History of Southern Italy
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Recent papers in History of Southern Italy
The paper presents up-to-date estimates of Italy’s regional GDP, with the present borders, in ten-year benchmarks from 1871 to 2001, and proposes a new interpretative hypothesis based on long-lasting socio-institutional differences. The... more
Turning to a region of South Italy associated with the heritage of Greater Greece and the geographies of Homer's Odyssey, Marco Benoît Carbone delivers a historical and ethnographic treatment of how places defined in public imagination... more
L'articolo si sofferma sul pensiero di Benedetto Croce sul tema e sulla natura del brigantaggio nell'Italia meridionale.
The article analyzes the Benedetto Croce thought about the brigandage in southern Italy.
The article analyzes the Benedetto Croce thought about the brigandage in southern Italy.
This article explores counter-revolutionary brigandage in Southern Italy after 1860 (also known as Great Brigandage). Working from archival sources, the article offers a new interpretation of the interactions between the political, social... more
My paper concerns Tommaso Fiore, a prominent member of the left-wing non communist Italian parties (PdA and Psi). Moreover, I focused especially on the years 1940-1970.
This book investigates the determinants of social capital across 85 European regions, capturing the renewed interest among social capital theorists regarding the importance of active secondary groups which support the correct functioning... more
Les commémorations du 150ème anniversaire de l’unité du pays ont suscité en Italie un regain d’intérêt pour l’histoire du Risorgimento national, ce long processus qui mena au cours du XIXème siècle à l’unification politique de toute la... more
Attraverso l’analisi di un ampio corpus di documentari il volume propone un viaggio alla scoperta del Mezzogiorno tra secondo dopoguerra e miracolo economico. Un percorso che, sulla base di un patrimonio di filmati in buona parte... more
Ergotism was a terrible plague in southern Italy through the second millennia, especially in the regions of Basilicata and Calabria. Yet, there is a severe lack of scholarship on the subject. In the absence of multidisciplinary studies,... more
Von einem nationalen Standpunkt betrachtet wurde die Kultur der Italoalbaner und Italogriechen als ,,linguistische Minderheit“ marginalisiert und aufgegeben – mit dem Ergebnis, dass ihre Sprachen nicht mehr an den Schulen unterrichtet... more
This is the text of a lecture I delivered in 2019 within a course on Contemporary History (Political Sciences Department, University of Milan). It is an extended version of my Cluj paper. It explains the Southern question according to... more
Naples, its cultural heritage and with it also its Language are a patrimony of all humanity, as UNESCO reminds us when it decrees the Historic Center of the city of Naples as a world heritage, recognizing the uniqueness of cultural... more
Nel periodo agosto-ottobre 1943 la provincia di Benevento fu ripetutamente colpita dai bombardieri alleati. Il capoluogo, in particolare, subì distruzioni ingenti, che cambiarono il volto della città, e un elevato numero di vittime,... more
Il 7 agosto del 1861, Pontelandolfo, un piccolo paese del Sannio, fu invaso dai briganti. Per una settimana fu teatro di violenze, saccheggi e uccisioni fino a quando l’esercito italiano represse la rivolta filoborbonica che da un paio... more
The first Russian translation of the legendary Spanish book "Manual del Baratero" - "Manual of the Bagman"(1849) accompanied with a 500 pages of detailed comments. Translated from Spanish, edited and commented by Denis Cherevichnik -... more
Sus reformas en el arte de la guerra ,aplicadas en la guerra de Nápoles a comienzos del siglo XVI, supusieron el fin del dominio de la caballería y su substitución por la infantería. Ésta se componía de soldados voluntarios, organizados... more
Dopo lo scoppio di violenti disordini tra i monaci e la conclusione di un controverso processo, nel 1237 papa Gregorio IX comandò che l’abbazia delle isole Tremiti fosse trasferita dall’ordine benedettino a quello cistercense. Prima però... more
Catalogo della Mostra/Laboratorio sperimentale “La Puglia ebraica nelle fonti” (Bari, Castello svevo, 21 dicembre 2017 – ), CeRDEM, Bari 2017 CERDEM -Centro Ricerche e Documentazione sull'Ebraismo nel Mediterraneo "Cesare... more
Se si guarda al rapporto tra Risorgimento e Abruzzo si coglie immediatamente lo scarso (scarsissimo per alcune province, come il teramano) apporto degli abruzzesi ad eventi centrali per il compimento dell’unità nazionale, come, ad... more
Il volume propone la corrispondenza intercorsa tra 1484-85 tra l'oratore Giovanni Lanfredini, le magistrature fiorentine (Signoria e Dieci di Balia), Lorenzo de'Medici e altri destinatari diversi (Bartolomeo Scala, Galzerano Requesens,... more
The article places the origins of the Italian scientific historiography on Southern reactionary brigandage in the political and intellectual context after the two World Wars. In both post-war periods the need to re-think the structures of... more
“On H. Masud Taj’s Calligraphy Choreography To engage with Taj’s visually lyrical calligraphy translations, drop all notions of reading as a static activity, prepare to perform a pas de deux with text and poem. Prepare to follow dynamic... more
Tra la rivolta detta di Masaniello e la controrivoluzione sanfedista del 1799, nel Mezzogiorno moderno nessun movimento di protesta assunse dimensioni tali da minacciare gli assetti sociali e di potere. Agitazioni e rivolte, che pure si... more
[ENG] Alfonso of Aragon, the Magnanimous (1394-1458), became king of the southern part of Italy after a twenty years long war. He was the Catalan King who completed the “trajectòria mediterrània” started by his ancestors in previous... more
promoted the collection of relics in cathedrals and/or urban foundations both to centralize their power and to increase their prestige. Their ventures were part of a wider framework in which the mobility of the saints’ bodies, which was... more
The essay focuses on the Calabrian radical group who had a leading role in the 1848 revolution in Naples, as one of the possible key to interpreting the Neapolitan revolution itself. Moving from the assumption that the subversive choice... more