Paolo Mantegazza
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_The Physiology of Love and Other Writings_ is the first English annotated collection of Mantegazza’s selected works. In my extensive introductory essay, Mantegazza’s hybrid contributions from fiction, travel-writing, and ethnography to... more
Italian physician Paolo Mantegazza's classification of nervine nutrients (alimenti nervosi) is the first systematic theory of drugs authored by a modern European scientist. The initial formulation of his drug classification appears in his... more
Un'analisi della figura di Pellegrino Artusi e della "Scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene", con una verifica dei limiti ante e post dell'opera e del lavoro dell'autore.
Simone Fagioli, “Un genio svolazza sempre su quella beata isola”, Ugo Foscolo da Londra a Firenze nel 1871, “Rassegna Storica Toscana”, LXV, 1/2019, pp. 81-122. Il 24 giugno 1871 dal cimitero londinese di Chiswich arrivano a Firenze i... more
This article investigates the epistemological common ground between positivism and "Bildwissenschaft" through the analysis of the legacy of Tito Vignoli and Paolo Mantegazza's thought in Aby Warburg's theory. My aim is to show how the... more
This article investigates the nineteenth-century notions of expression and mimicry in natural science. It will focus especially on Aby Warburg's concept of Pathosformel. My archival research at the Warburg Institute in London showed that... more
The careers and lives of Enrico Hillyer Giglioli and Paolo Mantegazza have many common aspects. Both had a strong interest in Ethnology and held roles as Vice President and President, respectively, of the Italian Society of Anthropology... more
Matteo Loconsole, , Paolo Mantegazza. Alle origini dell’educazione sessuale, Milano, Biblion, "Storia, politica, società", 2021. https://www.biblionedizioni.it/prodotto/paolo-mantegazza-alle-origini-delleducazione-sessuale/
This volume on the relationships between decadent literature and anthropology in late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe studies the unnoticed connection between, on the one hand, a purposeless and ephemeral beauty, and, on the other... more
Le colloque sera centré sur les discours produits au 19e siècle et au début du 20e siècle sur l’émancipation des femmes en Italie dans toute leur variété et leur complexité, y compris les discours opposés à l’indépendance féminine. On... more
L'objet de cet article est de démontrer que l'interrogation portant sur les croyances au fantôme accompagne la naissance de l'anthropologie, et cela avant même l'institution de la discipline, dès le XVIe siècle. Mais au delà de la topique... more
Simone Fagioli, Abbozzo per una fisiologia della politica. Paolo Mantegazza tra barricate e parlamento, “Archivio per l’Antropologia e la Etnologia”, CLI (2021), pp. 87-108. Nell’opera di ricerca e divulgazione di Paolo Mantegazza un... more
Paolo Mantegazza è il padre dell’antropologia moderna, fondatore del primo museo di antropologia in Europa (Firenze) e pioniere negli studi sull’igiene, sulla fisiologia e sull’uso delle droghe. Leggendo le pagine di Mantegazza, si scopre... more
In the framework of contemporary ecocritical and posthumanist theories, this comparative analysis of works by Paolo Mantegazza, Ouida, and Vernon Lee focuses on the conflictual relationship of proximity and differentiation at stake in the... more
Luca Curti nel suo studio "Svevo e Schopenhauer" (1992) fa risalire al 1884 la scoperta del filosofo tedesco da parte del giovane Svevo; solo di recente negli studi sveviani, grazie all’edizione in inglese del Diario di Elio, a cura di... more
S. Fagioli, Relitto/Reliquia. Paolo Mantegazza, Ugo Foscolo e Pellegrino Artusi tra fisiologia e antropologia culturale, in “Archivio per l’Antropologia e la Etnologia”, CXLIX, 2019, pp. 55-76; con l’articolo di Paolo Mantegazza Il cranio... more
Presentazione del libro "Paolo Mantegazza. Dalle Americhe al Mediterraneo" al Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino.
The study describes the building of anthropology and the disciplines connected to it during the first years of the Italian state. The schools of thinking inspired by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and those of Darwinian inspiration are compared,... more
The Anthropology and Ethnology section of the Natural History Museum of Florence conserves a collection of South American ethnological objects made by Guido Boggiani. There are numerous studies on Boggiani as a traveler and ethnographer,... more
This article analyzes the depiction of the impossible in Paolo Mantegazza's L'anno 3000 (1897). Starting from the literary theory of possible worlds, it will be shown that the depiction of the imposs i-ble in Mantegazza's novel is... more
Based on its relationship to comic books, this article proposes an iconographic study of the public figure of Federico Fellini in terms of the Hermes archetype. With the aim of explaining how Fellini’s image has been interpreted from... more
The study describes the building of anthropology and the disciplines connected to it during the first years of the Italian state. The schools of thinking inspired by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and those of Darwinian inspiration are compared,... more
Le colloque sera centré sur les discours produits au XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle sur l'émancipation des femmes en Italie dans toute leur variété et leur complexité, y compris les discours opposés à l'indépendance féminine. On... more
Il seguente Abstract è stato presentato alle Giornate di Museologia Medica svoltesi il 6-7 novembre 2015 sul tema "Le collezioni di materiali grafici per la didattica medica (secoli XV-XX)" organizzato dalla Società di Storia della... more
Im Zeichen der Utopie kommunizieren Literatur und Architektur schon seit der Renaissance. Deshalb ist es auch wenig überraschend, dass die moderne Baukunst maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die utopischen Romane des 19. Jahrhunderts hat. Allen... more
The study offers a description of the difficulty of describing the boundaries between various study disciplines such as ethnology, folklore, and ethnography in the context of pre and postunitary Italy. In a specific paragraph are... more
- by Emmanuel Betta
- ethnography, comparative visual media, humanitarianism, human rights, biopolitics, Marxist critique, postcolonial studies, documentary studies, critical theory and cultural studies, posthumanism, animal studies, discourses of the child, Eugenics, History of the Body, Artificial insemination
Il FAI Sardegna prosegue il percorso di “Alla ricerca della storia perduta” offrendo ad iscritti, volontari, appassionati di romanzo storico e di storia l’ampio ventaglio dei paesaggi che costruiscono la Sardegna. Stavolta l’azione di... more
Séminaire "esthétique scientifique", Centre Victor Basch, Paris. (21.01.2015) Il seminario indagherà concetti di espressione e mimica nel XIX secolo nel campo delle scienze naturali. In particolare, il concetto di Pathosformel... more