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Discourses of Delegitimisation. Paths of Anti-Spanish Sentiment in Modern Europe

Giovanni Scarpato — 2025-11-27

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 134

Language: Italian

Abstract: This volume brings together the proceedings of the conference “Discourses of Delegitimisation”, held at the Department of Political Science of the University of Naples Federico II. The authors of the essays collected here were invited to address a highly significant issue, namely the perception that contemporaries had of the Spanish monarchy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The meaning and function of anti-Spanish sentiment, whose importance has been highlighted in relation to specific aspects, is revisited here with the intention of exploring its relationship with the very idea of imperial power. By tracing an ideal geography of anti-Spanish sentiment, the contributions collected here attempt to answer some crucial questions: What were the causes that fuelled anti-Spanish sentiment? What were the main polemical arguments it used? What factors of real vulnerability did politicians and writers identify in the Spanish machine? And what were the national or territorial differences that emerged between the different areas of that imperial space with regard to these attempts at delegitimisation?

Yo la reyna. Studio e edizione del registro di cancelleria della regina Isabella la Cattolica (1484-1497)

Martina Del Popolo — 2025-11-25

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Regna. Texts and Studies on Institutions, Culture and Memory in Medieval Southern Italy

Pages: 500

Language: Italian

Abstract: This book presents the palaeographic and diplomatic study and edition of Royal Chancellery Register No. 3687, preserved in the Archive of the Crown of Aragon. This register is unique in that it is the only surviving document from the chancellery of Isabella of Castile in her capacity as Queen Consort of Aragon. The documents it contains are of great significance, as they relate entirely to the administration of the Catholic Queen’s lands in Sicily and Catalonia. Tàrrega, Vilagrassa, Sabadell, Syracuse, Lentini, Mineo, Vizzini, Francavilla, San Filippo d'Argirò, the ports of Brucoli and Agnone, and later Augusta, were granted to Isabella of Castile as a dower by virtue of her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon—soon to become King Ferdinand II—according to the marriage capitulations of Cervera (1469). This patrimony constituted a crucial base of power for consolidating her status, rewarding her officials, and enhancing the prestige of her household. The register has been fully transcribed, with all 281 documents (162 in Latin, 113 in Spanish, 6 in Catalan, and 1 in Sicilian) identified individually, each accompanied by its respective date and regestum. In addition to the edition, an introductory study examines the register’s diplomatic and palaeographic features, as well as the various types of documents it comprises.

Bhūtārthakathane . . . Sarasvatī. Reading Poetry as a History Book

Marco Franceschini — 2025-11-21

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Studies on the History of Śaivism

Pages: 402

Languages: English

Abstract: Bhūtārthakathane … Sarasvatī: Reading Poetry as a History Book is a collection of ten articles exploring one of the key tension in the study of historical poetry—between the desire to extract ‘hard’ historical facts from poetic texts, and the need to attend to the history of poetry itself—its forms, conventions, and evolving self-understanding. The contributors show us poets who were not only engaged in decidedly historical projects but were also consciously, bravely, and sometimes even audaciously making history themselves. They illustrate that premodern South Asian poets were deliberately engaging with their past and present, and speaking to future audiences as they entered into literary discussions that had often been going on for centuries. This volume will be of interest to scholars of literary history and historical literature, as well as to all scholars engaged in the study of South Asian poetry.

1503. Un racconto archeologico sulla Battaglia del Garigliano. Analisi del contesto e rinvenimenti numismatici dalla Rocca Montis Dragonis

Brunella Gargiulo — 2025-11-06

Series: Mondi Mediterranei, 17

Pages: 233

Language: Italian

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31-309-48-6

Over 700 coins, thousands upon thousands of pottery, glass, and metal fragments, a complete suit of armor, crossbow bolts, lead and stone shot for firearms—all buried under a thick layer of rubble, the result of a sudden and catastrophic event that irreversibly marked the abandonment of the Rocca Montis Dragonis. This wealth of data compelled us archaeologists to spend countless hours on the phone, in libraries, and fueled by liters of coffee, trying to interpret what is a completely unexpected and astonishing archaeological case. In an age when it seems all stories have been told, when every “discovery” appears to have already been made, this case stands out.

The purpose of this text is to recount this archaeological case, a sort of cold case, and to give voice to the silent testimony of the artifacts for a variety of important reasons.

Firstly, this story touches on something universal, as it does not merely recount the end of the Rocca Montis Dragonis and the rise of Mondragone in the plain below. It revisits the ambitions of men and women determined to claim the throne of Naples and shows how the thirst for power sparked yet another conflict—a civil war that spared no territory. The consequences unfolded precisely in this area straddling northern Campania and southern Lazio, culminating in the Battle of the Garigliano in December 1503, where the Kingdom of Naples lost its autonomy and became a Spanish viceroyalty.

Secondly, such an abundance of archaeological data can provide a tangible, concrete, and visible account of what happened. The uniqueness of the findings offers an opportunity to construct a vivid narrative impossible to achieve through other means.

Thirdly, the sheer quantity of coins found in their original context makes this discovery unique, allowing us to observe first-hand what circulated in the Kingdom between the late 15th and early 16th centuries—not only official coinage but also counterfeit and re-struck coins.

Fourthly, this is an opportunity to tell a true story, to affirm, as modern cinema often reminds us, that “this story is based on real events.”

Finally, there is an ethical duty that archaeologists owe to the places where they work. They act as filters, as mediators between scientific research and the contemporary community, to which the research ultimately belongs. This enables the community to reclaim the findings and turn them into a tool for cultural and historical enrichment. Therefore, this story, born of questions rooted in the present, is dedicated to the contemporary community. It is meant for all those who, adrift in this sea of uncertainty, can find their way home and make their own contributions to our collective heritage.

Summary

Premessa 8

Chapter 1 10
1.1 Il ruolo della Rocca Montis Dragonis e del suo territorio in età medievale. 10
1.2 Il contributo delle ricerche archeologiche per la conoscenza del sito. 20

Chapter 2 26
2.1 Moneta e contesto archeologico: lo scavo della grande piazza(CF11) e l’analisi delle ultime fasi di frequentazione del sito 26
2.2 Analisi stratigrafica della piazza (CF11) 33
2.3 Ricostruzione del contesto 53

Chapter 3 65
3.1 Analisi del dato storico-archivistico. Tensioni tra il re Ferdinando I e i Baroni del Regno: uno sguardo particolareggiato sulla Campania settentrionale 65
3.2 La Battaglia del Garigliano 75

Chapter 4 87
4.1 Il territorio in età aragonese da un punto di vista economico 87

Chapter 5 96
5.1 I reperti numismatici dalla Rocca Montis Dragonis 96
5.2 Le monete di Ferdinando I d’Aragona 96
5.3 Emissioni post congiura: zecca di Napoli 99

5.4 Emissioni post congiura: zecca dell’Aquila 102
5.5 Zecca di Brindisi 104
5.6 Analisi del contesto 105
5.7 Confronti con altre regioni 105

CATALOGO 108
5.8 Le monete in circolazione durante la congiura dei baroni (1459-1464) 140
CATALOGO 144

Chapter 6 146
6.1 I reperti numismatici a nome di Carlo VIII 146
CATALOGO 150

Chapter 7 154
7.1 Le monete di Ferdinando II d’Aragona (Ferrandino) 154

CATALOGO 160

Chapter 8 162
8.1 I cavalli “ribattuti” di Carlo VIII: dove collocarli? 162
CATALOGO 170

Chapter 9 180
9.1 I reperti numismatici a nome di Federico d’Aragona: analisi del dato numismatico 180
CATALOGO 187

Chapter 10 198
10.1 I reperti numismatici di Luigi XII. Analisi del dato numismatico 198
10.2 Analisi del contesto di provenienza dei sestini di Luigi XII 200
CATALOGO 203

Conclusioni 210
Bibliografia 219
Sitografia 233

From Family to Dual Albergo : The De Nigro in Genoa (mid-12th - early 15th century)

Denise Bezzina — 2025-11-06

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 353

Language: Italian

Abstract: In late medieval Genoa, the alberghi represented a distinctive form of family organization that remains only partially explored today. Through the case of the de Nigro family, this volume offers a prosopographical investigation that allows us to closely observe the mechanisms behind the formation and reproduction of the city’s elite between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
The analysis – based on a wide and varied range of sources (notarial and fiscal records, public documents, and even epigraphic evidence) – captures the complexity of a family group capable of maintaining a prominent political, economic, and social position over time, thanks to strategies of property management and settlement, networks of alliances, and practices of self-representation. Particular attention is devoted to the territorial dimension of the albergo, to the role of women, and to the relationships between the family and civic and religious institutions. By moving beyond the notion of the albergo as a static institution, the study restores to the term –used in the Genoese context – its original semantic fluidity and shows how it served as a laboratory of family, political, and social practices. The history of the de Nigro family thus becomes a key to understanding the complexity of the urban elite, opening up new perspectives for comparison among the diverse family associations that took shape in late medieval Italian cities.

Reti, nodi, assemblaggi. Ripensare metodi e saperi nella crisi del presente

Lorenzo Cicatiello — 2025-11-06

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Humanities and Social Sciences Book Series – University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Pages: 294

Language: Italian

Abstract: Drawing on our research experience, it becomes increasingly evident that it is no longer possible to structure analysis around paradigms that prove ineffective when tested against reality. Rethinking methods and approaches is not only a task for research but also an ethical imperative in the face of the radical transformations shaping our time. The idea is that the ethical, political, economic, and climate crises we are currently experiencing are not merely transitional moments, but rather carry within them the stakes of the future. In this light, we have chosen to reflect on certain images—”networks, nodes, and assemblages”—concepts perhaps overused, yet whose heuristic potential remains underexplored. It is not only a matter of delineating their boundaries—the mesh of the network, the intersections of conflictual and non-conflictual nodes—but also of investigating the voids they contour. The focus shifts from autonomy and dispersion to (inter)dependence and (re)assemblage: from social, economic, historical, and legal dimensions to linguistic practices, from intercultural relations to spatial experiences, from information diffusion to algorithmic structures, from the neuronal architecture of the mind to the hybrid forms taken by cities and collectives. This volume gathers the papers presented during an interdepartmental study day, conceived out of the need to rethink research tools and paradigms in the face of today’s profound transformations. In a context marked by ethical, political, economic, and climate crises, traditional analytical categories often fall short of capturing the complexity of reality. The contributions assembled here explore the potential of the images of networks, nodes, and assemblages as keys to understanding dynamics of interdependence, conflict, and reorganization across multiple domains of knowledge. From linguistics to sociology, philosophy to historiography, urban transformation to international relations, the authors examine how connections are structured, the significance of gaps and rup-

tures, and the practices of recomposition and methodological innovation. This volume is thus proposed as a space for open dialogue across disciplines and approaches, with the aim of building new pathways for research and collective reflection.

The ‘Leonardo Project’ by Cassiano dal Pozzo. ‘Scientific’ apographs between art, architecture and engineering

Alfredo Buccaro — 2025-11-06

Publishers: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Storia e iconografia dell’architettura, delle città e dei siti europei

Pages: 174

Language: Italian

Abstract: Leonardo’s codices were only published starting in the nineteenth century. Two centuries earlier, Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657), a patron and bibliophile, undertook a vast enterprise to create his celebrated Paper Museum. As part of this endeavor, he commissioned apographs and anthologies based on Leonardo’s sources then available in Milan, intended for printed projects on themes such as painting and perspective, water, light and shadow, motion and force.
The codices at his disposal certainly included Ms. C, now held at the Institut de France in Paris, the Codex Atlanticus, and most of the other manuscripts now preserved in the same Parisian institution. The manuscripts prepared for the first printed edition of the Trattato della Pittura (1651) have enjoyed a distinct historiographical fortune. The others, although most of them are known, remain largely unpublished and have yet to be interpreted in relation to their original sources.
This volume focuses on this group of apographs, aiming to study and contextualise them. They raise crucial questions about Leonardo’s role in the scientific and artistic historiography of Europe, explicitly engaging with themes such as the phenomena of light and the representation of bodies and landscapes, mechanical devices designed for civil life, motion and the use of water, the physical and natural sciences, architecture, and engineering.

The Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace of Mantua. Surveying and Revealing the Work of Andrea Mantegna

Mara Gallo — 2025-11-06

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: ADAM. Architettura, Disegno, Arte e Modellazione | Architecture, Drawing, Art, and Modeling

Pages: 261

Language: English

Abstract: New digital technologies are redefining the role of surveying as both a tool for knowledge and a means for the enjoyment and communication of built heritage. Surveying becomes an interpretative process capable of conveying the material, spatial, and symbolic complexity of a work and of presenting it to an increasingly broad audience. In this perspective, research applied to Andrea Mantegna’s Camera degli Sposi experiments with an integrated method of documentation and enhancement based on 3D models and immersive environments—not as a substitute for direct experience, but as a tool for deeper understanding and access to fragile or no longer visible spaces.

Santa Maria di Donnaregina. Studies and researches for conservation of the fourteenth-century church

Raffaele Amore — 2025-11-06

Publishers: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Storia e iconografia dell’architettura, delle città e dei siti europei

Pages: 237

Language: Italian

Abstract: The Church of Santa Maria di Donnaregina Antica boasts a distinctive spatial structure within the context of 14th-century Neapolitan architecture. It was built in the early 14th century at the behest of Mary of Hungary, wife of Charles II of Anjou, in an area north of the Greek layout of the city of Naples, close to the walls, previously occupied by an older Basilian monastery. During the 17th century, the complex was significantly enlarged, and a new church was built to replace the 14th-century one, which was abandoned and partially transformed. In the 19th century, the monastery was dissolved, and part of the convent buildings were demolished to make way for Via Duomo. Years of neglect followed until the church was restored in the 1920s.
The volume outlines the construction history and transformations of the monastic complex within the context of the complex political, economic, and social events that characterised the history of Naples from the Angevin period to the early 20th century. It then develops a series of reflections on the restoration of the 14th century church conducted by Gino Chierici, as well as its current state of conservation. The author analyses the construction system of the roof and 16th-century wooden coffered ceiling of the church and considers the structural and conservation issues that affect this important 14th century building today.

The Greek poleis overlooking the Meander. Reflections on ancient places

Oreste Lubrano — 2025-11-04

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: ALTERsCITY

Pages: 245

Language: Italian

Abstract: The research collected here is presented as an investigation into the distinctive and identifying characteristics of Greek-founded poleis, with the title and subtitle intended as reading coordinates rather than fixed hierarchies. Through a constant dialogue between theoretical reflection and formal investigation, the study focuses on certain invariants of the Greek urban fabric and, drawing on operational categories, identifies the multiple values that have given continuity and permanence to architecture throughout its historical development. The analysis develops along two complementary axes, geographical and chronological, and extends from Sicily to Greece and the coasts of Asia Minor: the selected cities serve as sites of investigation to verify the proposed conceptual trajectories. This volume is part of the ALTERsCITY series and aims to recover the “elsewhere” as a category of design, a field of urban reinvention capable of going beyond mere marginality. The investigation focuses on ancient extra-urban cities and their traces, understood not as isolated relics but as polarities capable of reconfiguring the geography of the territory and reactivating lost urban presences. Through the project, understood as a critical practice and morphological reading tool, the study shows how it is possible to recompose the settlement structure, restore perceptible hierarchies and connections, and reintegrate these poles into the contemporary territorial order. In this way, the project rigorously mediates between memory and renewal and proposes forms of intervention that make urban relationships intelligible once again. Particular attention is paid to the Meandrian poleis – Priene, Miletus and Magnesia on the Meander – places where logos, rational thought, has historically consolidated itself as an organising principle of living. It is here that the impulses of the Greek men of Ionia are rooted, the continuous striving for beauty and the vigorous vital energy eager to assert their magnificence, their conception of the world and the continuous effort to inhabit it with rational thought. It is precisely these cities that are examined for their extraordinary ability to translate, in time and space, the path of the civil experience of city-states into an urban form. Faced with the state of ruin that obscures the system of civil values and makes it difficult to recognise cities as “societies” of poleis, structured in constellations of closed entities inscribed in the chōra, the research adopts an architectural practice centred on design and planning. Through an architectural practice aimed at highlighting the urban scheme underlying the ancient places, the study explains compositional principles, scales and modules – i.e. reasons, measurements and formal research – aimed at restoring form and comprehensibility to the Greek poleis overlooking the Meander

The Collection of the Islamic Manuscripts on Medicine and Magic at L’Orientale

Francesca Bellino — 2025-11-04

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Quaderni del Fondo Manoscritti e Rari

Pages: 270

Language: Italiano

Abstract: The inaugural volume of the series focuses on the collection of Arabic manuscripts on medicine, pharmacopoeia, science, and magic preserved at the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” It aims to reconstruct the origin and provenance of the materials, collected primarily—but not exclusively—by the Arabist and colonial physician Tommaso Sarnelli (1890–1972), chiefly in Yemen. The catalogue traces the complex developments associated with his scientific and professional career.

In addition, the volume offers an integrated analysis of the preserved materials: on the one hand, reconstructing the circulation of these texts within the broader context of the post-classical Islamic world; and on the other, providing a reading of the texts in conjunction with their paratexts—that is, examining the history of the works alongside their readers, collectors, and transmitters of knowledge, situated at the intersection of medical practice and magical-religious traditions. The study also emphasizes the history of medical and magical manuscripts as objects within the communities of doctors, pharmacists, and practitioners who used and transmitted this knowledge.

The volume includes contributions by Francesca Bellino, Luca Berardi, Giovanni Maria Martini, and Antonella Murtagia, as well as the complete catalogue of 23 Arabic manuscripts in the collection.

Living Knowledges. Books, Encounters, and Nature in Early Modern Catholic Orientalism

Chiara Petrolini — 2025-11-04

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 380

Language: Italian

Abstract: This book traces how Catholic Europe in the early modern period learned another way of thinking through its encounters — often unequal and sometimes violent — with the cultures it called “Oriental.” Through a series of case studies, Living Knowledges reconstructs the fragile and material processes by which knowledge was produced across frontiers of faith, empire, and language. From the libraries of Venice to the animal hospitals of India, from the hermitages of Mount Lebanon to the prisons of Malta, the book follows the traces of these cross-cultural apprenticeships: looted books, lessons given by enslaved men, shared herbals, experiments in translation between different religious worlds. What emerges is an early modern Orientalism that was not yet a unified discipline but a constellation of unstable forms of knowledge, born within political and theological crisis. Encounters with other ways of inhabiting the natural world became spaces of domination and wonder, where iconoclasms of the living could destroy and desecrate, yet also inspire new images of curiosity and gentleness. Across its four intertwined chapters — on books, animals, plants, and masters — the book shows how knowledge about the “Orient” was not only a matter of representation but also a product of collaboration, dependence, and exchange. Living Knowledges invites us to read the history of Orientalism as the history of a knowledge that, rather than conquering what it touched, was itself transformed by the encounter.

The Rinaldi Donation: A Collection of Chinese Art

Chiara Visconti — 2025-11-03

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Quaderni delle Collezioni Museali de “L’Orientale”

Pages: 212

Language: Italiano

Abstract: This volume presents the Chinese section of the Rinaldi Collection, donated to the Museo Orientale “Umberto Scerrato” of the Università di Napoli L’Orientale in September 2024. Comprising eighty works dating from the tenth to the twentieth century, the catalogue offers a broad overview of Chinese decorative art through a selection of ceramics and objects of remarkable historical and technical interest. Conceived as a reasoned catalogue, the volume is organised into thematic introductory sections that explore the main production centres and typologies represented in the collection – from Tang (618–907) funerary statuettes to celadon and black- or blue-glazed stoneware, from qingbai and kraakporcelains to lacquerware, silver, and items from the scholar’s studio.
The donation, the result of Maura Rinaldi’s expertise and lifelong passion, significantly enhances the Museo Scerrato’s collections and provides a valuable resource for research and teaching, while opening new perspectives on the history of collecting and the global circulation of Chinese art.

L’abbazia di Santa Maria di Pulsano e la commenda del cardinale Girolamo Boncompagni (1663-1675)

Enrico Angiolini — 2025-10-31

Series: Mondi Mediterranei, 19

Pages: LVII, 128

Language: Italian

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-46-2

The monastery of Santa Maria di Pulsano, founded by Saint John of Matera in the 12th century, became the center of influence for the Pulsano congregation, which enjoyed great success before experiencing its usual course of spiritual and material decline. From the beginning of the 15th century, it underwent a centuries-long assignment in commendam. An unpublished source held in the State Archives of Bologna sheds new light on the commendatory abbey of Cardinal Girolamo Boncompagni (1622–1684) in Pulsano: the «Registro di memorie delle abbazie di Santa Maria di Pulsano in Puglia, di Santa Maria di Castion e di Vidore possedute un tempo dal cardinal Boncompagni, arcivescovo di Bologna» is a veritable collective volume containing original and copy documents relating to Boncompagni's vast estate.

The documentation relating to Pulsano, which is here fully edited and analyzed, allows us to follow Girolamo Boncompagni's systematic approach, first in his attempt to gain knowledge of the actual size of the Pulsano household's assets; then in the development of a plan for the resumption of both a religious life worthy of the name, and the reinstatement of a substantial patrimony that still consisted of large farmhouses, vast pastures, various types of crops, fishing rights, and numerous emphyteutic leases to be enjoyed on landed properties, spread across much of the Gargano promontory and beyond and threatened by famine, insolvency, neglect in their previous governance, and baronial usurpations.

Summary

Francesco Panarelli, Presentazione VII

Introduzione XI

Una testimonianza superstite dell’abbaziato pulsanese del cardinale Girolamo Boncompagni XI

L’abbazia di Santa Maria di Pulsano e la commenda del cardinale Girolamo Boncompagni XVII

La memoria di Pulsano fuori da Pulsano XLVII

Criteri di edizione LV

Tavola delle abbreviazioni LVII

«Registro di memorie delle abbazie di Santa Maria di Pulsano in Puglia, di Santa Maria di Castion e di Vidore possedute un tempo dal cardinal Boncompagni, arcivescovo di Bologna». Estratti relativi a Santa Maria di Pulsano 1

Tavole e carte 105

Indice dei nomi 113

A Segmented Tax System. Communities, Lordships, and Monarchy in the Late Medieval Kingdom of Naples

Davide Morra — 2025-10-30

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 673

Language: Italian

Abstract: Between 1481 and 1485, King Ferrante of Aragon undertook a fiscal reform that challenged the prerogatives of both the feudal lords and the communes of the Kingdom of Naples. Historiography has paid little attention to this project, despite its direct connection to the uprisings that broke out shortly afterwards. This book takes that reform as a starting point to examine the transformations that occurred in the material constitution of the kingdom during the late Middle Ages, while also considering developments in other parts of Italy. During this period, lordship in Southern Italy consolidated key aspects of its institutional profile, while a new actor—the commune—began to assert its own claims over local government.
Tax systems provide a privileged lens through which to explore these processes within the institutional framework of the kingdom, leading to a hypothesis that diverges from more state-centred interpretations: namely, that this very segmentation—with the broadly conceived constitutional limits it imposed on royal discretion, on the speculations of supra-local elites, and on the concentration of capital in the hands of local elites—helped to shape the geography of economic growth and the distribution of power in a kingdom that was both polycentric and increasingly polarised around Naples.

Southern Carbonari. Sectarianism, state, society in pre-unification Southern Italy

Marco Meriggi — 2025-10-24

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 207

Language: Italian

Abstract: Between the Napoleonic era and the early years of the Restoration, the Carbonari, a secret society that at that time had hundreds of thousands of members, enjoyed its golden age in southern Italy, giving rise to the largest phenomenon of politically progressive mobilisation that Italy experienced before the revolutions of 1848. The southern Carbonari adopted the lexicon of freedom and, between 1820 and 1821, loudly demanded it. These events are well known. In this book, however, we attempt to approach the subject from a different angle and show how the Carbonari were first of all an expression of the desire for social aggregation and collective cohesion in a world that was witnessing the decline of the feudal system and the simultaneous advance of modern statehood.

Il Fondo Cattedrale (1366-1499). Codice diplomatico di Matera, V

Antonio Antonetti — 2025-10-23

Series: Mondi Mediterranei, 16

Pages: 282

Language: Italian

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-44-8

In the heart of Matera’s Civita, the Cathedral has for centuries served as a crucial point of community, a locus of civic identity. After its elevation as the suffragan see of the bishops of Acerenza, the institution of the Cathedral attracted the attention of the city’s most dynamic social strata, while developing its own institutional and economic course. This maturation culminated in the fifteenth century, shaped by organizational choices that would define its profile into the Early Modern period.

The volume reconstructs the final medieval phase of this trajectory—the Quattrocento—through the ninety-three charters of the Fondo Cattedrale (Cathedral Archive). Originally transcribed through the efforts of Giustino Fortunato in the early twentieth century, these documents have been recently reassessed by Francesco Panarelli. This study offers an original contribution to both the history of the Cathedral and, more broadly, to scholarship on Matera’s society spanning the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era.

Summary

Premessa, F. Panarelli 7

Introduzione 11

Lineamenti storici della chiesa madre materana e del suo capitolo nel XV secolo 11

Il fondo Cattedrale: struttura, composizione e contenuti 33

Appendice I: Elenco dei canonici di S. Maria/S. Eustachio (1491) 47

Appendice II: Elenco del clero citato nei documenti 49

Criteri di edizione 51

Il Fondo Cattedrale 53

Bibliografia 263

Indice dei nomi di persona 267

Indice dei luoghi 279

I trecenteschi statuti del Collegio delle vergini dell’Annunziata di Nola

Luigi Tufano — 2025-10-21

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Regna. Texts and Studies on Institutions, Culture and Memory in Medieval Southern Italy

Pages: 174

Language: Italian

Abstract: The book outlines the history of the Collegio delle vergini dell'Annunziata in Nola. This institution, which was founded in 1393 by the count Nicola Orsini, was intended as a place for the education and the social control of young girls from the local elite. The starting point of this work was the edition of the Statuti de lo Collegio delle vergene de la Annunciata de Nola de lo ordene de Sancta Maria, a particularly valuable source due to the rarity of this type of document in late 14th century Southern Italy. This research pays close attention to social segmentation, to forms of selection and access, and to the management of this institution, which was shared among noble, ecclesiastical and civic powers. Indeed, the Collegio became an instrument of government and territorial construction in a baronial lordship, that was strongly aware of its political function.

Plato and Platonisms (I)

Anna Motta — 2025-10-13

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 284

Language: Italian

Abstract: This volume is the first of two tomes devoted to the theme of Plato and Platonisms. The result of collaboration among an international group of scholars, the book aims to present contemporary lines of research on so-called Platonisms, i.e. authors from the Imperial and Late Antique periods who invoke Plato's auctoritas in discussions of his legacy. Through diverse approaches to themes and problems, the twelve essays collected in this volume explore physics and metaphysics and their interaction, offering an original exegetical and theoretical pathway that allows us to reconstruct different aspects of the Platonic tradition from the 1st to the 6th century AD.

Proceedings of the 10th International S.I.I.V. Arena Renato Lamberti, Napoli, Italy, 21st November 2025

Salvatore Antonio Biancardo — 2025-10-09

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 89

Language: English

Abstract: The S.I.I.V. Arena is a forum for discussion where Ph.D. students and young scholars from various universities present their research on topics of particular interest to the Scientific Disciplinary Sector CEAR-03/A “Roads, Railways and Airports.” The 10^th International S.I.I.V. Arena will take place in Naples on 21 November 2025, within the framework of the XX S.I.I.V. National Meeting: "Strade, Ferrovie e Aeroporti." The purpose of this volume is to collect the most innovative research in the field, presented during the 10^th International S.I.I.V. Arena, with a focus on key issues such as digitalization, pavement materials and safety.

Railway infrastructure

Gaetano Bosurgi — 2025-10-07

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 190

Language: Italian

Abstract: The “Railways” Working Group of the Italian Road Infrastructures Society (S.I.I.V.) has produced this volume, which presents an in-depth survey conducted among SIIV members on railway infrastructure with regard to teaching, research, and the extensive regulatory framework of interest. The aim is to provide an updated overview of the educational and scientific activities that characterize this disciplinary field. This initiative is part of a broader process of shared reflection, designed to highlight the contribution that the Italian academic community in sector CEAR-03/A offers, in terms of knowledge and methodologies, to the development of railways. The volume is conceived as both a source of knowledge and a tool for dialogue, useful not only for documenting the current state of the discipline but also for guiding future research and teaching activities, particularly at institutions where courses in “Railway Infrastructure” are not yet active. With this work, the Group intends to contribute to the consolidation of a shared culture in the field of railway infrastructure, in the conviction that only through an integrated and interdisciplinary approach will it be possible to effectively address the challenges posed by technological innovation and the transition towards more sustainable mobility.

Airport infrastructure

Luca Bianchini Ciampoli — 2025-10-06

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 98

Language: Italian

Abstract: This volume contains an in-depth survey carried out among the members of the Italian Society of Road Infrastructures (S.I.I.V.), regarding the state of teaching and research on airport infrastructure. S.I.I.V. brings together university professors and researchers of the Scientific Disciplinary Sector 08/CEAR-03/A (formerly ICAR/04), whose competences, according to the declaration of Ministerial Decree 2/05/2024 no. 639, concern the theories, models, techniques, and processes for the conception, design, construction, adaptation, maintenance, and management of airport assets, with regard to functionality, performance, safety, sustainability, risk, resilience, environmental and territorial impact, social and economic effectiveness of investments over the life cycle, digitalization, and new technologies. Since its foundation—and even earlier through the work of individual academics—S.I.I.V. has been dedicated to the study of the airport system, analyzed in its various aspects, with the aim of contributing to the knowledge and development of a sector that is strategic for the national economy. With this volume, S.I.I.V. intends to disseminate, in a concise yet comprehensive manner, the contents of the teaching and research activities that it has institutionally carried out and continues to promote in this fundamental field. Within S.I.I.V., a Working Group has been established, specifically dedicated to mobility and airport infrastructure. This volume represents the outcome of a preliminary in-depth study on the subject.

CaNaMEI. Report 5 - Pistoia, Biblioteca Forteguerriana, Martini etiop. 2. OTTATEUCO

Gianfrancesco Lusini — 2025-10-05

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Catalogo Nazionale dei Manoscritti Etiopici in Italia. Reports

Pages: 44

Language: Italian

Abstract: Gianfrancesco Lusini, Gioia Bottari, Jacopo Gnisci, Massimo Villa, Catalogo Nazionale dei Manoscritti Etiopici in Italia, Report 1. Grosseto, Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma - Museo Diocesano d’Arte Sacra. Tetraevangelo, Napoli, UniorPress, 2020.

This is the first issue of the series "Catalogo Nazionale dei Manoscritti Etiopici in Italia. Reports", presenting a 15th-16th cent. illuminated Gospel-book, preserved in Grosseto, Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma - Museo Diocesano d’Arte Sacra. The manuscript has been investigated from the threefold point of view of codicology, philology and art history. The recovery operation of the CaNaMEI team included also the restoration work of the precious artefact.

CaNaMEI. Report 4 - Parma, Biblioteca Palatina. LIBRO DELLE ORE, PASTORE DI ERMA, ENOCH

Gianfrancesco Lusini — 2025-10-05

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Catalogo Nazionale dei Manoscritti Etiopici in Italia. Reports

Pages: 42

Language: Italian

CaNaMEI. Report 3 - Savona, Archivio Storico Diocesano. ATTI DEI MARTIRI

Gianfrancesco Lusini — 2025-10-05

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Catalogo Nazionale dei Manoscritti Etiopici in Italia. Reports

Pages: 46

Language: Italian

CaNaMEI. Report 2 - Manoscritti etiopici della città di Roma. La collezione Zanasi-Li Volsi

Gianfrancesco Lusini — 2025-10-05

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Catalogo Nazionale dei Manoscritti Etiopici in Italia. Reports

Pages: 44

Language: Italian

For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai

Margherita Trento — 2025-10-04

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Series Minor

ISSN: 1824-6109

Pages: 540

Language: English

Abstract: For the Love of Tamil celebrates the life and work of E. Annamalai (born 1938), the most prominent Tamil linguist of his generation. Spanning six decades and multiple continents, his scholarship ranges from formal analyses of Tamil syntax and semantics to studies of diglossia, pedagogy, language politics and Tamil poetics and literature. This volume collects contributions from leading scholars in various disciplines related to Tamil studies. Together, they reflect the intellectual breadth and disciplinary range of Annamalai’s work, covering classical and modern Tamil literature, grammatical traditions, linguistic analysis, sociolinguistics, and cultural history. They also highlight the lasting importance of Annamalai’s scholarship and demonstrate how his rigorous yet comprehensive approach to Tamil has influenced the study of language, literature, and society.

Europe-Italy-Russia: Foreign Relations and Geopolitical Horizons

Giovanna Cigliano — 2025-10-01

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 303

Language: Italian

Abstract: The essays collected in this volume address the foreign relations between European countries and Russia with particular attention to the Italian case and in a broad historical perspective. The contributors have focused on such important themes in contemporary history as: Sergej Sazonov’s foreign policy with reference to the participation of the Tsarist Empire in the First World War (G. Bianchi); the recognition of the USSR by the Italian Fascist government in 1924 (M.T. Giusti); Italy and the USSR during the Cold War (A. Varsori); Italy's growing energy dependence on Russian gas during the 1970s and 1980s (S. Labbate); the bilateral relations between Italy and two countries of the Soviet Bloc - Poland and Czechoslovakia - in the decade 1978-87 (T. Forcellese); the relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation during the period of the third Delors Commission (B. Zaccaria); Germany and Russia from the German reunification to today (F. Scarano); the troubled trajectory of the Russian-Abkhaz relations from the incorporation of Abkhazia into the Tsarist Empire (1810) to the present day (G. Savino); the dynamics of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war and the possible prospects for peace (F. Bettanin). In the final contribution, G. Cigliano discusses the use of the category of "empire" as a tool for interpretating both Tsarist and Soviet history and the current politics of the Russian Federation.

In viaggio contro la propria volontà. Storie di fughe e migrazioni dall'antichità ai giorni nostri

Luisa Sernicola — 2025-10-01

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Il porto delle idee

ISSN: 2785-4191

Pages: 254

Language: Italian

Abstract: The journey has always accompanied human experience. There is the chosen, desired journey: born from the need to know, to trade, to explore, or simply to change perspective. A going and returning that has nourished literature across all times, giving life to travel writing, a flexible and universal genre.

But there is also the imposed, forced journey, one that does not arise from freedom but from necessity—from fleeing war, persecution, or poverty. It is the journey of those who depart without knowing if they will ever return, stripped of resources and protection, often condemned to silence: because it ends tragically, because the pain is unspeakable, or because there is no language capable of giving voice to such experience. In some cases, however, out of this fracture emerge new forms of expression—attempts to recount loss and exile, up to the extreme testimonies of deportees, where writing itself becomes an act of memory and resistance.

This volume stems from a collective reflection on such “journeys against one’s will,” undertaken by scholars and researchers of the Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” on the occasion of the 2021 edition of the Futuro Remoto festival, dedicated to the theme of “Transitions.” From that first public moment of reading and discussion grew the idea of bringing together in an anthology texts, translations, and commentaries that give back the voices and stories of those forced to leave.

With this book, our aim is not only to study and transmit different literary traditions, but also to share with readers the memory of those who have experienced migration as a radical rupture of existence. A painful experience that, despite its tragedy, continues to question us and to speak to the present.

Harold Pinter. Il teatro del potere, il potere del teatro

Roberto D’Avascio — 2025-10-01

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 204

Language: Italian, English

Abstract: This book traces the legacy of Harold Pinter (1930-2008), a multifaceted artist and 2005 Nobel Prize laureate, by examining the state of the art, criticism and public debate inspired by his work. Drawing on a variety of sources, the collected contributions testify to the enduring relevance and influence of a playwright, director and actor who transformed the way theatre is written and conceived, establishing himself as one of the most significant reformers of the theatrical scene in the second half of the twentieth century. The essays range from analytical studies to personal testimonies by scholars, actors, and directors who have engaged with the Pinter universe in diverse ways, with the aim of reconstructing his reception in the contemporary world.

Advancing Facility Management through Building Information Modelling

Rossella Marmo — 2025-09-25

Editore: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 110

Language: Italian

Abstract: This monograph presents a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Facility Management (FM), offering a collection of research activities aimed at enhancing the management of buildings and complex systems. In recent years, the advent of advanced information technologies has created new opportunities to optimise Facility Management, with BIM emerging as a particularly powerful tool for integrating multiple disciplines within a single digital environment. Despite its potential, achieving a fully integrated model that connects BIM and FM systems remains a challenge. The research activities discussed in this monograph advocate for the development of the Performance Information Model (PIM), a framework that embeds FM knowledge, performance monitoring, and assessment into a cohesive digital structure. The monograph highlights the transition from traditional building information models to facility management–oriented models and performance-enriched digital twins.

Horizons of digital philology. The Greek Anthology for rethinking formats, paradigms and collaboration

Serena Cannavale — 2025-09-23

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Texts. Antiquity, Middle Ages and Humanism

Pages: 247

Language: Italian

Abstract: What are the implications of the encounter between ancient texts and complex digital environments? How should we handle the data generated by Digital Classics projects? How can we structure them to make
them accessible, valuable and reusable? This volume addresses these questions by bringing together the
outcomes of a collective reflection on projects dedicated to the edition and study of the classics in the digital age. This reflection developed from the case of the Anthologia Graeca, within the framework of the three-day conference entitled “Horizons of Digital Philology. The Greek Anthology for Rethinking Formats, Paradigms, and Collaboration”, held from April 16 to 18, 2024 (University of Naples Federico II & University of Montreal).

Forms and figures for the sacred. Projects for a new parish complex in Benevento

Oreste Lubrano — 2025-09-23

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: TeA / Teaching Architecture

Pages: 129

Language: Italian

Abstract: This volume documents the results of the Final Synthesis Workshop of the Master's Degree course in Architectural Design MAPA - renamed ACTA two years ago - at the DiARC, Department of Architecture. The teaching experience was based on the collaboration of two disciplinary areas: architectural and urban composition, led by Professor Renato Capozzi, and executive design, entrusted to Professor Paola Ascione. At the heart of the exercise was a real competition brief, which required the design of a building with a marked sacred vocation: the new parish complex of the Holy Spirit in Benevento. The competition simulation provided a training opportunity to subject students to rigorous design experimentation, capable of confronting compositional inventiveness and executive rigour. The proposals developed complied with the qualitative and quantitative requirements of the specifications and the required documentation, reconciling the complexity of the architectural design with its construction and implementation implications. The chosen theme provided an opportunity to reflect on the religious and liturgical significance of sacred architecture: conceived as a ritual device which, through its formal clarity and figurative significance, summons and gathers the faithful and citizens, establishing itself as a recognisable sign and point of orientation in the fragmented fabric of the urban and territorial landscape that surrounds it.

Standard Lives. The grammar of domestic and community spaces between parataxis and hypotaxis

Lorenzo Capobianco — 2025-09-12

Editor: DADI_ PRESS

Series: A/Research: architectural research : editorial series of Master degree course in Architecture

Pages: 181

Language: Italian

Abstract: “Vite Standard” addresses the theme of contemporary living through a critical analysis of the spatial models of collective housing, exploring the relationship between housing standards and architectural innovation. The volume proposes design solutions that move beyond modular repetition, introducing the concepts of parataxis and hypotaxis as tools to articulate new relationships between private and collective spaces. Based on design exercises, the book brings together theoretical reflections and international case studies. It is intended for students, professionals, and scholars, contributing to the debate on public housing and its potential for urban and social renewal.

Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge: Workshops

Katerina Gkirtzou — 2025-09-01

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 350

Language: English

NBN:

Abstract: This volume comprises the proceedings of the workshops held alongside the 5th Conference on Language, Data, and Knowledge (LDK 2025) in Naples, Italy, 9-11 September 2025. LDK is a biennial conference series dedicated to human language technologies, data science, and knowledge representation. The University of Naples “L’Orientale,” hosted the 5th edition of this conference between 9-11 September.

The workshops serve as a platform for discussing and exploring emerging areas of research in language data and semantic web. These areas include data science, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, and information retrieval. Researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia submitted and presented papers during workshop days.

A total of three workshops were accepted, and all the papers presented during these sessions are included in the joint volume. The conference hosted the following workshops:

LT-EDI-2025: Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Fifth OntoLex Workshop
TermTrends25: Bridging the Gap between Terminological Resources and Large Language Models.

As part of the Ontolex workshop, a W3C Language Technology Community Group day was also organised.

Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge

Mehwish Alam — 2025-09-01

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 350

Language: English

NBN:

Abstract: This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, which took place in Naples, Italy, from September 9–11, 2025. The event was held in hybrid format, with most attendees onsite. This biennial event, launched in 2017, brings together experts in language technologies, data science, and knowledge representation. Supported by an international advisory board, LDK has grown steadily, with previous editions held in Ireland, Germany, Spain, and Austria.

The proceedings of this LDK edition compile 34 papers and a foreword. Each paper underwent single-blind review by at least three experts. The conference focuses on the acquisition and use of language data in scientific and industrial contexts, emphasizing natural language processing, machine learning, and semantic technologies. Key themes include knowledge graphs, multilingual resources, and neurosymbolic approaches that combine large language models with explicit semantics.

La fantascienza di Octavia E. Butler. Violenza, corpo e debito

Serena Di Donna — 2025-08-28

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Postcolonial Matters

Pages: 120

Language: Italian

NBN:

Abstract: This volume responds to the pressing imperative to re-examine the categories of humanity, futurity, and alterity in light of today’s entangles crises – ecological devastation, structural racism, and the epistemic unravelling of modern universalist frameworks. Through a close engagement with the work of Octavia E. Butler – a pioneer of African American speculative fiction – the book investigates the political, affective, and narrative dimensions through which science fiction interrogates race, gender, memory, and survival.

Focusing on three central texts – Kindred, the Xenogenesis trilogy, and Parable of the Sower – the study explores how Butler unsettles the epistemic and political frameworks through which the human and its survival are conventionally imagined, articulating fractured genealogies, hybrid bodies, and posthuman subjectivities. In conversation with the radical theoretical paradigms of Sylvia Wynter and Denise Ferreira da Silva, Butler’s fiction emerges as a site of poetic, ethical, and political resistance.

Combining literary analysis with insights from Black philosophy, gender theory, posthumanism, and diasporic contemporary art, the volume proposes a critical re-articulation of survival – one that refuses autonomy, property, and identity as its foundations, and instead foregrounds interdependence, transformation, and instability. Butler’s narratives, populated by hybrids, mutations, irregular genealogies, and alien intelligences, prompt a profound rethinking of life, relationships, and memory, opening new possibilities beyond traditional Western humanist assumptions.

SHABBETAY DONNOLO

Giuseppe M. Cuscito — 2025-08-27

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Archivio di Studi Ebraici

Pages: 150

Language: Italian

NBN:

Abstract: This book presents a reassessment of the secondary literature written, mostly in Italian, on the life and works of the 10th-century Jewish medic Shabbetay Donnolo. After an introduction on the historical context, the study reconsiders the passages in the Life of Neilos the Younger, a 11th-century hagiography, in which Donnolo is mentioned, and casts doubts on their reliability. Regarding his works, the present study also discusses secondary literature that has attributed three astronomical texts to Donnolo, by showing how these attributions are not always sufficiently grounded and by presenting counter-evidence that seems to point to other, anonymous authors. A hypothesis is advanced regarding the cultural background of his astronomy teacher Bagdat and emphasis is placed on the unique role that Donnolo played in the knowledge transfer, from Asia to Western Europe, by transmitting ideas that ultimately originated in India and were gradually transformed along their path through Persia, Syria and the Arab world.

Artemisia Gentileschi a Napoli

Antonio Ernesto Denunzio — 2025-08-27

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 282

Language: Italian

NBN:

Abstract: The volume presents the findings of preparatory research for the exhibition Artemisia Gentileschi in Naples (Naples, Gallerie d’Italia, 2022–2023), serving as a natural complement to its catalogue.

This book brings together in-depth studies exploring how the artist’s personality and work were reflected in contemporary sources. It examines Artemisia’s relationships with academic circles of the time, which helped amplify her fame, as well as documents on the 17th-century decoration of Pozzuoli Cathedral, commissioned by Bishop Martín de León y Cárdenas, in which Gentileschi collaborated alongside leading artists active in Naples. Also included is a survey of paintings attributed to Artemisia in 17th- and 18th-century Neapolitan notarial inventories, a previously unpublished description of the now-destroyed San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, which raises questions regarding the artist’s burial in the church of the Tuscan nation in Naples, and the complete documentation on the acquisition of the Annunciation—now housed in Capodimonte—for the Bourbon collections, the first dated work from Artemisia’s long Neapolitan stay.

This publication serves as both a valuable research tool and a reference point for future studies on Artemisia within the context of the Spanish Viceroyalty.

Discourses on Urban Order

Francesco Panarelli — 2025-08-08

Series: Mondi Mediterranei, 15

Pages: 271

Language: English

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-43-1

Abstract: this collection of eleven studies on Discourses on the Peculiarities of
Urban Order concludes the four-year programme on Urban Order initiated
in 2021 by the International Commission for the History of Towns (ICHT).
It contains contributions by scholars from various European countries,
from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age as well as covering a
broad geographical area stretching from southern Italy to Norway. The
various aspects of the broad theme of Urban Order are dealt with by
concentrating on four sub-topics adopted by the ICHT: Protagonists of
Urban Order (2021), Crisis in Urban Order (2022), Mediating Urban Order
(2023) and Discourses on the Peculiarities of Urban Order (2024).
This volume contains contributions by scholars from various European
countries covering a broad geographical area stretching from southern
Italy to Norway. It investigates the various discourses of Urban Order and
their tangible effects on city’s space, culture, and material environment
from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age.

Summary

Francesco Panarelli, Rosa Smurra, Introduction

Francesco Panarelli, Francesca Sogliani, The medieval origins of the city of Matera

Irena Benyovsky Latin, Discourses of urban order in the transformation of Dubrovnik’s suburbs into a city centre during the Venetian rule

Rosa Smurra, “...ipsum studium perpetuo in civitate Bononie ut thesaurum pretiosissimum conservare”. The relationship between the urban order and the university in Bologna (12-15thcenturies)

Roman Czaja, The political order of the cities of Könisgberg. A contribution to the discourse on the specificity of the urban political order in Eastern Central Europe at the turn of the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Period

Jana Vojtíšková, The Town Law of the Kingdom of Bohemia from 1579 as a significant stabilising element of urban order in early modern Bohemia

Olga Kozubska, Quoniam anima civitatis sit ordo... Discourse of urban prder in Kamianets Podilskyi during the 18th century

Remigijus Civinskas, Responses of Lithuanian urban élites to Russian imperial reforms (1795-1863)

Steinar Aas, Miriam Tveit, Urban history in Norwegian historiography: Discourses of urban order

Gilles Genot, Linguistic diversity, but no threat to urban order: the city of Luxembourg (1862-1984)

Mariavaleria Mininni, Matera, an urban story still to be told

Martina Stercken, Urban order. Closing remarks

Italian healthcare system: organization, history, and structures

Vincenzo Iadevaia — 2025-08-01

Editore: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Collana: Phàrmakon

Pagine: 275

Lingua: Italiano

Abstract: At a time when the issue of public health is increasingly prominent in both civil and scientific debates, understanding the functioning of the Italian healthcare system becomes essential not only for those working in the healthcare sector, but also for those approaching these topics for reasons of study, personal interest, or simple curiosity.
This volume is therefore intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the healthcare organization, with particular attention to the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, tracing its historical, regulatory, and institutional evolution. The work opens with a reflection on the fundamental concepts of "health" and "healthcare," followed by an analysis of the origins and progressive development of the Italian healthcare system from its inception to the present day. The second chapter presents an up-to-date and complete analysis of the organization of the Ministry of Health, including an in-depth look at the Higher Health Council and the National Institute of Health. The third chapter retraces the most significant stages of the National Health Service, from its establishment to the most recent reforms concerning hospital and territorial care. The final part of the volume addresses the topic of Essential Levels of Care (LEA), which form the backbone of the National Health Service and define the guarantees recognized for citizens in terms of access to healthcare services.
With this approach, the authors aim to provide readers with a work that enhances knowledge and its practical impact on society, combining academic insight with practical utility in a field—healthcare—that directly affects everyone's life.

Existing Heritage. Future City

Francesco Iuliano — 2025-07-28

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: TeA / Teaching Architecture

Pages: 216

Language: Italian

Abstract: This volume presents the outcomes of three theses in Architectural and Urban Design, defended in the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years within the Master’s degree in Architecture (Arc5UE) at the Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II. At the core of the discussion is the transformation of existing heritage as a strategic tool for urban regeneration. Each project tackles a specific typology — silos, barracks, cisterns — structures originally conceived to contain goods, people, or water, which today are opened to new purposes, becoming spaces for community life, housing, culture, and production.
The design approach transcends the scale of the standalone building to establish relationships at the neighborhood and city scale: physical restoration intertwines with social, cultural, and economic dimensions, healing the fractures caused by disuse and abandonment. Thus, existing heritage is reinterpreted as true design material, capable of generating new urban scenarios where historical continuity and formal innovation converge.
The volume therefore positions itself as an observatory of the multiple trajectories urban regeneration can assume: it demonstrates how design, as a critical-operational device, can restore centrality to marginalised urban fragments, converting temporary voids into strategic hubs of connection and exchange. From this perspective, the adaptive reuse of former silos, barracks, and cisterns becomes a paradigm of regenerative continuity, capable of reinventing the ordinary and reshaping the future of contemporary cities.

Music for the Environment. Proceedings of the study conference (Naples, November 13 and 14, 2024)

Giorgio Ruberti — 2025-07-21

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Musical Clefs

Pages: 126

Language: Italian

Abstract: The volume collects the proceedings of the international conference Music for the Environment (Naples, November 13 and 14, 2024), an important awareness-raising initiative aimed at strengthening civic sense with regard to the environmental problem. In recent years, the issue of anthropogenic pollution and its impact on nature has become increasingly important, stimulating profound changes in everyday life. Sustainability now guides every sector of social life, and even the academic world is engaged in various areas of research to propose and test solutions that can contribute to a ‘green shift’. Among the various sources of environmental pollution, as demonstrated by some of the contributions in the volume, music holds a considerable specific weight. This is mainly due to the organization of live events, the consumption of streaming music, and the production of records and instruments. However, as other contributions highlight, music can also be a virtuous example of sustainability, effectively limiting its environmental impact, and it can represent a powerful means of change in contributing to the construction of more environmentally responsible communities.

BIM for the seismic vulnerability of minor historic centers

Marco Saccucci — 2025-07-17

Editore: EUC - Edizioni Università di Cassino

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 356

Language: Italian

Abstract: BIM for the seismic vulnerability of minor historic centers is a volume that combines technology and awareness to address one of the most pressing challenges of our time: protecting the fragile yet profound identity of Italy’s small historic villages exposed to seismic risk. In a country scattered with memory-rich historic centers, often neglected by urban planning, BIM transforms from an operational tool into a cultural device. The volume proposes a multilevel approach that integrates representation and drawing, digital surveying, advanced BIM modeling, GIS, and predictive analysis. At the heart of the research lies the MASON method, an algorithm capable of translating the complexity of the existing built environment into vulnerability maps and informed intervention scenarios. The case study of the village of San Rocco in Sora thus becomes an experimental laboratory for a new way of reading, interpreting, and safeguarding historic architecture. This volume is an invitation to merge technical expertise with civic responsibility, ensuring that digitalization is not an end in itself, but a tool for the conscious management and active conservation of the built heritage

Max Weber and Russian Liberalism. The Debate on Fundamental Individual Rights between East and West

Filomena Fera — 2025-07-14

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 351

Language: Italian

Abstract: Max Weber’s two essays on the Russian Revolution of 1905, Zur Lage der bürgerlichen Demokratie in Russland and Russlands Übergang zum Scheinkonstitutionalismus, represent a pivotal yet rarely explored moment in the German scholar’s political and philosophical thought. Through the rigorous analysis of these essays and the reconstruction of Weber’s position on Russian liberalism and the biographical, theoretical and political context of its definition, the present text aims to focus on the key elements of Weber’s work starting from the redefinition of the role of the politician in the context of the crisis of the nineteenth-century liberal tradition and the correlated incursion of the totalising dynamics of modern capitalist and bureaucratised mass society. A path that, thanks to the establishment of an accomplished comparison with the leading exponents of the philosophical, political and legal liberalism of the early 20th century, allows us to problematise the image of Weber as a convinced advocate of mere German power politics in favour of a renewed centrality in his thought of the liberal principles of the rule of law and the fundamental rights of the individual.

Proceedings of the 44th SISFA national Congress

Mauro Gargano — 2025-07-14

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: SISFA Studies in the History of Physics and Astronomy

Pages: 446

Language: Italian

Abstract: Proceedings of the 44th SISFA National Congress, held in Florence in September 2024, with the participation of about 90 Italian and international scholars. The congress explored the history of physics and astronomy, epistemology, scientific education, and the preservation of historical heritage, and featured four special sessions: From Information to Artificial Intelligence, tracing the evolution of communication, from Marconi to cybernetics and AI. From Quantum Statistics to Condensed Matter Physics, celebrating a century of Bose-Einstein statistics and its influence on modern physics. 1924–2024: Edwin Hubble and the Evolution of Modern Cosmology, revisiting Hubble’s breakthrough discovery and its lasting impact on astrophysics. 100 Years since the Birth of the University of Florence & In Memory of Giuseppe Occhialini, honoring the University’s centenary and Occhialini’s contributions to Italian physics.

This volume collects accurate studies exploring the evolution of scientific thought and the history of the sciences.

Profili dell’aristotelismo medievale. In onore di Valeria Sorge

Fabio Seller — 2025-07-14

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers

Pages: 161

Language: Italian

Abstract: The volume brings together essays in honor of Valeria Sorge. The contributions share a common focus on Latin Aristotelianism, whose many dimensions are explored through the distinctive and fruitful interweaving of epistemological, ethical, and metaphysical themes. Spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the early modern era, the Aristotelian tradition emerges as a privileged vantage point for understanding the transformations that have shaped the history of philosophical thought. The essays also aim to critically examine certain hermeneutical issues raised by recent scholarship, highlighting the importance, for the historian of philosophy, of engaging in a dialogue between methodological frameworks and descriptive needs.

Inhabiting the porticoed space. The case of Santa Maria Capua Vetere

Maria Fiorillo — 2025-07-03

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: TeA / Teaching Architecture

Pages: 154

Language: Italian

Abstract: This volume presents the outcomes of a research project carried out as part of two Master's theses in Architectural and Urban Design, discussed during the 2024/25 academic year, within the five-year single-cycle degree program (Arc5UE) and the postgraduate Master's program (MAPA/ACTA) at the University of Naples Federico II.
The focus of the investigation is the public housing heritage in the Campania region, with particular attention to the former I.A.C.P. district in Santa Maria Capua Vetere. The thesis research addresses the design of the existing built environment as an opportunity to activate processes of urban and social regeneration. It proposes a multiscalar strategy which, from the urban scale down to the individual dwelling unit, aims to transform a marginal area into an active urban node and to respond to evolving forms of collective living.

Pathicity, Subjectivity and Relationship. Studies in memory of Paolo Augusto Masullo

Mariafilomena Anzalone — 2025-07-02

Series: Mondi Mediterranei, 14

Pages: XI, 120

Language: Italian

Published: 2025

ISBN: 978-88-31309-42-4

Abstract: this volume stems from the desire to remeber the figure and studies of Paolo Augusto Masullo by keeping alive, albeit reshaped in new and autonomous forms, the current of his interests and research. Starting from a profound reflection on the Weizsäcker’s concept of the pathic, Masullo has investigated the ethical-epistemological implications of the relationship between subjectivity and biological structure, the reconfigurations and deconstructions to which the concept of subjectivity has undergone in the 20th century, up to arriving at a true rethinking of the human being, centred on its corporeal, affective and relational dimension. Paticity, subjectivity and relationship are the conceptual guidelines along which the authors of the essays collected in this volume have also articulated, with different accents, nuances and sensitivities, their contributions, weaving a dialogue that, despite everything, has not ceased to produce its fruits.

Summary

Mariafilomena Anzalone, Anna Donise, Maurizio Martirano, Premessa

Ignazio Marcello Mancini, Ricordo

Mariafilomena Anzalone, Tra biologia e storia. Etica medica e relazione patica in Viktor von Weizsäcker

Giuseppe Cantillo, Fenomenologia della persona e antropologia critica. Note su Paolo Augusto Masullo interprete di Husserl

Guido Cusinato, Vita e sentire primordiale. Alcune riflessioni a partire da uno scritto di Paolo Augusto Masullo

Anna Donise, È possibile un’etica del sentire? In dialogo con Paolo Augusto Masullo

Adriano Fabris, Questioni antropologiche ed etiche negli ambienti digitali

Franco Miano, Persona e etica. Paolo Augusto Masullo in dialogo con Romano Guardini

Oreste Tolone, Adolf Portmann e il ruolo della storia nella biologia

Appendice

Alessia Araneo, Caramen Caramuta, Alessandra Zito, Lo scenario antropologico tra bioetica e biopolitica

To Gabriella. Studies in memory of Gabriella Braga

Marco Palma — 2025-07-01

Editore: EUC - Edizioni Università di Cassino

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 270

Language: Italian

Abstract: The four volumes include 74 articles by friends, pupils and colleagues of Gabriella Braga. Some of them had shared teaching and research with her at the University of Cassino, common research subjects united others to her. The result is a wide range of subjects: medieval Latin literature (Gabriella’s main research subject), the Classics, Greek, Roman and medieval history, medieval and modern Italian literature, Romance philology, Roman law history, classical archaeology, medieval art history, music history. A
recurring subject is the abbey of Montecassino in various periods of its history, due to its impressive book and document production, witnessed by the final indexes and plates.