Disclosing Collections Studies, Catalogues and Data in the Arts and the Humanities

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Aims & Scope
Inspired by the process of scientific analysis and contextual public disclosure of collected materials in the wider Humanities, this academic book series aims at setting a new standard in producing catalogues, inventories, indexes, collection displays, data sets, and item lists. The series is grounded on the idea of both mapping and disclosing unprecedented territories, which are then left with infrastructures that allow them to be available to the research community and the wider public. In this sense, the series intends to go beyond traditional concepts such as the ‘catalogue raisonné’ or full inventory lists, rather trying to present publications in print and digital form that cut across a given collection of items and thus highlight categorisations, interconnections, and relevance attribution. Of particular importance is the methodology applied to the production of the finalised publication, which takes into account recent interdisciplinary stances, modes of research and forms of presentation prompted by scholars in the Digital and Public Humanities, particularly the development and importance gained by relational databases. The scope of the series embraces the entire array of the Humanities: from Textual Scholarship to History, from Art History to Cultural Heritage, from Archaeology to Archival Studies. A distinctive feature of the series is its institutional interconnectedness, since publications are each the unique product of intense and planned collaboration with specific museums, libraries, collections, archives, estates, excavations, field works, and research institutions.

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  • Un secolo di storie
  • Il transatlantico Conte Biancamano al Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci
  • Giovanni Pietrangeli, Marco Iezzi
  • Oct. 9, 2025
  • Launched in 1925 and in service until 1960, the ocean liner Conte Biancamano was one of the most important ships in the history of Italian navigation in the first half of the twentieth century. Tracking the history of this ship provides a unique insight into some of the century's most significant events: the golden age of transoceanic travel, during which it operated on routes between North and South America carrying passengers ranging from first to third class; the Fascist era, when it sailed to East Africa, India and China; World War II, when it was requisitioned to transport American military personnel; and the post-war period, when it became the first passenger ship to undergo refitting in Italy. In 1960, when the Biancamano was decommissioned, the then Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnica acquired its bridge, ballroom and several cabins, all of which are now preserved in the Aeronaval Pavilion. The many lives of the Biancamano are explored in this book through contributions from scholars of various disciplines, including maritime, economic, industrial and labour history, as well as museology. These contributions help to enrich research into the historical and social context of which this ocean liner is now a material and symbolic testament.