Stefano Villani
@stefanovil.bsky.social
Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
Pinned
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
@tomaashby.bsky.social
#Marx #KarlMarx
GLIRN – Research Initiative on Global Italian Religious Networks invites news and notices for the Spring 2026 issue of The GLIRN Review.
Share books, conferences, CFPs, fellowships, grants, and opportunities on Italian religious history and its global connections.
as.nyu.edu/departments/...
Share books, conferences, CFPs, fellowships, grants, and opportunities on Italian religious history and its global connections.
as.nyu.edu/departments/...
as.nyu.edu
February 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
GLIRN – Research Initiative on Global Italian Religious Networks invites news and notices for the Spring 2026 issue of The GLIRN Review.
Share books, conferences, CFPs, fellowships, grants, and opportunities on Italian religious history and its global connections.
as.nyu.edu/departments/...
Share books, conferences, CFPs, fellowships, grants, and opportunities on Italian religious history and its global connections.
as.nyu.edu/departments/...
Thrilled to chair and co-organize three EMoDiR panels at RSA San Francisco 2026 on The Devil and Dissent: from demonology and Reformation polemic to political demonization and gendered stage representations #RenTwitter #earlymodern #RenTwitter #earlymodern
February 16, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Thrilled to chair and co-organize three EMoDiR panels at RSA San Francisco 2026 on The Devil and Dissent: from demonology and Reformation polemic to political demonization and gendered stage representations #RenTwitter #earlymodern #RenTwitter #earlymodern
Stefano Villani, «Un abisso di guerre et confusione». Rapporti diplomatici, informazione e doni tra l’Inghilterra della guerra civile e dell’Interregno e la Toscana di Ferdinando II. This chapter examines how Amerigo Salvetti interpreted the English Civil Wars and the Interregnum.
go.umd.edu/26k5
go.umd.edu/26k5
January 28, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Stefano Villani, «Un abisso di guerre et confusione». Rapporti diplomatici, informazione e doni tra l’Inghilterra della guerra civile e dell’Interregno e la Toscana di Ferdinando II. This chapter examines how Amerigo Salvetti interpreted the English Civil Wars and the Interregnum.
go.umd.edu/26k5
go.umd.edu/26k5
My review of Madigan’s The Popes against the Protestants. An interesting book undermined by editorial errors and misprints. If this is becoming the standard, what are we paying for when we buy outrageously expensive books from top university presses?
Full Review: go.umd.edu/26ib or go.umd.edu/26hk
Full Review: go.umd.edu/26ib or go.umd.edu/26hk
January 26, 2026 at 11:13 AM
My review of Madigan’s The Popes against the Protestants. An interesting book undermined by editorial errors and misprints. If this is becoming the standard, what are we paying for when we buy outrageously expensive books from top university presses?
Full Review: go.umd.edu/26ib or go.umd.edu/26hk
Full Review: go.umd.edu/26ib or go.umd.edu/26hk
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
#BCP #BCP #ChurchOfEngland #Anglican #TranslationStudies
Making Italy Anglican
| Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
oajournals.fupress.net
December 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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
#BCP #BCP #ChurchOfEngland #Anglican #TranslationStudies
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📣 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!
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!
What God Kept for Himself — Harvard University Press
A revelatory account of sexual nonconformity and radical religious dissent in Renaissance Italy, drawing on never-before-studied Inquisition trials.Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a se...
www.hup.harvard.edu
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
📣 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!
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!
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✨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
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
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
✨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
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
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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
go.bsky.app/ArYba4T
Let me know if you'd like to be added!
#EarlyModern
January 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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
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
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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/...
🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
📄 Details: as.nyu.edu/content/dam/...
as.nyu.edu
October 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
NYU–Roma Tre Permanent Global Seminar on Religious Diversity in Italian Urban History
🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
📄 Details: as.nyu.edu/content/dam/...
🗓 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/...
Review
as.nyu.edu
October 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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/...
Reposted by Stefano Villani
"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...
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...
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
www.scotsman.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"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...
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...
Reposted by Stefano Villani
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
Tunis, July 14, 2025
July 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Tunis, July 14, 2025
Today (June 9) in Florence: the 2025 Annual Conference of the Global Italian Religious Networks (GLIRN), hosted by NYU
June 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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!
April 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Buon 25 aprile! Viva la Resistenza!
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Terrific from Richard Evans on Christopher Hill and his generation of Marxist historians.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
The thwarted Marxist of Balliol
Christopher Hill was much better at analysing the revolution than he was at fomenting one.
www.newstatesman.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Terrific from Richard Evans on Christopher Hill and his generation of Marxist historians.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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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
April 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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
April 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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)
March 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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
RSVP: bit.ly/Bartov
March 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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
RSVP: bit.ly/Bartov
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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
March 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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
Featuring Bernard Cooperman, @serenadinepi.bsky.social, Germano Maifreda
March 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
'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
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
#BCP #ChurchOfEngland #Anglican #TranslationStudies
go.umd.edu/1x8s
March 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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
#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
Download it here: 🔗 go.umd.edu/1x7t
March 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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
Download it here: 🔗 go.umd.edu/1x7t