Sources and research
Sources and research
Promoted by the Library of Modern and Contemporary History, the series Fonti e ricerche publishes, with the collaboration of qualified scholars, critical editions of manuscripts and rare texts from the library itself, bibliographies and critical essays on specific topics concerning Italian and European political, social and cultural history.
Il Piano Marshall in Italia: guida bibliografica 1947 – 1997, edited by Gisella Bochicchio, Rome, Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea, 1998, 23 p.
The guide, prepared on the occasion of the International Conference organised with other institutions for the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, is intended as a research aid on the subject in the Library’s collections.
Italy united through the press of occasion. The Santarelli collection of one-off issues (1880-1990), edited by Ettore Tanzarella, Rome, Carocci, 2000, 158 p., (in trade)
The catalogue of more than 700 unique issues, covering multiple aspects of the social, political and cultural life of the country, collected by Enzo Santarelli and becoming part of the Library’s collections.
Italy and the Council of Europe. Bibliography 1949-1999, edited by Gisella Bochicchio, Rosanna De Longis, Fabrizio Dolci, Patrizia Rusciani, Rome, Carocci, 2000, 124 p., (in trade)
The repertory of Italian printed sources on the Council of Europe documents fifty years of discussions, reflections and critical studies on this important institution.
‘Under the Bourbon I did not suffer so much’. Francesco Crispi’s Letters after Adua (1896-1898), edited by Lauro Rossi, Rome, Carocci, 2000, 110 p., (in trade)
Thirty-three hitherto unpublished letters by Crispi at the end of his political career have become part of the collections of the Library, which also possesses numerous papers and documents of the Sicilian statesman.
Ugo Foscolo, Orazione a Bonaparte pel Congresso di Lione, edited by Lauro Rossi, Rome, Carocci, 2002, 145 p., (in trade).
Two hundred years after its publication, the volume re-proposes Foscoli’s Orazione a Bonaparte, of which the Library possesses all three 1802 editions in its rich collection dedicated to the poet.
