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Illustrations Maps 0.1. Geographic map of Italy viii 0.2. Geographic map of northern Italy xvii 0.3. Geographic map of southern Italy xviii 2.2. Earthquake epicenters in Calabria, 1600 to 2000 43 2.3. Effects of 1908 earthquake in Calabria and the Strait of Messina 49 3.1. Sarno region 58 5.1. Typologies of Italian commons by geographic areas 91 8.1. Locations of the case studies in Fascist Italy 143 10.1. Location of petrochemical industries, Augusta, Sicily 181 Figures 2.1. Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506), Polittico di San Zeno, Orazione nell’Orto 41 2.2. 1783 earthquakes in Calabria 44 2.3. 1905 earthquake in Calabria 48 2.4. Effects of 1908 earthquake in Messina, Sicily. 50 2.5. Gibellina Vecchia (Valle del Belice, southwestern Sicily) 52 4.1. DDT canisters carried by donkeys as part of the Sardinian Project, 1946–51 74 4.2. Fumigating a pond with DDT in Sardinia, 1949 75 6.1. Villa d’Este (Como) 117 6.2. Bagni Caldi (Lucca) 117 6.3. Agnano (Naples) 118 6.4. Girgenti, Sicily 118  | Illustrations 7.1. The alnocoltura cycle in the 1820s in Val d’Aveto 129 7.2. Root nodules of white alder (Alnus incana), Moglie di Ertola site (Genova) 130 7.3. Alnus curve in the pollen diagram, Moglie di Ertola site (Genova) 132 7.4. White alder stump with seventeen-meter circumference, Ertola, Aveto Valley 134 8.1. An ibex selection hunt, Gran Paradiso National Park, 1930s 149 8.2. Adult ibex in repopulation paddock, Cogne, Valnontey, ca. 1930 150 8.3. Fixing works of the Canale Cavour after the Sesia flood of 1923 152 8.4. Irrigation ditch near Ponzana after being lined with concrete by Est Sesia 153 11.1. Decontamination in Seveso 198 11.2. Risk Zone A (Seveso) 199 11.3. Poster of “Seveso says . . . ” 202 12.1. Raffaele Carelli, “Cascata del Fibreno” 221 13.1. War memorial (Lavaredo) 234 13.2. Redipuglia entrance 236 13.3. Postcard: Fourth Alpine Corps Regiment 238 13.4. Achille Beltrame, “The war of the prodigies” 239 13.5. Forest after an explosion, World War I 242 14.1. Cover illustration of Falcone’s Il paesaggio italico e la sua difesa (1914) 256 14.2. Giambattista Conti’s illustration (1928) for Sipari’s Il parco nazionale d’Abruzzo 261 14.3. Membership card, Movimento Italiano Protezione Natura (1948) 263 ...

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