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In recent decades, European historiography has actively dealt with the history of the body, thus giving depth and awareness to powerful stimuli coming from the dominant culture in the affluent society. Therefore, not only the 'beautiful' body has been the object of research, but also the body of the common man, mutilated, deformed and imperfect. The volume, through surveys in legal-regulatory, personal, iconographic, literary sources and in medical and physiognomic treatises and the participation of some of the major international specialists in the field, intends to deepen these issues especially for the geographical, cultural and documentary space of Italy of the late Middle Ages and the early modern age remained until now quite at the margins of this line of studies.

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Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the elites (secular and ecclesiastical) of the many villages, castles, smaller urban centres that make the Italian landscape so unique, started to deeply rethink the past of their “small homeland”. Roman (but also pre-Roman) heritage and medieval tradition are at the centre of interest; bold “inventions” and manipulations alternate with searches for a solid erudite structure. The essays published here concern the Italian regions of Piedmont, Romagna, Emilia, Tuscany, Marche, Umbria, Terra di Bari, Campania. In the essays, a strong sense of identity and a robust self-awareness emerges; ultimately, this is the vitality of a connective tissue of settlements featuring an “original character” relevant in the Italian historical events from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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In recent decades, European historiography has actively dealt with the history of the body, thus giving depth and awareness to powerful stimuli coming from the dominant culture in the affluent society. Therefore, not only the 'beautiful' body has been the object of research, but also the body of the common man, mutilated, deformed and imperfect. The volume, through surveys in legal-regulatory, personal, iconographic, literary sources and in medical and physiognomic treatises and the participation of some of the major international specialists in the field, intends to deepen these issues especially for the geographical, cultural and documentary space of Italy of the late Middle Ages and the early modern age remained until now quite at the margins of this line of studies.

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