Stefano Villani
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Stefano Villani
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Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382
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
Tunis, July 14, 2025
July 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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
Buon 25 aprile! Viva la Resistenza!
April 25, 2025 at 1:08 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
April 3, 2025 at 6:55 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)
March 30, 2025 at 3:47 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
March 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
'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
March 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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
March 9, 2025 at 1:26 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
March 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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...
February 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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....
February 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Monument to Alexander VII by Bernini (St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City): Truth’s foot strategically stamps on Protestant England!
January 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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...
January 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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.
January 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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)
December 2, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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
December 2, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Marian Comyn, "My Recollections of Marx ." The Nineteenth Century and After 91 ( 1922 ): 161–169
November 23, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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).
November 20, 2024 at 3:36 PM

Villani Stefano, “Alcune note su Ombre parlanti. Trattato molto curioso (1669), sulla sua riedizione letiana del 1671 e sulla sua circolazione manoscritta,” Studi Secenteschi, 2024, LXV, pp. 309-324: academia.edu/124130045/Vi...
October 21, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Join us at the History Department, UMD, for Cenacolo XVIII on May 10, 2024
May 2, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Tomorrow! workshop, 'Rethinking Early Modern Confessionalism' (Lower Library, Robinson Hall, Harvard University). This is part of the Short Peace Network conferences and workshops organized by Noah Millstone
April 12, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Join us today Saturday morning at #RenSA24 for a panel on early modern information exchange and knowledge production!
March 23, 2024 at 1:37 PM
TheERC-sponsored project 'Female Slavery in Mediterranean Catholic Europe, 1500-1800' at Tel Aviv University, under the direction of Prof. Tamar Herzig, is offering up to 2 doctoral scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year. Deadline: March 10th
www.academia.edu/114257219/Fe...
February 19, 2024 at 6:13 PM
'Pope Pius XII and World War II': Roundtable discussion on David Kertzer’s 'The Pope at War' #AHA24
January 5, 2024 at 7:56 PM