Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Oct 2013)

Il mare per comunicare

  • Laureatasi a Pisa con una tesi sul primo viaggio di Vasco da Gama in India, è stata borsista della “Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian”, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. È autrice di articoli e saggi accademici, nonché di due opere in volume. Giornalista pubblicista, dal 2011 è membro della “Research Users Advisory Committee” e della “European Holocaust Research Infrastructure”.

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 3
pp. 1 – 24

Abstract

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In 1885 the Italian government entered into contract with Pirelli for the construction and maintenance of twelve cables to connect various islands with the mainland. For the execution of the contract, Pirelli built a cable-sheathing factory at San Bartolomeo, near La Spezia, ordering to Thompson yard the cable-ship Città di Milano, which worked also beyond national borders. It wrecked at Filicudi in 1919. In 1944 Ernesto Del Grande, a Pirelli cableman, wrote a story on this, also organizing a portfolio with seventy-two images. The two sources, belonging respectively to the Archivio Storico Pirelli and the Biblioteca Sormani, are published for the first time, with a selection of thirty-six images of the last one.

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