The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900

Project Information

Water-Cultures

Grant agreement ID: 833834

DOI

10.3030/833834

Project closed

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

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Publications

Monographic books (1)

I disegni e i discorsi di Giovanni Antonio Nigrone, «fontanaro e ingegniero de acqua» (1585-1609 ca.). Edizione critica a cura di Gaia Bruno

Author(s): Gaia Bruno
Published in: 2024, Page(s) 468 + 60 ill., ISBN 9791254695548
Publisher: Viella
DOI: 10.52056/9791254695555

Peer reviewed articles (14)

The Waterwheels of Lizzafusina: Technological Innovation, Patenting, and Practical Necessity in Sixteenth-Century Venice

Author(s): David Gentilcore
Published in: Technology and Culture, Issue 66, 2025, Page(s) 107-133, ISSN 1097-3729
Publisher: Project MUSE
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2025.a951052

Water-power in pre-industrial Veneto. Management and transformation of hydraulic energy through the archives of the Venetian magistrate of the “Provveditori sopra i Beni Inculti”

Author(s): Rachele Scuro
Published in: Revue d'Histoire de l'Énergie, Issue n° 13, 2025, Page(s) 1j-16, ISSN 2649-3055
Publisher: CAIRN.INFO
DOI: 10.3917/jehrhe.013.0001j

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

Hydraulic Engineers and Antiquarians: Political Use of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Venice

Author(s): Giacomo Bonan
Published in: Technology and Culture, Issue 64, 2023, Page(s) 845-874, ISSN 0040-165X
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2023.a903975

‘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

Flood and Drought: The Challenges of Seasonality in the Operation of Rome’s Sewers, 1870-1900

Author(s): Salvatore Valenti
Published in: Journal of Urban History, Issue 51, 2025, Page(s) 35-47, ISSN 0096-1442
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00961442241260343

The concerns of a young science. Experimental hygiene and water management between the nineteenth and twentieth century

Author(s): Salvatore Valenti
Published in: Annali di Storia delle università italiane, Issue 29, 2025, Page(s) 81-98, ISSN 1127-8250
Publisher: il Mulino
DOI: 10.17396/117117

“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

Water Cultures, water knowledge, water conflicts: Rethinking water in the early modern period. Some notes from the Water Cultures Conference

Author(s): Lavinia Maddaluno
Published in: Diciottesimo Secolo, Issue 9, 2024, Page(s) 193-198, ISSN 2531-4165
Publisher: Firenze University Press
DOI: 10.36253/ds-15327

Modern infrastructure? The long transition in urban water infrastructure in Milan, Naples, and Venice, c.1800–c.1910

Author(s): Salvatore Valenti
Published in: Continuity and Change, 2024, Page(s) 1-27, ISSN 0268-4160
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0268416024000171

From plague to cholera: public health and the urban poor in nineteenth-century Italy

Author(s): Salvatore Valenti
Published in: Social History, Issue 50, 2025, Page(s) 35-62, ISSN 0307-1022
Publisher: Methuen
DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2025.2431388

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

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Women and Rainfall: An Eco-ritual Among the Alps of the Past

Author(s): Dario Bassi
Published in: Matrix. Journal for Matricultural Studies, Issue 4:1, 2025, Page(s) 97-121, ISSN 2563-3392
Publisher: Université de Montréal
DOI: 10.60676/pswqyw34

Thesis and dissertations (3)

Paludi e pescaje: 'idropolitiche' e 'idroconflittualità' in Valtellina (sec. XVII-XIX)

Author(s): Dario Bassi
Published in: 2025
Publisher: University of Padua-Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Acque termali. Medicina, religione, ecologia nell'Italia di età moderna

Author(s): Andrea Toffolon
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Universities of Padua and Venice

Comunitats and consorzi: A comparative study of Late Medieval and Early Modern communitarian Water institutions in Veneto and Valencia: (15th – 16th centuries)

Author(s): Samuel Barney Blanco
Published in: 2025
Publisher: University of Padua-Ca' Foscari University of Venice