Settembre '39. Volume Primo e Secondo.

Milano, Pizzi Ed. 1962, cm.24,5x34, pp.23, 66 tavv.a col a p.pag.ft. legatura ed.soprac.fig.a colori.

Traduz.di Marianna Matullo. Roma, Salerno Ed. 2010, cm.15,5x23, pp.348, legatura all' olandese, copertina figurata a colori. Coll.Profili,49. Michel Rouche ci consegna un ritratto avvincente dell'uomo che riuscì in vent'anni a cambiare per sempre la storia, basato sulle fonti documentarie e affrancato da pregiudizi e sedimenti leggendari. Attila è figura leggendaria nella storia europea: ma il personaggio storico è ben lontano dal cliché del bruto, analfabeta e spietato devastatore, che avrebbe meritato l'epiteto di "flagello di Dio". Egli si dimostrò un condottiero coraggioso e un abile politico, costringendo il mondo romano ad ogni genere di manovra militare e diplomatica per contrastarlo, e perfino a inedite coalizioni strategiche, come quella tra il generale romano Ezio e il re dei Visigoti, «barbaro» tra i barbari. Un ampio capitolo finale studia il mito di Attila in età moderna e contemporanea: da Corneille a Verdi e Wagner, fino alla degenerazione che ne fece Hitler.

Trad. di Mario Carpitella. Bari, Laterza Ed. 2004, cm.14x21, pp.208, brossura soprac.fig. Coll.Storia e Società.

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.