The worry about the production and dissemination of misinformation and fake data is widespread in democratic societies, so much so that a number of problematic political events and processes are seen as the consequences of citizens’ resulting distorted beliefs.

From Brexit to Trump’s election in the US, from the rejection of refugees to the objection to vaccines across Europe: all these are taken as instances of the effect of distorted information on citizens’ behaviour and attitudes.

Transatlantic Transfers: the Italian presence in post–war America (TT) aims at reassessing the role of Italian culture in the definition of a distinctive cosmopolitan, urban style in America in the years following World War II, and specifically through 1949 and 1972, dates of two exhibitions held at MoMA and reasoning on Italian culture, XX Century Italian Art and Italy. The new domestic landscape. 

Global Europeanness (GLE) sets out to analyse the consequences in historical practices produced by global expansion of historic experience in the last half-century. Specifically, the project aims to redefine the concept of globality in the modern era (1450-1900). “Global history” and “world history” have recently emerged as two historiographic concepts of undoubted importance in contemporary discourse, as they are based on an analytical model of interconnections between different players and realities.

The PRIN will apply the strict methodology of Philology of Italian authors to signed codices (or in any case, with the same value and weight as signatures) of some works belonging to genres typical of the Spanish Golden Age; poetry, theatre and religious prose.