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(2024)The Chronicle of Montecassino, begun by Leo Marsicanus at the end of the eleventh century, is a huge and complex work. After outlining how and why it was begun, and the structure of the work, this study turns to the ...
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(2024)The Liber Pergaminus by Moses del Brolo is certainly more than a laudatory description of the city. Foundation myths and exempla taken from Roman history are interwoven with an exaltation of the present time that has ...
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(2024)This paper aims to clarify the production context of the textus written in Bari by Nicephorus, about the translation of the relics of St. Nicholas from Myra (Turkey) to Bari. Through the study of narrative and textual ...
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(2024)The Chronicle of Tres Tabernae is well known among historians for its confusing chronology and some incoherent interpolations. This article tries to present passages which provide some interesting information about the ...
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(2024)Starting from a critical reinterpretation of the debate on the evolutionary lines of lay historiography in the medieval commune, the essay investigates, on the basis of a new analysis of the Gesta Triumphalia per Pisanos ...
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(2024)The Liber at honorem Augusti has traditionally been interpreted as a work of court historiography that was supposed to legitimize the still hardly consolidated Hohenstaufen rule in the Kingdom of Sicily. In contrast to ...
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(2024)The famous dedication miniature of the Vita Mathildis by Donizo of Canossa and most of the programmatic paratexts of this historiographical work refer to a courtly space as communicative context: the entourage of the ...
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(2024)This essay aims to reconstruct the historiographical framework in which the most recent scholarship on the historiographical production in 12th-century Italy is located. The essay also provides an outline of the structure ...
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(2024)The archival approach to the study of the history of psychiatry in Italy was of great importance, having allowed an early interest in the recovery of documentary materials at risk of dispersion by the application of the ...
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Chapter «Io penso che questo riesce benino». Vita e opere di Livio Poggesi 1934-1985 | Livio Poggesi(2024)The essay reconstructs the activity of the outsider artist Livio Poggesi, from his beginnings in the painting atelier of the neuropsychiatric hospital of Arezzo, in 1958, until his death, which occurred in this hospital ...
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(2024)The atelier at Arezzo Neuropsychiatric Hospital transformed the artistic activity from a diagnostic tool to a recognized form of creative expression. Initiated in 1958 by Dr. Furio Martini and influenced by the cultural ...
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(2024)This essay deals with the activity of painter Franco Villoresi (1920-1975), from his beginnings in Rome in the late 1940s to his involvement as a "master" in the painting atelier for the patients of the Arezzo Neuropsychiatric ...
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(2024)Artistic expressions are a non-discursive symbolic language and promote the understanding of human experience. In the 19th and 20th centuries, outsider artists admitted to psychiatric hospitals offered a contribution to ...
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(2024)In this concluding section, Silvia Salvatici dialogues with two experts in the field of non-governmental organizations, discussing changes, continuities, political developments and recent challenges.
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(2024)The 1980s marked a pivotal moment for development cooperation, both globally and in Italy. This chapter provides an analysis of the intertwined economic, political and social issues that shaped development assistance during ...
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(2024)This essay examines the Third World volunteer movement that developed within the Catholic world in the late 1950s and the following decade. Groups and associations selected applications from dozens of young people, trained ...
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(2024)This chapter aims to shed light on the results of the first European Community aid in Somalia and the role played by Italian and Somali actors in the allocation of funds. As development policy was not one of Italy's ...
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(2024)This paper examines the relationships established between the 1950s and 1970s between the Italian government and the Catholic missionaries in Somalia as part of international cooperation. Using mainly unpublished documentation ...
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(2024)This chapter looks at Italy’s scholarship programmes to promote higher education in Somalia. It focuses on a group of Somali students who, in between 1956 and 1969, started their university career in Mogadishu and completed ...
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(2024)In the summer of 1950 the United States asked Italy for a military contribution, even symbolic, to be used in the war in Korea. The Italian government instead decided to send a humanitarian mission, as Sweden did, and sent ...
