Young Feltrinelli Prize in the Moral Sciences
Medical Malpractice Legislation: Reforms in Civil Law Systems
1st Edition
By Carlo Maria Masieri
December 26, 2025
This book aims to analyse the legal tools that the legislatures of France, Germany and Italy adopted in order to regulate medical malpractice. In the mid-1970s, a reform movement started in the United States, where there was considerable concern about then ongoing medical malpractice crises. Since ...
A History of Jesuit Missions in Japan: Evangelization, Miracles and Martyrdom, 1549–1614
1st Edition
By Guillaume Alonge
July 31, 2025
In the aftermath of the religious crisis triggered by the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church set out to conquer faithful in new territories. The first missionaries to arrive in Japan were the Jesuits who were forced to adopt a different type of evangelization, with a bottom-up rather than ...
Ancient Sacred Sites in the Gulf of Naples: The Sanctuary of Athena at Punta Campanella
1st Edition
By Luca Di Franco
July 31, 2025
The geographical position between the gulfs of Naples and Salerno made pre-Roman Sorrento a fundamental point of passage. Around the inhabited centre, sacred sites or scattered settlements developed, including the sanctuary of Athena on the extreme tip of the peninsula near Punta Campanella. This ...
Repurposing Literary Romance Texts in Medieval Manuscripts: Beyond the Author
1st Edition
By Stefano Resconi
February 10, 2025
Transcribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act. The lack of direct control by the authors over the circulation of their works allowed scribes to employ particularly refined strategies aimed at assigning new functions and meanings to these ...
Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel: Three studies, from Chrétien de Troyes to Proust
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Mainini
December 19, 2024
This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western literature. From its origins, in the vernacular cultures of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the novel text seems to be characterised by certain ...
Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory: An Encyclopaedic Workshop
1st Edition
By Anna Anguissola
May 31, 2023
The Roman official and intellectual Pliny the Elder’s Natural History constitutes our primary source on the figural arts in Classical antiquity. Since the Middle Ages, Pliny’s encyclopaedia has enraptured the imaginations of its readers with anecdotes and narratives about the lives and ...
Petrarch and Boccaccio in the First Commentaries on Dante’s Commedia: A Literary Canon Before its Official Birth
1st Edition
By Luca Fiorentini
December 13, 2021
This text proposes a reinterpretation of the history behind the canon of the Tre Corone (Three Crowns), which consists of the three great Italian authors of the 14th century – Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Examining the first commentaries on Dante’s Commedia, the book argues that the elaboration...
Business Negotiations and the Law: The Protection of Weak Professional Parties in Standard Form Contracting
1st Edition
By Carlotta Rinaldo
September 30, 2021
Business Negotiations and the Law: The Protection of Weak Professional Parties in Standard Form Contracting aims to explore the issues surrounding contract negotiations between entrepreneurs and other professionals when one of the parties does not have the same level of bargaining power as the ...
Democratizing the Economics Debate: Pluralism and Research Evaluation
1st Edition
By Carlo D'Ippoliti
September 01, 2021
More than a decade since the global financial crisis, economics does not exhibit signs of significant change. Mainstream economists act on an idealized image of science, which includes the convergence of all perspectives into a single supposed scientific truth. Democratizing the Economics Debate ...