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This volume is dedicated to Ciro Ciliberto on the occasion of his 70th birthday and contains refereed papers, offering an overview of important parts of current research in algebraic geometry and related research in the history of mathematics. It presents original research as well as surveys, both providing a valuable overview of the current state of the art of the covered topics and reflecting the versatility of the scientific interests of Ciro Ciliberto.
Weyl Cycles on the Blow-Up of at Eight Points
Simson’s Reconstruction of Apollonius’ Loci Plani. Modern Ideas in Classical Language
Kummer Quartic Surfaces, Strict Self-duality, and More
A Footnote to a Footnote to a Paper of B.​ Segre
Deformations and Extensions of Gorenstein Weighted Projective Spaces
Intersection Cohomology and Severi Varieties
Cremona Orbits in and Applications
On Some Components of Hilbert Schemes of Curves
Siegel Modular Forms of Degree Two and Three and Invariant Theory
On Intrinsic Negative Curves
On the Extendability of Projective Varieties:​ A Survey
The Minimal Cremona Degree of Quartic Surfaces
On the Degree of the Canonical Map of a Surface of General Type
Hyper-Kähler Varieties with a Motive of Abelian Type
Finite Quotients of Surface Braid Groups and Double Kodaira Fibrations
Affine Cones over Fano–Mukai Fourfolds of Genus are Flexible
Enriques Diagrams Under Pullback by a Double Cover
The “Projective Spirit” in Segre’s Lectures on Differential Equations