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The use and recycling of archival materials are crucial for writing the histories of music scenes and subcultures which have generally been oral and conveyed by DIY visual media documenting their activities. Conatemporary artists use these types of archives to explore how found footage strategies and forms can define wider social and cultural discourses. The paper deals with three video and digital works centered on punk/post-punk and EDM scenes and subcultures that are compared with a specific audiovisual form: Rock My Religion (Dan Graham, 1983-84) with the video-essay; Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (Mark Leckey, 1999) with the videoclip; Everybody In The Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (Jeremy Deller, 2018) with the documentary. Punk/post-punk and EDM's representations reveal deep meanings on society concerning such themes as the collective rituality, the significance of the bodies, the relations with religion and other political, social, and cultural issues. The three works are analyzed following the three methodologies on the use of found footage outlined by William Wees (1993): compilation, collage, and appropriation. Then, the outcomes of such analyses are discussed with reference to Fredric Jameson's framework on Postmodern culture and the idea of «the loss of historicity» (1981, 1983, 19841991, 2005). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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On 13rd October 2016 the Chiostergi-Tuscher archive and library, originating from the heirs' house located in France (Saint-Cergues Les Voirons), was transferred to the Centro cooperativo mazziniano "Pensiero e Azione" in Senigallia. The paper reports about how this remarkable heritage of Chiostergi-Tuscher was retrieved and returned to Italy after thirty years. The collection includes correspondences, letters, diaries, documents, journals and papers, pictures, books, posters and other archival and bibliographic materials of great historical value to learn about the political, civic and cultural activities of Giuseppe Chiostergi (1899-1961), anti-fascist, member of the Italian Constituent Assembly and of Parliament, ambassador, pro-European and statesman, friend and correspondent to leading Italian and European personalities in the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper shows the results of an archive research, developed in parallel with the recent restoration of the Valentino Castle’s chapel in Torino, with the goal of deepening the knowledge of this part of the Savoy’s residence. The study led to identify in Maria Giovanna Battista di Savoia-Nemours the commissioner of the stucco and fresco decorations that ornate the chapel as well as to a better knowledge both on the second Madama Reale and on the palace between the Sixth and Seventeenth centuries. Through the comparison of data emerging from documents with those from style and restoration works, it was possible to formulate a hypothesis on the craftsmen behind the stucco decoration, that can be attributed to Pietro Somasso’s team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the history of Italian unification in the 19th century, with a focus on the revolution of 1859 in the Tuscany region of Italy and letters between unification leaders Ferdinando Bartolommei and Vincenzo Malenchini. Topics discussed include background on the Società Nazionale unification forces, archival materials held in the Ferdinando Bartolommei papers of the Museo del Risorgimento museum archive in Florence, Italy, and military operations of this period.

The article discusses the relationship between France and Italy in the period between 1944 and 1945, with a focus on the attitude of French general and statesman Charles De Gaulle toward Italy. Topics discussed include changes in the relationship between France and Italy during this time, the papers and correspondence of De Gaulle, and French political behavior toward Italy.

In this paper we publish 48 letters of M.N. Murav’ev to S.M. and F.N. Lunin. They were written in 1789. These texts are unique materials for the reconstruction of the writer’s biography. Every week Murav’ev wrote to his sister and her husband about political news, culture, literature and family affairs.

At the beginning of the XXIth century anniversaries have occurred, which marked the centennial of capital events in international history going from the end of the so-called splendid isolation up to the First World War, including the Anglo-Japanese alliance and the Russo-Japanese war. All that has led historians to visit the broader subject again of the origins of the First World War in the framework of the rise of non European powers which took part eventually in the international equilibrium on world scale before 1914. Moreover additional factors like the partial opening of former tsarist archives after the end of the Cold War have added more appeal to such occasion. This study tries to review some learned essays which have appeared in the above connection, challenging or revising views or constructions of the older historiography. Moreover the analysis is taken against the background of the works of authors like Keith Neilson and Keith Wilson who at the close of the last century gave new pictures of Anglo-Russian relations in the road to the crisis of July 1914 after the Sarajevo Incident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]