This book traces the origins, life and death of Administrative Science in Italy as an academic di... more This book traces the origins, life and death of Administrative Science in Italy as an academic discipline between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so by combining the study of ideas, institutional history, intellectual history and social history. The Faculty of Law first introduced Administrative Science in 1875, with the aim of providing the elite with the necessary tools to distribute wealth more equally, to take care of the population and, thus, to make the young Italian State more legitimate in the eyes of the emerging masses. Law and social sciences were merged with the aim of increasing reforms, including that of creating a State of Happiness for all citizens. Throughout its 70-year existence, Administrative Science was deprived of its contents and scientific independence, and academically overshadowed by Administrative and Public law. Finally, although the liberal elites discarded the reformer project of Administrative Science even before Fascism turned everything upside down, most of the original traits of this knowledge were absorbed into Fascist corporate and totalitarian structures.
Luigi Rava, Un pensiero per lo Stato. Antologia di un riformatore, a cura e con introduzione di Fulvio Cortese e Andrea Rapini, Ronzani, Dueville (Vi), pp. 1-632, 2022
Luigi Rava (1860-1938) può annoverarsi tra i grandi dimenticati della storia politica e intellett... more Luigi Rava (1860-1938) può annoverarsi tra i grandi dimenticati della storia politica e intellettuale del nostro Paese. Professore di filosofia del diritto, contabilità pubblica e scienza dell’amministrazione, ha insegnato a Siena, Pavia e Bologna. È stato protagonista della vita istituzionale italiana, non solo quale parlamentare, ma anche da sottosegretario e ministro (dell’agricoltura, industria e commercio; dell’istruzione pubblica; delle finanze). Si è distinto per il suo impegno a favore delle riforme sociali e del lavoro, ed è il padre di una innovativa disciplina nazionale per la tutela delle bellezze naturali e dei beni culturali. In questo volume si pubblicano per la prima volta alcuni suoi scritti (prolusioni universitarie; discorsi parlamentari; altri discorsi pubblici), selezionati nell’ambito di una produzione sterminata. Riemerge in tal modo la testimonianza di una passione interamente consegnata al servizio dello Stato e delle sfide difficili che esso ha dovuto affrontare in un periodo di grandi crisi e trasformazioni. Le parole di Rava non costituiscono soltanto i tasselli preziosi di un quadro istituzionale ancora da scoprire, ma tracciano una lezione tuttora valida e suggestiva.
Despite the symbolic capital and the global commercial success of the
Vespa scooter, there is no ... more Despite the symbolic capital and the global commercial success of the Vespa scooter, there is no academic book dealing with its history, only literature produced by the company itself or by scooter enthusiasts. The origins of the Vespa are shrouded in mist, entrusted more to myth than to historical truth. Based on lengthy research carried out in Piaggio’s historical archives and on an interdisciplinary approach, this volume aims to fill this gap. It shows how the Vespa took techniques from the most advanced aeronautical industries in the world, adapting and hybridizing them in an original way, and how the company disseminated its models in the transnational social space.
Uno storico affermato e un giovane studioso intessono insieme un dialogo su uno dei grandi proble... more Uno storico affermato e un giovane studioso intessono insieme un dialogo su uno dei grandi problemi del Novecento: l'antifascismo. Convinti che questo tema sia ancora oggi un oggetto di ricerca ampiamente da esplorare, ne ripercorrono la storia sotto una nuova luce: da capitolo nazionale l'antifascismo viene collocato in una cornice europea e da fenomeno circoscritto esclusivamente agli anni trenta viene catapultato in uno scenario di lunga durata, valutandone il contributo alla definizione della democrazia fino al crepuscolo del secolo. Nello stesso tempo, il dialogo prende spunto dall'antifascismo per aprire un confronto serrato sulle condizioni di possibilità che spiegano la genesi delle idee di uno storico, dei suoi quadri mentali e delle sue prese di posizione nel campo scientifico. Cimentandosi criticamente con i modelli proposti dalla microstoria e dall'ego-histoire, il volume delinea così il contorno originale di una storia sociale della storiografia di cui si offre un concreto esempio.
LES ANNALES. HISTOIRE, SCIENCES SOCIALES, n. 79/1, pp. 1-37, 2024
This article contributes to the history of knowledge by analyzing power relations at the intersec... more This article contributes to the history of knowledge by analyzing power relations at the intersection of the academic and political fields. It focuses on the evolution of Italian administrative science (AS) from its introduction into the legal curriculum in 1875 to its temporary removal from law faculties in 1935. The article begins by describing the naissance of the Italian university model and its foreign influences. It then analyzes the controversy surrounding the epistemological foundations and boundaries of an emerging and contested AS, tracing debates linked to political issues of state sovereignty and the legitimacy of welfare policies. The teaching of AS flourished into the 1880s. However, regulatory changes affected the balance of power in the recruitment of professors, and the field began to decline. This is illustrated by a reconstruction of the links between coparticipants in recruitment juries, based on network analysis. Combined with biographical data, these results show how defenders of a highly formalist legal method imposed their vision on the definition and classification of administrative disciplines. Finally, a study of representative individual trajectories contrasts the ongoing marginalization of those who favored an interventionist AS with the legitimation of its detractors: supporters of the liberal state, who nevertheless adopted disparate positions in the face of the rising tide of Fascism
Mobilization: An International Quarterly (2022) 27 (1): 69–90., 2022
In this article we explore the discursive mobilization of movement frames within networked public... more In this article we explore the discursive mobilization of movement frames within networked publics-a form of unorganized digital activism through which movement organizations, activists, and citizens politicize ordinary conversations by engaging in adversarial meaningmaking dynamics online. Leaning on large-scale semantic network analysis and content analysis, we investigate the mobilization of the frame of antifascism within the conversation that sparked on Twitter after the brutal shooting of a group of African citizens by an Italian neofascist militant in 2018. We pay particular attention to how the discursive mobilization of the frame of antifascism occurs immediately after the shooting and how it evolves particularly in connection with offline protests. Our results shed light on the fluid nature of discursive mobilization patterns which underpin both the identification with the antifascist tradition and attempts to delegitimize this instance of collective action. * We would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers at Mobilization who provided generous and valuable comments that were crucial to strengthen our argument and analysis. We also thank Maria Grasso at Mobilization for granting us a caring and understanding work environment in which we could revise our manuscript while handling the manifold challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’Europe, 2022
Née en Italie entre la Seconde Guerre mondiale et l'immédiat après-guerre, la Vespa devient vite ... more Née en Italie entre la Seconde Guerre mondiale et l'immédiat après-guerre, la Vespa devient vite si populaire que la marque remplace dans le langage courant, pendant des décennies, le mot générique « scooter ». Si la Vespa a de profondes racines italiennes, elle s'européanise néanmoins très tôt et déploie même une véritable trajectoire globale, grâce à la fois aux exportations et, surtout, aux investissements directs à l'étranger. Le succès de la Vespa repose aussi largement sur la communication de l'entreprise, Piaggio, qui a forgé au fil des ans un imaginaire devenu partie intégrante de l'identité culturelle de l'Europe. Bien que les performances économiques de la Vespa diminuent à partir des années 1980, on peut encore déceler quarante ans plus tard les traces de l'identification entre la Vespa et l'Europe dans les produits de l'industrie culturelle, à l'instar de séries Netflix.
in L’avanguardia dei nostri popoli. Per una filosofia della migrazione, 2020
Il capitolo affronta il tema della "denazionalizzazione" degli ebrei stranieri durante il fascism... more Il capitolo affronta il tema della "denazionalizzazione" degli ebrei stranieri durante il fascismo: fonti, problematiche, storiografia
The article focuses on the most important Committee for the reform of the Italian
welfare state ... more The article focuses on the most important Committee for the reform of the Italian
welfare state during the twentieth century: the “Rava Committee”. It conducts a first time prosopographical study of its members aiming to analyse the ideas and proposals of social reform as well as the agents. The article begins by bringing to light the educational background of the components of the Committee, highlighting the central role of statistical knowledge. Then, it explores its professional composition, which excludes the subaltern classes, as well as the political culture of the members. Finally, the prosopography shows the features of a reform area which crosses traditional political organizations. It is a sort of irregular cloud unified by the aim to address the social question with reforms and therefore to prevent the fracture of society.
Mélanges de l'École française de Rome - Italie et Méditerranée, 2018
During the second half of the nineteenth century, administrative science circulated from the Germ... more During the second half of the nineteenth century, administrative science circulated from the German cultural space to Italy, where it met a national conception of administration. Considered as an autonomous science that focuses on state interventions in society to improve the distribution of wealth, it became a university discipline in 1875. It was nonetheless removed in 1935 after losing its scientific autonomy when it evolved to the study of state bureaucracy. This article details the social and political conditions of this successive institutionalization and deinstitutionalization through fine-scale observations of jurist Guido Cavaglieri’s trajectory, who represents an anomaly in regard to the norms that regulate administrative science. He is at the same time an indicator that reveals the tensions inside the discipline and its relationships with politics.
in Lorenzo Barrault-Stella, Pierre Edouard Weill (eds.), Creating target publics for welfare policies. A comparative and multilevel approach, Springer, Cham, pp. 27-47 , 2018
There is broad consensus that Italian Fascism addressed the middle classes – through its rhetoric... more There is broad consensus that Italian Fascism addressed the middle classes – through its rhetoric, privileged policies of social protection and trade union organization – with a view to consolidating a loyal area in society. On the contrary, what is less widely known is that appearance of the middle classes dates back to the period between the end of the nineteenth century and the Great war. To shed light on this “invention”, the chapter carries out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the emergence of a discourse on the middle classes prior to the First World War. It then outlines the biography of Italy’s most intense propagandist for the middle classes, Vincenzo Magaldi, and describes the International Institute for the Study of the Middle Classes in which he operated. The next section focuses on the Commission for post-war problems established in 1918 that was the first to incorporate the middle classes into a proposal for “global” reform of social legislation. Finally, the article discusses the mobilization of the middle classes at the dawn of the Fascist era.
This article analyses the Algerian inquiries of Pierre Bourdieu. It begins by retracing the most ... more This article analyses the Algerian inquiries of Pierre Bourdieu. It begins by retracing the most pervasive, medium- and long-term interventions of French colonial power in Algerian society: the introduction of capitalism and the internment of civilians in the centres de regroupement. Next, it outlines the social subjects studied by the young agrégé of philosophy and his representation of labour. Subsequent sections deal with shifts in the public stance of Bourdieu regarding the revolutionary propensity of these people. On this tricky testing ground, Bourdieu engaged with and critically confronted the ideas of Germaine Tillion and Frantz Fanon. His position is reviewed from a historical-philological approach in order to set the texts in their temporal and spatial contexts, establish parallels and/or divergences, and verify the effects such comparisons produced. The conclusions emphasize the richness and originality of Bourdieu’s inquiries given the era in which they were made and highlight, in light of the recent global reorientation of labour history, some of the vital viewpoints expressed on the origins of capitalism in the colony.
The article proposes the prosopographical analysis of the government Committee for the study of t... more The article proposes the prosopographical analysis of the government Committee for the study of the social law and provident («Commissione Rava» 1918). Especially, this practice research restores historical depth to the Administrative Science which knowledge about the social reform; it shows the cooperation among different political cultures in the attempt to face the «social question»; it highlights a constellation of political and academics élites, of cultural reviews, of city and of institutions of the State that give consistence to a reforming space wrecked with relationships between the '80s of the ‘800 and the First Great War. In the conclusions, the article sustains that the «social question» qualifies as one among the deepest faults that swallow the liberal State.
in Regards Sociologiques n. 47/48, pp. 157-168, 2015
Ce document propose une cartographie des enquêtes algériennes de Pierre Bourdieu. En suivant dans... more Ce document propose une cartographie des enquêtes algériennes de Pierre Bourdieu. En suivant dans plusieurs sources les traces de cette experience fondatrice d’un approche original, une première carte croise la trajectoire de Bourdieu sur le sol algérien avec ses prises de position à propos de la « situation » et de la guerre coloniale. Une deuxième carte situe les differentes étapes de la recherche sur les travailleurs et les centres de regroupement dans les principaux événements de la guerre.
This book traces the origins, life and death of Administrative Science in Italy as an academic di... more This book traces the origins, life and death of Administrative Science in Italy as an academic discipline between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so by combining the study of ideas, institutional history, intellectual history and social history. The Faculty of Law first introduced Administrative Science in 1875, with the aim of providing the elite with the necessary tools to distribute wealth more equally, to take care of the population and, thus, to make the young Italian State more legitimate in the eyes of the emerging masses. Law and social sciences were merged with the aim of increasing reforms, including that of creating a State of Happiness for all citizens. Throughout its 70-year existence, Administrative Science was deprived of its contents and scientific independence, and academically overshadowed by Administrative and Public law. Finally, although the liberal elites discarded the reformer project of Administrative Science even before Fascism turned everything upside down, most of the original traits of this knowledge were absorbed into Fascist corporate and totalitarian structures.
Luigi Rava, Un pensiero per lo Stato. Antologia di un riformatore, a cura e con introduzione di Fulvio Cortese e Andrea Rapini, Ronzani, Dueville (Vi), pp. 1-632, 2022
Luigi Rava (1860-1938) può annoverarsi tra i grandi dimenticati della storia politica e intellett... more Luigi Rava (1860-1938) può annoverarsi tra i grandi dimenticati della storia politica e intellettuale del nostro Paese. Professore di filosofia del diritto, contabilità pubblica e scienza dell’amministrazione, ha insegnato a Siena, Pavia e Bologna. È stato protagonista della vita istituzionale italiana, non solo quale parlamentare, ma anche da sottosegretario e ministro (dell’agricoltura, industria e commercio; dell’istruzione pubblica; delle finanze). Si è distinto per il suo impegno a favore delle riforme sociali e del lavoro, ed è il padre di una innovativa disciplina nazionale per la tutela delle bellezze naturali e dei beni culturali. In questo volume si pubblicano per la prima volta alcuni suoi scritti (prolusioni universitarie; discorsi parlamentari; altri discorsi pubblici), selezionati nell’ambito di una produzione sterminata. Riemerge in tal modo la testimonianza di una passione interamente consegnata al servizio dello Stato e delle sfide difficili che esso ha dovuto affrontare in un periodo di grandi crisi e trasformazioni. Le parole di Rava non costituiscono soltanto i tasselli preziosi di un quadro istituzionale ancora da scoprire, ma tracciano una lezione tuttora valida e suggestiva.
Despite the symbolic capital and the global commercial success of the
Vespa scooter, there is no ... more Despite the symbolic capital and the global commercial success of the Vespa scooter, there is no academic book dealing with its history, only literature produced by the company itself or by scooter enthusiasts. The origins of the Vespa are shrouded in mist, entrusted more to myth than to historical truth. Based on lengthy research carried out in Piaggio’s historical archives and on an interdisciplinary approach, this volume aims to fill this gap. It shows how the Vespa took techniques from the most advanced aeronautical industries in the world, adapting and hybridizing them in an original way, and how the company disseminated its models in the transnational social space.
Uno storico affermato e un giovane studioso intessono insieme un dialogo su uno dei grandi proble... more Uno storico affermato e un giovane studioso intessono insieme un dialogo su uno dei grandi problemi del Novecento: l'antifascismo. Convinti che questo tema sia ancora oggi un oggetto di ricerca ampiamente da esplorare, ne ripercorrono la storia sotto una nuova luce: da capitolo nazionale l'antifascismo viene collocato in una cornice europea e da fenomeno circoscritto esclusivamente agli anni trenta viene catapultato in uno scenario di lunga durata, valutandone il contributo alla definizione della democrazia fino al crepuscolo del secolo. Nello stesso tempo, il dialogo prende spunto dall'antifascismo per aprire un confronto serrato sulle condizioni di possibilità che spiegano la genesi delle idee di uno storico, dei suoi quadri mentali e delle sue prese di posizione nel campo scientifico. Cimentandosi criticamente con i modelli proposti dalla microstoria e dall'ego-histoire, il volume delinea così il contorno originale di una storia sociale della storiografia di cui si offre un concreto esempio.
LES ANNALES. HISTOIRE, SCIENCES SOCIALES, n. 79/1, pp. 1-37, 2024
This article contributes to the history of knowledge by analyzing power relations at the intersec... more This article contributes to the history of knowledge by analyzing power relations at the intersection of the academic and political fields. It focuses on the evolution of Italian administrative science (AS) from its introduction into the legal curriculum in 1875 to its temporary removal from law faculties in 1935. The article begins by describing the naissance of the Italian university model and its foreign influences. It then analyzes the controversy surrounding the epistemological foundations and boundaries of an emerging and contested AS, tracing debates linked to political issues of state sovereignty and the legitimacy of welfare policies. The teaching of AS flourished into the 1880s. However, regulatory changes affected the balance of power in the recruitment of professors, and the field began to decline. This is illustrated by a reconstruction of the links between coparticipants in recruitment juries, based on network analysis. Combined with biographical data, these results show how defenders of a highly formalist legal method imposed their vision on the definition and classification of administrative disciplines. Finally, a study of representative individual trajectories contrasts the ongoing marginalization of those who favored an interventionist AS with the legitimation of its detractors: supporters of the liberal state, who nevertheless adopted disparate positions in the face of the rising tide of Fascism
Mobilization: An International Quarterly (2022) 27 (1): 69–90., 2022
In this article we explore the discursive mobilization of movement frames within networked public... more In this article we explore the discursive mobilization of movement frames within networked publics-a form of unorganized digital activism through which movement organizations, activists, and citizens politicize ordinary conversations by engaging in adversarial meaningmaking dynamics online. Leaning on large-scale semantic network analysis and content analysis, we investigate the mobilization of the frame of antifascism within the conversation that sparked on Twitter after the brutal shooting of a group of African citizens by an Italian neofascist militant in 2018. We pay particular attention to how the discursive mobilization of the frame of antifascism occurs immediately after the shooting and how it evolves particularly in connection with offline protests. Our results shed light on the fluid nature of discursive mobilization patterns which underpin both the identification with the antifascist tradition and attempts to delegitimize this instance of collective action. * We would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers at Mobilization who provided generous and valuable comments that were crucial to strengthen our argument and analysis. We also thank Maria Grasso at Mobilization for granting us a caring and understanding work environment in which we could revise our manuscript while handling the manifold challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’Europe, 2022
Née en Italie entre la Seconde Guerre mondiale et l'immédiat après-guerre, la Vespa devient vite ... more Née en Italie entre la Seconde Guerre mondiale et l'immédiat après-guerre, la Vespa devient vite si populaire que la marque remplace dans le langage courant, pendant des décennies, le mot générique « scooter ». Si la Vespa a de profondes racines italiennes, elle s'européanise néanmoins très tôt et déploie même une véritable trajectoire globale, grâce à la fois aux exportations et, surtout, aux investissements directs à l'étranger. Le succès de la Vespa repose aussi largement sur la communication de l'entreprise, Piaggio, qui a forgé au fil des ans un imaginaire devenu partie intégrante de l'identité culturelle de l'Europe. Bien que les performances économiques de la Vespa diminuent à partir des années 1980, on peut encore déceler quarante ans plus tard les traces de l'identification entre la Vespa et l'Europe dans les produits de l'industrie culturelle, à l'instar de séries Netflix.
in L’avanguardia dei nostri popoli. Per una filosofia della migrazione, 2020
Il capitolo affronta il tema della "denazionalizzazione" degli ebrei stranieri durante il fascism... more Il capitolo affronta il tema della "denazionalizzazione" degli ebrei stranieri durante il fascismo: fonti, problematiche, storiografia
The article focuses on the most important Committee for the reform of the Italian
welfare state ... more The article focuses on the most important Committee for the reform of the Italian
welfare state during the twentieth century: the “Rava Committee”. It conducts a first time prosopographical study of its members aiming to analyse the ideas and proposals of social reform as well as the agents. The article begins by bringing to light the educational background of the components of the Committee, highlighting the central role of statistical knowledge. Then, it explores its professional composition, which excludes the subaltern classes, as well as the political culture of the members. Finally, the prosopography shows the features of a reform area which crosses traditional political organizations. It is a sort of irregular cloud unified by the aim to address the social question with reforms and therefore to prevent the fracture of society.
Mélanges de l'École française de Rome - Italie et Méditerranée, 2018
During the second half of the nineteenth century, administrative science circulated from the Germ... more During the second half of the nineteenth century, administrative science circulated from the German cultural space to Italy, where it met a national conception of administration. Considered as an autonomous science that focuses on state interventions in society to improve the distribution of wealth, it became a university discipline in 1875. It was nonetheless removed in 1935 after losing its scientific autonomy when it evolved to the study of state bureaucracy. This article details the social and political conditions of this successive institutionalization and deinstitutionalization through fine-scale observations of jurist Guido Cavaglieri’s trajectory, who represents an anomaly in regard to the norms that regulate administrative science. He is at the same time an indicator that reveals the tensions inside the discipline and its relationships with politics.
in Lorenzo Barrault-Stella, Pierre Edouard Weill (eds.), Creating target publics for welfare policies. A comparative and multilevel approach, Springer, Cham, pp. 27-47 , 2018
There is broad consensus that Italian Fascism addressed the middle classes – through its rhetoric... more There is broad consensus that Italian Fascism addressed the middle classes – through its rhetoric, privileged policies of social protection and trade union organization – with a view to consolidating a loyal area in society. On the contrary, what is less widely known is that appearance of the middle classes dates back to the period between the end of the nineteenth century and the Great war. To shed light on this “invention”, the chapter carries out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the emergence of a discourse on the middle classes prior to the First World War. It then outlines the biography of Italy’s most intense propagandist for the middle classes, Vincenzo Magaldi, and describes the International Institute for the Study of the Middle Classes in which he operated. The next section focuses on the Commission for post-war problems established in 1918 that was the first to incorporate the middle classes into a proposal for “global” reform of social legislation. Finally, the article discusses the mobilization of the middle classes at the dawn of the Fascist era.
This article analyses the Algerian inquiries of Pierre Bourdieu. It begins by retracing the most ... more This article analyses the Algerian inquiries of Pierre Bourdieu. It begins by retracing the most pervasive, medium- and long-term interventions of French colonial power in Algerian society: the introduction of capitalism and the internment of civilians in the centres de regroupement. Next, it outlines the social subjects studied by the young agrégé of philosophy and his representation of labour. Subsequent sections deal with shifts in the public stance of Bourdieu regarding the revolutionary propensity of these people. On this tricky testing ground, Bourdieu engaged with and critically confronted the ideas of Germaine Tillion and Frantz Fanon. His position is reviewed from a historical-philological approach in order to set the texts in their temporal and spatial contexts, establish parallels and/or divergences, and verify the effects such comparisons produced. The conclusions emphasize the richness and originality of Bourdieu’s inquiries given the era in which they were made and highlight, in light of the recent global reorientation of labour history, some of the vital viewpoints expressed on the origins of capitalism in the colony.
The article proposes the prosopographical analysis of the government Committee for the study of t... more The article proposes the prosopographical analysis of the government Committee for the study of the social law and provident («Commissione Rava» 1918). Especially, this practice research restores historical depth to the Administrative Science which knowledge about the social reform; it shows the cooperation among different political cultures in the attempt to face the «social question»; it highlights a constellation of political and academics élites, of cultural reviews, of city and of institutions of the State that give consistence to a reforming space wrecked with relationships between the '80s of the ‘800 and the First Great War. In the conclusions, the article sustains that the «social question» qualifies as one among the deepest faults that swallow the liberal State.
in Regards Sociologiques n. 47/48, pp. 157-168, 2015
Ce document propose une cartographie des enquêtes algériennes de Pierre Bourdieu. En suivant dans... more Ce document propose une cartographie des enquêtes algériennes de Pierre Bourdieu. En suivant dans plusieurs sources les traces de cette experience fondatrice d’un approche original, une première carte croise la trajectoire de Bourdieu sur le sol algérien avec ses prises de position à propos de la « situation » et de la guerre coloniale. Une deuxième carte situe les differentes étapes de la recherche sur les travailleurs et les centres de regroupement dans les principaux événements de la guerre.
La lettura incrociata del libro di Michele Colucci e del n. 91 di «Meridiana» a sua cura consente... more La lettura incrociata del libro di Michele Colucci e del n. 91 di «Meridiana» a sua cura consente di tratteggiare alcuni caratteri di fondo dell'immigrazione in Italia, dal secondo dopoguerra alla recente "crisi dei rifugiati": caratteri che appaiono ampiamente condivisi nei due testi qui recensiti di cui possiamo evidenziare i reciproci rispecchiamenti, pur nella diversità dei singoli approcci.
Il XIX Annale della Fondazione Gramsci interamente dedicato a Franco De Felice è suddiviso in tre... more Il XIX Annale della Fondazione Gramsci interamente dedicato a Franco De Felice è suddiviso in tre parti. Si apre con un lungo e denso saggio di Grego-rio Sorgonà, La proposta storiografica di Franco De Felice (pp. 11-195), la più pon-derata ricostruzione della biografia scienti-fica dello storico, in cui Sorgonà con gran-de acribia intreccia tre diversi campi di intervento nella vita pubblica di De Fe-lice: i corsi universitari, l'attività edito-riale presso la casa editrice De Donato, l'impegno nell'Istituto Gramsci. L'autore ha utilizzato tre depositi documentari: il fondo privato De Felice presso la Fonda-zione Istituto Gramsci, le carte dell'edito-re De Donato, l'archivio della Fondazione Gramsci che testimonia il suo apporto alla vita della sezione storica. La parte centrale dell'Annale ospi-ta invece un capitolo di Ermanno Tavia-ni "Nella 'guerra di movimento'. Gramsci e Togliatti nella storiografia di Franco De Felice", pp. 199-239) che ha la funzione più specifica di introdurre la terza parte, dove trova spazio un'antologia degli scrit-ti di De Felice. Taviani approfondisce la funzione prismatica di Gramsci e Togliat-ti attraverso i quali De Felice ha guarda-to la storia nazionale in modo originale ri-spetto alla stessa storiografia comunista.
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Vespa scooter, there is no academic book dealing with its history, only
literature produced by the company itself or by scooter enthusiasts. The
origins of the Vespa are shrouded in mist, entrusted more to myth than
to historical truth. Based on lengthy research carried out in Piaggio’s
historical archives and on an interdisciplinary approach, this volume aims
to fill this gap. It shows how the Vespa took techniques from the most
advanced aeronautical industries in the world, adapting and hybridizing
them in an original way, and how the company disseminated its models
in the transnational social space.
welfare state during the twentieth century: the “Rava Committee”. It conducts a first time prosopographical study of its members aiming to analyse the ideas and proposals of social reform as well as the agents. The article begins by bringing to light the educational background of the components of the Committee, highlighting the central role of statistical knowledge. Then, it explores its professional composition, which excludes the subaltern classes, as well as the political culture of the members. Finally, the prosopography shows the features of a reform area which crosses traditional political organizations. It is a sort of irregular cloud unified by the aim to address the social question with reforms and therefore to prevent the fracture of society.
Vespa scooter, there is no academic book dealing with its history, only
literature produced by the company itself or by scooter enthusiasts. The
origins of the Vespa are shrouded in mist, entrusted more to myth than
to historical truth. Based on lengthy research carried out in Piaggio’s
historical archives and on an interdisciplinary approach, this volume aims
to fill this gap. It shows how the Vespa took techniques from the most
advanced aeronautical industries in the world, adapting and hybridizing
them in an original way, and how the company disseminated its models
in the transnational social space.
welfare state during the twentieth century: the “Rava Committee”. It conducts a first time prosopographical study of its members aiming to analyse the ideas and proposals of social reform as well as the agents. The article begins by bringing to light the educational background of the components of the Committee, highlighting the central role of statistical knowledge. Then, it explores its professional composition, which excludes the subaltern classes, as well as the political culture of the members. Finally, the prosopography shows the features of a reform area which crosses traditional political organizations. It is a sort of irregular cloud unified by the aim to address the social question with reforms and therefore to prevent the fracture of society.