Going back to that reflection of history and geography i try to develop more my argument, that is just an interpretation in the end, real art is in the end mystical and cannot be possibly written.
History and biographies are like a narrated monologue, because we filter every history/biography we say with our own constructed self, a self that is like water. We could go on to interpret this ("drug of the self, of life") further including the effects of the water on the rest of the social and geographical environment.
We think of a very old man, from a subjective biographical perspective, and it makes sense to argue for me that "the people and facts narrated are imaginary, authentic is instead the reality of the social and geographical environment that they produce". We could add also economic environment and we can define social taking the definition from "social science"
Social science is a category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. Social science as a whole has many branches. These social sciences include, but are not limited to:
anthropology, archaeology, communication studies, economics, history, human geography, jurisprudence, linguistics, political science, psychology, public health, and sociology.
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In Sum, as we see from this definition the realities created by a fantastic narration of the monologue of the old man, produce authentic realities that encompass, considering the important dimensions related to our history, for istance environmental realities in archaeology (Zelmire's work), political science (Marcantonios, Zelmire and Bogos work), economics/human geography/economic geography (international trade in Livorno and its history telling characters like the Dukes that with the international trade agreements led the non globalised world into the wars between the the dutch and the brits, the merchants of Livorno for istance Huygens and that other guy, Malpurgo, that ended up in the drug fantasies of being dragged by a horse we must say he produced also realities in the trading sector, the Martelli from Florence and the templar knights producing realities in the finance sector, )
jurisprudence ( the guy going for a legal battle to build an house under the mills, ), religious sociological realities
Sociology of religion - Wikipedia
(Templars, order of st stephan, black hermits, Augustinian and Armenian monks and Greek monks maybe were also there creating religious organisations based on monasteries/religious istitutions).
I must also underline the fact that at the time of the events narrated during and before ww2 some dimensions had more power. For istance we can argue that society at templars time rotated around the religious, the political and the financial/economic dimensions. With no money no war, only warriors rushing in and getting killed over and over again. In a sense, the end of the templars, mediating between Religion, Politics and Economics because they HAD money, networks, hidden knowledge and so political influence meant the end of a certain control on religious wars and we see it today regarding the islamic and orthodox christian relations.
I must say there are a lot of interesting aspects to research but everyone have his own expertise. In my opinion the only reality, that it is produced and connects all people, in time of a multicultural and globalised environment at risk of a conflict excalation, because it can be seen and it lives for long long time is that of cities/villages, it is a spatial reality but obective for all perceptions independently of ethnicity, a house is an house for all, a church too, a political building too,. It is maybe the only language we have left.
We all have a shared tourist and religious spatial biography, a biography in motion, a
lightning, and this is projected on/produces our reality, our social environment, economic, political and religious.
We engage in a church we make reality!
Again the quote, edited, in the photo/image of the environment.
"The people and facts narrated are imaginary, authentic is instead the reality of the economic and social (see above) environment that they produce"
I have to stop now, bye.