Luciano Maffi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luciano Maffi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luciano |
| FAMILY NAME | Maffi |
| SIGNATURE | MAFFI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Parma |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0933-5758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Privatizing excrement
During the second half of the nineteenth century, traditional urban organic waste collection systems proved inadequate. In Italian cities, the alternative solution was found in the more hygienic system of ‘mobile sewers’. After its appearance in Milan in 1862, this system spread to many other urban centres on the peninsula. It encouraged the introduction of regulations for city cleaning and the emergence of private companies specializing in the u…
Italian vermouth on the international market (1890–1960)
This article examines the causes and geographical trajectories of the globalisation of vermouth, one of the most famous Made in Italy products in the world. Of all the fortified wines, vermouth stands out for its unique history. Originally a product of Piedmont consumed mainly by the aristocracy and the emerging bourgeoisie, vermouth became the subject of a growing export trade between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, gaining credibility t…
Dangerous Liaisons
This article analyses the conflicting relationship between botany and the rural economy in a period of great scientific, technical, and economic change. It takes as an example the Po Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a laboratory for experiments on acclimatization of new plant species, particularly the potato among other products. Against this backdrop, political authorities and scientific institutions interacted with landowner…
Local microcredit in fourteenth-century Italy
This article investigates the dynamics of microcredit in late-medieval Italy by examining the case of fourteenth-century Vercelli and its surrounding rural area. Drawing on an extensive corpus of notarial sources, it highlights how credit networks were sustained not only by elite bankers and merchants but also by less prominent actors embedded in everyday social and economic life. Two case studies – the baker Enrico da Greggio and the priest Sale…
Building the new landscape
This article examines the role of wineries in the evolution of the Italian wine landscape from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the new millennium. In the first section, we describe the birth of the ‘rational cellar’ in Italy, which had to be built in accordance with technology and science. Next, we examine the introduction of the concept of terroir and its connection to wine. In the third section, we focus on the development…
Social Support Systems in Rural Italy
Social Support Systems in Imperial Fiefdoms
Gorgonzola
This article analyses how Gorgonzola cheese achieved widespread success among the upper and middle classes in continental Europe, the British Isles, and North America between the 1850s and 1930s. Drawing on social history, the history of science and technology, and cultural history, the article highlights the important role played by hotels, restaurants, clubs, and ocean liners, on the one hand, and the circuit of industrial and agricultural exhi…
Teaching in Rural Communities of the Po Valley, 1861-1900
Italian agricultural modernization in the late 19th century was partly the result of increased environmental and agronomic knowledge acquired from primary school onwards. The article opens a new research perspective by analysing how primary school teachers and vocational institutes contributed to agricultural and environmental education in rural areas of Northern Italy. These practices also raised awareness concerning social and cultural problems…
Tourism, disability and inclusion in twentieth century Italy
The paper analyses the archival documentation of two Italian institutions in reference to summer camps for young people with disabilities during 1950s-70s. In this way it highlights the precursor role of these institutions in proposing an inclusive tourist experience for young people with disabilities.Italy only had adequate legislation in this direction beginning in the 1980s-90s. In particular, Law No. 104 in 1992 is fundamental for the inclusi…
Poor relief systems in rural Italy
This article studies the development of poor relief in the rural areas of the diocese of Tortona in the eighteenth century, through the analysis of the parish reports written for the pastoral visits of bishops Giulio Resta and Giuseppe Lodovico Andujar in 1741 and 1743. The reports record the most important assistance activities organised by different social actors: dowries for poor girls; bread, money and clothing to distribute to the poor; but …
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Poor relief systems in rural Italy
This article studies the development of poor relief in the rural areas of the diocese of Tortona in the eighteenth century, through the analysis of the parish reports written for the pastoral visits of bishops Giulio Resta and Giuseppe Lodovico Andujar in 1741 and 1743. The reports record the most important assistance activities organised by different social actors: dowries for poor girls; bread, money and clothing to distribute to the poor; but …
Tourism, disability and inclusion in twentieth century Italy
The paper analyses the archival documentation of two Italian institutions in reference to summer camps for young people with disabilities during 1950s-70s. In this way it highlights the precursor role of these institutions in proposing an inclusive tourist experience for young people with disabilities.Italy only had adequate legislation in this direction beginning in the 1980s-90s. In particular, Law No. 104 in 1992 is fundamental for the inclusi…
Teaching in Rural Communities of the Po Valley, 1861-1900
Italian agricultural modernization in the late 19th century was partly the result of increased environmental and agronomic knowledge acquired from primary school onwards. The article opens a new research perspective by analysing how primary school teachers and vocational institutes contributed to agricultural and environmental education in rural areas of Northern Italy. These practices also raised awareness concerning social and cultural problems…
Social Support Systems in Rural Italy
Social Support Systems in Imperial Fiefdoms
Gorgonzola
This article analyses how Gorgonzola cheese achieved widespread success among the upper and middle classes in continental Europe, the British Isles, and North America between the 1850s and 1930s. Drawing on social history, the history of science and technology, and cultural history, the article highlights the important role played by hotels, restaurants, clubs, and ocean liners, on the one hand, and the circuit of industrial and agricultural exhi…
Italian vermouth on the international market (1890–1960)
This article examines the causes and geographical trajectories of the globalisation of vermouth, one of the most famous Made in Italy products in the world. Of all the fortified wines, vermouth stands out for its unique history. Originally a product of Piedmont consumed mainly by the aristocracy and the emerging bourgeoisie, vermouth became the subject of a growing export trade between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, gaining credibility t…
Dangerous Liaisons
This article analyses the conflicting relationship between botany and the rural economy in a period of great scientific, technical, and economic change. It takes as an example the Po Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a laboratory for experiments on acclimatization of new plant species, particularly the potato among other products. Against this backdrop, political authorities and scientific institutions interacted with landowner…
Local microcredit in fourteenth-century Italy
This article investigates the dynamics of microcredit in late-medieval Italy by examining the case of fourteenth-century Vercelli and its surrounding rural area. Drawing on an extensive corpus of notarial sources, it highlights how credit networks were sustained not only by elite bankers and merchants but also by less prominent actors embedded in everyday social and economic life. Two case studies – the baker Enrico da Greggio and the priest Sale…
Building the new landscape
This article examines the role of wineries in the evolution of the Italian wine landscape from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the new millennium. In the first section, we describe the birth of the ‘rational cellar’ in Italy, which had to be built in accordance with technology and science. Next, we examine the introduction of the concept of terroir and its connection to wine. In the third section, we focus on the development…
Privatizing excrement
During the second half of the nineteenth century, traditional urban organic waste collection systems proved inadequate. In Italian cities, the alternative solution was found in the more hygienic system of ‘mobile sewers’. After its appearance in Milan in 1862, this system spread to many other urban centres on the peninsula. It encouraged the introduction of regulations for city cleaning and the emergence of private companies specializing in the u…
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