In 1728, on the initiative of the Grand Lodge of England, the first Italian Freemasonry Lodge was founded in Naples. Twenty years later its leader was Prince of Sansevero, Rai- mondo di Sangro, a person veiled in demonic ...

The notion of “the struggle of the cadastre” appears in the Italian historiography with reference to the reform and, at the same time, revindication tendencies which occurred both in the North and in the South of the ...

Tsar Ivan IV (1533-1584), the autocrat of the Grand Duchy of Muscovy, left behind the testimony of a bloody tyrant, squandering the lives of thousands of his subjects, however, until recently some Russian historians viewed ...

John Milton (1608-1674), the famous author of Paradise Lost, in 1644 without the censorship approval published his treaty entitled Areopagitica, in which as one of the first new age thinkers, he spoke in defence of the ...

For many years literary utopias have raised interest among sociologists, psychologists and historians of literature. They can also be a very valuable source of information about books and libraries. Such an assumption ...

Dramatic events during the 16th and 18th centuries were responsible for the destruction of part of the Vatican Archives including the documents on the Inquisition and ecclesiastical censorship. Thus, it is worth drawing ...

The author presents some reflections on the field of bibliological research in the context of postmodernist discussion of culture. It is claimed that epistemological approach and non-assumptive account and description ...

Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque by Gabriel Naudé possesses features that make this work especially attractive for a “book anthropologist”. The author searches for holistic principles that would enable the understanding ...

The author of the article investigates the less-known facts of the 1799 Naples revolution, named by its participants a “passive revolution”; special emphasis is placed on the participation of the internally divided ...

Dehumanization, a term used in anthropology, sociology and psychology, refers to the degradation of human values. In discussions on information society critical voices can be heard, pointing to negative effects of this ...