Fabio Simonetti – författare

On 10 July 1943, British soldiers landed in south-eastern Sicily as part of a major Allied invasion. As they fought their way northwards through the Italian peninsula, they frequently encountered local populations, imposing a forced cohabitation that would have a lasting impact on both soldiers and civilians. For a long time, attention has focused predominantly on those who perceived their arrival as a liberation, marginalizing the daily realities of the Allied occupation of Italy. At the same time, much has been written about out-of-the-ordinary soldier-civilian encounters behind the enemy lines and the experience of GIs in Italy, which has led to the myth of the American liberation of Italy. Providing an in-depth study of ordinary encounters between British soldiers and Italian civilians in the context of the Allied invasion, liberation, and occupation of Sicily, Naples, and Rome between 1943 and 1947, Encounters in Wartime Italy aims to rebalance historiographical perspectives, shedding light on the lesser-known point of view of the British and their encounters with Italian civilians. Issues addressed include the evolving perception soldiers and civilians developed of each other, the imbalanced power dynamics between occupiers and occupied, and their complex cohabitation shaped by bartering, work relationships, illicit and violent interactions, and gendered encounters ranging from sexual exploitation to enduring love stories. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and interviews, as well as British and Italian official records, Fabio Simonetti places soldier-civilian encounters at the heart of his analysis, focusing on the complex social dynamics of Allied-occupied Italy. Encounters in Wartime Italy paints a nuanced portrait of the life and perception of occupiers and occupied, navigating the coexistence of fear, prejudice, and violence with extraordinary instances of resilience, admiration, and gratitude.

On 10 July 1943, British soldiers landed in south-eastern Sicily as part of a major Allied invasion. As they fought their way northwards through the Italian peninsula, they frequently encountered local populations, imposing a forced cohabitation that would have a lasting impact on both soldiers and civilians. For a long time, attention has focused predominantly on those who perceived their arrival as a liberation, marginalizing the daily realities of the Allied occupation of Italy. At the same time, much has been written about out-of-the-ordinary soldier-civilian encounters behind the enemy lines and the experience of GIs in Italy, which has led to the myth of the American liberation of Italy. Providing an in-depth study of ordinary encounters between British soldiers and Italian civilians in the context of the Allied invasion, liberation, and occupation of Sicily, Naples, and Rome between 1943 and 1947, Encounters in Wartime Italy aims to rebalance historiographical perspectives, shedding light on the lesser-known point of view of the British and their encounters with Italian civilians. Issues addressed include the evolving perception soldiers and civilians developed of each other, the imbalanced power dynamics between occupiers and occupied, and their complex cohabitation shaped by bartering, work relationships, illicit and violent interactions, and gendered encounters ranging from sexual exploitation to enduring love stories. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and interviews, as well as British and Italian official records, Fabio Simonetti places soldier-civilian encounters at the heart of his analysis, focusing on the complex social dynamics of Allied-occupied Italy. Encounters in Wartime Italy paints a nuanced portrait of the life and perception of occupiers and occupied, navigating the coexistence of fear, prejudice, and violence with extraordinary instances of resilience, admiration, and gratitude.

On 10 July 1943, British soldiers landed in south-eastern Sicily as part of a major Allied invasion. As they fought their way northwards through the Italian peninsula, they frequently encountered local populations, imposing a forced cohabitation that would have a lasting impact on both soldiers and civilians. For a long time, attention has focused predominantly on those who perceived their arrival as a liberation, marginalizing the daily realities of the Allied occupation of Italy. At the same time, much has been written about out-of-the-ordinary soldier-civilian encounters behind the enemy lines and the experience of GIs in Italy, which has led to the myth of the American liberation of Italy. Providing an in-depth study of ordinary encounters between British soldiers and Italian civilians in the context of the Allied invasion, liberation, and occupation of Sicily, Naples, and Rome between 1943 and 1947, Encounters in Wartime Italy aims to rebalance historiographical perspectives, shedding light on the lesser-known point of view of the British and their encounters with Italian civilians. Issues addressed include the evolving perception soldiers and civilians developed of each other, the imbalanced power dynamics between occupiers and occupied, and their complex cohabitation shaped by bartering, work relationships, illicit and violent interactions, and gendered encounters ranging from sexual exploitation to enduring love stories. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and interviews, as well as British and Italian official records, Fabio Simonetti places soldier-civilian encounters at the heart of his analysis, focusing on the complex social dynamics of Allied-occupied Italy. Encounters in Wartime Italy paints a nuanced portrait of the life and perception of occupiers and occupied, navigating the coexistence of fear, prejudice, and violence with extraordinary instances of resilience, admiration, and gratitude.

Anche se gli ultimi anni hanno visto uno sviluppo tumultuoso della ricerca oncologica, i tumori restano la causa di morte del 30% degli italiani. Gli avanzamenti terapeutici facilitano la guarigione e prolungano la vita, ma proprio per questo rendono più evidenti gli effetti indesiderati delle terapie e complicazioni delle neoplasie prima meno frequenti; in molti casi il danno da trattamento, piuttosto che quello dovuto alla neoplasia primitiva, diventa il principale azzardo per la qualità della vita e la sopravvivenza dei pazienti. Questo volume, insieme necessario e nuovo nel panorama della letteratura medica italiana, ne prende atto e presenta una revisione aggiornata e completa delle patologie del sistema nervoso centrale e periferico associate ai tumori e al loro trattamento.Scopo del volume è di presentare un approccio integrato tra specialisti che deve vedere il neurologo e l’oncologo in dialogo, e in grado di sviluppare una nuova capacità clinica super-specialistica la neuro-oncologia .Molti sono gli esperti che hanno contribuito alla sua preparazione mettendo in comune conoscenze su temi che variano dalle complicazioni metastatiche, a quelle della terapia chirurgica dei tumori, della radio- e chemio-terapia, alle sindromi paraneoplastiche, alla terapia del dolore, al delirium e alle alterazioni affettive associate alla malattia.Il libro si rivolge in particolare a neurologi, oncologi, palliativisti e chirurghi, ma è certamente utile ai medici di medicina generale e a tutti gli operatori che sono quotidianamente coinvolti nell’impegnativa opera di prendersi cura dei pazienti oncologici.