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Some reflections are made on the meaning of measurement in psychotherapy and on the relationship between the roles of technique and of the therapist's person. Parts of previous papers are also republished, namely some excerpts of the 1992 book La persona e la tecnica ["The Person and the Technique"] (reprinted in 2022 by the publisher FrancoAngeli of Milan) and of the preface, written in 1960, to the Italian edition of Harry Stack Sullivan's 1953 book The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry (La teoria interpersonale della psichiatria. Milan: Feltrinelli, 1961). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the various themes addressed in Storia confidenziale dell'editoria italiana by Gian Arturo Ferrari, published by Marsilio in 2022. The author is one of the main protagonists of Italian publishing industry: he worked for almost fifty years in Mondadori and for other publishers, as well as presided over the Centro per il libro e la lettura. From this privileged observatory, he reconstructs atmospheres and anecdotes and provides a wealth of data and information on the events that have characterized the main Italian publishers' life, extending his reflection to the development of Italian society in general. The work is not (only) an historiographical essay but also a story written by someone who was witness and protagonist of the narrated facts, representing, at the same time, a handbook for those who want to work in this world and learn the publisher's profession: it is a book that was not there until now and that certainly fills a gap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Peer review evaluates the originality and quality of a scientific work, through the judgment of a peer group, in order to preserve scientific authority and prevent the publication of poor quality manuscripts. Fulvio Guatelli, director of the Firenze University Press (FUP), one of the most innovative realities in the scientific field and one of the first publishing houses to have brought the peer review process to Italy, answers eight questions. FUP pays considerable attention to editorial practices; the FUP Scientific Cloud for Books project allows the systematic description, through a “cloud” of metadata, of all aspects of the scientific book (authorship, evaluation process, dissemination tools and access methods), in order to contribute to its enhancement and place it in the wake of scientific journals. FUP also aims at the dissemination of a qualitatively valid science, supporting the reviewers through collaborations, such as Reviewer Credits, which certify and reward their work. Initiatives that testify to the continuous evolution and gradual refinement process of peer review in the context of today’s scientific community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Open peer review (OPR) is a type of review that has long since made space alongside the more well-known single-blind and double-blind peer reviews. Despite this, we still do not have a shared definition by the scientific community and publishers. The purpose of this paper is to offer some reflections on the selection of reviewers in OPR, a process that in its current configuration is traced back to the 19th century. After a brief overview of the best-known definitions of open peer review, the paper continues with an analysis of some aspects of reviewer selection carried out with the help of data from a recent survey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a new methodological approach to collection evaluation in public libraries, with the aim to read bibliographic and usage data in a less self-referential way and to improve collection development and management. Behind this approach there are two integrated types of analysis. The first one is a quantitative and qualitative benchmarking between different library collections: the attention focuses on the size of collections, the variety, the publishers, the subjects, the circulation data. The second type of analysis concerns the benchmarking between library collections and editorial production. Also in this case, the comparison covers the quantitative aspects (number of books selected by libraries and number of books published), the qualitative aspects (subjects, types of documents, Conspectus levels) and the usage data (loans and sales). The paper illustrates the results of a first and experimental application of this methodological approach for the analysis of collection portions of 26 public libraries (belonged to two Italian library systems), that are compared with the editorial production of the subject area Social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay revises the formulation of Francesco Torraca ‘s commentary on Dante’Comedy published in several editions from 1905 to 1992. It highlights the novelties of Torraca‘s work and the reasons of his long-standing success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The contribution reports the transcription of the correspondence between Pietro Tacchi Venturi SJ and Pasquale D'Elia SJ in the years 1931-1937 regarding the publication of the new edition of the Opere storiche del P. Matteo Ricci S.I. The transcribed letters are the result of the selection made between the documents contained in the folder of the Affari series of the P. Pietro Tacchi Venturi SJ fund at the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu. The article aims to report to the scientific community the existence of a little-known source that, through the direct testimony of the two protagonists of the story, can contribute to the knowledge of some aspects of the publishing initiative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Italy, book distribution plays a key role in identifying the mechanisms ruling the publishing industry. After having defined book as a ‘commodity’ and as a product of a complex organization where many players are involved, our aim is to identify exactly what the distribution process consists of and how it spreads in different activities. Investigating the role of distribution will help us to understand possible evolutions of the Italian everchanging panorama, in which small and medium-sized publishing houses resist and the main publishing groups are the protagonists of a continuous process of reorganization, triggered both by the changes taking place in the book market. Thanks to the data collected within the framework of a research involving publishers, distributors and other players involved in the book supply chain, we try to develop an overview identifying distribution models in our country today. An attempt is made to understand whether these models are able to interpret the changes taking place and respond to new demands involving the key roles related to books and their trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present the preliminary results of a cartographic reconstruction and a geo-literary investigation of the place-names that mark the pages of Mai Tardi. Diario di un alpino in Russia, written by Nuto Revelli and published at the end of World War II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Writing a scientific article and being able to get it published in an important journal is the last step before considering your study project completed. Scientific publications have a well-defined structure, aimed at greater communication efficiency. Whoever is preparing a paper to be published must therefore know these rules in order to get accepted his article. The aim of this review is therefore to provide authors with practical advice on how to prepare the manuscript. Ethical aspects which are a precise responsibility of the authors, reviewers and publisher, and which concern the entire publication process are also considered. At the same time, we give to readers the keys to assess the quality of a publication. The review is structured into three parts: preparation of an article, how to write the various types of articles and finally the path from sending to the magazine to the publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay discusses the main contributions on Alessandro Tassoni published in recent years. The aim is to show the trends of contemporary criticism, also thanks to a comparison with the twentieth-century tradition; and, where possible, to suggest potential research directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper will present OPERAS, a comprehensive infrastructure aimed at providing a pan-European infrastructure to rethink and reshape publishing, discovery and dissemination addressing the specificity and the critical issues of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The paper will try to set the scene examining the status of scholarly communication, the developments of Open Access and Open Science, and the specific demands for SSH. A second part will outline how OPERAS meets these needs, taking care of all the steps of the scholarly communication cycle. OPERAS unique approach is to unite researchers, libraries and publishers in a common effort, in order to take back control over scholarly communication. Not merging nor replacing, but nurturing existing realities, OPERAS provides innovative services to bring SSH into Open Science. OPERAS is designed to elaborate effective and scalable long-term strategies for the future development of the digital infrastructure and community building needed to innovate scholarly communication in the SSH. OPERAS pervading idea of science as communication holds an immense potential for an inspiring model of Open Science with direct societal impact, based on continuous communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the results of the latest ISTAT report on reading in Italy in 2010 and 2011, analyzes the data relating to the e-book market provided in June 2012 by the Italian Publishers Association, and reflects on the predominance of women among books' purchasers and consumers. Taking into consideration the transformations occurred in the way people plan their lives and leisure time, in the conclusion a few strategic suggestions are made to Italian public libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the new edition of Speculum perfectionis status fratris Minoris, published by Daniele Solvi. The work was published twice by Paul Sabatier (1898 and 1928), but his editions ignored the modern principles of textual criticism, so that they were exposed to the interpretative arbitrary act of the still meritorious scholar. Solvi examines in a rigorous way the manuscript tradition by distinguishing the "vertical tradition", the "transversal tradition" and the "indirect tradition". The editor reconstructs the text taking as starting point the twelve codexes that form the "vertical tradition", bind themselves in a clear genealogy and permit the fixation of a stemma. Solvi's edition shows itself more reliable because he bears new codexes, excludes the contaminated ones and draws from the source (Compilatio Assisiensis). This last element, made possible by the progress of the studies in the last thirty years, has made possible to him the acquisition of the third branch and to close the recensio. Sabatier attributed the work to friar Leo and dated it in May 1227. Solvi, in concordance with the more recent criticism, dates the writing of Speculum around 1318 and identifies the author with an anonimous friar dwelling at the Porziuncula, who was very close to Ubertinus of Casale. Accrocca agrees with Solvi, but he considers the relationship of the compilator' work with Ubertinus of Casale less compelling than the editor thinks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]