What is a popular press? This is the question addressed by the DisComPoSe research group to Professor Giancarlo Petrella, who attended the third appointment of the Verba manent series of seminars taking place on May 5th on the Teams platform. The professor, who teaches archivistics, bibliography and librarianship at the Federico II University of Naples, […]
The second online meeting of the Verba manent cycle had as its protagonist Professor Ottavia Niccoli, author of books that have by now become classics of Renaissance history and culture. On April 28th 2021, the historian spoke about the Transmission of news and cultural content in Italy in the 16th century and discussed with the […]
What happens when Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso leave the courts to enter the inns? This is the question that the researchers of the DisComPoSE group tried to answer together with Marina Roggero – author of the beautiful book Le carte piene di sogni. Testi e lettori in età moderna (The pages full of dreams. Texts […]
DisComPoSE will participate in the fifteenth edition of the Jornadas Internacionales de Arte, Historia y Cultura Colonial organized by the Colonial Museum of Bogotà. The event will be entitled Iconografías del desastre: miradas sobre los siglos XVI-XVIII en tiempos de pandemia (Disaster iconographies: views on the 16th-18th centuries in times of pandemic), and will be […]
The number 51 of “Mediterranea” is online, hosting the monographic section “Calamità ambientali e risposte politiche nella monarchia ispanica (secc. XVII-XVIII)” (Environmental calamities and political responses in the Hispanic monarchy -XVII-XVIII centuries)”, edited by Domenico Cecere and with contributions from scholars of the DisComPoSe project. Download the monographic section
About Popular culture in Italy. From Gramsci to Unesco by Fabio Dei (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018). The first meeting of Verba manent, a cycle of seminars curated by Vittorio Celotto and Gennaro Schiano, involved the participation of Professor Fabio Dei of the University of Pisa and Professor Valerio Petrarca of the University of Naples […]
Verba manent Popular cultures and hegemonic cultures in Italy in the Early Modern Age April – June 2021 In 1980 Carlo Ginzburg wrote: “Studies on popular culture will survive the fashion that surrounds them today”. The prediction did not come true but the notion of “popular culture” has never left the horizon of social sciences. […]
