During the First World War the Ethiopian Empire experienced a deep political turmoil due to the coup d’etat organized by Shoa aristocrats against the emperor Ligg Jasu/Lji Iyasu and the following civil war which brought Menelik’s daughter, Zauditu/Zewditu, to the imperial throne and Tafari Maconnen to the position of heir to the throne and regent. Purpose of the essay is to analyse the attitude of Italy, France and Great Britain toward Ethiopia and its internal political changes as well as to explain the political and territorial ambitions of the three European powers in the Horn of Africa in those years
{"title":"Italia, Francia, Gran Bretagna e la questione etiopica durante la prima Guerra Mondiale","authors":"L. Monzali","doi":"10.1400/255031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/255031","url":null,"abstract":"During the First World War the Ethiopian Empire experienced a deep political turmoil due to the coup d’etat organized by Shoa aristocrats against the emperor Ligg Jasu/Lji Iyasu and the following civil war which brought Menelik’s daughter, Zauditu/Zewditu, to the imperial throne and Tafari Maconnen to the position of heir to the throne and regent. Purpose of the essay is to analyse the attitude of Italy, France and Great Britain toward Ethiopia and its internal political changes as well as to explain the political and territorial ambitions of the three European powers in the Horn of Africa in those years","PeriodicalId":42962,"journal":{"name":"NUOVA RIVISTA STORICA","volume":"101 1","pages":"829-870"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66624145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895) became an important milestone in the history of international relations. The war had far-reaching consequences for Japan, China and Korea. The victory of Japan had significant psychological impact on Beijing and deprived Middle Kingdom of its key position in the Far East. During the war, the modern international order of the Far East was born. International politics became truly global with the advent of new Great Power, Japan. With respect to these facts, research of the reasons for the conflict, an exploration of important relevant political circumstances and an analysis of general international background of the war seem to be significant and challenging tasks.
{"title":"The Situation in the Far East before the First Sino-Japanese War.","authors":"Aleš Skřivan","doi":"10.1400/250050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/250050","url":null,"abstract":"The Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895) became an important milestone in the history of international relations. The war had far-reaching consequences for Japan, China and Korea. The victory of Japan had significant psychological impact on Beijing and deprived Middle Kingdom of its key position in the Far East. During the war, the modern international order of the Far East was born. International politics became truly global with the advent of new Great Power, Japan. With respect to these facts, research of the reasons for the conflict, an exploration of important relevant political circumstances and an analysis of general international background of the war seem to be significant and challenging tasks.","PeriodicalId":42962,"journal":{"name":"NUOVA RIVISTA STORICA","volume":"101 1","pages":"83-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66623920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In recent years the international historiography on the First World War has widened its interest to non-European theaters of war, emphasizing the global nature of the conflict. The theme of war in the colonies provides an interesting perspective, challenging the thesis of the victory of the Entente, which if it is indisputable in the Old Continent, is less obvious in the colonial territories. The article analyzes the war that took place in Libya during the period 1914-1918 by including it in the context of World War I and highlighting the connections between the anticolonial resistance movement and the political strategies of the Ottoman Empire and Germany in north Africa.
{"title":"Il fronte meridionale della Grande guerra : la Libia come teatro del primo conflitto mondiale","authors":"Simona Berhe","doi":"10.1400/255013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/255013","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years the international historiography on the First World War has widened its interest to non-European theaters of war, emphasizing the global nature of the conflict. The theme of war in the colonies provides an interesting perspective, challenging the thesis of the victory of the Entente, which if it is indisputable in the Old Continent, is less obvious in the colonial territories. The article analyzes the war that took place in Libya during the period 1914-1918 by including it in the context of World War I and highlighting the connections between the anticolonial resistance movement and the political strategies of the Ottoman Empire and Germany in north Africa.","PeriodicalId":42962,"journal":{"name":"NUOVA RIVISTA STORICA","volume":"101 1","pages":"797-828"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66624094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As is known, during the “Great War”, African territories were battleground between rival powers. This essay focuses on attempts of destabilization in the Horn of Africa by Turkish-Germans agents against the powers of the Triple Entente. The content was to break the regional balance through an alliance between the heir to the Imperial throne, Lijj Iasu, and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the leader of the anti-western resistance, which for more than a decade raged under the sign of Islam on Somali.
众所周知，在“世界大战”期间，非洲领土是敌对大国之间的战场。这篇文章的重点是土耳其-德国特工在非洲之角破坏稳定的企图，反对三国协约的力量。其内容是通过帝国王位继承人Lijj Iasu和反西方抵抗运动领袖穆罕默德·阿卜杜拉·哈桑(Mohammed Abdullah Hassan)之间的联盟打破地区平衡，该运动在伊斯兰教的标志下在索马里爆发了十多年。
{"title":"Grande Guerra e tentativi di destabilizzazione in Corno d'Africa. Ligg Iasù, il mullismo somalo e l'attivismo pan-islamico della diplomazia ottomana e degli imperi centrali","authors":"G. Nicolosi","doi":"10.1400/255032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/255032","url":null,"abstract":"As is known, during the “Great War”, African territories were battleground between rival powers. This essay focuses on attempts of destabilization in the Horn of Africa by Turkish-Germans agents against the powers of the Triple Entente. The content was to break the regional balance through an alliance between the heir to the Imperial throne, Lijj Iasu, and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the leader of the anti-western resistance, which for more than a decade raged under the sign of Islam on Somali.","PeriodicalId":42962,"journal":{"name":"NUOVA RIVISTA STORICA","volume":"101 1","pages":"871-890"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66624161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article analyses the continuity of Italian Foreign Policy before and after the fall of liberal regime, from the Mussolini’s rise to power to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
本文分析了意大利自由主义政权垮台前后，从墨索里尼上台到第二次意埃战争，意大利外交政策的连续性
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The market penetration of the Ansaldo during the Russian Revolution, was the most difficult and complicated activity of the Genoese’s company, because its process of expansion in the Eastern Europe early after war was taking place together with a chaotic and changing political and military situation. The Perrone’s and the technical staff of Ansaldo were forced to develop a transnational project characterized by a remarkable level of flexibility and adaptability, to make it fit as much as possible with a constantly changing reality and, at the same time, able to compete successfully with a very challenging international competition. With the use of unpublished archive’s material, this paperwork explain the diverse strategic framework adopted, the core’s of the themes and the outcomes of the business plan to enter the immense and rich Russian market.
{"title":"L'Ansaldo dei Perrone e la Russia rivoluzionaria, 1917-1921","authors":"Marcello Benegiamo, P. Nardone","doi":"10.1400/247577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/247577","url":null,"abstract":"The market penetration of the Ansaldo during the Russian Revolution, was the most difficult and complicated activity of the Genoese’s company, because its process of expansion in the Eastern Europe early after war was taking place together with a chaotic and changing political and military situation. The Perrone’s and the technical staff of Ansaldo were forced to develop a transnational project characterized by a remarkable level of flexibility and adaptability, to make it fit as much as possible with a constantly changing reality and, at the same time, able to compete successfully with a very challenging international competition. With the use of unpublished archive’s material, this paperwork explain the diverse strategic framework adopted, the core’s of the themes and the outcomes of the business plan to enter the immense and rich Russian market.","PeriodicalId":42962,"journal":{"name":"NUOVA RIVISTA STORICA","volume":"100 1","pages":"871-906"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66624072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The “compulsory” pilgrimage or judicial pilgrimage is a revealing sign of a new culture which is beginning to assert itself with the success of a manufacturing and market economy, able to adapt itself to this new path categories and models belonging to the the High Middle Ages, to a world which during the 6th century attests to the adoption on the Continent of an essential component of medieval Irish and Anglo-Saxon communities, which is to say, the idea of penitence. In this way, with the aim of understanding more clearly the evolution of the compulsory pilgrimage, it might be useful to refer to the general aspects of judicial pilgrimage as an experiment and a form of personal growth. Special attention has been paid to the introduction of “compulsory” pilgrimages within the context to the County of Flanders in the cities such as Gand, Bruges, Antwerp and Brussels where it was used as a sanction imposed on citizens guilty of certain criminal acts. That these same citizens should keep the peace was an essential condition for the well-being and the development of the community at large, and thus pilgrimage came to be used as a kind of compensation for serious offences or crimes that went against the peace and the equilibrium of the community. When analysing these documents certain elements and characteristics particular to compulsory pilgrimage may be discerned, as well as the relation between crime and punishment which, nonetheless, has not been identified within the general context of social custom. Using valuable sources such as city statutes and sentences from magistrates’ courts it has been possible to examine some concrete cases where enforced pilgrimage to Jerusalem was applied as an amendment.
{"title":"Affin leur faire reparacions honorables cest assez de deux voiaiges : brevi note sul pellegrinaggio giudiziario dalla Fiandra verso la Terrasanta","authors":"Lorenza Vantaggiato","doi":"10.1400/242808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/242808","url":null,"abstract":"The “compulsory” pilgrimage or judicial pilgrimage is a revealing sign of a new culture which is beginning to assert itself with the success of a manufacturing and market economy, able to adapt itself to this new path categories and models belonging to the the High Middle Ages, to a world which during the 6th century attests to the adoption on the Continent of an essential component of medieval Irish and Anglo-Saxon communities, which is to say, the idea of penitence. In this way, with the aim of understanding more clearly the evolution of the compulsory pilgrimage, it might be useful to refer to the general aspects of judicial pilgrimage as an experiment and a form of personal growth. Special attention has been paid to the introduction of “compulsory” pilgrimages within the context to the County of Flanders in the cities such as Gand, Bruges, Antwerp and Brussels where it was used as a sanction imposed on citizens guilty of certain criminal acts. That these same citizens should keep the peace was an essential condition for the well-being and the development of the community at large, and thus pilgrimage came to be used as a kind of compensation for serious offences or crimes that went against the peace and the equilibrium of the community. When analysing these documents certain elements and characteristics particular to compulsory pilgrimage may be discerned, as well as the relation between crime and punishment which, nonetheless, has not been identified within the general context of social custom. Using valuable sources such as city statutes and sentences from magistrates’ courts it has been possible to examine some concrete cases where enforced pilgrimage to Jerusalem was applied as an amendment.","PeriodicalId":42962,"journal":{"name":"NUOVA RIVISTA STORICA","volume":"100 1","pages":"517-550"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66624307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francois-Guillaume-Leon Du Tillot, thanks to its leading role in the government of the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla and the interest aroused in Europe by his reform activity during the seventh decade of the 18th century, wove multiple and complex relationships with the nobilities of the Italian peninsula. He made use of the grants of offices and dignities in the court, in the diplomacy and in the army of the infant duke of Parma to cement the loyalty of the ancient aristocracy, primarily those of the State, to the Bourbons and to consolidate his own personal power. At the same time, the foundation of the Academy of Fine Arts in Parma and the establishment of a prize for tragedies and comedies in Italian promoted the direct involvement of noblemen, even foreigners, in the political and cultural projects of the prime minister. In addition, the contacts with the ducal court provided to the members of the aristocracy the suited opportunity to take advantage of the close relationship between Parma and Paris, for example visiting, in the French metropolis, important personalities from the diplomatic, financial and intellectual world. Nevertheless, the drastic jurisdictionalistic measures of the government caused increasing misunderstanding and hostility of the noble class against Du Tillot, which played an important role in creating the political conditions to the fall of the minister, in 1771.
Francois-Guillaume-Leon Du Tillot，由于其在帕尔马、皮亚琴察和瓜斯塔拉公国政府中的领导作用，以及18世纪70年代他的改革活动在欧洲引起的兴趣，与意大利半岛的贵族们建立了多种复杂的关系。他利用在宫廷、外交和幼小的帕尔马公爵的军队中授予的官职和尊严来巩固古代贵族，主要是国家贵族，对波旁王朝的忠诚，巩固他自己的个人权力。与此同时，帕尔马美术学院的成立和意大利悲剧和喜剧奖的设立促进了贵族，甚至是外国人，直接参与首相的政治和文化项目。此外，与公爵宫廷的接触为贵族成员提供了适当的机会，利用帕尔马与巴黎之间的密切关系，例如在法国大都市访问外交，金融和知识界的重要人物。然而，政府严厉的司法措施引起了贵族阶层对迪蒂洛越来越多的误解和敌意，这在1771年大臣下台的政治条件中发挥了重要作用。
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The propaganda promoted by the humanists of Alfonso d’Aragona’s court tends to present him as a perfect monarch, and moreover a champion of religiosity, in order to accredit him as ideal military leader of a future crusade the purpose of which would be to counter the advance of the Ottomans and to reconquer the Holy Land. Mostly during the 40s’ and 50s’ of XV century Alfonso builds a dense diplomatic network in all the Mediterranean area: he developes relations not only with the king of Cyprus and the knights of Rhodes but also with the caliph of Tunis, the sultan of Egypt, the king of Ethiopia and the Ottoman sultan. The life of his loyal subject Giovanni Filangieri, a cadet of a noble Sicilian family, in this regard is exemplary, and for this reason has been narrated in detail: he takes an active part in almost all the military initiative of his king in the Mediterranean
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The General Library of the Custody of the Holy Land and the Library of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem held collections of ancient books of great relevance. One of the most important is the collection of travel accounts from the Holy Land from the Middle Ages until today. The antique part of this collection is constituted of about 150 printed editions, which also include copies dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries, with the texts of Bernhard von Breydenbach, of the so-called friar Noe (actually a revisiting of Niccolo da Poggibonsi’s account), of Burchardus of the Mount Syon, of Antonio Cruzado and others. The collection is valuable not only because the single items are sometimes of extreme rarity, but also because books are held in the same place that they describe. The collection was constituted progressively, also with documentary purposes, but it is not rare to find books donated to the friars by pilgrims at the end of their journey. Recent scholarship has demonstrated that the Custody played a key role not only in promoting the pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but also in the elaboration of the image of the Holy Land constructed in Europe between the Middle and Modern Ages. The friars contributed in fact in the writing of accounts that then became guides for those who undertook the journey, physically of just “in spirit”. This essay, as result of a cataloguing work conducted in Jerusalem, aims to present the rare books collection of the Custody, focusing in particular on the 15th and 16th century copies, with analytical bibliographical descriptions and the reconstruction of the stories of single copies (provenances, owners, uses…).
圣地托管总图书馆和耶路撒冷的圣方济各经堂图书馆收藏了许多重要的古籍。其中最重要的是收集了从中世纪到今天圣地的旅行记录。该收藏的古董部分由大约150个印刷版本组成，其中还包括可追溯到15世纪和16世纪的副本，其中包括Bernhard von Breydenbach，所谓的friar Noe(实际上是Niccolo da Poggibonsi的叙述的重述)，Syon山的Burchardus, Antonio Cruzado等人的文本。这些藏品之所以有价值，不仅因为单个物品有时极其罕见，还因为书籍被保存在它们所描述的同一个地方。收藏是逐步构成的，也有纪录片的目的，但它并不罕见的发现书籍捐赠给修士朝圣者在他们的旅程结束。最近的学术研究表明，保管不仅在促进圣地朝圣方面发挥了关键作用，而且在中世纪和现代之间欧洲建造的圣地形象的阐述中发挥了关键作用。事实上，修士们的贡献是撰写记录，然后成为那些踏上旅程的人的向导，身体上的，只是“精神上的”。这篇文章是在耶路撒冷进行编目工作的结果，旨在介绍保管的稀有藏书，特别是15和16世纪的副本，具有分析书目描述和单个副本的故事重建(出处，所有者，用途……)。
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