2006 RESEARCH PLAN

E-archives: implementation of the digital collection of historical documents for a worldwide access.

The Italian community between Spain and Portugal in the second half of the XV^th century.

Booksellers and printers between Piedmont and Portugal in the XVIIIth century.

Encyclopedic dictionary of the XV^th century.

The Marquisate of Monferrato in the XV^th century.

The expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian peninsula at the end of the XV^th century and the Sephardic Diaspora to northwest Italy.

Biographic dictionary of Italians in Europe in the XIV^th-XVI^th centuries.

Collation of documents and bibliography concerning Christopher Columbus.

European explorations of XV^th and XVI^th centuries.

Analysis of the Seven Year war.

The agricultural crisis in Italy in the second half of the XIX^th century and the Agricultural Inquiry by Stefano Jacini.

Unpublished witnesses of the 2^nd World War: the publication of “War Prisoner, Russia 1942-1945” by Attila Trombetti.

Cooperation in the organization of an international congress (May 2006) for the quincentenary of Columbus’s death.

Cooperation in the organization of an international congress (2006) on the occasion of the 7^th centenary of the arrival of the  Palaeologues in Piedmont (Italy).