Passion for history, sensitivity to humanity
Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Adriano Roccucci
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2026/192
Language Italian Pages 8 P. 311-318 File size 256 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2026-192006
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This article offers an interpretation of Rosanna Scatamacchia’s historical research, beginning with her posthumous book I numeri parlanti (The Talking Numbers). Her approach to economic history, necessarily intertwined with social and cultural history, is characterised by a focus on the historical actors within economic processes, the centrality of men and women situated in a historical context, and a keen sensitivity to the human aspect. Her research method combined philological accuracy and a passion for sources, a wideranging dialogue with historiography, a rigorous study of numbers without being confined to an exclusively quantitative approach, and engagement with literature. What emerges is a way of doing history that focuses on the human element rather than the exaltation of quantitative data, on complexity rather than the geometry of models, on contradictions rather than a presumed linearity in the unfolding of history, on the nonrational factors of the human experience rather than the rationality of theoretical laws.
Keywords: economic history, literature and history, epistemology of the human sciences, historical research method, historical actors, historiography.
Adriano Roccucci, Passione della storia, sensibilità all’umano in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 192/2026, pp 311-318, DOI: 10.3280/SS2026-192006