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"Corresponding to Etruscan belief the supernatural-divine sphere took great influence on the life of both the single and the whole community. The interpretation of the divine will and the accurate execution of cult activities played an important role. It is not surprising that the Etruscans were considered as very religious people in ancient opinion. The 26 articles of these international proceedings address the many aspects of a theme, that deals with the widespread interactions between religious and public-social spheres, in with regard to content and method different ways. The chronological frame ranges from the Villanovan period, the early phase of Etruscan culture, down to the Roman Empire. Linguistically oriented articles stand next to those of archaeological, epigraphical and/or more historical approach illustrating the broadness of actual research interests. Special interest is hold for the Etruscan pantheon (as a whole or with regard to single gods), structure and range of duties of priesthoods as well as the literarily (especially the Liber Linteus and the 'brontoscopic calendar'), archaeological and iconographical manifestations of rituals and religious beliefs. Analyses with specific Etruscan focus are complemented by articles treating questions concerning the Etrusco-Greek or Etrusco-Italic escpecially Etrusco-Roman network of relationships (for example the genesis of the triumph and the role of the haruspices) or concentrating on testimonies of other peoples of pre-Roman Italy."--Publisher's website

What is desire? What are the powers of reason? What drives men to go beyond nature? Where to look for the foundations and fundamental forms of coexistence? Following the thread of these questions, the study aims to set up a theoretical comparison between Hegel and Hobbes, in the belief that an all-out dialogue between the two philosophers can contribute to a better understanding of their respective systems. The examination of the many affinities of problematic approach, as well as of the radical divergences of the solutions, allows the profile of a self-critical modernity to emerge, sensitive to the assumptions of the project of human self-affirmation through reason and artifice.

This volume, born from the collaboration of thirty-four scholars and trade union representatives, has a dual purpose. Firstly, to propose the analysis and theses on the human and political meaning of work contained in Bruno Trentin's main book La città del lavoro (2nd ed., Firenze University Press, 2014), in the current phase of social transformations and theoretical uncertainties. Secondly, to promote a reflection testing the book's fertility and topicality in order to deepen the processes at work at the start of the 21st century, in the belief that the pages written in 1997 by one of the greatest representatives of the history of the CGIL represent a 'classic' of the socio-political thought of the 20th century. The emerging result is surprising in many ways, and corresponds to the extraordinary richness of Trentin's project, as well as to the political and trade-unionist ability of its author. TUESDAY, MAY 17 Sede Nazionale della CGIL (Sala Santi) - Corso d'Italia 25 - Rome Presentation of the book "Bruno Trentin e il lavoro dopo il Novecento

Yet another book on witches and witchcraft? Although numerous, studies on this phenomenon that had such a profound influence on the political, social and religious history of the late Middle Ages and the early modern age in Europe can never be enough. At this time the political regimes were actively involved in the witch hunts, not least the Catholic church which was intensely engaged in developing instruments of control aimed at governing and curbing dissent. The book is broken down into thematic sections – rules, treatises and trials, transmission /possession – which reflect the multiplicity of the scientific proposals that have emerged in recent years, and also represent a conscious preliminary orientation of possible readings. At centre stage of the witchcraft show are the witches and their judges, from the theologians and philosophers to the exorcists. As well as addressing actual events, the book also explores the nature of the beliefs and the way in which they were transmitted in the various social strata, and the phenomenon of diabolical possession which conveyed the message of the presence of the devil in the world.

After reviewing the development of "citizenship" under a historical and conceptual profile, as well as the many faces of this concept under a philosophical and analytical profile, the author discusses his belief that a generalized and extended idea of "citizenship" could be the core of a new philosophical and political paradigm, even more so, and better, than the inevitably abstract idea of "justice": exactly what contemporary societies need. Especially because, although we have become citizens in the public sphere of the state, we have remained subjects in the face of both public and private powers governing our lives in civil society, on all levels: local, national, European, global. To this end, the author advises reconsidering the subjective qualification we used to call "citizenship" as a bundle of functions: not only the elector-citizen in the stricto sensu political sphere, but also the producer-citizen, the reproducing and educating citizen, the consumer-citizen, the saver-citizen, the taxpayer-citizen, the user-citizen, the resident-citizen, and so on. Notwithstanding political democracy, for each of these functions it is possible, as well as necessary, to find new forms of representative democracy returning to the citizens the powers and the "voice" which they currently seem to be stripped of.

City life in the Italy of the communes was a unique experience in the Middle Ages, "another world" from that of the countryside in terms of the customs, beliefs and practices that conditioned the attitudes of a complex society. In order to verify Lopez' definition of the city as a "frame of mind", the issues addressed include the perception and memory of time (both real and mythical), the elaboration of models of behaviour (that of chivalry), and the conditioning of the urban ambience through to the creation of an "acoustic landscape" of the city. The significance of what it meant to be a citizen in mediaeval Italy emerges tangibly from the evidence of contemporaries. - L'esperienza cittadina nell'Italia comunale costituisce per il medioevo un fatto unico: un 'altro mondo' rispetto alle campagne per l'insieme di consuetudini, di credenze, di usi che condizionarono gli atteggiamenti di una società complessa. Per verificare la definizione di Lopez di città come "stato d'animo", vengono considerati temi quali la percezione e la memoria del tempo (tanto reale quanto mitico), l'elaborazione di modelli di comportamento (quello cavalleresco), il condizionamento dell'ambiente urbano fino alla creazione di un "paesaggio sonoro" della città. Nella concretezza delle testimonianze dei contemporanei emerge il significato di "essere cittadini" nel medioevo italiano.

Umberto Gori has held the first chair of International Relations in Italy and has been the first scholar to address a series of central topics in the analysis of foreign policy and international politics. Those who browse, even if only rapidly, his rich bibliography cannot but be struck by the great variety of the topics examined: from the first works of a predominantly legal nature, we move on to studies centered on methodological and epistemological issues, relations between states, analysis of foreign policy in general and Italian foreign policy in particular, Peace Research, strategic affairs, intelligence, and finally the impact of the information and digital revolution on international politics and contemporary strategy. What holds together so many different issues is, firstly, a constant attention to methodology and, secondly, a clear preference for a predominantly operational approach, in the belief that knowledge must always be functional to decision and action. These basic attitudes are reflected not only in his strongly characterized research agenda, but also in the twofold nature of his teaching commitment: on the one hand, Gori taught outside the university classrooms, at military and governmental institutions, for decades; on the other hand, he introduced issues traditionally reserved to diplomacy and security institutions into the Italian academic context. Such a propensity to build bridges between different worlds - academic, military, technological, diplomatic, financial - and a research vocation that has never failed make Umberto Gori a figure indissolubly linked to the birth and development of International Relations in Italy.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Filippo Del Lucchese , Fabio Frosini and Vittorio Morfino -- 1 Il genere e il tempo delle parole: dire la guerra nei testi machiavelliani /Jean-Louis Fournel -- 2 'Uno piccolo dono': A Software Tool for Comparing the First Edition of Machiavelli's The Prince to Its Sixteenth Century French Translations /Jean-Claude Zancarini -- 3 Of 'Extravagant' Writing: The Prince, Chapter IX /Romain Descendre -- 4 'Italia' come spazio politico in Machiavelli /Giorgio Inglese -- 5 Machiavelli the Tactician: Math, Graphs, and Knots in The Art of War  /Gabriele Pedullà -- 6 Lucretian Naturalism and the Evolution of Machiavelli's Ethic /Alison Brown -- 7 Corpora Caeca: Discontinuous Sovereignty in The Prince  /Jacques Lezra -- 8 The Five Theses of Machiavelli's 'Philosophy' /Vittorio Morfino -- 9 Tempo e politica: Una lettura materialista di Machiavelli /Sebastián Torres -- 10 Imitation and Animality: On the Relationship between Nature and History in Chapter XVIII of The Prince  /Tania Rispoli -- 11 Prophetic Efficacy: The Relationship between Force and Belief /Thomas Berns -- 12 Prophecy, Education, and Necessity: Girolamo Savonarola between Politics and Religion /Fabio Frosini -- 13 'Uno Mero Esecutore': Moses, Fortuna, and Occasione in The Prince  /Warren Montag -- 14 Machiavelli and the Republican Conception of Providence /Miguel Vatter -- 15 Machiavelli, Public Debt, and the Origin of Political Economy: An Introduction /Jérémie Barthas -- 16 Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising /Yves Winter -- 17 Machiavelli's Greek Tyrant as Republican Reformer /John P. McCormick -- 18 Essere Principe, Essere Populare: The Principle of Antagonism in Machiavelli's Epistemology /Etienne Balibar -- 19 The Different Faces of the People: On Machiavelli's Political Topography /Stefano Visentin -- 20 Machiavelli Was Not a Republicanist – Or Monarchist: On Louis Althusser's 'Aleatory' Interpretation of The Prince  /Mikko Lahtinen -- 21 Lectures machiavéliennes d'Althusser /Mohamed Moulfi -- 22 Machiavelli after Althusser /Banu Bargu -- 23 Gramsci's Machiavellian Metaphor: Restaging The Prince  /Peter D. Thomas -- Index /Filippo Del Lucchese , Fabio Frosini and Vittorio Morfino.