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En el setanta-cinquè aniversari de la mort d'Eduard Toda, que va ser diplomàtic, egiptòleg, escriptor i historiador, que va redescobrir i divulgar l'alguerès, que va reconstruir i restaurar Escornalbou i Poblet, que va compilar bibliografies i va ser un bibliòfil i un mecenes exemplar, s'analitza en primer lloc aquest darrer aspecte de la seva activitat que va contribuir a enriquir les biblioteques i els arxius del país. A continuació es presenta la seva relació amb l'Escola de Bibliotecàries que es va iniciar gràcies al lligam que havia establert amb la Biblioteca de Catalunya amb les seves generoses donacions de materials bibliogràfics. A partir de la documentació conservada a l'arxiu de l'antiga Escola de Bibliotecàries, es mostren les distintes facetes d'aquella relació: les excursions a Escornalbou que es complementen amb tot un recorregut cultural, les estades de les alumnes a Poblet on col·laboren en l'organització de la biblioteca pobletana, la introducció de les classes de restauració en el pla d'estudis de la carrera, la posada en marxa d'un laboratori de restauració que, per moltes dècades, compartiran l'Escola i la Biblioteca de Catalunya, etc. Certament, els vincles de Toda amb l'Escola es van caracteritzar per un afecte mutu i algunes de les activitats que va promoure amb les alumnes van contribuir a donar a l'Escola aquell toc d' Diplomat, Egyptologist, writer and historian, Eduard Toda is remembered as the man who rescued the Algherese dialect of Catalan from oblivion and who helped rebuild the monastery libraries of Escornalbou and Poblet. On the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of his death, this paper reviews Toda’s book collecting activities, his general love of books and his outstanding work as a benefactor of libraries, which together contributed to enriching our country’s book heritage. The paper then turns to Toda’s relationship with the school for librarians the Escola de Bibliotecàries, which was founded thanks to his donation of a number of book collections to the Library of Catalonia. As recorded in the archives of the old Escola, this relationship was based on a number of different activities: Toda’s trips to Escornalbou, which also provided an opportunity for cultural study; his organization of periods of residence for student librarians at Poblet to help rebuild the monastery’s library; his creation of classes in book restoration in degree courses in librarianship; and the creation of a workshop for restoring library materials, which for many decades helped to link the Escola and the Library of Catalonia. Finally, as the article shows, Toda’s ties with the Escola de Bibliotecàries were reinforced by the mutual affection existing between him and the school as well as by the activities he organized with its students, which gave the school its singular nature as a place of study during the 1930s.

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The article focuses on the historic research papers found from the Istituto di economia e politica mondiale di Mosca between 1935-1938. Various topics discussed in these research papers include historiography of Second World War, terror during the leadership of Soviet politician Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin and its influence on world economy.

By using unpublished documents, the essay retraces the funerals that were officiated in Modena during the first half of the seventeenth century and investigates, for the first time, the ceremonials and catafalques built in honour of Alfonso II (1599), Virginia de' Medici (1615), Isabella of Savoy (1626), Cesare d'Este (1629), Maria Farnese (1646) and Vittoria Farnese (1649). The contribution shows the decorative choices made for the Este family funerals, the iconographies in honour of the departed and the names of the artists who created them. The study includes the reports of the XVII century chronicles and contributions of ambassadors who took part in the Este ceremonies to demonstrate the high political meaning of the ephemeral funerary conceived and developed in the ducal court. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines some of the central philosophical positions concerning temporality to find trends in philosophical approaches to this issue. The theories of François Hartog and Thomas Macho on time will then be presented, highlighting their strengths and critical points and comparing them. The comparison aims to show how the two authors' approach to the problem of temporality makes it possible to find conceptual cores starting from the analysis of concrete forms of time measurement, rituals that have to do with time, and philosophical debates that have developed on this concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the activites Cliomedia in the field of historical research. It describes the usage of visual products, such as illustrations, designs, and photographs, to grab the readers' attention. The article mentions Cliomedia's focus on the history of women, focusing on oral and written sources, photographs, postcards, and leaflets. The article continues on with a description of the cd-rom "Mussolini di Renzo de Felice" and the process of creating multimedia products within the field of historical research.

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In this paper, we discuss the foucaultian and agambenian concepts of biopolitics. This comparison between Foucault and Agamben is divided in three parts. First of all, we show how ontologistic and anti-historical nuances of Agamben's concept of biopolitics don't allow to grasp both the socio-economic contradictions and the positive aspects of biopolitics. In this section we reflect also on the theoretical aporia of Agamben's interpretation of Aristotelian bios. In the second place, we show the agambenian misunderstanding of the relationship between subject and self in the last Foucault. In the end, we compare the foucaultian and agambenian concepts of public health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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For about a decade now, the historiography of emotions has developed spectacularly, though with mixed outcomes. This paper will assess the main research orientations that have shaped this history. It will provide a first critical account of the main works in the field. To do so, we will begin by highlighting the often implicit tensions and the various debates that have erupted around the history of emotions. Among the contentious historical approaches to the study of emotions, we will focus on the so-called tensions between nature and culture, language and experience, the individual and the collective. Starting from an essentially nineteenth/twentieth century historiography, this paper aims to go beyond just a history of emotions as a research topic. Instead, it seeks to seize emotions more broadly as a category of cross-analysis that allows historians to reach and study all aspects of social life. In this regard, emotions can be analyzed both through their own historicity and through the agency of the social actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the nature of Burckhardt's apolitia, and raises the question as to the real meaning of his detachment from political things. The first part presents some major interpretations of Burckhardt alleged "Greek" unpolitical attitude (Ernst Cassirer, Karl Löwith, Albert Salomon, Benedetto Croce), and shows how these authors understood Burckhardt's contemplative stance almost as a philosophical one. The second part offers a brief historical reconstruction of Burckhardt process of detachment, mostly drawing on his correspondence. The third part analyses the meaning of Burckhardt's transcendence of the present in the past, namely, the way in which the historian wins a critical perspective on the present by concentrating on history. This process of detachment from the present is interpreted in its "political" aspects; as shown in the fourth part, Burckhardt's apolitia amounts to a critical movement aimed at the recovery of the spiritual connection with the past. In this way, the paper maintains that his apolitia is, in truth, in service of a higher ideal of humanity, namely, a specific idea of civilization which must be understood in contradistinction to barbarism. The essence of barbarism is the absence of historic consciousness; it is only the awareness of a fundamental continuity in the flowing of human things that allows the flourishing of man's spiritual life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to show that in the second half of the XIXth Century the European Romantic trend in literature became even in Italy part of the launch pad for the first "Fanta-clinic" and "Medical-thriller" novels. According to the lesson of the coeval French literature it also baptized a kind of modern poetry turned to épater le bourgeois through the transfiguration of Anatomy and later through the use of the scientific method in composing verses and novels. This paper aims to focalize some links between Literature and Medicine by concerning literary inspirations felt by many coeval writers about Paolo Gorini (1813- 1881) and Efisio Marini (1835-1900). The paper tries to demonstrate that the dark suggestions offered by the two scientists to some well known names of the Italian Literature (from Carlo Dossi to Matilde Serao) grew up strong in the Northern part of Italy as well as they did in the Southern part. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In his novel, Machines Like Me (2019), Ian McEwan offers an interesting example of "alternate history" while dealing with crucial ethical issues connected with the development of Artificial Intelligence. Instead of setting his story in the future, the author chooses to set it in the past, but he radically changes the contours of the latter. Hence, the England of the early 1980s is turned into a technologically advanced society, well ahead of the scientific progress of the early 21st century. Thus, the future casts its light on the past in what appears as a typically postmodernist mélange: besides mingling genres (from speculative fiction to uchronia), McEwan also performs an intriguing hybridization of fact and fiction. The paper intends to explore the rich historical dimension of the novel, which betrays the author's interest in the reflection on history and on its narrativization - as well as its manipulation and/or contamination - within the literary text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to present the Proto-Bulgarian presence in medieval Italy. Since at least twenty years this theme has been object of an increasing media speculation that has supported opposite positions, swinging between historical truth and populist view. The purpose is to explore the context that is at play in this metamorphosis, fostering a critical perspective on the chief work by Paulus Diaconus Historia Langobardorum. This paper also proposes a close examination of the research that has been done in this field, particularly the studies undertaken by Vincenzo D’Amico and Giandomenico Serra, in order to outline the consequences of wrong interpretations, misunderstandings or doubtful reconstructions. This approach highlights then some linkages between different populations, ethnic geography, and historical memories throughout a linguistic analysis of Proto-Bulgarian traces in Italian toponymy, along with their origins and possible meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents a combined analysis of two key issues which are currently at the centre of the field of social sciences: the awarding of heritage status and the politicisation of the past. This will be done by through an unusual lens: namely the work of anthropologists like Sahlins and Julien, and of philosophical historians like Loraux and Rancière. Above all we will examine how words are used in scientific publications on these two key issues, in particular by analysing forms of appropriation that arise in cultural heritage contexts. We will link these analyses to the two-pronged nature that every architectural document carries with it, a two-pronged nature that makes heritage granting practices and their possible politicisation a practically unique case-study of what is an almost ontological problem in cultural heritage: that of the aims of a policy intended to rescue monuments, houses, factories, distributors and furniture from a state of oblivion. The paper contains numerous references to a wide range of literary sources, helping to identify a possible direction for current research on cultural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the private libraries of Sardinia, and casts a light on the Sardinian intellectual landscape of the fifteenth and sixteenth-century. The analysis is based on notarial documentation, in particular on the post mortem inventories. This paper examines the methodological issues related to the documents it is based on library collections of significance. The libraries' exam and classification allows us to underline their features and those social components who were more involved in the circulation of books. The paper also analyses what kind of books the libraries' owners were interested in and therefore their cultural background. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper tackles the problems of contingency, free will, compatibilism and fatalism in John Duns Scotus' Lectura I, 39. Fatalism is the thesis that human acts occur by necessity and hence are unfree. According to theological fatalism, the infallible foreknowledge of a human act makes this act necessary and hence unfree. If there is a being who knows the entire future infallibly, then no human act is free. This paper tries to argue on Scotus' theory of human knowledge, divine knowledge of individuals and future contingents as a way out from theological fatalism or providential determinism (such as Thomas Aquinas' theory of the action of the first cause). The paper begins by reviewing the concept of compatibilism and examines Scotus' theory of modality and necessity, considering absolute (simpliciter) contingency, the concept of instant of nature, synchronic and counterfactual necessity for the present and the future. Then it explains the "co-working", viewed in a synchronic way, between the so-called necessitas per accidens and the counterfactual necessity for the past. This analysis leads to establish the existence of an analogue relationship, for the present and the future, between a neutral and indeterminate divine foreknowledge of the propositions and the indeterminate, logical instant of choice of the acts of free will. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, I intend to study the contribution of Aby Warburg, a cultural theorist and an art historian, especially his concern with the relations between memory and history, relations that have been theorized in the late 20th century, but which Warburg anticipated, to a certain degree. In his writings, there can be identified those relations that make memory a metahistorical category or an anti-historical discourse (Pierre Nora, Yosef Yerushalmi); then, his writings can be connected with those of Maurice Halbwachs, the first who approached memory as a social phenomenon. Thus, according to Warburg, collective memory can be regarded as a medium for art, which ensures the survival of images and pathos formulas even when the violence of historical development leads to a decline of the creative spirit. One might say that via a detour through the archaic (Pueblo Indian culture), Warburg managed to reduce the distances which the historical method had established to the Antiquity's vestiges (process that started in the Renaissance). His hypothesis was that the employment in the historical development of Western civilization leads to the atrophy of certain potentialities of the human spirit, which can be addressed in the anti-historicist discourse, specific to postmodernity. In the last part of the paper, I propose to dwell on The Mnemosyne Atlas, Warburg’s last project, as a visual synthesis of the research that he conducted throughout his life.

This paper intends to reconstruct the climate of Turin where he lived and worked Giuseppe Levi, the particular figures which animated the subalpine universities in the fascist period, the fruitful interaction between Jewish and anti-fascist world. Particular attention will be devoted to the different reactions of the Jewish community during the confidence to fascism in 1931 oath. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the genealogy and creation of the asylum in Racconigi, in Italy. The paper explores the management of Dr. Toselli between 1873 and 1879. This mental hospital hosted psychiatric patients from the Province of Cuneo, coming from families, hospitals and other asylums in Turin, Genoa, Reggio Emilia. The research also outlines the history of public health policies and control strategies of abnormalities in an Italian province. At the same time, it looks at the political and cultural context of the time and analyses the complexity of power relations between public authorities, and their ideology on the issue of the insanity plea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The traditional interpretation of the end of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1921 focused on the manoeuvres of the American government at the time of G. W. Harding's presidency and of the Washington conference. Recently however, historians have paid attention to broader factors as well, centring on the change itself of the international system after the First World War and on the strategic calculus of both Japan and the United Kingdom. The paper discusses such historiographical debate, stressing the declining trust of both allies in the efficacy of the partnership between them, but going back to the day after the Russo-Japanese War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Similarly to what happened elsewhere, in Calabria the time of Italy's neutrality was overwrought with internal conflicts. This paper will focus on the elements, which were instrumental for interventionism to take hold and overthrow the initial non-intervention policy, despite it being only supported by a minority in the spring of 1915. Extensive consideration is given to the practices used by Interventionists to influence public opinion in favour of the war, and to contrast non-interventionism supporters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Galen's discussions of philosophical issues show a complete mastery of the school debates of his time. Galen, however, is not a school philosopher: his philosophical allegiance is controversial and he refers to philosophical theories and debates for specific purposes that pertain to his views about the status of medical knowledge. The extant fragments of his lost treatise On Demonstration offer an interesting example of this attitude. The present paper focuses on some passages from Galen's lost On Demonstration book 4, which deal with the generation of cosmos and its incorruptibility. They are preserved in John Philoponus' On the Eternity of the World and in al- Rāzī's Doubts on Galen. Galen's argument relies heavily on philosophical sources such as Plato, Aristotle and the Platonic philosopher Atticus. Galen's treatment of the topic, however, is highly original and can plausibly be seen as a discussion pro et contra the eternity of the cosmos, which aims to show the limits and fallacies of speculative knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims at presenting the forthcoming school textbook ‘A Global History of Humanity’ that spans from 70.000 BCE till the 21st century and narrates a global history of our world assuming a non-Eurocentric and non-nationalist perspective. The textbook covers the history of humanity through three volumes, combining a chronological and a thematic approach. Each volume is divided into three chronological chapters. Each chapter presents the four themes in which the textbook is structured: humans change nature; humans on the move; social organization and inequality; worldviews. The last part of this paper ties the long history of humanity narrated through the textbook to today’s central questions, discussing the conditions in which we find ourselves today and the challenges we are facing in the coming years.

The article presents a conference paper delivered at the conference "La costruzione dell'Italia: Il contributo degli esuli in Piemonte," which took place March 5, 2011 in Turin, Italy. The conference paper discusses the history of the Unification of Italy, with a focus on cultural renewal among exiles.

This paper is dedicated to exploring the narrative points and strategies in the novel Tomorrow, written by Graham Swift, a prominent English postmodern writer, with the main objective to draw attention to the nature of narration and narrators. The aim of the research is to give answers to the questions of choices made by the novelist when it comes to narrators, narration, narrative methods and techniques, and whether the narrators are (un)reliable, etc. The author of this paper tries to determine to which extent the 2nd person narration has become influential in postmodern literature - by being mysterious, ambiguous and unknown. We often do not know to whom a narrator is speaking, nor whose voice is being heard by readers. Contemporary narratological theories deny the existence of this clear, precise and uniformed narratological voice, whether it is an author, a narrator or a reader. These days, numerous avant-garde narratological strategies are being emphasized, most notably the "wandering" second person, used by the main character of the novel Tomorrow as well. The inseparable part of the research is also questioning the postmodern premises such as the final doubt considering the (re)presentation of a story, the truth and the past (both individual and collective) which influence the choices made while forming the narration in the novel. The narratological analysis has shown the nature of psychological, moral, as well as ethical competence of the narrator, Paula Hook - a successful woman of the 21st century - a professor, a mother, a wife, living an ideal life threatened by a profound family secret. She acts as a representative of the 21st century wandering narrator - she doubts, questions, rethinks - because the history, past and truth are being constantly questioned in contemporary societies and literature as well.

Paul Valéry and literary interpretation: form, history, diacrony. The paper aims to address the dialectic between morphology and diacrony canon based on the theoretical reflections of Paul Valéry. The paper will start by observing his project of generalized morphology – the premises of which recall the Goethian studies – which remained incomplete but carried forward in different works and forms through all his intellectual work and his reflections. Starting with a few examples, the paper will measure how the analysis of form, understood as Bildung, runs through all of Valéry's intellectual work from the Cahiers to his public speeches. Valéry’s reflections still offer interesting insights and open up to reflection on very lively issues in the current debate around literature.

Drawing upon Ciano's notes about the German Department of Propaganda, this paper reconstructs his role as Italian Minister of Propaganda. This work focuses on the analogies with the German Department and the Ciano's role in the management of Propaganda in Italy. Ciano praised in particular the unconditional control that Goebbels had reached on the radio broadcasts and film production and he would have wanted to reach the same result. Attached is also the transcription of the complete text of Ciano's notes never published to date. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In spite of the huge amount of studies and researches focused on the dogana della mena delle pecore di Foggia, the custom house that managed the transhumance from Abruzzi to Apulia between the fifteenth and the nineteenth century, few scholars have accurately turned their attention to the varied typology of written records released by kings, viceroys and officials in Naples and Foggia in order to administrate and reform one of the most important and profitable institutions of the kingdom. This paper closely considers the surviving documentation from the Magnanimous reorganization of the dogana (forties of the fifteenth century) to the reintegra (cadastral inquiry) carried on roughly one hundred years later (1548- 1555), throwing new light on the intricate process of drafting and archiving records in Foggia and Naples and, in general, on the functioning of the dogana during its first century of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to show how, during the 15th and the 16th Centuries, the institutional life in the most important cities of the Venetian mainland was not exclusively subject to the prerogatives of knights and jurists. Although these two poles have been an active role in organizing the political life of a city like Brescia, the specific object of this work, it should not be forgotten that law and the profession of arms were not the only ways to increase the political education. Recent archival discoveries, in fact, show that both knights and doctors in law from Brescia were not strangers to the practice of trade, through which it was possible to integrate the preparation for the res publica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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