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L’ULTIMO INVERNO DI GUERRA

Italia 1944, la speranza e la Resistenza

Sulla rotta degli Argonauti

Biblioteca storica pp. 330, € 25,00

ISBN 9788815390653

Biblioteca storica pp. 220 con illustrazioni, € 21,00 ISBN 9788815390547

Biblioteca

storica

History

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p. 7

FRANCESCO BENIGNO

The History of Today

SERGIO DELLA PERGOLA

Being Jewish Today: An Identity’s Continuity and Transformation

p. 8 ANNA FOA

Rediscovering Europe: The Pathways of the Jews

p. 8 YVES MÉNY

Rediscovering Europe: The Pathways of Democracy

p. 9 ALBERTO MINGARDI & EMANUELE FELICE

p. 10

Freedom versus Freedom: A Conceptual Duel About the Open Society

EGIDIO IVETIC

South/North: The Mediterranean as Global Border

p. 11 BEDA ROMANO

p. 12

From the Baltic to the Black Sea: In Search of Another Europe

GASTONE BRECCIA

The Last Wartime Winter: Hope and Resistance in 1944 Italy

p. 13 GIOVANNI CADIOLI

The Planner: The Economy of the Stalin Era

p. 14 ANTONELLA SALOMONI

Lenin in Pieces: Destroying and Changing the Past

p. 15 FRANCO CARDINI

p. 16

Vienna: A Distant Dream

TOMMASO BRACCINI

History’s Most Dangerous Journey: Following the Argonauts

p. 17 ANTONIO MUSARRA

The Wise Men and the Star: Journey to Bethlehem

p. 18 FRANCO BREVINI

p. 19

Conquering Distance: Voyages, Encounters, Discoveries

GIULIA SISSA

Genders and History: The Ongoing Metamorphosis of the Feminine and the Masculine

p. 20 PAOLO MATTHIAE

p. 21

Laid Bare: Recollections of The Archaeologist Who Discovered Ebla

PIERO BOITANI

The Great Tale of the Classics

p. 22 MAURIZIO BETTINI

How Orpheus Lost His Head and Other Stories: Ten Lessons in the Anthropology of the Ancient World

p. 23 LUIGI SPINA

Homer and the Horrid Polyphemus

p. 24 SILVIA ROMANI

Homer: Of Weapons and True Love

p. 25 ANDREA BERNARDONI & MARCO SEGALA

A History of Science: From the Renaissance to the 20th Century

p. 26 CARLO MARCO BELFANTI

Artful Copies: A History of Brands and Their Counterfeits

p. 27 CHIARA FRUGONI

Two Popes and One Jubilee: Celestine V, Boniface VIII, and the First Holy Year

p. 28 LUIGINO BRUNI

Shadows and Light: The Counter-Reformation’s Economy

Sociology

p. 29 MASSIMO LIVI BACCI

A Concise History of World Population

p. 30 MASSIMO LIVI BACCI

Geodemography: For a Better Understanding of the World

p. 31 MARIO AVAGLIANO & MARCO PALMIERI

American Italians: The Great Emigration to the United States

p. 32 PAOLO BOCCAGNI

Still Life: Stories of Migrants Biding Their Time

p. 33 CHIARA GIACCARDI & MAURO MAGATTI

Generating Freedom: How to Uphold Life Without Destroying the World

p. 34 PAOLO PERULLI

Creative Souls: From Prometheus to Steve Jobs

Science

p. 35 MICHELE BARTOLETTI

Bacterial Resistance: The Challenge of Coexistence

p. 36 DUCCIO CAVALIERI & RINO RAPPUOLI & LISA VOZZA

Microbes to the Rescue: Protect Them to Survive

p. 37 DANIELE CALIGIORE

Health Care and Artificial Intelligence

p. 38 NELLO CRISTIANINI

Machina Sapiens: Algorithms and the Secret of Knowledge

p. 39 GIORGIO MANZI

Ancestors: Lucy and Other Tales from the Deep Past

p. 40 MAURIZIO CASIRAGHI

Remarkable Lives: Getting to Know Insects

p. 41 STEFANO MAZZOTTI

Wonderful Creatures: The Prodigious Diversity of Life

New in the series «Tales of Numbers»

p. 43 MARCO CIARDI

Nine: Tales of Sports, Comics, Music, and Science

p. 44 RAPHAEL EBGI

Seven: A Symbol’s Adventures

p. 44 MARCO MALVALDI

Twelve: The Contradictory Number

Philosophy

p. 45 ARIANNA ARISI ROTA

Peace

p. 46 MASSIMO CACCIARI

Piero della Francesca’s Madonna del Parto

p. 47 FRANCO PURINI

The Golden Ratio

Political Science

p. 48 ANTONIO PADOA-SCHIOPPA

Crossed Destinies: Europe and Global Crises

p. 49 MICHELE DI DONATO

Social Democracy in Transition: An International History of the 1970s

p. 50 PIERO IGNAZI

The Populist in the Double-Breasted Suit: Silvio Berlusconi and His Party

p. 51 FRANCESCO RANIOLO

Political Participation: Doing, Thinking, Being

Legal Studies

p. 52 AMEDEO SANTOSUOSSO & GIOVANNI SARTOR

Decision-Making with AI: A Realistic View of Future Legal Decisions

p. 53 FILIPPO ANNUNZIATA & ANTONELLA SCIARRONE ALIBRANDI (EDS.)

Crypto-Activities: European Regulations in a Global Context

p. 54 CHANTAL MELONI

Universal Justice? States and the International Criminal Court: Assessment of a Pledge

Psychology

p. 55 VINCENZO BOCHICCHIO & CRISTIANO SCANDURRA

The Psychology of Gender Identity

p. 56 FAUSTO CARUANA & ELISABETTA PALAGI

Why We Laugh: The Origins of the Social Brain

p. 57 MARCELLO RUSSO

Equilibrium: How to Pursue a Good Work-Life Balance

New in the series «Farsi un’idea»

p. 58 FRANCESCO TONIOLO

p. 59

Game Culture: A Profile of Video Gaming

MARIA PONTILLO & STEFANO VICARI

Fear of Disconnection: Adolescence and Internet Addiction

p. 60 PAOLA SPAGNOLI & CRISTIAN BALDUCCI

Workaholism: How to Identify and Counter It

p. 61 GIOVANNA SISSA

Hidden Emissions: The Invisible Environmental Impact of Digital Technologies

p. 62 ANDREA GOLDSTEIN

The Importance of Winning: The Economics of the Olympic Games

Highlights from our recent backlist

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p. 64

ANTHONY PAGDEN

Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order

MARCELLA FRANGIPANE

One Fragment at a Time: Ten Archaeology Lessons

p. 65 NADIA URBINATI

Virtuous Hypocrisy

p. 66 LUCIANO CANFORA

Lessons in Classical Philology

p. 67 MASSIMIANO BUCCHI

Digital Intimacy: Vices and Virtues of Innovation

p. 67 ALESSANDRO LANZA

Rainbow Energy: Does the Future Belong to Hydrogen?

Francesco Benigno The History of Today

series «Voci»

pp. 170

ISBN 9788815390363

publication September 2024

Current crises – such as climate change, the pandemic, and wars – have highlighted the fragility of established patterns and generated a widespread sense of uncertainty. These crises reflect an ongoing, decades-long change in our relationship with the past. History no longer seems to proceed by meaningful adjustments and discontinuities, marching towards progressive civilisation. To avoid losing ourselves, we end up seeking refuge in the eternal present of memory. And so, we ask historians to become popularisers, narrators of small individual stories, dispensers of reparations to those wounded by history – in order to soften the sense of rupture between acknowledgement and understanding. Reflecting on what we are asking of history today, the author explains how historians can help us not to give in to the temptation to interpret the past as a manipulation-prone fiction but rather deal with its complexity.

Francesco Benigno teaches Modern History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.

Sergio Della Pergola Being Jewish Today

An Identity’s Continuity and Transformation

Sergio Della Pergola

EBREI

ESSERE OGGI

series «Contemporanea»

pp. 200

ISBN 9788815389206

publication May 2024

What does it mean to be Jewish today? Judaism can be conceived as a shared ancestry, a religion, an ethnicity, a culture, an organized community, a social group, a complex of collective and personal historical memories, and more. From a historical perspective, before the emancipation of Jews in Europe, an individual identified as Jewish on the basis of religion was usually also identified as such through ethnicity or language, place of residence, occupation, and other personal characteristics. This reinforced the separation between Jews and non-Jews. Today, however, the situation has changed and continues to do so: religion plays an important but not predominant role in shaping contemporary Jewish identity, especially in Israel. Moreover, young millennials, especially in the United States, increasingly question the Israeli government’s actions. The author delves into the heart of a timely issue and helps us truly understand the turbulent times we live in.

Sergio Della Pergola is professor emeritus and the former head of the Hebrew University’s Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry in Jerusalem.

More than a mere geographical entity, Europe is a civilisation firmly anchored in ancient Greco-Roman culture and Christianity, and its centre of gravity is the Mediterranean Sea. Europe is an open, multi-faceted world where multiple cultural identities have crossed paths, where East and West, North and South have met and permeated each other over the centuries. The «Rediscovering Europe» series leads readers through streets and venues that continue to reflect this shared heritage.

Anna Foa

RITROVARE L’EUROPA

EBREI

Ritrovare l’Europa

pp. 250 with illustrations

ISBN 9788815388056

publication October 2024

The Pathways of the Jews

ITINERARI D’AUTORE TRA STORIA E CULTURA LE VIE DEL SAPERE L’Europa nel Medioevo era un mondo aperto, varcato e attraversato da migliaia di uomini in movimento, assieme alle loro idee. Prelati e monaci percorrevano distanze anche molto lunghe da un monastero o un’abbazia all’altra per visitare comunità o impiantarne di nuove. Penitenti e pellegrini intraprendevano lunghi viaggi allo scopo di visitare i sepolcri dei martiri o le vestigia di Cristo, per non parlare di quelle forme particolari di pellegrinaggio che furono le crociate o le ben note migrazioni di popoli. Senza scordare i mercanti, che via mare e via terra, oltre alle loro merci, trasportavano idee, immagini, racconti, forme artistiche, invenzioni a loro volta acquisite ed ereditate – in Siria come in Egitto, in Africa come in Spagna e in Sicilia – dal millenario patrimonio della tradizione orientale ed ellenistico-romana.

Rediscovering important Jewish sites means looking at Europe from the standpoint of a minority, the only one that, within a context of significant constraints and discrimination, was allowed to live in the Christian world. From Rome to Auschwitz, the book winds its way through the most prosperous and culturally significant communities in Europe throughout history: from Apulia to Toledo and all of Spain; from Cologne and Germany’s Rhine region, with its Ashkenazi communities, to Palermo and several other centres in northern Italy; from Lisbon to Venice and Amsterdam, to Berlin, the heart of Jewish enlightenment in the 19th century; from Hamburg to Paris, where Jewish emancipation encountered a significant setback during the Dreyfus affair; from Odessa to Weimar, the so-called «Republic of the Jews», a major upsurge of Jewish creativity subsequently destroyed by Nazism.

Anna Foa formerly taught Modern History at the Sapienza University in Rome and is an expert on the cultural history in the early modern era, the history of mentality and Jewish history.

Yves Mény

The Pathways of Democracy

nel Medioevo era un mondo aperto, varcato e attraversato da migliaia di uomini in movimento, assieme alle loro idee. Prelati e monaci percorrevano distanze anche molto lunghe da un monastero o un’abbazia all’altra per visitare comunità o impiantarne di nuove. Penitenti e pellegrini intraprendevano lunghi viaggi allo scopo di visitare i sepolcri dei martiri o le vestigia di Cristo, per non parlare di quelle forme particolari di pellegrinaggio che furono le crociate o le ben note migrazioni di popoli. Senza scordare i mercanti, che via mare e via terra, oltre alle loro merci, trasportavano idee, immagini, racconti, forme artistiche, invenzioni a loro volta acquisite ed ereditate – in Siria come in Egitto, in Africa come in Spagna e in Sicilia – dal millenario patrimonio della tradizione orientale ed ellenistico-romana.

Although the practice of democracy can be traced back to other remote civilisations, it is believed to be a Western invention, with the individual placed at its core and power disengaged from the divine or tradition. Even though ancient Greek and Roman societies differed significantly from ours, their thought stimulated philosophical and political debate in Europe. The book outlines an itinerary among the iconic venues of our freedom: the hills of Athens and Rome; the Magna Carta meadow near Windsor; Siena, with its 1388 fresco of the Allegory of Good Government; London, the cradle of the 1689 Glorious Revolution; Philadelphia, where a century later another revolution followed and inspired the Declaration of Human Rights in 1789 Paris.

Yves Mény formerly taught Political Science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (SciencesPo) and other universities in France, Europe and the United States; he created and headed the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute. French rights are with the author.

Ritrovare

Anna Foa

Emanuele Felice & Alberto Mingardi

Freedom versus Freedom

A Conceptual Duel About the Open Society

LIBERTÀ LIBERTÀ CONTRO

Which is the more liberal stance in today’s world: defending free competition or resisting the new web oligopolies? In an increasingly multi-ethnic society, what is the role of the liberal value of tolerance? Does liberalism defend a rigidly limited conception of the State, or does it hold that public powers should be used to offer people more opportunities? Ten years ago many people called themselves «liberal»; today far fewer do so. But even among those who continue to use this adjective, the nature of liberalism is controversial. Which proposals and attitudes should a liberal adopt to address the challenges of the contemporary age? It is not only a question of state vs. market, insofar as – within liberal thought – profoundly different sensitivities face off against one another in a variety of contexts: rights and responsibilities; the licit and the illicit; the individual and society. In this book, two authors with different intellectual histories challenge each other in a passionate duel on what liberalism means today.

series «Contemporanea» pp. 180

ISBN 9788815388698 publication April 2024

BY THE SAME AUTHORS:

Emanuele Felice

Quest for Rights

pp. 368

Emanuele Felice teaches Economics of Culture and Economic History at the IULM University of Languages and Communication in Milan.

Alberto Mingardi teaches History of Political Thought at the IULM University of Languages and Communication in Milan and heads the Bruno Leoni Institute.

Alberto Mingardi Capitalism

pp. 168

Egidio Ivetic South/North

The Mediterranean as Global Border

series «Voci»

pp. 130

ISBN 9788815389275

publication May 2024

Over the centuries, the line separating North and South has changed its latitude. In today’s world, the direct North/South confrontation occurs along two borders: the one separating Mexico from the United States and the one that intersects the Mediterranean. This change in latitude defines a North (including Europe, which thinks of itself as the West and intends to protect and defend its borders) as opposed to a global South (that continually attempts to transcend such boundaries). And so, the Mediterranean ceases to be a place of opportunity but rather becomes a mere ribbon of sea and – to quote Gloria Anzaldúa – an open wound «where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds».

Egidio Ivetic teaches History of the Mediterranean at the University of Padova.

Worldwide Spanish rights sold.

BY

THE SAME AUTHOR:

Rights sold: Worldwide Spanish. pp. 176

Rights sold: Worldwide English, Serbian, Polish, Croatian. pp. 456 East/West A History of the Adriatic

Beda Romano

From the Baltic to the Black Sea

In Search of Another Europe

BEDA ROMANO

DAL BALTICO AL MAR NERO

Viaggio alla scoperta di un’altra Europa

TITOLO VOLUME

Officiti

Between 2004 and 2013, eleven Central and Eastern European countries, once part of the former Soviet bloc, joined the European Union. They all feature troubled histories and shifting borders, and for centuries lived in the shadow of an assortment of empires: Habsburg, Ottoman, Russian and then Soviet, German and even French. Their past makes them a tormented crossroads, boasting cultural depth but also encumbered by ethno-religious conflicts. Today, after the end of the Soviet Union, they are experiencing a feeling of national awakening and, in some cases, nationalistic impulses. These countries have benefited from enlargement and economic liberalization, but also grapple with a host of demographic and social problems; in some of them, the rule of law itself has been thrown into doubt. They have joined the EU but sometimes seem more in tune with NATO, to which they also belong. This is the setting for the author’s journey through the stories, places, characters and monuments of another Europe.

series «Intersezioni»

pp. 250

ISBN 9788815388711

publication April 2024

Beda Romano is a news correspondent in Brussels for the «Il Sole 24 Ore» financial newspaper, for which he reports about EU and NATO affairs; he also lectures at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (SciencesPo) and the Bocconi University in Milan.

Gastone Breccia

The Last Wartime Winter

GASTONE BRECCIA

Hope and Resistance in 1944 Italy

L’ULTIMO INVERNO DI GUERRA

ITALIA 1944, LA SPERANZA E LA RESISTENZA

GASTONE BRECCIA

L’ULTIMO INVERNO DI GUERRA

Italia 1944, la speranza e la Resistenza

Biblioteca storica

pp. 330, € 25,00

series «Biblioteca storica» pp. 330

ISBN 9788815390653

ISBN 9788815390653 publication November 2024

LINEA GOTICA; GUERRA PARTIGIANA; SECONDA GUERRA MONDIALE

IN LIBRERIA A NOVEMBRE 2024

BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

The

Battle Demon

pp. 216

NOME COGNOME AUTORE

Biografia autore 1. Nullantiis quae rem que eat labor repel mo te pedis ero omnihil iciet, odi di vellia sequis reius, sum qui dis velent haris volum doluptae venem id mod que conest expelestrum exero quo tem rem venis moluptur, omnihilit ma ium ame reiciet eiur.

I MESI DRAMMATICI E MENO

CONOSCIUTI DELLA CAMPAGNA

NOME COGNOME AUTORE

D’ITALIA

Biografia autore 2. Nullantiis quae rem que eat labor repel mo te pedis ero omnihil iciet, odi di vellia sequis reius, sum qui dis velent haris volum doluptae venem id mod que conest expelestrum exero quo tem rem venis moluptur, omnihilit ma ium ame reiciet eiur.

In the late afternoon of November 13, 1944, General Harold Alexander, commander of the 15th Allied Army Group, broadcast a radio message to the partisans operating behind the German lines: since the Allied advance was bound to be slowed down by rain and mud, patriots needed to prepare for a new phase of armed struggle. Thus began the last winter of the war in Italy. Partisans were obliged to choose between disengaging and surviving or trying to fight the enemy in difficult circumstances. Germans, in the meantime, strove to delay the Allied advance towards the Po Valley. Throughout the winter, fierce guerrilla warfare continued to be waged, as civilians waited for the «dead season» to end. Some were confident in the Allied victory; others feared its consequences. Those tragic months resembled a long night, on which this book finally sheds some light.

Nel tardo pomeriggio del 13 novembre 1944, il generale Harold Alexander, comandante del XV Gruppo d’Armate alleato, trasmette alla radio un messaggio rivolto ai partigiani attivi oltre le linee tedesche: le piogge e il fango non possono non rallentare l’avanzata alleata, e i patrioti devono prepararsi alla nuova fase di lotta. Inizia così l’ultimo inverno di guerra in Italia. I partigiani si trovano di fronte alla scelta tra sbandarsi e sopravvivere o tentare comunque di contrastare il nemico; i tedeschi si impegnano per ritardare il più possibile l’avanzata alleata verso la valle del Po. Per tutto l’inverno si combatté una durissima guerriglia, mentre i civili attendevano terminasse «la stagione morta», chi fiducioso nella vittoria alleata, chi temendone le conseguenze. Mesi tragici che somigliano a una lunga notte, su cui si può finalmente tentare di fare luce.

Gastone Breccia teaches Byzantine History and Ancient Military History at the University of Pavia.

Giovanni Cadioli

The Planner

GIOVANNI CADIOLI

The

IL PIANIFICATORE

Economy of the Stalin Era

L’ECONOMIA DEL PERIODO STALINIANO

Il pianificatore

L’economia del periodo staliniano

UNA VITA NEL CUORE

DEL REGIME DI STALIN

Giovanni Cadioli

Studi e Ricerche

Studi e Ricerche

pp. 320, € 28,00

series «Studi e Ricerche» pp. 320

ISBN 9788815390608

ISBN 9788815390608 publication October 2024

ECONOMIA PIANIFICATA; STALIN; NIKOLAI ALEKSEEVIČ VOZNESENSKIJ

IN LIBRERIA A OTTOBRE 2024

DI ANDREA GRAZIOSI

L'Urss di Lenin e Stalin. Storia dell'Unione Sovietica 1914-1945

9788815137869

(ed. precedente 9788815119315)

11.700 cp vendute

The book offers a political biography of Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky, a prominent economic leader in the late Stalinist period, featuring an analysis of the Soviet Union’s planned economy and its political-ideological context. Renowned for being the «economic dictator of Russia» during World War II, Voznesensky was a leading theorist and close collaborator of Stalin. Yet he remained unfamiliar among non-specialists, for he fell into disgrace and was executed in 1949, thus not surviving Stalinism. This biography is emblematic of the political, economic, and social dynamics of the Stalinist era in the USSR and provides insight into the evolution of the Soviet system up to Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, which marked the end of the planned economy.

Il libro offre una biografia politica di Nikolai Alekseevič Voznesenskij, eminente dirigente economico nel tardo periodo staliniano, intrecciata a un'analisi dell'economia pianificata e del contesto politico-ideologico sovietico. Famoso come «dittatore economico della Russia» durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, Voznesenskij fu un teorico di spicco e stretto collaboratore di Stalin. Tuttavia, rimase sconosciuto al di fuori degli specialisti poiché non sopravvisse allo stalinismo, cadendo in disgrazia e venendo giustiziato nel 1949. Questa biografia è emblematica delle dinamiche politiche, economiche e sociali dell'URSS staliniana e permette di comprendere l'evoluzione del sistema sovietico fino alla perestroika di Gorbačëv, che segna la fine dell'economia pianificata.

GIOVANNI CADIOLI insegna all’Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) ed è assegnista di ricerca all’Università degli Studi di Padova. I suoi studi e le sue pubblicazioni scientifiche e divulgative concernono l’URSS e la storia ambientale della Prima guerra mondiale. Il suo ultimo libro è Il monolite e il mutamento. Continuità e trasformazioni nella politica ed economia dell’Unione Sovietica 1917-1953 (Mimesis, 2022). Vive a Padova.

Giovanni Cadioli teaches at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris and is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Padova.

Antonella Salomoni

Lenin in Pieces

Destroying and Changing the Past

series «Biblioteca storica»

pp. 300

ISBN 9788815388094

publication January 2024

In the age of the Soviet Union, the revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin watched over the citizens of communist countries through the eyes of thousands upon thousands of stone and bronze statues. What happened to this well-known image after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989? The practice of pulling Lenin down off his pedestal has occurred in all post-Soviet societies. In Ukraine, the phenomenon has been referred to as «Leninopad», the fall of Lenin – the largest popular movement against statues before the recent protests in Great Britain and the United States. A century after his death, the author documents Lenin’s rise and fall through the likenesses of him that were erected, respected and then removed, vandalised and, in some cases, reinterpreted. This book helps us understand the complexity of the contemporary world and see what happens to people and things when history seems to be over, yet continues and changes direction.

Antonella Salomoni teaches Contemporary History at the University of Calabria and History of the Shoah and Genocides at the University of Bologna.

asped ererae volore ipsam vero nobita occatet re. citazione

Intersezioni

FRANCO CARDINI

Franco Cardini Vienna

A Distant Dream

VIENNA

UN SOGNO LONTANO

FRANCO CARDINI

VIENNA

Un sogno lontano

Intersezioni

series «Intersezioni»

pp. 350 con illustrazioni, € 18,00

pp. 350 with illustrations

ISBN 9788815390622

ISBN 9788815390622

publication November 2024

IMPERO AUSTRO - UNGARICO; CAFFÈ

STORICI; FREUD; DANUBIO; SECONDA

GUERRA MONDIALE

IN THIS SERIES BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

IN LIBRERIA A NOVEMBRE 2024

Jerusalem

A History Istanbul City Of Seduction, Conquest, Power

TITOLO VOLUME

UN LIBRO IMPRESCINDIBILE

PER VISITARE UNA GRANDE

CAPITALE, DA UNO DEI PIÙ

PROFONDI CONOSCITORI

Testo quarta. Officiti squaestio ommolup tatur? Quia pore incia vit, sint venducite con ea quatiis ut la voloriandam ea adit mil milla ium quiaeratet et vel illatus. Tiam et voluptas essequam nonsectem. Ut et quia ex est as volorerumqui dolute am, cumquas moluptaturit ut maio mo bea pliberro et est, omnis evellup taturia suntium ipsa quid quuntius atem re ma duci occum faccull uptatur aliquidebis volupta tatquid esenet aut omnihil ipicias sunt doloria num volorum fugia volenis magnimil eum ressiti blabo.

DELLA STORIA EUROPEA

Vienna was a Roman city, then Gothic, then Habsburgian – featuring an identity that comprises vineyards and waltzes. Vienna is a learned and austere capital. The city is associated with the inflexible Maria Theresa, the enlightened reformers Joseph and Peter Leopold, the magical music of Mozart and Strauss, and the paintings of Gustav Klimt. But it is also the metropolis that hosted the restless beauty of Empress Sissi and the genius of Sigmund Freud. Vienna was lit up by a thousand café-concerts and troubled by its sketchy outskirts frequented by a young bohemian painter named Adolf. This book is about history and legends, miracles and enchantment, wealth and misery, glories and fears. The author provides a guide to churches, museums, theatres, palaces, restaurants, workshops, squares, streets, and alleys, allowing readers to explore an awe-inspiring city.

Una città romana poi gotica poi asburgica, un'immagine che sfuma fra vigneti e giri di walzer. Vienna è una capitale dotta e austera: è la reggia dell'inflessibile Maria Teresa e degli illuminati riformatori Giuseppe e Pietro Leopoldo, è la magica musica di Mozart e di Strauss, è nelle tele di Gustav Klimt. Ma è anche la metropoli della bellezza inquieta dell'imperatrice Sissi e del genio di Sigmund Freud. Vienna, dalle luci di mille caffè-concerto, turbata dai quartieri equivoci di periferia dove si aggirava un giovane pittore bohémien di nome Adolf. Un libro che parla di storia e di leggende, di miracoli e di sortilegi, di ricchezza e di miserie, di glorie e di paure. Un vademecum per chiese, musei, teatri; per palazzi, ristoranti e botteghe artigiane; per piazze, strade e vicoli. Un libro per scoprire una città meravigliosa. Un Filo d'Arianna lungo migliaia di anni e di vite umane.

Franco Cardini is professor emeritus of Medieval History.

Samarkand

A Turquoise Dream

The Silk Road

The East, The West and A Thousand Years

Golden Prague Europe’s Mysterious Capital

Tommaso Braccini

TOMMASO BRACCINI

History’s Most Dangerous Journey Following

the Argonauts

IL VIAGGIO PIÙ PERICOLOSO DELLA STORIA

SULLA ROTTA DEGLI ARGONAUTI

TOMMASO BRACCINI

IL VIAGGIO PIÙ

PERICOLOSO

DELLA STORIA

Sulla rotta degli Argonauti

Biblioteca storica

series «Biblioteca storica»

pp. 220 con illustrazioni, € 21,00

pp. 220

ISBN 9788815390547

ISBN 9788815390547

publication October 2024

GIASONE; VELLO D’ORO; ARGONAUTICHE

IN LIBRERIA A OTTOBRE 2024

(eD. PreCeDente 9788815259783)

9788815279262

13.700 cp vendute

NOME COGNOME AUTORE

Biografia autore 1. Nullantiis quae rem que eat labor repel mo te pedis ero omnihil iciet, odi di vellia sequis reius, sum qui dis velent haris volum doluptae venem id mod que conest expelestrum exero quo tem rem venis moluptur, omnihilit ma ium ame reiciet eiur.

L’ARCHETIPO DI TUTTI I VIAGGI, UNA INESAURIBILE FONTE DI

NOTIZIE CHE RISERVERANNO

NOME COGNOME AUTORE

PIÙ DI UNA SORPRESA

Biografia autore 2. Nullantiis quae rem que eat labor repel mo te pedis ero omnihil iciet, odi di vellia sequis reius, sum qui dis velent haris volum doluptae venem id mod que conest expelestrum exero quo tem rem venis moluptur, omnihilit ma ium ame reiciet eiur.

The tale of the Argonauts features a winged ram that, before ending up in a constellation, leaves his golden fleece on earth, a leader raised by a centaur and who proves to be not always up to his task, a dreamy little girl who turns into a rabid witch, and an endless voyage through perilous waters. This is enough to narrate the emergence of our humanity. The Argonauts’ journey unifies the ancient world and foreshadows its future. It tells the story of the first contact between East and West, an account of mutual acquaintance, and the emergence of a potential dialogue. By retracing the routes of the ship Argo and its intrepid crew, the author reconstructs the geography and the mythical ethnography of the heart of Europe, the Mediterranean, its shores, and the unbounded ocean.

Un ariete che, prima di finire tra le costellazioni, lascia sulla terra il suo vello d’oro, un condottiero allevato da un centauro e non sempre all’altezza del suo compito, una ragazzina sognante che si trasforma in strega rabbiosa, e poi un viaggio infinito per acque perigliose. Quali altri ingredienti potrebbero mancare per ordire la trama della nostra umanità? Il viaggio degli Argonauti unifica il mondo antico e ne prefigura il futuro. È la storia del primo contatto tra Oriente e Occidente, la testimonianza della reciproca conoscenza e il formarsi di un dialogo possibile. Ripercorrendo le rotte della nave Argo e dei suoi intrepidi marinai, Tommaso Braccini ricostruisce la geografia e l'etnografia mitica del cuore dell’Europa, del Mediterraneo e delle sue sponde, e dell’Oceano illimitato.

Tommaso Braccini teaches Classical Philology at the University of Siena. His research interests focus on ancient and medieval Greek folk beliefs and narratives.

(eD. PreCeDente 9788815233639) 9788815295057

3.800 cp vendute 9788815292612

2.600 cp. vendute

ANTONIO MUSARRA

I MAGI E LA STELLA

Antonio Musarra The Wise Men and the Star Journey to Bethlehem

VIAGGIO A BETLEMME

ANTONIO MUSARRA

I MAGI E LA STELLA

Viaggio a Betlemme

NOME COGNOME AUTORE

Biblioteca storica

series «Biblioteca storica»

pp. 350, € 26,00

ISBN 9788815390530

pp. 350

ISBN 9788815390530

publication October 2024

BETLEMME; PALESTINA; NATIVITÀ; PELLEGRINAGGIO

IN LIBRERIA A OTTOBRE 2024

BY

THE SAME AUTHOR:

Neverlands

IL LUOGO IN CUI IL MISTERO

PRENDE LA FORMA DI UNA

Biografia autore 1. Nullantiis quae rem que eat labor repel mo te pedis ero omnihil iciet, odi di vellia sequis reius, sum qui dis velent haris volum doluptae venem id mod que conest expelestrum exero quo tem rem venis moluptur, omnihilit ma ium ame reiciet eiur.

STORIA UMANA

Bethlehem is a place of the heart that cannot accommodate indifference. It is for Jews, who identify it with the city of David, and it is for Christians and Muslims, who believe Mary’s virgin birth occurred there. Frequented each year by thousands of pilgrims, this West Bank town, located about ten kilometres from Jerusalem, is both a physical and an emotional site. Yet little is known about its history. What happened to Bethlehem during the long medieval millennium? How did current traditions take shape? The author investigates the myth of Bethlehem, anchoring it to the historical events of an apparently insignificant city, that nevertheless constantly earned the attention of kings, princes, emperors, and simple pilgrims, eager to encounter the Mystery among its streets’ living stones.

NOME COGNOME AUTORE

Biografia autore 2. Nullantiis quae rem que eat labor repel mo te pedis ero omnihil iciet, odi di vellia sequis reius, sum qui dis velent haris volum doluptae venem id mod que conest expelestrum exero quo tem rem venis moluptur, omnihilit ma ium ame reiciet eiur.

Betlemme è un luogo del cuore che non ammette indifferenza. Lo è per gli ebrei, che la identificano con la città di David; lo è per cristiani e musulmani, che vi collocano il parto verginale di Maria. Raggiunta ogni anno da migliaia di pellegrini, la cittadina della Cisgiordania, situata a una decina di chilometri da Gerusalemme, è un luogo fisico e di emozioni.

La sua storia, tuttavia, è generalmente sconosciuta. Che cosa sappiamo di Betlemme nel lungo millennio medievale? In che modo le tradizioni che oggi conosciamo sono andate formandosi? In questo libro, Antonio Musarra indaga il mito di Betlemme, ancorandolo alla vicenda storica d’una città apparentemente insignificante ma costantemente al centro delle attenzioni di re, principi e imperatori non meno che di semplici pellegrini, desiderosi d’incontrare il Mistero tra le pietre vive delle sue vie.

Antonio Musarra teaches Medieval History at Sapienza University in Rome.

Imaginary Geographies of Mediterranean and Atlantic Islands

Rights sold: Polish. pp. 350

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Franco Brevini

Conquering Distance

Voyages, Encounters, Discoveries

series «Intersezioni»

pp. 250

ISBN 9788815388032

publication February 2024

Travelling across our planet and, in recent decades, even beyond it is one of the foundational experiences underlying our species’ evolution. What we call travel has continuously changed throughout the ages: migrations, explorations, crossings – from humanity’s initial steps out of Africa to space tourism, from Herodotus to tour operators. This book’s author – a scholar and a long-time traveller – leads readers on a whirlwind tour featuring real and fantastic journeys, pilgrimage treks, mercantile enterprises, holidays, pedestrian tours, and exotic fads. From the North Pole to Cape Horn, from the Sahara to the Himalayas, the author tells the stories of men and women who, by setting out on a journey, changed their lives and sometimes the world’s destiny. This compelling read will put us in touch with our nature as travellers, encouraging us to thrust our imagination a little further, mingle with the world, and conquer new frontiers.

Franco Brevini teaches Italian Literature at the University of Bergamo and writes for the Italian newspaper «Corriere della Sera».

Giulia Sissa

Genders and History

The Ongoing Metamorphosis of the Feminine and the Masculine

I GENERI E LA STORIA GIULIA SISSA

Femminile e maschile in metamorfosi

series «Faustiana» in «Intersezioni» pp. 200

ISBN 9788815388728 publication March 2024

A cura di Aldo

Once upon a time, there was sex – an obvious characteristic that branched off into female and male ways of being in the world. But genetics does not explain everything. Today we have a term to describe how, in any society, human beings experience their sexed bodies. How do we learn to become womanly or manly? How do we accept or reject the sex we are assigned at birth? And so gender comes into play. Indeed, that’s when genders come into play. This word helps us express attitudes, roles, and identities but also reveals disparities in morals and social representations. This book is a long journey from the recognition of the universal rights in Western societies to the appreciation of gender as an attributed, transformable and transferable difference. Perhaps – in the name of freedom, equality, and happiness – this journey will fundamentally alter the very nature of our species.

L’Occidente ha riempito il mondo con la sua economia, la sua tecnica, i suoi stili di vita. Eppure si rivela drammaticamente incompiuto: una costruzione che ha del grandioso, ma a cui manca qualcosa di decisivo. E il ripresentarsi della guerra in Europa non ha fatto che accrescere questa impressione. Quale sarà il suo futuro? È possibile che il momento del suo successo coincida con quello della sua crisi definitiva? O piuttosto siamo di fronte a un’altra sfida nel suo turbinoso cammino? Sei libri legati da un unico filo per tentare di anticipare l’avvenire. Sei nodi in cui sembra impressa la direzione del cammino che ci aspetta: la morfologia dell’Occidente e i tratti della sua mondializzazione; la geopolitica e l’avvenire del modello dello Stato e della Nazione; la potenza del tragico e del negativo nella storia d’Europa; il dominio della tecnica e la forma della nostra specie; il rapporto tra i generi e quel che sarà del maschile e del femminile; infine, un’interpretazione di Faust come racconto fondante della modernità. Sei lampi sul nostro destino.

Giulia Sissa is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Schiavone

Il destino dell’Occidente

Il destino dell’Occidente

Paolo Matthiae

Laid Bare

Recollections of The Archaeologist Who Discovered Ebla

pp. 190

ISBN 9788815389411

publication June 2024

Paolo Matthiae’s name is inextricably linked to the major archaeological expedition – comprising a succession of uninterrupted campaigns he directed between 1964 and 2010 – that led to the discovery of the ancient city of Ebla in Syria. Gazing into the past, the renowned archaeologist unravels the memories accumulated during his exceptional life and research experience, amidst extraordinary gratifications, bitter difficulties, significant rewards, and unpredictable disappointments. This memoir allows readers to share the vibrant emotions associated with his finds, the sorrowful regret for the academic and political tensions underlying his discoveries, and the courage with which the scholar was able to face and overcome the many problems that arose in areas marked by endless conflicts.

Paolo Matthiae is professor emeritus at the Sapienza University in Rome as well as a member of Italy’s Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and several international academies.

Piero Boitani

The Great Tale of the Classics

A New and Enriched Edition of Ten Classics Lessons

PIERO BOITANI

IL GRANDE RACCONTO DEI

CLASSICI

Ovitam aut aliqui blaut ad ut unti re volupta tintinim rerum voluptatae rene dolum, volecae venist, a es intusdae eos dem que quibus aspeditasped etur ania as quis dolores sitione molor apel inturestrum harum ipsam autatem fugiae dolorunt lab iurecti officia es mi, nos doluptium ad ma vit earum, conseruptae cone et ullis que eumeni rem eaquibus dollorenim accullique necte sunt fuga. Officidic te nis rempor solum rerovid ipiendam sum que nonse conseque pra sin nos etur? Volut aligento tem aliqui omnisquiae aut dolo to maio totaepudam, ipsandit, si cuscipsum rem abori cus, corporr ovidestis quidi blaccae asim ut a doluptatem di volo tem imporitiis conse molest, sit volesserati repudae stionse quatium qui nonectatur? Tat doloriant este est mos re, acea quate vendusam, quis eum unt arciae sant digent mos eum quiandant vel estia sim faccaboresti totam lab int faceperibus estis dolores equatem pelitat eic to odipici tiaecep udicipsunt la verspici ut volorrovid quiatem que moles doluptat ra ilignat emolupt ibuste sae. Iquiand amendaerum velibus tiorehendam nonseque quis iuribus ne cor simus, autem. Itatur, in num eum quatio consed qui ulluptam inum es aut ditatem poribus erferia int experum enditi si aliqui destis sequiatur, solessum illitam rerunt.

The «classics» come from a remote past and have survived major historical catastrophes, such as the end of ancient civilisation and the darker centuries of the Middle Ages. The classics of the Greek and Latin traditions, the first pillars of Western culture as we know it today, are works that have shaped our imagination for millennia. With masterly flair, the author relies on the ineffable pleasure of his own personal taste and chooses the best exemplars to allow readers to enjoy fully the charm of ancient masterpieces. The dizzying journey starts in the Greece of Homeric epic, of tragedy, and historiography and then shifts to Rome, with its treasured literary legacy, rendered eternal by works such as Cicero’s Dream of Scipio, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. This reading opportunity is further enriched by a wide selection of splendid works of art.

series «Grandi illustrati»

pp. 380 with 200 full-color illustrations

ISBN 9788815390554

publication October 2024

Piero Boitani is professor emeritus of English Literature and Comparative Literature at the Sapienza University in Rome; he is also a member of Italy’s Accademia dei Lincei.

Ten Classics Lessons sold to Worldwide Spanish, Portuguese and Worldwide English language.

Maurizio Bettini

How Orpheus Lost His Head and Other Stories Ten Lessons in the Anthropology of the Ancient World

series «Antropologia del mondo antico»

pp. 290

ISBN 9788815390486

publication September 2024

Why did Orpheus turn to look at Eurydice? Why did the Romans disparage the custom of entrusting children to wet nurses? How could the Homeric gods render themselves invisible to human eyes? These are some of the questions behind the author’s ten lessons devoted to the interpretation of the ancients, the adoption of their perspective, and the understanding of the world through their eyes. For example, as regards the unfortunate story of Orpheus, the typical question «why did the hero look back?» needs to be answered not by exploring our usual reactions and habits (impatience, too much love, to make sure his beloved was following him) but rather by referring to the collection of beliefs held by the ancients with respect to the powers and limits of memory. This is a useful book for readers wishing to learn how to answer questions posed by classical texts and traditions and overcome our biases and conceptual frameworks.

Maurizio Bettini, a scholar of the classics, heads the Centre for Research on Anthropology of the Ancient World at the University of Siena.

Luigi Spina Homer and the Horrid Polyphemus

series «Intersezioni»

pp. 140 with illustrations

ISBN 9788815390356

publication September 2024

The «monster» par excellence, the one-eyed Polyphemus, bursts forth in mythography and literary history in book 9 of the Odyssey. Son of the sea god Poseidon and the nymph Thoosa, he had the misfortune to succumb to the cunning of Odysseus, who blinded him and managed to escape captivity by devising the ingenious trick of the name «Nobody». Of course, Polyphemus does manage to devour a few of the hero’s companions, but that is his nature. In the extended lineage of the Cyclops, Polyphemus enjoys a long history of reappearances, with outcomes that occasionally clash with the Homeric tradition. Having become a comic character in a satirical play by Euripides, the horrid giant soon discovers Eros: he falls in love, unrequited, with the nymph Galatea, thus inspiring poets sensitive to erotic dynamics to write tales of desperate passion. Even in later retellings, he does not manage to get rid of Odysseus, yet he becomes a less dreadful character, at least from a psychological viewpoint.

Luigi Spina formerly taught Classical Philology at the Federico II University in Naples.

Silvia Romani Homer

Of Weapons and True Love

Omero

Delle armi e del vero amore

SILVIA ROMANI

Agostino

Fare la verità

Siamo nel libro decimo, quasi alla fine delle «Confessioni», e Agostino si domanda (un po’ tardi) se valga la pena di raccontare la propria vita a un Onnisciente. Per sua e nostra fortuna conclude che sì, ne vale la pena, e propone delle idee che hanno ancora moltissimo da insegnarci. Prendendo molto sul serio il ruolo del nano sulle spalle di un gigante, Ferraris rilegge Agostino incrociandolo con Strawson e Churchill, la «Critica della ragione pura» e «Histoire d’O», Simondon e Simenon, ed elabora una teoria della verità rispettosa della scienza, ma capace di restituire alla storia, alla letteratura e alla tecnica i loro buoni diritti in materia. Il testo agostiniano alla fine del volume accresce il gusto della lettura.

The sixth book of the Iliad is the song of Glaucus and Diomedes, two enemies ready to take up arms but also lay them down for the sake of the ancient bond of hospitality. It is the song of Hector and Andromache, entwined in earnest conjugal sentiment. And it is also the song of first times. In fact, for the first time in Western tradition, the fragility of human life is compared to falling leaves. For the first time, melancholy engulfs the soul of a man: Hector, the greatest of Trojan warriors. For the first time, romantic love breaks through and overcomes the strict code of heroes. For the first time the hero – Hector – embraces his son Astyanax, knowing that he is perhaps going to die. And it is again in this song that Andromache utters the first and most beautiful declaration of love: «You to me are father, mother, brother, and dear husband». This book explores a host of values, feats, words and passions that can still arouse contemporary readers’ admiration and awe.

series «Intersezioni» pp. 160

ISBN 9788815389251

publication June 2024

Silvia Romani teaches Mythology and Religions of the Classic World at the University of Milan.

Andrea Bernardoni & Marco Segala A History of Science

From the Renaissance to the 20th Century

Andrea Bernardoni

Marco Segala

Storia della scienza

Dal Rinascimento al XX secolo

The idea that a scientific thesis or a law of nature has a history is by no means self-evident. Looking at the history of science means asking unexpected and often overlooked questions: «How was life defined before 1953, when DNA was discovered?»; «How was water defined before Lavoisier broke it down into hydrogen and oxygen in 1783?» Throughout its evolution, science has dealt with facts, objects, theories, and principles that have been forgotten or are now considered erroneous; without such missteps, much of today’s knowledge would not have had a chance to grow and take hold. Scientific enterprise itself has been repeatedly redefined over the past four centuries, and indeed the term «scientist» was introduced only in 1833. This book explores the often meandering and failure-ridden paths that have helped shape our current knowledge of the world and describes the making of scientific knowledge over the previous five centuries.

series «Le vie della civiltà»

pp. 400

ISBN 9788815389329

publication May 2024

Andrea Bernardoni teaches History of Science at the University of L’Aquila and works at the Galileo Museum’s History of Science Institute in Florence.

Marco Segala teaches History of Philosophy at the University of L’Aquila.

Le vie della civiltà

Carlo Marco Belfanti

Artful Copies A History of Brands and Their Counterfeits

series «Universale paperbacks» pp. 200

ISBN 9788815390578

publication October 2024

The introduction of the trademark was a response to businesses’ need to distinguish their products in an expanding market. From antiquity to the 21st century, society has evolved from using stamps and seals to national laws regulating brands as intellectual property. This book accompanies the reader through 2000 years of branding history, highlighting the changes in the way distinctive signs have been applied, the type of information they communicate, and their relationship with consumers. The book also focuses on brand reputation, its transmission mechanisms (word of mouth, advertising, and the press), imitations, counterfeiting, and the link between brands and production venues.

Carlo Marco Belfanti teaches Economic History at the University of Brescia.

Chiara Frugoni

Two Popes and One Jubilee

Celestine V, Boniface VIII, and the First Holy Year

series «Grandi illustrati»

pp. 300 with illustrations ISBN 9788815390660 publication November 2024

Celestine V and Boniface VIII were willing to grant forgiveness for all sins committed, thus causing floods of pilgrims to travel to Rome. Why? What were the ultimate reasons that persuaded two popes to grant plenary indulgence only to those undertaking a journey to Rome and a visit to papal basilicas? With extraordinary narrative power, the author explains the origins of the first Jubilee in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. She helps readers understand the changes that the realms of the beyond – first and foremost Purgatory, invented as an intermediate place between Hell and Paradise – underwent during the Middle Ages. She highlights the growing importance of indulgences and pilgrimages in the daily lives of people in the Middle Ages, and thus the complex story of Celestine V and his abdication. Finally, the book plunges into the turbulent Rome of Boniface VIII, his fury, and his many enemies among cardinals, kings and rival families. Readers will appreciate this historical and political fresco of an extraordinary event, leading them to understand both the plenary indulgence of 1300 and the upcoming 2025 Holy Year.

Chiara Frugoni taught Medieval History at the Universities of Pisa, Rome, and Paris.

Celestino V, Bonifacio VIII e il primo Anno Santo

CHIARA FRUGONI

LUIGINO BRUNI

Luigino Bruni Shadows and Light

LA TERRA DEL NOI

The Counter-Reformation’s

Economy

OMBRE E LUCI DELL'ECONOMIA DELLA CONTRORIFORMA

La terra del noi

Ombre e luci dell’economia della Controriforma

Saggi

series «Saggi»

pp. 230, € 22,00

pp. 230

ISBN 9788815390585

ISBN 9788815390585

publication October 2024

ETICA ECONOMICA CRISTIANA; CONTRORIFORMA; ORIGINI DEL CAPITALISMO; MONTI FRUMENTARI

IN LIBRERIA A OTTOBRE 2024

GIACOMO TODESCHINI Ricchezza francescana. Dalla povertà volontaria alla società di mercato 9788815387936 (ed. precedente 9788815097958)

2.900 cp. vendute

Capitalismo meridiano. Alle radici dello spirito mercantile tra religione e profitto 9788815299406

IL CONTROVERSO RAPPORTO

TRA CRISTIANESIMO ED ECONOMIA

It is widely acknowledged that, in order to understand capitalism in Italy and other Latin countries, one must also take into account the role of the Protestant Reformation and its «spirit». Much less is known about the effects of the Counter-Reformation. In what ways did theological, social, ethical, and pastoral features of the Catholic response to Luther’s Reformation exert negative effects on the way business was understood in Italy and other Catholic countries? The reaction of the Church of Rome – which feared that what was happening in Germany could lead to its own downfall –introduced an exceedingly backward view of markets, profits, and interests. It erased the financial-economic ethics championed by Franciscan friars and encouraged a culture of recommendation linked to the cult of saints and the Madonna. In this ground-breaking book, the author analyses these «shadows», but also lingers on the «lights», in particular the birth of the «monti frumentari», i.e., thousands of grain banks that Franciscans and bishops introduced as key tools for the improvement of rural conditions, especially in Southern Italy.

Sappiamo quanto sia difficile capire il capitalismo italiano e in generale dei paesi latini senza attraversare la Riforma protestante e il suo «spirito». Conosciamo molto meno invece gli effetti della Controriforma, e cioè quanto le forme teologiche, sociali, etiche e pastorali della risposta cattolica alla Riforma di Lutero, ebbero effetti negativi nel modo di intendere gli affari in Italia e negli altri paesi cattolici. La reazione della chiesa di Roma – che vide in quanto stava avvenendo in Germania la possibilità della propria dissoluzione – riportò indietro di secoli l’approccio al mercato, ai profitti, agli interessi. Cancellando l’etica economico-finanziaria dei frati francescani e incoraggiando ad esempio una cultura della raccomandazione legata al culto dei santi e della Madonna. In questo saggio innovativo, Bruni analizza queste «ombre», ma anche le «luci» di quel tempo: in par ticolare la nascita dei Monti frumentari, cioè di migliaia di banche del grano che francescani e vescovi fondarono come strumento essenziale per migliorare le condizioni rurali soprattutto nel Sud Italia.

Luigino Bruni teaches Political Economy at LUMSA University (Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta) in Rome.

LUIGINO BRUNI insegna Economia politica nell’Università Lumsa di Roma. Fra i suoi libri: Il capitalismo infelice (Giunti, 2018) e L’arte della gratuità (Vita e Pensiero, 2021). E per il Mulino: L’economia civile (con S. Zamagni, 2015), Capitalismo meridiano. Alle origini dello spirito mercantile tra religione e profitto (2022). Vive Tra Roma e Loppiano (Firenze).

Saggi

Luigino Bruni

Saggi

Massimo Livi Bacci

A Concise History of World Population

6th Edition

series «Le vie della civiltà»

pp. 380

ISBN 9788815390417

publication September 2024

BY

THE SAME AUTHOR:

By Land and By Sea

Fifteen Migrations from Ancient Times to the Present

How do demographic dynamics change over time? How are they affected by climate change, natural disasters, epidemics, wars, migratory flows, economic growth, technology, and culture? The disappearance of entire peoples throughout history shows that there is no automatic adjustment mechanism between resource levels and population size. In tracing the history of the world population from the Neolithic to the present day, the author illustrates the consequences of accelerated demographic development on the internal social stability of countries, power relations between nations, and the environment. This classic book’s new, sixth edition contains novel insights and many updates, helping readers understand the direction and effects of the remarkable changes currently underway. Since the turn of the millennium, birth control has spread rapidly, life expectancy has increased, mobility has been driven upwards, the world population has grown by a third, and we are all more aware of our planet’s limits.

Rights sold: Spanish and English worldwide.

pp. 232

Massimo Livi Bacci is professor emeritus at the University of Florence and a member of the Italian Accademia dei Lincei.

Livi Bacci

Geodemography

For a Better Understanding of the World

pp. 160

ISBN 9788815388551

publication March 2024

The ongoing decline of Europe’s population, the explosion of Africa’s, major changes in migratory flows, significant variation of reproduction levels across countries and ethnic groups, and the dizzying growth of large urban aggregates have all appeared over the last hundred years. They modify and upset relations between states and regions of the world and influence political choices, with variable and even unpredictable force and speed. But geodemography, a wide-ranging and innovative perspective, can help understand these trends. Using a broad repertoire of exemplary cases drawn from recent world history, this book illustrates this novel approach, proving that it is a valuable tool for learning more about relations among countries and their future.

Massimo Livi Bacci is professor emeritus at the University of Florence.

Worldwide English rights sold.

Massimo

Mario Avagliano & Marco Palmieri American Italians

The Great Emigration to the United States

series «Biblioteca storica»

pp. 500

ISBN 9788815390394

publication September 2024

The epic of Italian emigration to the United States has shaped the stories of entire generations and two nations. Using a wide variety of sources (including letters, diaries, personal accounts, and official documents), the authors investigate the motivations, aspirations and hopes that accompanied millions of Italians on their journey to the New World. From the earliest departures to the great emigration of the 20th century, this book provides an exhaustive overview of the historical phases of this major migratory phenomenon. The text examines the material conditions of travel, the social networks that fostered departures, the crucial role of women and their emancipation process, the challenges of integration into American society, the effects of prejudice, and changes in the social, economic, and cultural fabric of both countries.

Mario Avagliano and Marco Palmieri are journalists and historians.

Paolo Boccagni

Still Life

Stories of Migrants Biding Their Time

series «Contemporanea» pp. 260

ISBN 9788815388513

publication March 2024

After crossing the sea, there is the life to come, but in the meantime there is only the wait. What happens in a place where, as everyone says, nothing happens? It all goes on inside a former motel in an urban suburb, representing thousands of similar reception and confinement venues for immigrants. The stories of the people who live in these fifteen rooms unfold: from everyday life there emerges a web of those transient inhabitants’ memories, habits, tastes, fears, hopes and aspirations. They are almost all young men in their twenties, Black, African, asylum seekers, survivors of so-called «journeys of desperation», always waiting to find out if they will be allowed to live in the country where they have lingered for years. Biding their time, they sleep, cook, play, pray, argue, and incessantly try to prove that they deserve the rights they enjoy. Based on patient ethnographic work, the author describes the everyday life of migrants in their own words, reflecting desires, frustration, dreams, nightmares, presences, and absences.

Paolo Boccagni teaches Sociology and Diversity and Intercultural Relations at the University of Trento.

Chiara Giaccardi & Mauro Magatti

Generating Freedom

How to Uphold Life Without Destroying the World

series «Contemporanea» pp. 160

ISBN 9788815387998

publication January 2024

The world population has grown from 1 to 8 billion people in about a century. Human life expectancy reached 72 years in 2019, 9 more than 30 years earlier. We are many; we live longer; we live better. Yet our tumultuous economic growth is now crashing against its own contradictions – climate change, migration flows, demographic imbalances – thus threatening the planet’s very existence and raising critical sustainability issues. More technology and more efficiency are not the answer, however: instead, we need to bridge a cultural gap and increase our awareness that all living beings are interrelated. Science says so, and religions have always said so: only by establishing meaningful relationships with others do we achieve our authentic selves and enjoy true freedom – not in an extractive or predatory way but rather in a transitive and generative manner. This logic presides over personal and collective human life and can lead us to a free, fair, sustainable society.

Chiara Giaccardi teaches Sociology and Media Anthropology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and is chief editor of the academic journal «Comunicazioni Sociali».

Mauro Magatti teaches Sociology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and is a columnist for the Italian newspaper «Corriere della Sera».

Paolo Perulli

Creative Souls

From Prometheus to Steve Jobs

series «Intersezioni»

pp. 200

ISBN 9788815388704

publication March 2024

Who are today’s creative talents, and where do they come from? This book provides a detailed genealogy: from Faust to Kandinsky, via Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, to Silicon Valley technologists and innovators. In the space of a few years, we have gone from creative individuals, who produce unique works of art and ingenuity and answer only to themselves, to the creative class, which fosters innovation and designs products for the markets on which we all depend. Creative people are not a privileged category as much as the bearers of a spirit that generates universal effects and offers hope to the world. However, today’s creative souls lack structure and are oblivious to the long-standing tradition to which they nevertheless belong. How can we prevent this vast outburst of ingenuity from turning into banality, mass production or – worse still – a creative vacuum?

Paolo Perulli, an economic sociologist, formerly taught at the Universities of Eastern Piedmont, Venice, Paris, Lugano and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Michele Bartoletti Bacterial Resistance

The Challenge of Coexistence

series «Contemporanea» pp. 150

ISBN 9788815390332

publication September 2024

Antibiotic resistance is an urgent challenge for global public health, an emergency foretold: every year, millions of people die around the world due to microbes becoming increasingly immune to drugs. What can we do? We can change our perspective, from engaging in an endless war with no winners to cultivating a mindful relationship: a veritable coexistence in view of attaining an enduring balance. To achieve this goal, it is crucial to understand and manage wisely available antibiotic resources, put an end to irresponsible practices (such as self-prescription and over-prescription), and apply a multidisciplinary approach, placing health policy at the centre of global cooperation. All this is necessary if we want antibiotics to maintain their life-saving efficacy.

Michele Bartoletti teaches Infectious Diseases at the Humanitas University in Milan, where he also heads the Infectious Disease Unit at the Humanitas Research Hospital.

Duccio Cavalieri & Rino Rappuoli & Lisa Vozza

Microbes

to the Rescue

Protect Them to Survive

series «Intersezioni»

pp. 220

ISBN 9788815389220

publication May 2024

A trillion species of microorganisms support all life on Earth and make the planet habitable. In fact, the number of estimated species is growing due to recent technological advances identifying an immense variety of species. Without microbes, we would not have bread, wine, beer, nor be able to dispose of waste. Above all, we simply would not exist. Microbes inhabit not only our intestines but also our immune systems, which require continuous microbial contact to distinguish friend from foe. When this intimate relationship breaks down, we get sick. A minority of species (about 1,400) cause infections, and we use tools of mass destruction such as antibiotics, disinfectants, and detergents to eliminate them. In doing so, we also destroy harmless and even beneficial microbes, whereas more dangerous species can resist treatment. We need more ecological and targeted solutions against infections to preserve global microbial diversity. We must strike a balance between what we call the Anthropocene and the Microbiocene, an era that began nearly four billion years ago and will endure as long as there is life on Earth.

Duccio Cavalieri teaches Microbiology at the University of Florence and is an expert in genome sequencing techniques.

Rino Rappuoli is a microbiologist and the chief scientific officer at the Biotecnopolo of Siena Foundation.

Lisa Vozza is a writer of popular science and the chief scientific officer at the AIRC Foundation for Cancer Research.

Daniele Caligiore Health Care and Artificial Intelligence

series «UPM»

pp. 200

ISBN 9788815388599

publication May 2024

Image-based diagnostics, robotic surgery, and telemedicine are among the already established applications employing artificial intelligence. Bordering on science fiction yet affecting our daily lives, this new world inspires both major hopes and great fears. Since health, in fact, is a key theme, understanding how these innovative technologies can help us to heal, attain well-being, and improve our lives is of utmost importance. Relying on the author’s wide-ranging experience, this book addresses the strengths and shortcomings of AI in the field of health; it also provides a framework for developing clear and mindful knowledge about an aspect of life that influences all of us.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

A User’s Guide

pp. 160

Daniele Caligiore is a senior researcher at the Italian National Research Council’s Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies. He also co-founded and heads the Advanced School in AI and is one of the founders of the ISTC-CNR AI2Life spin-off company, an innovative startup devoted to developing AI solutions promoting social development and personal wellbeing.

Nello Cristianini

Machina Sapiens

Algorithms and the Secret of

Knowledge

series «Contemporanea»

pp. 160

ISBN 9788815384461

publication March 2024

Can machines think? This troubling question, posed by Alan Turing in 1950, has perhaps been answered: today we can converse with a computer without being able to distinguish it from a human being. Machines can pass university exams and programme other computers. ChatGPT, Bard and other «language models» have proved proficient at performing tasks far beyond their creators’ initial expectations, and we still do not know why. Trained simply to predict missing words in a text, such models have gained an understanding of the world and language that makes them capable of reasoning, planning, solving problems, as well as conversing almost flawlessly. Is this the secret of knowledge, and is it now in the hands of our creations? Perhaps we are no longer alone. And as we try to figure out how to share these powers with the «aliens» who now work at our side, we can wonder what else they may learn tomorrow. Are we approaching a critical threshold beyond which machines will attain superhuman performance? After the success of «The Shortcut», Nello Cristianini has authored another brilliant book – written like a gripping thriller – explaining the ideas behind a technology destined to change the world. If our worst terror has always stemmed from fear of the unknown, the cure, since time immemorial, is knowledge.

Nello Cristianini teaches Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bath and is the author of «The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us» (CRC Press, 2023) and other works dealing with artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and the social impact of AI.

Giorgio Manzi Ancestors

Lucy and Other Tales from the Deep Past

series «Intersezioni»

pp. 220

ISBN 9788815388018

publication February 2024

This book brings to light nine stories that took place before history began to be recorded. Each story is told from the standpoint of our forebears from the distant past and with the help of a palaeoanthropologist who knows them well and has helped others appreciate them. The author imagines aliens landing on Earth to assess whether living beings have attained a sufficient degree of self-awareness and cognizance of their origins – in short, whether they genuinely understand evolution. The answers to their questions lie in nine manuscripts discovered by the visitors and whose protagonists are: Lucy, the world’s most famous specimen of Australopithecus; the Neanderthals of Circeo; the Altamura Man; Ötzi, the iceman from the Alps; and many other ancestors of ours. With an effortless narrative style, the author explains, on the one hand, how science is able to reconstruct and interpret deep time history and, on the other, how it improves our comprehension of our identity and place in nature. Only this awareness can lead us to overcome the challenges that face humanity and which stem from our own cumbersome presence on Earth.

Giorgio Manzi teaches Anthropology at the Sapienza University in Rome, is a member of the Italian Accademia dei Lincei, and is a former general secretary of the Italian Institute of Human Palaeontology.

Maurizio Casiraghi Remarkable Lives Getting to Know Insects

MAURIZIO CASIRAGHI

VITE FORMIDABILI

Alla scoperta degli insetti

Insects account for the overwhelming majority of small living things. Commonly perceived as annoying, treacherous, and unworthy of human interest, insects comprise almost the entirety of the animal world. Sometimes hidden, sometimes glaringly noticeable, and often the cause of irrational fears, insects are indispensable to our lives and environmental biodiversity. In fact, we are dealing with one of the planet’s oldest and most enduring life forms. This book leads its readers on a journey full of discoveries, beginning on a summer night – when a mosquito buzzing in our ear disturbs our sleep – and winding through meadows, cultivated fields, exotic lands and familiar surroundings. We will finally understand how and why insects are the best flatmates humans could possibly have.

series «Intersezioni» pp. 230 with illustrations

ISBN 9788815389237

publication May 2024

Maurizio Casiraghi teaches Zoology and Evolution at Bicocca University in Milan.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

Stefano Mazzotti

Wonderful Creatures

The Prodigious Diversity of Life

series «Intersezioni»

pp. 270

ISBN 9788815388025

publication January 2024

It is time to fall in love again with our planet, to rediscover its awe-inspiring and inexhaustible variety of life. The fieldwork undertaken by the author allows him to describe the discovery of new species of animals and plants in places of spectacular richness: Papua New Guinea, Borneo, the Himalayas, the Mekong River basin, the islands of Sri Lanka and Madagascar, and the mountains of Tanzania. On page after page, readers encounter an infinite collection of species – the overall number of which remains a mystery – with which we coexist and which we are in danger of driving to extinction before we even get to know anything about them. The author also provides a wide array of reasons to preserve this diversity, which is fundamental to our very survival, so that our descendants may continue to enjoy the wondrous spectacle of life.

Stefano Mazzotti, a zoologist, teaches Biology Teaching and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Ferrara, heads that city’s Natural History Museum, and has conducted zoological explorations in South America.

Series «Tales of Numbers»

A series of 12 books, edited by Umberto Bottazzini This new book series has an informative slant and is aimed at educated but non-specialist readers. «Numbers» are not just for counting; in fact, they have played an exceptionally significant role in the history of Western thought. Each book focuses on a specific number and each number provides an opportunity to explore cultural topics and issues with an original perspective. Every contribution to the series offers stories and suggestions drawn from a wide variety of contexts, such as philosophy, theology, literature and music.

In the same series:

Divine Arithmetic

Daniele Schön Four Seasons, Voices, Quarters, Hands

Antonio

Hundred A Tower of Tales

Giulio Busi

The Invisible Beat

Gianfranco Ravasi Three

Marco

Bazzocchi

Marco Ciardi Nine

Tales of Sports, Comics, Music, and Science

series «Voci»

«Tales of Numbers»

pp. 175

ISBN 9788815390523

publication October 2024

There are many reasons why a number can become special. These reasons are often connected to important, albeit random, events in our lives. This was the case for this book’s author and his favourite number. In the assorted domains of football, comic strips, classical and rock music, science and fantasy, the number nine evokes something magical, heroic, fascinating, or sublime: the exploits of a centre forward, a Beethoven symphony, a Beatles song, the rings of power created by a dark Lord, the worlds of Norse mythology, and space stations at the edge of the universe. The number nine has become the symbol of a wide variety of things that are crucial to our culture, and accordingly it evokes facts, experiences, and behaviour. To find out how this is possible, readers can immerse themselves in the stories told in this book, which sometimes digs into the past, but always with the future in mind.

Marco Ciardi teaches History of Science at the University of Florence.

pp. 160

ISBN 9788815388780

publication March 2024

Raphael

Ebgi Seven A Symbol’s Adventures

The human mind encounters the number 7 when it ventures into places of wonder, when it ponders the abyss of evil or the far more demanding heights of good, when it must impose order on the music of the universe, when it tries to imagine a way out of the world, or when, finally, it contemplates the beginning and the end of everything. As the book of all books, the Bible, teaches, the world was created in seven days and will be consumed by the sound of seven trumpets. Telling the story of 7 means visiting spaces where numbers become gods, elements of nature, the stuff of dreams, and aspirations for peace. This number’s story only seems obscure, for the mystery of 7 has never ceased to fascinate us and continually re-emerges amidst our world’s intrigues.

Raphael Ebgi teaches History of Philosophy at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.

Marco Malvaldi

Twelve

The Contradictory Number

The number 12 underpins our ability to count, classify, track the passage of time, and even make music without offending sensitive ears. Twelve is a multipurpose number with many, occasionally conflicting meanings. To an ordinary person, the word «dozen» sounds imprecise, and even in mathematics, the number 12 evokes contradictions; for number theorists, 12 is both sublime and evil. If you are curious about how a number can be so versatile as to be almost schizophrenic, perhaps this book is precisely what you want.

Marco Malvaldi is a chemist and the author of the «Bar Lume» mystery novels series.

il Mulino

Arianna Arisi Rota Peace

series «Voci» «Parole controtempo» pp. 140

ISBN 9788815390370

publication September 2024

THE SAME SERIES:

120

«Peace» is an abused, tired catchphrase, continuously invoked and debased, a concept that is often trivialised or used to provide comfort. We have forgotten its true meaning. Why, when we attempt to define peace, do we mostly speak of the absence or cessation of war? Yet, achieving peace remains a powerful existential need, an ideal and an all-encompassing goal for many… and a tangible accomplishment for few. Peace – not to be confused with pacifism – is a genuine intellectual and behavioural challenge, a manifold notion, and a foundation for spiritual and secular undertakings. Above all, its changing architecture never ceases to engage theorists and practitioners in the international arena. Today, in the third millennium, we are disoriented and surrounded by many traditional and non-traditional wars. So, it may still be worthwhile to embrace the idea that peace needs to be achieved. This book traces the idea of peace, highlighting the contribution of women, its past and present status, as well as missed opportunities, visions and lessons drawn from experience.

Arianna Arisi Rota teaches History of 19th-Century Mediterranean Revolutions and History of Diplomacy at the University of Pavia.

German rights sold.

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Mauro Bonazzi Past pp.

Roberto Esposito Institution

Carlo Galli Ideology

Alberto Mingardi Capitalism

Vera Zamagni West

Massimo Cacciari

Piero della Francesca’s Madonna del Parto

MASSIMO CACCIARI

LA MADONNA DEL PARTO

MASSIMO CACCIARI

LA MADONNA DEL PARTO

ICONE

PENSARE PER IMMAGINI

a cura di

MASSIMO CACCIARI

UN’OPERA RIVOLUZIONARIA, UNA MADONNA REALE, UN’ICONA DELLA CRISTIANITÀ

Quel pensiero non sarebbe venuto alla sua luce, o alla sua ombra, senza essere provocato da quella immagine, che diviene essa stessa sintesi sensibile di una dimensione dell’umano. Da Mantegna a Kiefer, una sequenza di incontri ravvicinati e rischiosi con icone irrinunciabili della nostra civiltà.

CHE SEMPRE CI INTERROGA.

In this fresco painting located in the Tuscan town of Monterchi, two angels pull back a curtain and unveil Piero della Francesca’s stunning Madonna. This work of art features the wound that generates God: she is a woman, and she is at the centre of the mystery of incarnation. She is not merely a medium through which the spirit is incarnated. In Piero’s powerful icon, Mary holds up her round womb and unfastens her robe to make the enigma manifest. Her figure appears natural and true, perfect and divine at the same time: a cosmos that creates, opens itself up, and bestows. The cry she utters in giving birth will be repeated under the Cross, and then again – perhaps expressing joy – during the Assumption. This woman’s image reflects anticipation, promise, anguish, hope, and forsakenness – all of which come together in an orderly and enduring way. And the Son is her child, her brother, or her bridegroom.

Voci/serie Icone

series «Voci» «Icone»

pp. 120 con illustrazioni, € 12,00

ISBN 9788815390646

pp. 120 with illustrations

ISBN 9788815390646

publication November 2024

IN LIBRERIA A NOVEMBRE 2024 INCARNAZIONE; MARIA; MATERNITÀ; PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA

IN THE SAME SERIES BY THE AUTHOR:

9788815273680

pp. 116

Massimo Cacciari is professor emeritus of Philosophy at San Raffaele University in Milan.

Due angeli aprono il sipario e disvelano la stupenda Madonna del parto di Piero della Francesca a Monterchi. Una Madonna che mostra da quale ferita si generi Dio: ella è donna, ed è al centro del mistero dell’incarnazione. Non è un semplice mezzo attraverso cui si incarna lo spirito. Nella potente icona di Piero, Maria sostiene il suo grembo pieno, e si slaccia la sua veste per rendere manifesto l’enigma: la sua figura ci appare così naturale e vera, perfetta e divina al tempo stesso. E’ un cosmo che genera, che si apre e che dona. Il grido che ella pronuncia partorendo si ripeterà in quello sotto la Croce, e poi di nuovo –ma forse di gioia – nel momento dell'Assunzione. Nell’immagine di questa donna vi è attesa, promessa, angoscia, speranza, abbandono, che si uniscono senza confondersi e senza età. E il Figlio è il suo bimbo, suo fratello o il suo sposo.

Generating God pp. 140

Riccardo Muti, Massimo Cacciari

The Seven Words of Christ

Franco Purini

The Golden Ratio

La sezione aurea

Formule

per leggere il mondo

con la collaborazione di PINO

Semplici, eleganti, sintetiche, ma anche complesse, misteriose. Ognuna con una sua storia, che questa collana vuole raccontare. La storia del prima, di chi le ha scoperte, di cosa cercava. Ma anche la storia del dopo, dell’uso che ne abbiamo fatto, dei mondi che hanno aperto, dei problemi che ci hanno permesso di risolvere. Dietro queste stringhe di numeri e simboli si celano vicende personali, sfide intellettuali, rivoluzioni del pensiero radicali e svolte - talora drammatiche - nella storia dell’umanità.

From the remotest age to the present day, human beings have always sought to identify the laws that organize the universe. One law stands out among the rest: the «golden ratio», a perfect dimension that does not derive from a magical calculation but refers to superior, unattainable contents and knowledge. In this book, one of Italy’s most prominent architects explores the «divine proportion», introducing us to its enduring allure and relevance. Pythagoras, Fibonacci, Palladio, Le Corbusier and others help readers get acquainted with an esoteric and enigmatic formula, which governs the order underlying what we see.

series «Voci»

pp. 170

ISBN 9788815388797

publication March 2024

Franco Purini teaches Architectural Planning at the Sapienza University in Rome and the Polytechnic University in Milan. One of his major projects is the Eurosky Tower, Rome’s tallest building.

Franco Purini

DONGHI

Antonio Padoa-Schioppa

Crossed Destinies

ANTONIO PADOA-SCHIOPPA

Europe and Global Crises

DESTINI INCROCIATI

EUROPA E CRISI GLOBALI

ANTONIO PADOA-SCHIOPPA

DESTINI

INCROCIATI

Contemporanea

pp. 220, € 16,00

series «Contemporanea» pp. 220

ISBN 9788815390509

ISBN 9788815390509

publication October 2024

UNIONE EUROPEA; DIFESA; AMBIENTE

Titolo volume

UNA LUCIDA E REALISTA

DISAMINA DEL PRESENTE. UNA

LETTERA ALLA NUOVA EUROPA

Testo quarta. Officiti squaestio ommolup tatur? Quia pore incia vit, sint venducite con ea quatiis ut la voloriandam ea adit mil milla ium quiaeratet et vel illatus. Tiam et voluptas essequam nonsectem. Ut et quia ex est as volorerumqui dolute am, cumquas moluptaturit ut maio mo bea pliberro et est, omnis evellup taturia suntium ipsa quid quuntius atem re ma duci occum faccull uptatur aliquidebis volupta tatquid esenet aut omnihil ipicias sunt doloria num volorum fugia volenis magnimil eum ressiti blabo.

CHE USCIRÀ DALLE URNE

Climate, energy, defence, reforms, budget, taxation, inequalities, West, East, United Nations. These are the ten challenges the European Union needs to address, as well as the topics of this book’s ten chapters, that highlight how the EU must negotiate with the planet in order to remain relevant in its governance. The author is an expert in the history of law, and with this book, in light of the 2024 election for the European Parliament, he sends a message to the President of the European Commission. Will the EU, a product of the convergence of interests and values, be able to maintain its global relevance? Will it manage to continue its institutionalisation of peace in the face of today’s crises? Is it really fit to lead the Old Continent into the future? These ten crucial questions come together into a single suggestion: Union.

Clima, energia, difesa, riforme, bilancio, fiscalità, disuguaglianze, Occidente, Oriente, Nazioni Unite. Sono queste le dieci parole con cui l’Unione europea è chiamata a fare i conti oggi. Questi i dieci capitoli da negoziare con il pianeta per rimanere rilevanti nella sua governance. Questi i dieci capitoli del nuovo libro di Antonio Padoa-Schioppa, un maestro della storia del diritto che a ridosso delle decime elezioni europee invia un messaggio al futuro Presidente della Commissione. L’Unione europea, intesa come straordinario luogo di convergenza di interessi e di valori, saprà rimanere un fatto mondiale? Riuscirà, anche dinanzi alle crisi odierne, a proseguire nella istituzionalizzazione della sua pace? È davvero idonea a traghettare il Vecchio continente nel futuro? Dieci domande cruciali all’Europa politica. Racchiuse in una sola raccomandazione: l’Unione.

Antonio Padoa-Schioppa is professor emeritus of History of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Milan and the president of the Centre for the Study of Federalism in Turin.

IN THE SAME SERIES BY THE AUTHOR: pp. 232

An Ecological History of Europe

Michele Di Donato

Social Democracy in Transition

An International History of the 1970s

series «Studi e ricerche»

pp. 300

ISBN 9788815390455

publication September 2024

When and how did the major social democratic parties perceive, understand, and interpret the crisis of postwar economic equilibrium? What solutions did they develop to address the crisis, and what alternatives did they weigh against each other? This book investigates the impact of globalisation on the politics of European social democracies. Focusing on the 1970s, it examines the responses that social democrats proposed in the face of the crisis of the Keynesian compromises that had accompanied the economic growth of the initial post-war decades. The author also describes their attempts to devise alternative solutions for dealing with the globalisation processes that reshaped national sovereignty and Europe’s place in the world. Drawing on research conducted in many European and American archives, the author offers an original interpretation of the crisis of social democracy and the alternatives to the global rise of neoliberalism.

Michele Di Donato is a lecturer in Contemporary History at the Roma Tre University in Rome, where he teaches International History of Peace and History of the Digital Revolution. He is also chercheur associé at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, in Paris.

Piero Ignazi

The

Populist

Silvio Berlusconi

in the Double-Breasted Suit

and His Party

series «Contemporanea»

pp. 180

ISBN 9788815388001

publication February 2024

Over the last thirty years, Silvio Berlusconi shaped Italian politics to an unprecedented degree. Several power sources – economics and finance, mass media, government – have been concentrated in his hands, giving rise to a phenomenon without parallel in modern democracies. What conditions made the sudden irruption of the «Cavaliere» possible, and what determined his downfall, well before his death? The author expands on some of his reflections developed in a 2014 book and identifies the features of Italian society that, to a certain degree, struggled to find representation after traditional parties’ collapse in the aftermath of the 1990s’ «Clean Hands» judicial investigations into political corruption. The book provides an overview of the development of Forza Italia, the party Berlusconi founded, by examining its relations with allies and clashes with the opposition, and then describes Berlusconi’s fading appeal in a profoundly changed society, where television no longer plays a key role and new actors have taken up his «anti-politics» legacy.

Piero Ignazi formerly taught Political Science at the University of Bologna and is a chercheur associé at the Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF) in Paris.

Francesco Raniolo

Political Participation

Doing, Thinking, Being

series «Saggi» pp. 220

ISBN 9788815388155 publication February 2024

The 21st century has generated potentially fatal challenges for representative democracies: fundamentalism, mass migration, the Great Recession, a pandemic, the crisis of the international order, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, climate warming, and digitization. Taking this scenario of radical uncertainty as a starting point, the author sheds light on the ability of women and men to influence their future. This capability entails «being part», «feeling part», and «taking part»: in other words, participating in politics. The book provides an original analysis of these dimensions, the paradoxes they contain, their transformations and their specific indicators: power, thought, (non-)voting, lobbying, partisanship, protests, communication, and innovation. The result is a vision of participation that is plural and unconventional, but which preserves the idea that – as in the past – participation means acting with others and for their benefit.

Francesco Raniolo teaches Political Science at the University of Calabria and is a member of the steering committee of the Italian Political Science Society.

AMEDEO SANTOSUOSSO

DECIDERE CON L’IA

UNA

GIOVANNI SARTOR

Amedeo Santosuosso & Giovanni Sartor Decision-Making with AI A Realistic View of Future Legal Decisions

Amedeo

Santosuosso

Giovanni Sartor

Decidere con l’IA

Una visione realistica delle future decisioni giuridiche

Le vie della civiltà

Le vie della civiltà

series «Le vie della civiltà»

pp. 250, € 23,00

pp. 250

ISBN 9788815390561

ISBN 9788815390561

publication October 2024

IA; DECISIONI; PROCESSO

IN LIBRERIA A OTTOBRE 2024

CONOSCERE L’IA, PER OTTENERE IL MEGLIO

ED EVITARE IL PEGGIO

This book is based on the belief that the debate on artificial intelligence techniques (especially generative AI, ChatGPT, and the like) and predictive justice is often based on inadequate knowledge about the functioning and realistic prospects of using artificial intelligence tools in legal decision-making processes. According to the authors, this problem reflects an attitude of widespread ideological mistrust towards technologies, leading people to discuss their dangers and question their acceptability without actually knowing much about them. Without downplaying the major ethical and legal dilemmas that AI poses to law and justice, nor the risks involved, this book offers an accurate and accessible description of the state of the art, adopting an applied perspective (featuring extensive use of examples and practical cases) and an interdisciplinary approach that welcomes operational and professional dialogue.

Questo libro nasce dalla constatazione che il montante dibattito sulle tecniche di intelligenza artificiale (specie quella generativa, chatGPT e simili) e sulla giustizia predittiva spesso non è accompagnato da adeguate conoscenze sul funzionamento e sulle realistiche prospettive dell’impiego di strumenti di intelligenza artificiale all’interno dei processi di decisione guridica. Secondo gli autori, questo problema riflette un atteggiamento di ideologica diffidenza verso le tecnologie, che induce a discutere dei loro pericoli e a contestarne l’accettabilità prima di averle conosciute. Senza sminuire gli enormi dilemmi, etici e giuridici, che l’IA pone anche al diritto e alla giustizia, e i rischi che ne conseguono, gli autori offrono una descrizione accurata e accessibile dello stato dell’arte dal punto di vista applicativo (con ampio ricorso a esempi e casi pratici), adottando un approccio interdisciplinare e invitando al dialogo operativo e professionale.

AMEDEO SANTOSUOSSO insegna Intelligenza artificiale, processi decisionali e diritto presso la Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia dove è anche promotore e direttore del Centro di ricerca International Centre for Law, Science and New Technologies (ICLT). È stato a lungo giudice, nell'ultimo periodo come Presidente della Prima Sezione Civile della Corte d'Appello di Milano. Tra le sue pubblicazioni in materia: Diritto e intelligenza artificiale, Mondadori Università, 2020. Vive a Milano.

Amedeo Santosuosso teaches Artificial Intelligence, Decision-Making and Law at the School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) in Pavia, where he heads the International Centre for Law, Science and New Technologies (ICLT). He is also a former judge, most recently as a president of the Court of Appeals in Milan.

GIOVANNI SARTOR insegna informatica giuridica presso l'Università di Bologna e presso l'Istituto Universitario Europeo di Firenze. Tra le sue pubblicazioni più recenti ricordiamo Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation (Cambridge University Press, 2021), L'intelligenza artificiale e il diritto (Giappichelli, 2022); L'informatica giuridica e le tecnologie dell'informazione (Giappichelli, 2022). Vive a Bologna.

Giovanni Sartor teaches Information Technology Law at the University of Bologna and the European University Institute in Florence.

Filippo Annunziata & Antonella Sciarrone Alibrandi (eds.)

Crypto-Activities

European Regulations in a Global Context

series «Saggi»

pp. 300

ISBN 9788815390448

publication September 2024

Over the past few years, the European Commission has been working on innovative, state-of-the-art regulations for fintech, crypto-assets and blockchain technologies, thus pursuing the dual aim of providing a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets and making the European Union a leader in the field with regard to other legal systems. In 2023, the European Parliament approved MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation), introducing new rules in all 27 member states. This concise and comprehensive book focuses on this new set of rules and features contributions by several qualified scholars who examine MiCA’s implications and place the EU regulations within a broader comparative framework.

Filippo Annunziata teaches Financial Markets and Banking Legislation at the Bocconi University in Milan.

Antonella Sciarrone Alibrandi teaches Business Law at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.

Chantal Meloni

CHANTAL MELONI

GIUSTIZIA UNIVERSALE?

TRA GLI STATI E LA CORTE PENALE INTERNAZIONALE: BILANCIO DI UNA PROMESSA

Universal Justice? States and the International Criminal Court Assessment of a Pledge

Giustizia universale?

Saggi

series «Saggi»

pp. 220, € 21,00

pp. 220

ISBN 9788815390592

ISBN 9788815390592

publication October 2024

AIA; GENOCIDIO; CRIMINI DI GUERRA

IN LIBRERIA A OTTOBRE 2024

È POSSIBILE LA PACE SENZA

LA GIUSTIZIA?

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in 1998, with the signing of the Rome Statute, later ratified by more than 120 countries. In creating the ICC, the international community envisaged a global criminal justice system capable of putting an end to impunity for the perpetrators of serious international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression. After more than 20 years of activity, the universal nature of the ICC’s promise clashes with harsh reality: on the one hand, states have not equipped themselves with adequate national laws for dealing with crimes under international law; on the other hand, the Court itself is accused of selectivity, double standards, lack of effectiveness, and politicisation. And yet, in the face of the new wars that are bloodying Ukraine and the Middle East, the sturdy link between peace and justice has been reaffirmed, giving public opinion a glimmer of hope and showing countries that political action is possible. In this work, the author provides a balanced portrait of the ICC and identifies the key legal concepts underpinning one of the most important debates of our times.

La Corte penale internazionale nasce nel 1998, con la firma dello Statuto di Roma, poi ratificato da oltre 120 paesi. Istituendola, la comunità internazionale volle immaginare un sistema di giustizia penale globale, capace di porre fine all’impunità degli autori dei più gravi crimini internazionali: il genocidio, i crimini contro l'umanità, i crimini di guerra e di aggressione. A oltre vent’anni dalla sua entrata in funzione, l’universalità di questa promessa si scontra con la durezza della realtà: da un lato gli Stati non si sono dotati di leggi nazionali adeguate sui crimini di diritto internazionale; dall’altro alla Corte stessa si rimproverano la selettività, i doppi standard, la mancanza di effettività e la politicizzazione. Eppure, mai come oggi, dinanzi alle nuove guerre che insanguinano l’Ucraina e il Medio Oriente, il binomio pace-giustizia torna a mostrare la sua indivisibilità, concedendo alle opinioni pubbliche una luce di speranza e indicando ai paesi una possibilità di politica. Di tutto questo, Chantal Meloni traccia un bilancio equilibrato, in un libro che parte dall’Italia e guarda al mondo, e che fornisce la categorie giuridiche imprescindibili per prendere parte a uno dei dibattiti del nostro tempo.

Chantal Meloni teaches Criminal Law at the University of Milan and is a senior legal advisor to the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin.

CHANTAL MELONI insegna Diritto penale nell’Università Statale di Milano ed è Senior legal advisor dello European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights di Berlino. Tra i suoi lavori ricordiamo Command Responsibility in International Criminal Law (T.M.C. Asser Press, 2010) e Is there a Court for Gaza? A Test Bench for International Justice (a cura di, con G. Tognoni, T.M.C. Asser/Springer, 2012). Vive tra Berlino e Milano.

Saggi

Chantal Meloni

Tra gli Stati e la Corte penale internazionale: bilancio di una promessa

Saggi

Vincenzo Bochicchio & Cristiano Scandurra

The Psychology of Gender Identity

series «Aspetti della psicologia»

pp. 250

ISBN 9788815390158

publication September 2024

Sexual identity is a complex idea that brings together multiple, inter-related, yet relatively autonomous features: biological sex, gender (gender identity, gender roles and gender expression), and sexual orientation. Adopting a socio-constructivist perspective, this book explores the typical and atypical trajectories of gender identity construction throughout the life cycle, with a focus on childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. The author devotes special attention to the psychosocial impact of the progressive construction and deconstruction of gender identities and related gender roles, concluding with a focus on gender-based violence. The final part of the book deals with the description and understanding of transgender identities and newly emerging identities, such as non-binary identities.

Vincenzo Bochicchio teaches Dynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis Theory and Methods at the University of Calabria.

Cristiano Scandurra teaches Clinical Psychology at the Federico II University in Naples.

Fausto Caruana & Elisabetta Palagi

Why We Laugh

The Origins of the Social Brain

Fausto Caruana Elisabetta Palagi

Laughter – a spontaneous, uncontrolled behaviour everyone experiences – is a basic feature of our lives. However, although laughing is a commonplace activity, we would find it difficult to explain why we laugh. This book’s authors, a neuroscientist and an ethologist, take us into the world of laughter and explore its origins. We will discover that, contrary to common sense, laughter is not an exclusively human behaviour. We will understand what happens in our brains when we laugh. We will see how laughter is a complex behaviour and that there are many types of laughter with different meanings. Studied by philosophers, linguists, psychologists and ethologists, laughter is examined here from the novel perspective of evolutionary theory, focusing on the origins and functions of an engaging, fascinating and enjoyable activity.

series «Saggi»

pp. 270

ISBN 9788815389367

publication August 2024

Fausto Caruana is a member of the Italian National Research Council’s Neuroscience Institute and teaches Neuroscience and Language at the University of Parma.

Elisabetta Palagi teaches Ethology at the University of Pisa. In 2020 she was awarded the Animal Behaviour Society Fellowship Award for her studies on animal behaviour.

Saggi

Alle origini del cervello sociale

Saggi

Equilibrium

How to Pursue a Good Work-Life Balance

MARCELLO RUSSO

IN EQUILIBRIO

Un buon work-life balance è possibile

Achieving a good work-life balance can help us express better performance levels, improve our health, and cultivate hobbies and passions that are critical to our well-being. Over the years, work-life balance has been managed by acknowledging an underlying trade-off: in order to achieve positions of excellence in one’s job or set up a healthy family, one has to choose between one’s career or one’s private life. Today, there is a different prevailing attitude: we desire, whatever the cost, to pursue both goals. Based on research and studies conducted over the past four decades, this book identifies roles and strategies that can be adopted by the four leading players in the reconciliation process: individuals, businesses, bosses and the society in which we live. Taking into account managerial concerns, the author provides entertaining examples and valuable pointers for attaining an excellent work-life balance, eliminating the guilt we experience when we take time off from work and promoting conditions that enable the greatest number of people to strike a new balance.

series «Guide» pp. 250

ISBN 9788815389428

publication May 2024

Marcello Russo teaches Business Organization at the University of Bologna and heads the Global Master’s in Business Administration programme at the Bologna Business School.

Presentazione di Matteo Bussola

Marcello Russo

Francesco Toniolo Game Culture

A Profile of Video Gaming

Francesco Toniolo Game Culture

Video games feed a constantly growing market and feature characters who cross the boundaries of gaming and colonize movies and video platforms. All over the world, the number of people playing video games is increasing, as they manage to interact despite living in geographically and culturally distant places. Video games do not look to the past, as many seem to believe; they are crucial elements of contemporary society and everyday life. Those who do not play video games typically do not know much about them, nor understand them, and especially ignore their impact on young people’s and others’ lives. This book provides an opportunity to take stock of what video gaming means today and refute stereotypes and inaccurate beliefs. The author discusses the size and composition of the market for video games, their educational uses, the metaverse, and the future frontiers of gaming.

series «Farsi un’idea»

pp. 160

ISBN 9788815388674

publication October 2024

Francesco Toniolo teaches at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and the New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA), both in Milan.

Farsi un’idea

Luoghi non comuni del videogioco

Maria Pontillo & Stefano Vicari

Fear of Disconnection

Adolescence and Internet Addiction

La paura di essere disconnessi

Adolescenti e dipendenza dalla rete

Across the world, millions of youths aged between 11 and 17 engage in the compulsive, unrestrained use of social and streaming platforms, and even more, primarily boys, are at risk of video game addiction. Many teenagers, sometimes barely older than children, spend their days in front of a screen or with a phone constantly in their hands. They do not ask for help, and only with great anxiety do they manage to live outside their invisible circle of relationships. Why do they fear disconnection so much? What are they afraid of losing? Using true stories, the authors provide an account of this increasingly common disorder: the ways in which it is expressed, the individual and environmental factors that facilitate addiction, the warning signs, and strategies for dealing with it.

series «Farsi un’idea»

pp. 160

ISBN 9788815388650

publication June 2024

Maria Pontillo is a cognitive and behavioural psychotherapist and a psychology manager at the Childhood and Adolescence Neuropsychiatry Division of the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital in Rome.

Stefano Vicari teaches Child Neuropsychiatry at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome and heads the Childhood and Adolescence Neuropsychiatry Division of the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital in Rome.

Maria Pontillo Stefano Vicari

Paola Spagnoli & Cristian Balducci Workaholism

How to Identify and Counter It

Paola Spagnoli

Cristian Balducci

Is your job the most important activity in your life? Does your work feature mood swings that range from excitement to sadness, to serenity? Do you feel compelled to gradually and progressively increase the amount of time spent on work activities? When you cannot work, do you entertain negative thoughts? Do you blame yourself for being unable to «switch off» from your job? If so, you have probably developed an addiction to work. Some personality and environmental characteristics contribute to work addiction, but organizational climates and novel technologies also play a role in developing and maintaining workaholism. This book provides an overview of this increasingly common addiction and provides guidance to both workers and organizations seeking to prevent and limit the phenomenon.

series «Farsi un’idea»

pp. 160

ISBN 9788815388667

publication September 2024

Cristian Balducci teaches Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Bologna.

Paola Spagnoli teaches Work and Organizational Psychology at Luigi Vanvitelli University of Campania in Caserta.

Giovanna Sissa Hidden Emissions

The Invisible Environmental Impact of Digital Technologies

series «Farsi un’idea»

pp. 160

ISBN 9788815388636

publication March 2024

Is it possible for a digital transition to be environmentally friendly? Yes, but we need to be aware of the environmental costs associated with the digital technologies (smartphones, PCs, home sensors) that permeate our daily lives and especially how such technologies work: telecommunications infrastructure and data centres. We are so accustomed to these digital tools that we are blind to their impact on greenhouse gas emissions, electricity consumption, non-renewable resource exploitation, and waste production. This impact often remains unseen because digital businesses have never bothered to avoid or reduce it. This book is for readers who believe that everything involving the Internet and an apparently immaterial world is intrinsically ecological, who care about both the technological and the environmental future of our planet but are also aware that each of these two futures requires the other.

Giovanna Sissa teaches Interdisciplinary Dimension of ICT Environmental Impact at the Doctoral School in Science and Technology for Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Genova.

Andrea Goldstein

The Importance of Winning The Economics of the Olympic Games

Goldstein

If it has ever been true that the important thing is not winning but taking part, Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s famous saying is poorly suited for the reality of the contemporary Olympics, in which – by and large – silver is not won and gold is lost. For athletes, the Olympic Games require spending thousands of hours training, perhaps even risking their health. For cities, hosting an Olympiad entails spending colossal sums to build infrastructure and facilities that do not always find any subsequent use. For many businesses, the Olympics mean investing ever-increasing amounts of money to sponsor or broadcast competitions often held in countries that do not respect fundamental human rights. Yet the fascination with symbolic gold persists, as if the gold were real, as does the admiration for athletes capable of setting extraordinary records and conveying the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. This book helps readers understand what the Olympics are actually about.

series «Farsi un’idea» pp. 160

ISBN 9788815388643

publication March 2024

Andrea Goldstein works in an international organization and is a founding partner of the M&M Minima Moralia Foundation in Rome.

Anthony Pagden Beyond States

Powers, Peoples and Global Order

History pp. 256

ISBN 9788815383334

publication year 2023

None of the great challenges facing us today – the protection of the environment, the rational use of energy sources, the health of our species and, indeed, of all living things – can now be addressed by a single country, no matter how powerful it may be. Awareness of this fact entails the need to think about something that had previously seemed an utter utopia: the prospect of a planetary government stretching well beyond the borders of nation-states, even when the latter tend to take on the form of empires. At the same time, we increasingly encounter expressions such as «international justice», «supra-territoriality» and «transnational government», despite the horrors of the war of aggression occurring at Europe’s doorstep. We are growing accustomed to the idea of a global civil society, something like an authentic planetary civilisation. This lucid, realistic and visionary book, written by a major historian, projects readers into an imaginable future – not only for the West, but for an entire world finally at peace with itself.

Anthony Pagden teaches History and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

World English and Spanish rights sold.

Marcella Frangipane

One Fragment at a Time Ten

Archaeology

Lessons

History

pp. 280

ISBN 9788815382894

publication year 2023

Shortlisted for CNR (National Research Council) award 2024 for the divulgation of science!

All artefacts bear the sign of events that occurred at the time they were created and of the functions they performed within the community. They are fragments of everyday life: traces of religious rituals, economic activities, and people’s relationships with the environment. Like shards of a mirror, such objects reflect an image of what we have been and help us to make sense of the past. Years of work are required to tie together the threads of such distant and unfamiliar worlds. And, in fact, the renowned archaeologist who wrote this book spent over 30 years at the Arslantepe (or Melid) site in Anatolia, where the oldest public building in the world still stands. She accompanies readers on a journey through time (dating back six millennia or more) and space (in Anatolia and throughout the Fertile Crescent) to discover the first human civilizations and the political and social phenomena that still shape our lives. The book offers ten lessons drawn from ancient archaeology to help understand how we got here and what future awaits us.

A member of the Italian Accademia dei Lincei and the British Academy, Marcella Frangipane teaches Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at the Sapienza University in Rome. For 30 years she directed the excavations at the Arslantepe site in Turkey, recently named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. French and Turkish rights sold.

Nadia Urbinati

Virtuous Hypocrisy

Philosophy

pp. 176

ISBN 9788815387615

publication year 2023

Speak your mind, always. Hypocrisy challenges this rule of authenticity, and for this very reason hypocrisy is judged negatively, as intentional inconsistency between thoughts and words, between belief and behaviour. Does this make the hypocrite a silent saboteur of the moral order? A person who hides in the shadows and erodes the foundations of trust? Without trust there is no society, nor friendship, nor love. But society, friendship and love also require a measure of «virtuous» hypocrisy. If we were always robustly honest in public, it would be a disaster for everyone. What about politics? Here, too, are hypocrisy, inconsistency, and exchange always reprehensible? Or are they the essence of any democracy, any assembly, any meeting? The important thing is to understand when and within what limits hypocrisy can be justified and, above all, what is the opposite of hypocrisy.

Nadia Urbinati teaches Political Theory at Columbia University in New York.

World English, German and Portuguese (Brasil) rights sold.

Luciano Canfora Lessons in Classical Philology

Literary Criticism

pp. 192

ISBN 9788815386731

publication year 2023

Today we read ancient Greek and Latin texts in versions that were assembled at least a millennium after they were written. To what extent do the current versions faithfully reflect the originals, and what changes have the latter undergone? This is a historical question, which however implies to a more strictly operational one: when attempting to publish a new edition of one of those works, what procedures allow us to achieve our goal? This is the stuff of classical philology, a discipline already cultivated in ancient times (at least since the Great Library of Alexandria) and which later matured into the scientific study of the transmission of texts. Using specific and intriguing historical examples, the author puts his philological skills at the service of readers to guide them among this science’s key concepts (such as variant, archetype and stemma), its masters, and its practical methods.

Luciano Canfora is emeritus professor at the University of Bari and editor-in-chief of the academic journal «Quaderni di Storia»; he also writes for the Italian daily newspaper «Corriere della Sera».

Science pp. 176

ISBN 9788815298362 publication year 2023

Science

pp. 136

ISBN 9788815383624

publication year 2023

Massimiano Bucchi

Digital Intimacy

Vices and Virtues of Technological Innovation

New technologies pervade and shape our everyday gestures, personal relationships and ways of life. We are all accustomed to receiving personal messages from web giants and virtual assistants and often receive stylised kisses and hugs in texts from people we don’t really know all that well. If a friend looks at his smartphone during lunch, we are immediately tempted to do the same. We take advantage of the many tutorials made available on Internet for a range of activities, from repairing sun-blinds to setting up a barbecue or baking bread at home. At the same time, many technologies considered dead or obsolete – such as landline telephones and vinyl records – cyclically make a comeback and again become parts of our lives. Focusing on practical situations and typically unconscious habits, the book lays bare our relationship with technological innovation and the spirit of our time.

Massimiano Bucchi teaches Science, Technology and Society at the University of Trento.

Alessandro Lanza

Rainbow Energy

Does the Future Belong to Hydrogen?

Climate change and the war in Ukraine have conferred special urgency to the issue of «energy transition», an expression that indicates the need for mitigation strategies concerning our civilization’s carbon dioxide emissions. Among these strategies, indeed at their forefront, is hydrogen. Hydrogen is an energy carrier, not an energy source, a molecule that is abundant in nature but only when combined with other atoms. Its production is as varied as the colours of the rainbow: black if extracted from coal, brown from lignite, green from renewable sources, and even turquoise, blue, grey, pink or yellow. What are the differences between these «coloured hydrogens»? How do diverse production methods affect the economic and environmental costs of rainbow energy and therefore its applicability? What are the real prospects for the use of hydrogen in the immediate and more remote future?

Alessandro Lanza heads the ENI Enrico Mattei Foundation and teaches Energy and Environmental Policy at the Guido Carli Free International University of Social Studies (LUISS) and the LUISS Business School in Rome. He was formerly chief economist at ENI, chief executive officer at the ENI Corporate University and principal administrator at the International Energy Agency (Energy and Environment Division).