by Carlo M. Cipolla · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425329586
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Allegro ma non troppo is a short, fun and explosive book by author Carlo M. Cipolla. This book is integrated by two essays: "The role of spices (and pepper in particular) in the economic development of the Middle Ages" and "The fundamental laws of human stupidity." Apparently it is a parody of the type of work that social scientists do today, but upon concluding these pages, full of humor, a doubt assails. Was what we have read only an innocent parody, or should we take it as a warning about dehumanization and emptiness - which is tantamount to saying, about the real uselessness - of much of what is sold to us as social science from our universities and our academic institutions?
Carlo Maria Cipolla was an Italian economic historian. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
