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Stefano Bernardinello, «Commune Mediolanensium dimittet et ultra se non intromittet»: i caratteri economico-territoriali del comune di Milano prima del Barbarossa

The article explores the connection between the earliest attestations of the commune of Milan and its economic aspects. The term commune, initially tied to the shared patrimony of the citizens, evolved [...]]]>

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Stefano Bernardinello, «Commune Mediolanensium dimittet et ultra se non intromittet»: i caratteri economico-territoriali del comune di Milano prima del Barbarossa

The article explores the connection between the earliest attestations of the commune of Milan and its economic aspects. The term commune, initially tied to the shared patrimony of the citizens, evolved into a juridical-political entity capable of administering resources and territories. Before the time of Barbarossa, Milan consolidated its power through a fiscal system that drew upon the resources of the surrounding territory. This administrative model granted the commune a defined role and enabled it to expand its territorial control and resist imperial pressure. Various episodes confirm the centrality of economic factors in shaping the identity and asserting the prominence of the commune within the city. The analysis emphasizes that the commune was not seen merely as an administrative tool, but as a key element of citizenship.

Roberta Mucciarelli, A proposito di giustizia e povertà nell’Italia comunale. Un testimone documentario: l’apodissa paupertatis a Siena (prime analisi)

This study examines how political authorities in Siena between the 13th and 14th centuries responded to the demand for justice from the socially disadvantaged. Through a focused case study and specific documentation, it analyzes how acknowledging poverty translated into legal measures for pauperes, a vague term used to define diverse and unstable conditions. The study focuses on the judicial certification of poverty via apodisse paupertatis: official documents issued by the city treasury, based on sworn declarations supported by two witnesses, allowing poor defendants to appear in court without financial guarantors. These guarantors were otherwise required to cover legal expenses and penalties. The research questions the political aims behind this statutory favour and explores its practical effects on access to justice and social classification.

Ante Bećir, Governing Through Exclusion: Examples of Political Exile in Late Medieval Dalmatian Towns

This paper examines various cases of political exile in late medieval Dalmatia within a wider framework – especially regarding the practice of exile in the communes of central and northern Italy. Relocation (relegatio) and confinement (confinatio) functioned as instruments of political control, designed to maintain stability and neutralize perceived threats. Banishment (bannum) represented the most severe form, typically permanent and accompanied by property confiscation and the loss of political rights. The analysis draws on selected cases from the towns of Split, Trogir, Šibenik, and Zadar. By exploring the legal, political, and social dimensions of exile, this study seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of exclusion as a fundamental feature of governance in late medieval Dalmatia.

Paola Gibbin, I Federighi: ritratto di famiglia in un interno (sec. XVIII)

This study focuses on a conversation piece painted in 1771 by Venceslao Wehrlin (1744-80), now in a private Parisian collection. The work, depicting Senator Giovanni Federighi (1716-84) and his three children in his scientific cabinet, has been identified as the Portrait of the Federighi Family, mentioned in Pelli’s Efemeridi. The painting offers a rare view of an 18th-century Florentine scientific cabinet. Each instrument, including a barometer now in the Museo Galileo, has been identified. The biographies of all four figures were reconstructed, especially Federighi’s, a key figure in Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo’s reforms. His correspondence with scholar Fromond reveals his intellectual pursuits and thoughts on the ‘camera obscura’, likely used by Wehrlin. Wehrlin died in Federighi’s home in 1780.

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Vincenzo Tedesco, L’anima di Traiano tra inferno e paradiso. Storia di una leggenda medievale (Francesco Borghero)

Alberto Spataro, Imperialis aula. Pratiche giuridiche e linguaggi politici tra corte sveva e Italia comunale nel XII secolo (Enrico Faini)

Juraj Kittler, The Postal Revolution. Courier Networks in Italy, 1260-1600 (Sergio Tognetti)

Michele Camaioni, Il governo dei pulpiti. Predicatori, potere e pubblico nell’Italia della prima età moderna (Chiara Monetti)

Le élites italiane e la Monarchia ispanica (secoli XVI-XVII). Servizio, mobilità e poteri, a cura di Albane Cogné e Benoît Maréchaux (Nicoletta Bazzano)

Marco Dotti, «Il misto barlume della probabilità». Le rendite vitalizie nell’ancien régime (Alessandro Lo Bartolo)

Eleonora Angella, Italiani al Cairo. Consoli, giurisdizione e società (1861-1911) (Virginia Minnucci)

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Étienne Doublier, Una falsificazione di origine pomposiana contro i conti Guidi. La Cessio donationum nel contesto romagnolo a cavallo tra XI e XII secolo

This article presents a novel analysis of the Cessio donationum, a forgery attributed to Pope Leo VIII (964), which purportedly granted Emperor Otto I and his successors [...]]]>

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Étienne Doublier, Una falsificazione di origine pomposiana contro i conti Guidi. La Cessio donationum nel contesto romagnolo a cavallo tra XI e XII secolo

This article presents a novel analysis of the Cessio donationum, a forgery attributed to Pope Leo VIII (964), which purportedly granted Emperor Otto I and his successors ownership of approximately 150 estates previously held by the Roman Church. While historians concur that the document originated between 1080 and 1120, its place of production remains debated. This study re-examines the Cessio donationum, highlighting previously neglected aspects. A reassessment of the place-name list identifies the Counts Guidi as the primary polemical target and the scriptorium of S. Maria di Pomposa as the likely site of composition. Furthermore, this article proposes four potential contexts for the document’s production, ranging from the tumultuous final years of Henry IV in Italy (1093-1097) to the period immediately following Henry V’s designation as dominus of Matilda’s estates (1111-1115).

Michael E. Bratchel, The commutation of criminal sentences in late Medieval Italy: the example of fifteenth-century Lucca

Petitions for the commutation of criminal sentences were common in Italy (and elsewhere) from the early years of the fourteenth century and were directed towards both republican and seigneurial regimes. Previous studies have tended to focus on princely states, and on the fourteenth century. The present article examines the practice in Lucca in the decades after the restoration of the republic in 1430. It is concerned both with the motivations and pleadings of the supplicants and with the objectives and calculations of the Lucchese councils that determined the granting of a pardon.

Piergabriele Mancuso, «All’Eccellentissimo Medico». La Sublime Porta e la diplomazia medicea dopo la battaglia di Lepanto. Riflessioni circa una missiva in ebraico nella corrispondenza medicea

The aftermaths of the Battle of Lepanto were extremely problematic for the Medici state, whose diplomats were unable to forge durable and sound ties with the Sublime Porte. As shown by a document published in 1909 by Israel Zoller, a fundamental support to the Medici came from Salomon ben Nathan Ashkenazi, a renowned physician, and diplomat who played a key role in the re-establishment of Venetian-Ottoman relations after the Lepanto clash. In the Medici diplomatic correspondence, a letter written in Hebrew, perhaps addressed to Ashkenazi, and unveiling crucial details of the peace agreements between the Porte and the Western powers, was recently found. The aim of the paper is to situate this missive in the wider context of Tuscan-Ottoman political dialogue.

Documenti

Pierre Nevejans, Francesco Guicciardini e i suoi segretari: scoperte d’archivio e nuove possibilità di ricerche

This article challenges the assumption that Francesco Guicciardini relied on only one or two secretaries throughout his life. Through the discovery of three unpublished letters and a re-examination of Guicciardini’s correspondence using attributive philology, the study reveals the presence of at least a dozen individuals alongside the Florentine author and stateman. The analysis highlights the varied roles and responsibilities of these secretaries, who assisted Guicciardini. The research sheds light on the dynamics within Guicciardini’s workshop. This nuanced understanding of Guicciardini’s working environment enriches our knowledge of Renaissance intellectual practices as much as it underscores the significance of secretarial contributions to historical authorship.

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Environnement et sociétes au Moyen Âge (Giuliano Pinto)

Pietro Silanos, Nel segno del toro. Conflitto e identità nello spazio politico parmense (secc. XII-XV) (Enrico Faini)

Stefano Locatelli, The Florentine florin. The politics and culture of money in the Middle Ages (Sergio Tognetti)

Vannina Marchi van Cauwelaert, Un royaume dans la mer. L’archipel corso-sarde du XIIIe au XVe siècle (Lorenzo Tanzini)

Marco Giacchetto, Siena città manifatturiera. Governo, produzione e consumo dei tessuti di seta e di lana (XIV-XV secc.) (Francesco Ammannati)

Luciana Petracca, Il banco Strozzi di Napoli. Credito, economia e società nel Quattrocento (Elena Maccioni)

Serena Galasso, Le droit de compter. Les livres de gestion et de mémoires des femmes (Florence, XVe-XVIe siècles) (Isabella Lazzarini)

Éric Schnakenbourg, Il mondo atlantico. Una storia globale (XV-XVIII secolo) (Elia Morelli)

Christopher Clark, Il fuoco della rivoluzione. L’Europa in lotta per un nuovo mondo 1848-1849 (Christian Satto)

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Marco Giacchetto, Produzione e mercato del sapone industriale a Siena nei secoli XIV e XV

During the Middle Ages, industrial soap was an essential good used in textile industry processes. The wool industry represented its main user, although it was widely used at different stages of production in other textile markets [...]]]>

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Marco Giacchetto, Produzione e mercato del sapone industriale a Siena nei secoli XIV e XV

During the Middle Ages, industrial soap was an essential good used in textile industry processes. The wool industry represented its main user, although it was widely used at different stages of production in other textile markets as well. This article examines, thanks to a thorough examination of contemporary documentation preserved in archives, Siena’s supply chain and market for soap during the 14th and 15th centuries. It mainly focuses on policies enacted by wool cloth guild to face increasing olive oil demand – essential for producing soap – aiming to ensure fair supply prices for producers and reduce total production costs.

Mauro Ambrosoli, Ferro e ferriere tra Friuli e Austria Interna (1350-1650)

This article takes into account the Alpe-Adria region as a crucial ‘periphery’ in the iron trade between Milan, Venice, and Inner Austria. Beginning in 1349, workers from Friuli and the Venetian Terraferma took part to a long period of innovations in Valcanale, Carniola and Carinthia, albeit with notable environmental costs. This study revives the contribution of the seasonal workers and merchants from Bergamo, Brescia and elsewhere who effectively connected economic resources in the Eastern Alps to the wider Adriatic and Austrian markets through innovation and skilled labour. Moreover, this research underscores how the evolution of ironworks between 1350 and 1650 mirrored business cycles, political developments, and customs regulations, while responding to technological advancements and the demands of the Italian Peninsular market.

Salvatore Ciriacono, Giovanni Battista Sidoti versus Arai Hakuseki. Agli incroci della civiltà cattolica europea e della cultura giapponese del primo Settecento

The essay aims to analyze the figure of the priest and missionary Giovanni Battista Sidoti in contrast with that of Arai Hakuseki, a Confucian scholar and politician, and also a scholar of the Tokugawa dynasty. The comparison and intellectual debate that followed took place in the first decades of the 18th century, a historical period that saw the decline and difficulties of the Catholic missions and at the same time a timid opening up of Japanese politics and of the cultural-scientific world towards the West.

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Ondřej Schmidt, L’autografo ritrovato della cronaca di Andrea Redusi: prime indagini sul codice collaltino

This article introduces a newly discovered manuscript of the Chronicle written by Andrea Redusi da Quero, Chancellor of Treviso, in the first half of the 15th century. Once believed to be lost, the codex is preserved in the Collalto Library within the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno, Czech Republic. The article begins with a brief introduction to the author of the chronicle, followed by a reconstruction of the codex’s history. A detailed description and a codicological and paleographical analysis of the manuscript are provided, along with preliminary conclusions regarding the circumstances surrounding the creation of the work.

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Martin McLaughlin, Leon Battista Alberti Writer and Humanist (Stefano U. Baldassarri)

Fabrizio Ansani, Il cavallo da guerra e lo Stato del Rinascimento. Una storia politica, economica e culturale (Simone Picchianti) .

Kate J.P. Lowe, Provenance and Possession. Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy (Lorenz Böninger)

Dizionario storico delle Accademie toscane: secoli XVI-XVIII, vol. I, Firenze, a cura di Jean Boutier, Maria Pia Paoli e Claudia Tarallo (Giacomo Carmagnini)

Lavinia Maddaluno, Science and Political Economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805 (Renato Pasta)

Virginia Minnucci, Accogliere, integrare, respingere. Italia e Unione Europea di fronte al fenomeno migratorio (Giacomo Girardi)

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Francesco Bettarini, Forestieri a Firenze: il caso della manodopera orvietana alla fine del Trecento

At the end of the fourteenth century, Florence attracted a hundred low-cost workers from Orvieto and other cities in Umbria with the aim of strengthening the workforce of the town. The migration of these workers takes place [...]]]>

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Francesco Bettarini, Forestieri a Firenze: il caso della manodopera orvietana alla fine del Trecento

At the end of the fourteenth century, Florence attracted a hundred low-cost workers from Orvieto and other cities in Umbria with the aim of strengthening the workforce of the town. The migration of these workers takes place when Florence assumes political control of the major institutional posts of Orvieto, exercising a sort of crypto-lordship, readable through the diplomatic correspondence between the two cities. An ephemeral experience, characterized by the poor integration of migrants and destined to be exhausted in a few years.

Inazio Conde Mendoza, García Alfonso de Alcaudete, cónsul de castellanos en Barcelona y sus sucesores (1395-1456)

The second of the known Castilian consuls in Barcelona during the Late Middle Ages, García Alfonso de Alcaudete, held his office for more than four decades. His pivotal role not only in the city but throughout the Principality of Catalonia, helped strengthen this institution during the first half of the 15th century. After his death, several consuls succeeded him for short periods of time, proving the continuity of this figure and indicating the vitality of the community, where the Cantabrian Sea skippers and the Sevillian merchants stood out.

Pierre-Bénigne Dufouleur, La fabrique de la parenté à la fin du Moyen Âge: la construction d’une famille par Francesco Della Rovere – Sixte IV (1414-1484)

The kinship claimed by Francesco Della Rovere (1414-1484), who became pope under the name of Sixtus IV in 1471, does not seem to be based on biological criteria alone. On the contrary, it appears to be the fruit of a deliberate construction by the prelate, who assembles his family tree, branch by branch. This case study sheds light on the conception of kinship among the elites of the late Middle Ages.

Discussioni

Ottavia Niccoli, Devozioni e livelli di cultura nella storia del Cinquecento. A proposito di una raccolta di saggi di Adriano Prosperi

This text discusses a collection of essays by Adriano Prosperi published between 1981 and 2019. The title Fears and Devotions intends to offer a general interpretation of them, namely that the devotions practised in Italy by the Christian people are aimed at protection from dangers of various kinds. The text also offers a picture of the important transformations in Italian religious life during the 16th century.

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Elena Maccioni, I tribunali mercantili nei comuni italiani. Giustizia, politica, economia (secoli XII-XV) (Francesco Bettarini)

Francesco Salvestrini, Water and the Law. Water management in the statutory legislation of later communal Italy (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) (Lorenzo Tanzini)

Mathieu Harsch, La teinture et les matières tinctoriales à la fin du Moyen Âge. Florence, Toscane, Méditerranée (Sergio Tognetti)

Ramon J. Pujades i Bataller, Els mapamundis baixmedievals: del naixement del mapamundi híbrid a l’ocàs del mapamundi portolà / Late Medieval World Maps: From the Birth of the Hybrid to the Demise of the Portolan Mappamundi (Andrea Bocchi)

Elena Corniolo, Pratiche di appropriazione e delimitazione del sacro. Le visite pastorali alla diocesi di Aosta (XV secolo) (Jacopo Paganelli)

Pierre Nevejans, Diplomacies plurielles au XVIe siècle. Florence et la France à la fin des guerres d’Italie (Isabella Lazzarini)

La crisi della modernità. Studi in onore di Gianvittorio Signorotto, a cura di Matteo Al Kalak, Lorenzo Ferrari ed Elena Fumagalli (Silvia Cinnella Della Porta)

Lucia Frattarelli Fischer, La parola e il marmo. Cimiteri acattolici di Livorno dal Seicento a oggi (Lorenzo Benedetti)

Sante Lesti, Il mito delle radici cristiane dell’Europa. Dalla Rivoluzione francese ai giorni nostri (Francesca Campigli)

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