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Correspondence: fornasin@uniud.it University of Udine, Udine, Italy University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy The book, published in memory of Carlo Corsini (1935–2017), Professor Emeritus of Demography at the University of Florence, contains a selection of his works published over more than 40 years of activity. The studies well represent his multiform and original personality as a researcher and retrace some of the most significant stages of his scientific career. The book collects ten papers and covers all his main areas of research. It illustrates the wide range of the author’s interests, highlights his strong inclination towards interdisciplinarity and demonstrates his ability to enhance the sources, not only with the skilful use of the technical tools of the demographer and the historian, but, above all, with an inexhaustible number of research questions. After the editors’ introduction, which traces Corsini’s scientific career and life history, the collection opens with an article on infant mortality, published in 1966 on this journal, that it may be considered his first paper in historical demography. The paper compares mortality in the first year of life in three Italian regions: Liguria, Piedmont and Tuscany, during the Napoleonic period. The subsequent paper is focused on the same historical period too. It is a paper on seasonal migration in the Italian departments of the French Empire, published in 1969. In this broad essay, he makes use of documents of a Napoleonic survey on the workers’ mobility. These migrations involved tens of thousands of men who each year left their homes to work away from their families and communities. Corsini masterfully deals with the subject and studies migration, putting it in constant relation with other demographic factors. Another strand of Corsini’s studies represented in the book is the local communities’ demographic history. In Ricerche di demografia storica del territorio di Firenze (Historical demography research on the territory of Florence, 1975), he investigates some aspects of marriage and fertility of three communities in the Florentine countryside (Fiesole, San Godenzo and Empoli) through the family reconstitution technique. Even the essay Le trasformazioni demografiche e l’assetto sociale (Demographic change and social structure, 1988) about the city of Prato belongs to this research topic. The period covered by the paper goes from the end of the Napoleonic era to the Second World War. The study is, among Corsini’s works, perhaps the one not only in which he develops with greater consistency the “classic” historical Genus

Marco Breschi, Lorenzo Del Panta (eds.), Carlo Corsini: saggi di vita. [Carlo Corsini:life essays], Forum:Udine, 2018, ISBN: 978-88-3283-109-2