From the University of San Marino a new book on the history of the republic
Fourteen chapters and over 250 pages to retrace the main phenomena and events that characterized the Titan from the Middle Ages to the present day, through the contribution of academics, researchers and more.
This is the content of the volume ‘History of San Marino’, published by the Bookstones Edizioni publishing house and produced by the University of San Marino through the Department of History, presented today to the Captains Regent, Oscar Mina and Paolo Rondelli, during a ceremony that gathered in Palazzo Pubblico, in addition to the authors, figures such as scholars and institutional representatives.
Analyzing statutes and institutions, international relations and phenomena related to tourism, the text was edited by the director of the San Marino Analysis Center for Historical Studies, Stefano Pivato, together with the teacher Luca Gorgolini.
“Often the history of San Marino, especially in its popular expressions, has been entrusted to the reconstruction of an anecdote that has shown itself indulgent towards the characteristics of the republic, ending up exalting parochialism and particularities that have distorted the common historical sense”, explains Pivato . “From this point of view – continues – the text it goes beyond the recipients of the Titan high schools, to whom it is mainly addressed, to become a moment of reflection on the evolution of the history of our territory over the centuries “.
Involving episodes such as the conquest of the right to vote for women, archaeological discoveries, urban transformations and emigration, the book is presented as a collective work: “Usually the publication of volumes of this type is entrusted to a single author – Pivato points out again – while ‘History of San Marino’ is a choral work in which a group of professional historians is joined by a series of young students from the School of Historical Studies of the University of San Marino ”.
The drafting, as reported in the introduction of the text, was edited by “fifteen authors whose different backgrounds and skills have made it possible to grasp, over the centuries, a series of events that are increasingly interconnected with each other and the whose investigation could only be grasped by those who cultivate knowledge that is not always considered among the historical disciplines “.
Hence a volume “which has brought together numerous scholars with the aim of offering a broad and accurate reconstruction of San Marino history from antiquity to the present time”, finally points out Gorgolini.