Between 1915 and 1945, the desire for European unification, as an antidote to the two world wars that had devastated the continent, was a particularly pressing issue, involving intellectuals from a wide variety of backgrounds: within this diverse front, the Jewish component played a significant role. This essay analyses the motivations that led some Italian Jewish intellectuals (Giuseppe Emanuele Modigliani, Claudio Treves, Nello and Carlo Rosselli, Carlo Ginzburg, Eugenio Colorni) to embrace the European solution. All positioned on the composite socialist front, each arrived at the idea of creating a United States of Europe by drawing on their own cultural background, but in all of them, albeit in different ways, a Jewish legacy is recognisable, thus providing an original response to the "crisis of civilisation" that had called into question their own emancipation.

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In quest'intervista, Pietro Costa si sofferma sui momenti salienti della sua riflessione storiografica che lo ha visto affrontare disparate epoche storiche (dal lemma di matrice medievale jurisdictio alla nozione di società civile nella riflessione settecentesca, dalla nozione di Stato nella giuspubblicistica italiana tra Otto e Novecento, fino alla monumentale ricostruzione della nozione di cittadinanza nella cultura occidentale). Ne risulta un percorso lineare, segnato da una particolare attenzione per la storia concettuale, considerata il palinsesto in cui allignano istituti e norme delle diverse esperienze prese in considerazione.

A partire dal volume Re-imagining democracy in the Mediterranean 1780-1860 - che ha la pretesa di liberare quest'area geopolitica dallo stigma della subalternità - il saggio intende dimostrare la piena partecipazione dell'Europa mediterranea ai dibattiti pubblici coevi e la sua partecipazione originale al sorgere della democrazia.

Patient quality of life (QoL) is a pivotal parameter, which is often used by clinicians to evaluate how treatments and therapies influence patients’ functionality and emotional state, aiming to ameliorate interventions and their outcomes. Currently, the majority of questionnaires assessing the QoL are designed with the main contribution of clinicians and, therefore, include items that are cantered on the disease rather than on its multifaceted impact on people’s life. The failure to truly grasp the patients’ perspective, their needs, aspirations, perceptions and emotional state, is a major drawback that sets medical care on clinical parameters alone. We aimed to bridge this gap by establishing an innovative patient-designed QoL index to provide a new, unbiased tool considering the patients’ perception of their own well-being. Based predominantly on patients’ contribution, we defined specific areas (physical, emotional, social, functional, economical) and the respective characterizing features, and applied a pseudo-Delphi methodology combined with customer-satisfaction techniques. For each feature, the degree of agreement and the importance were assessed on a Likert scale. A synthetic QoL index was created by weighting the importance of each item. The methodology tested led to the development of a valid patient-designed QoL index, providing a way forward that could potentially be applied to many different conditions. The areas and the features included are indeed common to all patients, irrespective of their disease. We found that the process of methodology development enhanced the patients’ awareness of their subjective experience with the disease, and enabled them to better present their situation to the clinicians. The patient-designed QoL index provides a descriptive model that can be helpful to patients, clinicians and third parties and that can be further integrated with clinical details to obtain an overall view of the course of treatment for each patient.

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La seule bibliographie complete qui existe des ecrits de Sismondi reste encore celle que J.-R. de Salis avait redigee en 1931. Elle est susceptible de se voir proposer certains elements complementaires. Elements dont on rend compte dans cet article. Il s’agit tout au plus de contributions mineures, qui meritent cependant d’etre portees a la connaissance car elles contribuent a dessiner un profil plus net de cet intellectuel engage. Cet article a deja ete publie dans: Sismondi. Republicanisme moderne et liberalisme critique (Geneve, Slatkine, 2013, p. 207-225) mais sans les references critiques.

Le Chartes in un inedito giudizio di Sismondi [In appendice: Constitution francaise, di Jean Charles-Leonard Sismonde de Sismondi]

The surviving letters exchanged between Sismondi and Eulalie Beaupoil de Sainte - Aulaire and the Unitarian pastor W.E. Channing were published in 1857 by Adelaide de Mongolfier, who had based herself on the copies made by Bianca Milesi Mojon after the historian’s death. The finding of the original notebook in which Bianca had transcribed most of the letters compels us to present some of them to the readers in a new edition.

During his multiannual reflection Sismondi seems reluctant to define his concept of city, while devoting most of his energy to the importance of cities self-government - starting with his famous Histoire des Republiques italiennes au Moyen Age. This essay tries to frame his reflection in the intersection between his economic and constitutional proposals. In the background stands a continuous dialogue with Adam Smith, revisited through the relationship that the canton of Geneva has had during the Restoration with its rural population.

Il libro di Francesco Benigno, Parole nel tempo, rappresenta un tentativo ambizioso di analizzare alcuni concetti-chiave dell’attuale dibattito storiografico, attraverso un dialogo partecipato con le scienze sociali, in particolare l’antropologia e la sociologia. In quest’articolo vengono messe in luce quelle che, a parere dell’A., sono le fondamentali opzioni metodologiche che sorreggono i lemmi indagati dal volume. Si tratta innanzi tutto di una visione pluralistica della societa, che rifiuta le macro-categorie ascrittive e guarda all’interazione tra i diversi gruppi sociali; si tratta in secondo luogo dell’adozione consapevole del linguistic turn nell’analisi dei diversi contesti sociali; si tratta infine di una visione aperta della politica, caratterizzata dall’interazione sempre mutevole e dinamica di volonta difformi e contrastanti, anche laddove prevale in ambito dottrinale la nozione di sovranita.