Oltre le frontiere.Frammenti di una vita.

Traduz.di Franco Salvatorelli. Bari, Laterza Ed. 1990, cm.14x21, pp.136, brossura Coll.Sagittari,42.

Con un saggio introduttivo di Alessandro Pizzorno. Traduz.di Luciano Cappelletti. Bari, Edit.Laterza 1971, cm.11x18, pp.XXXIV,520, brossura cop.fig. Coll.U.L.,140.

Traduz.di Michele Sampaolo. Roma-Bari, Editori Laterza 1996, cm.14x21, pp.192, brossura, cop.con bandelle. Stato di nuovo. Coll.Sagittari,98.

Roma Laterza 1997, cm.12x18 pp.72, brossura cop.con bandelle. Coll.Il Nocciolo31. L'autore riconosce apertamente la crisi che aleggia sull'unificazione europea. C'è un abisso tra i discorsi burocratici della CEE e il disinteresse (se non addirittura l'avversione) nell'opinione pubblica del vecchio continente. Eppure egli vuole trovare il modo di trarne comunque frutto, proponendo obiettivi concreti per rilanciare le potenzialità ancora latenti nel progetto generale. Così pone sotto il riflettore della sua analisi temi della massima rilevanza per tutti: disoccupazione, competitività economica, riforma dello Stato sociale, le questioni della giustizia e dell'ordine sociale, la disaffezione dai partiti e dalla politica tradizionale, nonché il clima di paura e/o disagio creatosi dopo i mutamenti della situazione internazionale.

Trad.di Gianni Pilone Colombo. Milano, Ed.Garzanti 1983, cm.16x23, pp.274, 10 ill.bn.in 8 tavv.ft.e 7 cartine nt. legatura ed.soprac.fig. Coll.Storia della Civiltà.

Pisa, Edizioni ETS 2000, cm.14x21, pp.32, brossura Stato di nuovo.

Seattle - London, University of Washington Press 2001, cm.16x24, pp.X,246, hardcover, dustjacket. Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming Fountain of the Tortoises, the brooding mass of the Palazzo Cenci, and some of the best restaurants in the city. This was the site of the Ghetto, within whose walls the Jews of Rome were compelled to live from 1555 until 1870. Kenneth Stow, leading authority on Italian Jews, probes Jewish life in Rome in the early years of the Ghetto. Jews had been residents of Rome since before the days of Julius Caesar, but the 16th century brought great challenges to their identity and survival in the form of Ghettoization. Intended to expedite conversion and cultural dissolution, the Ghetto in fact had an opposite effect. The Jews of Rome developed a subculture, or microculture, that ensured continuity. In particular, they developed a remarkably effective legal network of rabbinic notaries, who drew public documents such as contracts, took testimony, and arranged for disputes to go to arbitration. The ability to settle disputes relating to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and other internal matters gave Jews the illusion that they, rather than the papal vicar, were running their own affairs. Stow applies his concept of “social theater” to illuminate the role-playing that Jews adopted as a means of survival within the dominant Christian environment. He also touches briefly on Jewish culture in post-Emancipation Rome, elsewhere in Europe, and in America, and points the way toward a comparison with the acculturational strategies of other minorities, especially African Americans.

Cambridge-Londra, Harward University Press 2021, cm.16x25, pp.360, Legatura editoriale con sovraccoperta figurata. In this authoritative history, John Christopoulos provides a provocative and far-reaching account of abortion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. His poignant portraits of women who terminated or were forced to terminate pregnancies offer a corrective to longstanding views: he finds that Italians maintained a fundamental ambivalence about abortion. Italians from all levels of society sought, had, and participated in abortions. Early modern Italy was not an absolute anti-abortion culture, an exemplary Catholic society centered on the “traditional family.” Rather, Christopoulos shows, Italians held many views on abortion, and their responses to its practice varied. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives alongside a social and cultural history of sexuality, reproduction, and the family, Christopoulos offers a nuanced and convincing account of the meanings Italians ascribed to abortion and shows how prevailing ideas about the practice were spread, modified, and challenged. Christopoulos begins by introducing readers to prevailing ideas about abortion and women’s bodies, describing the widely available purgative medicines and surgeries that various healers and women themselves employed to terminate pregnancies. He then explores how these ideas and practices ran up against and shaped theology, medicine, and law. Catholic understanding of abortion was changing amid religious, legal, and scientific debates concerning the nature of human life, women’s bodies, and sexual politics. Christopoulos examines how ecclesiastical, secular, and medical authorities sought to regulate abortion, and how tribunals investigated and punished its procurers—or did not, even when they could have. Abortion in Early Modern Italy offers a compelling and sensitive study of abortion in a time of dramatic religious, scientific, and social change.