¹ See Carlo, Battisti (ed.), L'Alto Adige nel paseato e nel presente (Florence: Edizione non commerciabile dell'Istituto di Studi per l'Alto Adige, 1963)Google Scholar. Himself the author of many books pertaining to the Alto Adige, Prof. Battisti managed to get the Italian government to establish his institute in Florence in 1955. It has sponsored the Archivio per l'Alto Adige and a variety of studies, some scholarly and some polemical. Apart from Battisti's own article on the ethnic distribution of peoples and the recent diplomatic notes between Rome and Vienna, the Italian volume contains chapters by the following writers: Maria Montecchini, on geography; Giovanni Negri, on the Italian nature of the area's vegetation; Berengario Gerola, on the pre-Roman substratum of the Alto Adige as shown by toponymic remains; Tina Da Massa, on Germanic and Roman influences in the region; Antonio Morassi, on the art history of the region; Anna Pasetti, on folklore; Antonio Zieger, on modern political history; Giuseppe Carlo Rossi and Giulio Canali, on the school system; Salvatore Vacante, on economics; and Michele Perini Golda, on the province of Bolzano within the framework of the European Economic Community.