Le parole che noi usiamo: l’errore in storia

Unlike the hard sciences, historiography lacks a specific nomenclature. The lexicon employed by historians is drawn from the plain language of everyday life. Therefore, the words of history are to be defined within the spatio-temporal framework, and to be construed through processes of contextualization and comparison. My work here stems from these considerations, and attempts to chart the occurrence of errors in historiography. In particular, I take into account the way in which historiographic mistakes arise from the intermingling of words, space, and historical time. Another significant aspect concerns the relationship between history, fiction, and arbitrariness. The latter concept is linked to historical interpretation, which constitutes the last stage of historiographical work, after the analysis and the reconstruction of events. The last part of this paper offers a typology of frequent errors in historiography

Medicina, diritto e politica nella prima età moderna: alcuni profili

ItQuesto articolo affronta il rapporto fra medicina, diritto e politica durante la prima età moderna sotto i seguenti profili: la «disputa delle arti» non solo nel suo stato nascente ma negli sviluppi fino al XVIII secolo; l'uso e lo sviluppo di metafore mediche nel linguaggio politico ed economico del Seicento; la trattatistica intorno al «medicus-politicus»; il ruolo del medico nelle istituzioni, come informatore politico, come ribelle.EnThe relationship between medicine, law and politics in the Early Modern History is analyzed in this article about some topics: the «disputa delle arti» from XV to XVIII century; the use and the development of medical metaphors in the political and economic language during XVII cent.; the treaties about «medicus-politicus» (Andrea Canoniero); the role of the doctor in the institutions and public administration, as political informer, as rebel