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Fabrizio Lomonaco
hat significance did the Lex Regia De
Imperio Vespasiani bear for the Dutch
philosophers in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries? Did it simply define a question
of law and its ancient use? Was it responsible
for the definition of a scholarly exercise
in literary-rhetorical regulae? New Studies on
Lex Regia explores these questions as the dispute
on a non-literary source (the Lex Regia) is
exemplary for the way in which philological
research came together with interpretations
of the Roman law and the political conclusions
drawn from them .
Situated between philosophy and philology,
this book attempts to rehabilitate a debate
on the fides historica in Cartesianism and
post-Cartesian Pyrrhonism . It focuses on the
Robert Lumley
Entering the Frame
Cinema and History in the Films
of Yervant Gianikian
and Angela Ricci Lucchi
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles,
Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011 .
XX, 192 pp ., num . coloured and b/w ill .
Italian Modernities . Vol . 10
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ntering the Frame is the first complete
study of the cinema of Yervant Gianikian
and Angela Ricci Lucchi, pioneers of
archival and found-footage films that testify
to war, genocide and colonialism in the twentieth
century . It explores their early performance-based
‘scented films’ of the 1970s, before
focusing on the historical films, such as
From the Pole to the Equator, for which they
are best known . The book analyses how Gianikian
and Ricci Lucchi manipulate rare
footage through re-photographing, handtinting
and altering film speeds, to produce
work of an other-worldly quality .
New Studies on Lex Regia
Right, Philology and Fides Historica
in Holland Between the 17th and 18th Centuries
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011,
351 pp .
Studies in Early Modern European Culture . Vol . 5
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role that modern historiography on Rome plays
in the construction of the politico-cultural
model between republicanism and absolutism
in the works of the Dutch thinkers Gronovius,
Ulrik Huber, Perizonius, Noodt and Barbeyrac .
fAbrizio loMonACo is Professor of History
of Philosophy at the University of Naples
«Federico II» . As a member of the editorial
boards, he is involved with the following jour-
nals: «Archivio di storia della cultura» (Naples),
«Bollettino del centro di studi vichiani» (Rome),
and «Post Filosofie» (Bari) . He is the Director of
«Civiltà del Mediterraneo» (Naples) and «Logos»
(Naples), and has written essays relating to the
17th-18th centuries Holland and Southern Italian
thought (Grozio and Perizonio, Noodt and Bar-
beyrac, Caloprese and Gravina, Vico and Pagano) .
Retrospectives of the films of Gianikian
and Ricci Lucchi at the Jeu de Paume in Paris
(2006) and at MoMA in New York (2009) have
signalled international recognition at the
highest level, as have appraisals by leading
scholars of cinema such as Scott MacDonald
and Raymond Bellour . Their work is unusual
in attracting different audiences, and in relating
art practices to wider ethical, historical
and political issues . Gianikian and Ricci
Lucchi have transformed old documentary
footage into works that resonate in debates
about postcolonialism as well as about the
documentary form, the corporeality of the
viewing experience and the metamorphoses
of cinema .
The volume includes a preface by the cultural
historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of
Italian and History at New York University .
Tate Modern will be screening a survey
of films by Yervant Gianikian and Angela
Ricci Lucchi in November 2011 .
robert luMley is Professor of Italian Cultural
History at University College London .
He studied modern history at the University
of Oxford and was a researcher at the Centre
for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham
. His publications include States of
Emergency: Cultures of Revolt in Italy from
1968 to 1978 (1990) and Arte Povera (2004), as
well as the edited volumes The Museum Time-
Machine (1987) and Italian Cityscapes: Culture
and Urban Change in Contemporary Italy (with
John Foot, 2004) .
Paul Maylam
Enlightened Rule
Portraits of Six Exceptional
Twentieth Century Premiers
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am
Main, New York, Wien, 2011 . VIII, 316 pp ., num ill .
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he twentieth century has been called
an ‘age of catastrophe’, characterized
by devastating wars and a general poverty of
leadership at government level . This book,
written in a more optimistic vein, offers biographical
essays on six twentieth century
heads of government – three from Latin America,
and one each from Africa, Asia and Europe
– who were exceptions to the norm . During
their terms of office each displayed admirable
qualities: moral authority, integrity,
an egalitarian spirit, and a firm commitment
to democracy, human rights, social justice
and international peace . They shunned personality
cults, grandiosity and conspicuous
consumption . Their governance was shaped
by high ideals, in the tradition of democratic
socialism or social democracy, but also marked
by pragmatism and an awareness that the realization
of these ideals was not always practicable
. Although some of the six became
iconic, venerated figures, none of them are
presented here as ‘heroes’ or ‘great leaders’ .
Each had failings and flaws, and each has
been subject to critique . They are rather presented
as government heads whose leadership
has been worthy of deep respect and admiration
. Had other premiers emulated their
style of governance, twentieth century history
would have taken a very different course .
PAul MAylAM has been Professor of History
at Rhodes University in South Africa
since 1991, having formerly taught at the University
of Natal in Durban from 1974 . He has
authored or edited five other books in the
field of southern African history .