Alessandro Giacomelli, Il palatium del vescovo. Mutamento e sperimentazione istituzionale a Lucca (1080-1130 ca.)

The paper investigates the re-functionalization of the highly connoted term palatium in Lucca between the late 11th and early 12th centuries (approximately 1080-1130). Until 1081, the term was reserved for a specific building: the palatium domini Imperatoris, the [...]]]> Memorie

Alessandro Giacomelli, Il palatium del vescovo. Mutamento e sperimentazione istituzionale a Lucca (1080-1130 ca.)

The paper investigates the re-functionalization of the highly connoted term palatium in Lucca between the late 11th and early 12th centuries (approximately 1080-1130). Until 1081, the term was reserved for a specific building: the palatium domini Imperatoris, the core of the power of the Marquises of Tuscia. Following the crisis of the March, the bishops of Lucca appropriated the term, using it to construct for themselves a new seigneurial profile and, at least in the case of Benedetto, to assert a claim to hegemony over the city community.

Ludovica Medved, Un frate e un monaco alla Camera del Comune. Spunti di vita religiosa, economica e sociale a Firenze nel primo Trecento

This essay examines four account books from the early fourteenth century kept by three religious officials serving as treasurers of the Florentine Commune: a Cistercian monk from S. Salvatore a Settimo and two Servite friars from SS. Annunziata. Through an analysis of these records, the study highlights the widespread diffusion of bookkeeping in fourteenth-century Florentine society, shedding light on the social and cultural dynamics of a phenomenon that engaged both clerical circles and the lower urban classes.

Michele Impagnatiello, Libri prodotti, libri rubati: donne e cultura manoscritta tra lavoro, malavita e devozione nella Bologna dei secoli XIII-XV

Focusing on late Middle Ages Bologna, this study explores the presence of women in the production, circulation, and use of manuscripts through notarial records and criminal proceedings. Moving beyond the traditional focus on aristocratic, monastic or sanctified figures, attention is given to women who were not confined to courts or monastic cloisters, whose traces emerge sporadically in judicial and notarial sources. The research reveals a spectrum of female engagement with the written word – as readers, scribes, producers, and patrons.

Vanna Arrighi, La segreteria di Cosimo I de’ Medici: nuovi protagonisti e nuove forme documentarie

This essay examines how Cosimo I de’ Medici reshaped Florence’s chancery, blending republican administrative traditions with new princely structures. It highlights the rise of secretaries and auditors as key actors, the creation of innovative documentary forms, and the growing overlap between court service and public office. Through institutional reforms and personal networks, Cosimo built a centralized, flexible bureaucracy that redefined governance in the nascent Medici state.

Stefano Talamini, Monumenti scritti della piccola Patria. Il patrimonio archivistico dell’Istria e il nazionalismo italiano tra Otto e Novecento

The paper explores the history of Istria’s archival heritage between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing how political change and national ideologies shaped the use of records. From Pietro Kandler’s early studies to the nationalist appropriation by Italian elites, documents became tools to assert an Italian identity against emerging Slavic movements. After WW-I, fascist policies reinforced this ideological use, while archives stayed under Italian local elite’s control. After 1945, amid shifting borders and displacement, they became contested symbols between Italy and Yugoslavia.

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Enzo Caffarelli, L’anima medievale nei nomi contemporanei (Aldo A. Settia)

Luca Molà, Nel segno di Marco Polo. Venezia, l’Asia, la seta (Sergio Tognetti)

Caterina Llull i Sabastida tra Sicilia e Catalogna. Edizione del suo secondo libro mastro (1479-1486), a cura di Martina Del Popolo e Gemma Colesanti (Amedeo Feniello)

Gilles Narcy, Il mondo dei navicelli. Territorio, navigazione e commercio nella Toscana granducale (Alessandro Lo Bartolo)

Giovanna Fiume, Mediterraneo corsaro. Storia di schiavi, pirati e rinnegati in età moderna (David Salomoni)

Giacomo Girardi, La patria e lo Stato. La famiglia Breganze nella storia d’Italia, 1796-1922 (Emilio Scaramuzza)

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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.

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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.

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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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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 [...]]]>

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]]]>

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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 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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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Paolo Tomei, Spazi politici e strutture parentali nella galassia carolingia. Gli Adalberti fra Baviera, Toscana e Provenza

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Paolo Tomei, Spazi politici e strutture parentali nella galassia carolingia. Gli Adalberti fra Baviera, Toscana e Provenza

The aim of the article is to contribute to the reflection on aristocratic kinship structures and political spaces of action in the Carolingian world. At the centre of the investigation lies a well-known object of research, but observed from a new interpretative perspective: the kinship group of the so-called Adalberti, marquises in Tuscany from the middle of the 9th century.

Stefano Malfatti, Fra Verona e Trento. Mobilità, radicamento e attività di mercanti-banchieri nella prima metà del Quattrocento

The essay aims at investigating the activities, the movements and the integration processes of a number of merchant-bankers who were active – between the end of the fourteenth century and the mid-fifteenth century – in some cities of Northern Italy, including Verona and Trento, but with interests and business networks in other places as well. After an analysis of the political and economic context of the cities of departure (including Siena) and of arrival, the economic activities exercised by those merchant-bankers and the networks of their relationships, also with the local ruling class, are described in detail. Finally, we will examine some parameters that allow to measure their rooting in the various cities where they obtained the citizenship.

Gaia Bruno – Giacomo Bonan, «Contro l’azione struggitrice del tempo». Progetti di ripristino dell’acquedotto Claudio

The article analyses the history of a project – the exploitation of the Serino water springs in the mountains near the city of Naples – with its alternative fortunes, from its first hypothesis during the XVI century to the actual construction of the infrastructure in the XIX century. By contextualizing the different proposals, the article aims to highlight how much political factors count for the construction of water infrastructures in comparison with the more studied economic or demographic aspects.

Silvio Labbate, L’Italia e l’aggressione all’Etiopia nelle carte della Società delle Nazioni

As most of the more recent historiography demonstrates (Burgwyn, Mallett 2003, Strang 2003, De Grand 2004, etc.), the Italian aggression on Ethiopia was an open challenge to the great Western powers and to the post-war international order established in Paris in 1919. The research aims to address the topic through the recent availability of the documents of the League of Nations. This by enhancing the new archival documentation and analyzing the position of the Italian government.

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Sergio Tognetti, Schumpeter incatenato. La rivoluzione commerciale del Medioevo secondo Chris Wickham

The essay discusses Chris Wickham’s recent monograph devoted to the origins of the commercial revolution of the Middle Ages. In addition to summarizing the salient arguments of the volume, this contribution would like to highlight the methodological, historiographical and cultural implications that lead the British scholar to almost completely overturn the traditional view of the Mediterranean economy in the 11th and 12th centuries.

Anna Maria Voci, Modernità democratica del Kaiserreich (1871-1918)? Considerazioni su uno studio recente e su un tema a lungo dibattuto

Reviewing a German book by Hedwig Richter on reforms and mass-politicisation in Germany during the Second Reich, which stresses the degree of modernity reached by Germany during that period, the Author of this essay warns to use some caution, as the elements of the so-called modernity cannot be considered as a predominant character of that period of German history. Modernity in Germany during the Second Reich concerned economy, science, technology, not the State and its institutions, nor politics. Moreover, those elements of modernity did not succeed in spreading in the majority of Germans a really liberal and democratic culture, which is one of the main features of modernity.

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Ermanno Orlando, Medioevo migratorio. Mobilità, contatti e interazioni in Italia nei secoli V-XV (Giuliano Pinto)

Carole Mabboux, Cicéron et la Commune. Le rétheur comme modèle civique (Italie, XIIIe-XIVe s.) (Lorenzo Tanzini)

Cédric Quertier, Guerres et richesses d’une nation. Les Florentins à Pise au XIVe siècle (Alberto Luongo)

Panthéons de la Renaissance. Mémoires et histoires des hommes et de femmes illustres (v. 1350-1700), sous la diréction de Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Jean Baptiste Delzant et Clemence Revest (Francesca Klein)

Michele Lodone, I segni della fine. Storia di un predicatore nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Isabella Gagliardi)

Donato Giannotti, Della Repubblica ecclesiastica, a cura di William J. Connell (Paolo Simoncelli)

Gigliola Fragnito, Il condottiero eretico. Gian Galeazzo Sanseverino prigioniero dell’Inquisizione (Luca Addante)

Gerardo Nicolosi, Diplomazia liberale. Istituzioni e uomini dall’Unità alla Repubblica (Christian Satto)

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