SIHS Newsletter N.52
NEWSLETTER
of the Society for Italian Historical Studies
Number 57: 2019 Editor: Roy P. Domenico
OFFICERS:
Marla Stone, President
Paula Findlen, Vice President
Roy Domenico, Executive Secretary-Treasurer
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL:
George Dameron
Richard Drake
Mary Gibson
Nelson Minnich
Laurie Nussdorfer
James Palmer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Page
1. Introduction 2
2. Minutes 3
3 Special Announcements/Conferences 4
4. Papers and Lectures 24
5. Publications 31
6. Awards, Honors, Fellowships, Grants, New Courses,
Promotions, Activities in Scholarly Societies 36
7. Dissertations 40
8. Research and Writing Projects 42
9. Et cetera 44
10. E-Mail Addresses 44
INTRODUCTION
Cari amici,
At long last, here is your copy of the 2019 SIHS Newsletter. Sorry about the delay – the case of final manuscript revisions, the end of the semester, and a computer crash presented me with a perfect storm. As always, however, I hope you find it interesting and useful. Any comments and advice regarding the Newsletter is always welcome. If you have any, please send them to me (roy.domenico@scranton.edu). Finally, here’s my annual pitch - we’re always looking for new members and if any prospects appear on your radar screen, please use your considerable powers of persuasion to bring them into the SIHS fold. I would like to add that we’ll be more than happy to include in the Newsletter any announcements that you might have. We have modified our Questionnaire process. Thanks to Brian Griffith, our new system is up and running. You can access it via our SIHS website, and it facilitates everything. If, for any reason, you’d still prefer to send me via the regular mail, a dues check along with any announcements you might have, please do so. My mail address is:
Roy Domenico
Department of History
St Thomas Hall
The University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510-4648
As always, I owe much to the help and input of a great many friends and colleagues. The efforts of President Marla Stone and Vice President Paula Findlen have been extraordinary and of great value to us all. The aforementioned Brian Griffith continues to do an outstanding job as our webmaster and deserves our gratitude and a round of applause. Richard Drake again provided essential advice and support over the past year. Jesse Locker just completed his first year (of three) as our SIHS representative to the Marraro Prize committee - along with delegates from the American Catholic Historical Association and the American Historical Association. Paula Findlen, Joshua Arthurs and William Caferro served as our 2019 Cappadocia Prize and Citation committee and we sincerely thank them.
Roy Domenico
MINUTES OF THE 2018 ANNUAL MEETING
The SIHS business meeting took place on Friday, January 4, 2019 from 5:30 to 6:00 PM in the Hilton Chicago, PDR 3.
Our financial situation is improving, primarily thanks to the generosity of Florence Reinerman who will award us with a gift of $10,000 in honor of her late husband, Alan. We can never adequately express the depth of our thanks to Florence and to Richard Drake for helping to make this happen. Our financial health has just significantly improved. Regarding day-to-day operations, please note that our remodeled website facilitates the collection of dues. If you think that you might be a bit in arrears, please take a look at the website.
Paul Grendler and Kenneth Gouwens expressed concern about the Marraro Prize. In correspondence to the SIHS they urged that we remember our obligation to the Marraro Prize specifications regarding the winner as a North American or someone from abroad who is employed here. Those present expressed agreement with this aim.
The SIHS then turned to its two prizes. First, the Cappadocia. Thanks to the committee members, Marla Stone, Eileen Riley and Matt Vester.
The Cappadocia Prize was awarded to Mackenzie Cooley for her dissertation, Animal Empires: The Perfection of Nature Between Europe and the Americas, 1492-1630 (Stanford University, 2018). The Committee announced Cooley’s work “a bold and erudite project. Its breadth, conceptual originality, and archival ambition qualify it as an advanced scholarly achievement, beyond what one would expect from a graduate thesis. Cooley examines, from multiple analytical perspectives, the intertwined problems of reproduction, renewal, and improvement. She follows the relationship between these ideas through the world of horse-breeding, debates about noble identity, animal husbandry, utopian literature, Imperial knowledge production, and taxonomic philosophy. Her account is rooted in Renaissance Italy, but then migrates from Spanish Italy to the New World, nourishing itself from archival and printed material from repositories in five countries. Cooley’s findings complicate the boundaries of bodies, both animal and human, both individual and collective – in ways that highlight the Renaissance perspective of the world as malleable and subject to intentionality. This manuscript accomplishes the rare feat of combining exacting research into premodern sources with profound questions of immediate societal importance concerning the perfectibility of nature.”
The SIHS then turned to the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize. Thanks to Steven White who represented the SIHS on the Marraro Committee (as well as to Richard Drake who represented the ACHA). The 2018 SIHS Marraro Prize went to Unn Falkeid, for her book, The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena (Harvard University Press, 2017).
The Committee composed the following tribute: "Unn Falkeid's magisterial study illuminates critical assessments of the Avignon Papacy penned by six medieval thinkers rarely viewed together: Dante, Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockham, Petrarch, Birgitta of Sweden and Catherine of Siena. The book nicely captures the fourteenth century's lively intellectual culture and volatile political life. Further enriching the study is the author's command of disciplinary perspectives embracing history, literature, philosophy and theology."
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS/CONFERENCES
THE SIHS WEBSITE continues to expand and improve. Webmaster Brian Griffith sends this news:
"SIHS' webmaster, Brian J Griffith, would like to begin developing a social media outreach program based on important people, groups, events, and processes in Italian history. If you have a particular item in mind, please send it to: brianjgriffith@ucsb.edu. Thank you."
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From Paul Arpaia regarding H-ITALY: I am always looking for volunteers if you are interested in working with me in setting up the new site; if you are willing to become a book reviewer or serve on our Board, please contact me at arpaia@mail.h-net.msu.edu If you would like more information about the H-Net Commons go to: .
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Modern Italy, the journal of the UK's Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI), published by Cambridge University Press
General editors: Penelope Morris (University of Glasgow, UK), and Mark Seymour (University of Otago, NewZealand).
Founded by the UK's Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) in 1995, Modern Italy publishes leading research on the history, politics, and social, economic and cultural life of Italy and the Italian peoples from the eighteenth century to the present. All articles are rigorously peer-reviewed.
The journal also publishes themed special issues, recent examples of which are Nation and ‘Race’: Racism and Antisemitism in Italy from Unification to the Republic (co-edited by S. Patriarca and V. Deplano), The Difficult Heritage of Italian Fascism (co-edited by N. Carter and S. Martin), and Italianerie: Transculturality, Co-creation and Transforming Identities between Italy and Asia (co-edited by M. Marinelli and W. Ling). Special issues planned for 2020 are ‘Transcultural Exchanges and Encounters in Italy’ and 'Italians Beyond Italy/Italy Beyond Italians: Transnational Cultural Strategies and the Construction of Identity’.
Modern Italy is listed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index.
The editors warmly invite the submission of articles (around 8000 words) from SIHS members. Please visit the journal’s website for more details:
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College (CUNY) announces:
SEMINAR SERIES:
April 15, 2020: Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America: The Intersection of Anger and Nostalgia, Richard Moss, Harrisburg Area Community College.
May 4, 2020: Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965, Maddalena Marinari, Gustavus Adolphus College.
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News on the Rialto is an annual publication designed to provide an informational point of reference for scholars working on all aspects of Venetian Studies, including political, economic, social, religious, artistic, architectural, musical and literary history of the city, its overseas empire, and its mainland territories. Subscription is $10 per year. Information is available online at , or from Professor Eric Dursteler, 2129 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602.
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The American Academy in Rome online application form for the Rome Prize competition can be found on the Academy website at .
The American Academy in Rome is the oldest American overseas center for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities.
For one hundred years the Academy's eleven acre center in Rome has provided an inspiring environment for those who practice the fine and liberal arts.
The Rome Prize is awarded annually to about thirty candidates, each selected by a jury of distinguished peers through a national competition.
The winners are invited to Rome to pursue their work for periods ranging from six months to two years. They are provided with stipends, residential accommodation, meals, private studies or studios, and most important, an atmosphere conducive to intellectual and artistic freedom, interdisciplinary exchange, and innovation.
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Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program
Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University is a museum and research center that promotes the examination of modern visual and material culture. The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design of the period 1885-1945. The collection includes works on paper (including posters, prints and design drawings), furniture, paintings, sculpture, glass, textiles, ceramics, lighting and other appliances, and many other kinds of objects. The Wolfsonian’s library has approximately 50,000 rare books, periodicals, and ephemeral items.
The Wolfsonian’s collection is an important resource for the study of Italian culture and politics in the first half of the twentieth century. The Wolfsonian holds an outstanding collection of Italian Stile Floreale furniture and decorative art, as well as rare publications that document Italian design of this period. The collection also has strong holdings of Futurist decorative and graphic art, publications about Rationalist architecture, and exhibition catalogs from the 1920s and 1930s. A number of significant journals – such as Domus, Capitolium, Emporium, Casabella – complement these holdings.
Books, journals, fine art, posters, and other objects in the collection address key aspects of the Fascist regime, including the Duce cult; Italian colonization of North Africa; the planning of new towns; the celebration of aeronautic achievements; the autarchy campaign; youth and student organizations; Romanità; and sports and fitness campaigns. The Wolfsonian also has a substantial amount of Italian war propaganda, including an archive of propaganda material produced under the Italian Social Republic.
Besides material from Italy, the Wolfsonian also has extensive holdings from the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands. There are also smaller but significant collections of materials from a number of other countries, including Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, the former Soviet Union and Hungary.
Fellowships are intended to support full-time research, generally for a period of three to five weeks. The program is open to holders of master’s or doctoral degrees, Ph.D. candidates, and to others who have a significant record of professional achievement in relevant fields. Applicants are encouraged to discuss their project with the Fellowship Coordinator prior to submission to ensure the relevance of their proposals to the Wolfsonian’s collection.
The application page can be found at .
For information, please contact:
Fellowship Coordinator
The Wolfsonian-FIU
1001 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
305-535-2613 (phone)
305-531-2133 (fax)
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The University of Pennsylvania Italian Studies offers lectures and conferences in Italian history. The current schedule can be accessed at .
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William Connell reports from Seton Hall University: The Valente Italian Library at Seton Hall University continues to seek donations of books in all areas of Italian and Italian American history, culture and literature. In-kind donations of books are generally tax deductible. Please consider giving your books to a library that has grown significantly over the years thanks to gifts from scholars who have included Paul Grendler, Patricia Labalme and A. William Salomone. Scholars are encouraged to visit. For more information, contact Bill Connell (william.connell@shu.edu).
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New Publications from the Palgrave Macmillan Italian Studies series:
Italian Intellectuals and International Politics, 1945–1992, Tarquini, A. (Ed), Guiso, A. (Ed) (2019)
The Italian War on the Eastern Front, 1941–1943, Scianna, B. M. (2019)
Italian Fashion since 1945, Scarpellini, E. (2019)
Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States, 1750–1850, Bonazza, G. (2019)
Guido Culture and Italian American Youth, Tricarico, D. (2019)
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UNICO National Scholarship Offerings 2018-2019:
Undergraduate Awards
Major Don S. Gentile Scholarship Alphonse A. Miele Scholarship
William C. Davini Scholarship Theodore Mazza Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant four scholarships valued at $6,000 to high school seniors who will be attending, full-time, an accredited campus based college/university program in the United States; paid out at $1,500 per school year up to a maximum of 4 years. A candidate must be a United States citizen of Italian descent. Candidates are encouraged to apply for all four scholarships.
Sergeant John Basilone Memorial Graduate Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant two $3,000 graduate scholarships - each paid out over two years at $1,500 per year. The awardees must be initiating graduate study, full-time, at an accredited campus based college/university program in the United States. A candidate must be a United States citizen of Italian descent.
Dr. Benjamin Cottone Memorial Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant a $5,000 scholarship, paid on award, to a student pursuing a medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy degree at an accredited medical school in the United States. A candidate must be a United States citizen of Italian descent.
Bernard and Carolyn Torraco Memorial Nursing Scholarships
The UNICO Foundation will provide up to ten grants, valued at $2,500 each, paid on award, to students attending accredited prelicensure or graduate nursing programs in the United States. Consideration is given to applicants demonstrating financial need. A candidate must be a United States citizen. This program is open to nursing students of all ethnicities.
Ella T. Grasso Literary Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will provide two literary scholarships, valued at $1,000 each. Application for this program is open to matriculated college students. Terms of submission require the candidate to submit an original short story or essay celebrating their Italian heritage.
DiMattio Celli Family Study Abroad Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant two scholarships, valued at $1,250 each, for study in Italy. Candidates must be currently attending, full-time, an accredited college or university in the United States, pursuing a degree. The study abroad program must be eligible for credit by the student’s college/university. An applicant must be a United States citizen of Italian descent.
Guglielmo Marconi Engineering Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant a scholarship valued at $1,250 paid on award to a sophomore, junior or senior student currently attending, full-time, an accredited campus based college/university program in the United States majoring in engineering. An applicant must be a United States citizen of Italian descent.
Robert J. Tarte Scholarship for Italian Studies
The UNICO Foundation will provide a scholarship, valued at $1,000, to a student enrolled full-time, in an accredited college/university program in the United States pursuing Italian Studies. A candidate must hold United States citizenship. This program is open to applicants of all ethnicities.
Ralph J. Torraco Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant two scholarships, valued at $2,500 each, to students currently attending, full-time, an accredited campus based college/university program in the United States pursuing a degree. A nominee must hold United States citizenship. This program is open to applicants of all ethnicities.
Louise Torraco Memorial Scholarship for Science
The UNICO Foundation will grant two scholarships, valued at $2,500 each, to students currently attending, full-time, an accredited campus based college/university program in the United States pursuing study of the Physical Sciences or Life Sciences. A nominee must hold United States citizenship. This program is open to applicants of all ethnicities.
Ralph J. Torraco Fine Arts Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant two scholarships, valued at $2,500 each, to students currently attending, full-time, an accredited, campus based college/university program in the United States pursuing a degree in the Fine Arts. A nominee must hold United States citizenship. This program is open to applicants of all ethnicities.
Maria and Paolo Alessio Southern Italy Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will provide a scholarship, valued at $2,500 to a student currently attending, full-time, an accredited campus based college/university program in the United States pursuing a degree. An applicant must be a United States citizen of Southern Italian descent, specifically including the regions of: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Latium, Molise, Puglia, Sardinia, Sicilia.
Inserra Scholarships
The UNICO Foundation will grant two scholarships valued at $2,500 each to students currently attending, full time, an accredited campus based college/university in the United States pursuing a degree. A candidate must be an American citizen of Italian descent.
Eleanor and Anthony De Francis Scholarship Fund for Natural Sciences
Eligible schools:
California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Duke University
Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University, Northwestern University, Princeton University
Stanford University, University of Arizona, Tucson, University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Francisco, University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, University of Washington
UNICO Foundation will grant scholarships valued in the range of $2,500 to $10,000 to fully-matriculating students currently attending, full time, one of the above listed universities majoring in the Natural Sciences. The candidate must be at least eighteen years of age and a natural born United States citizen of Italian ancestry, having at least one parent of Italian descent.
Ralph J. Torraco Scholarship for Special Education
The UNICO Foundation will grant two scholarships, valued at $2,500 each, to students currently attending, full-time, an accredited campus based college/university program in the United States pursuing a degree in the field of Special Education. A candidate must hold United States citizenship. This program is open to applicants of all ethnicities.
Ralph J. Torraco Scholarship for Therapy Sciences
The UNICO Foundation will grant two scholarships, valued at $2,500 each, to students currently attending, full-time, an accredited campus based college/university program in the United States pursuing a degree in the field of Therapy Sciences. A candidate must hold United States citizenship. This program is open to applicants of all ethnicities.
A nominee must reside in the home state of an active UNICO Chapter, unless otherwise indicated. Candidates MUST meet the eligibility requirements stated on each of the respective applications. Applications may be acquired and submitted online.
For further information on Scholarships, please contact the UNICO National Scholarship Director, Joan Tidona at jntidona@ . To find a local Chapter, please visit or contact UNICO National at 973.808.0035.
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The Barbieri Endowment awards an annual grant to a United States citizen to conduct research in Italy.
• Amount: $7,500.
• Subject: Modern Italian history in any genre.
• Application: (1) Research proposal (1,000 words). (2) Schedule, itinerary, and budget (one page). (3) CV. NB: No letters of reference.
• Submission: Send application as a .doc, .rtf, or .pdf file by email to John Alcorn (program director) at john.alcorn@trincoll.edu
• Deadline: March 1st.
• Decision: May 1st.
• Disbursement: July 1st.
The grant is awarded by a committee convened and chaired by Borden W. Painter, Jr. (honorary president of the Barbieri Endowment and professor emeritus of history), founder of the grant; or by the executive committee of the Barbieri Endowment with assistance by experts on specific topics in the grant proposals.
As a condition of the grant, the recipient may be required to present his or her research findings in a public lecture at Trinity College in the following year. The Barbieri Endowment will fund travel and provide hospitality for the lecture.
The Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture also hosted a number of talks in 2019 at Trinity College:
March 5: Carlo Frascà, “Tarantella.”
March 7: Dacia Maraini, “The Writing Life.”
March 14: Domenico Lucano, “‘Il Modello Riace’: Migration, Sanctuary, & Urban Development.”
April 1: Maria Frank, “Boccaccio & the Jews.”
April 15: Alberto Alesina, “Austerity: Italy in Comparative Perspective.”
April 18: Jo Ann Cavallo, “Sicilian Puppet Theater.”
September 9: Alessandra Aloisi, Paola Cori, Silvia Ricca: An International Symposium: “Literature & Psychology: Rousseau, Stendhal, Leopardi."
September 16: Margherita Ganeri, “Italian Diaspora Studies: Global Views from the Middle of the Mediterranean.”
October 8: Stephen Marth, “The Futurist Home of Giacomo Balla in Rome.”
October 10: Livio Pestilli, “Bernini & Naples.”
November 14: Bryan Caplan, “Open Borders: The Science & Ethics of Immigration."
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The American Philosophical Association has a very useful compilation of grants, fellowships and other forms of financial assistance at its website:
The IAS Research and Publication grant will enable me to travel to Venice and the Veneto to carry out research for my book manuscript, tentatively titled Mobile Lives, Stable Homes: The Palladian Villa between City and Country. The book grows out of my dissertation on the patronage of the Venetian nobleman Francesco Pisani, a patron of Paolo Veronese who also commissioned Andrea Palladio’s Villa Pisani at Montagnana (1553-54). My manuscript focuses on this example as the basis for a reassessment of the Palladian villa and its place in the sixteenth-century Venetian world. Modern scholars have viewed the country house throughout history as a satellite. Dependent on urban capital, culture, and values, the Renaissance villa, like the ancient Roman villa, has been defined by the subsidiary role it played to the city and the urban palace. Palladio’s villas for the elite of Venice and the Veneto, moreover, are taken as paradigmatic examples of this building type. My book challenges the understanding of the Veneto villa as merely a “second home.”
A more complex picture has emerged from my research on Villa Pisani, which examines the villa phenomenon through the lens of private life and the individual patron. For Francesco Pisani, the country estate occupied a central place in his life and livelihood. Even as it fulfilled certain functions associated with villeggiatura (country life), such as agriculture and entertainment, it was not just a seasonal retreat. Despite its distance from Venice, Villa Pisani constituted Pisani’s principal residence as well as a source of wealth. Both the design and the selection of its site reflected this multiplicity of functions.
A Venetian commonplace asserted that “to live outside Venice is not to be alive.” But some Venetians apparently did find it advantageous to live outside Venice, and my project investigates Venetians’ relationship to their mainland estates. It is notable that several of Palladio’s most important Venetian patrons did not own a family palace in the city. Like Francesco Pisani, they moved through a series of rented palaces in the metropolis and led a mobile lifestyle divided between Venice and the mainland. They required a country house that befit their noble status, and their Palladian villa came to serve as the family’s stable residence, rather than as a secondary, seasonal home. My book seeks to demonstrate that Villa Pisani is not an outlier among Palladio’s celebrated villas. This IAS grant will help me to expand the scope of my archival research beyond the Pisani to other Palladian patrons and villas. With a fuller picture of these patrons’ lives, I will argue that Palladio’s innovations in villa design were accompanied by a reconceptualization of the functions of the villa type itself.
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Harvard University’s Villa I tatti announces the following on its website ():
I Tatti offers Fellows the precious time they need to pursue their studies with a minimum of obligations and interruptions together with a maximum of scholarly resources, a combination that distinguishes the Harvard Center from most others. In order to foster a collaborative spirit, Fellows are expected to live in the Florence area and to spend at least three days a week at the center. Lunch and tea are served each weekday, and the I Tatti community takes shape over these convivial occasions. Rather than present a traditional paper at the end of the year, Fellows give informal presentations in the late fall or winter. This provides an opportunity to explore problems and questions and receive valuable feedback from other members of the community during the extended discussion period. Each year a limited number of activities are reserved for the Fellows, and they join the wider community at conferences, lectures, and concerts. Note: a candidate can apply for only one type of fellowship at a time. Short-Term Fellowships at I Tatti can be held only once, and priority will be given to applicants with no previous association with the Harvard Center.
I Tatti Fellowships
Fifteen I Tatti Fellowships, each for twelve months, are available each academic year for post doctorate research in any aspect of the Italian Renaissance.
Mellon Fellowships
A limited number of Mellon Fellowships, for periods ranging from three to six months, are available each academic year for advanced research in any aspect of the Italian Renaissance. This Fellowship is designed to reach out to Italian Renaissance scholars from areas that have been under-represented at I Tatti especially those living and working in Asia, Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean basin (except Italy and France) and the Islamic countries.
Craig Hugh Smyth Fellowships
A limited number of Craig Hugh Smyth Fellowships, each for three months, are available each academic year for advanced research in any aspect of the Italian Renaissance. The Fellowship is designed for scholars who do not have the benefit of sabbatical leave. This group includes curators, administrators, and conservators, and librarians.
David and Julie Tobey Fellowship
One David and Julie Tobey Fellowship is awarded annually to support research on drawings, prints, and illustrated manuscripts from the Italian Renaissance, and especially the role that these works played in the creative process, the history of taste and collecting, and questions of connoisseurship.
I Tatti-RCAC Joint Fellowship
Villa I Tatti and the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations of Koç University (RCAC, in Istanbul) offer a joint, one-year fellowship. Scholars will spend a semester at each institution to carry out research on interaction between Italy and the Byzantine or the Ottoman Empire (ca. 1300 to ca. 1700). Subjects covered include art, architecture, archaeology, history, literature, material culture, music, philosophy, religion, and science.
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) offers a small number of Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars engaged in long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Burkhardt Fellowships are intended to support an academic year (normally nine months) of residence at any one of the national residential research centers participating in the program, including I Tatti.
Graduate Fellowships
Each fall and spring semester, one or two Graduate Fellowships are available for Harvard PhD students. The primary goal is to allow students working on their dissertation or selecting their topics to read widely in Renaissance sources and secondary literature.
The Warburg Institute and Villa I Tatti also announced a new, joint fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, and the Warburg Institute School of Advanced Study at the University of London offer a joint, residential fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year. Fellows will spend the fall term (September - December) in London and the spring term (January - June) in Florence. The fellowship is designed for early and mid-career scholars in the field of history, with preference given to advanced research projects that address the history of science and knowledge related to early modern Italy, including transnational connections between Italy and other cultures. Scholars can also apply to work on the transmission and circulation of ideas, objects, and people during the Renaissance, into and beyond the Italian peninsula, or on the historiography of the Italian Renaissance, including the rebirth of interest in the Renaissance in later periods.
For more information about eligibility and for a link to the application portal, please visit
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The British School in Rome and the École française de Rome host their Rome Modern Italy Seminar for the Spring 2020 semester
16 gennaio 2020, 17.00-19.00 British School at Rome
Antonio Carbone (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom): “Southern Visions: Imaginaries of the South in post-war Italy”
Discussant: Gabriella Gribaudi (Università di Napoli Federico II)
11 febbraio 2020, 17.30-19.30 Academia di Romania in Roma
Marcello Anselmo (Sapienza/Marseille): “La città infetta. Evoluzione delle pratiche dell’abitare popolare a Napoli tra XIX e XX secolo”
Discussant: Marco Rovinello (Università della Calabria)
24 marzo 2020, 17-19 École Française de Rome, piazza Navona 62
Angelo Matteo Caglioti (American Academy in Rome): “Where has the Empire Gone? Scientific Experts and the Legacies of Italian Colonialism (1945-1960)”
Discussant: Nina Valbousquet (École Française de Rome)
29 aprile 2020, 17.30-19.30 Academia Belgica
Elena Cristiana Bragea (Academia di Romania in Roma): “La Chiesa greco-cattolica dalla Romania nel discorso vaticano”
Discussant: Emanuela Costantini (Università di Perugia)
20 maggio 2020, 17-19 Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea
Marina Formica, Donatella Strangio (Università di "Tor Vergata" Roma e Università "La Sapienza" Roma): “Cultura e istituzioni, economia e società di una città “bifronte”
Discussant: Catherine Brice (Université Paris-Est Créteil)
3 giugno 2020, 17:30-19:30 Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom
Valerio Guzzo (Scuola di Biblioteconomia, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) “Il Partito comunista italiano e la televisione: tra gestione e politica (1975-1990)”
Discussant: Ermanno Taviani (Università di Catania)
For further information:
Simon Martin, Research Fellow, British School at Rome
Email: simon.martin@bsrome.it
Annalaura Turiano for the Ecole Francaise
Email: annalauraturiano@
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Canadian Association of Italian Studies (CAIS)
2020 Conference
Sorrento – June 4-7, 2020
This is from the CAIS:
We invite session and paper proposals for the 2020 Canadian Association for Italian Studies Conference that will be held at the Sant’Anna Institute, in Sorrento, Italy, on June 4-7, 2020. The deadline for session proposals is January 31st, 2020. In order to propose a session, please fill out the session proposal form and submit it to the conference organizers at the official CAIS email address: italian.studies.canada@. Session proposals will be published on the CAIS website in the order in which they are received.
Proposals for individual papers should be sent directly to the session organizers using the paper proposal form. If you would like to propose a paper that cannot be housed in any of the planned panels, please submit the form directly to the conference organizers at this email address: italian.studies.canada@.
Session organizers must consider all the paper proposals received up to the deadline of February 28, 2020. The announcement that a panel is closed can only be made after that date. Once the deadline has passed, all session organizers will send the complete session proposal form for their session (or sessions) to the conference organizers at this address: italian.studies.canada@.
Members can present only one paper at the annual conference. Session organizers are allowed to chair the session they organized. Members are allowed to chair more than one session.
Please be reminded that if you submit a paper proposal to more than one session, you should notify all the organizers to whom you have made a submission. If you fail to notify the session organizers, they will have the right to decide between themselves in which session the paper will be presented or if the paper will be excluded.
All participants must be members in good standing of CAIS. Membership must be current by May 15, 2020, in order for the member’s name to appear in the program and for the member to be allowed to present his/her work at the 2020 CAIS conference.
The Conference Registration will open in March 2020. The cost is: (Euro) € 90 for graduate students and (Euro) € 130 for all other delegates.
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SIHS PROGRAM AT THE 2019 AHA MEETING IN CHICAGO.
The Program committee for the January 2019 meeting was chaired by Robert Clines who did an outstanding job.
Private Loyalties, Public Faces: Gender, Violence, and Law in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Hilton Chicago, Stevens C-8
Chair: Carol Lansing, University of California, Santa Barbara
Papers:
An English Rose in Rome
James A. Palmer, Florida State University
I Am Not an Ass: Insults, Brawls, and Family Ties in Late Medieval Lucca
Corinne Wieben, University of Northern Colorado
Reclaiming Jewish Masculinity: Violence, Citizenship, and Gender in Late Medieval Italy
Karen Frank, University of the Ozarks
Comment: The Audience
Reestablishing Order: Grappling with the Aftermath of World War I in Italy
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Stevens C-2
Chair: Marla Stone, Occidental College
Papers:
Establishing Post-World War I Rescue Efforts for Civilians: Eglantyne Jebb’s Correspondence with the Papacy
Erica Moretti, Fashion Institute of Technology
Gender Perspectives on the Militarization of the Police after World War I
Molly Tambor, Long Island University
Educating a New Italian Population: The Agazzi Sisters and the Italian State in South Tyrol
Eden Knudsen McLean, Auburn University
Comment: Marla Stone, Occidental College
Friends, Family, and Finance: Transnational Networks and the Shaping of an Italian Nation
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Stevens C-2
Chair: Ernest Ialongo, Hostos Community College, City University of New York
Papers:
Compatriot of Mazzini and Secretary to Kossuth: Adriano Lemmi and Italian-Hungarian Nationalist Networks in the 1850's
Jessica Strom, University of Connecticut at Storrs
Mazzinian Families: Networks of Emotional Support and Political Engagement in the Italian Left, 1850–80
Diana Moore, John Jay College, City University of New York
A Path to Modernity: Interdisciplinary and International Networks of the Mind and Brain
Sultana Banulescu, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Comment: Anthony L. Cardoza, Loyola University Chicago
Austria and Italy during the Risorgimento (In Honor of Alan J. Reinerman)
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Stevens C-8
Chair: Roy Domenico, University of Scranton
Papers:
The Winged Lion and the Eagle: The History of the Republic of St. Mark for the Habsburgs, 1815–48
David Laven, University of Nottingham
The Spielberg Effect: International Public Opinion
Steven C. Soper, University of Georgia
Comment: Brian E. Vick, Emory University
SIHS Business Meeting
Friday, January 4, 2019: 5:30 PM-6:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, PDR 3
SIHS Social Hour
Friday, January 4, 2019: 6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, PDR 1
Gender and Authority in Early Modern Italy
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Hilton Chicago, Stevens C-8
Chair: Daniel Bornstein, Washington University in St. Louis
Papers:
Vendetta, Civic Politics, and Women’s Religious Houses in 16th-Century Modena: A New Evaluation of Convents and Their Role in Familial Strategies
Amanda Madden, Georgia Institute of Technology
The Patriarchs and the Virgin: The Pious Bequests of Male Householders in the March of Ancona, 1379–1423
Bianca Lopez, Southern Methodist University
Men, Women, and the Pursuit of Holiness: False Sanctity in Early Modern Naples
Mary Andino, Washington University in St. Louis
Comment: Daniel Bornstein, Washington University in St. Louis
Emotional Arenas? Italian Histories, 1860s–1990s
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Stevens C-8
Chair: Giuliana Minghelli, McGill University
Papers:
Emotional Arenas: Shaping and Staging Feelings between Private and Public
Mark Seymour, University of Otago
Memories without Archives/Archives without Memories: Confronting the Holocaust in Postwar Europe
Lidia Santarelli, Princeton University
The Historical Film as Emotional Arena
Giacomo Lichtner, Victoria University of Wellington
Comment: The Audience
Rome, City of Foreigners: Negotiating Difference in the Early Modern Eternal City
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Stevens C-8
Chair: Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University
Papers:
Performing Holy Week Ecumenism during an Assyrian Christian Visitation to Pope Paul V
Robert John Clines, Western Carolina University
Participatory Theater: Visitors to Rome and Roman Ritual
Jennifer Mara DeSilva, Ball State University
What Is This Catalan Justice! The Spanish and the Police in Early Modern Rome
John M. Hunt, Utah Valley University
Rossellini, Bergman, and Catholicism in Transatlantic Italian Cinema
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Stevens C-8
Chair: Paula M. Kane, University of Pittsburgh
Papers:
Italian Catholicism’s Impossible Courtship with Rossellini
Roy Domenico, Society for Italian Historical Studies
Rossellini at the Drive-in: Stromboli, the Bergman Affair, and HUAC in Cold War America
Anthony Smith, University of Dayton
Ingrid’s Stripped Altar and the Making of a Cold War US Catholic
James Fisher, Fordham University
Comment: Paula M. Kane, University of Pittsburgh
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Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies: 2018-2019 Season:
|09/07/2018 | |Convivial Occasions: Mafia Cultural Production and the Mafia-State Intreccio |
| | |Peter Schneider, Fordham UniversityAbstract |
| | |The paper will begin with a brief discussion of Mafia-type criminal organizations in the |
| | |Italian context. Many theorists of mafias argue that they formed where the state was |
| | |dysfunctional or absent, implying that a mafia can substitute for weak state power (the |
| | |“weak state” hypothesis). Collusion with a “strong state” or would-be strong state, |
| | |however, is far more salient to the historical mafia-state relationship, as expressed by |
| | |the important Italian concept intreccio. Mafia formation occurred under conditions of |
| | |abrupt and rapid capitalist development for which mafiosi were useful adjuncts. So long as|
| | |they enjoyed a certain degree of consensus mafiosi, were in a good position to weave the |
| | |braid-like intrecci that enhanced their power. |
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| | |During the mid-1960s, Jane Schneider and I conducted anthropological fieldwork in an |
| | |agro-town of the Sicilian interior that had a mafia cosca and, over the course of a |
| | |two-year sojourn, we came to know several of its members. Among other forms of cultural |
| | |production – organizing horse races during the Festa della Madonna, celebrating as the |
| | |Mafia’s charter myth the early 1900s novel, I beati paoli, – especially important were |
| | |bacchanalian banquets that served to reinforce the solidarity of the cosca and attract |
| | |significant local elites among the invited guests. During the 1960s, I had occasion to |
| | |participate in a series of such banquets. I will describe and illustrate these events with|
| | |photographs that I made during the festivities. |
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| | |The banquets were not only stupendously convivial; they also enabled outsiders to |
| | |participate in their exclusivity – to be insulated in cultural and psychological space |
| | |from regular ties to, and reciprocal obligations with, others. Through ridiculing the rest|
| | |of society -- through distancing the normative registers of family, community, and |
| | |religion – the hosts created an exalted “moral hothouse" effect for a privileged circle |
| | |that included prestigious outsiders from government and the church. |
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| | |Jason Pine, Purchase College, SUNY |
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|10/12/2018 | |Social Catholicism as Pastoral Edutainment: Vocations, Avocations, and the Winx Club |
| | |Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College |
| | |Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University |
| | |Abstract |
| | |Rooted in an activist Church agenda, social Catholicism has undergirded Italian politics |
| | |and society since the 19th Century, surviving the disintegration of the Christian |
| | |Democrats and the First Republic. Exemplifying what Foucault identified as pastoral power,|
| | |Don Lamberto Pigini (1924--) stands on the shoulders of Leo XIII (1891 Rerum Novarum |
| | |encyclical), Don Luigi Sturzo (1871-1959) and his Italian Popular Party, and Don Lorenzo |
| | |Milani (1923-1967) in his vision of public education. Don Pigini’s postmodern synthesis of|
| | |this history has produced a media and “edutainment” (education/entertainment) empire that |
| | |he started in the Marche region beginning in the 1950s. As priest, educator, and the |
| | |founder and CEO of the Piginigroup1, Don Pigini advances Don Sturzo’s mission of social |
| | |welfare and Don Milani’s faith in non-oppressive and redemptive education, adding his |
| | |exquisite entrepreneurial sensibility of consumer desire. |
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| | |Iginio Straffi, current CEO of Rainbow Productions (Loreto, Italy) and creator of Winx |
| | |Club, the immensely popular animated television series for girls and tweens, got his start|
| | |in Don Pigini’s shop. Straffi’s flagship creation Winx Club (2004--, broadcast in Italy on|
| | |RAI 2 and SKY) centers on a group of teen fairies (the Winx) whose adventures have been |
| | |followed by girls in 150 countries internationally. They incarnate specific pop music |
| | |celebrities (viz., Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, etc.), but are transformed into an |
| | |“angelified” state that surpasses the celebrity models. Their social, moral, and ethical |
| | |aspirations, The Winx’ narrative program and the economic and local values to which it |
| | |refers actualize a project of “pastoral edutainment,” reconciling cultural, ethical, |
| | |ideological, commercial, stylistic, and pedagogical aspects, and demonstrating the force |
| | |of the framework of Social Catholicism within Italian regional and global emplacements.
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| | |This presentation traces the mutually entailing efforts of pastoral “edutainment” |
| | |exercised by both Straffi and Don Pigini, who at first glance may seem contradictory |
| | |figures. However, an analysis of their respective products and programs shows their |
| | |proximity. Straffi and Don Pigini each meld avocation and vocation. Straffi is an |
| | |entrepreneur whose global success roots in a Catholic vision and Don Pigini is a priest |
| | |whose vocation catalyzed his entrepreneurial inclinations, which have flourished under |
| | |Vatican dispensation. These affinities are not simply discursive symbolism or |
| | |interpretation. On the contrary, Don Pigini furnished the start-up capital for Rainbow and|
| | |also paved the way at RAI2 for Straffi’s “sano cartone”. We offer a thick |
| | |contextualization of the framework of contemporary industry in the Marche and how this has|
| | |conditioned and expanded local and global Catholic social agendas. |
| | |Respondent: Jacqueline Reich, Fordham University |
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|11/09/2018 | |Parallel Ambiguities: Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma, Tosca, and the Recasting of History|
| | |in Post-Fascist Italy |
| | |Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, University of California, Santa Barbara Abstract |
| | |This paper examines the relationship between lived history and cultural production in the |
| | |years immediately following the demise of Mussolini’s regime. In particular, it discusses |
| | |Carmine Gallone’s 1946 melodramatic movie Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma as symptomatic |
| | |of the fundamental ambivalence that characterized Italian historical experience after the |
| | |fall of fascism. Part of a larger project on political ambiguity and everyday life in |
| | |post-1943 Italy, the paper focuses on Avanti a lui as a site where “structures of feeling”|
| | |can be explored. By this term, the British cultural critic Raymond Williams sought to |
| | |highlight people’s sentiments and experiences as developed in day-to-day activities |
| | |against unfolding historical processes. |
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| | |In my analysis I argue that, even more than the film’s storyline, a whole string of |
| | |directorial choices in Avanti a lui, including formal features and narrative style, exude |
| | |and communicate ambiguity. Ultimately, the film’s reliance on the popularity of the |
| | |operatic genre and, more specifically, Puccini’s Tosca, to portray the drama of war and |
| | |Nazi occupation amplifies the story’s evasiveness and furthers the prevalent sense of |
| | |equivocation pervasive in those years. The use of Tosca in the film helps turn what was |
| | |supposedly a straightforward melodramatic tale of good and evil into a non-committal, |
| | |watered-down depiction of one of the most critical times in the history of modern Italy. |
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| | |Respondent: Rebecca Bauman, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY |
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|12/07/2018 | |The New Geography of Italian Economic Inequality |
| | |Michael Blim, The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| | |Oriol Vallès Codina, The New School for Social Research |
| | |Abstract |
| | |Italian economic decline since the introduction of the Euro in 2002 is by now proverbial. |
| | |Its economy has shrunk since the onset of the economic crisis by 12%, and both gross |
| | |domestic product per capita (GDP) and personal income per capita (PI) now fall below |
| | |European Union averages. The decline is not only general, but it is also geographical. |
| | |Using GDP and PI data for the twenty Italian regions, this paper shows that two |
| | |historically prominent models describing regional economic inequalities, the standard |
| | |Northern core--Southern periphery hypothesis as well as the more recent and formerly |
| | |widely accepted Three Italys paradigm no longer accurately reflect important shifts in |
| | |income inequality that have occurred throughout Italy since the onset of the millennium. |
| | |By generating regional clusters based upon the income data and comparing our results with |
| | |the longstanding hypotheses, we find the Third Italy macro-region in the Three Italys |
| | |model composed of central-northeastern regions has dissolved: its southern-most regions, |
| | |Marche and Umbria have joined the classic “southern” periphery, while Emilia-Romagna and |
| | |perhaps Toscana have joined a new core consisting of Lombardia and Trentino-Alto Aidge. |
| | |The map of the new core no longer includes Liguria or Piemonte, where personal income and |
| | |gdp per capita have slumped to “southern” levels. The area experiencing the least |
| | |variation in relative income levels by our two measures compared with the rest of Italy |
| | |over time is the standard southern periphery; it has only grown. These findings have |
| | |significant implications for not only the direction of the Italian economy, but likely add|
| | |to our understanding of major shifts in political representation now occurring. |
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| | |The written paper for circulation will include discussion of the regional economic |
| | |theories of Italian development since the sixties, providing genealogies of their impact |
| | |on several generations of social science research on Italian economic inequality. The oral|
| | |presentation will include easy-to-follow maps illustrating the two key past regional |
| | |economic geographical hypotheses as well as our findings. |
| | |Respondent: Jillian Cavanaugh, Brooklyn College, CUNY |
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|02/01/2019 | |Maria Montessori’s Cross: Rehabilitating War-Stricken Children to Prevent War |
| | |Erica Moretti, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNYAbstract |
| | |Though the Italian educator Maria Montessori was a well-known pacifist in her day, her |
| | |writings on peace have generally been considered secondary to her pedagogical work—a side |
| | |intellectual project for a woman more concerned with the practical goal of educating |
| | |youth. With my work, I argue that world peace was in fact the primary motivation for |
| | |Montessori’s educational project. I redefine the terms of Montessori pedagogy; the |
| | |educational project was never about an individual child—or even about the children of a |
| | |single nation—but instead about the mission for global peace. |
| | | |
| | |My contribution provides an exhaustive overview of Montessori’s efforts to rescue |
| | |war-stricken children, and it does so through an analysis of the conversations she |
| | |initiated over the course of the Great War—conversations with contemporary educators, |
| | |psychologists, and social workers; the Italian state; prominent members of the Catholic |
| | |Church and eventually Pope Benedict XV; and the Milanese socialist organization |
| | |Umanitaria. In 1916, Montessori established nurseries in the occupied territories of |
| | |Belgium and northern France, arguing that her methodology was “a veritable cure for all |
| | |those ills” caused by war. A year later, the educator started planning a new humanitarian |
| | |organization that would assist children distressed by war, an entity she called the White |
| | |Cross. Although this organization did not materialize, the process of trying to create it |
| | |had an important influence on Montessori’s evolving pedagogy and philosophy of peace. |
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| | |This essay contextualizes how Montessori chose to focus on rehabilitation, and it outlines|
| | |her contemporaries’ thought on the subject of physical, and physiological support for a |
| | |civilian population during war. It then assesses the efforts on the part of the Italian |
| | |government to imbue children with militaristic discipline, shaping over time a scholastic |
| | |system that differed drastically from Montessori’s vision, thus pushing her to seek |
| | |support elsewhere. Next, it investigates her efforts to collaborate with the papacy, one |
| | |of the major entities that provided relief efforts for civilians, especially children, and|
| | |her attempts to foster international conversation to end the conflict. |
| | |Respondent: Mary Gibson, John Jay College, CUNY |
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|03/01/2019 | |Tourist Encounters with Italy’s Changing Political Landscape: From Fascism through |
| | |Reconstruction |
| | |David Aliano, College of Mount Saint VincentAbstract |
| | |By the 1920s and 1930s Americans were fast becoming one of the largest tourist populations|
| | |to visit Italy, and after the war they would play a pre-eminent role in Italy’s tourist |
| | |market. This paper explores the ways in which the growth in American tourism intersected |
| | |with Italy’s changing political landscapes before and after the Second World War. The |
| | |focus in particular is on how Italian politics shaped American tourist perspectives and |
| | |how popular tourism in turn mediated American views towards Italy’s shifting political |
| | |realities. It traces this dynamic relationship from the fascist regime’s aggressive |
| | |promotion of the ‘New Italy’ in the 1930s to the role American tourism played in the |
| | |re-making of Italy in the postwar years. Tourism is for many foreigners the primary point |
| | |of contact with another nation’s social, cultural, and political realities. Popular travel|
| | |literature in turn provides the prism from which tourists interpret those realities. |
| | |Adopting a transnational approach, the paper analyzes tourist materials produced in Italy |
| | |directed towards American travelers as well as American guidebooks and popular travel |
| | |accounts to Italy. Both through its omissions and silences as well as through what these |
| | |materials highlight, we find unique articulations of changing Italian identities which |
| | |demonstrate the way in which a nation’s self-image influences and is influenced by views |
| | |from abroad. |
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| | |Respondent: Silvana Patriarca, Fordham University |
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|04/05/2019 | |The World’s War on the World’s Stage: Cinecittà 1942-1950 |
| | |Noa Steimatsky, Sarah Lawrence College |
| | |Abstract |
| | |This talk will presents new research on the strange vicissitudes of 1940s Cinecittà – one |
| | |of the world’s great movie studios that was to gain fame as “Hollywood on the Tiber.” |
| | |Expanding my earlier published work on the displaced-persons camp that occupied the studio|
| | |grounds in the immediate postwar era, I now offer substantial new findings, adding up to a|
| | |“prequel” of sorts, to reveal just how deeply seeped the Fascist-built studio was in the |
| | |affairs of state and the havoc of war. Documents from several military and state archives |
| | |(Italian, British, and American) point to the studio’s use, starting in 1942, as a POW |
| | |camp – first by the Italian military, then by the Germans, finally by the Allies. |
| | |Cinecittà productions, including German co-productions that took part in the |
| | |“cinematographic Axis,” made use of POWs as film extras, prefiguring MGM’s postwar |
| | |deployment of refugees on these same grounds. I have also discovered that upon the |
| | |liberation of Rome the British military used the studios as intelligence headquarters, |
| | |where German prisoners of high rank and consequence, including chief of the Wehrmacht |
| | |forces in Italy General Von Vietinghoff, Eugen Dollmann who served as translator between |
| | |Hitler and Mussolini, as well as Himmler’s wife and daughter were interrogated. |
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| | |Cinecittà’s overlapping uses by various state and military entities, presents an |
| | |exceptionally rich case for questions of historiography: it compels us to think about film|
| | |culture and institutions, cinematic space and its world-making and unmaking in a time of |
| | |crisis and transformation. Does the movie studio cease to be a studio once a POW camp, or |
| | |a DP camp, occupies it in whole or part? How is the reality of wartime violence and |
| | |deprivation, of displacement and confinement, itself affected by such a setting – or |
| | |indeed by the set in which it finds itself, and some of whose functions it absorbs? How do|
| | |the reality and the manufactured irreality of totalitarian regimes meet the factory of |
| | |dreams that is the movie studio – a structure inspired, in this case, by Mussolini’s |
| | |vision of cinema as “the strongest arm”? The shifts of power, the mutabilities of war and |
| | |its human plight, the urgent reconstruction of everyday life in war’s aftermath, the |
| | |breakdown of boundaries and mutual interference of categories regulating institutions, |
| | |spaces, and practices – all inflect the complex narrative of 1940s Cinecittà that I |
| | |reconstruct in this project. The studio emerges as a microcosm that condenses and |
| | |reflects, as in a convex mirror, a vast panorama of wartime and postwar events – some |
| | |stranger than fiction. |
| | |Respondent: David Forgacs, New York University |
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|05/03/2019 | |The Italian Differentia: Can There Be Philosophy Without History? |
| | |Peter Carravetta, Stony Brook University, SUNY |
| | |Abstract |
| | |Is there, or has there ever been, an “Italian thought?” My working hypothesis is that |
| | |Italian thought is marked by a differentia that has been present throughout its social |
| | |memory (even pre-dating 1500) but lied fallow owing to certain pre-emptive |
| | |misunderstandings of the nature of discourse and its relation to theorizing in general |
| | |(metaphysics), the abuse-misuse of (scientific) methods of analysis (epistemology), and |
| | |(ir)rupturing historical contingencies (practical judgment). All of them impacted the very|
| | |possibility of realizing a (more equitable) social democracy. In this paper, I intend to |
| | |explore three nodes of the Italian philosophical tradition: a) the real-politik “swerve” |
| | |that occurred during the Renaissance; b) the nationalist “re-inscription” straddling the |
| | |Risorgimento, and c) what I call the “alienation” of Italian philosophy that occurred |
| | |between the 1950s and the 1990s. |
| | |Respondent: Silvia Benso, Rochester Institute of Technology |
Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies: 2019-2020 Season:
All meetings take place in the Italian Academy of Columbia University (1161 Amsterdam Ave, NYC), 5th Floor Conference Room, beginning at 6:15 pm. All inquiries can be directed to the Chair of the Seminar, Rebecca Bauman, at rebecca_bauman@fitnyc.edu.
September 13, 2019
Giuseppe Gazzola, Stony Brook University, "The Invention of Marco Polo, or: Cultural Politics of Italian Orientalism"
Respondent: Rebecca Falkoff, New York University
October 4, 2019
Laura Ruberto, Berkeley City College, and Joseph Sciorra, Queens College, CUNY, "'Columbus Might be Dwarfed to Obscurity': Italian Americans' Engagement with Columbus Monuments in a Time of Decolonization"
Respondent: Marta Gutman, City College of New York, CUNY
November 8, 2019
Hannah Malone, Freie Universität Berlin, "The Birth and Death of a Nation: Italy’s Monumental Cemeteries of the Nineteenth Century"
Respondent: Richard Etlin, University of Maryland
December 13, 2019
Saskia Ziolkowski, Duke University, "Black, Jewish, and Italian: Intersections in Igiaba Scego and Claudio Magris"
Respondent: Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University
February 7, 2020
Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University, "'Non ho l'età': The Italianization of American Feminist Discourses, 1958-1972"
Respondent: Molly Tambor, Long Island University
March 6, 2020
Mattia Roveri, New York University/Hostos Community College, "The Military Twist: Re-thinking the Military in Italian Cultural History"
Respondent: Mary Gibson, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
April 3, 2020
Marco Jacquemet, University of San Francisco, "Transidioma Afloat: Communication, Power and Migration in the Mediterranean"
Respondent: Silvana Patriarca, Fordham University
May 8, 2020
Kathleen LaPenta, Fordham University, and Jacqueline Reich, Fordham University, "Ethnicity and Affect in Oral Histories of the Bronx Italian American History Initiative"
Respondent: John Gennari, University of Vermont
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The Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute at Seton Hall University offers an annual series of lectures and events. The Institute hosted the following during the FALL OF 2017:
Tuesday, September 26: Chancellor’s Suite Book Presentation — “The Routledge History of Italian Americans” William Connell and Stan Pugliese, Hofstra University
Monday, October 16: Lecture by Giuseppe Catozzella, Italian Author and Alberto Institute Visiting Scholar
Tuesday, December 5: Concert performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
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Stanislao Pugliese, Professor of History and the Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies directs the Italian American Experience Lecture Series at Hofstra University. The spring 2020 semester includes the following:
Thursday, April 16, 7 p.m.
“Italy’s Third Golden Age” Speaker: Carla Gambescia
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PAPERS AND LECTURES
JOSHUA ARTHURS. “From the Monumental to the Everyday: Shifting Perspectives on the Cultural History of Italian Fascism.” Comparing the Cultural History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Freie Universität Berlin, March 2019.
“Kicking a Dying Lion: Revolutionary Iconoclasm and Damnatio Memoriae after the Fall of Mussolini.” A Difficult Heritage: The Afterlife of Fascist-Era Architecture, Monuments and Works in Italy. American Academy in Rome and the Biblioteca Hertziana/Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, March 2019.
HANNAH BARKER. “Plague Transmission Across the Black Sea” for “Biraben 2.0: A Black Death Digital Archive,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA, 11–12 Apr. 2019.
“Caveat Vendor: Illness and Fraud in the Genoese Slave Market,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies annual conference, Phoenix, AZ, 7-9 Feb. 2019.
DANIEL BORNSTEIN. “Cultivating Patronage in Late-Medieval Tuscany”; conference on Religious Life, Elites, and Medieval Culture; international conference hosted by the University of Alabama in partnership with the University of Dresden; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; 17-20 October 2018.
“How Great Was the Great Western Schism?”; conference on Christianity and Politics; Turku, Finland; 22-23 November 2018.
“The Early Dominican Observance in Late Medieval Italy: Epistolary Networks of Spiritual and Material Support”; international conference of the working group “Observer l’Observance”; Weingarten, Germany; 29 November-1 December 2018.
Chair and comment, panel on Gender and Authority in Early Modern Italy; sponsored by the Society for Italian Historical Studies at the annual conference of the American Historical Association; Chicago, IL; 3-6 January 2019.
BENEDETTA CARNAGHI. - With Ambra Laurenzi: “Spie e delatori: Le armi del nazismo contro la Resistenza Europea” (“Spies and Informers. The Nazi Weapons against European Resistance”). Presentation for “Unitre International,” Lecture Series of the Università della Terza Età, Orvieto, Italy, January 24, 2019.
- “Spies in the Concentration Universe: How Nazi V-Männer Contributed to Deportation in the Second World War.” Presentation for the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), Vienna, Austria, January 16, 2019.
- “Professional Traitors: V-Männer in France during the Second World War.” Presentation at the 133rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 3-6, 2019.
- “Diana e la Chatte: Donne spie contro la Resistenza in un mondo di uomini, 1927-1945” (“Diana and la Chatte: Female Spies Against the Resistance in a Man’s World, 1927–1945”). Presentation for “Trova il Tempo…Per Saperne di Più,” Lecture Series of the Università della Terza Età, Oleggio, Italy, November 26, 2018.
- “Studying a Source: The Gestapo Pamphlet and Nazi Spies in the United States.” Presentation for the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), Vienna, Austria, October 17, 2018.
- “Being the ‘Other’ while Fighting the ‘Other’: Fascist and Nazi Spies Subverting Resistance in WWII.” Presentation for the Memory Studies in Modern Europe Working Group, Yale University, October 3, 2018.
- “Undoing Democracy, Enforcing Terror: Comparative History of Fascist and Nazi Spies, 1927–1945.” Presentation at the 2018 Hoover Library & Archives Workshop on Authoritarianism and Democratic Breakdown, Stanford University, July 15-27, 2018.
- “Terror Beyond Borders: Fascist and Nazi Spies Subverting Resistance.” Presentation at the Surveillance Studies Network 8th Biennial Conference “Surveillance Beyond Borders and Boundaries,” Aarhus University, Denmark, June 7-9, 2018.
- “From ‘Heroes’ to ‘Traitors’: Challenges of a Comparative History of Spies in the Second World War.” Presentation at “Life-Writing and War in Twentieth-Century Europe,” Workshop sponsored by the Memory Studies in Modern Europe Working Group, Yale University, April 21, 2017.
- “The Uncomfortable Gaze: How Surveillance Influenced or Failed to Influence the Second World War.” Presentation at the 2017 Graduate Conference of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Peace and Conflict,” Cornell University, April 15, 2017 & pre-circulated paper at Graduate History Colloquium, Cornell University, April 19, 2017.
- “Les défis et les valeurs d’une histoire comparative des agents doubles pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale” (“The challenges and the merits of a comparative history of double agents during the Second World War”). Presentation for Alya Aglan’s Master Seminar, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, December 2, 2016.
- “Jacques Desoubrie et Robert Alesch : histoire de deux espions” (“Jacques Desoubrie and Robert Alesch: history of two spies”). Presentation at “Les Mémoriales,” Symposium of the University and War Memorial of Caen, France, November 30-December 1, 2016.
- “Between Persecution and Exploitation: Homosexual Spies in Fascist Italy.” Presentation at “Under Surveillance in the Space Between, 1914-1945,” The 18th Annual Conference of the Space Between Society, McGill University, June 2-4, 2016 & pre-circulated paper at Graduate History Colloquium, Cornell University, October 3, 2016.
- “Hegemony Is Not Dead: Gramsci, Political Islam, and the Contradictory Nature of Consent.” Presentation at Romance Studies Graduate Conference “Ideas of South,” Cornell University, March 11-12, 2016 & at “Is Hegemony Dead?,” The Eighth Annual Graduate Conference Hosted by the Future Professoriate Program of Syracuse University, Department of History, April 29, 2016.
- “Mussolini’s Four Would-be Assassins: Emergency Politics and the Consolidation of Fascist Power.” Pre-circulated paper at Graduate History Colloquium, Cornell University, September 14, 2015 & presentation at Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Louisiana State University History Department, March 4-5, 2016.
THOMAS COHEN. Toulouse, Universite Jean Jaures, "Atelier d'écriture collective. La microhistoire comme l'art du roman policier (Rome, XVIe siècle)." 30 March, 2018.
"Come Share my Bed" Conference: Early Modern Culture of Hospitality. Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, 26-27 Oct, 2018
"Life and Times in the Rag Trade," for session I organized: The Microhistory of Economic Practices in Italy: Affixing Value in Opaque Markets, Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, March, 2019.
Invited lecture: "Leaning in: When the Author Shows Up, does the History suffer?" Comparative Literature Program, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, April 4, 2019.
GEORGE DAMERON. "The Quest for Sanctity, the Constraints of Governance, and the Persistence of the Monastic Ideal in the Lives of Saints Francis of Assisi (d. 1226) and St. Edmund of Abingdon (d. 1240)," Seventh Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Saint Louis University), June 17, 2019.
ROY DOMENICO. “Italian Catholicism’s Impossible Courtship with Rossellini,” paper delivered at American Historical Association meeting, Chicago, IL, January 5, 2019.
MARY GIBSON. “Evidence of Prisoners’ Lives: Official Statistics and Inmate Culture in Modern Italy,” Workshop on prisons, prisoners, and prison records in historical perspective,” Guelph, Canada (2019).
Commentator on papaer by Luca Storti, “Italian Mafia Groups Abroad: Territorial Expansion and Social Influence,” Ralph Bunche Center, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2019.
Commentator on paper by Erica Moretti, “Maria Montessori’s White Cross: Rehabilitating War-Stricken Children to Prevent War,” Columbia University Seminar on Modern Italy, 2019.
Chair and Commentator, “Rethinking Transgression Through Lombroso’s Eyes: Questioning the Perception of the Prostitute and the Criminal Woman,” International Federation for Research in Women’s History,” Toronto, 2018.
PAUL GRENDLER. "An Historian's Journey to Jesuit Education." Fourth Annual Feore Family Lecture , Boston College, October 2, 2018.
"Jesuit Universities in Europe 1556-1773." Seminar at Boston College, October 2, 2018.
"Did the Jesuits Cause the Reduction of the Piarists?" Paper delivered at the Renaissance Society of America meeting, Toronto, March 19, 2019.
Participation in Round Table: "New Directions in Jesuit Studies." Renaissance Society of America meeting, Toronto, March 17, 2019.
BRIAN GRIFFITH. June 2019: “L’arte di bere: Regional Heritage, National Identity, and Typical Wines in Fascist Italy” (A conference presentation at the Council for European Studies’ Annual International Conference of Europeanists in Madrid, Spain).
April 2019: “Awakening the Nation’s ‘Glorious Wine Traditions’: Winemaking as Cultural Heritage in Fascist Italy” (A guest lecture in Professor Maria Grazia Quieti's Food Food and the Environment course at The American University of Rome in Rome, Italy).
March 2019: “Black Grapes, Blackshirts: Towards a National ‘Wine Consciousness’ in Mussolini’s Italy” (A guest lecture in Professor Olivier de Maret's The History and Culture of Food in Italy course at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy).
February 2019: "Enotria: On the Modernization of Winemaking in Interwar Italy" (A presentation on the history of Italian winemaking during the interwar years at Trebotti Winery near Viterbo, Italy).
MAURA HAMETZ. “Free Territories and Bounded Spaces,” Articulating Sovereignty in the Transnational Adriatic Space Panel, Council for European Studies, Madrid, Spain, 20 June 2019.
“Holocaust on the Peripheries: Italy and Sites of Memory,” International Network of Interreligious Research and Education) Summer School, Groeningen, Netherlands, 19 June 2019.
“Charisma and the Sculpting of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth Myth,” Monarchy and Modernity since 1500, Cambridge University, England, 9 January 2019.
GREGORY HANLON. La natura umana sotto lo microscopio degli archivi giudiziari dell'Antico Regime, graduate seminar of Prof. Luciano Pezzolo, Università degli Studi Ca' Foscari di Venezia, March 2019.
Il soldato universale nel secolo XVII, graduate seminar of Prof. Mario Rizzo, Università degli Studi di Pavia, March, 2019.
La nature humaine sous le microscope des archives judiciaires de l'Ancien Régime, graduate seminar of Prof. Philippe Hamon, Université de Rennes II, February, 2019.
La coexistence religieuse au XVIIe siècle, graduate seminar of Prof. Ariane Boltanski, Université de Rennes II, February 2019.
Death control in the West, graduate seminar of William Aird and Stephen Boyd, University of Edinburgh, January, 2019.
Geoffrey Parker's Universal Soldier revisited: European military history and human universals, graduate seminar of Prof. Guy Rowlands, University of Saint Andrews, February, 2019.
La nature humaine sous le microscope des archives judiciaires de l'Ancien Regime, graduate seminar of Prof. Denis Crouzet, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, February 2019.
Le contrôle des décès à l'époque moderne, graduate seminar of Prof. François Brizay, Université de Poitiers, February, 2019.
From Mentalités to Human Nature, graduate seminar of Filippo de Vivo, Birkbeck College, University of London, February, 2019.
CAROL LANSING. Invited Lecture, "Lost Worlds: Medieval Rome and its Region," Aldo Bernardo Lecture, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY Binghamton, November 2018.
Invited Keynote Lecture, "Gender Expectations, Rage and Women's Strategies of Retribution, Violence and Women, Oxford, September 2019.
CELESTE MacNAMARA. “Priests Behaving Badly: The Problem of Scandal in Renaissance Italy.” Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; October 2018.
“Misbehaving Priests and the Problem of Scandal in 17th-century Padua.” Venice Seminar, Cambridge University; May 2018.
“Secular Control Over Religious Behavior: Venice’s Esecutori contro la Bestemmia.” Renaissance Society of America Conference, New Orleans, LA; March 2018.
Panel Organizer, Chair, and Commenter, “New Approaches to Catholic Reform.” Renaissance Society of America Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2019.
Panel Co-organizer, “Surveillance and Control in Early Modern Venice.” Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Renaissance Society of America Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2018.
MAUREEN MILLER. "A New Administrative World in a Small Place: The 'Documentary Revolution' in Città di Castello," Meetings of the Medieval Academy of America, Philadelphia, PA, 8 March 2019.
JAMES PALMER. “An English Rose in Rome,” American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, 2019.
“Margherita’s heirs? Holy Women in Rome in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” Roundtable hosted by the group Women in the History of the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition, International Medieval Congress, 2019.
“Documenting Danger: Domestic Violence, Property, and the Law in Late Medieval Rome," European Studies Salon, Grinnell College, February 2019.
“Virtue, Economy, and the Transformation of Late Medieval Rome,” Iowa State University, History Colloquium, 10/16/2018.
COLIN ROSE. “Teaching, Research and Teaching Research: The DECIMA as Pedagogical Multi-tool,” Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, March 17-19 / 2019.
“Violence, Institutions and Agents of Peace in the Bolognese Countryside,” Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, March 17-19 / 2019.
“Bodies of Evidence: Suspicious Death and Homicide in Early Modern Bologna,” Warwick University History of Violence Workshop, May 4 / 2018.
“Work, play and violence in the streets of early modern Bologna,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, January 4-7 / 2018.
“Maps and Places in the Digital Domain,” Renaissance Society of America Day of Digital Learning, Toronto, March 16/2019.
STEVEN SOPER. “The Spielberg Effect: International Public Opinion and Austrian Treatment of Italian Prisoners, 1830-1848”. American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 5, 2019.
NICOLAS VIRTUE. “Re-Fighting the Great War in the Adriatic, 1941–43: War Memory and the Italian Military Mentality in Occupied Yugoslavia.” Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, London, UK, 30 November–1 December 2018.
STEVEN WHITE. "Italy's Odd Couple: Alcide De Gasperi and Pietro Nenni as Founders of the Italian Republic." Paper delivered at Society for Italian Historical Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2018.
""Amici-nemici: Catholic-Communist Encounter in Post-Fascist Italy." Paper delivered at American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting, Emmitsburg, MD, April 2019.
THOMAS WILLETTE. “Leonardo da Vinci and the Mechanics of Nature,” Cranbrook Institute of Science (Bloomfield Hills, MI, August 2, 2018).
“Naples as a Center of Clandestine Publishing in the primo Settecento.” Renaissance Society of America (New Orleans, 22-24 March 2018).
Invited roundtable discussant: “Teaching Southern Italy.” Organized by Elizabeth Kassler-Taub and Fernando Loffredo, Renaissance Society of America (New Orleans, 22-24 March 2018).
“Spanish Vices and the Character of Neapolitan Artists,” Faculty Colloquium, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 29 November 2017).
“Italy in Weimar: Goethe’s Leben des Benvenuto Cellini,” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (Minneapolis, 30 March – 2 April 2017).
PUBLICATIONS
JOSHUA ARTHURS. “The Anatomy of Controversy, from Charlottesville to Rome.” Modern Italy 24.2 (2019), 123-138.
HANNAH BARKER. That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500, University of Pennsylvania Press, October 2019.
THOMAS BEHR. Book: Social Justice & Subsidiarity. Luigi Taparelli and the Origins of Modern Catholic Social Teaching. (CUA Press, Fall 2019).
BENEDETTA CARNAGHI. Edited Volumes:
- With Guillaume Pollack & Vincent Houle: “Frontières. Circulations, vie quotidienne, illégalités.” Les Cahiers Sirice 2019/1 (No 22). URL:
Articles & Contributions to Edited Volumes:
- With Guillaume Pollack & Vincent Houle: “Frontières. Circulations, vie quotidienne, illégalités. Introduction.” Les Cahiers Sirice 2019/1 (No 22): 5-14. URL:
- With Guillaume Pollack & Vincent Houle: “Borders. Circulations, daily life, illegalities. Introduction.” Les Cahiers Sirice 2019/1 (No 22): 5a-14a. URL:
- “Herr Himmler’s Agents.” Hoover Digest 2019, No. 1: 176-189. URL:
- “Three Layers of Ambiguity: Homosexual Spies and International Intrigue in Fascist Italy.” The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945. Volume 13, 2017.
“International Intrigue: Plotting Espionage as Cultural Artifact.” URL:
THOMAS COHEN. Claire Judde de Larivière, The Revolt of Snowballs: Murano Confronts Venice, 1511, Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. 162 pp. (translation by me, via much collaboration with Claire, of La révolte des boules de neige, Murano face à Venise 1511 (Paris: Fayard, 2014). This is the first volume in a Routledge series called "Microhistories."
Roman Tales: a Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), 216 pp.
(with E. S. Cohen): Daily Life in Renaissance Italy, 2d edtion ABCClio (in press, out in September 2019).
with Elizabeth S. Cohen, "Justice and Crime, A Companion to Early Modern Rome, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Simon Ditchfield, and Barbara Wisch. Leiden: Brill (2019), 115-130.
"In Bed with Ludovico Santa Croce," in Jacqueline Murray and Nicholas Terpstra, eds., Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy, (Routledge, 2019). The third volume of that Routledge Microhistories series.
GEORGE DAMERON. “Church and Community in a Medieval City: The Place of San Lorenzo in Florentine Society from Late Antiquity to the Black Death.” In San Lorenzo: A Florentine Church, eds. Robert Gaston and Louis Waldman, 40-50 (Washington, D. C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2017).
“Florence.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies. Ed. Paul E. Szarmach. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, online ().
CÉLINE DAUVERD. Church and State in Spanish Italy: Rituals and Political Legitimacy in the Kingdom of Naples (Cambridge, 2020). Here is the link: .
JENNIFER MARA DESILVA. The Borgia Family: Rumor and Representation, ed. Jennifer Mara DeSilva (New York and Abingdon: Routledge, October 2019).
ROY DOMENICO. “’An Embassy to a Golf Course?’ Conundrums on the Road to the United States’ Diplomatic Representation to the Holy See, 1784-1984” in Roman Catholicism in the United States. A Thematic History, edited by Margaret McGuinness and James Fisher, New York: Fordham University Press, 2019.
MARY GIBSON. Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).
“Cesare Lombroso and the Gendered Prison,” in La donna delinquente e la prostituta. L’eredità di Lombroso nella cultura e nella società italiana, eds. Liliosa Azara and Luca Tedesco (Rome: Viella, 2019), pp. 107-121.
(with Ilaria Poerio), “Modern Europe, 1750-1950,” in A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies, ed. Clare Anderson (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 337-370.
Preface to Oscar Greco, I demoni del mezzogiorno: Follia, pregiudizio e marginalità nel manicomio di Girifalco (1881-1921) (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2018).
PAUL GRENDLER. Book: Jesuit Schools and Universities in Europe 1548-1773. Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies 1. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Also available electronically.
Article: "An Historian's Journey to Jesuit Education," Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 87 fasc. 174 (2018), pp. 385-401.
Three book reviews
MAURA HAMETZ. Sissi’s World: The Myth and Memory of the Habsburg Empress Elizabeth (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018) [New Directions in German Studies series], edited with Heidi Schlipphacke. .
“Stateless in Italy? The Post-World War I Triestine Citizenship Commission,” Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell’800 e del ‘900 22:1 (2019): 79-96.
“Quotidian Intimidation and the Role of Mussolini’s Special Tribunal in Istria and the Eastern Borderlands,” Borders in Arms (special issue) Acta Histriae (Slovenia) 26:4 (2018): 1125-1142.
GREGORY HANLON. Geoffrey Parker's Universal soldier revisited: European military history and human universals, forthcoming in Early Modern War Narratives, ed. Raymond Fagel, Manchester University Press, 2020.
Death control in the West: New research on routine infanticide in Northern Italy from the 16th to the 18th century, 35 pp., submitted.
Italia 1636: Cimitero degli eserciti (Italian translation of my 2016 book with Oxford University Press), LEG Edizioni, 2018.
Paperback edition of my book, The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese duke of Parma, his soldiers and his subjects in the Thirty Years' War, Oxford University Press.
CARL IPSEN. Translation of Fumo: La storia d’amore tra gli italiani e la sigaretta, Florence, Le Monnier, 2019.
CAROL LANSING. “Accusations of Rape in Thirteenth Century Bologna,” Justice and Violence in Bologna, 1250-1700, ed. Sarah Blanshei, Lexington Press, 2018.
"Gender Expectations in the Courts of Medieval Italy," Les registres de la justice pénale (Libri maleficiorum) et les sociétés de l’Italie communale (XIIe-XVe siècle), edited by Didier Lett, forthcoming in Mélanges de l'Ècole française de Rome.
CELESTE MacNAMARA. “Molding the Model Bishop from Trent to Vatican II,” Church History 88, (2019): 1-29.
CHARLES MAIER. Dentro i Confini: Territoria e potere dopo 1500 (Giulio Einaudi translation 2019 of "Once within Borders," Harvard University Press, 2016.)
EDWARD MUIR. “The Feuding Spectrum: From the Mountains of Albania to the Court of Charles V,” Acta Historiae, 25 (2017): 1-20.
“Renaissance,” in Interpreting Early Modern Europe, edited by C. Scott Dixon and Beat Kumin. Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming.
“The Morality of Doubt: The Religious Skeptics of Seventeenth-Century Venice,” in A Sourcebook of Early Modern History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between In Honor of Susan C. Karant-Nunn, edited by Ute Lotz-Heumann. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
“Citizenship and Gender,” in A Cultural History of Democracy, general editor Eugenio Biagini, vol. 2: The Middle Ages, eds. David Napolitano and Ken Pennington. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
JAMES PALMER. The Virtues of Economy: Governance, Power, and Piety in Late Medieval Rome. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
JANINE PETERSON. Janine Larmon Peterson, Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics: Disputed Sanctity and Communal Identity in Late Medieval Italy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.
------ “The Service of Merchants: Politics, Wealth, and Intercessional Devotion in Later Medieval Italy.” In Saints as Intercessors between the Wealthy and the Divine: Art and Hagiography among the Medieval Merchant Classes, edited by Emily Kelley and Cynthia Turner Camp, 273-89. London: Routledge, 2019.
STANISLAO PUGLIESE. Football and the Boundaries of History: Critical Studies in Soccer (edited with Brenda Elsey).
A Century of Sinatra: Gay Talese and Pete Hamill in Conversation (Bordighera Press).
COLIN ROSE. “The Future of the Past: Technology and the Study of Early Modernity,” Sixteenth Century Journal, 50(1) (2019) (forthcoming).
“Plague and Violence in Early Modern Italy,” Renaissance Quarterly 71(3) (2018), 1000-1035.
"Violence and the Centralization of Criminal Justice in Early Modern Bologna," in S. Blanshei, ed., Violence and Justice in Bologna, 1250-1700, (New York: Lexington Books, 2018), 101-122.
"Cambiamenti e continuità nella procedura penale a Bologna, secolo XIII-XVII," Documenta, 1(1), (2018): 39-60.
FILIPPO SABETTI. Filippo Sabetti, ed.,2020. Gasparo Contarini, The Republic of Venice. De magistratibus et republica Venetorum. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Filippo Sabetti. 2020.”Gasparo Contarini and Enduring Institutions.” pp. xiii-xlvi. In F. Sabetti, ed., Gasparo Contarini, The Republic of Venice.
Filippo Sabetti and Dario Castiglione, eds. 2017. Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies. The Bloomington School and Beyond. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Filippo Sabetti and Paul Dragos Aligica, eds., 2014. Choice, Rules and Collective Action. The Ostroms on the Study of Institutions and Governance. Colchester: University of Essex, ECPR Press.
Bruce Haddock and Filippo Sabetti, eds. 2014. Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799 by Vincenzo Cuoco(1806). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Filippo Sabetti. 2010. Civilization and Self-Government. The Political Thought of Carlo Cattaneo. Lahnam, MD: Lexington Books.
MARK SEYMOUR. Emotional Arenas: Life, Love, and Death in 1870s Italy, will be published by Oxford University Press in April 2020.
STEVEN SOPER. “Mai dimenticare: Gli elenchi dei nomi dei patrioti nelle Memorie di Sigismondo Castromediano.” In Tra realtà storica e finzione letteraria: Studi su Sigismondo Castromediano, edited by Antonio Lucio Giannone, 239-261. Lecce: Pensa, 2019.
KATHRYN TAYLOR. “Making Statesmen, Writing Culture: Ethnography, Observation, and Diplomatic Travel in Early Modern Venice,” Journal of Early Modern History 22 (2018).
“‘Matters Worthy of Men of State’: Ethnography and Diplomatic Reporting in Sixteenth-Century Venice,” Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming).
“Ordering the ‘Disparity of Customs’: Making Ethnography in Early Modern Italy,” Kislak Papers (forthcoming).
JOSEPH VISCOMI. Forthcoming (accepted April 2019), “Pontremoli’s Cry: Writing History and Scale into Personhood,” History & Anthropology. (10,000 words).
2019 (June), “Mediterranean Futures: Historical Time and the Departure of Italians from Egypt, 1919-1937,” The Journal of Modern History, 91: 341-379. (18,788 words).
STEVEN WHITE. Modern Italy's Founding Fathers: The Making of a Postwar Republic. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020. (This group biography of Alcide De Gasperi, Palmiro Togliatti and Pietro Nenni is scheduled to appear in print in the fall of 2020).
THOMAS WILLETTE. Naples, co-edited with Marcia B. Hall, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. A volume in the CUP series Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance.
AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, NEW COURSES,
PROMOTIONS and ACTIVITIES IN SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES
THOMAS BEHR. Appointed (7/1/19) Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Liberal Arts Programs, and Assistant Professor of History at the University of St. Thomas (Houston).
DANIEL BORNSTEIN. ACHA representative on Marraro Prize Committee, Jan 2019-Jan 2021
Member, Koenig article prize committee, ACHA, for best article in Catholic biography published in previous two calendar years; 2019.
Course: Property and Community in Medieval Europe.
BENEDETTA CARNAGHI. - March–August 2019: Doctoral Fellowship of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah & DAAD Short-Term Research Grant.
- January 2019: Franz Peter Hugdahl Memorial Award from New German Critique & Manko Travel Award from Cornell’s Department of History for the 133rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago.
- November 2018: Cornell University Conference Travel Grant for "Trova il Tempo…Per Saperne di Più," Lecture Series of the Università della Terza Età, Oleggio, Italy.
- September 2018–February 2019: Junior Fellowship of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.
- July 15-27, 2018: Grant of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University for the 2018 Hoover Library & Archives Workshop on Authoritarianism and Democratic Breakdown.
- June 2018: Cornell University Conference Travel Grant & Fee Waiver of the Surveillance Studies Network for its 8th Biennial Conference “Surveillance Beyond Borders and Boundaries” at Aarhus University, Denmark.
- Spring 2018: Jesse F. and Dora H. Bluestone Peace Studies Fellowship from the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.
- November 2017–February 2018: Chateaubriand Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).
- September–October 2017: The Lemmermann Foundation’s scholarship award.
- 2017–2018: 2017 Trinity College Research Grant in Modern Italian History (“Barbieri Grant”) & Cornell’s Society for the Humanities Graduate Travel Grant.
- December 2016: Cornell University Conference Travel Grant for "Les Mémoriales," Symposium of the University and War Memorial of Caen, France.
- 2016-2017: Graduate Fellowship of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.
- June 2016: Travel Grant of the Space Between Society for its 18th Annual Conference “Under Surveillance in the Space Between, 1914-1945” at McGill University.
- March 2016: Cornell University Conference Travel Grant for the Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Louisiana State University History Department.
- May–June 2015: Michele Sicca Research Grant of the Cornell Institute for European Studies.
- December 2014: Cornell University Conference Travel Grant for the conference Liberare e Federare: l'eredità intellettuale di Silvio Trentin in occasione del 70° anniversario della morte (“Liberate and Federate: the intellectual heritage of Silvio Trentin on the seventieth anniversary of his death”) at Università “Ca’ Foscari”, Venice, Italy.
August 2014–present: Cornell University Sage Fellowship.
THOMAS COHEN. I retired on 1 July, 2019.
GEORGE DAMERON. Co-Director, Humanities Center (Saint Michael's College).
President, Gamma Chapter of Vermont (Phi Beta Kappa), Saint Michael's College.
Course: The History of Rome (History 113).
ROY DOMENICO. Secretary Treasurer of the Society for Italian Historical Studies.
Director: University of Scranton International Studies Program.
MARY GIBSON. Schoff Publication Fund Award, University Seminars, Columbia University, 2018.
MARY GIBSON. Professor Emerita of History, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Schoff Publication Fund Award, University Seminars, Columbia University, 2018.
Associate Editor, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2000-.
Editorial Board, Studi sulla Questione Criminale (Studies in Criminology), 2006-.
PAUL GRENDLER. Received George E. Ganss, S. J. Award "recognizing excellence in scholarly contributions to the field of Jesuit Studies," Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, October 2, 2018.
Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association, January 2019, for Grendler, The Jesuits and Italian Universities 1548-1773 (2017).
BRIAN GRIFFITH. Fulbright Research Fellowship (2018-2019) at Sapienza University of Rome in Rome, Italy.
Webmaster for the Society for Italian Historical Studies.
Graduate Researcher for the New Fascism Syllabus.
MAURA HAMETZ. Academic Unit Head and Professor of History, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.
Representative European Section, Southern Historical Association Executive Board, nominated for 2019-2022 term.
GREGORY HANLON. Munro Chair of History, Dalhousie University.
Membre correspondant, Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts
de Bordeaux.
Course: Bella Figura: Display strategies in Baroque Italy, 16th-18th centuries.
CELESTE MacNAMARA. I joined the history department of SUNY Cortland as Assistant Professor.
United University Professions Individual Development Award
SUNY Cortland Department of History Research Enrichment and Development Initiative
University of Warwick Humanities Research Fund Travel Grant, February 2018
Course: The Inquisition in Early Modern Italy and Spain.
THERESA McBRIDE. Course – “Fascism and Gender.”
CHARLES MAIER. Premio Cherasco Storia (premio alla carrera), May 2019.
AHA distinguished scholar award, Jan. 2019.
MICHAEL MENDL. In August I was appointed archivist of our Salesian province of the Eastern U.S. and Canada, based in New Rochelle. The province hasn't had an official archivist for almost 20 years, so I have my hands full--while at the same time continuing other jobs in communications and publications.
MAUREEN MILLER. Fall 2018: History 100U / Global Studies 140: Medieval Sacred Kingship: Embodied Power and the Divine in Europe and Africa c. 500-1500 CE.
Fall 2019: History 39B (Freshman & Sophomore Seminar): Fashion, the Middle Ages, and the Catholic Imagination: Reconsidering the Heavenly Bodies Exhibit.
JAMES PALMER. A new upper level course in spring 2020: Florence from Dante to Machiavelli.
KARA PERUCCIO. Mellon Foundation-University of Chicago Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2019-20.
STANISLAO PUGLIESE. Fulbright Scholar, University of Calabria, Spring 2020.
Courses: “Sex, Soccer, and Sedition in Modern Italy"; "History of the Mafia."
COLIN ROSE. Courses: "Introduction to Digital History", HIST2P26
"Co-Operative Historical Projects", HIST1P50
"Digital History Research Lab", HIST4P51
STEVEN SOPER. Southern Historical Association, European History Section, chair of the Baker-Burton Award committee.
DRU SWADENER. Samuel H. Kress short term fellowship with Medici Archive Project.
MARLA STONE. Is cuurently SIHS President.
KATHRYN TAYLOR. Postdoctoral Scholar, Humanities Institute, Pennsylvania State University.
NICHOLAS VIRTUE. Book Review Co-Editor with Modern Italy (quarterly journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy).
JOSEPH VISCOMI. Cesare Barbieri ad hoc research grant in Modern Italian History.
Courses: European Crises in the Mediterranean, 1880s-present.
Crossing Borders: Passports, Identity Documents and the State since 1600.
STEVEN WHITE. Retired, Professor of History, Mt. St. Mary's University.
DISSERTATIONS
JOSHUA ARTHURS. Luke Gramith, “Liberation by Emigration: Italian Communists, the Cold War, and West-East Migration in Venezia Giulia in the Early Postwar Period” (defended March 2019).
DANIEL BORNSTEIN. Luca R. Foti, “Heretical Communes: The Struggle for Authority in the Fourteenth-Century Papal Territories”; Washington University in St. Louis (defended March 2019).
Michael Mendez, "Environmental Devastation in Medieval Languedoc: The Ecological Impact of the Albigensian Crusades"; Washington University in St. Louis (in progress).
Mary Andino, "The Pursuit of Holiness in Early Modern Spanish Italy"; Washington University in St. Louis (in progress).
BRIAN GRIFFITH. I am currently finishing my dissertation - "Bacchus among the Blackshirts: Winemaking and Making Italians in Fascist Italy" - which examines the history of winemaking and identity construction during the twenty years of Benito Mussolini's fascist dictatorship.
BENEDETTA CARNAGHI. My dissertation in progress: "Lives Under Cover: Comparative History of Fascist and Nazi Spies, 1927-1945" - supervisor: prof. Enzo Traverso - Cornell University (USA).
THOMAS COHEN. Aaron Miedema, on the duel in Renaissance Italy, York University
Barry Torch, on the social history of Roman humanism in the later fifteenth century, York University
Sara Thompson, on Renfaires in modern North America, York University.
MARY GIBSON. Antonella Vitale, “Fuitina: Love, Sex, and Rape in Modern Italy: 1945-Present,” Graduate Center (History), City University of New York, in progress.
Sultana Banulescu, “Italian Psyche and Society: How the Brain and Mind Sciences Shaped Italy, 1900-1948),” Graduate Center (History), City University of New York, in progress.
Francesca Vassalle, “Bitter Sex: The Politics of Contraception in Post-Fascist Italy, 1945-1978,” Graduate Center (History), City University of New York, 2018.
CAROL LANSING. Kalina Yamboliev, "Narratives of Belonging: Italo-Greek Hagiography and Community Identity in Southern Italy and Sicily, c. 950-1150," UCSB, 2019.
Susan Schmidt, "Taking it to the Streets; The Ordinary and Serendipitous Uses of Public Spaces in Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Italian Towns," UCSB, in progress.
Joe Figliuolo-Rosswurm, "'So the they are not killed and robbed every day:' The construction and use of popular discourse in Florentine Tuscany, c. 1250-1350." UCSB, 2016.
Nikki Malain, "Merchants and Marauders: Genoese Maritime Predation in the Twelfth Century Mediterranean." UCSB, 2016.
MAUREEN MILLER. Joel Pattison, "Trade and Religious Boundaries in the Medieval Maghreb: Genoese Merchants, their Products, and Islamic Law" (filed June 2018).
EDWARD MUIR. Alexandra Thomas, "Reason of State and the Politics of Botero, Campanella, and Sarpi in the Waning of the Renaissance.”
Laura Noboa, "Motherhood and Virtue: Legitimizing Female Political Authority in Northern Italian Courts."
KARA PERUCCIO. “Women on the Verge: Emotions, Authoritarianism and the Novel in Italy and Turkey, 1922-1936” (in progress, University of Chicago).
DRU SWADENER. Dissertation in progress at St Louis University.
BARRY TORCH. Working on a dissertation on the social life of humanism in Rome.
RESEARCH AND WRITING PROJECTS
JOSHUA ARTHURS. Forty-Five Days: Experience, Emotion and Memory after Mussolini.
HANNAH BARKER. Racial categorization and slavery; lawsuits concerning medical fraud in slave sales.
THOMAS BEHR. Continuing work on the natural law social scientific thought of Luigi Taparelli, SJ.
CHRIS BOWERS. A social-rural history of the Veneto in the later decades of the 19th Century using, among other primary sources, Catholic Pastoral Visitation records to examine rural circumstances after unification and particularly in the years of global crisis after 1873.
JAMES BURGWYN. Preparing a book on Junio Valerio Borghese; and an article on Fiorenzo Capriotti.
THOMAS COHEN. A microhistory of a year of peasant politics in a village of the Sabine mountains (1557).
GEORGE DAMERON. Forthcoming: “Dante and the Papacy,” in Approaches to Teaching Dante’s “Comedy” for the MLA’s (The Modern Language Association of America) series, Approaches to Teaching World Literature, eds. Kristina Olson and Chris Kleinhenz.
Manuscript in development: book project on the political economy of grain in Tuscan communes, c. 1150-c. 1350.
ROY DOMENICO. My manuscript, “The Devil and the Dolce Vita,” has been accepted for publication by the Catholic University of America Press.
Italy’s War at Home, 1940-1945. Project with Fordham University Press series on Home Fronts in World War Two directed by Kurt Piehler of Florida State University.
MARY GIBSON. "La legge Mussolini and Italian Defiance of International Abolitionism" for a forthcoming conference and book organized by the Societa Italiana delle Storiche (SIS).
PAUL GRENDLER. "Jesuit Schools in Italy 1548-1773" book.
GREGORY HANLON. Europeans at War 1500-1750; textbook of Routledge, manuscript complete by September 2019.
CAROL LANSING. I am gathering my articles and research on the lives of poor working women in thirteenth-century Bologna into a synthetic monograph.
My larger project is on elite culture in southern Lazio in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
CELESTE MacNAMARA. My first book, about the process of Catholic Reform in 17th century Italy, will be published in 2020 by the Catholic University of America Press. I am now starting work on a new project about the policing of sin and morality in 16th-18th century Venice.
CHARLES MAIER. The New Spirit of the Laws: A historical interpretation of 1919-2019.
MAUREEN MILLER. Ecclesiastical registers in medieval Italy.
EDWARD MUIR. The Renaissance of Trust in Italy, 1350-1650.
JAMES PALMER. An essay on peace movements in communal Italy will appear in A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age, ed. Walter Simons. Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2020.
A full English translation of the chronicle of the Anonimo Romano is currently being completed for Italica Press.
STANISLAO PUGLIESE. Dancing on a Volcano in Naples: Scenes from the Siren City.
COLIN ROSE. DECIMA: The Digitally Encoded Census Information and Mapping Archive
A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy (CUP: Forthcoming 2019)
"Mapping Violence in Early Modern Italy"
STEVEN SOPER. Book project: The 66: A Story of Revolution, Imprisonment, and Escape on the Eve of Italian Unification
BARRY TORCH. Working on a co-written article about Pope Pius II and his Commentaries.
JOSEPH VISCOMI. I am developing a new project which studies the social, political, and environmental conditions of depopulation in Calabria, Italy. Whereas the scale of my first project was determined by communities displaced across the Mediterranean, in this new project local environs shape my analysis. In other words, I look towards the stories and places passed over or left behind in the history of migration with a particular focus on the changing relationships between people and material landscapes in depopulating towns. In this new research, I concentrate primarily on Petrizzi (provincia di Catanzaro), in an analysis that extends from the earthquake that rattled parts of Calabria in 1783 to destructive floods which followed the Second World War. I take the small place of Petrizzi as a prism through which I examine broader transformations in the relations between people and land in Southern Italy and in the Mediterranean.
STEVEN WHITE. The role of political friendship in the Republic of Italy.
THOMAS WILLETTE. Reception history of the Vita di Benvenuto Cellini.
ET CETERA
THOMAS COHEN. Dottoressa Cristina Vasta, whose PhD at Roma III Elizabeth Cohen helped supervise, now has a lovely furnished apartment in Garbatella she can rent to scholars. The metropolitana is an easy walk, and the neighbourhood is friendly, pretty, and calm. The local Gelateria is first rate, a local gathering place, and there is a fine farmers' market on Fridays and Saturdays. If you are interested, write me at tcohen@yorku.ca and I will put you in touch with Cristina.
KARA PERUCCIO. I've spent a lot of time recently at Fondazione Istituto Gramsci in Rome and would be happy to share information about it!
JOHN POLLARD. 'A full copy of the 35-volume Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti, Istituto Giovanni Treccanni, 1949, in excellent condition, is seeking a good home! It contains Mussolini and Gentile's essay on the 'Doctrine of Fascism'.
Having retired from my post at Trinity Hall College, University of
Cambridge, I no longer have an office and therefore space to house it... Offers of interest gratefully received.
JohnPollard, email jfp32@cam.ac.uk
STEVEN SOPER. I am happy to share thoughts about doing research in Naples.
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