1. Between formality and informality: aiding strategies for the needy. The social support systems in Northern Italy
2. Between social support and establishment of social identities: the system of giving in the diocese of Tortona in the XVIII century
3. Social support systems in medieval Piedmont: The farming system of the hospital Sant'Andrea di Vercelli
4. Organising charity. Social support structures in the Genoese Domain during the Modern age
5. The ritual capital. Supporting economy in Spanish Lombardy countryside
6. Social support systems in imperial fiefs
7. Rural microcredit in the sharecropping northern provinces of the papal states (XVI-XIX cent.)
8. Instruments and strategies of the social support system in the Brescia rural area during the XVIII century
9. Charity, healthcare and brotherhoods. Cases from the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance period
10. At a distance. Forms of social support in Friuli during the Modern age
11. Collective charities in the rural communities of Trentino (XVII-XVIII centuries)
12. The role of Italian parishes in the Modern age "systems of giving".