The volume, edited by the Sammarinese Centre for Historical Studies, was presented today to the Regency
Fourteen chapters and over 250 pages retrace the main phenomena and events that have characterized the Titan from the Middle Ages to the present day, through contributions from academics, researchers, and others.
This is the content of the volume 'History of San Marino', published by Bookstones Edizioni 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 at the Palazzo Pubblico that brought together, in addition to the authors, scholars and institutional representatives.
Analyzing statutes and institutions, international relations, and tourism-related phenomena, the text was edited by the director of the Sammarinese Center for Historical Studies, Stefano Pivato, together with professor Luca Gorgolini.
"San Marino history, especially in its popular forms, has often been relegated to the reconstruction of anecdotes that have been indulgent towards the characteristics of the republic, ultimately extolling parochialism and peculiarities that have distorted historical common sense," explains Pivato. "From this perspective," he continues, "the text extends beyond the high school audience of San Marino, to which it is primarily addressed, to become a moment of reflection on the evolution of our region's history over the centuries."
Covering events such as women's right to vote, archaeological discoveries, urban transformations, and emigration, the book presents itself as a collective work: "Usually, the publication of volumes of this type is entrusted to a single author," Pivato points out, "while 'History of San Marino' is a collaborative effort in which a group of professional historians was joined by a series of young students from the School of Historical Studies at the University of San Marino."
The draft, as reported in the introduction to the text, was edited by "fifteen authors whose different training and expertise have allowed them to capture, over the centuries, a series of events that have become increasingly interconnected and whose investigation could only be grasped by those who cultivate knowledge that is not always considered among the historical disciplines."
Hence a volume "that has brought together numerous scholars with the aim of offering a broad and timely reconstruction of the history of San Marino from antiquity to the present day", Gorgolini finally points out.
