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Emma Perodi. Il periodo palermitano (1898-1918). Proceedings of the International Conference. Palermo, 16–17 November 2023, edited by Anna Maria de Majo and Elisa Martini
Publication date: 9 May 2025
ISBN 979-1280410054 | 205 pages
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The conference Emma Perodi. Il periodo palermitano (1898-1918), held in the prestigious Sala Piersanti Mattarella at the Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo, concludes the trilogy of meetings dedicated to the writer and her time spent in various Italian regions.
The contributions explore the figure of Emma Perodi (Cerreto Guidi, 31 January 1850 – Palermo, 5 March 1918), who, after completing classical studies and furthering her education in Germany in the pedagogy of Friedrich Froebel and the Kindergarten system, chose to follow her vocation, devoting herself to journalism and fiction for both adults and children.
After an intense Roman experience in contact with the journalistic, intellectual, and salon circles of the capital, Emma Perodi first arrived in Palermo for the National Exposition. In the Sicilian city, where she later settled permanently, her creative drive flourished, especially through her collaboration with publisher Salvatore Biondo.
Many of her works were published during these years, from the fairy tales of Ai tempi dei tempi to Caino e Abele, and from Il brigante Ciriminnà to Bernoccolino—texts influenced by her friend Giuseppe Pitrè and his celebration of oral tradition, represented by popular storytellers such as Agatuzza Messia.
Perodi’s output was also enriched by a pedagogical dimension: on one hand, her engagement with Central European studies on Froebel, Goethe, and Bourget; on the other, her consistent attention to school literature, always aligned with the directives of ministerial commissions.
Emma Perodi. Il periodo romano (1878–1898). Proceedings of the International Conference. Fondazione Primoli, Rome, 26 November 2021, edited by Anna Maria de Majo and Elisa Martini
Publication date: 2 November 2023
ISBN 979-1280410047 | 187 pages
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The conference Emma Perodi: Il periodo romano 1878–1898, held at the prestigious Fondazione Primoli in Rome, explores the two decades the Tuscan writer spent in the Italian capital, engaging with the journalistic, intellectual, and aristocratic salon circles of the Eternal City.
The various contributions examine the figure of Emma Perodi (Cerreto Guidi, 31 January 1850 – Palermo, 5 March 1918), who, after completing classical studies and spending time in Germany studying the pedagogy of F. Froebel and the Kindergarten tedeschi, chose to follow her passion for journalism and writing novels for both adults and children.
In Rome, Emma worked as a journalist and contributor to “Fanfulla della Domenica”, became director of the “Giornale dei Bambini” (after Carlo Collodi), and led the “Giornale della moda”, where she described fashion trends through the detailed portrayal of the toilettes delle nobildonne romane observed in the aristocratic salons of the city – foremost among them that of Count Gegè Primoli, where she met a young Gabriele d’Annunzio and found inspiration for Cento dame romane, a collection of one hundred biographies beginning with Queen Margherita.
By gathering historical, political, social, and society news, she also wrote Roma italiana (1870–1895), narrating twenty-five years of Roman life in twenty-five chapters, describing how the city evolved after Italian unification.
In the Urbe, Emma was also a valuable collaborator of publisher Edoardo Perino, part of his “cerchio magico” – a group of top writers and editors who published with the so-called “Sonzogno Romano”.
During her Roman years, she published many novels with Perino, including her most famous work, Le novelle della nonna, 45 tales set in a medieval and Gothic Casentino, which earned her among scholars the nickname “Signora delle fate”.
A literary park, the Foreste Casentinesi, the municipal library of Cerreto Guidi (home to a permanent exhibition of her works), and a street in Rome are all named after her.
Recently, several of her works have been reprinted, and ten of her Novelle have been translated into English under the title Tuscan Tales, introducing her writing to an international audience.
Gianna Pinotti, I segreti del Parhelion di Stoccolma. Monade celeste tra Riforma luterana ed esoterismo gotico
Publication date: 25 July 2022
ISBN 979-1280410023 | 130 pages
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This volume offers a revolutionary and detailed iconological interpretation of the painting Parhelion or Vädersolstavlan, preserved in Stockholm Cathedral (Storkyrkan) and painted in 1636 by court artist Jacob Heinrich Elbfas as a copy of a painting made a century earlier by order of the Lutheran preacher Olaus Petri to accompany his sermons. The painting depicts a parhelion that appeared in the skies over Stockholm on 1 April 1535, during the reign of Gustav I Vasa, the monarch who officially embraced Lutheranism in 1527. Gianna Pinotti’s careful investigations reveal that behind the ancient and admonitory Lutheran iconography of 1535, reprised by Elbfas, lies the astrological configuration of 20 April 1636. This configuration would unlock the secrets of a protean image containing a doctrinal syncretism traceable to the thought of mystic, runologist, and kabbalist Johannes Bureus (1568–1652), royal librarian and archaeologist of the Kingdom of Sweden. In 1636, upon examining the damaged earlier painting, Bureus would have conceived the new iconographic project, elaborating a monade celeste that would bridge the Lutheran Reformation and esoterismo gotico in a cultural context deeply engaged with astrology and hermeticism, during the Thirty Years’ War and the scientific revolution, when Sweden was shaping its identity as a great nation under the reign of Gustav II Adolf. Astrology, cosmology, magic, kabbalah, alchemy, and runology are all fused in a captivating icon that, speaking the language of universal Wisdom, takes on new significance in the context of modern Swedish history.
Fabio D'Angelo, La scienza itinerante. Formazione delle competenze e impiego delle risorse minerario-metallurgiche tra il Regno di Napoli e l’Europa (secoli XVIII-XIX)
Publication date: 30 March 2022ISBN 979-1280410016 | 325 pages
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Starting from an analysis of the investigations which, between the 18th and 19th centuries, linked volcanic activity to the process of orogenesis, and dwelling on the longstanding and controversial debate that arose in Earth sciences in the late 18th and early 19th centuries between the so-called “vulcanists/plutonists” and “neptunists,” this study focuses on the importance of geo-mineralogical expeditions in 18th-century Europe, devoting ample space to the mineralogical journey undertaken by six Neapolitan naturalists between 1789 and 1796. Based on the results and experience gained during this expedition, Ferdinand IV of Bourbon, King of Naples, attempted to boost mining production and exploitation, as well as to promote and finance new research and manufacturing activities in the field. It was undoubtedly an ambitious project, yet it was hindered by mistrust, personal jealousies, financial difficulties, and the vested interests of the old academic establishment, and ultimately achieved only partial success.
Antonio Ballerini, "L’innocente langue e ragion cerca invano". Il mito attraverso lo sguardo degli sconfitti nelle tragedie 'riformate' di Lodovico Dolce
Publication date: 4 November 2021
ISBN 979-1280410009 | 382 pages
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Could the Venetian Lodovico Dolce—widely known as “mediocre,” “insincero,” a cautious polymath of the 16th century—have actually harbored heterodox sympathies? Did some of his works (particularly those composed between 1545 and 1555) indeed dare to convey a more or less veiled reformist message? And is it conceivable that his rich dramatic output represented a sort of unicum in the literary panorama of the Cinquecento, as a tormented, far-from-reassuring ‘tragedy of necessity’ (openly defending the concept of servile will) and of innocence unjustly persecuted? What was this dramaturgy—rooted in the inevitable defeat of ‘good’ in History—meant to communicate to the many reformers in Catholic lands?Answering these questions perhaps means giving voice to a battle fought in the name of an unmentionable idea, of a shared yet unshareable creed, of a collective dream so deeply rooted that it could only be extinguished by the harshest repression. And of a proud yet inevitable defeat that, in Dolce, gradually turned into misunderstanding, incomprehension, and historiographical reversal: until the Venetian writer was recast as a kind of ‘champion’ of the opposing camp, a man of the Counter-Reformation, an opportunist always aligned with the strongest side. This solitary research, developed over the years, attempts to redress—at least in part—this second and more painful defeat, in the hope of offering “testimonianza / d’una fede che fu combattuta, / d’una speranza che bruciò più lenta / di un duro ceppo nel focolare” (“testimony / of a faith that was fought, / of a hope that burned slower / than a stubborn log in the hearth”).
Gustavo Bertoli, Attività dell'Inquisizione a Firenze fra il 1549 e il 1552. Tre ricerche
Publication date: 14 February 2021
ISBN 979-1280410030 | 320 pages
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These studies document the activity of the Florentine Inquisition during a crucial four-year period (1549–1552) in the fight against religious dissent in Italy. In Florence, the Inquisition targeted public statements and extravagant behavior by marginal, culturally insignificant figures, lacking organization or clear agendas, conveying confused concepts of various origins and without any real social grounding. Over time, pressure from the Roman Inquisition for more incisive and widespread action increased; however, Cosimo de' Medici—reluctant to limit his autonomy—resisted without overstepping, until a so-called Anabaptist conspiracy, exaggerated by Rome, forced him to scale back his institutional prerogatives, abandon the Florentine Inquisition, and close a season of vague heterodoxy with a trial that led to the conviction of a small number of individuals—most of whom were in fact released within six months to a year, despite the severity of the accusations and penalties.
Arduino Suzzi, Sui nomi divini. Passi scelti dalle Origini hebraiche delle tre lingue e dagli scritti esoterici, edited by Matteo Veronesi
Publication date: 23 February 2020
ISBN 978-8894241679 | 107 pages
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Arduino Suzzi (a solitary and absorbed scholar, today nearly unknown), who lived between the 17th and 18th centuries in a kind of noble reclusion, ideally straddles both eras: from the former, he inherited meticulous, labyrinthine, and sometimes captious erudition, an obstinate and cerebral allegorical vision, and spiritual tension; from the latter, a quest for the original, the pure, the essential, and the universal and perennial roots—alongside a vague pre-Romantic restlessness and a vivid and powerful mythopoietic faculty that almost brings him close to Vico.
This essential anthology aims to lift the veil of oblivion cast by ecclesiastical censorship over his figure and work—a veil that still today continues to envelop and obscure his potentially fertile intellectual legacy.
Antonio D'Andria, "Educato a magnanimi sensi". Nicola Fiorentino illuminista del dissenso
Publication date: 24 August 2019
ISBN 978-8894241655 | 130 pages
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The reconstruction of the relationship between the Bourbons of Naples and intellectuals during the decade 1789–1799 reveals a gradual unraveling and, after the 1794 conspiracy, increasing opposition. One of the most significant examples is Nicola Fiorentino, who resists being labeled as an “Enlightenment thinker”—a rather generic category often attributed to him by outdated studies that fail to explore the full context of his personality, environment, and defining elements of political culture. His intellectual and personal trajectory must be understood in the context of the merging between Enlightenment ideals and the classical and republican tradition, which, through nuclei of strong political-scientific culture, fueled debate on the new roles of government.
This marked a transition from a culture focused on planning to one based on action, in which symbols and concepts of classical derivation provided a practical model for comprehensive renewal—all under the aegis of the “philosophy in aid of governments” promoted by Genovesi and Filangieri.
Federica Dallasta, Condanne e carriere. Inquisizione e censura libraria a Parma nel SettecentoWith an introductory essay by Herman H. Schwedt
Publication date: 20 October 2018
ISBN 978-8894241631 | 728 pages
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How can we reconstruct the history of an ancien régime institution without access to its historical records? How can we understand its relations with other secular and ecclesiastical institutions, both local and foreign? How was its presence perceived in society, and how did its actions affect the lives and freedoms of individuals?This monograph, acknowledging the now irreversible loss of the archives of the Inquisition of Parma, draws from a wealth of alternative documentation discovered in various Italian and Vatican archives. The book presents this material through texts, appendices, and indexes that provide answers to the many historiographical questions at stake.Following Herman H. Schwedt’s introductory essay, which compares the Parma Inquisition with those of other Italian states, the book particularly highlights the objectives pursued by inquisitors, their collaborators, and the cardinals of the two Roman congregations—the Holy Office and the Index—who issued the directives for censorship procedures and the prosecution of crimes against the faith.
Vincenzo Vozza, Valentin Krautwald (1490–1545). La Riforma in Slesia tra ermeneutica biblica e radicalismo teologico
Publication date: 12 February 2018
ISBN 978-8894241662 | 295 pages
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The study of the Reformation in Silesia has, to date, largely remained under the purview of an interpretive school rooted overseas, particularly in Pennsylvania, and has focused primarily on the developments that took place in the region following the triumph of Lutheranism over the more radical movements. Historians working on this area have engaged with a body of sources emerging from a territorially and culturally complex context—a veritable mosaic of languages, traditions, and identities situated in a liminal space: too German to legitimately aspire to integration within the Polish cultural sphere, yet too Slavic to be fully embraced as an expression of Germanic heritage. Valentin Krautwald (1490–1545), whom historiography has almost exclusively examined in connection with the more prominent figure of the Via Media, Caspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig, is deeply rooted in this context. He was a man who lived his entire life in a state of spiritual uncertainty concerning the object of his faith, perpetually anxious not to betray the teachings of Holy Scripture, and ultimately willing to relinquish his erudition and the pursuit of the humanae litterae in order to attain what he saw as true salvation.
Luca Al Sabbagh, Daniele Santarelli, Herman H. Schwedt, Domizia Weber, I giudici della fede. L'Inquisizione romana e i suoi tribunali in età modernaPublication date: 30 November 2017
ISBN 978-8894241648 | 146 pages
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The Roman Inquisition, or Holy Office of the Inquisition, was the network of tribunals that, beginning with the reorganization decreed by the bull Licet ab initio (21 July 1542) of Pope Paul III, took charge of repressing heresies and enforcing orthodoxy, primarily in the central and northern territories of Italy.This volume, featuring a preface by Herman H. Schwedt and a historical introduction by Daniele Santarelli, provides chronological lists of Inquisitors from the local branches of the Roman Inquisition during the early modern period (from around 1500, with the Napoleonic era as the “terminus ad quem”).Its aim is to offer readers a practical and user-friendly reference tool that complements the entries already available online in the “Dizionario di eretici, dissidenti e inquisitori nel mondo mediterraneo,” hosted on the Ereticopedia website (http://www.ereticopedia.org).This resource serves a dual function: in its digital and online format, it integrates with Ereticopedia’s continuously updated and expanding pages; in its printed form, it acts as a practical guide for researchers and enthusiasts who, even when offline, can still “navigate” among inquisitorial offices in search of valuable historical information.
Rosa Lupoli, Gli inquisitori in biblioteca. Documenti di censura libraria nell'archivio dell'Inquisizione di Modena nel XVII secolo
Publication date: 31 October 2017
ISBN 978-8894241624 | 221 pages
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The essays collected in this volume are based on the study of archival documents from the Inquisizione collection of the State Archives of Modena, which preserves the complete records of the inquisitorial tribunal of Modena and a large portion of those from the tribunal of Reggio. These are documents on which generations of capable scholars have trained to understand the key aspects of that historical phenomenon known as the Roman Inquisition, and its significance not only at a local level, but also as a reflection of a new perspective on the relationships and conflicts between Church and State during the Ancien Régime.
The archival sources from Modena document, through trial records, a teeming life that flows from the figures of the judges to those of the accused, without interruption. Alongside the inventories of this special tribunal, preserved in the bibliographic collections of the institution’s library, we have also inherited printed and manuscript manuals on which the “judges of the faith” of that tribunal were trained and professionalized. The volume focuses precisely on this particular relationship between inquisitors and books, between their archive and the library they themselves helped to build.
Antonello Fabio Caterino, Rinascimento latino e volgare. Studi critici (2011-2016)
Publication date: 15 March 2017
ISBN 978-8894241617 | 158 pages
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This volume collects the author’s main studies from recent years (2011–2016), enriched with a series of previously unpublished translations from Latin. The essays focus on the 15th and 16th centuries and examine two prominent—though often overlooked—figures in the Italian poetic tradition, respectively in Latin and in the vernacular: Tito Vespasiano Strozzi and Antonio Brocardo. Both authors demonstrate that concepts such as classicism and Petrarchism have never been isolated compartments and are continually influenced by numerous possible hybridizations.
The work concludes with a methodological essay on digital humanities, which opens the way to the future of studia humanitatis.