In the Maelstrom of History. A Conversation with Miriam

To that end, he looks at both the journal itself and Turati’s relationship with Anna Kuliscioff who, especially after Turati’s election to Parliament in 1896, assumed many of her partner’s editorial responsibilities. Sara Boezio — author of “Un ‘Bilancio del Secolo XIX’: resoconti fin de si ecle ne «La Vita Internazionale: Rassegna quindicinale politica, scientifice e letteraria di Ernesto Teodoro Moneta»” —, facilitates the reading of her interesting contribution by providing a useful introduction that sets forth with clarity the main points of her presentation, summarizes her arguments, and ends with a clear statement of thesis. She provides a detailed description of the pacifist journal, especially the “ambiziosa aspirazione multidisciplinare” of the rubric “Bilancio del Secolo XIX,” whose themes ranged from biology to economics, from geology to politics and sociology (114-15). In the final chapter, co-editor Silvia Valisa summarizes the current state of digital preservation of post-Unification journals. She begins by recapitulating the motivation for the volume, that of beginning to examine the entrepreneurial spirit of Milanese publishers along with their quest make their journals economical and accessible to the broadest possible readership. To that end, they employed the new technologies of la carta veloce, thus contributing to the expansion of readership and enabling united Italy’s fourth estate to begin to exercise “una funzione di controllo del potere politico,” while contributing to the creation of “un’opinione pubblica nazionale” (207). Two appendices facilitate further research. The first is a list of the main digital repositories (aggregators and digitization initiatives); the second an index of nineteenth-century Italian periodicals available on-line. Each essay provides a good overview of a specific topic, and so can be read individually. However, as the editors point out, all contributions interlock, which makes the reading of the entire volume an informative endeavor.