a backlash against this gloomy assessment. Several studies have concluded that nobles were not culturally rootless or psychologically alienated. In this historiographical panorama, this essay aims to be a discussion of Lapo Sestan’s recent book on the Russian nobility and to reflect on the confrontation between the crown and the nobility by looking at the latter’s difficulties in competing on the political stage.

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An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula, 700-2000, ed. by Pedro Lains, Leonor Freire Costa, Regina Grafe, Alfonso Herranz-Loncán, David Igual-Luis, Vicente Pinilla and Herminia Vasconcelos Vilar (Sergio Tognetti)

Filippo Ribani, Furti e insulti. Il conflitto città-campagna tra immaginario e realtà nell’Italia tardomedievale (Rossella Rinaldi)

Marie D’Aguanno Ito, Orsanmichele. A Medieval Grain Market and Confraternity (Francesco Borghero)

Luca Zenobi, Borders and the Politics of Space in Late Medieval Italy. Milan, Venice and their territories (Lorenzo Tanzini)

Le temps des Italies, XIIe-XIXe siècle, Dirigé par Jean Boutier, Sandro Landi et Jean-Claude Waquet (Renzo Sabbatini)

Emanuela Ferretti, Con lo sguardo di Leonardo. L’arte edificatoria e il microcosmo del cantiere (Francesca Fiorani)

Andrea Zannini, Altri Pigafetta. Relazioni e testi sul viaggio di Magellano ed Elcano (David Salomoni)

Gigliola Fragnito, Un fanciullo licenzioso: l’educazione di Ranuccio Farnese, nipote di Paolo III (Déborah Blocker)

Luca G. Manenti, La Massoneria italiana. Dalle origini al nuovo millennio (Massimo Nardini)

L’ebreo errante. Nuove prospettive su un mito europeo, a cura di Fabrizio Franceschini e Serena Grazzini (Samuela Marconcini)

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Nicolò Galluzzi, Una storia senza fine. Contesti di elaborazione e strategie memoriali dell’Anonimo di Bari (XI-XII secolo)

The essay offers a contextualization of one of the three annals written in Bari between the 11th and 12th centuries: the Anonymous’ Chronicle, which hasn’t a manuscript tradition. In the first part of the [...]]]>

Memorie

Nicolò Galluzzi, Una storia senza fine. Contesti di elaborazione e strategie memoriali dell’Anonimo di Bari (XI-XII secolo)

The essay offers a contextualization of one of the three annals written in Bari between the 11th and 12th centuries: the Anonymous’ Chronicle, which hasn’t a manuscript tradition. In the first part of the essay, by analyzing the contents, style, and main themes, multiple sections of the text, written at different times, are identified. The last part of the essay highlights the relationship between the final section of the Anonymous and the rise of Prince Grimoald in the city (1118). The Anonymous provides an opportunity to investigate the relationship between the construction, management, and sharing of memory and the political dimension.

Maddalena Moglia, «Quia erant homines eorum». La signoria personale dei Da Pizzo nella Bassa parmense (XI-XIII secolo)

For the central Italian Middle Ages, research on lordship in the northern area has so far focused mainly on the ‘ruling classes’, while the lower fringes of the aristocracy have remained on the margins. The essay analyses the parable of the Da Pizzo family, rural milites who realised a personal lordship in the territory of the Bassa Parmense between the 11th and 13th centuries. The essay highlights the different lines of action deployed by the Da Pizzo family to emerge in a context of lordly competition, from family strategies to practices of self-representation, from the relationship with the urban world to that with the homines of the territory.

Andrea Casalboni, Una famiglia ebraica nel Regno di Napoli: i Buonomo all’Aquila nel Quattrocento

The article sheds light on the history of a Jewish family of L’Aquila, the Buonomo, in the second half of the 15th century, within the broader framework of the Jewish presence in the Abruzzi and in Southern Italy. In the dynamic mercantile environment of L’Aquila, the Buonomo carried out several different economic activities from around the 1450s until the expulsion of the Jews from the Kingdom of Naples at the beginning of the 16th century.

Dario Pasquini, La fotografia di documentazione architettonica a Roma: il ruolo di Maria Ponti Pasolini e l’Associazione artistica fra i cultori di architettura

The essay starts with a brief overview on the development of documentary architecture photography in Rome from the middle 19th Century to the 1890s. It then highlights the activity of Maria Ponti Pasolini as a both collector and photographer, drawing on her unpublished photographs, diary and letters. The last part of the article reconstructs the circumstances in which one of Italy’s earliest associations for the protection of historical sites, the Associazione artistica fra i cultori di architettura, published the two volumes Architettura minore in Roma, which included a collection of photographs of Rome’s ‘lesser’ historical buildings, with Ponti Pasolini’s crucial contribution.

Discussioni

Francesca Trivellato, Rivoluzione industriale e crescita economica tra storia globale, capitalismo, schiavitù atlantica e quantificazione

In their recent book Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, two prominent scholars of the British industrial revolution, offer a general reinterpretation of this transformative phenomenon (and its legacies) in light of the rippling economic effects set in motion by the forced transport of African labor by European traders and its employment in the Caribbean sugar plantations. In addition to summarizing the book’s main arguments, this piece expands on numerous historiographical debates with which they engage, including the global turn, the new history of capitalism, and the variety of forms of quantification adopted by economic historians.

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Networks of Bishops, Networks of texts. Manuscripts, legal cultures, tools of government in Carolingian Italy at the time of Lothar I, ed. by Gianmarco De Angelis e Francesco Veronese (Marco Muresu)

Emanuele Carletti, “Per lo buono istato de la città”. I Servi di s. Maria nella società dell’Italia centro-settentrionale tra XIII e XIV secolo (Francesco Borghero)

Solal Abélès, Protéger, libérer, assujettir. L’expansion territoriale de la commune de Florence au XIVe siècle (Lorenzo Tanzini)

Daniele Conti, I “quadernucci” di Niccolò Machiavelli. Frammenti storici Palatini. Introduzione edizione critica e commento (Francesca Klein)

Maren Elisabeth Schwab – Anthony Grafton, The Art of Discovery. Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe (Diego Pirillo)

David A. Lines, The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna (Noemi di Tommaso)

Alessandro Lo Bartolo, Nel mezzo del bogliente stagno. Gli ufficiali territoriali dello Stato fiorentino tra sindacato locale e controllo centrale, 1400-1800 (Daniele Edigati)

Daniele Menozzi, Il papato di Francesco in prospettiva storica (Francesca Campigli)

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Alberto Spataro, Un Comune e i suoi spazi normativi. Milano nel Thronstreit, l’autorialità del Liber consuetudinum Mediolani (1216) e il ruolo degli iudices tra diritto e politica

The essay considers the social and institutional events in Milan at the beginning of the 13th century. In particular, two key events are examined: [...]]]>

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Alberto Spataro, Un Comune e i suoi spazi normativi. Milano nel Thronstreit, l’autorialità del Liber consuetudinum Mediolani (1216) e il ruolo degli iudices tra diritto e politica

The essay considers the social and institutional events in Milan at the beginning of the 13th century. In particular, two key events are examined: the participation of some Milanese in Lateran Council IV (1215) and the promulgation of the Liber consuetudinum Mediolani (1216). In both contexts, the decisive role of the Milanese iudices is revealed. Moreover, the analysis of the miscellaneous manuscript suggests an active involvement of Passaguerra iudex in the preparation of Liber consuetudinum, a text aimed at giving normative homogeneity in the perspective of greater social compactness within the political space of the ambrosian civitas.

Angelo Nicolini, Un nuovo sguardo sui mercanti-banchieri toscani in Inghilterra alla fine del Duecento

This study, conducted on English archival material, covers the period between 1272 and 1294, when Edward I of England received sizeable and regular loans from a dozen Tuscan merchant-banking companies, headed and coordinated by the Ricciardi of Lucca. Essentially wool merchants, acting as a genuine branch of government, they ensured a constant flow of cash to the Crown. In return, they received the guarantee of newly established customs revenues and some direct taxes, and the offer of trade privileges. The so-called ‘Ricciardi system’ worked brilliantly for over twenty years and allowed the King to carry out an ambitious and expensive foreign policy, conquering Wales and fighting against the Scots. But the sudden outbreak of war against France over the possession of Gascony abruptly increased the King’s needs for money and caught the Ricciardi unprepared. This led to the breakdown of relations with the Crown and to the bankruptcy of the Ricciardi.

Giuseppe Mrozek Eliszezynski, Città libere e baroni ribelli. La rivolta del 1647-48 negli Abruzzi

The article aims to provide an overview of how the revolt of 1647-48 evolved in the two northernmost provinces of the Kingdom of Naples. In the light of the most recent historiographical acquisitions, it is necessary to rethink the revolt in the provinces as something more complex than a simple set of popular and anti-feudal insurrections: the political issues and the competition for power in fact crossed the individual cities, but also the alignments into which both the urban patricians and the families of the feudal aristocracy were traditionally divided. In the second part, the article focuses on the case of Chieti, capital of the province of Abruzzo Citra, through archive documentation and local chronicles.

Francesco Guida, Una rivoluzionaria vittima della rivoluzione, Ana Rabinsohn Pauker

In this essay, the author would like to sketch the figure of Ana Rabinsohn Pauker (1893-1960), who was very well known at the end of the Second World War but almost disappeared for many years from the historical memory (for Italian historiography, an absolute novelty) and from public opinion, despite the important political role she played. At the same time, a contribution is made to the knowledge of certain phases of Romanian history and especially of the first years of the Communist regime, characterized by the Stalinist influence and by bitter struggles within the Romanian Communist Party.

Discussioni

Patrizia Delpiano – Giovanni Tarantino, Musulmani nella Roma moderna 

The article discusses the book Gli schiavi del papa by Marina Caffiero (Brescia, Morcelliana, 2022), which contributes importantly to our understanding of the presence of Muslims in early modern Europe. Among the themes considered are the place and face of the ‘stranger’ in early modern society, baptism’s implications for slavery, and the Roman Church’s different attitudes towards Jews and Muslims, with the latter being perceived as more ‘familiar’ and more easily assimilable into Christian society.

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Between Ostrogothic and Carolingian Italy. Survivals, revivals, ruptures, ed. by Fabrizio Oppedisano (Marco Muresu)

François Bougard, Le royaume d’Italie de Louis II à Otton Ier (840-968). Histoire politique (Mauro Ronzani)

Isabella Gagliardi, Anima e corpo. Donne e fedi nel mondo mediterraneo (secoli XI-XVI) (Luca Ughetti)

Domenico di Gravina, Chronicon, edizione critica, traduzione e commento a cura di Fulvio Delle Donne, con la collaborazione di Victor Rivera Magos, Francesco Violante
e Marino Zabbia (Pierluigi Terenzi)

Tommaso Vidal, Quattro notai della fine del Patriarcato: Giovanni di Folcomaro di Mels, Giovanni di Giacomo da Udine, Nicolò di Daniele di Colle Prampero, Alvise da Montegnacco (Jacopo Paganelli)

Natalie Zemon Davies, Leo Africanus discovers comedy: theatre and poetry across the Mediterranean (Silvia Cinnella Della Porta)

Fernando Ciaramitaro, Santo Oficio imperial. Dinámicas globales y el caso siciliano (Anna Clara Basilicò)

Giampaolo Salice, Il mare degli altri. Colonie di popolamento del Regno di Sardegna (XVIII secolo) (Matteo Calcagni)

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Knut Görich, Un avvenimento e la sua ricezione. Federico Barbarossa e Alessandro III a Venezia nel 1177

The Peace of Venice between the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III (July 1177) ended a conflict that had broken out with the election of two popes in 1159. Due to the growing [...]]]>

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Knut Görich, Un avvenimento e la sua ricezione. Federico Barbarossa e Alessandro III a Venezia nel 1177

The Peace of Venice between the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III (July 1177) ended a conflict that had broken out with the election of two popes in 1159. Due to the growing interest in the forms of symbolic communication, the peace agreement attract special attention in recent research. This applies in particular to the public prostration of the emperor before the pope in front of the church of S. Marco. Was this actually connected with a demonstrative humiliation of the emperor? Or is the emperor’s humiliation a phenomenon of the later reception of the event, which was no longer interested in the entire context of the peace agreement?

Erika Amati, I ‘vicini’ del vescovo. Proprietà immobiliare, logiche di potere e gestione dello spazio urbano della chiesa episcopale di Como (secoli XIII-metà XIV)

The article investigates the urban real estate of the Episcopal church of Como during the 13th and the first half of the 14th century. The study of assets, management practices and social groups responsible for administering the Episcopal property offer the opportunity to reconstruct the logic of spatial control employed by the bishops, which influenced the city’s environment and topography over the long term.

Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Une écologie au travail : la ville médiévale face à son empreinte environnementale

The history of the relationship between the medieval city and the environment remains to be written. The essay goes on to analyse – in a comparative dimension – situations relating to central and northern Italy. It leads the reader, through an analysis of sources, especially regulatory and deliberative ones, to grasp the environmental sensitivity and concerns of the legislators and their awareness of the need to exercise control over the environment in order to guarantee the health of the urban community, as well as it prosperity and well-being. These policies then become the basis for identifying models of intervention, thus suggesting new avenues for the study of urban ecology and actually reformulating its main questions.

Andrea Addobbati, Post occasio calva: Lord Fauconberg e il negoziato anglo-toscano del 1670-71

In 1670, Charles II Stuart felt the need to re-establish a dialogue with the states of the Italian peninsula, interrupted during the civil war and the Interregnum. To this end he used an envoy extraordinaire, Lord Fauconberg, who was instructed to enter into political and commercial negotiations with Turin, Genoa, Florence and Venice. Celebratory accounts not withstanding, the mission was a disaster: only the court of Savoy seemed interested in establishing alliances and
collaboration. In the following essay, we follow in the footsteps of the ambassador, paying particular attention to the Tuscan stage, the most embarrassing and unsuccessful episode in the tour.

Discussioni

Michael Knapton, Preludio al Ghetto

The essay discusses the monograph published in 2021 by Renata Segre, Preludio al Ghetto di Venezia. Gli ebrei sotto i dogi (1250-1516). Based on very extensive archival research in Venice and elsewhere, the book contributes much new information especially for Jewish presence in the mainland dominion during the 15 th century. The essay seeks to relate the volume to historiographcal context, and examines some of the many issues raised by Segre.

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The Emergence of New Peoples and Polities in Europe, 1000-1300, ed. by Walter Pohl, Veronika Wieser, Francesco Borri (Marco Muresu)

Manifestare e contrastare il dissenso (secoli XI-XIV), a cura di Maria Pia Alberzoni e Roberto Lambertini (Enrico Faini)

José Ángel Sesma Muñoz, Oro blanco. La lana de Aragón en el Mediterráneo medieval (siglos XIII-XV) (Sergio Tognetti)

Ilaria Taddei, La Prudence au pouvoir. Florence, XIV e -XV e siècles (Michele Lodone)

Santa Maria degli Angeli a Firenze. Da monastero camaldolese a biblioteca umanistica, a cura di Cristina De Benedictis, Carla Milloschi, Guido Tigler (Esther Diana)

José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century (Michaela Valente)

Christian Jansen/Oliver Janz, Geschichte Italiens. Vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart (Anna Maria Voci)

Giacomo Girardi, I beni degli esuli. I sequestri austriaci nel Lombardo-Veneto (1848-1866) (Virginia Minnucci)

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