During the 15th century, diplomacy in Italy underwent an extraordinary formalization process. The aims of diplomatic action were increasingly well defined, and the role of the ambassador was regulated and disciplined. A kind of standard diplomatic representation was reached by a common patrimony of gestures and words within those places predisposed for diplomatic communication. However, this system showed some rifts: cracks in which the seed of those forms that were to give life to the political season of the Reason of State was able to sprout. This essay analyzes precisely these cracks, starting from a privileged vantage point: the Aragonese court of Naples, which was one of the cradles for that new political practice.
{"title":"The Diplomatic Communication in the Secret Rooms of Ferrante of Aragon (1458-1494): Psychoanalytic Setting or «Artificio di Franchezza»","authors":"F. Storti","doi":"10.7375/96527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7375/96527","url":null,"abstract":"During the 15th century, diplomacy in Italy underwent an extraordinary formalization process. The aims of diplomatic action were increasingly well defined, and the role of the ambassador was regulated and disciplined. A kind of standard diplomatic representation was reached by a common patrimony of gestures and words within those places predisposed for diplomatic communication. However, this system showed some rifts: cracks in which the seed of those forms that were to give life to the political season of the Reason of State was able to sprout. This essay analyzes precisely these cracks, starting from a privileged vantage point: the Aragonese court of Naples, which was one of the cradles for that new political practice.","PeriodicalId":44500,"journal":{"name":"STUDI STORICI","volume":"61 1","pages":"71-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71299259","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}
{"title":"Between Legitimate Requests and Open Blackmail. The Entrepreneurs of the Sea, Stringher and Beneduce","authors":"R. Giulianelli","doi":"10.7375/98830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7375/98830","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44500,"journal":{"name":"STUDI STORICI","volume":"61 1","pages":"851-872"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71299765","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}
{"title":"The Medici Alum: Notes on the Mines of Volterra and on the Case of the Sienese Capacci (1472- 1483)","authors":"Eleonora Plebani","doi":"10.7375/98834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7375/98834","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44500,"journal":{"name":"STUDI STORICI","volume":"61 1","pages":"959-987"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71299887","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 essay investigates the reflections and political and cultural action of Rosario Villari, starting from his early elaboration of the Gramscian concept of «agrarian block», and ending with the Italian crisis during the 1970s. Between historiographic interpretation and political militancy, Villari looked constantly to Italy’s history and to its present, with particular attention to the South and the role played by the Italian Communist Party, with the aim of giving shape and content to the action of the emerging peasant masses in the Republican state.
{"title":"The Crisis of the «Agrarian block», the Peasants, and the South in the Interpretation of Italian History","authors":"E. Bernardi","doi":"10.7375/96973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7375/96973","url":null,"abstract":"This essay investigates the reflections and political and cultural action of Rosario Villari, starting from his early elaboration of the Gramscian concept of «agrarian block», and ending with the Italian crisis during the 1970s. Between historiographic interpretation and political militancy, Villari looked constantly to Italy’s history and to its present, with particular attention to the South and the role played by the Italian Communist Party, with the aim of giving shape and content to the action of the emerging peasant masses in the Republican state.","PeriodicalId":44500,"journal":{"name":"STUDI STORICI","volume":"61 1","pages":"529-543"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71299995","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 paper aims to investigate the role played by the treaties of accomandigia in the Florentine international relationships between the mid-fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Through the accomandigie, the Republic tied itself to different political realities, from rural lordships to other states. Florence oriented the creation of such ties towards different territorial areas and made different uses of them, depending on the context. The accomandigia was therefore a tool with which to enhance its presence within a certain territory (such as in Romagna) or with which to respond strategically to the movements of its opponents (as in Lunigiana and in the Sienese countryside). Finally, in the case of the relationships with Montefeltro and Piombino, the accomandigia may be seen not as a support mechanism, but as the true substance of the interstate relations.
{"title":"Figli devoti e amici fedeli. Il ruolo delle accomandigie nelle relazioni interstatali fiorentine (metà XIV-inizio XV secolo)","authors":"F. Bozzi","doi":"10.7375/98010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7375/98010","url":null,"abstract":"The paper aims to investigate the role played by the treaties of accomandigia in the Florentine international relationships between the mid-fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Through the accomandigie, the Republic tied itself to different political realities, from rural lordships to other states. Florence oriented the creation of such ties towards different territorial areas and made different uses of them, depending on the context. The accomandigia was therefore a tool with which to enhance its presence within a certain territory (such as in Romagna) or with which to respond strategically to the movements of its opponents (as in Lunigiana and in the Sienese countryside). Finally, in the case of the relationships with Montefeltro and Piombino, the accomandigia may be seen not as a support mechanism, but as the true substance of the interstate relations.","PeriodicalId":44500,"journal":{"name":"STUDI STORICI","volume":"61 1","pages":"581-606"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71300058","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 article concerns political relations between the Sforza dominion and its alpine neighbors. Many actors operated within and across the frontiers: lords, state officials, communities and so on. International relations gave these protagonists the opportunity not only to promote bold political initiatives, but also to outline their identity. A community, a jurisdictional district, a fiefdom, and finally a state were not statically defined entities, but configurations in the making. The same hierarchy of powers in the state was remolded, because reprisals and collective responsibility for damages suffered by foreigners could strengthen the solidarity between the duke, the officials and the subjects, but periodically the subjects reacted by promoting initiatives that were so autonomous that even the subordination to the prince was put into question.
{"title":"«Molestia di soi superiori». Inter-state Relations, Political Companies, and Social Identities between Milan, Switzerland, Valais and Grisons in the Fifteenth Century","authors":"M. D. Misericordia","doi":"10.7375/98011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7375/98011","url":null,"abstract":"The article concerns political relations between the Sforza dominion and its alpine neighbors. Many actors operated within and across the frontiers: lords, state officials, communities and so on. International relations gave these protagonists the opportunity not only to promote bold political initiatives, but also to outline their identity. A community, a jurisdictional district, a fiefdom, and finally a state were not statically defined entities, but configurations in the making. The same hierarchy of powers in the state was remolded, because reprisals and collective responsibility for damages suffered by foreigners could strengthen the solidarity between the duke, the officials and the subjects, but periodically the subjects reacted by promoting initiatives that were so autonomous that even the subordination to the prince was put into question.","PeriodicalId":44500,"journal":{"name":"STUDI STORICI","volume":"61 1","pages":"607-643"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71300073","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 paper presents a critical selection of documents relating to the origins (1975) and growth of the historical review Quaderni di storia, with the story focusing on the factious reactions of a certain number of distinguished critics (from Arnaldo Momgliano to Cesare Cases and Sebastiano Timpanaro Jr.).
本文介绍了与历史评论Quaderni di story的起源(1975)和发展有关的重要文献选择,该故事侧重于一定数量的杰出评论家(从Arnaldo Momgliano到Cesare Cases和Sebastiano Timpanaro Jr.)的分裂反应。
{"title":"On «Quaderni di storia»","authors":"L. Canfora","doi":"10.7375/96524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7375/96524","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a critical selection of documents relating to the origins (1975) and growth of the historical review Quaderni di storia, with the story focusing on the factious reactions of a certain number of distinguished critics (from Arnaldo Momgliano to Cesare Cases and Sebastiano Timpanaro Jr.).","PeriodicalId":44500,"journal":{"name":"STUDI STORICI","volume":"61 1","pages":"5-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71299210","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 role played by Rosario Villari as a public intellectual was closely connected to his political and historical reflections on Soviet Socialism. This paper analyses his interventions in two distinct moments. Firstly, Villari’s contribution to debates on dissent in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the late 1970s, when he was a member of Parliament for the Italian Communist Party and an advocate of Eurocommunism. Secondly, his views on the decline and fall of Communism in Europe and Russia between 1989 and 1992. The evolution of Villari’s interpretation, which ended up in a very critical assessment of the entire experience of Communism since 1917, had serious implications, in terms of historical thinking, on the legacy of the twentieth century.
{"title":"La riflessione sul «socialismo reale»","authors":"S. Pons","doi":"10.7375/96959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7375/96959","url":null,"abstract":"The role played by Rosario Villari as a public intellectual was closely connected to his political and historical reflections on Soviet Socialism. This paper analyses his interventions in two distinct moments. Firstly, Villari’s contribution to debates on dissent in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the late 1970s, when he was a member of Parliament for the Italian Communist Party and an advocate of Eurocommunism. Secondly, his views on the decline and fall of Communism in Europe and Russia between 1989 and 1992. The evolution of Villari’s interpretation, which ended up in a very critical assessment of the entire experience of Communism since 1917, had serious implications, in terms of historical thinking, on the legacy of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":44500,"journal":{"name":"STUDI STORICI","volume":"61 1","pages":"305-312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71299627","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}
Rosario Villari never devoted a specific work to the historiography written in the Kingdom of Naples during the sixteenth century. Nonetheless, in his studies we see a continuous interest in Neapolitan historical works of the early modern age (Porzio, di Costanzo, Costo, Summonte). Using several concrete examples, the article aims to draw attention to Villari’s innovative work of valorising sixteenth- and seventeenth-century southern Italian historians. Villari considered Neapolitan historical works necessary sources for the study and understanding not only of the Kingdom of Naples, but of the entire Italian peninsula, as well as being a genre well suited for developing ideas that could encourage the transition from theory to political initiative.
罗萨里奥·维拉里(Rosario Villari)从未专门研究16世纪那不勒斯王国的史学。尽管如此,在他的研究中,我们看到了对近代早期那不勒斯历史作品的持续兴趣(Porzio, di Costanzo, Costo, Summonte)。通过几个具体的例子,文章旨在吸引人们注意维拉里对16世纪和17世纪意大利南部历史学家的创新工作。维拉里认为,那不勒斯历史著作不仅是研究和理解那不勒斯王国,而且是整个意大利半岛的必要资料,也是一种非常适合发展思想的流派,可以鼓励从理论到政治倡议的过渡。
{"title":"Neapolitan Historiography of the Early Modern Age and Reformer Movement","authors":"Elena Valeri","doi":"10.7375/96963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7375/96963","url":null,"abstract":"Rosario Villari never devoted a specific work to the historiography written in the Kingdom of Naples during the sixteenth century. Nonetheless, in his studies we see a continuous interest in Neapolitan historical works of the early modern age (Porzio, di Costanzo, Costo, Summonte). Using several concrete examples, the article aims to draw attention to Villari’s innovative work of valorising sixteenth- and seventeenth-century southern Italian historians. Villari considered Neapolitan historical works necessary sources for the study and understanding not only of the Kingdom of Naples, but of the entire Italian peninsula, as well as being a genre well suited for developing ideas that could encourage the transition from theory to political initiative.","PeriodicalId":44500,"journal":{"name":"STUDI STORICI","volume":"61 1","pages":"393-405"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71299744","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 essay covers the biography of the young Villari through his own autobiographical texts, his writings from the years 1943-1953, and a series of testimonies intended for a book/ interview. The reconstruction of his formative years casts light on Villari’s interest in the literary and philological studies undertaken at the University of Florence – an interest he cultivated even after he transferred to the University of Messina where, in 1947, he took his degree in philosophy under the guidance of Della Volpe. The transition from literature to philosophy was accompanied by his political and journalistic commitment in Reggio Calabria in the aftermath of the fall of fascism. His profile as historian began to take shape only in the early 1950s, after his participation in the land occupation movement.
{"title":"The Formative Years in Autobiographical Reconstruction","authors":"Francesco Giasi","doi":"10.7375/96957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7375/96957","url":null,"abstract":"This essay covers the biography of the young Villari through his own autobiographical texts, his writings from the years 1943-1953, and a series of testimonies intended for a book/ interview. The reconstruction of his formative years casts light on Villari’s interest in the literary and philological studies undertaken at the University of Florence – an interest he cultivated even after he transferred to the University of Messina where, in 1947, he took his degree in philosophy under the guidance of Della Volpe. The transition from literature to philosophy was accompanied by his political and journalistic commitment in Reggio Calabria in the aftermath of the fall of fascism. His profile as historian began to take shape only in the early 1950s, after his participation in the land occupation movement.","PeriodicalId":44500,"journal":{"name":"STUDI STORICI","volume":"61 1","pages":"271-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71299971","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}