Il Mulino Research Articles

Egidio Foscarari—Giovanni Morone: Carteggio durante l'ultima fase del Concilio di Trento (1561–1563) ed. by Matteo Al Kalak (review)

Reviewed by: Egidio Foscarari—Giovanni Morone: Carteggio durante l'ultima fase del Concilio di Trento (1561–1563) ed. by Matteo Al Kalak Paul V. Murphy Egidio Foscarari—Giovanni Morone: Carteggio durante l'ultima fase del Concilio di Trento (1561–1563). Edited by Matteo Al Kalak. (Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2018. Pp. 267. €64,00. ISBN: 9783402105276). For more than a century, historians of the Council of Trent have sought to overcome stark and often cliched judgements on the council born in a more sectarian era through examination of the substantial documentation left behind by participants in the form of letters and diaries. This has allowed for greater nuance in judgements on the Council of Trent. Matteo Al Kalak has made a significant contribution to this work. His recent biography of Bishop Egidio Foscarari, Il riformatore dimenticato: Egidio Foscarari tra Inquisizione, concilio, e governo pastorale (1512–1564) (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016) shed light on the life and career of this Dominican bishop who succeeded Cardinal Giovanni Morone as bishop of Modena where he took a conciliatory position towards Modenese Protestants and was subsequently imprisoned in the Castel Sant'Angelo by Pope Paul IV. At the council, Foscarari continued to seek reconciliation where possible not only between the emperor and the pope but between Protestants and the Catholic Church. Al Kalak has since edited and published Egidio Foscarari—Giovanni Morone: Carteggio durante l'ultima fase del Concilio di Trento (1561–1563), a valuable collection of the correspondence between Foscarari and his patron Morone during the final phase of the Council. These 133 letters, all but three of them from Foscarari, show the efforts made by the two to find practical means to obtain agreement not only between the often polarized Catholic factions at the Council but even in the hope of bringing some Protestants on board. Foscarari's efforts at conciliation are seen on three principal issues. One concerned whether the renewed meetings of the council in 1561 should be considered a continuation of the previous sessions and therefore prohibited review of previously decided issues. The Bull of convocation makes it clear that the pope considered it a continuation of the earlier sessions. Nevertheless, Foscarari sought middle ground by suggesting that flexibility as to the interpretation of the previously agreed upon decrees would allow for the possible reconciliation of at least some Protestants. Foscarari wanted similar room for maneuver regarding the Index of Prohibited Books of Pope Paul IV. If a complete retraction of it were not possible, in Al-Kalak's terms, they should propose "corrective measures that worked either [End Page 409] by moderating excessively severe prohibitions or by interpreting existing provisions in an accommodating key with respect to the requests of the Protestant reformers." (p. 11) Foscarari took a similarly flexible position on emending the text of the Bible for publication. If Foscarari and Morone found common ground on many issues, they came to strong disagreement on the issue that nearly wrecked the council, the residence of bishops, and whether that obligation was understood as according to jus divinum and therefore not open to exemptions. Foscarari strongly supported the jus divinum interpretation as necessary for a real reform of the clergy, a position rejected by Morone. This correspondence not only sheds light on the debates at the final sessions of the Council of Trent but also brings new issues into focus regarding these two well-known figures. The letters reveal Foscarari to have remained largely faithful to the path of reform he had followed from the time he became bishop of Modena, thus illustrating a great deal of continuity with an earlier generation of Italian reform. The letters raise questions about Morone, in contrast, as one who in the end opted for positions, on the residence of bishops in particular, that stood in contrast with those of Foscarari and a number of his earlier defenders. Al Kalak suggests that as one who had only recently been rehabilitated by Pope Pius IV after his imprisonment at the hands of Paul IV, Morone not only wanted to see the council come to a successful conclusion but also may have continued to feel vulnerable to the suspicions of some in the Roman...

Return mobilities and Italian youth transitions: new meanings around adulthood

ABSTRACT Part of a larger ethnographic study on Italian youth mobilities, this paper investigates the transitions to adulthood of young returnees who have gone back to Italy after a period of living and working in Australia. Adopting the ‘mobile transitions’ approach, we illustrate the ways in which mobility affects transitions to adulthood. We suggest that upon return these transitions unfold like a palimpsest, where the old texts are layered over with new ones, unsettling conventions about adult life and disrupting assumptions that return is a final stage in the transition process. New meanings around adulthood emerge in these young Italians’ mobile experience that continue also after return. We explore this through their aspirations for the future and their renegotiation of family relationships. Return for these young movers means bringing home a new perception of their current and future selves and especially of their role within their family of origin and Italian social and political culture. This is significant if we consider that Italy is the ‘country of the long family’ (Cavalli, A. 1997. “La lunga transizione all’età adulta.” In Giovani del nuovo secolo. Quinto rapporto IARD sulla condizione giovanile in Italia, edited by C. Buzzi, A. Cavalli, and A. De Lillo, 38–45. Bologna: Il Mulino), where the youth condition is characterized by a delayed acquisition of autonomy and the consequent late assumption of responsibility and adult roles.

Storia Culturale del Made in Italy [The cultural history of "Made in Italy"] by Carlo Marco Belfanti

Reviewed by: Storia Culturale del Made in Italy [The cultural history of "Made in Italy"] by Carlo Marco Belfanti Mattia Bertocco (bio) Storia Culturale del Made in Italy [The cultural history of "Made in Italy"] By Carlo Marco Belfanti. Bologna: il Mulino, 2019. Pp. 258. The term "Made in Italy" refers to a phenomenon whose boundaries, given the complexity of the subject, are blurred and whose definition is not always univocal. Both producers and consumers use this term in many uncontrolled and confusing ways. In recent times, the concept "Made in Italy" has undergone renewed interest as an expression of the desire to set apart Italian products, especially fashion, within a global market. Research on the topic is characterized by two approaches: on the one hand, the economist M. Fortis's work, Made in Italy (1998), traces the power of the term in the production system, and on the other hand, researchers like M. Bettiol connect the success of Italian production to the Renaissance in Raccontare il Made in Italy (2015). Carlo Marco Belfanti's book examines the economic, social, and cultural aspects of Made in Italy and reveals the mechanisms underlying the narratives created around the concept that, over the years, has changed its original meaning. The cultural aspect is flanked by the analysis of a technological development that has led Italy to play a fundamental role in the processing and production of certain product categories: from clothing, to furniture, to design. With the examples of Olivetti and Fiat, design represents the connection between technological development and aesthetics. The first part of the book discusses the Italian Renaissance, which is considered the origin of the "Made in Italy" phenomenon. Discussing the stimuli from architecture, painting, sculpture, and literature, Belfanti introduces the reader to the vivacity of the era and of those first cultural products that determined Italy's success beyond its borders. Theories in the arts, the development of the Italian language, the birth of modern theatre, and books of manners became widely known among the European intelligentsia, which began to identify Italy, and especially Florence, as a business and cultural model. Belfanti outlines, based on a wide range of literature, the expansion of commercial and craft activities from the thirteenth century, and analyzes the export of Italian business models and know-how to other countries. Starting from the seventeenth century, Italy's role changed significantly. While economic decline caused a considerable reduction in exports, the cultural sector proved resilient. This was in part thanks to the Grand Tour, which for the sons of the nobility and merchants, became an obligatory part of their education. It consisted of a trip throughout Europe including extensive stays in Florence, Rome, Naples, and Venice. The second part of the book shows how in the nineteenth and twentieth [End Page 537] centuries, Italy again became an important industrial producer. This was demonstrated at the World Exhibitions, where Italy showcased its artistic craftsmanship, agro-alimentary products, and silk wares. Italy defined its products more by referring to its glorious past, particular climate and landscape, than by the progress of modernity. In the twentieth century, even fashion garments were connected to the past, in order to legitimize, in the eyes of new American buyers, the myth of good taste and Italian fashion as an alternative to the hegemony of Paris. One example is the elegant Renaissance Hall Sala Bianca, in Florence's Palazzo Pitti, where Giovanni Battista Giorgini curated a fashion show for foreign buyers, staged in 1952, accompanied by events that recalled the splendor of the Medici Court. Storia Culturale del Made in Italy is a broad interdisciplinary work, based on in-depth research about the expansion of Italian style. Although the book does not take into account technological and production aspects, it gives a fine historical framework of the phenomenon of Made in Italy. Mattia Bertocco Mattia Bertocco is contract professor at the University of Milan. His main research interest centers around the fashion industry and communication, and his doctoral research is focused on the Italian jeans company Diesel, its communications and archives. Copyright © 2022 The Society for the History of Technology

Again on 1968: some remarks on recent Italian historiography

Although Italian — as well as international — historiography engaged with the fiftieth anniversary of 1968 in a very lively way, it was probably not groundbreaking in terms of its originality. From an editorial perspective, this liveliness has translated into the publication of a considerable amount of studies, which this article is able to examine only partially, given the variety of their approaches, analytical levels and interpretations. The article addresses a selection of these texts in order to discuss some of the most significant directions of research that emerge from them, in terms of methodological approaches, interpretations and arguments. These books are, in alphabetical order: Michele Battini, Un sessantotto, Università Bocconi Editore, Milano 2018; Guido Crainz (ed.), Il Sessantotto sequestrato. Cecoslovacchia, Polonia, Jugoslavia e dintorni, Donzelli, Roma 2018; Marcello Flores, Giovanni Gozzini, 1968. Un anno spartiacque, il Mulino, Bologna 2018; Monica Galfré, La scuola è il nostro Vietnam. Il '68 e l'istruzione secondaria italiana, Viella, Roma 2019; Paolo Pombeni, Che cosa resta del '68, il Mulino, Bologna 2018; Francesca Socrate, Sessantotto. Due generazioni, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2018.

Günther Pallaver, Michael Gehler, and Maurizio Cau, eds. Populism, Populists, and the Crisis of Political Parties: A Comparison of Italy, Austria, and Germany 1990–2015. Bologna: Societá editrice il Mulino, 2018. Pp. 338.

Günther Pallaver, Michael Gehler, and Maurizio Cau, eds. Populism, Populists, and the Crisis of Political Parties: A Comparison of Italy, Austria, and Germany 1990–2015. Bologna: Societá editrice il Mulino, 2018. Pp. 338.

Нова рецепција Милоша Црњанског – десничарске идеје и књижевни опус тридесетих година 20. века

Нова рецепција Милоша Црњанског – десничарске идеје и књижевни опус тридесетих година 20. века

What future for the Italian regionalism

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of ordinary regions, the article addresses some general issues and tries to outline the life of Italian regionalism. The effects of the pandemic weigh on the prospects of the system of autonomies. The Author warns about the danger of approving structural reforms of the legal system in the context of the emergency. © 2021 Societa Editrice il Mulino. All right reserved.

Navigating in the dark. Policy and knowledge in the management of the Covid-19 crisis in care homes

This article reconstructs the role played by knowledge and diagnostic tools in the management of the Covid-19 crisis. We focus on the spread of the infection in care homes for older people occured in the first wave (February-May 2020) of the pandemic and the consequent huge amount of deaths occurred in such structures. The aim is to investigate the different capacity of European governments to prevent these facts and provide the residents in these structures with adequate protection. The testing strategies adopted for care homes in five European countries (Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain and England) are therefore compared. The main hypothesis is that countries have initially relied on very limited knowledge on the spread of the virus in care homes, and that only an accurate testing strategy could allow an effective protection strategy. Comparing the countries, we found out that in some countries (England, Italy and Spain) testing in care homes has been strongly delayed and limited, paving the way for a weakened capacity to protect the residents and to limit the death toll. The paper finally shows that levels of knowledge and information about the impact of the pandemic on care homes are associated with different degrees of institutionalization and public legitimation of the care home system across countries. © 2021 Societa Editrice il Mulino. All rights reserved.

Covid-19 virus diffusion in Italy: Data quality and methodological challenges

In early 2020, it emerged in Italy a large outbreak of Covid-19, the infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In this context, producing as accurate as possible forecasting models was crucial both for the containment of the epidemic and for the planning of effective policy interventions. In this article I describe the main data sources which have been used to monitor the spread of the Covid-19 virus diffusion in Italy in the early stages of the epidemic (i.e. spring 2020);I focus on administrative records, Big Data from online search engines, and survey data, including data on contagion, fatalities, and Intensive Care Units admissions and exits. I discuss data quality issues associated with these sources of data, and I comment the main challenges faced in the dissemination of data and research findings in the first stages of the epidemic. © 2021 Societa Editrice il Mulino. All rights reserved.

Survey participation and non-response error in a pandemic scenario. Results from the ITA.LI Covid-19 study

Survey non-response is a relevant but under-researched topic in a pandemic setting, which merits investigation for the unexpected consequences it can produce on the reliability of the survey results. In this paper we investigate non-response error, using data collected at the turn of the pandemic on a known sample of 5,605 individuals first involved in the Italian Lives panel (ITA.LI) and then invited to join an ad hoc survey on the health crisis (ITA.LI Covid-19). We compare respondents and non-respondents to ITA.LI Covid-19, using the multivariate logistic regression technique to estimate variations in the probability of taking part in the survey attributable to specific characteristics of the sample members. Our results highlight that highly-educated people, those who live alone, and people living in municipalities experiencing a higher growth of mortality rates after the pandemic outbreak are more likely to take part in the survey, while full-time workers are still less likely to participate. Based on these results, we formulate general recommendations on how to minimise non-response error when sampling frame data are available, both at the survey design stage and at the data management stage. © 2021 Societa Editrice il Mulino. All rights reserved.

The restrictive measures of the right to education in the «eccentric» experience of the Puglia Region

This paper focuses on the analysis of the relationships between national and regional sources of law, which have limited the right of education during the COVID-19 virus pandemic, with particular regard to the «creative» ordinances of the Puglia Region. © 2020 Societa Editrice il Mulino. All Rights Reserved.

Sustainability and supply chain: Evidence from the wine industry

Sustainability is asking companies to jointly pursue environmental, social, and economic goals. Since stakeholders' awareness and pressure are increasing, even sectors traditionally considered natural such as the wine industry are challenged by sustainability. The wine industry, a global market and one of the most prominent economic activities for many countries worldwide, is a proper setting for sustainability research along the supply chain, but it is still understudied by relevant literature. Drawing on the Triple Bottom Line (Tbl) framework, this paper seeks to extend the literature on sustainability in the wine industry. In particular, it seeks to describe the impact of collaboration between supply chain partners on the company's sustainable performance by collecting data from a sample of Australian wineries. Results suggest that collaboration along the supply chain may help wineries to reach a sustainable performance. This research describes the sustainability issue in an industry traditionally composed of long-established small and medium-sized companies. Collaboration can be the key to staying alive, especially in a crisis scenario like the one caused by the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. © 2021 Societa Editrice Il Mulino. All rights reserved.

The City of the Public Space: Drop Dead?

The concept of public space has a long history and very different meanings In particular, the conceptions of political theory and philosophy differ from those heralded by urban planners and sociologists, fueling some confusion about the «public space» applications In this contribution, this complexity is put under tension with the type of planetary urbanization we were used to before the arrival of the Covid-19 We will end with a reflection on the possible effects that the pandemic has on the city and on its public space © 2020 Societa Editrice il Mulino All rights reserved

The World Through Roman Eyes: Anthropological Approaches to Ancient Culture ed. by Maurizio Bettini and William Michael Short

Reviewed by: The World Through Roman Eyes: Anthropological Approaches to Ancient Culture ed. by Maurizio Bettini and William Michael Short Lora L. Holland Goldthwaite Maurizio Bettini and William Michael Short (eds.). The World Through Roman Eyes: Anthropological Approaches to Ancient Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv, 471. $150.00. ISBN 978-1-107-15761-3. Classics scholars and advanced students looking for new insights into the Roman world will find them in this rich volume of fifteen collected articles in English.1 [End Page 107] Laudable are its abundant documentation of sources on topics both familiar and novel, and a consistent methodology derived from the hermeneutical tools of the social sciences. One perspective that is missing is relevant feminist theory,2 and the focus on literary evidence means that useful material culture is often not considered. I will briefly address the contributions in order of appearance. "Comparison" and "Metaphors," by Bettini and Short respectively, address the theoretical underpinnings of the volume's methodology. Bettini argues for the need to examine both "universal traits" based on emic sources as well as cultural "oddities" based on etic observation; hence the volume's selection of themes and format. Short contributes a case study of alimentary language as a common cultural model of thinking and communicating in Latin rather than an élite metaphor. Pironti and Perfigli in "Polytheism" demonstrate convincingly how the Roman familia served as a model for the conception of "main" and "helper" gods (i.e., indigitamenta) that populated the Roman pantheon. Bettini's second contribution, "Myth," asserts that fabulae about the origins of Rome and its topography served also as their "verification and foundation." Prescendi's "Sacrifice" argues that the Roman formula do ut des was dependent more on belief in reciprocity than previous notions of perfunctory commercial transaction allowed. Cherubini's "Witches" is a fascinating analysis of the Roman conception of the strix and its continuity in Italian folklore. Especially useful is Lentano's "Kinship" discussion of cultural differences between agnates and cognates in the Roman family. Raccanelli and Beltrami's "Friendship and the Gift" delves deeply and expertly into Latin literature; but we miss incorporation of the amici memorialized in Latin epigraphy.3 Viglietti's excellent "Economy" addresses the notion of "scarcity" in the archaic and early Republican periods in Rome and its environs. In "Space," De Sanctis' take on Roman topography mirrors Bettini's "Myth" chapter, but goes beyond fabulae to a new analysis of the ritual foundation of the city. In "Animals," Franco presents an anthrozoological analysis of the cultural transference of Circe's tame beasts in Greek myth to caged wildness in Vergil's retelling in Aeneid 7. Hautala's "Plants" proposes a polythetic Greco-Roman methodology for classifying certain plants with reference to the divine body. Pucci's multi-faceted "Images" (written before the 2015 discovery of the Pylos Combat agate) [End Page 108] argues that Greek imagery is best understood as re-functionalized in its Roman context. Manetti's "Signs" examines in a wide range of texts how the Greek and Latin vocabularies of semiotics are paradigmatic of knowledge. The final chapter, "Riddles," is an enthralling study of "enigmatic discourse" focusing on the late Antique poet Symposius, and Ovidian oracles and dreams. Reader aids include an aggregated list of references, Greek and Latin word indices, and a general subject index. Even if one is not equally interested in all the subjects covered in this volume, it deserves to be read cover to cover for the overall picture of Roman culture it presents. Lora L. Holland Goldthwaite University of North Carolina at Asheville Footnotes 1. First published in Italian in 2014 as Con i Romani. Un'antropologia della cultura antica by Il Mulino Press in Bologna for €30,00 with the same introduction and articles, but in a slightly different order. The text-editing, bibliography, and translation of William Short's "Metaphors" article in the Italian original were done by Alessandro Buccheri, who is not acknowledged in this English version. William Short is thanked for translating the "Polytheism" article into English (71), but I could not find who was responsible for the remaining translations, or in fact any reference to the original publication...

Le due Italie: una spiegazione del divario tra Centro-Nord e Mezzogiorno

In a recent volume (Perché il Sud è rimasto indietro, il Mulino, Bologna) the historian Emanuele Felice presented “a long-term socio-institutional explanation” of the more than secular permanence of the significant gap in per capita GDP – and in other indicators of modernization – between the regions of Centre-North and Southern Italy. His argument allows a new, original, appreciation of the greater problem of united Italy. Its explanans regards a) the inequality of incomes, personal wealth, as well as opportunities for “access to culture” between the two macro-areas, and b) the characteristics and modus operandi of the economic and political local institutions. According to Felice, institutions in the South are mainly “extractive”; in the North Centre, instead, “inclusive” (Acemoglu and Robinson).In this review, I try to integrate some topics not developed by Felice: the concept of modernization; the fragility of the ruling classes of the southern regions, which needs the consent of other social groups – not least the mafias; the prevalence in the South of a coalition that opposes modernization projects; the low level of real education of the ruling classes of Southern Italy (data elaborated from the Piacc/Oecd study, 2011); the differences in social stratification between the North Centre and the Mezzogiorno.Unless a decisive increase in the human capital available to the Italians of the South – above all, but certainly not only, of their ruling classes – an endogenous economic development in these regions seems quite problematic. Just as civil development will continue to be slow unless there is a decisive contrast to organized crime.

Always on the Other Side

This essay analyses paradigms of migration in We Need New Names (2013) by NoViolet Bulawayo (b. 1981, Zimbabwe), a recent example of new African (or ‘Afropolitan’?) literature. A teenager idealises migration to the United States as a flight to emancipation, if compared to internal flows of forcedly removed people, or unsuccessful flows to South Africa, or even to Britain. As a counterpoint, a downfall follows the flight. The first American experience is a snowfall, then stumbling on the English Language is compared to a fall; physical as well as psychic downfalls send illegal migrants into the invisibility of undesirable jobs and into lying (Mehta 2016) but also into a mental condition. This final outcome of migration has been approached with the tools of ethno-psychiatry (Beneduce 2016-2018) and the recently published short story about migration by Maaza Mengiste, “This is What the Journey Does” (2018). DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-94 Bibliography Ahmed, Sara. 2007. 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Walter Map and the Matter of Britain. Joshua Byron Smith. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. xii+254.

<i>Walter Map and the Matter of Britain</i>. Joshua Byron Smith. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. xii+254.

SilviaScatena, Taizé, una parabola di unità: Storia della comunità dalle origini al Concilio dei giovani [Taizé, a Parable of Unity: The history of the community from its origins to the Council of Youth]. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2018. xlv+876 pp.

The Ecumenical ReviewVolume 70, Issue 2 p. 387-388 Book Review Silvia Scatena, Taizé, una parabola di unità: Storia della comunità dalle origini al Concilio dei giovani [Taizé, a Parable of Unity: The history of the community from its origins to the Council of Youth]. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2018. xlv+ 876 pp. Elia Orselli, Elia OrselliSearch for more papers by this author Elia Orselli, Elia OrselliSearch for more papers by this author First published: 23 September 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/erev.12365Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume70, Issue2July 2018Pages 387-388 RelatedInformation

A cognitive pragmatic approach to punctuation

A cognitive pragmatic approach to punctuation

Giuseppe Dossetti e le Officine bolognesi by Paolo Prodi

Reviewed by: Giuseppe Dossetti e le Officine bolognesi by Paolo Prodi Roy Domenico Giuseppe Dossetti e le Officine bolognesi. By Paolo Prodi. (Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino. 2016. Pp. 281. €24,00 paperback. ISBN 978-88-15-26352-0.) Paolo Prodi died on December 16, 2016, at the age of eighty-four. He taught modern history, focusing mainly on the Counter-Reformation era, at universities in Italy and abroad and served as rector of the University of Trent. He also served as a deputy in the Italian Parliament’s eleventh legislature in the 1990s and was widely known beyond academia as the brother of Prime Minister Romano Prodi. Giuseppe Dossetti e le Officine bolognesi is something of a memoir or perhaps a personal history of a place and an era, Bologna, particularly scholarly Bologna, in the 1950s and 1960s, and heavily influenced by a man, Giuseppe Dossetti, the Christian Democratic politician-turned-priest. Prodi will not, he declares, engineer a “general reconstruction,” but rather only provide “a few plugs” to the story (p. 98). Prodi delivers a personal story about his scholarly development in postwar Italy, where he struggled to develop a viable dissertation subject and negotiate that decision with his supervisors, particularly Hubert Jedin and Delio Cantimori. Prodi needed to justify his choice of Reformation-era Italy, focusing on the diocese of Bologna. Most graduate students should recognize and appreciate this saga. Prodi weaves his personal account into politics and the foundation of what is now known as the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies. From its start in the early 1950s the institution reflected the personality of its founder, Dossetti, a scholar, World War II Resistance leader, Catholic politician, and, later, priest. Would this “workshop” (officina), called initially the Center for Documentation (Centro di documentazione), be a place of scholarship or one of prayer and reflection? To what extent would it be connected to the University of Bologna? Prodi attributes the spring of 1955 as the beginning of major changes at the Center. In May Bologna’s archbishop, Cardinal Giacomo [End Page 150] Lercaro, pushed Dossetti to launch a bid in upcoming communal elections, hoping to get a Christian Democrat on the city council and challenging the city’s popular Communist mayor, Giuseppe Dozza. Dossetti reluctantly acquiesced, an act of submission that Prodi bitterly condemns as “contrary to the freedom of the Christian layman” (p. 65). Predictably, when the elections occurred the following year Dossetti lost and he eventually abandoned politics and entered the priesthood, distancing himself more and more from the institute that he founded. Others, such as the historian Giuseppe Alberigo took up most of the task of running it. Prodi continues the story through the Second Vatican Council, which he remembers as an “adventure” and the most exciting time in the Center’s history. For young scholars it opened new terrain for study, particularly in the areas of Scripture and religious history. By the end of the Council, furthermore, Dossetti had returned to the field, and the organization morphed into the Center for Documentation – Institute for Religious Sciences. Although the Second Vatican Council ultimately disappointed Dossetti and Prodi, the subsequent years witnessed impressive scholastic accomplishments until 1972 which Prodi considers to have been the “apex” of the institute’s influence. The narrative largely ends at that point although Prodi goes on to conclude with a section devoted to passages from Dossetti or about him. Roy Domenico The University of Scranton Copyright © 2017 The Catholic University of America Press