The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900

Project Information

Water-Cultures

Grant agreement ID: 833834

DOI 10.3030/833834

EC signature date 14 May 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 444 549,00

EU contribution € 2 444 549,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA
Italy

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

The cistern-system of early modern Venice: technology, politics and culture in a hydraulic society

Author(s): David Gentilcore
Published in: Water History, Issue 13, 2021, Page(s) 1-32, ISSN 1877-7244
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s12685-021-00288-2

‘Who can tell me what potable water means?’ The assessment of water quality in debates over hydraulic infrastructure in nineteenth-century Italy

Author(s): Salvatore Valenti
Published in: The British Journal for the History of Science, Issue 2024, 2024, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 0007-0874
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0007087424000566

The Sacrality of Water: Religion and Medicine in the Spas of the Early Modern Veneto

Author(s): Andrea Toffolon
Published in: Histoire, médecine et santé, Issue 24, 2023, Page(s) 25-39, ISSN 2557-2113
Publisher: Open Edition Journals
DOI: 10.4000/hms.7113

“Cool and tasty waters”: managing Naples’s water supply, c. 1500–c. 1750

Author(s): David Gentilcore
Published in: Water History, Issue 11, 2019, Page(s) 125-151, ISSN 1877-7244
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s12685-019-00234-3

«Contro l’azione struggitrice del tempo». Progetti di ripristino dell’acquedotto Claudio

Author(s): Gaia Bruno Giacomo Bonan
Published in: Archivio Storico Italiano, Issue no. 678, 2023, Page(s) 767-789, ISSN 0391-7770
Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki
DOI: 10.1400/294627

In Praise of the Ordinary: Shifting Knowledge and Practice in the Medical Use of Drinking Water in Italy, 1550-1750

Author(s): David Gentilcore
Published in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Issue 97:4 (Winter 2023), 2023, Page(s) 531-555, ISSN 0007-5140
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2023.a922706

Book chapters (5)

'Sans porter aucun prejudice au public': negotiating urban waters in seventeenth-century Marseille

Author(s): Lavinia Maddaluno
Published in: L'acqua: risorsa e minaccia. La gestione delle risorse idriche e delle inondazioni in Europa dal Medioevo all'età contemporanea, 2023, Page(s) 41-61, ISBN 978-88-6887-166-6
Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press
DOI: 10.6093/978-88-6887-166-6

Representations of Water in the Kingdom of Naples in the Early Nineteenth Century

Author(s): David Gentilcore
Published in: Environment and Infrastructure: Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present, 2023, Page(s) 199-229, ISBN 9783111112756
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783111112756-011

The Hybrid Nature of Infrastructures

Author(s): Bonan, Giacomo; Occhi, Katia
Published in: Environment and Infrastructure: Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present, 2023, Page(s) 1-14, ISBN 9783111112756
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783111112756-001

«La qualità delle acque». Le risorse idriche nel Regno di Napoli agli inizi dell’Ottocento

Author(s): Gentilcore, David
Published in: L’acqua: risorsa e minaccia : La gestione delle risorse idriche e delle inondazioni in Europa (XIV-XIX secolo), 2023, Page(s) 161-185, ISBN 978-88-6887-166-6
Publisher: FedOAPress
DOI: 10.6093/978-88-6887-149-9

"""Fate voi e fate meglio"". La gestione delle risorse idriche a Palermo in età moderna"

Author(s): Gaia Bruno
Published in: L’acqua: risorsa e minaccia. La gestione delle risorse idriche e delle inondazioni in Europa (XIV-XIX secolo), 2023, Page(s) 63-86, ISBN 978-88-6887-166-6
Publisher: FedOA Press
DOI: 10.6093/9788868871666

Other (2)

Public Health in Milan

Author(s): Lavinia Maddaluno
Published in: Routledge Resources Online - The Renaissance World, 2023, Page(s) 7
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.4324/9780367347093-rerw76-1

book review of: Uomini e fiumi. Per una storia idraulica ed agraria della bassa pianura del Po (1450–1620), by Franco Cazzola

Author(s): Rachele Scuro
Published in: Nuncius, Issue 39:1, 2023, Page(s) 223-227, ISSN 1825-3911
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18253911-bja10091

Monographic books (1)

Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape. Rome and Its Surroundings, 1870–1922

Author(s): Salvatore Valenti
Published in: 2022, ISBN 9781032184180
Publisher: Routledge