240 pp. 8° cartonato LXIV tavv. illustrazioni nel testo, ISBN 88-87235-31-7 , 2006

SOMMARIO: Premessa. Parte I: la rappresentazione della sovranità; Excursus I: Fisiognomica della sovranità; Parte III: Impero e Nazione; Parte IV: Le figure di passaggio: monete e medaglie di Carlo V in Italia. Le monete; Appendice I. Immagini, rappresentazioni, simboli, segni; stilemi narrativi e cognizione iconografica nelle monete di Carlo V della zecca di Milano. Bibliografia.

The research from which the volume is born aims to individualize a connection between political power and iconographicals strategies: Cascione argues that the crisis of the national state has an essentially "representational" cause, because ancient symbolical (charismatical) relation power/citizen has been broken.

Cascione studies the political sources of power images via the analysis of the structures and types of material and non-material objects (of art, communication, governance) that in general are part of a new foundation for the relation between souvereignity and citizenship that is more closely allied to political science such as cultural anthropology, iconology or historical studies that to merely theoretical political philosophy. In the second part of this book the author analyzes more closely some class of materials such as coins and medals, to demonstrate his theoretical thesis. In this part there is an essay of Rodolfo Martini, that uses instruments of numismatic research to explain the relationship between coinage and political strategy in the early XVIth century, in the Charles the Fifth Milan's and to give a chronological organisation to the mint.