Algebraic Surfaces: Lectures given at a Summer School of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held in Cortona (Arezzo), Italy, June 22-30, 1977

Lectures: A. Beauville: Surfaces algébriques complexes.- F.A. Bogomolov: The theory of invariants and its applications to some problems in the algebraic geometry.- E. Bombieri: Methods of algebraic geometry in Char. P and their applications.- Seminars: F. Catanese: Pluricanonical mappings of surfaces with K² =1,2, q=pg=0.- F. Catanese: On a class of surfaces of general type.- I. Dolgacev: Algebraic surfaces with p=pg =0.- A. Tognoli: Some remarks about the "Nullstellensatz".