Recent Italian historiography through scholarly journals
The texts presented in this section of the journal originated at a seminar organized by «Studi storici» and Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, held in Rome in June 2011. Now that «Studi storici» has reached its first half-century of activity, the publication has sought an opportunity to review its experience in the context of a broader reflection on Italian history journals. Furthermore, this assessment is expected to contribute to the current discussion, currently taking place in Italy and elsewhere, about the evaluation and ranking of academic journals. Each presentation or contribution deals with a specific historical epoch: Antiquity and Late Antiquity (Marcone, Giardina), Modern history (Visceglia, Benigno, Firpo), and Contemporary history (Rapone), followed by a presentation on online history journals (Minuti). Unfortunately, publication of the seminar’s materials referring to Medieval History was not possible.
Each presentation offers a survey of the journals for each specific subject area. The most relevant cases are highlighted, and further examined comparatively, so as to bring the peculiarities of each editorial project – as well as changes and continuities in editorship – to the surface.

Recent Italian historiography through scholarly journals
The texts presented in this section of the journal originated at a seminar organized by «Studi storici» and Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, held in Rome in June 2011. Now that «Studi storici» has reached its first half-century of activity, the publication has sought an opportunity to review its experience in the context of a broader reflection on Italian history journals. Furthermore, this assessment is expected to contribute to the current discussion, currently taking place in Italy and elsewhere, about the evaluation and ranking of academic journals. Each presentation or contribution deals with a specific historical epoch: Antiquity and Late Antiquity (Marcone, Giardina), Modern history (Visceglia, Benigno, Firpo), and Contemporary history (Rapone), followed by a presentation on online history journals (Minuti). Unfortunately, publication of the seminar’s materials referring to Medieval History was not possible.
Each presentation offers a survey of the journals for each specific subject area. The most relevant cases are highlighted, and further examined comparatively, so as to bring the peculiarities of each editorial project – as well as changes and continuities in editorship – to the surface.

Recent Italian historiography through scholarly journals
The texts presented in this section of the journal originated at a seminar organized by «Studi storici» and Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, held in Rome in June 2011. Now that «Studi storici» has reached its first half-century of activity, the publication has sought an opportunity to review its experience in the context of a broader reflection on Italian history journals. Furthermore, this assessment is expected to contribute to the current discussion, currently taking place in Italy and elsewhere, about the evaluation and ranking of academic journals. Each presentation or contribution deals with a specific historical epoch: Antiquity and Late Antiquity (Marcone, Giardina), Modern history (Visceglia, Benigno, Firpo), and Contemporary history (Rapone), followed by a presentation on online history journals (Minuti). Unfortunately, publication of the seminar’s materials referring to Medieval History was not possible.
Each presentation offers a survey of the journals for each specific subject area. The most relevant cases are highlighted, and further examined comparatively, so as to bring the peculiarities of each editorial project – as well as changes and continuities in editorship – to the surface.

Recent Italian historiography through scholarly journals
The texts presented in this section of the journal originated at a seminar organized by «Studi storici» and Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, held in Rome in June 2011. Now that «Studi storici» has reached its first half-century of activity, the publication has sought an opportunity to review its experience in the context of a broader reflection on Italian history journals. Furthermore, this assessment is expected to contribute to the current discussion, currently taking place in Italy and elsewhere, about the evaluation and ranking of academic journals. Each presentation or contribution deals with a specific historical epoch: Antiquity and Late Antiquity (Marcone, Giardina), Modern history (Visceglia, Benigno, Firpo), and Contemporary history (Rapone), followed by a presentation on online history journals (Minuti). Unfortunately, publication of the seminar’s materials referring to Medieval History was not possible.
Each presentation offers a survey of the journals for each specific subject area. The most relevant cases are highlighted, and further examined comparatively, so as to bring the peculiarities of each editorial project – as well as changes and continuities in editorship – to the surface.

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Biagio Pace and ancient Sicily
Of Italian archaeologists in the first half of the 20th century – as complex and varied as this group is – Biagio Pace holds a unique place: despite being an active member of the Fascist Party, his personality and his work as a historian cannot be seen merely as the historiography of a regime. Through analysis of his intellectual biography and his archaeological studies, it is possible to reconstruct the special features of Pace’s activity as a scholar as well as a politician; the first part of this paper focuses on Pace’s academic and political career; the second part is devoted to a detailed analysis of his main work, Arte e Civiltà della Sicilia antica (Art and civilization of ancient Sicily), in which Pace examines – with an ideologically marked approach – the pre- and proto-historical cultures, the indigenous peoples, the Greek and Phoenician colonization, and Roman settlement in ancient Sicily.

Imagined liturgies: Giacomo Boni and the Fascist myth of Romanity
A few weeks after the March on Rome, the fasces were chosen as a distinctive icon
of the new political course. Called upon to reconstruct the ancient symbol was the
great archaeologist Giacomo Boni, who had always combined intellect in the most
advanced techniques of archaeology and restoration with the almost sacral concept of his mission to commemorate Romanity. Although Boni only saw the beginning of the Fascist Ventennio, he was early to understand the symbolic and liturgical features related to ancient Rome that were to play a primary role in elaborating the Fascist cult of Romanity and its rituals. Boni imagined for the new regime a series of liturgies and rites that were to have important echoes in the propaganda of the following years.

From guerrilla movement to democratic government in Uruguay. How the Tupamaros came to power
This Over the last two years, Uruguay has offered up one of world’s most peculiar political examples. Since March 1st 2010, this country has been led by José «Pepe» Mujica, leader of the left wing of the coalition called Frente Amplio. In the past, he was an important member of Movimiento de Liberación Nacional-Tupamaros, an armed organization that carried out attacks from the mid-sixties almost up to the arrival of the military dictatorship in 1973. This paper will analyze the process of democratization of the Tupamaros after the dictatorship ended, and its rise to power.

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