THE ADRIATIC SEA AS A SPACE OF TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY

The thesis proposed by the author in this paper is that the Adriatic Sea should be understood as a maritime region and a cultural region of the Mediterranean and Europe, and as a transnational historical space in which one can read the past. For all its specificities, indeed, the Adriatic can be seen as a small-scale Mediterranean. This is a proposal of "making history" in a middle space between the canonical Italian history and the history of the Southeastern Europe and therefore a proposal open to transnational historiographical experiences.