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Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento italiano - Biblioteca scientifica Serie II: Memorie - Vol. LVI Affrontando il problema delle origini del colonialismo italiano a partire dagli organismi elitari che se ne fecero promotori, il volume ricostruisce il ruolo svolto dalla Società Geografica Italiana, tra la fine degli anni Sessanta e la metà degli anni Ottanta dell'Ottocento, nel tentativo di coinvolgere il governo e l'opinione pubblica nella realizzazione di un programma d'espansione, in una fase, quella post-unitaria, in cui la classe dirigente - impegnata a presentare il nuovo Regno come elemento di stabilità e di conservazione dello status quo internazionale tendeva a congelare la qu...
This open access book can be downloaded from link.springer.com Legal studies and consequently legal history focus on constitutional documents, believing in a nominalist autonomy of constitutional semantics. Reconsidering Constitutional Formation in the late 18th and 19th century, kept historic constitutions from being simply log-books for political experts through a functional approach to the interdependencies between constitution and public discourse. Sovereignty had to be ‘believed’ by the subjects and the political élites. Such a communicative orientation of constitutional processes became palpable in the ‘religious’ affinities of the constitutional preambles. They were held as ...
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“This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western culture.” —James Hankins, Harvard University Pico della Mirandola died in 1494 at the age of thirty-one. During his brief and extraordinary life, he invented Christian Kabbalah in a book that was banned by the Catholic Church after he offered to debate his ideas on religion and philosophy with anyone who challenged him. Today he is best known for a short speech, the Oration on the Dignity of Man, written in 1486 but never delivered. Sometimes called a “Manifesto of the Renaissance,” this text has been regarded as the foundation of humanism...
The essays in Copernirus and his Successors deal both with the influences on Copernicus, including that of Greek and Arabic thinkers, and with his own life and attitudes. They also examine how he was seen by contemporaries and finally describe his relationship to other scientists, including Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
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