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The Reception of Cooper's “The Bravo”
RSA Journal, 2008 The first book of Cooper’s European trilogy, The Bravo, directly engages problems of democracy, taking eighteenth-century Venice as a setting, and the Venetian government of that time as an instance of tyranny.
Anna Scannavini
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 7, July 2026.Abstract Seismic source parameters, such as seismic moment, stress drop, and radiated energy, are key to understanding earthquake dynamics and rupture processes. In this study, we apply a non‐parametric Generalized Inversion Technique (GIT) to characterize the source properties of 735 earthquakes (local magnitudes 1.65 ≤ ML ≤ 4.55) recorded between ...
L. Cataldi +8 more
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Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 811-849, May 2026.Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani +2 more
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The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 757-780, May 2026.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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Monteverdi a San Marco, eds. Marco di Pasquale, Rodolfo Baroncini, Lucca 2020
Muzyka, 2023 Book Review of: Monteverdi a San Marco. Venezia 1613–1643, eds.
Bartłomiej Gembicki
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Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 51, Issue 3, March 2026.The study focusses on the morphological evolution of worldwide restored intertidal flats. These intertidal flats initially experience high sedimentation rates after the opening of the connection with open waters. The anthropogenic structures cause high morphological instability and are eroded, leading to a self‐cannibalisation of the system.
Riccardo Brunetta +4 more
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-20, March 2026.Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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Quattrocento sperimentale veneto: un diagramma e qualche auspicio
Quaderni Veneti, 2012 D’Onghia deals with a first map of an area in the Venetian literary production that has not been studied yet: this is the so-called «Experimental fifteenth century», with its vivid stylistic and linguistic experiences (more in the mainland than in the
D’Onghia, Luca
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Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 2017 The article discusses the little-known (in historiography) history ofdiplomatic relations between Christian Europe and Uzun Hassan (1423–1478), the ruler of Persia. The capital of the country was located in Tabriz, currently in north-western Iran.
Janusz Smołucha
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Beyond National Currency: The Plurality of Early Modern Money
History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT Diversity in money leaps at historians of early modern societies, whether they analyse account books, legal documents, travelogues and diaries, or try to make sense of a sum casually mentioned in a source from the period. The plurality of money objects contrasts with the homogeneous, singular currencies imposed by nation‐states in the 19th and
Sebastian Felten
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