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The University of Camerino Botany Library was established in 1828 by Vincenzo Ottaviani, founder of the botanical gardens. The library collections have grown over the years thanks to the professors' passion for scientific research, and its history reflects the transformations occurred in the scientific and academic world, the political passions that would have led to revolutions in Europe and the institutional problems of a small Italian university with a rich and complex historical background. By analyzing the library's historical inventory and its collections' development we can catch a glimpse of the feverish scientific spirit of the time – a time of great innovations and knowledge exchange at an international level. ; La Biblioteca di botanica dell'Università di Camerino – nata nel 1828 per volontà di Vincenzo Ottaviani, fondatore dell'Orto botanico – ha visto crescere le sue collezioni coerentemente con gli interessi scientifici dei vari docenti, i mutamenti metodologici nella didattica e nella sperimentazione pratica, le passioni politiche che avrebbero portato alle rivoluzioni in Europa, e i problemi istituzionali di una piccola università italiana dalla storia secolare e complicata. L'analisi dell'inventario storico della Biblioteca, in cui compaiono alcuni testi fondamentali per le scienze naturali acquistati nel corso dell'Ottocento, ha permesso di ripercorrerne la storia e individuarne le linee di sviluppo, del tutto coerenti con le innovazioni scientifiche di quel secolo e con lo scambio internazionale di conoscenza proprio della cultura universitaria.

This book on Metafore dello spazio, which follows the first dealing with La politica e gli spazi politici, is part of a series designed to illustrate the results of an interdisciplinary study group, fostered by Lea Campos Boralevi, Vittore Collina and Bruna Consarelli, lecturers in the history of political theory, entitled Figure dello spazio, politica e società, and aimed at exploring the major political and social issues of the modern and contemporary age from the aspect of spaces and their production.

This notebook is the fourth in the series designed to illustrate the results of an interdisciplinary study group, fostered by Lea Campos Boralevi, Vittore Collina and Bruna Consarelli, lecturers in the history of political theory, entitled Figure dello spazio, politica e società, and aimed at exploring the major political and social issues of the modern and contemporary age from the aspect of spaces and their production. The contributions presented in this book address issues connected with the role and impact of technology.

The book reconstructs the utopian tensions present in positivism, generally projected towards imaginary descriptions of the future, taking its cue from Comte's doctrine of political positivism in which he describes an ideal society based on collaboration between different classes. The temptation to describe the future in terms of achievement of perfection is a trait shared by many other writers that were close to positivism. Nevertheless, the book demonstrates how at times these operations of alternative history can nourish an image that is not confident, but on the contrary concerned about the repercussions on human qualities of a world overly grounded in technology and the tangible values of economic development.