Review of CARLA FROVA and STEFANIA ZUCCHINI (eds.), La Tradizione degli Studia Comunali nelle Città di Età Moderna, Florence, Leo Olschki, 2023. Pp. 142. € 26.00. ISBN: 978-88-222-6889-1

This work edited by Carla Frova and Stefania Zucchini is certainly inter- esting to a wide spectrum of readers, not only historians. It can be useful to economists studying the role of institutions. These studies let clearly emerge the varieties of institutional arrangements, emerged in local communities, solving different problems as avoiding the capture by élites and favouring the circulation of knowledge. The book highlights the problems of these in- stitutions that had important qualification effects for towns as well as culti- vating and diffusing competences in wider areas.