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Popolazione e storia, 2021

Plague, malaria and demographics in past Italy: recent acquisitions and open problems With this ... more Plague, malaria and demographics in past Italy: recent acquisitions and open problems

With this short essay, the author intended in the first place to reconsider the bibliography that testifies to the debate of recent decades, in the historical context, about the nature of the great plague epidemics, highlighting the value of the most innovative researches regarding the possible different modalities of transmission of Yersinia pestis. The article also tried to summarize, and to expose in a language accessible even to non-specialists of the subject, the path of research in the field of microbiology that has allowed, in the last two decades, to reconstruct the evolutionary history of pathogenic germs (starting from that of the plague) and to clarify many questions that historians had not answered. Finally, the last paragraph of the paper mentions the importance that even endemic diseases (starting from tuberculosis and malaria) have had in influencing, in the long term, the evolution of the Italian population, and also underlines the lack of studies that allow reliable estimates, for the past centuries, of the mortality caused by these pathologies.

Pattern di variabilità della statura e del Body Mass Index nei coscritti della classe 1980 residenti nelle province di Parma e Bologna

Forum eBooks, 2008

L'evoluzione demografica (secoli XIV-XX)

Popolazione e storia, Feb 1, 2020

The effect of unbalanced demographic structure on marriage and fertility patterns in isolated populations: the case of Norse settlements in Greenland

Genus, 2006

Nel 1957 C. Gini propone una soluzione allo storico enigma della scomparsa delle colonie vichingh... more Nel 1957 C. Gini propone una soluzione allo storico enigma della scomparsa delle colonie vichinghe in Groenlandia attraverso lo squilibrio dei sessi; suppone che tale squilibrio sia dovuto alle oscillazioni casuali nel rapporto dei sessi tra i nati e tra i morti. In questo lavoro ...

Le colloque de la S.I.D.E.S. sur « La croissance démographique au XVIIIe siècle »

Annales de démographie historique, 1980

Del Panta Lorenzo. Le colloque de la S.I.D.E.S. sur « La croissance démographique au XVIIIe siècl... more Del Panta Lorenzo. Le colloque de la S.I.D.E.S. sur « La croissance démographique au XVIIIe siècle ». In: Annales de démographie historique, 1980. La démographie avant les démographes (1500-1670) pp. 347-349

Eugenio Sonnino e la demografia storica nei ricordi di un amico

Popolazione e storia, 2012

Popolazione e storia, 2007

Popolazione e storia, Nov 30, 2021

Sviluppo demografico, urbanizzazione e flussi migratori in Provincia di Bologna tra XIX e XX secolo

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), May 1, 2013

Mortalité infantile et post-infantile en Italie du XVIIIe au XXe siècle : tendances à long terme et différences régionales

Annales de démographie historique, 1994

From the beginning of national unification (1861) onwards, the process of the decline in infant m... more From the beginning of national unification (1861) onwards, the process of the decline in infant mortality has been well-known and several explanatory hypothèses have been offered about the time différences in the decline on different territories. Using a still fragmentary and heterogeneous documentary data basis, this article has attempted to outline the evolution of the mortality of children as from the eighteenth century, stressing the permanence of territorial particularities in the long run. Before the beginning of the irreversible decline (as from the second half of the nineteenth centry), the determining factors of the territorial differences seem to depend more on socio-cultural factors and on the surrounding atmosphere than on the standards of living of the populations.

La croissance démographique urbaine en Toscane entre 1750 et 1850

Annales de démographie historique, 1982

This article compares population trends in the principal cities, the small towns and the rural ar... more This article compares population trends in the principal cities, the small towns and the rural areas of the Granduchy of Tuscany in the stretch of time between the middle of the 18th and the middle of the 19th centuries. For this period, census data are quite numerous and complete, permitting detailed analysis of the growth of urban population through time. In the 18th century we see in Tuscany a general stabilisation of the rate of growth of population in the towns compared to that in the country, but this situation begins to change from the beginning of the 19th century. Interesting dues to the factors which caused the rapid expansion of some towns and the relative stagnation of others, in population terms, can be found by concentrating on relatively circumscribed geographical areas, with theîr greater homogeneity in social and economic terms.

L'Italie au XVIIe siècle

Population Studies-a Journal of Demography, Mar 1, 1991

Italy

Routledge eBooks, Jun 24, 2021

Popolazione e storia, Jul 31, 2019

Another important limitation of the cause-specific statistical data comes from the presence of a ... more Another important limitation of the cause-specific statistical data comes from the presence of a proportion of deaths attributed to unknown and undetermined causes, which is, in itself, an indicator of the quality of the data. This proportion was exceptionally high in Sardinia, much higher than the national average 6 and the incidence of this item appears to be particularly high for the youngest age groups 7 , the most affected by malaria mortality, as we shall see. Cases of malaria were not notifiable until the beginning of the 20 th Century (and remained seriously underestimated until much later). Moreover, the destitute population living in the rural areas, which was the group most affected by the disease, had very little contact with medical doctors. Even after the advent of cause mortality statistics, «the incidence of malaria remained seriously underreported» (Snowden 2006, 8). This article intends to fill this research gap, at least partially, and to estimate the demographic and health burden of malaria in the island of Sardinia, between the last decades of the 19 th Century and the first decades of the 20 th Century, emphasizing its peculiarities, in terms of both total intensity and structural characteristics in comparison with the rest of the country. In addition, the article aims to reconstruct the evolution of malaria mortality in Sardinia in the years before and during the first 'antimalaria crusade' (Snowden 2006, 53), documenting the relevance and the effectiveness of the sanitary campaign with the free distribution of quinine, as well as its limits and failures. The period studied, in the choice of the initial data, is affected by the temporal limits of the available documentation, but it covers significant decades for the evolution of malaria mortality in the island. It includes, in fact, the phase that immediately followed the severe exacerbation of the disease, in the second post-unification decade, according to Tognotti (1996, 2008), but also the years of declining mortality, influenced by the quinine campaigns introduced from the beginning of the 20 th century. The decline in malaria mortality, interrupted during the 1911 cholera epidemic, was reversed at the end of World War I and in the following years. The article is organised as follows. In the next section, without neglecting the just mentioned difficulties arising from the quality of the statistical sources available, we analyse the first official statistics on malaria mortality in Sardinia and in the rest of the country as well as its structural characteristics by age and sex in 1887 and 1888, comparing the experience of the island with that of the other Italian most affected regions. In the third section we describe malaria mortality trends in Sardinia (at the regional and provincial level 8) and in the regions mentioned above, between national unification and the mid-twenties, providing a correction of the malaria mortality data and some interpretative comments on the tendencies observed.

Popolazione e storia, 2001

Conferencia de clausura: Il ruolo della malaria nella transizione demografica in Italia

Testing Inverse Projection, Differentiated Inverse Projection and Stochastic Inverse Projection: A Reconstruction of the Population of Sardinia between 1861 and 1921 Using Three Different Techniques

Demographic research monographs, 2004

Twenty five years after the presentation of the first version of Inverse Projection (IP), the tec... more Twenty five years after the presentation of the first version of Inverse Projection (IP), the technique, conceived by Ronald Lee, has been utilitised as a powerful and reliable means of studying populations over time when only vital series are available. During this period, other authors have suggested some modifications to the original procedure without changing the basic logic. They have also tried to create more and more precise estimates by overcoming some conceptual and operative limitations found in Inverse Projection.