Memorie
Nicolò Galluzzi, Una storia senza fine. Contesti di elaborazione e strategie memoriali dell’Anonimo di Bari (XI-XII secolo)
The essay offers a contextualization of one of the three annals written in Bari between the 11th and 12th centuries: the Anonymous’ Chronicle, which hasn’t a manuscript tradition. In the first part of the essay, by analyzing the contents, style, and main themes, multiple sections of the text, written at different times, are identified. The last part of the essay highlights the relationship between the final section of the Anonymous and the rise of Prince Grimoald in the city (1118). The Anonymous provides an opportunity to investigate the relationship between the construction, management, and sharing of memory and the political dimension.
Maddalena Moglia, «Quia erant homines eorum». La signoria personale dei Da Pizzo nella Bassa parmense (XI-XIII secolo)
For the central Italian Middle Ages, research on lordship in the northern area has so far focused mainly on the ‘ruling classes’, while the lower fringes of the aristocracy have remained on the margins. The essay analyses the parable of the Da Pizzo family, rural milites who realised a personal lordship in the territory of the Bassa Parmense between the 11th and 13th centuries. The essay highlights the different lines of action deployed by the Da Pizzo family to emerge in a context of lordly competition, from family strategies to practices of self-representation, from the relationship with the urban world to that with the homines of the territory.
Andrea Casalboni, Una famiglia ebraica nel Regno di Napoli: i Buonomo all’Aquila nel Quattrocento
The article sheds light on the history of a Jewish family of L’Aquila, the Buonomo, in the second half of the 15th century, within the broader framework of the Jewish presence in the Abruzzi and in Southern Italy. In the dynamic mercantile environment of L’Aquila, the Buonomo carried out several different economic activities from around the 1450s until the expulsion of the Jews from the Kingdom of Naples at the beginning of the 16th century.
Dario Pasquini, La fotografia di documentazione architettonica a Roma: il ruolo di Maria Ponti Pasolini e l’Associazione artistica fra i cultori di architettura
The essay starts with a brief overview on the development of documentary architecture photography in Rome from the middle 19th Century to the 1890s. It then highlights the activity of Maria Ponti Pasolini as a both collector and photographer, drawing on her unpublished photographs, diary and letters. The last part of the article reconstructs the circumstances in which one of Italy’s earliest associations for the protection of historical sites, the Associazione artistica fra i cultori di architettura, published the two volumes Architettura minore in Roma, which included a collection of photographs of Rome’s ‘lesser’ historical buildings, with Ponti Pasolini’s crucial contribution.
Discussioni
Francesca Trivellato, Rivoluzione industriale e crescita economica tra storia globale, capitalismo, schiavitù atlantica e quantificazione
In their recent book Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, two prominent scholars of the British industrial revolution, offer a general reinterpretation of this transformative phenomenon (and its legacies) in light of the rippling economic effects set in motion by the forced transport of African labor by European traders and its employment in the Caribbean sugar plantations. In addition to summarizing the book’s main arguments, this piece expands on numerous historiographical debates with which they engage, including the global turn, the new history of capitalism, and the variety of forms of quantification adopted by economic historians.
Recensioni [scarica PDF]
Networks of Bishops, Networks of texts. Manuscripts, legal cultures, tools of government in Carolingian Italy at the time of Lothar I, ed. by Gianmarco De Angelis e Francesco Veronese (Marco Muresu)
Emanuele Carletti, “Per lo buono istato de la città”. I Servi di s. Maria nella società dell’Italia centro-settentrionale tra XIII e XIV secolo (Francesco Borghero)
Solal Abélès, Protéger, libérer, assujettir. L’expansion territoriale de la commune de Florence au XIVe siècle (Lorenzo Tanzini)
Daniele Conti, I “quadernucci” di Niccolò Machiavelli. Frammenti storici Palatini. Introduzione edizione critica e commento (Francesca Klein)
Maren Elisabeth Schwab – Anthony Grafton, The Art of Discovery. Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe (Diego Pirillo)
David A. Lines, The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna (Noemi di Tommaso)
Alessandro Lo Bartolo, Nel mezzo del bogliente stagno. Gli ufficiali territoriali dello Stato fiorentino tra sindacato locale e controllo centrale, 1400-1800 (Daniele Edigati)
Daniele Menozzi, Il papato di Francesco in prospettiva storica (Francesca Campigli)
Notizie [scarica PDF]
Archivio Storico Italiano – ISSN 0391-7770