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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Dec 2

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

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · 15d

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

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

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · 15d

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

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 23d

"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...

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

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Jul 15

Tunis, July 14, 2025

Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Apr 25

Buon 25 aprile! Viva la Resistenza!

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · Mar 1

Terrific from Richard Evans on Christopher Hill and his generation of Marxist historians.
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

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Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · Apr 8

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

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

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Apr 3

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

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Mar 30

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)

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.
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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Mar 30

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

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Mar 14

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

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Mar 14

'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

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Mar 9

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

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Mar 7

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

Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Feb 23

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...

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Feb 23

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....

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Jan 23

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

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · Jan 18

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?

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Jan 16

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...

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Alexander Courtney @dralexcourtney.bsky.social · Jan 15

10 new essays on James VI & I.

Publishing March 2025, from Routledge.

#earlymodern #stuarts #KingJames400 #historyteacher

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Stefano Villani @stefanovil.bsky.social · Jan 6

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.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Dec 18

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.)

QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · Dec 17

Another reminder that the deadline for panel and paper proposals for our conference, British History Today, 1-2 May 2025 is 24 Jan. Send to [email protected]

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · Dec 17

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

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