Stefano Villani

✨Out now!
Federico Barbierato’s english translation and revised edition of his seminal work on magical texts and culture in Early Modern Venice, published in EMoDiR’s Routledge series.
🔗 www.routledge.com/In-the-Room-...

#EarlyModern #BookRelease #MagicStudies #ReligiousHistory

We've now created a starter pack for those whose work/interests include early modern religious radicalism:

go.bsky.app/ArYba4T

Let me know if you'd like to be added!

#EarlyModern

Call for papers for a special issue of the 'Journal of Early Modern Studies' edited by Brendan Dooley and Stefano Villani: Diplomacy and the Circulation of Political Information in Early Modern Europe. Deadline: 31 January 2026. 🔗 go.umd.edu/24lh

NYU–Roma Tre Permanent Global Seminar on Religious Diversity in Italian Urban History

🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
📄 Details: as.nyu.edu/content/dam/...

The second issue of the year of The GLIRN Review (Fall 2025) has just been published on the website of the Research Initiative on Global Italian Religious Networks (GLIRN) and can be found here: as.nyu.edu/departments/...

Why Mary Queen of Scots' murdered private secretary David Rizzio was a political scapegoat History shows that political anger is often channelled towards outsiders, a pattern that is being repeated today

"Every country has its scapegoats... David Rizzio became one of Scotland’s most haunting."

Read Dr Emanuela Patti's timely piece on why Mary Queen of Scots' murdered private secretary was a political scapegoat in @scotsman.com

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Tunis, July 14, 2025

Today (June 9) in Florence: the 2025 Annual Conference of the Global Italian Religious Networks (GLIRN), hosted by NYU

Buon 25 aprile! Viva la Resistenza!

The thwarted Marxist of Balliol Christopher Hill was much better at analysing the revolution than he was at fomenting one.

Terrific from Richard Evans on Christopher Hill and his generation of Marxist historians.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Screenshot of an ArcGIS map of northern Italy from Milan to Venice showing green waypoints and red and green paths

Probably one more session of tidying to go before I've got a complete route network for Italy as published #16thCentury - #18thCentury! I like this view of Northern Italy to show that the #earlymodern routes (red) are not just the Roman roads (green). 🗃️ @emdigit.bsky.social

Happy to see in print my article on “Alessandro Amidei e «La Liturgia Inglese overo il libro delle Publiche Preghiere»” in the volume on Italian language and the Reformation edited by Cordibella and Tomasin @lorenzotomasin.bsky.social. See the first pages on Academia: go.umd.edu/1y2g

Palestinian Muslims attend Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip March 30, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

Eid Mubarak to all my Muslim friends. May this celebration be a sign of hope, justice, and peace for you, your families, and the world. As it is written both in the Talmud and in the Qur'an, whoever kills a person, it is as if he had killed all of humanity (Qur'an 5:32)

On April 7, 2025, 5:00–6:30 PM, @umdhistory.bsky.social will host 'Making Sense of Mass Atrocities: The Meanings of Genocide in Historical and Contemporary Contexts', with Omer Bartov and Shibley Telhami.

RSVP: bit.ly/Bartov

it is grimly hilarious that, given the immense, decades-long fetishization of "leadership" and "leadership skills" in business-oriented academia and politics, even unto the formation of leadership institutes, there should turn out to be no leaders in any positions of power

'Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy and Beyond' at @UofMaryland, March 24, 2:00-3:15 PM.
Featuring Bernard Cooperman, @serenadinepi.bsky.social, Germano Maifreda

Happy to discuss my book 'Making Italy Anglican' with Paolo Cozzo on March 27, 2025, at 17:30 CET on Zoom
#BCP #ChurchOfEngland #Anglican #TranslationStudies
go.umd.edu/1x8s

Honored to contribute to the Festschrift Donec Templa Refeceris, ed. by Freddolini & Giometti, for my friend and former colleague Cinzia Sicca with my Italian essay on how the category of '#Papism' shaped British views of Catholicism.

Download it here: 🔗 go.umd.edu/1x7t

Next virtual WAGPCS meeting Friday, March 7, 2025, 3:30–5:00 PM (ET): Jordan Sly @jordanssly.bsky.social on "The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont: Political Performance & the Use of History in the Cromwellian Protectorate"; more info: wagpcs.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/n...

In the latest 'Società e Storia', articles explore English’s hegemony in academic writing. Check it out here: francoangeli.it/riviste/rivi....

Here are the first two pages of my article Tirannia dell’inglese, modelli “anglosassoni” e globalizzazione: academia.edu/127819243/Ti....

Monument to Alexander VII by Bernini (St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City): Truth’s foot strategically stamps on Protestant England!

What is one to conclude from the contrast between the AHA’s position on Ukraine and its position on Gaza other than it believes some people’s histories are worth more than others?

Book Review (in Italian): Lorenzo Carletti, Cristiano Giometti, Fascismo e democrazia al MoMA di New York nel 1940. Storia di una mostra mancata, Roma, Carocci editore, 2023 www.academia.edu/127054406/Bo...

www.carocci.it/prodotto/fas...

10 new essays on James VI & I.

Publishing March 2025, from Routledge.

#earlymodern #stuarts #KingJames400 #historyteacher

I finally received my copy of La Livornina: Alle origini di Livorno, città cosmopolita in età moderna, edited by Lucia Felici (Rome, Viella, 2024), pp. 107–132. If you’re interested in receiving a PDF of my chapter, La Livornina e gli inglesi, feel free to drop me a line.

I’m going to keep re-posting this until at least ten of you confirm you’ve submitted proposals that are pre-1800 or cross-Channel. So if you want your timelines quieter, you know what to do.

(Don’t mute me, don’t mute me, don’t mute me.)

New Special Issue of Church History and Religious Culture: "Religious Practices, Boundaries, and Institutions: Historiographical Debates and New Perspectives in Early Modern Italian History."

Ed. by Sabina Pavone and @stefanovil.bsky.social

brill.com/view/journal...

#earlymodern

Very much looking forward to my last conference of 2024, on Jewish and Christian weddings in the early modern period. Organised by @serenadinepi.bsky.social , Guido Bartolucci and Fernanda Alfieri at the University of Bologna ✨✨

We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY

Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians