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A review of the book "Papers on Rhetoric," volume 9, by Lucia Calboli Montefusco is presented.

The article reviews the book "L'industria della carta nelle Marche e nell'Umbria: imprenditori lavoro produzione mercati: secoli XVIlI-XX," edited by Giancarlo Castagnari.

The original edition of Giacomo Zanella’s “Nuove poesie” di Giacomo Zanella published in 1878, with the poet’s handwritten dedication to Queen Margherita, was found and rescued years ago when it was about to be destroyed in a paper mill. The volume, which bears no inventory markings, was perhaps lent and never returned, as the queen herself lamented this sometimes happened at the court. The essay briefly outlines the figure of the poet from Vicenza, author, among other things, of the poem “Sopra una conchiglia fossile nel mio studio,” appreciated by Alessandro Manzoni and Giosuè Carducci, and in the 20th century by the poet Andrea Zanzotto. When Zanella died, Queen Margherita mourned him, professing to be a sincere admirer of his talent. As the Royal Library of Turin has a collection of books that belonged to the queen, including some editions of Carducci’s works with his hand-written dedications, the volume was donated to the Library, also to add to the history of the relationship between the queen and the intellectuals of her time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a review of Fulvio Tessitore's book La ricerca dello storicismo. Studi su Benedetto Croce, published in 2012 by Il Mulino for the Italian Institute of Historical Research, which gathers many Tessitore's essays on Benedetto Croce and aims at rethinking the complexity of Croce's historicism. According to the author, Tessitore's book requires to be read on the background of the most influential interpretations of Croce's thought, in particular those offered by Sasso, Piovani, Franchini and Cotroneo. The originality of Tessitore's interpretation lies in the fact that Croce is depicted as a "borderline philosopher", as a writer who lived the change from modernity to contemporaneity and who cast a new light on the concepts of unity and difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Both the American books reviewed in this paper - Nicholas Carr's The shallows. What the Internet is doing to our brains, and David Weinberger's Too big to know. Rethinking knowledge now that the facts aren't the facts, experts are everywhere, and the smartest person in the room is the room - deal with the issue of how the internet is changing the way we learn and communicate. Still, they come at diametrically opposite conclusions. Carr claims that the excessive use of the Internet may limit our concentration and understanding abilities, making it more and more difficult for many of us reading and writing those long and complex texts that are the basis of human culture. On the other side Weinberger thinks that the Internet - thanks to the multiplication and celerity of its communication channels - is unfolding new and exciting perspectives for human knowledge, no longer adequately supported by traditional documents and "experts". In the author's opinion both these theories are erroneous, being too radical and sharing a number of fallacies, e.g. a technological determinism, and the tendency to consider certain characteristics as peculiar of a very few media, while they actually belong to a lot of different media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines Alberto Salarelli's book Introduzione alia scienza dell' informazione ("Introduction to Information Science", Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2012) with particular attention to the location of this disciplinary field within the wider context of bibliography and library science. The first part briefly discusses how the author presents the discipline's key concepts (data, information, document), and examines the theories and meta-theories that identify its context, taking into consideration the studies of Luciano Floridi, Maurizio Ferraris, Michael Buckland, Wolfgang Hofkirchner. The second part deals with some theoretical and ontological issues concerning the relationships between objects in the physical world, documents, and their bibliographic representation, finally proposing a new location of Information Science into the wider frame of bibliography in its historical and cultural dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her last book Divine art, infernal machine. The reception of printing in the west from first impressions to be sense of an ending Elizabeth Eisenstein - already known in Italy for her previous works on the early days of printing - has further widened her research field by investigating diverse source materials: historical, literary, scientific and iconographic. Treading on the chronological path indicated by her book, the paper describes the most significant steps, personalities and peculiarities involved in the circulation of printed products and in the evolution of publishing within the western hemisphere, underlining the most significant and relevant phenomenons of each phase. Catching just a few of the most intriguing and original junctions, this synthetic and schematic picture is meant to address not just to specialists, but also to a wider and diversified audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Four critical readings analyse some recent books about Southern Italy in the late Middle Ages: especially, the fundamental structures of society and those of the public administration. The study of feudalism, as well as the study of the city and of the monarchy, provide a convincing framework of the mechanisms of public affairs at that period, in an area where the institutional experimentation has original characters and innovative strength. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Claudio Mamertino: Panegírico (Gratiarum Actio) al Emperador Juliano," by María Pilar García Ruiz.

The article presents a review of the book "Declamation: Proceedings of the Seminars held at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Bologna (February-March, 2006)," edited by Lucia Calboli Montefusco.

The article reviews the book "Donne di medicina. Il percoso professionale delle donne medico in Italia," by Giovanna Vicarelli.

The article reviews the book "Philipp de Monte (1521-1603), Komponist, Kapellmeister, Korrespondent," by Thorsten Hindrichs.

The article reviews the book "Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy: Essays in Honour of John J. Najemy," edited by David S. Peterson with Daniel E. Bornstein.