A nice surprise: an unexpected review of Making Italy Anglican (2022) has just appeared in Cromohs. Many thanks to Marco Fratini for the careful and generous reading. oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/cr... #BCP #BCP #ChurchOfEngland #Anglican #TranslationStudies

📣 Coming soon 📆 17 Feb 2026 Umberto Grassi, What God Kept for Himself: Atheism, Sodomy, and Radical Dissent in Renaissance Italy (Harvard University Press, 2026) ✨A landmark study of sexual nonconformity and religious dissent in Renaissance Italy. 📚Add to your reading list!

✨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/...

"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!

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

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

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

A lot of old and new friends, and good colleagues to follow in this starter pack go.bsky.app/HkdLzpk

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

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! 📚✨ brill.com/display/titl...

And it’s out! My book is now available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... 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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In the confession album of one of Karl Marx's daughters, you can find the answers of the family dog, Whiskey. @tomaashby.bsky.social #Marx #KarlMarx

As always, just a few reminders: ➡️ If you are not an @emodir.bsky.social member yet but you are working on religious topics in the early modern period, join us! Membership is totally free: emodir.hypotheses.org/partners/mem...

Recent updates, new publications, upcoming events, scholarships, prizes, and much much more... It's December's EMoDiR Newsletter! Compiled by @martinamampieri.bsky.social and Francesco Quatrini, you can find it here: www.academia.edu/125940588/EM... #EarlyModern #skystorians

Per chi si è iscritto da poco ecco qui la directory degli Starter Packs per trovare pacchetti di utenti da seguire per argomenti specifici. Sono migliaia, utilizzate il search per filtrare (italian, ad esempio). Di niente, prego :) #starterpacks blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

I've begun a starter pack of scholars of the early modern Low Countries. Let me know if you want me to add you. #earlymodern 🗃️ go.bsky.app/VsHZ9xJ

Now we’re all settling into this app: the starter packs of #EarlyModern historians for an easy follow — and check the update as some new ones have moved over. 1: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 2: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 There’s still space in that second one so do wave if you’re around and want in! #SkyStorians

The book La Livornina, edited by Lucia Felici, will be published next week. It includes chapters by Lucia Felici, Lucia Frattarelli Fischer, Massimo Bomboni, Stefano Villani, Lorenzo Benedetti, and Daniele Edigati. My essay is La Livornina e gli inglesi (The Livornina and the English).

Ok here's one for medieval Italy, lmk if you want to be added ecco lo starter pack per studiosi docenti entusiasti dell'Italia medioevale, fammi sapere se vuoi essere incluso/a #medioevo #medievalsky #medieval go.bsky.app/GZvMYc9

I started a Publishing Studies and Book History starter pack! Please add friends and let me know if you’d like to be included. go.bsky.app/B1zWxN8

Amazing, welcome to BlueSky! We just added you to our History Journals Starter pack! go.bsky.app/7QNaJcZ

I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you! go.bsky.app/77uSk3m

Another few steps on the road to publication: delighted my forthcoming book has its cover, and some very generous blurbs. #EarlyModern

My latest… ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/lo...