{"title":"Intellectuals Displaced from Fascist Italy","authors":"P. Guarnieri","doi":"10.36253/979-12-215-0032-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0032-5","url":null,"abstract":"Intellectuals Displaced from Fascist Italy is a bilingual (IT/ EN), free access and in progress website that draws attention to the migration of intellectuals during Fascism. Italy is usually considered a land of poor and uneducated migrants. But during the twenty years of Fascism, especially after the anti-Jewish laws but even before, professionals, students and scholars, including foreigners, expatriated alone or with families for political and racial reasons to the Americas, England, Mandatory Palestine, Switzerland. It is a limited but important phenomenon of brain drain, which in the case of Italy has yet to be investigated. Who were the people who decided to leave in search of freedom, work, and then salvation, and what did they do? Their names and stories were cancelled. This work attempts to reconstruct their lives thanks to foreign archives, letters, scattered memories and hundreds of photos. What difficulties did they face in their host countries? How many of them returned? The stories speak of devastating losses to the detriment of the country, of responsibilities and injustices, but also of resources and talents of Italian culture, of commitment and determination. This 2nd edition contains some new features, improves consultation with research functions and, as regards content, it enhances family mobility from a generational and gender perspective. The project was promoted by the University of Florence and has been supported by the Regione Toscana and by various institutes, with the sponsorship of the New York Public Library; Council for At-Risk Academics, London; J. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY; The Central Archives for the History of Jewish People, Jerusalem, UCEI and others.","PeriodicalId":80649,"journal":{"name":"Biblioteca di storia della scienza","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88582638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tessuti di seta tra Firenze e il Levante (ca. 1350-1550)","authors":"M. Spallanzani, Francesco Guidi Bruscoli","doi":"10.36253/979-12-215-0086-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0086-8","url":null,"abstract":"This study, through the use of hundreds of archival documents over a period of about two centuries, highlights the total reversal in the silk trade that occurred from the beginning of the 15th century: silk cloth no longer crossed the Mediterranean from East to West, as in previous centuries, but from West to East. Jewish, Turkish and Syrians merchants, and above all the Sublime Porte showed continued appreciation for Florentine silks. Through the analysis of the sources, every phase of such export is described in detail: the purchase of the cloths in Florence, their shipment, transport and finally the sale through Florentine correspondents in Constantinople. This flow of silks continued until the first decades of the 16th century, only to decline rapidly around the middle of the century.","PeriodicalId":80649,"journal":{"name":"Biblioteca di storia della scienza","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86906077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Un panno medievale dell’azienda pratese di Francesco Datini","authors":"","doi":"10.36253/978-88-5518-584-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-584-4","url":null,"abstract":"The volume concludes a multi-year study conceived and carried out by the Museo del Tessuto of Prato, which involved public bodies and cultural institutions in the city motivated by the desire to see one of the identifying products of the Prato textile district returned to contemporary life: its cloth. The idea to experimentally reconstruct the cloth arose from the study of some documents of the Datini Fund, a unique archival complex in the world for historical and economic studies on the Middle Ages. The collective and interdisciplinary project is documented in a volume created in collaboration with the International Institute of Economic History “F. Datini”. The historical contributions on the manufacturing and commercial management of the Datini cloth are followed by a second part that documents the study and experimentation phases of its reconstruction.","PeriodicalId":80649,"journal":{"name":"Biblioteca di storia della scienza","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79578164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Riflessi d’Oriente","authors":"Renato Pasta","doi":"10.36253/978-88-5518-436-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-436-6","url":null,"abstract":"The book discusses the experience of two Florentine travellers in the Levant from the 1760s to 1792. During their separate stays in Cyprus and in Istanbul they visited the Holy Land, Anatolia and Mesopotamia providing extensive reports on natural history, institutions, local customs and languages as well as data on the economy and the health conditions of the area. Their numerous printed works enjoyed remarkable success and were translated into French and other languages. The inquiry places the authors firmly within the European ‘Republic of letters’ and testifies to the growing interest for Islam and Ottoman power during the Enlightenment debate on the eve of the French Revolution.","PeriodicalId":80649,"journal":{"name":"Biblioteca di storia della scienza","volume":"360 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72437569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intellettuali in fuga dall’Italia fascista","authors":"P. Guarnieri","doi":"10.36253/978-88-6453-872-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-872-3","url":null,"abstract":"Il progetto richiama l’attenzione sull’emigrazione intellettuale dal fascismo. L’Italia è di solito considerata terra di migranti poveri e senza istruzione. Ma durante il ventennio, specie dopo le leggi antiebraiche, professionisti, studenti e studiosi anche stranieri espatriarono soli o con le famiglie nelle Americhe, in Inghilterra, in Palestina, in Svizzera.\u0000È un fenomeno limitato ma importante di brain drain, per l’Italia non ancora indagato. Chi erano e cosa fecero quanti forzatamente partirono in cerca di libertà, lavoro, e poi salvezza? I loro nomi, le loro storie vennero cancellate. Qui si cerca di ricostruirle grazie ad archivi esteri, a lettere e memorie disperse. Quali difficoltà incontrarono nei paesi di accoglienza? Quanti tornarono? \u0000Le storie parlano di perdite irreparabili a danno del paese, di responsabilità e ingiustizie, ma anche di risorse e talenti della cultura italiana, di impegno e determinazione.\u0000Il progetto promosso dall’Università di Firenze è finanziato dalla Regione Toscana e patrocinato da New York Public Library, Council for At-Risk Academics, e J. Calandra Italian American Institute.\u0000","PeriodicalId":80649,"journal":{"name":"Biblioteca di storia della scienza","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91244692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Essai sur la Monarchie autrichienne en son état actuel en 1790","authors":"Renato Pasta, Derek Beales","doi":"10.36253/978-88-6453-800-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-800-6","url":null,"abstract":"L’Essai sur la Monarchie autrichienne en son état actuel en 1790 offre un panorama complessivo e inedito delle condizioni della monarchia degli Asburgo nel contesto internazionale agli inizi della Rivoluzione francese. Il saggio, destinato ad un lettore non specialista da identificare con ogni probabilità con la promessa sposa del futuro imperatore Francesco II, esamina l’organizzazione istituzionale, economica, militare e il contesto religioso della monarchia, ne stabilisce la legittimità storica e politica e propone una valutazione disincantata dell’opera dell’imperatore Giuseppe II, da poco scomparso. Nell’insieme esso costituisce una testimonianza d’eccezione sui processi in atto nel cuore dell’Europa in un’epoca di drammatici cambiamenti.","PeriodicalId":80649,"journal":{"name":"Biblioteca di storia della scienza","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75218837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Una storia, un archivio","authors":"R. Bianchi","doi":"10.36253/978-88-6453-773-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-773-3","url":null,"abstract":"Idalberto Targioni (1868-1930) fu trovatello, contadino, operaio, poeta estemporaneo, attivista sindacale, antimilitarista, socialista e sindaco, interventista e fascista della prima ora, uomo del regime, infine pentito. Una figura controversa, protagonista del proprio tempo. Con il riordino delle carte inedite, la redazione dell’elenco di consistenza dell’archivio, qui pubblicato, e lo spoglio di altre fonti, il volume offre un’articolata ricostruzione della vita di una figura significativa del Regno d’Italia. La storia di Targioni, infatti, getta nuova luce sulla vita dei trovatelli, la cultura contadina e il municipalismo socialista, le conversioni alla guerra e i passaggi al mussolinismo, le dinamiche interne al regime, gli intrecci tra dimensione pubblica e dimensione privata nelle biografie dell’Italia contemporanea.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":80649,"journal":{"name":"Biblioteca di storia della scienza","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86847973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Femminile e maschile nel Settecento","authors":"Cristina Passetti, L. Tufano","doi":"10.36253/978-88-6453-713-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-713-9","url":null,"abstract":"Nel XVIII secolo il rapporto tra il femminile e il maschile assume uno speciale rilievo e si configura come un banco di prova formidabile entro il processo di costruzione dell’identità dell’individuo. Le immagini connesse al genere sono molteplici, così come articolati appaiono i processi di autorappresentazione attraverso i quali i soggetti si leggono, si raccontano e si proiettano nel proprio contesto esistenziale. Ventitré saggi appartenenti ad ambiti disciplinari diversi (storia, letteratura, filosofia, arti figurative, scienza, musica e teatro) esplorano la dialettica settecentesca tra i due principi per mezzo di approcci metodologici aggiornati e specifici. Dall’insieme delle indagini scaturisce un quadro complesso e non privo di ambiguità, nel quale le categorizzazioni risultano continuamente rinegoziate in termini sia di elaborazioni intellettuali, sia di pratiche sociali.","PeriodicalId":80649,"journal":{"name":"Biblioteca di storia della scienza","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73793945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}