Stefano Villani

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.
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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
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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...

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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

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#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

A lot of old and new friends, and good colleagues to follow in this starter pack

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Look what the lovely librarians at the KNIR (Dutch Institute Rome) arranged for me!!!

Jews and State Building "Jews and State Building" published on 19 Dec 2024 by Brill.

Excited to announce the publication of Jews and State Building. A collective exploration of the Jewish role in state formation in pre-Unification Italy, the ultimate historical laboratory! 📚✨

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And it’s out! My book is now available online:

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From the history of knowledge to the practice of censorship, the Republic of Letters, textual criticism, and much else(!), it tells a new story about the Old Testament in #EarlyModern Europe.

#Skystorians

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From Familie Marx privat: Die Foto- und Fragebogen-Alben von Marx’ Töchtern Laura und Jenny. Eine kommentierte Faksimile-Edition, herausgegeben von Izumi Omura, Valerij Fomičev, Rolf Hecker und Shun-ichi Kubo, mit einem Essay von Iring Fetscher (Akademie Verlag, 2005)

In the confession album of one of Karl Marx's daughters, you can find the answers of the family dog, Whiskey.
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#Marx #KarlMarx