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(2024)This essay aims to reconstruct the historiographical framework in which the most recent scholarship on the historiographical production in 12th-century Italy is located. The essay also provides an outline of the structure ...
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(2024)The archival approach to the study of the history of psychiatry in Italy was of great importance, having allowed an early interest in the recovery of documentary materials at risk of dispersion by the application of the ...
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Chapter «Io penso che questo riesce benino». Vita e opere di Livio Poggesi 1934-1985 | Livio Poggesi(2024)The essay reconstructs the activity of the outsider artist Livio Poggesi, from his beginnings in the painting atelier of the neuropsychiatric hospital of Arezzo, in 1958, until his death, which occurred in this hospital ...
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(2024)The atelier at Arezzo Neuropsychiatric Hospital transformed the artistic activity from a diagnostic tool to a recognized form of creative expression. Initiated in 1958 by Dr. Furio Martini and influenced by the cultural ...
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(2024)This essay deals with the activity of painter Franco Villoresi (1920-1975), from his beginnings in Rome in the late 1940s to his involvement as a "master" in the painting atelier for the patients of the Arezzo Neuropsychiatric ...
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(2024)Artistic expressions are a non-discursive symbolic language and promote the understanding of human experience. In the 19th and 20th centuries, outsider artists admitted to psychiatric hospitals offered a contribution to ...
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(2024)In this concluding section, Silvia Salvatici dialogues with two experts in the field of non-governmental organizations, discussing changes, continuities, political developments and recent challenges.
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(2024)The 1980s marked a pivotal moment for development cooperation, both globally and in Italy. This chapter provides an analysis of the intertwined economic, political and social issues that shaped development assistance during ...
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(2024)This essay examines the Third World volunteer movement that developed within the Catholic world in the late 1950s and the following decade. Groups and associations selected applications from dozens of young people, trained ...
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(2024)This chapter aims to shed light on the results of the first European Community aid in Somalia and the role played by Italian and Somali actors in the allocation of funds. As development policy was not one of Italy's ...
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(2024)This paper examines the relationships established between the 1950s and 1970s between the Italian government and the Catholic missionaries in Somalia as part of international cooperation. Using mainly unpublished documentation ...
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(2024)This chapter looks at Italy’s scholarship programmes to promote higher education in Somalia. It focuses on a group of Somali students who, in between 1956 and 1969, started their university career in Mogadishu and completed ...
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(2024)In the summer of 1950 the United States asked Italy for a military contribution, even symbolic, to be used in the war in Korea. The Italian government instead decided to send a humanitarian mission, as Sweden did, and sent ...
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(2024)From 1947 to 1969, when Italy still had severe disparities and vast pockets of deprivation, the Foster Parents' Plan (FPP), an international organization, operated to support children who were victims of war – abandoned, ...
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(2024)At the end of the Second World War, recovering, safeguarding, rehabilitating and educating Jewish children who survived the Shoah became a common mission for humanitarian organizations involved in the rescue of European ...
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(2024)This chapter introduces the themes and case studies discussed in the volume and briefly delineates their historical background. It presents the variety of sources and methodological approaches adopted in the volume and ...
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(2024)The author broadens the question of the genesis of the republican experiences to a perspective that is not merely Italian. The space investigated is that of the empire between the late Middle Ages and the early modern age, ...
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(2024)The author focuses on Florentine libertas, identifying in the work of Coluccio Salutati the turning point between the polysemy of the notion in the previous ideological tradition of the city and the reorientation in a more ...
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(2024)The author identifies in the reflection and practice of fourteenth-century Italian cities with a communal tradition the development of a culture of autonomy that anticipated the 'republican' notion of freedom and political ...
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(2024)The author revisits the issue of religious "non-conformism" by focusing attention on the passage, between the 12th and 13th centuries, in which the overlap between Christian heresies and other religions was determined. ...
