Emanuela Locci, Storia della massoneria femminile. Dalle corporazioni alle obbedienze

Nel panorama storiografico italiano il tema del rapporto tra donne e libera muratoria è stato vittima di un tendenziale disinteresse, causato, secondo Emanuela Locci, dalla ritrosia degli studiosi a occuparsi di soggetti inutili ai fini carrieristici: «gli storici tendono a trascurare argomenti che possono sembrare marginali, di nicchia, che poi non sono proficui dal punto di vista accademico». Una pecca cui l’autrice fa ammenda con un lavoro che ripercorre con scrupolo nascita ed evoluzione ..

«Evviva Umberto, Margherita, l’Italia, Roma!» L’irredentismo triestino e Casa Savoia

L’articolo analizza il ruolo e l’immagine pubblica dei re d’Italia tra i patrioti di Trieste nel corso del diciannovesimo secolo. Sia i monarchici che i repubblicani di Trieste vedevano la corona come un ideale punto di riferimento per unificare le diverse correnti del patriottismo.The article analyzes the role and the public image of Italy’s kings among Trieste’s patriots during the nineteenth century. Both the monarchists and the moderate republicans of Trieste saw the Crown as an ideal point of reference to unify the various currents of patriotism

Adaptive pedestrian behaviour for the preservation of group cohesion

A crowd of pedestrians is a complex system in which individuals exhibit conflicting behavioural mechanisms leading to self-organisation phenomena. Computer models for the simulation of crowds represent a consolidated type of application, employed on a day-to-day basis to support designers and decision makers. Most state of the art models, however, generally do not consider the explicit representation of pedestrians aggregations (groups) and their implications on the overall system dynamics. This work is aimed at discussing a research effort systematically exploring the potential implication of the presence of groups of pedestrians in different situations (e.g. changing density, spatial configurations of the environment). The paper describes an agent-based model encompassing both traditional individual motivations (i.e. tendency to stay away from other pedestrians while moving towards the goal) and an adaptive mechanism representing the influence of group presence in the simulated population. The mechanism is designed to preserve the cohesion of specific types of groups (e.g. families and friends) even in high density and turbulent situations. The model is tested in simplified scenarios to evaluate the implications of modelling choices and the presence of groups. The model produces results in tune with available evidences from the literature, both from the perspective of pedestrian flows and space utilisation, in scenarios not comprising groups; when groups are present, the model is able to preserve their cohesion even in challenging situations (i.e. high density, presence of a counterflow), and it produces interesting results in high density situations that call for further observations and experiments to gather empirical data. The introduced adaptive model for group cohesion is effective in qualitatively reproducing group related phenomena and it stimulates further research efforts aimed at gathering empirical evidences, on one hand, and modelling efforts aimed at reproducing additional related phenomena (e.g. leader-follower movement patterns)

La storia e il digitale

L’umanistica digitale ha fatto enormi progressi nel corso degli ultimi anni: una rivoluzione che per gli storici rappresenta un’importante opportunità. Sfruttando le potenzialità del web, abbiamo voluto creare uno spazio di dibattito nel quale affrontare temi non abbastanza conosciuti, come il fenomeno della memoria dell’internamento fascista nei suoi rapporti con il digitale. Vari studiosi, provenienti da differenti ambiti di ricerca, hanno partecipato a questo forum con l’obiettivo di fornire nuove chiavi di lettura e contribuire così ad ampliare le prospettive sul tema.Digital humanities have enjoyed significant progress over the past years, offering to historians new significant opportunities. Exploiting the tools that the Web puts at the researchers’ disposal, this forum aims at fostering new debates around little-explored themes, such as the memory of Fascist internment camps in its relationships with digital media. Scholars with different scientific and disciplinary back grounds participated in this forum, putting forward new interpretations

Massoneria e irredentismo. Il Circolo Garibaldi di Trieste tra Ottocento e Novecento

2012/2013La ricerca si occupa del Circolo Garibaldi di Trieste, associazione irredentista di stampo massonico sviluppatasi in Italia, a Trieste e in alcuni centri del Litorale adriatico tra Ottocento e Novecento. La puntuale analisi biografica dei soci e lo studio dei loro rapporti con società democratiche, leghe lavorative, comitati di reduci, circoli anti-clericali e logge massoniche, offrono insieme una mappatura esauriente dell'irredentismo sul territorio della penisola sinora assente nel panorama storiografico.This thesis constitutes an in-depth survey of the history and activities of the Circolo Garibaldi di Trieste, an irredentist association strictly connected to freemasonry, which was born in Trieste and spread across Italy between the end of the Nineteenth and the Twentieth century. The research takes into account members' biographies as well as their relationships with lodges and patriotic associations of various kinds. Furthermore, the research maps for the first time the Italian irredentist movement on the whole, offering an original contribution to the study of contemporary Italian history.XXVI Ciclo197