Ricerc@Sapienza

Il saggio, partendo dalle caratteristiche generali del latino e della letteratura in latino nel medioevo, si interroga sul carattere e le funzioni dell’opera storiografica, attraverso l’esempio dell’HL di Paolo Diacono, ricercando i suoi legami con la scuola che è necessariamente alle spalle dell’autore, con l’esperienza soggettiva di questi, con la realtà, storica e culturale, di cui parla e cui si rivolge.

Oggetto di questa rassegna sono alcuni studi recenti dedicati alla deportazione degli ebrei di Roma, che consentono di mettere a fuoco importanti nodi storici della vicenda e di sviluppare la riflessione sul posto da essa occupato nell'identità e nella memoria dell'Italia contemporanea. Secondo l'autore, quattro temi principali emergono da queste ricerche. La necessità di collocare la vicenda romana all'interno della politica complessiva della Germania nazista nei confronti degli ebrei nell'Europa occupata. Il ruolo della Chiesa cattolica in questo specifico contesto.

In recent years, international historiography has devoted increasing attention to the concept of transition as a way to describe specific historical times that are characterized by deep and transversal change in every field of political and social life. The category of transition seems to offer an effective tool to investigate and interpret historical time in moments of change, while avoiding the shortcomings of teleological or evolutionist paradigms.

This essay analyses the concept of Neapolitan Nation during and after the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

The article takes inspiration from a new edition of Ferrero’s book Grandezza e decadenza di
Roma and analyzes this work which was very criticized at the beginning of the 20th century, when
the first edition was published. The article investigates how Ferrero’s book was connected with
the new Italian and international historiographical climate, both in terms of methodology and in its
interpretations of history. In his book, Ferrero traced an original picture of antiquity, in which on

The article analyzes Niccolò Zapponi’s interpretation of the nature, the spread and the
roots of the seduction of racist and anti-Semitic myths in contemporary Europe. The author
underlines how, thanks to the influence of several scholars’ works, Zapponi considered the
myths of the race and the myths and prejudices against the Jews as tools able to clarify
broader tendencies in contemporary age. In his opinion, they revealed the rootedness in modern
culture of a general mentality pervaded by a deep sense of religious and apocalyptical

In 1834 a group of missionaries and merchants working along the Chinese coast founded the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in China (SDUKC). Based in Canton, it was intended as a means for providing China with the scientific knowledge that had made possible the progress and power of the Western nations. The Society planned to publish books in eight subject areas: history; geography; natural history; medicine; mechanics and mechanical arts; natural philosophy; natural theology; and belles lettres.