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The project, funded by Regione Veneto (LR 39/2019) and currently carried out at the Ca' Foscari U... more The project, funded by Regione Veneto (LR 39/2019) and currently carried out at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, investigates how during the early modern age Northern Adriatic port cities favored the emergence of initial forms of public health and systematic collection of information on health matters. Venice established itself as a useful model for the other Mediterranean and European port cities for health issues and, above all, as a gateway for reliable, verified and certified information on the health situation of the Adriatic and the Eastern Mediterranean. During the eighteenth century Venice, as an information and health management hub, was challenged by other emerging trade centers, such as Livorno and Trieste, triggering mechanisms of competition, collaboration, improvement.
The project finally illustrates the evolution towards the modern concept of public health (and right to health) of health control policies, showing how Northern Adriatic port centers have been real precursors in this field.
Furthermore the project intends to highlight the enduring importance of international cooperation, the dialogue between science and politics and the communication and information dimension in the management of health crises.
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During the 18 th century, the analysis of the intertwinement between power and ethics underlines ... more During the 18 th century, the analysis of the intertwinement between power and ethics underlines the image of commerce as driving force is strengthened. Such image is not a mere stereotype. It is materialized by the parallelism between the circulation routes of people and goods and those of immaterial objects such as ideas and news. The correlation of communication and commerce emerges as ideal standpoint to rethink information process during early modern age. • The study of communication in the specific dimension of the free port can be particularly meaningful. The free port has a liminal and liquid character. It is a place where imperium is suspended, where the power's grasp over information is continuously challenged in the name of commercial needs. It is the place where early modern processes such as territorialization of power and nationalization of language and culture are reversed. It is also the place where fading mercantilism and rising liberalism meet. The free-port allows to reconsider the development of information and communication during early modern age according to a new and more complex outlook. Such development can be recodified not as an intellectual product generated by thinkers and philosophers, but as the result of exchanges between different agents and of the mutual influences between political, cultural and commercial environments. The commercial needs within the free-port favored communicative process directed to swift, efficient and widespread circulation and creation of news. The communication within free-ports can be examined from at least three points of view: 1. How new forms of communication are created within the free-port; 2. How the image of the free-port is construed and the spread ; 3. How definitions and images of free-port are influenced by institutions / how institutions themselves are conditioned by the definitory struggles around the concept of free-port.
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The volume investigates how in the course of the early modern age the Northern Adriatic port citi... more The volume investigates how in the course of the early modern age the Northern Adriatic port cities with their institutions favored the emergence of the first forms of public health and systematic collection of information on the subject. Venice with its Adriatic information network also established itself as a useful model for the other Mediterranean and European port cities for health issues and, above all, as hubs for reliable, verified and certified information on the health status of the Adriatic and the Eastern Mediterranean. During the eighteenth century Venice, as an information and health management hub, was challenged by other emerging centers, such as Livorno and Trieste, triggering an alternation of competitive, collaborative and improvement mechanisms. By reconstructing these information flows, the volume finally illustrates the evolution towards the modern concept of public health (and right to health) of health control policies, showing how the Northern Adriatic ports have been real precursors in this field. Furthermore, starting from the historical case studies, the project intends to highlight the continuing importance of international cooperation, the dialogue between science and politics and the communication and information dimension in the management of health crises.
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Il volume indaga come nel corso dell’età moderna le città porto alto adriatiche con le loro istit... more Il volume indaga come nel corso dell’età moderna le città porto alto adriatiche con le loro istituzioni abbiano favorito la nascita di prime forme di sanità pubblica e di raccolta sistematica di informazione in materia. Venezia con la sua rete informativa adriatica si andò affermando come modello utile anche le altre città porto mediterranee ed europee per le questioni sanitarie e, soprattutto, come punto di raccolta per informazioni degne di fede, verificate e certificate sullo stato sanitario dell'Adriatico e del Mediterraneo orientale. Nel corso del Settecento Venezia, quale hub di informazione e di gestione sanitaria, venne sfidata da altri centri commerciali emergenti, quali Livorno e Trieste, innescando un alternarsi di meccanismi competitivi, collaborativi e migliorativi. Ricostruendo tali flussi informativi, illustra infine l’evolversi verso il concetto moderno di sanità pubblica (e diritto alla salute) delle politiche di controllo sanitario, mostrando come i centri portuali alto adriatici siano stati veri e propri precursori in tale campo. A partire dai casi di studio storici, inoltre, il progetto intende mettere in luce la perdurante l’importanza della cooperazione internazionale, del dialogo tra scienza e politica e della dimensione comunicativa e informativa nella gestione delle crisi sanitarie.
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Cosa significa virtù? In realtà, non contano le tante possibili accezioni, ma piuttosto le sue fu... more Cosa significa virtù? In realtà, non contano le tante possibili accezioni, ma piuttosto le sue funzioni in quanto chiave di volta su cui far poggiare l’edificio comunicativo. La virtù è onnipresente e si riaffaccia nei temi più disparati: dal linguaggio della massoneria alle teorie medico-pedagogiche del giacobino Giovanni Rasori, dalla tradizione moderna di Plutarco alla rappresentazione di Napoleone, dalle poesie di Tommaso Crudeli alle meditazioni di Pietro Verri. Una pervasività e una pluralità che continuano a suscitare domande e interrogativi circa le sue funzioni. Questo volume nasce dall’idea che per indagare il concetto di virtù tra Sette e Ottocento è necessario, prima di tutto, tracciare una storia di come lo si comunica e lo si rappresenta, di come trova incarnazione nei modelli positivi dei ‘grandi uomini’, di come si lega alla questione del potere e della sua definizione. Si tratta di una storia della comunicazione, e di una storia della comunicazione politica in particolare, nella quale assume rilevanza, accanto ai contenuti, anche la forma scelta per diffondere il proprio messaggio. Ne emerge una profonda
continuità tra Sette e Ottocento, in cui il momento rivoluzionario agisce non come cesura ma piuttosto come filtro. Il concetto di virtù mantiene una connotazione positiva e non perde di autorevolezza. Coloro che lo incarnano continuano a essere eroi dotati di caratteri eccezionali, di quella stessa fibra morale – o costanza – dell’Enea metastasiano; anche se non devono più necessariamente avere il sangue blu o l’obiettivo della sola felicità pubblica, ma piuttosto quello della difesa dei diritti e della repubblica.
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Past&Present, 2022
FULL TEXT: https://academic.oup.com/past/article/257/Supplement_16/294/6782269
This chapter an... more FULL TEXT: https://academic.oup.com/past/article/257/Supplement_16/294/6782269
This chapter analyzes a series of interconnected Italian cases in its enquiry into how disinformation was created, and how it impacted on society. It argues that disinformation is an inherent element of information itself. Disinformation is understood here as an intentional construction of fictional and often conflicting narratives, helpful in times of crisis and also in routine governance in the pursuit of political goals both internally and internationally. Since health matters figured prominently in early modern public discourse and policy making, the article focuses on health-related cases to explain how disinformation worked and may still work today.
During the eighteenth century, smallpox raged throughout the world. News of new outbreaks, and attempts to prevent it through inoculation, both sparked huge controversy, in which no participant in the dispute was above manipulating data and fabricating stories to bolster their arguments. After having laid out the context of early modern perceptions of diseases and health institutions, the chapter centres on specific instances: a successful text with Tuscan roots published in Milan by Giovanni Calvi (Tre consulti, 1762), and the port city of Livorno’s management of information about epidemics. The analysis of focal points such as port cities, along with the study of textual sources reveals the entire information chain (construction, circulation and reception). Ultimately the essay points out how disinformation itself is not an exception in the eighteenth-century media ecosystem, but is rather an essential part of interaction within public spaces.
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Studi storici, 2022
Who Fears Power? Historical Perspectives on Politics and Communication (16th-18th centuries)
Thi... more Who Fears Power? Historical Perspectives on Politics and Communication (16th-18th centuries)
This essay aims to explain how recent historiography has analysed the relationship between power and communication in the early modern age. The research that was carried out had the merit of fusing together multiple methodological frameworks (those of cultural, intellectual, institutional, political, and economic history), thus succeeding in reconstructing dense networks of linkage among different, distant places and finding the presence of a global system since the beginning of the 16th century. However, current interpretative models do not yet seem sufficient to unveil the information factory. What is missing is a deeper focus on the social, political, and economic forces that shape information and convey communication flows. It is therefore necessary-the authors argue-to refine the investigation tools to identify who builds the news and which powers exercise their hegemony over the infosphere.
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RIME – RIVISTA DELL’ISTITUTO DI STORIA DELL’EUROPA MEDITERRANEA (8), 2021
This contribution brings together sources of different nature (from the Customs Regis-ters of the... more This contribution brings together sources of different nature (from the Customs Regis-ters of the Cinque Savi alla Mercanzia to gazettes, from medical and moralizing pamphlets to successful novels) with the aim of depicting the panorama of the mate-rial and immaterial reception of colonial goods through the observatory of Venice, whose enduring role is highlighted as a centre of commercial circulation but above all of gathering, building and refraction of ideas and information.
This double perspective that intertwines the economic and cultural data allows us to illustrate how Venice had not given up the attempt to build organic commercial poli-cies, looking especially to the West and col-lecting in a systematic and conscious way an important amount of data and informa-tion that should have been translated into reforms.
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Acta Histriae (28.2), 2020
The free ports of Rijeka and Trieste, along with their surrounding areas from which Ljubljana sto... more The free ports of Rijeka and Trieste, along with their surrounding areas from which Ljubljana stood out, were part of a vast network where information was not only collected and exchanged but also created, thereby influencing the state institutions themselves. This article proves that these processes did not fall within the sole free port, but that they acted as a sort of propeller and accelerator in favoring reforms
that also impacted the surrounding territory. Beginning with archival documents, the article summates the management of health information and the institutional reforms that derived from it in the 1750s.
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Società e storia (169), 2020
The article, using extensive archival documentation, analyzes the construction of communication a... more The article, using extensive archival documentation, analyzes the construction of communication and commercial networks between the Austrian Hereditary Lands (in particular through Trieste), Cadiz and Latin America in the aftermath of the Treaty of Aranjuez (1752). To be constituted such networks needed a constant flow of information, which was not mere circulation of news, but a systematic activity of recoding: that is to say a continuous collection and an incessant re-adaptation of contents and functions based on contexts and agents involved. Through these processes, generated by a multi-agent negotiation, information was transformed into knowledge capable of stimulating institutional metamorphoses. The recodification of information, in particular in “nodal point” such as the Mediterranean and Atlantic port cities, thus became both a tool for the exercise of power and a leaven for political, economic and cultural innovation.
L’articolo, facendo ricorso ad ampia documentazione d’archivio, analizza la costruzione di reti comunicative e commerciali tra gli Stati ereditari austriaci (in particolare attraverso Trieste), Cadice e l’America Latina all’indomani del trattato di Aranjuez (1752). Per essere costituite tali reti necessitavano di un costante flusso di informazioni, che non era una semplice circolazione di notizie, ma piuttosto una sistematica attività di ricodificazione: vale a dire una continua raccolta e un incessante riadattamento dei contenuti e delle funzioni in base ai contesti e agli agenti coinvolti. Attraverso questi processi, generati da una negoziazione multi-agente, l’informazione veniva trasformata in conoscenze capaci di stimolare metamorfosi istituzionali. La ricodificazione dell’informazione, in particolare in luoghi nevralgici quali le città porto mediterranee e atlantiche, diventava così sia strumento per l’esercizio del potere sia lievito per l’innovazione politica, economica e culturale.
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Studi storici (61.4), 2020
Gioia’s Thought, Napoleon’s Policy: Free Ports in the Early Nineteenth Century
This article offer... more Gioia’s Thought, Napoleon’s Policy: Free Ports in the Early Nineteenth Century
This article offers some preliminary results of a research on the evolving debate over free ports, the role played in them by Melchiorre Gioia, and the mutual influences between the political economist’s thought and Napoleon’s actions. The debate over free ports provides a useful vantage point for formulating hypotheses on Napoleon’s visions of economic policy
– aside from the category of exceptionality given the persistent state of war that characterized his government experience – and on their legacy during the nineteenth century. Gioia, author of Nuovo prospetto delle scienze economiche, is one of the fundamental figures for understanding
the political debate over free trade and free ports (many of which concentrated in the Italian area), and therefore Napoleon’s choices.
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Rivista storica italiana, 2019
Early modern information and communication: imagining, defining, communicating the free port The ... more Early modern information and communication: imagining, defining, communicating the free port The study of information during the early modern age must take into account the mutual influences that characterize cultural environments and commercial ones. The analysis in the specific dimension of the free port may prove to be of particular interest, since the needs of commerce and merchants favored the development forms aimed at quick, efficient and widespread creation and circulation of news. Communication and information in the free port can be investigated according to different perspectives. In particular, the definitional effort-which between the 17 th and 18 th centuries triggered a cultural, economic and legal debate and which accompanied the affirmation of the free port as an institution in the Mediterranean-is a process that has not been considered in a systematic way. This definitional process is an operation that is anything but neutral. The attempt to clearly define an object that was economic, political and cultural not only brought along intellectual debates but was a terrain of negotiation and clash between different interests and different agents, in an inseparable intertwining of mutual influences between institutional change and semantic and conceptual evolution. In parallel, the model of the free port spread globally in many variations, generating more and more opportunities for theoretical discussion and international political negotiation.
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Mediterranea (50), 2020
REDESIGNING VENICE BETWEEN PORT DEVELOPMENT AND LAGOON PROTECTION: A LONG-TERM QUESTION ABSTRACT:... more REDESIGNING VENICE BETWEEN PORT DEVELOPMENT AND LAGOON PROTECTION: A LONG-TERM QUESTION ABSTRACT: The Venice Lagoon is a complex ecosystem always in evolution. Human interventions have profoundly altered its balance. This article explores the evolution of the Venetian port system with particular attention to the issue of anthropogenic impact. The first traces of this debate can be found at the beginning of the nineteenth century: for this reason, the work presents a bipartite structure and an interdisciplinary methodology that combines historical analysis with the most recent ecological investigations and planning policies.
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Società e storia (165), 2019
Global Napoleon: celebrity, great men and political communication Starting from Lilti's studies o... more Global Napoleon: celebrity, great men and political communication Starting from Lilti's studies on celebrity, the author explores the "making" of Napoleon's political celebrity. If Lilt'is attention to Bonaparte is focused on post-1821 and French sources, the author wonders how starting from 1796 (and not only in France) Napoleon built (and around him was built) a new and powerful communication. The birth of the myth of Napoleon is not only a relevant case that allows us to observe the mechanisms of celebrity, but it appears as a fundamental turning point for political communication. The global dimension of the Napoleonic phenomenon invites us not to limit ourselves to the thematic description of the intellectual processes underlying the elaboration of this imaginary, but to observe it from a spatial point of view and to lay the foundations for the reconstruction of networks of power and communication, in which there is a "contagious" exchange of information between different media and publics and the development of a new language. A partire dagli studi di Lilti sulla celebrità, l'autrice esplora il "farsi" della celebrità politica di Napoleone. Se l'attenzione di Lilti per Bonaparte è incentrata sul post-1821 e fonti francesi, l'autrice si interroga su come a partire dal 1796 (e non solo in Francia) Napoleone abbia costruito (e intorno a lui sia stata costruita) una nuova e potente comunicazione. La nascita del mito di Napoleone non solo è un caso rilevante che permette di osservare i meccanismi della celebrità, ma appare come un punto di svolta fondamentale per la comunicazione politica. La portata globale del fenomeno napoleonico invita a non limitarsi alla descrizione tematica dei processi intellettuali sottostanti all'elaborazione di tale immaginario, ma ad osservarlo da un punto di vista spaziale e a porre le basi per la ricostruzione di networks di potere e di comunicazione, in cui si assiste a un "contagioso" scambio di informazioni tra media e pubblici diversi e all'elaborazione di un linguaggio nuovo.
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Many recent studies either assert that the concept of virtue in eighteenth-century Italian intell... more Many recent studies either assert that the concept of virtue in eighteenth-century Italian intellectual culture is a polysemous term without really explaining its meaning, or concentrate on just one of its many facets. However, so far no study has explored the shades of meaning ascribed to 'virtue' to their full extent. This study is an attempt to reconstruct the eighteenth-century Italian intellectual perspective on virtue and to reveal its geographical complexities, its semantic evolutionary curve and its interconnections in different fields. The aim is not to create a simple 'map', but rather to focus on the limits of the intellectual debate in defining and communicating virtue, and to envisage the understanding of the political functions of virtue through more popular and widespread media such as poetic texts. Despite its ever-changing meaning, virtue remains not only a keyword of political discourse over the century, but also stands as one of the very pillars on which powerful imageries of political communication were constructed. Therefore, this article provides a first step towards an analysis of political communication in eighteenth-century Italy, which, in subsequent studies, will take into account poetic sources, which at that time were regarded as an effective instrument to overcome the aforementioned intellectual limits and better exploit the possibilities of a rhetoric of virtue.
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The project finally illustrates the evolution towards the modern concept of public health (and right to health) of health control policies, showing how Northern Adriatic port centers have been real precursors in this field.
Furthermore the project intends to highlight the enduring importance of international cooperation, the dialogue between science and politics and the communication and information dimension in the management of health crises.
https://pric.unive.it/progetti/citta-porto-alto-adriatiche/home
Books by Giulia Delogu
continuità tra Sette e Ottocento, in cui il momento rivoluzionario agisce non come cesura ma piuttosto come filtro. Il concetto di virtù mantiene una connotazione positiva e non perde di autorevolezza. Coloro che lo incarnano continuano a essere eroi dotati di caratteri eccezionali, di quella stessa fibra morale – o costanza – dell’Enea metastasiano; anche se non devono più necessariamente avere il sangue blu o l’obiettivo della sola felicità pubblica, ma piuttosto quello della difesa dei diritti e della repubblica.
Journal articles by Giulia Delogu
This chapter analyzes a series of interconnected Italian cases in its enquiry into how disinformation was created, and how it impacted on society. It argues that disinformation is an inherent element of information itself. Disinformation is understood here as an intentional construction of fictional and often conflicting narratives, helpful in times of crisis and also in routine governance in the pursuit of political goals both internally and internationally. Since health matters figured prominently in early modern public discourse and policy making, the article focuses on health-related cases to explain how disinformation worked and may still work today.
During the eighteenth century, smallpox raged throughout the world. News of new outbreaks, and attempts to prevent it through inoculation, both sparked huge controversy, in which no participant in the dispute was above manipulating data and fabricating stories to bolster their arguments. After having laid out the context of early modern perceptions of diseases and health institutions, the chapter centres on specific instances: a successful text with Tuscan roots published in Milan by Giovanni Calvi (Tre consulti, 1762), and the port city of Livorno’s management of information about epidemics. The analysis of focal points such as port cities, along with the study of textual sources reveals the entire information chain (construction, circulation and reception). Ultimately the essay points out how disinformation itself is not an exception in the eighteenth-century media ecosystem, but is rather an essential part of interaction within public spaces.
This essay aims to explain how recent historiography has analysed the relationship between power and communication in the early modern age. The research that was carried out had the merit of fusing together multiple methodological frameworks (those of cultural, intellectual, institutional, political, and economic history), thus succeeding in reconstructing dense networks of linkage among different, distant places and finding the presence of a global system since the beginning of the 16th century. However, current interpretative models do not yet seem sufficient to unveil the information factory. What is missing is a deeper focus on the social, political, and economic forces that shape information and convey communication flows. It is therefore necessary-the authors argue-to refine the investigation tools to identify who builds the news and which powers exercise their hegemony over the infosphere.
This double perspective that intertwines the economic and cultural data allows us to illustrate how Venice had not given up the attempt to build organic commercial poli-cies, looking especially to the West and col-lecting in a systematic and conscious way an important amount of data and informa-tion that should have been translated into reforms.
that also impacted the surrounding territory. Beginning with archival documents, the article summates the management of health information and the institutional reforms that derived from it in the 1750s.
L’articolo, facendo ricorso ad ampia documentazione d’archivio, analizza la costruzione di reti comunicative e commerciali tra gli Stati ereditari austriaci (in particolare attraverso Trieste), Cadice e l’America Latina all’indomani del trattato di Aranjuez (1752). Per essere costituite tali reti necessitavano di un costante flusso di informazioni, che non era una semplice circolazione di notizie, ma piuttosto una sistematica attività di ricodificazione: vale a dire una continua raccolta e un incessante riadattamento dei contenuti e delle funzioni in base ai contesti e agli agenti coinvolti. Attraverso questi processi, generati da una negoziazione multi-agente, l’informazione veniva trasformata in conoscenze capaci di stimolare metamorfosi istituzionali. La ricodificazione dell’informazione, in particolare in luoghi nevralgici quali le città porto mediterranee e atlantiche, diventava così sia strumento per l’esercizio del potere sia lievito per l’innovazione politica, economica e culturale.
This article offers some preliminary results of a research on the evolving debate over free ports, the role played in them by Melchiorre Gioia, and the mutual influences between the political economist’s thought and Napoleon’s actions. The debate over free ports provides a useful vantage point for formulating hypotheses on Napoleon’s visions of economic policy
– aside from the category of exceptionality given the persistent state of war that characterized his government experience – and on their legacy during the nineteenth century. Gioia, author of Nuovo prospetto delle scienze economiche, is one of the fundamental figures for understanding
the political debate over free trade and free ports (many of which concentrated in the Italian area), and therefore Napoleon’s choices.
The project finally illustrates the evolution towards the modern concept of public health (and right to health) of health control policies, showing how Northern Adriatic port centers have been real precursors in this field.
Furthermore the project intends to highlight the enduring importance of international cooperation, the dialogue between science and politics and the communication and information dimension in the management of health crises.
https://pric.unive.it/progetti/citta-porto-alto-adriatiche/home
continuità tra Sette e Ottocento, in cui il momento rivoluzionario agisce non come cesura ma piuttosto come filtro. Il concetto di virtù mantiene una connotazione positiva e non perde di autorevolezza. Coloro che lo incarnano continuano a essere eroi dotati di caratteri eccezionali, di quella stessa fibra morale – o costanza – dell’Enea metastasiano; anche se non devono più necessariamente avere il sangue blu o l’obiettivo della sola felicità pubblica, ma piuttosto quello della difesa dei diritti e della repubblica.
This chapter analyzes a series of interconnected Italian cases in its enquiry into how disinformation was created, and how it impacted on society. It argues that disinformation is an inherent element of information itself. Disinformation is understood here as an intentional construction of fictional and often conflicting narratives, helpful in times of crisis and also in routine governance in the pursuit of political goals both internally and internationally. Since health matters figured prominently in early modern public discourse and policy making, the article focuses on health-related cases to explain how disinformation worked and may still work today.
During the eighteenth century, smallpox raged throughout the world. News of new outbreaks, and attempts to prevent it through inoculation, both sparked huge controversy, in which no participant in the dispute was above manipulating data and fabricating stories to bolster their arguments. After having laid out the context of early modern perceptions of diseases and health institutions, the chapter centres on specific instances: a successful text with Tuscan roots published in Milan by Giovanni Calvi (Tre consulti, 1762), and the port city of Livorno’s management of information about epidemics. The analysis of focal points such as port cities, along with the study of textual sources reveals the entire information chain (construction, circulation and reception). Ultimately the essay points out how disinformation itself is not an exception in the eighteenth-century media ecosystem, but is rather an essential part of interaction within public spaces.
This essay aims to explain how recent historiography has analysed the relationship between power and communication in the early modern age. The research that was carried out had the merit of fusing together multiple methodological frameworks (those of cultural, intellectual, institutional, political, and economic history), thus succeeding in reconstructing dense networks of linkage among different, distant places and finding the presence of a global system since the beginning of the 16th century. However, current interpretative models do not yet seem sufficient to unveil the information factory. What is missing is a deeper focus on the social, political, and economic forces that shape information and convey communication flows. It is therefore necessary-the authors argue-to refine the investigation tools to identify who builds the news and which powers exercise their hegemony over the infosphere.
This double perspective that intertwines the economic and cultural data allows us to illustrate how Venice had not given up the attempt to build organic commercial poli-cies, looking especially to the West and col-lecting in a systematic and conscious way an important amount of data and informa-tion that should have been translated into reforms.
that also impacted the surrounding territory. Beginning with archival documents, the article summates the management of health information and the institutional reforms that derived from it in the 1750s.
L’articolo, facendo ricorso ad ampia documentazione d’archivio, analizza la costruzione di reti comunicative e commerciali tra gli Stati ereditari austriaci (in particolare attraverso Trieste), Cadice e l’America Latina all’indomani del trattato di Aranjuez (1752). Per essere costituite tali reti necessitavano di un costante flusso di informazioni, che non era una semplice circolazione di notizie, ma piuttosto una sistematica attività di ricodificazione: vale a dire una continua raccolta e un incessante riadattamento dei contenuti e delle funzioni in base ai contesti e agli agenti coinvolti. Attraverso questi processi, generati da una negoziazione multi-agente, l’informazione veniva trasformata in conoscenze capaci di stimolare metamorfosi istituzionali. La ricodificazione dell’informazione, in particolare in luoghi nevralgici quali le città porto mediterranee e atlantiche, diventava così sia strumento per l’esercizio del potere sia lievito per l’innovazione politica, economica e culturale.
This article offers some preliminary results of a research on the evolving debate over free ports, the role played in them by Melchiorre Gioia, and the mutual influences between the political economist’s thought and Napoleon’s actions. The debate over free ports provides a useful vantage point for formulating hypotheses on Napoleon’s visions of economic policy
– aside from the category of exceptionality given the persistent state of war that characterized his government experience – and on their legacy during the nineteenth century. Gioia, author of Nuovo prospetto delle scienze economiche, is one of the fundamental figures for understanding
the political debate over free trade and free ports (many of which concentrated in the Italian area), and therefore Napoleon’s choices.
costumi che ormai erano «estremamente corrotti»
funzioni dei Cenni morali e politici sull’Inghilterra (1806) di Melchiorre
Gioia, un’opera che, come aveva sottolineato già Carlo Morandi nel 1944,
andava «al di là della polemica contingente e dell’occasionale propaganda
politica». Infatti, i Cenni morali ebbero un’immediata diffusione, per impulso
governativo, nel Regno d’Italia, come si vedrà attraverso la documentazione
conservata all’Archivio di Stato di Milano. Essi però rappresentano
anche un tassello fondamentale nella evoluzione del pensiero di Gioia verso le concezioni in materia economica e politica che poi sarebbero state esposte in maniera sistematica nel Nuovo prospetto delle scienze economiche (1815- 1817) per continuare ad essere oggetto di riflessione da parte del pensatore piacentino, e non solo, negli anni della Restaurazione.
dal 1768, quando, appena sedicenne, attraversò l’Italia per andare in sposa
a Ferdinando IV, a Napoli. Da allora, come avrebbe osservato anche Pietro
Colletta discutendone la figura, avrebbe passato quarantasei dei suoi sessantadue anni di vita come regina, attraversando gli anni della Rivoluzione e delle guerre napoleoniche. Al di là della longevità, quello di Maria Carolina è un caso di grande interesse perché mostra l’evolversi della comunicazione costruita a partire dal potere regale.
Tra il 1768 e il 1799, infatti, la regina fu al centro, insieme a Ferdinando,
di una rappresentazione familistica e positiva del potere di forte ascendenza asburgica. Tale immagine della sovrana-madre, portatrice di caratteri caritatevoli e rassicuranti, era talmente codificata e diffusa da venire perpetrata per Maria Carolina anche all’indomani della dura repressione del 1799. Dopo la morte, e soprattutto in seguito ai moti del 1821, invece, l’immagine di Maria Carolina si sarebbe arricchita di nuove funzioni comunicative, divenendo il simbolo su cui edificare (o distruggere) la legittimità del governo borbonico.
European overview, focusing on the ports of Venice, Trieste and Livorno. It then considers the global debate on smallpox vaccination, and finishes considering the role of seaports in the 18th-century cultural, health and scientific information routes, as well as the continuous negotiation between institutions and social classes on health protection and freedom of commerce, that ended in creating new strategies and new communication products.
Ma cosa vuol dire oggi speranza? Per capirlo, questo libro mette a disposizione otto sguardi (Fabio Rugge, Salvatore Veca, Allan Fitzgerald, Renata Crotti, Silvia Vegetti Finzi, Andrea Moro, Mario Melazzini e Giulia Delogu) che insieme compongono un'immagine multidimensionale.
Dalla riflessione in chiave storica, che parte dalle radici agostiniane e giunge fino all’età dei Lumi, si approda all’indagine sul ruolo della speranza nella società contemporanea tra educazione, ragione e incontro con il dolore. Quella che emerge, alla fine, è una riscoperta della speranza come sguardo positivo, ossia fondante e generativo insieme, sulla realtà e sul suo cambiamento.
Evento organizzato all’interno del progetto “Le città porto alto adriatiche e lo sviluppo della sanità pubblica in età moderna” Intervento realizzato con il contributo della Regione del Veneto ai sensi della L.R. n. 39/2019
PI: Giulia Delogu
Scuola Superiore Meridionale - Napoli
Largo San Marcellino, 10
Area disciplinare: Global History and Governance
Martedì 13 dicembre 2022
ore 15.00, aula 2
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
International Conference
September 24-25, 2019
The conference also intends to analyze the cultural and historical processes of knowledge transfer through an innovative approach, which takes into account at the same time 'nodes' and 'networks' that intersect through the port cities. In fact, in the global network of knowledge diffusion, a series of webs, made up of travelers, and a series of fundamental nodal points such as the port cities can be identified.
DEADLINE is 31 MAY 2019
To facilitate the scholarly dialogue and exchange each year a core theme is selected. This edition will explore the theme of Political Communication from the antiquity to the contemporary age in a multidisciplinary perspective.
Per quanto riguarda il Mediterraneo, senza dubbio Livorno costituì il modello al quale guardarono gran parte degli Stati europei che intendevano attirare mercanti stranieri utilizzando politiche di portofranco: con le leggi livornine del 1591-1593 il Granducato di Toscana dava avvio ad una politica di apertura che avrebbe visto il modesto scalo labronico diventare nel giro di alcuni decenni la capitale dei traffici sefarditi nel Mediterraneo.
L’adozione del portofranco a Genova – sebbene non generale ma limitato alle vettovaglie – risaliva al 1590 e la prima metà del Seicento fu contrassegnata da un susseguirsi di ritocchi ed ampliamenti del provvedimento, ora per fronteggiare le difficoltà di approvvigionamento, ora per restare al passo con Livorno e Nizza-Villafranca, dotata di portofranco da Carlo Emanuele di Savoia nel 1613. Il progressivo affrancamento dall’orbita spagnola ed il ricorrente desiderio di riallacciare i commerci con il Levante furono di ulteriore spinta nella proclamazione del portofranco generale del 1654, nel quale è esplicito l’invito rivolto a «gli hebrei e gli infedeli» a stabilirsi in città; la devastante epidemia di peste sopraggiunta di lì a due anni, mietendo circa metà della popolazione, fu ulteriore motivo per attirare uomini e traffici nella città prostrata. Nel giro di qualche anno affluirono in città ebrei provenienti dal Monferrato, da Livorno, da Nizza e dal Maghreb, dando vita ad una comunità che, a partire dal 1658, fu disciplinata in tutti i suoi aspetti da appositi capitoli, prorogati, revocati o modificati più volte nel corso dei decenni successivi.
L’inserimento di questa minoranza - voluta e pianificata dal ceto dirigente genovese - incontrò l’avversità di alcune arti e di frange della cittadinanza, nonché quella ben più pressante dell’autorità ecclesiastica; gestire questi conflitti implicò negoziazioni permanenti che investivano ogni aspetto della vita quotidiana del singolo e della comunità, costituendo un vero e proprio cantiere sociale, culturale ed economico in seno ad una città-porto di età moderna.
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
24-25 settembre 2019
Organizzatori:
Fabio D’Angelo (Università di San Marino),
Giulia Delogu (Università Ca’ Foscari),
Antonio Trampus (Università Ca’ Foscari)