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“... Professor Cipolla’s new book puts one in mind of a Florentine espresso: minuscule in size; briefly stimulating in effect; and extortionate in price. At £7.50 for 85 pages of text his readers will be shelling out eight pence a page, a tariff which, I couldn’t help but calculate, would have put my own first book in the shops for around £65 a copy ...”

“... historical accounts of particular epidemics and the endeavours that have been made to combat them. Carlo Cipolla’s Miasmas and Disease is an elegant account of public health measures in 17th-century Florence: measures which were developed as a result of plague epidemics in preceding centuries and which involved detailed documentation of outbreaks of ...”

“... and one wonders why not. Here Rodger seems to be counterpunching against another thesis, that of Carlo Cipolla, mentioned nowhere that I can see in the text. In his Guns, Sails and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion 1400-1700 (1965), Cipolla argued that it was the ...”

“... of the post-Napoleonic period, and ends with a consideration of the line from the liberal patriot Carlo Cattaneo – hero of the rising against Austrian rule in Milan in 1848 – to the comparative linguist Graziadio Ascoli after the Risorgimento. The second develops a critique of Western Marxism for relinquishing the materialist legacy of Engels, and at the ...”