All Outputs (6)

Afterword (2021)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Afterword. In C. Heath, & R. Houghton (Eds.), Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 568-1154 (325-336). Amsterdam University Press

Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920 (2021)
Book
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2021). Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer

After the Napoleonic wars many wealthy British women and men settled along the coast in Liguria and travelled in Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta in search of warmth and health. They established English-speaking colonies of retired clerics, colonial offici... Read More about Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920.

Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911 (2021)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911. In G. Fisher, & D. Robinson (Eds.), Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine. London: Anthem Press

Urban Life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan Compared (2021)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Urban Life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan Compared. In T. J. MacMaster, & N. S. Matheou (Eds.), Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean: Empire, Cities and Elites, 476-1204 (304-323). London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Milan, Genoa and the Alps: early medieval exchanges across a region (2021)
Journal Article
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Milan, Genoa and the Alps: early medieval exchanges across a region. Studi di storia medioevale e di diplomatica - Nuova Serie, 4, 201-230. https://doi.org/10.54103/2611-318x/15766

In this contribution I consider how Milan and its inhabitants were connected both north and south in the early medieval period. I focus on exchanges understood as giving and receiving, buying and selling, leasing and renting, but also encompassing th... Read More about Milan, Genoa and the Alps: early medieval exchanges across a region.

Re-reading The Lands of Saint Ambrose (2021)
Journal Article
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Re-reading The Lands of Saint Ambrose. Reti Medievali - Rivista, 22(1), 41-49. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/8041

This paper reflects on the observations made by Giuseppe Albertoni, Gianmarco De Angelis, Anna Rapetti and Igor Santos Salazar in their discussion of the book The Lands of Saint Ambrose. Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan (2019).