Ricerc@Sapienza

This work is inspired by the observation that an increasing number of cities compete to seize the opportunity to host events in general, especially those that are defined in the literature as mega-events. The work aims to find possible answers to the question of the link that binds the fate of the events, especially major events, with that of the city. This work also seeks to highlight a particular case of the mega-event, the International Exhibition in Rome in 1911, little known in the literature.

Giuseppe Galasso and Italian Historians of the Twentieth Century

Fabrizia Ramondino: The Birth of a Writer between Morante and Gadda · The article outlines Fabrizia Ramondino’s tormented transition from the private space of her writing to the public sphere, which saw her authoring, at the age of forty- ve the dazzling Althénopis (1981), one of the most important novels of the second half of Italy’s twentieth century.