THE ITALIAN QUATERNARY VOLCANISM

Volcanic products undoubtedly represent an im-portant part of the Quaternary deposits in Italy. For this reason, we have decided to take the opportunity offered by the INQUA conference to be held in Rome in 2023 to present a review of the state of the art and knowledge of the Italian Quaternary volcanism. A few remarks should be made to explain why we felt the need to do this. The activity of the Italian Quaternary volcanoes during the last century has been the subject of intense investigations, although at first the main focus was on mineralogical-petrographical-magmatological aspects other than on the strictly volcanological ones. It was probably in the decade 1980-1990, with the publication of the results of the "Progetto Finalizzato Geodinamica" of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), that monographic works were published on some volcanic areas, such as the Neapolitan volcanoes or Etna, which, in addition to the petrographic features, proposed a systematic study of the stratigraphic aspects of the products, mapping their distribution and thus providing a reconstruction of their eruptive history...