Engaging with the literature that since Horden's and Purcell's The Corrupting Sea has reflected on the multicultural dimension of the Mediterranean over the long period, this paper aims to discuss Carlo Maranelli's (1876–1939) perspective on the Adriatic Sea, highlighting his radical democratic view and situating his contribution in the present post-national and multicultural scenario. Despite not being renowned in the international debate, Maranelli is a key figure as an anti-colonialist and social-democratic geographer in the context of natural positivist and nationalist Italian geography in the Age of Empire. At the 6th Italian Geographical Congress in 1907, Maranelli discussed a paper on the economic geography of the Adriatic, in which he emphasized the multicultural dimension of trade and networks on both sides of the sea, linked to the historical framework of different languages, rules, and traditions that coexisted and shaped the Adriatic space. His views challenged the nationalist perspectives that dominated mainstream geographical analyses at the time and aimed to sustain an imperialist project of domination, later actualized by the narrative of the Mare Nostrum, linked to the fascist goal of extending Italian domination over the entire Mediterranean. We argue that rediscovering Maranelli's work on the Adriatic can be useful in the current debates for a relational and inclusive perspective on the Mediterranean and its inhabitants.

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再探亚得里亚海问题：Carlo Maranelli 和海洋的多面地理学


自霍登和珀塞尔的《腐败之海》长期以来对地中海多元文化维度的反思，本文旨在讨论卡洛·马拉内利（Carlo Maranelli，1876-1939 年）对亚得里亚海的看法，突出他的激进民主观点，并将他的贡献置于当前的后国家和多元文化情境中。尽管在国际辩论中并不出名，但在帝国时代自然实证主义和民族主义意大利地理学的背景下，Maranelli 是一位反殖民主义和社会民主主义地理学家的关键人物。在 1907 年的第 6 届意大利地理大会上，马拉内利讨论了一篇关于亚得里亚海经济地理的论文，他在论文中强调了贸易和海两岸网络的多元文化维度，与共存并塑造亚得里亚海空间的不同语言、规则和传统的历史框架有关。他的观点挑战了当时主导主流地理分析的民族主义观点，旨在维持帝国主义的统治计划，后来通过 Mare Nostrum 的叙述实现，与法西斯主义将意大利统治扩展到整个地中海的目标有关。我们认为，重新发现 Maranelli 关于亚得里亚海的工作可能有助于当前关于地中海及其居民的关系和包容性视角的辩论。