Newsletter: of The Society For Italian Historical Studies

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NEWSLETTER
of the Society for Italian Historical Studies
Number 51: 2013 Editor: Roy Domenico
OFFICERS:
Laurie Nussdorfer, President
Mary Gibson, Vice President
Roy Domenico, Executive Secretary-Treasurer
ADVISORY COUNCIL:
George Dameron
Nelson Minnich
John Davis
Mary Gibson
Caroline F. Castiglione
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INTRODUCTION
Greetings fellow Italianisti! I have taken the SIHS reins from Alan Reinerman and I’m
still not sure what to do with them. I can only hope that I don’t disappoint Alan and you!
Of course, the Newsletter is a bit late this year – but now that I know better what I’m
doing, I think we’ll be more on track next year. I think that it’s fitting to have Alan start
the Newsletter with his (last) 2013 report and the minutes of the 2013 meeting (see
below). But first allow me to thank Laurie Nussdorfer, Mary Gibson, Richard Drake and,
above all, Alan Reinerman, for all their help this past year of transition.
Roy Domenico
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section

Page

1. Introduction 1
2. Minutes 1
3 Special Announcements 5
4. Conferences 11
5. Papers and Lectures 13
6. Publications 22
7. Awards, Honors, Fellowships, Grants 34
8. Special Activities in Scholarly Societies 35
9. Appointments and Promotions 37
10. New Courses 38
11. Dissertations 39
12. Research and Writing Projects 40
13. Patrons 46
14 EMail Addresses 47
MINUTES OF THE 2013 ANNUAL MEETING
Report of the Executive Secretary-Treasurer, January 5, 2013
Well, my friends, here we go again, the 57th annual meeting of SIHS, and my 38 th, and last,
report as Secretary –Treasurer.
Our Society is doing reasonably well, all things considered. In particular the situation at
which I expressed great concern in 2010 meeting, that is, the decline in our
membership, has improved,
After I mentioned the problem then, a number of members who had forgotten about dues,
sent them in, many of you worked hard to attract new members, And as a result, enough
new members joined so that despite losses, our membership has held steady.
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But we can’t rest on this success. So let me urge you once again—and for the last time! to
bring SIHS to the attention of any of your colleagues, students, or friends working in our
field who have not yet joined.
Also, if any of you has forgotten to send in dues for 2012, please do so by giving them to me
after the meeting, or sending them to me when you get home.
Treasurer’s Report
As of December 31, 2012, the funds of the Society were as follows:
Checking Account: $6125
Certificate of deposit: $10,000
(for Marraro Award)
So, our financial situation is OK at present, but there are dark clouds on the horizon, as I
reported last year: First and foremost, funding our Marraro Award from the interest on our
CD.
Prof. Marraro originally gave us $ 3000. By careful management, I was able to increase this
to its present $10,000. In those happy far off days when CDs were paying around 6%, that
was sufficient even though we increased our award from $300 to $750.
Now, alas, the Fed in its wisdom has reduced the bank rate to 0%, and a good CD rate seems to
be about 1/4of 1%, which gives us the munificent sum of $25.
The second problem, is the inflation which is driving up our costs for such things as dues to
the AHA and the bar at the Social Hour.
Against these expenses, and to some degree countering them, is the good news I reported last
year:
Mrs. Helen Cappadocia, widow of Professor Ezio Cappadocia, has agreed to
provide the $400 for the Award for the Best Unpublished Manuscript.
This will relieve us of one major expense, and I would like to express our
thanks for her generosity
To sum up, our solvency is not immediately threatened—we can meet our obligations for the
next few years; but we will have to give this situation serious thought in coming years.
But that will be for others to deal with, since I will retire as Executive Secretary later this
month.
I made this decision reluctantly, but I feel that this is necessary, both because of my own health
problems, and also because the Society really needs a college department’s support, both
financially and in terms of secretarial support.
I deeply regret this necessity. I have served as Secretary since 1975, and found it an immensely
interesting, challenging and rewarding experience. (Someone asked me earlier if I intended to
give a general review of those 38 years—I pondered whether this question sprang from the
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historian’s deep desire to learn the full story, which obliges me to spend an hour or so
delivering it, but decided it sprang from deep apprehension that I might intend to ramble on so
long we might never get on to the bar at the Social Hour.
But relax--there is no need to sneak out I only plan make a few remarks to sum up my
stewardship)
Our Society grew out of the American branch of the Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento in
Rome. In 1956, its members decided to expand it to become our SIHS. Its gradual growth was
stimulated by the bequest of Professor Marraro to set up the Award that bears his name in
1972. When I took this job in 1975, SIHS had grown to about 90 members. At that time, our
Annual meeting consisted only of a Business Meeting, and a joint AHA-SIHS session. I felt we
were not living up to our potential, and resolved to improve it.
I took two steps. First, I introduced the Social Hour, including free drinks, partly to improve
congeniality, partly to show members they were getting something for their dues. This was an
immediate success, one that continues to this day. Second, I began to add other SIHS sessions
along with our joint AHA session, so as to involve more members in the meeting and to allow a
wider range of topics to be covered. These efforts seemed successful. Our membership grew
steadily, until at our high point in 2005, it numbered well over 300. Participation in the annual
meeting also grew steadily.
Perhaps, from one point of view, I should have retired in 2005, because then, of course came
the economic crisis, with its consequent drop in membership and its threat to our financial
solvency. I’m glad I didn’t, though—I would have deprived myself of seven more years of a
job that I love and of the chance to help turn things around, as I think is now happening
Well, enough of that. Time to stop.
I retire with regret, but with confidence that I have been able to put SIHS again on an upward
track and that this progress will continue under the leadership of Roy Domenico backed by the
cooperation of our members.
I also retire with a lot of good memories. And I must add one of the things I enjoyed most
about being S-T, was the number of good people and fine scholars I’ve been privileged to meet
over the years, including a lot of friends that I might otherwise never have made
So—carry on, keep up the good work, make me proud of you

Good bye and good luck
Respectfully submitted,
Alan J. Reinerman
MINUTES OF THE 2013 SIHS ANNUAL MEETING
The Business Meeting was called to order at 5:25 p.m. on Saturday, January 5,
2013, at 5:25 P.M, in Salon 816 of the Sheraton New Orleans.
Some thirty members were present.
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The President, Richard R. Drake, welcomed those members present.
The Executive Secretary, Alan J. Reinerman, read his report. Membership in the Society,
after years of decline due mainly to the economic situation, had recovered somewhat, as
old members returned to pay their dues and new members joined. Nonetheless, he warned
against complacency and urged members of the Society to continue to bring it to the
attention of their colleagues and students so that the rebound might continue.
The Financial situation of the Society was as follows:
Checking Account: $5875
Certificate of deposit: $10.000 (for Marraro Award)
He warned that, although our financial position is solid at present, a looming problem lies
in the decline of the interest rate on our CD, from which our Marraro Award is paid; this is
now at 1%, far less than the amount of the award. This will cause problems in the future if
interest rates do not rise. Another problem lies in the steady inflation of our expenses such
as our costs for the annual meeting, both the dues to the AHA and the price of the bar for
the Social Hour (this last point explains why it has been necessary to have a cash bar at
very expensive cities such as New York and Boston) Some compensation has come from
the generous agreement of Mrs. Helen Cappadocia to provide the $400 for our Award for
the Best Unpublished Manuscript, as described in the last Newsletter.
He then explained that he will retire this January from the position of Executive Secretary
Treasurer, which he had held since 1975. He regretted this, since had found the office a
challenging and rewarding experience, but felt it necessary, both because of his health
problems, and because the Society needed the support of a college department. He then
briefly reviewed the history of SIHS, from its origins as the US branch of the Istituto per la
Storia del Risorgimento in Rome, which broke off in 1956 to become the SIHS. A long
period of gradual growth followed. The pace increased with the introduction in 1976 of the
Social Hour, which proved very popular, and of the present practice of adding to the joint
session with the AHA, three or four sessions sponsored solely by SIHS, which greatly
increased the Society’s presence at the meeting, and the number of members who could
take part. He concluded by expressing his best wishes to SIHS, and his conviction that it
would continue to flourish under the leadership of its new Executive Secretary, Roy
Domenico.
The Chair of the Award and Citation Committee, Laurie Nussdorfer, gave her report. The
winner of The Ezio Cappadocia Award for the Best Unpublished Manuscript in Italian
History for 2012 is Andrew Berns for his pathbreaking dissertation entitled “The Natural
Philosophy of the Biblical World: Jewish and Christian Physicians in the Late Italian
Renaissance”. The Award to a Senior Scholar was given to Nancy Siraisi.
The Chair of the Marraro Prize Committee Marla Stone, her report. The Helen and
Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society was given to Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith
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College. Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York
City, 18801945. University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Marla Stone reported that The Marraro Prize committee (Nick Terpstra, Alison Frazier
and Marla Stone, Chair)) finished its deliberations and awarded the SIHS Marraro Prize
to Laura Wittman (Stanford Italian Department) for The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,
Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body (University of Toronto
Press, 2012)
Through her complex analysis of the creation and reception of the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier in Italy, France, and England, Wittman offers
the compelling story of the politics and culture surrounding death,
memory, and the modern self in the wake of World War I. Mobilizing a
vast array of sources and disciplines, from history of psychiatry to
literary history, Wittman reveals the deep trauma of mass death and
the powerful particularity of its expression across a range of
European postwar societies.
The Chair of the Nominating Committee, Richard Jensen, gave his report. He nominated
Mary Gibson, for VicePresident, and, proforma, that Laurie Nussdorfer be elevated to
President. The report was unanimously approved.
The Business Meeting was adjourned at 6:10 p.m. It was followed by the Social
Hour, attended by some fifty members.
Respectfully submitted,
Alan J. Reinerman
Executive Secretary
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
"The SIHS website continues to expand and improve. In addition to providing an ever-
growing list of online resources, we now offer a more streamlined, user-friendly
membership registration page. In 2014, we hope to start featuring archive guides,
produced by members to assist researchers and graduate students. If you are interested in
contributing, or have links to digital resources that you would like to be featured on the
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site, please contact the webmaster, Joshua Arthurs of West Virginia University
(Joshua.Arthurs@mail.wvu.edu)."
H-ITALY is in the process of moving to the new H-Net Commons, the new platform for
all H-Net Networks. When the new site is operational, in addition to the dissemination of
information by email to members, the new N-Net Commons will allow members to host
blogs and discussions about H-Net book reviews. It will allow members to post links,
essays, images, audios and PDFs. In short, it will greatly enhance how we connect across
the six continents and the over 50 countries represented by our membership.
I am always looking for volunteers if you are interested in working with me in setting up
the new site; if you are willing to become a book reviewer or serve on our Board, please
contact me at arpaia@mail.h-net.msu.edu If you would like more information about the
H-Net Commons go to: http://networks.h-net.org/node/905/pages/1427/h-net-commons-
transition-faq
Meeting, American Academy for Advanced Study in the Renaissance

With financing from the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award, Edward
Muir is organizing with his Northwestern colleague, Regina Schwartz, The Academy for
Advanced Study in the Renaissance to be held in the spring of 2014 at the American
Academy in Rome and Oxford University. The Academy will be open to 12 advanced
graduate students from NU and elsewhere on a competitive basis and will involve 30
distinguished Renaissance scholars from North America and Europe. Information may be
obtained by writing to e-muir@northwestern.edu.
Modern Italy, Journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, is published
quarterly by Routledge/T+F and is a fully peer reviewed journal. It welcomes unsolicited
articles or reviews, or offers thereof.All submissions should be made electronically. For
more information please visit the journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13532944.asp. The editors are currently Philip
Cooke (p.e.cooke@strath.ac.uk) and John Foot (j.foot@bristol.ac.uk).
News on the Rialto is an annual publication designed to provide an informational point of

reference for scholars working on all aspects of Venetian Studies, including political,
economic, social, religious, artistic, architectural, musical and literary history of the city,
its overseas empire, and its mainland territories. Subscription is $10 per
year. Information is available online at http://www.newsontherialto.com, or from
Professor Eric Dursteler, 2129 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602.
Ricerca sull’Inchiesta della Congregazione dell’Indice (RICI) is a collaborative project

under the direction of Roberto Rusconi that surveys books held by various religious
houses in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. A lisitng of such books was ordered
by the Congregation of the Index of Prohibited Books. Volumes containing these lists
were transferred in 1917 to the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and are preserved there as
Vaticani Latini 11266-11326. A team of scholars,each taking a different religious order, is
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systematically studying these lists. For more information on the project,
seehttp://ebusiness.taipropora.it/bib/index.asp
Stanislao Pugliese is organizing a three-day international conference devoted to soccer

at Hofstra University on April 10-12, 2014. For more information see:
www.hofstra.edu/soccercon
The American Academy in Rome online application form for the 2013-2014 Rome
Prize competition is currently available on the Academy website at www.aarome.org.
The American Academy in Rome is the oldest American overseas center for independent
study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities.
For one hundred years the Academy's eleven acre center in Rome has provided an
inspiring environment for those who practice the fine and liberal arts.
The Rome Prize is awarded annually to about thirty candidates, each selected by a jury of
distinguished peers through a national competition.
The winners are invited to Rome to pursue their work for periods ranging from six
months to two years. They are provided with stipends, residential accommodation,
meals, private studies or studios, and most important, an atmosphere conducive to
intellectual and artistic freedom, interdisciplinary exchange, and innovation.
Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University is a museum and research center that
promotes the examination of modern visual and material culture. The focus of the
Wolfsonian collection is on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda,
architecture, and industrial and graphic design of the period 1885-1945. The collection
includes works on paper (including posters, prints and design drawings), furniture,
paintings, sculpture, glass, textiles, ceramics, lighting and other appliances, and many
other kinds of objects. The Wolfsonian’s library has approximately 50,000 rare books,
periodicals, and ephemeral items.
The Wolfsonian’s collection is an important resource for the study of Italian culture and
politics in the first half of the twentieth century. The Wolfsonian holds an outstanding
collection of Italian Stile Floreale furniture and decorative art, as well as rare publications
that document Italian design of this period. The collection also has strong holdings of
Futurist decorative and graphic art, publications about Rationalist architecture, and
exhibition catalogs from the 1920s and 1930s. A number of significant journals – such as
Domus, Capitolium, Emporium, Casabella – complement these holdings.
Books, journals, fine art, posters, and other objects in the collection address key aspects
of the Fascist regime, including the Duce cult; Italian colonization of North Africa; the
planning of new towns; the celebration of aeronautic achievements; the autarchy
campaign; youth and student organizations; Romanità; and sports and fitness campaigns.
The Wolfsonian also has a substantial amount of Italian war propaganda, including an
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archive of propaganda material produced under the Italian Social Republic.
Besides material from Italy, the Wolfsonian also has extensive holdings from the United
States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands. There are also smaller but
significant collections of materials from a number of other countries, including Austria,
Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, the former Soviet Union and Hungary.
Fellowships are intended to support full-time research, generally for a period of three to
five weeks. The program is open to holders of master’s or doctoral degrees, Ph.D.
candidates, and to others who have a significant record of professional achievement in
relevant fields. Applicants are encouraged to discuss their project with the Fellowship
Coordinator prior to submission to ensure the relevance of their proposals to the
Wolfsonian’s collection.
The application deadline is December 31, for residency during the 2014-2015 academic
years.
For information, please contact:

Fellowship Coordinator/Research Associate
The Wolfsonian-FIU
1001 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
305-535-2613 (phone)
305-531-2133 (fax)
research@thewolf.fiu.edu
https://www.wolfsonian.org/research-library/fellowships
Quincentenary
At First Vespers of the Solemnity of All Saints Pope Benedict XVI
commemorated the act in which 500 years before Pope Julius II inaugurated the fresco of
the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, in which the ceremony was held. He recalled that
Michelangelo at the request of Julius executed the fresco in about four years, from 1508
to 1512, and he quoted Giorgio Vasari’s famous passage in The Lives of the Most
Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: “This work was and is truly the lamp of our
art that gave so much benefit and light to the art of painting, which has been sufficient to
illuminate the world.”
A conference on “Das Konzil von Trient und die Katholische Konfessionskultur (1563
2013),” marking the 450th anniversary of the conclusion of the Council of Trent, will be
held on September 1821, 2013, in the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of
Freiburg. The program can be found athttp://www.corpuscatholicorum.de/.
The fortyfirst international conference on Franciscan studies “Ubertino da Casale” will
take place in Assisi on October 1820, 2013. Alberto Cadili will deliver a paper on
“L’’enigma’ degli ultimi anni di Ubertino.” For full details he may be consulted
at cadili@fscire.it.
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ACHA Awards:
Anne Jacobson Schutte, Professor of History, Emerita, University of Virginia and author
of By Force and Fear: Taking and Breaking Monastic Vows in Early Modern
Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press) was selected as the 2012 Marraro Book
Prize recipient by the ACHA. In announcing the award, the Marraro committee noted that
"In a lively text marked by vivid examples, Anne Jacobson Schutte masterfully revises
our picture of how religious houses fit into early modern family dynamics. Men as well
as women were forced into vows, often through a violence shaped by strategy and
circumstance that left deep scars. Schutte carefully lays out the institutional apparatus of
the houses and the legal processes for release from vows, and offers a rich store of data
for further examination."
Benjamin D. Reed, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received the John Tracy
Ellis dissertation award for “Devotion to Saint Philip Neri in Colonial Mexico City." The
committee agreed that Mr. Reed’s research on the Oratorians was of exceptional
significance. The Oratorians, as he explained, contributed to “modernizing the role of
priests” during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries at a time when modern
Catholicism was experiencing major changes due to the Council of Trent, the
Reformation movements, and the increasing European involvement in the Americas. His
innovative work will provide “the first indepth history of [one of the] Congregations of
the Oratory in the Spanish Empire.” Mr. Reed’s proposal demonstrated several
strengths. His project is thoughtful and wellconceived. He has already completed a
significant amount of research and he communicates his findings clearly and precisely.
The project requires considerable methodological sophistication, which is reflected in
work already completed. As historians begin to study the effects of Vatican II, Mr.
Reed’s study of an earlier reform movement will be of considerable interest."

The Prefect of the Apostolic Vatican Library, Msgr. Cesare Pasini, announced the
availability of the first 256 manuscripts now digitized and accessible through the
Digitized Materials link on the Library’s website homepage.

Center for Migration Studies Moves to More Accessible Location in Manhattan
The Center for Migration Studies has announced its move from Staten Island to 27
Carmine Street, New York, New York 10014, a building in Greenwich Village easily
accessible to researchers. As CMS is a mission of the Society of Saint Charles
Scalabrinians, a congregation of priests and brothers dedicated to the care of immigrants,
the archive is committed to documenting the immigrant experience. Its collections cover
two broad areas. Many contain personal papers, institutional records, publications and
photographs generated by settled immigrants, mostly Italian Americans, in various areas
of the United States. However, CMS is unique in its documentation of the experience of
migration; several collections were created by agencies offering handson care of
immigrants passing through Ellis Island or the El Paso border, or by advocacy groups
lobbying Congress on behalf of immigrants. Over the years since the founding of CMS
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in 1964, researchers have found endless use for these records. Now the records are even
more accessible to scholars, coming into Manhattan by car or train, and to those traveling
around New York City by subway or bus. Space is available for researchers, with room
for computer and scanner use. A project is underway to put CMS finding guides on the
Internet to facilitate planning, but for the time being, interested researchers are invited to
email cms@cmsny.org
.

On March 69, 2014 the nineteenth biennial New College Conference on
Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place in Sarasota, Florida. The program
committee invites 250word abstracts of proposed twentyminute papers on topics in
European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music, and religion from the fourth to
the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the
conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are welcome;
please see the new guidelines at http://www.newcollegeconference.org/cfp.

The University of Pennsylvania Italian Studies offers lectures and conferences in Italian
history. It can be accessed at http://www.sas.upenn.edu/italians/center. On April 24-24,
2014 it will host an international interdisciplinary conference on "The Myth of the
Great War" to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. The conference is
organized by Fabio Finotti, Chris Poggi, and Jonathan Steinberg and will be hosted by the
Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Call for papers: Proposals are invited from scholars across the disciplines/ Vi invitiamo a
proporre un intervento in qualsiasi disciplina.
Before being a reality, war is a creation of the imagination, a legendary elaboration of the
past, a utopia for the future. From the Risorgimento to Fascism, the myth of war always
preceded military confrontations, painted them with its own colors, and transfigured them
in different ways. State religion gave war a holy character, made it the locus of the
consecration of lay martyrs and the foundational event of civic rites. The celebration of
progress, of the machine, of Darwinian selection, presented war as the apotheosis of
futurist modernity. The dream of a collectivity without hierarchies painted war as fusion
of the intellectuals with the people and as fraternal experience. Different ideas of war
gave rise to different ways to represent and remember it. The conference will not
examine war only as symbolic form of socio-political language but also as poetic, artistic,
musical, and cinematographic language.
250 word proposals and a brief vita (no cv please!) should be submitted
toitalians@sas.upenn.edu by February 20, 2014/ Inviate una proposta di 250 parole e
una breve vita (non un curriculum!) a italians@sas.upenn.edu entro il 20 febbrario 2014.
William Connell reports from Seton Hall University: The Valente Italian Library at
Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, now boasts the largest collection of
books in the United States devoted specifically to the study of Italian history and culture.
During 2012-2013 substantial donations of books were received from the estates of
historians A. William Salamone and Patricia H. Labalme. Past donors of significant
numbers of books in the field of Italian history have included Gene Brucker, Sebastian de
Grazia, Donald R. Kelley, Benjamin Kohl and Paul Grendler. All donations are tax-
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deductible at fair market value. The Valente Library collects books, documents and
artifacts in all areas of Italian and Italian American culture. Gifts from libraries that are
downsizing are welcome. All books receive bookplates stating the name of the donor.
For further information, please contact Bill Connell (william.connell@shu.edu).
Gregory Hanlon reports from Canada: Dalhousie has closed down individual web pages
for all its professors. As a result, I have migrated my great bibliography, “Early Modern
Italy: A comprehensive bibliography of titles in English and French”, to my
Academia.edu page. It remains on Open Access for scholars and students alike.
There has been some talk of closing the Italian Consulate in Philadelphia and those
interested in keeping it open have established a petition and invite signatures toward that
end. The petition can be accessed at https://www.change.org/petitions/minister-of-
foreign-affairs-emma-bonino-prime-minister-enrico-letta-keep-the-consulate-general-of-
italy-open-in-philadelphia-mantenete-aperta-la-sede-consolare-di-filadelfia.
TUSCANY (Valdarno) 30-45 min. to Florence/Arezzo/Siena

Two recently renovated and spacious rental accommodations (circa 130 mt.sq. each,
sleep: 4/5 and 5/6. ). Kitchens fully equipped, all linens supplied. WI-FI, SAT-TV &
DVD. Family friendly. Ideally located for day trips to sites of historic interest and
archives/libraries in Florence (30 min. train from Montevarchi to Campo di Marte station
in Florence = 10 min walk from ASF). Gardens and gorgeous views. Swimming nearby.
Car necessary. 5% discount for SIHS members See
website: www.poggiolotuscany.com, for more information. E-
mail:info@poggiolotuscany.com.
CONFERENCES
The Society sponsored three academic sessions at its annual meeting with the AHA
in New Orleans, January 36, 2012
Jewish Society and Culture in Italy during the Enlightenment and

Napoleonic Period, 1750–1815
Friday, January 4, 2013: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Salon 816 (Sheraton New Orleans)
Chair: Benjamin Braude, Boston College
Sociability and National Separation:Jewish Coffeehouses and Gambling Houses in Eighteenth-

Century Livorno
Francesca Bregoli, Queens College, City University of New York
One Woman, Two Husbands, Three Laws: The Making of Civil Law and Divorce in Habsburg and
Napoleonic Trieste
Lois Dubin, Smith College
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Two Aspects in the Life of Italian Jewry under Napoleon: Education and Conversion to
Christianity
Alexander Grab, University of Maine
Comment: Federica Francesconi, University of Oregon
Moving across Frontiers: Italian Stories in a Global Frame
Saturday, January 5, 2013: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Bayside Ballroom C (Sheraton New Orleans)
Chair: Silvana Patriarca, Fordham University
Mazzini, Slavery, and the American Civil War: Transnational Perspectives on Republicanism,
Nationalism, and Emancipation
Enrico Dal Lago, National University of Ireland, Galway
Italy versus the "Mad Mullah": Negotiating Costs, Violence, and International Reputation in the
Wars against Mohammed Abdullah Hassan of Somalia
Mark I. Choate, Brigham Young University
Italy's Diaspora Politics: A Continuing History
Guido Tintori, University of Leiden
Comment: Dominique K. Reill, University of Miami
Italy on the 150th Centenary of National Unification: Issues of Unity and

Identity
Saturday, January 5, 2013: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Salon 816 (Sheraton New Orleans)
Chair: Roland Sarti, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Celebrations between History and Politics

Mario Di Napoli, University of Rome La Sapienza; Giuliana Limiti, University of Rome Tre
The International Context
Giuseppi Monsagrati, University of Rome La Sapienza
Two Different Approaches to Italy: Pius IX's Confrontation versus Pius XII's Conciliation
Frank J. Coppa, Saint John's University
The South and the Risorgimento: Histories and Counter-Histories
John A. Davis, University of Connecticut at Storrs
Comment: Roland Sarti, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Schedule for the Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, 2012-2013
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All meetings take place at Columbia’s Casa Italiana (aka The Italian Academy, 1161
Amsterdam Avenue) in the 5th floor seminar room beginning at 6:15 pm.
October 12--Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University, “After Neorealism. Screening the

Resistance in the Age of Posthistory." Respondent: David Forgacs, New York University
November 9--Umberto Gentiloni, Università di Terramo, “The Pending Republic. Italy

and the United States During the Cold War.” Respondent: John Davis, University of
Connecticut, Storrs
December 7--Frank Rosengarten, Professor Emeritus, City University of New York,

“Giacomo Leopardi: Maverick Poet of the Common Man.” Respondent: Elizabeth
Leake, Columbia University
February 8--Gerald Steinacher, University of Nebraska, “With the Pope’s Blessing? The
Pontifical Commission for Refugees in Rome and its Aid to Nazi and Axis War
Criminals.” Respondent: David Kertzer, Brown University
March 8--David Forgacs, New York University, “Three Stylemes in Neorealism: The
Long Take, the Pan and Crane Shot." Respondent: Nelson Moe, Barnard College
April 19--Mary Gibson, John Jay College and the Graduate School, City University of
New York, “From the Papal States to ‘Roma Capitale’: Prisons in Nineteenth-Century
Italy.” Respondent: Frank Snowden, Yale University
For futher information on the Columbia Seminar:
http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/studies-
in-modern-italy/
Book Launch for A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance by Claudio Pavone
occurred on December 4, 2013 at Columbia University’s Lehman Center
Originally published in 1991, Claudio Pavone’s A Civil War was the first history to
render the full moral-political dimensions of Italy’s terrible years, 1943-1945: years of
war, occupation, resistance, neo-fascism, and fratricidal struggle. Resistance fighter,
archivist, professor, and historian, Pavone and his work was discussed by three
Anglophone historians deeply touched by his activities as a humanist and scholar on the
occasion of the A Civil War‘s publication in English.
Panelists:
Victoria de Grazia, Professor of History, Columbia University
Mark Mazower, Professor of History, Columbia University
Stanislao Pugliese, Professor of History, Hofstra University
http://www.bei.columbia.edu/events/book-launch-for-a-civil-war-a-history-of-the-italian-
resistance-by-claudio-pavone/
On October 21, Christopher Duggan delivered a talk on “Fascist Voices: An Intimate

History of Mussolini’s Italy at the Cesare Barbieri Center of Trinity College.
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PAPERS AND LECTURES
JOSHUA ARTHURS:
Contributor to the two-year workshop Political and Social Violence in Postwar Europe:
Outcomes and Research Perspectives, coordinated by the Istituto per la Storia
della Resistenza, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2013-2014.
“The Excavatory Intervention: Archaeology as Practice, Performance and Rhetoric in
Fascist Rome.” Revolution and Eternity: Workshop on Fascism’s Temporality,
Italo-German Center for European Excellence, Villa Vigoni, Italy, March 2013.
“The Fall of Mussolini: Italy’s ‘Forty-Five Days’ in History and Memory.” Memories of
Conflict, Conflicts of Memory, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory,
University College London, UK, February 2013.
Chair and Commenter, “Urban Experiences of War: Military Occupations of Cities since
1800.” Annual Conference of the Urban History Association, New York, October
2012.
“After Mussolini: Roma capitale, the Fall of Fascism and the ‘Death of the Nation.’”
Nationalism and the City, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK, February 2012.
DANIEL BORNSTEIN:
“Other Catherines”; conference on “Early Modern Religious: Comparative Contexts”;
Newberry Library, Chicago; March 2013
Organized and chaired panel on “La Roma dei Romani: Trecento Rome without the
Popes” for annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Knoxville TN, April 4
6, 2013.
Chaired panel on “Individual and Social Constructions of Identity in the Medieval
Mediterranean” at annual conference of the MidAmerica Medieval Association, Kansas
City, KS, April 21, 2013.
H. JAMES BURGWYN:
6 November 2012: Paper delivered at the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmans’s Club
in New York City: “Italian Military Performance in World War II.”
MARK I. CHOATE:
“Emigration as ‘economic development,’ immigration as ‘foreign aid’: Representations
of transnational citizenship, remittances, and trade.” The Language of Difference:
Mechanisms of Inclusion and Exclusion of Migrants 19452005, Leiden University,
Netherlands, January 2010.
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“Italy vs. the ‘Mad Mullah’: Negotiating costs, violence, and international reputation in
the wars against Mohammed Abdullah Hassan of Somalia.” 127th Annual Meeting
of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2013.
“Why We Need a New History of Italian Americans: A Roundtable.” E Pluribus: What Is
Italian America? the 45th Annual Conference of the Italian American Studies
Association, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, November 2012.
Keynote address, “The Making of Italy in the U.S. West: Migration, Remittances, and
Transnational Development.” Conference on Immigration to the U.S. West, Charles
Redd Center for U.S. Western Studies, Provo, Utah, August 2011.
Panel Chair, "Italy: Religion and Human Rights." 20th Annual Law and Religion
Symposium, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 2013.
ELIZABETH S. COHEN:
"The Papal Steward's Charity: Alms, Adultery, and Ambiguity in Tending Two
Households (1604)" for the international conference, 'Early Modern Rome 2: 1341-1667',
Rome, Italy, October 2013.
"Moving Words: Everyday Oralities and Social Dynamics in Roman Trials." Plenary
lecture for the international conference, 'Oral and Written Cultures in Early Modern Italy',
European Research Council project directed by Brian Richardson, University of Leeds,
UK, September 2013.
"Women in a 'Male' City: From Sex Ratios to Social Relations in Rome circa 1600".
Plenary lecture for the international conference, 'Gender in Medieval and Modern
Towns', University of Southern Denmark (Odense), May 2013
"Life After Violence: Artemisia Gentileschi and the Letters of 1620" Renaissance
Society of America, San Diego, April 2013
"Popes Say Don't; People Do. Adultery in Proscription and Practice in Rome circa 1600."
Research talk, Department of History, York University, March 2013.
"Eating Out and Taking Away: Food and Sociability in Rome circa 1600," international
conference: 'Foodways: Diasporic Diners, Transnational Tables, and Culinary
Connections,' University of Toronto, October 2012
THOMAS V. COHEN:
“Roman Law Meets Village Custom, Summoning Peasant Senses to Craft a Tale
(1557),” Turku, 29 May, 2010 (this should come out in print this fall in Cultural
History
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"On a Summer's Eve a Traveller...", in Tales from the Streets of Early Modern
Europe, Renaissance Society of America, Montreal, March 23, 2011
(with Elizabeth S. Cohen", "Cacaphony on the Page: Making Written Words

Speak in Italian Criminal Trials" The 2011 Distinguished Visiting Speakers in
Medieval Studies, Sir Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, March 30 2011
"Confrontation in Italian courts: was it a real conversation?", Gossip, Gospel,

Governance: Orality in Europe 1400-1700, British Academy / University of
Northumbria, London, 14 July, 2011. This was a keynote address to start the
conference off.
"The Historian as Ventroquist," for Graduate Colloquium, Department of History,

University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV, 30 Sept, 2011.
"Entanglement: how the whole world worked, and how Jews latched on," keynote
for Early Modern Workshop in Jewish History, Brown University, Providence, 26-
27 February 2012
Seminar, The Art and Agency Forum, University of Leiden : "Beauty and Danger:
The Cultural and Social Anthropology of Art in Renaissance Rome." 21 May,
2012
How did a Soldier Talk to a Renaissance Bandit," The 2013 Charles Lecture,
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, Feb. 11, 2013 (I also gave a
pedagogical talk on simulation games for history students and guest-taught in four
courses.)
chair, panel: "Politics" for A Celebration of Early Modern Studies, one day
conference at CRRS, U Toronto, 1 March, 2013.
organizer and discussant for roundtable: "Gifts between Jews and Christians in the
Renaissance" (Serena di Nepi and Marina Caffiero, both of Università di Roma,
"La Sapienza" and myself, Renaissance Society of America conference, San
Diego, 4 April, 2013.
commentator for two sessions, chair for one, "Food and the Body in the
Renaissance: Appetites, Desires, and Norms," Renaissance Society of America
conference, San Diego, 5 April, 2013.
KATHLEEN M. COMERFORD:
Roundtable, “A New Journal: Journal of Jesuit Interdisciplinary Studies,” participant
(Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 2012)
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SCSC President’s Young Scholar Breakfast Session: Organizer and Chair of the
roundtable: “Academic Mission Creep: Advice from the Trenches on How to Live your
Life and Still Get Tenure” (Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 2012)
Organizer of five sessions, Renaissance Society of America Conference, San Diego, CA

2012
Chair and Commentator, “International Psalms,” Renaissance Society of America

Conference, San Diego, CA 2012
Chair, “Brill’s Companion to Ignatius of Loyola I” and “Brill’s Companion to Ignatius of

Loyola II,” Renaissance Society of America Conference, San Diego, CA 2012
“All Politics is Local: The Medici-Habsburg Axis, 1532–88,” paper presented at

Renaissance Society of America Conference, San Diego, CA 2012
WILLIAM J. CONNELL:
“Datación de la elaboración de El Principe de Maquiavelo: inicio y culminación,” XI
Congreso Nacional de Ciencia Politica, Parana, Argentina, 17-20 July 2013
Round Table Discussion of Miguel Saralegui, Maquiavelo y la contradicción, XI

Congreso Nacional de Ciencia Politica, Parana, Argentina, 17-20 July 2013.
“World Without Beginning,” keynote paper for the workshop, The Age of the World in
the Renaissance, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, 26 April
2013.
Discussant at the conference “Finances and Liberty in Rome’s Transition from Republic
to Principate,” Tucson, AZ, 6-8 March 2013.
“L’éternité du monde,” at the conference Le temps et les temporalités dans la

Renaissance, Université de Paris IX, Paris, 6 February 2013.
“Giannozzo Manetti fra Bruni, Sozomeno e Machiavelli,” presentation panel, Pistoia,

Italy, 3 February 2013.
Prepared comment for the panel, “Catholicism in the Sixteenth Century,” a joint session
of the American Catholic Historical Association and the American Historical Association,
New Orleans, 5 January 2013.
“The Routledge History of the Italian Americans and the future of Ethnic History,” panel
discussion, Italian American Studies Association, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 27
November 2012.
“Who’s Afraid of Columbus?” Italian American Studies Association, Hofstra University,

Hempstead, NY, 27 November 2012.
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“What a New Italian American History Would Look Like,” 9th Annual Convocation of
Italian American Organizations, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 10 October
2012.
“Beginnings and Endings: The Writing of The Prince,” a paper at the conference
“Перечитывая Макиавелли: у истоков современной науки. Идеи и политическая
практика через века и страны,” Institute of Universal History, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, 26-27 September 2012.
“The Republics of the Italian Renaissance,” inaugural lecture, Legatum Institute Summer
School, Montalcino, Italy, 30 July 2012.
ROY DOMENICO:
“The Holy See and the American Threat during the Cold War,” paper delivered at the
joint American Historical Association/American Catholic Historical Association meeting,
New Orleans, La., January 3-6, 2013.
“Catholics, the Dolce Vita and the Montesi Scandal,” paper delivered at conference on
scandals, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA., June 21-22, 2012.
MARY GIBSON:
“From the Papal States to Roma capitale: Prisons in Nineteenth-Century Italy,”
International Research Center in Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna, 2012.
KENNETH GOUWENS:
“What Posthumanism Isn’t” (invited talk, conference on Renaissance Posthumanism,
Rice University, May, 2012).
“Gender and Cultural Decline in Giovio’s ‘Ischian’ Dialogue” (invited seminar
presentation, New York University, April, 2012).
“Simian Nature in the Renaissance” (Shakespeare Association of America Annual
Meeting, Boston, April, 2012).
“Simian Nature and Human Nature in the Renaissance” (invited seminar presentation,
Harvard University, October, 2011).
PAUL F. GRENDLER:
“The Jesuit Schools of Europe: Historiographical Issues,” at the Sixteenth Century
Studies Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 26, 2012.
Informal presentation on my research on the Jesuits at the Archivium Romanum
Societatis Iesu, September 26, 2013.
“Jesuit Schools and Universities in Italy, 15481773,” University of Scranton, October
21, 2013, Public lecture.
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MAURA HAMETZ:
“Family Matters: Kinship and Nationhood in the Post-World War I Adriatic Borderlands,”
German Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, 6 October 2013.
“Northern Jews in Southern Lands: Jewish Divides in US Civil Rights,” Jews, Colonialism
and Post-Colonialism, Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research,
University of Cape Town, in association with the AHRB Parkes Centre, University of
Southampton, Cape Town, South Africa, 10 April 2013.
“The Post--‐WWI Transformations of Trieste’s Jews: Modernity and Ethnicity,” Religion and
Identity in Europe and Beyond: Between Hybridity and Ethnicity, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat
Gan, Israel, 13 June 2012.
“Irredentismo adriatico di Angelo Vivante: Una vista dell’estero,” Attualità di Irredentismo
Adriatico nel centenario della pubblicazione, International Students of History Association,
TriesteKoper, TrstCapodistria, Gruppo studentesco presso l’Università di Trieste, 20 April
2012.
KATHERINE L. JANSEN:
Public Lecture, “The Practice of Peace in Late Medieval Florence,” Columbia University
(27 Sept. 2012)
Panel organizer and presenter, “Peacemaking, Performance & Power in Thirteenth-

Century San Gimignano” in The Politics of Peacemaking: In Honor of William C. Jordan,
Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, April 2013
Comment, “Preaching to Place: Prague Sermons from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth

Centuries,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, Jan.
2013
Invited Speaker, “The Spiritual Geography of Charles II of Anjou” in “Geographies of

Desire”: A Medieval and Early Modern Interdisciplinary Conference University of
Maryland, College Park, April 27-28, 2012
Panel organizer and Presenter, “Penance and Peace-making in Late Medieval Italy,” The
New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota Florida, 8-12
March 2012.
RICHARD B. JENSEN:
“TR, the Anarchists, and Presidential Protection,” Theodore Roosevelt: Life, Times and
Legacy. An International Conference. Louisiana State University, Shreveport, 19 October
2012.
“The Pre1914 Anarchist ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist and Governmental Responses,”
Conference on Lonewolf and Autonomous Cells Terrorism, Uppsala University,
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Sweden. 24 September 2012.
ANNE LEADER:
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, San Diego 2013
Panel: Situating Patterns of Patronage in the Italian Renaissance City (coorganizer)
Paper: Santa Croce as Communal Burial Ground (speaker)
SARAH BLAKE McHAM:

“The High Altar at the Santo: Materials, Movement, and Meaning,” Conference on the
Materials, Meanings, and Movements of Italian Renaissance Sculpture, University of
Vermont, October 2013.
“Laocoön – or Pliny Vindicated,” Italian Art Society/ Kress Annual Lecture in Italy,
Rome, May 2013.
“Pliny Endorses the Unfinished Work of Art,” Renaissance Society of America Annual
Meetings, San Diego, March 2013.
“Pliny and the Birth of Disegno,” College Art Association Meetings, New York City,
February 2013.
“The Birth of Ekphrasis in Sculpture,” Seventh Quadrennial Italian Renaissance
Sculpture Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, November 2012.
MAUREEN C. MILLER:
"Clothing and the Performance of Rulership: The Papacy," at The Practice of Rulership,
c. 850-c.1250, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, 18 May 2013.
"The material conditions of local and regional churches: clerical clothing in Rome and
the Empire," at the Sessantunesima Settimana di Studio, Chiese locali e chiese regionali
nell'alto medioevo, Centro Italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, Spoleto, Italy, 8 April
2013.
Chair, "Reforming the Church," at Re:form – an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student

Conference in Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 16 February 2013.
"Medieval Material Christianity: Liturgical Vestments and Medieval Textiles," Scuola

Superiore di Studi Storici, Geografici, Antropologici (Università di Ca'Foscari Venezia,
Università di Padova, Università di Verona) - XXVIII ciclo - Attività Didattica di Storia
Medievale, Seminario del Dottorato di Ricerca, Padua, Italy, 16 November 2012.
Chair, "Urbanism," at the Berkeley Ancient Italy Roundtable, Berkeley, CA, 27 October
2012.
"The Liturgical Vestments of Castel Sant'Elia: Their Historical Significance and Current
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Condition," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 11 July 2012.
Co-organizer (with William L. North) of two panels and chair of a roundtable on "Re-
Thinking Reform," International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 12 May
2012.
NELSON MINNICH:
Lecture on the “Catholic Reformation” at the Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary
April 17, 2012
“The Vocation of a Teacher,” at the Summer Institute of Catholic Social Thought,
Washington, D.C., June 8, 2012.
“Egidio Antonino and the Reform of Religious Orders at the Fifth Lateran Council” at the
Convegno Internazionale : Egidio da Viterbo, cardinale agostiniano, tra Romae l’Europa
del Rinascimento, Rome, September 28, 2012
Chaired the session “IIIa sessione: Le Americhe” at the conference “Il Concilio
Ecumenico Vaticano II alla luce degli archivi dei Padri Conciliari nel 50o anniversario
dell’apertura del Concilio Vaticano II (1962-2012)” in the Aula San Pio X, Vatican
City/Rome, October 5, 2012
At the American Historical Association /American Catholic Historical Association annual

meetings in New Orleans in January 2013, chaired the panel “Catholicism in the
Sixteenth Century” (ACHA 1/3) and chaired the panel “The Politics of Papal Liturgy,
Music, and Art during the Renaissance (Renaissance Society of America 1/ 4/13)
“The Call for a Reform of Religious Orders and the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17)” at
the American Historical Association /American Catholic Historical Association annual
meetings in New Orleans, (ACHA 1/ 4/13)
"‘Secundum infusionem Spiritus Sancti’: The Resolution of GallicanPapal Conflicts at
the Fifth Lateran Council (151217)" at the conference “La dramatique conciliare, coups
de theatre, tactique et sincèrité des convictions dans les débats conciliaires de l’antiquité à
Vatican II” at the Univeristé Lille 3, in Lille, France on May 16, 2013
“Theological and Reform Prelude” The Councils before Trent,” at the conference “Trent
and Its Impact,” held at Georgetown University, on November 8, 2013.
WILLIAM L. MYERS:
“Racial War, The Holocaust and World War II,” guest lecture for Professor Dunscomb’s
HIST 402 The Second World War course, October 2012.
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“The Holocaust: A Brief History,” guest lecture for Jennifer Palmisano’s Service High
School Sophmore Seminar Class, May 2012.
“Dictatorship, Anti-Semitism and Daily Life in Germany, 1933-39,” lecture presented for
Teaching the Holocaust Workshop, co-coordinated with the United State Holocaust
Memorial Museum and UAA, September 2011.
STANISLAO PUGLIESE:
Paper presentation at Bard College: “Ignazio Silone Between Communism and
Christianity.”
VALERIE RAMSEYER:
“Sharing Religious Space: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Communities in Early
Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily,” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Department of Religious Studies, 2012
“Troglodyte Civilization in Medieval Italy: The Use of Caves and CutRock Architecture,
5001500 A.D.,” The New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
New College of Florida, 2012
“A Shared Religious Culture: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Communities in Early

Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily,” 13th Mediterranean Research Meeting, “Ethno
Religious Diversity and Cultural Innovation in the Medieval Mediterranean,”
organized by the Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced
Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, 2012
DAVID D. ROBERTS:
Guest lecture: "'Totalitarianism' and the Search for a New Agenda in Fascist Studies,"
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, May 7, 2013.
ROLAND SARTI:
Chair and comment on SIHS Session, AHA, New Orleans, January 5, 2013, “Italy on the
150th Centenary of National Unification: Issues of Unity and Identity.”
SHARON STROCCHIA:
“The Politics of Health at the Early Medici Court,” Renaissance Society of America, New York,
March 2014
“Gifts of Health: Medical Exchanges between Nuns and Noblewomen in Renaissance Italy,”
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2013
“Knowing Hands: Nuns’ Textile Artistry in Renaissance Florence,“ invited keynote address at
international conference, “Artiste nel chiostro: produzione artistica nei monasteri femminili in età
moderna,” Florence, October 2013
Session Organizer, “The Mad, the Holy, and the Possessed in Early Modern Catholicism;”
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Participant, “Women on the Edge: Madness, Possession and Suicide in Early Modern Convents,”
Renaissance Society of America, San Diego, April 2013
“Women on the Edge: Madness, Possession and Suicide in Early Modern Convents,” invited
presentation at Duke University, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, October 2012;
invited presentation at University of Chicago, Workshop on Western Mediterranean Culture,
November 2013
SUSAN M. STUARD:
“Shopping as Consuming Acts in Fourteenth Century Italian Towns,” in Session:
Medieval Market place: Theory and Practice. Medieval Academy of America Annual
Meeting. Knoxville, TN, April 15, 2013.
NICHOLAS TERPSTRA:
"Cultures of Charity: Misericordia, Caritas, and Civic Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy"
Australia and New Zealand Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS)
Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 15 February, 2013.
PUBLICATIONS
MARK ALOISIO:
“Salt and royal finance in the kingdom of Naples under Alfonso the Magnanimous”,
Medioevo Adriatico, Volume 3 (2010), 928.
“Amalasentha” in Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and
Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries (1803); Chawton House Library Series:
Women’s Memoirs, ed. Gina Luria Walker, Memoirs of Women Writers Part III. London:
Pickering & Chatto, 2014, Volume 5, 111112.
PAUL ARPAIA:
“Luigi Federzoni and the Converging and Diverging Parallels of Fascism and
Catholicism” in Jan Nellis, ed. Catholicism and Fascism(s) in Europe 19181945.
Hildesheim, Zürich and New York: Georg Olms Verlag 2013.
JOSHUA ARTHURS:
Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 2012).
TOMMASO ASTARITA:
Editor, A Companion to Early Modern Naples, Leiden: Brill, 2013.
JOEL BLATT:
“A Forgotten Murder, A Neglected French Fascism, “French Politics, Culture, and
Society, 31, 1, Spring 2013, pp. 96-104; extended book review of Gayle K. Brunelle and
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Annette Finley-Croswhite, Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cogoule in
1930’s France (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State N.P., 2010).
DANIEL BORNSTEIN:
“Civic Hospitals, Local Identity, and Regional States in Early Modern Italy,” in Faith’s
Boundaries: Laity and Clergy in Early Modern Confraternities, ed. Nicholas Terpstra,
Adriano Prosperi, and Stefania Pastore (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2012), pp. 322.
“A Brief History of Papal Resignations,” Religion and Politics, February 24, 2013
http://religionandpolitics.org/2013/02/24/abriefhistoryofpapalresignations/
H. JAMES BURGWYN:
Mussolini Warlord: Failed Dreams of Empire (New York: Enigma Books, 2012).
Empire on the Adriatic: Mussolini’s Conquest of Yugoslavia 1941-1943 (New York:

Enigma Books, 2005).
“Diplomacy and World War: The (First) Axis of Evil,” in R.J.B. Bosworth (ed.) The
Oxford Handbook of Fascism: (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004).
“Mussolini’s Troika in Occupied Yugolslavia: Fascist Commissars, 2nd Army, and Foreign
Ministry,” in Die “Achse” in Krieg: Politik, Ideologie am kriegführung 1939-1945, p.p.
292-304.
MARK I. CHOATE:
“Italy at Home and Abroad after 150 Years: The Legacy of Emigration and the Future of
Italianità.” Italian Culture 30, n.1, Special Issue on the 150th Anniversary of the
Unification of Italy (May 2012): 5167.
“Tunisia, Contested: Italian Nationalism, French Imperial Rule, and Migration in the
Mediterranean Basin.” California Italian Studies 1, n. 1, “Italy in the Mediterranean”
(February 2010): 120. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8k97g1nc
“National Communications for a Transnational Community: Italy’s promotion of
italianità among emigrants, 18701920,” in Transnational Political Spaces: Agents
Structures Encounters, edited by Mathias Albert, Gesa Bluhm, Jan Helmig,
Andreas Leutzsch, and Jochen Walter (Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2009),
145161.
ELIZABETH S. COHEN:
"She Said, He Said: Situated Oralities in Judicial Records from Early Modern
Rome," Journal of Early Modern History 16:4-5 (2012): 403-30
"Women on the Margins" in The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and
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Gender in Early Modern Europe, ed. A. Poska, et al., 317-39. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2013.
THOMAS V. COHEN:
book translation
Irene Fosi, Papal Justice: Subjects and Courts in the Papal State, 1500-1750,
Catholic Universities Press of America, 2011 (translation by me, via much
collaboration)
special journal issue (with Germaine Warkentin, University of Toronto, guest

editing) "Things not easily believed: introducing the early modern relation," a
collection of seven essays on The Relation or Relazione as a reportiorial genre,
for Renaissance and Reformation, 34, no 1-2 (winter-spring, 2011): 3-243. The
introductory essay with Germaine Warkentin, of the same title: 7-23
articles
“Ruminations on Reflections on a Distant Crime," Cultural History vol. 1, no. 2

(2012): 151-167.
"A Dodgy Roman Tale of Pious Pedophilia (1558), forthcoming in: Lucien
Faggion , ed, La culture judiciaire du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Rhétorique,
représentation et arbitraire //The Legal Culture from the Middle Ages to Today.
Rhetoric, Representation, and the Arbitrary
(with E. S. Cohen), “Charismatic things and social transaction in Renaissance

Italy,” for Fabrizio Nevola, editor, Special Issue 03 (Locating communities in the
early modern Italian city) Urban History, 2010: 474-82.
"Bartolomeo Camerario—Legist, Polemicist, Chief of the Annona, Collector of

Young Girls", in Early Modern Rome, 1341-1667, Proceedings of a Conference
held in Rome, May 13-15, 2010, edited by Portia Prebys, AACUPI (The
Association of American College and University Programs in Italy): Rome, 2011,
pp. 595-602.
translations
Renato Ago,"Rank and Display," for a forthcoming book edited by Gail

Feigenbaum on Roman material art culture, from the Getty Museum (2013).
Francesca Cappelletti, "Cardinals, Cardinal Nephews, and Aristocratic

Collectors," for the same forthcoming book from the Getty Museum
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“Jesuit Tuscan Libraries of the 1560s and 1570s: Bibliotheca not-yet Selecta,” Archivum
Historicum Societatis Iesu 162 (2014): 515-531.
WILLIAM J. CONNELL:
Giannozzo Manetti, Historia Pistoriensis, critical edition by S. Baldassarri and B. Aldi,
historical commentary by William J. Connell.
“РЕНЕССАНСНАЯ ИСТОРИЧЕСКАЯ МЫСЛЬ И ПРОБЛЕМА ВЕЧНОСТИ

МИРА,” Средние века. Исследования по истории Средневековья и раннего Нового
времени, 73:3-4 (2012), pp. 169-197.
“Who’s Afraid of Columbus?” Italian American Review, 31.2 (2013), pp. 136-147.
“La maldición de Cristóbal Colón entre nosotros,” Clarín (Buenos Aires), 13 August
2013.
Review: Michael Perino, The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora's
Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance, in The Italian
American Review, 3.1 (2013), pp. 61-64.
Review: Elena Agarossi and Victor Zaslavsky, Stalin and Togliatti: Italy and the Origins
of the Cold War, in American Communist History, 11.2 (August 2012), pp. 239-242.
Review: Götz-Rüdiger Tewes, Kampf um Florenz. Die Medici im Exil, 1494-1512, in
The Catholic Historical Review, 98.3 (2012), pp. 558-559.
Review: Fabrizio Titone, Governments of the Universitates: Urban Communities of
Sicily in theFourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, in Speculum, 87.2 (2012), pp. 614-615.
Review: Peter Howard, Creating Magnificence in Renaissance Florence, in Renaissance
and Reformation / Renaissance et réforme, 35.4 (2012), pp. 159-162.
Review: Heinrich Lang, Cosimo de' Medici, die Gesandten und die Condottieri:
Diplomatie und Kriege der Republik Florenz im 15. Jahrhundert, in Journal of Modern
History, 84.1 (2012), pp. 221-222.
FRANK COPPA:
The Policies and Politics of Pope Pius XII: Between Diplomacy and Morality. By
Frank J. Coppa. (New York: Peter Lang. 2011. Pp. viii, 205. $36.95 paperback. ISBN
978-1-4331-0521-0.)
The Life & Pontificate of Pope Pius XII: Between History and Controversy. By Frank
J. Coppa. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press. 2013, Pp.
xxx, 306. $29.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-8132-2016-1.)
Prof. Jose Sanchez’s review of both books can be found in CATHOLIC HISORICAL
REVIEW, July 2013, vol. XCIX, n. 3.
SPENCER DI SCALA:
Europe’s Long Century: Society, Politics, and Culture, 19900-Present (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013). Also published in 2 separate volumes: Vol. 1: 1900-1945; Vol. 2:
1945-Present.
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“A New Perspective on Terrorism,” in Sebestiano Maffettone and Alessandro Orsini, eds.,
Studi in onore di Luciano Pellicani (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2012).
“Gli storici americani e il Risorgimento italiano,” Nuova Storia Contemporanea, July-

August 2012.
“Modern Italy Seen by Americans: A Survey of General Histories,” Mondo

Contemporaneo (Rome), N. 3, 2011, pp. 129-151.
“Il tradimento degli intellettuali. Riflessioni sui documenti relativi a la Sinistra Italiana
nella Guerra Fredda,” Nuova Storia Contemporanea 14, N. 4 (July-August 2010), pp.
135-137.
ROY DOMENICO:
“Sex, Scandal and Catholic Politics during Italy's Dolce Vita” in Scandal! An
Interdisciplinary Approach to the Consequences, Outcomes, and Significance of Political
Scandals edited by Alison Dagnes and Mark Sachleben (New York: Bloomsbury Press,
2014).
ERIC DURSTELER:
Edited A Companion to Venetian History, 14001797. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
MARY GIBSON:
“The Journal of Prison Sciences: Between Administration and Advocacy,” Una tribuna per le
scienze criminali. La “cultura” delle Riviste nel dibattito penalistico tra Otto e Novecento, ed.
Luigi Lacchè and Monica Stronati (Macerata: EUM, 2013), pp. 49-68.
“Cesare Lombroso, Prison Science, and Penal Politics,” The Lombroso Handbook, ed. Paul
Knepper and P. J. Ystehede (NY: Routledge, 2012), pp. 30-46.
KENNETH GOUWENS:
Ed. and trans., Paolo Giovio, Notable Men and Women of Our Time — Dialogus de viris et
feminis aetate nostra florentibus (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, I Tatti
Renaissance Library Series, no. 56; March 2013). xxi + 760 pp.
“Humanists, Historians, and the Fullness of Time in Renaissance Rome,” in Rethinking
the High Renaissance: The Culture of the Visual Arts in Sixteenth-Century Rome, ed. Jill
Burke (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012), 95–110.
PAUL F. GRENDLER:
“The Attempt to Found a Civic and Jesuit University in Chambéry, 16791681,” in Los
Jesuitas. Religión, Política y Educación (siglos XVIXVIII). Ed. José Martínez Millán,
Henar Pizarro Llorente y Esther Jiménez Pablo. 3 vols. Madrid: Universidad Pontificia
Comillas, 2012, vol. 1, pp. 407432.
“FifteenthCentury Catechesis, the Schools of Christian Doctrine, and the Jesuits,” in
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Prima di Carlo Borromeo. Istituzioni, religione e società a Milano agli inizi del ‘500,
Studia Borromaica, a cura di Alberto Rocca e Paola Vismara. Accademia Ambrosiana
Studia Borromaica 26. Milan: Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2012,
pp. 291319.
“Education in the Republic of Venice,” in A Companion to Venetian History, 14001797.
Ed. Eric Dursteler. Leiden: Brill, 2013, pp. 67599.
MAURA HAMETZ:
In the Name of Italy: Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist Court (New York: Fordham
University Press, 2012). (winner Charles E. Smith Prize of the Southern Historical
Association European Section)
Jewish Intellectual Women in Europe, 18602000: Twelve Biographical Essays (Lewiston,
NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012), edited with Judith Szapor, Andrea Pëto, and Marina Calloni.
http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=8682&pc=9.
"Wohnen im Blut in der hübschen Stadt: Juden und NaziDeutschen in Triest, 19431945," in
Alltag im Holocaust: Jüdisches Leben im Großdeutschen Reich 1941-1945, ed. Doris Bergen,
Andrea Löw and Anna Hájková (Schriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte)
(Oldenbourg: München, 2013), 217236.
GREGORY HANLON:
The Hero of Italy: The duke of Parma, his soldiers and his subjects in the Thirty Years
War, will come out with Oxford University Press in March 2014.
ERNEST IALONGO:
Ialongo, Ernest and William Adams, editors. New Directions in Italian and Italian
American History: Selected Essays from the Conference in Honor of Dr. Philip V.
Cannistraro. New York: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2013.
Ialongo, Ernest. “Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Futurist as Fascist, 1929-

1937.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies 18, 4 (September 2013), 393-418.
Ialongo, Ernest and Walter Adamson, editors. “Reconsidering Futurism.” A selection of

essays appearing in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies 18, 4 (September 2013), 389-
392.
Ialongo, Ernest. “Marinetti and the Cult of the Duce.” In New Directions in Italian and
Italian American History: Selected Essays from the Conference in Honor of Dr. Philip V.
Cannistraro. Edited by Ernest Ialongo and William Adams. New York: John D. Calandra
Italian American Institute, 2013.
Center and Periphery: Studies on Power in the Medieval World in Honor of William
Chester Jordan, co-edited with G. Geltner and Anne Lester (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
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“Pro bono pacis: Crime and Dispute Resolution in Late Medieval Florence. The
Evidence of Notarial Peace Contracts,” Speculum 88.2 (April 2013): 427-56.
“Peacemaking, Performance & Power in Thirteenth-Century San Gimignano” in Center

and Periphery: Studies on Power in the Medieval World in Honor of William Chester
Jordan, co-edited with Guy Geltner and Anne Lester (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 93-106.
RICHARD B. JENSEN:
“The First Global Wave of Terrorism and International Counter-terrorism, 1905–1914,”
in An International History of Terrorism: Western and non-Western Experience, ed. Jussi
Hanhimäki and Bernhard Blumenau. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. 16-33.
ANNE LEADER:
500th Anniversary of the Dedication of Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling. OUPblog.
November 1, 2012. http://blog.oup.com/2012/11/500th-anniversary-of-the-dedication-of-
michelangelos-sistine-ceiling/.
KATHERINE McGINNIS
Entry in the Dizionario biografico degli italiani for Cesare Negri, Milanese dancing
master and author of Le Gratie d’Amore (1602) and Nuove inventione di balli (1604).
http:www.trecani.it/encyclopedia/negri-cesare-detto-il-trombone%28Dizionario-
Biografico%291
SARAH BLAKE McHAM:

Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: The Legacy of the Natural
History, Yale University Press, 2013.
“Antiquity as Cultural Capital in the Age of Giorgione” in Venice in the Renaissance:

Essays in Honor of Patricia Fortini Brown, ed. Mary Frank and Blake de Maria, Milan:
Five Continents, 2013, 83-93.
“Art in Renaissance Florence,” Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation,

ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press
(www.oxfordbibliographies.com. /view/document/obo-9780195399301/obo-
9780195399301-0171.xml?rskey=rKn9jS&result=3&q=)
MAUREEN C. MILLER:
Clerical Clothing in Medieval Europe, 800-1200 (in press, Ithaca. N.Y.: Cornell
University Press, 2013) – to be published Fall 2013.
NELSON MINNICH:
“The Fifth Lateran Council as a Theatre for Demonstrating Papal Power,” translated by
Eric C. Erbacher as “Das Fünfte Laterankonzil als geistliches Spiel zur Demonstration
päpstlicher Macht”, in: Ekklesiologische Alternativen? Monarchischer Papat und
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Formen kollegialer Kirchenleitung (15. – 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Bernward Schmidt and
Hubert Wolf [Tradition – Reform- Innovation] (Münster, 2012), 101-120.
“What is an Ecumenical Council? The Sixteenth-Century Teachings of the Theologian

Roberto Bellarmino and the Canonist Domenico Giacobazzi,” translated as “Cos’è un
Concilio Ecumenico?
Il dibattico storiografico contemporaneeo sulla ratio universalitatis dei Concili alla luce
delle riflessione cinquecentesca del teologo Roberto Bellarmino e del canonista
Domenico Giacobazzi al dibattito storiografico contemporaneo,” for the book I Concili
ecumenici edited by Pierantonio Piatti to be published by Città Nuova Editrice in Rome
later in 2012. (forthcoming)
“Leo X: Success or Failure,”translated into Portuguese by Marcus De Martini as “Leão

X: sucesso ou fracasso?” and published in Letras [Revista do Programa de Pós-
Graduação em Letras – Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil] v. 21 / n. 43.02
(Julho/Dezembro de 2011): Poesia, pensamento e narrativas nos séculos XVI e XVII, pp.
63-83.
“Luther, Cajetan, and Pastor Aeternus (1516) of Lateran V on Conciliar Authority,” at the
international conference “Martin Luther in Rom: Kosmopolitisches Zentrum und seine
Wahrnehmung / Martino Lutero a Roma: La città cosmopolita e la sua percezione” held
at the German Historical Institute in Rome, 16-19 February 2011, on 17 February 2011 –
revised and to be published in a bi-lingual German/Italian versions. (forthcoming)
“Innocenzo VIII,” in Dizionario storico dell’ Inquisizione, eds. Adriano Prosperi,

Vincenzo Lavenia, and John Tedeschi, 4 volumes (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale Superiore
di Pisa, 2010), II, 799.
“Concilio Lateranense V,” in Diccionario General de Derecho Canónico, eds. Javier

Otaduy, Antonio Viana, and Joaquín Sedano, 6 vols. [Instituto Martín de Azpilcueta,
Facultad de Derecho Canónico, Universidad de Navarra], (Cizur Menor, Navarra:
Thomson Reuters Aranzadi / Universidad de Navarra, 2012- ), I: A Jure – Celibato), 387-
390.
“Concilio de Trento,”Ibid., 367-375.
“Grande Scisma d’Occidente” [954words], “Renaissance/Rinascimento” [1501 words],

“Riforma Protestante” [1421 words], entries for the Lessico di storia della chiesa (Rome:
Università Lateranesnse, in Italian, forthcoming)
“Concilium Lateranense V,” correction of galleys for the Conciliorum oecumenicorum

generaliumque decreta , Vol. 3 (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming)
“Piles of Piety,” 18-minute video on the founding, controversies surrounding,

approbation, and diffusion of the montes pietatis for the Catholic Internet Television
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Network (an academic videoconference forum) filmed 17 August 2011, now probably on
the CITVN website under Academic Lecture Library, Religion and Ethics
“Forum Essay,” by Nelson H. Minnich, Joshua Benson, Hans Hillerband, Simon

Ditchfield, Paul F. Grendler, and Brad S. Gregory of: Unintended Reformation: How a
Religious Revolution Secularized Society, by Brad S. Gregory (Cambridge, MA: The
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012), pp. x, 574, in: The Catholic Historical
Review 97 (July, 2012), 503-16, here 503-07.
“Forum Essay,” by Nelson H. Minnich, Eugene J. Fisher, Thomas Stransky, Susannah

Heschel, Alberto Melloni, and John Connelly, of From Enemy to Brother: The
Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965, by John Connelly (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2012) pp. viii, 376 in The Catholic Historical Review 97
(October, 2012), 751-66, here 751-57.
“Forum Essay,” by Nelson H. Minnich, Francesco Cesareo, Franco Buzzi, Wim François
abd Violet Soen, Kenneth G. Appold, and John W. O’Malley, S.J., of Trent: What
Happened at the Council (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2013) pp. xii, 355 in The Catholic Historical Review 99 (2013), 749-764.
BORDEN PAINTER:
“New Atheism’s Old—and Flawed—History,” Historically Speaking, The Bulletin of the
Historical Society, XIII:5 (November 2012) Letter and Reply in XVI: 2 (April 2013).
JOHN POLLARD:
‘American Catholics and the Financing of the Vatican during the Great Depression:
Peter’s Pence Payments (1935-1938)’ in Charles R. Gallagher, David I. Kertzer and
Alberto Melloni (eds), Pius XI and America: Proceedings of the brown University
Conference (Providence, October 2010), LIT Verlag, Berlin and Zurich, 2012, 195-208.
‘Pius XI’s Promotion of the Italian Model of Catholic Action in the World-Wide Church’,
in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 63 no. 4, October 2012, 758-784.
The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958, will be published by OUP in 2014.
STANISLAO PUGLIESE:
Edited and introduction to Claudio Pavone, “A Civil War: A History of the Italian
Resistance” (Verso, 2013) www.versobooks.com/books/1025-a-civil-war
“The Responsibility of the Historian” in The Nation, Jan 28, 2013.
VALERIE RAMSEYER:
“Monasteries and Bishoprics in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Southern Italy,”
Rassegna Storica Salernitana 57 (2012).
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“Vescovi e monasteri nei secoli XI-XII,” in Giovanni Vitolo (ed.) Riforma della chiesa,
esperienze monastiche e poteri locali. La Badia di Cava e le sue dipendenze nel
Mezzogiorno dei secoli XI-XII. Atti del Convegno Internazionale sulla Badi di Cava, 15-
17 settembre 2011 (forthcoming, 2013, Salerno: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo).
“Cave Dwelling,” in The Blackwell Companion to Mediterranean History, ed. Peregrine

Horden and Sharon Kinoshita (forthcoming, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
DAVID D. ROBERTS:
With Roger Griffin, guest co-edited ‘The Fascist Revolution’: Utopia or
Façade? Reconciling Marxist and Non-Marxist Approaches, a special issue of European
Journal of Political Theory11, no. 4 (October 2012). Includes a joint introduction by the
editors, as well as Roberts's own essay, "Questioning the Modern and Revolutionary
Credentials of European Fascism" pp. 459-473.
“The Challenge of Fascism,” on-line annotated bibliography with 260 entries organized
by sub-topic with introductory parapraphs. In Oxford Bibliographies in International
Relations. Ed. David Armstrong. New York: Oxford University Press. Accessible
atwww.oxfordbibliographies.com.
"Possibilities in 'A Thoroughly Historical World': Missing Hayden's White's Missed

Connections," History and Theory, 52, no. 2 (May 2013).
FRANK ROSENGARTEN:
Giacomo Leopardi’s Search for a Common Life through Poetry.
Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.
In January or February 2014 eleven of my essays on Antonio Gramsci will be published

by Brill in a single volume. The publication is a collaborative project of Brill with the
journal Historical Materialism.
ROLAND SARTI:
“Il disegno unitario,” in Giuseppe Monsagrati and Anna Villari, eds., Mazzini: Vita,
avventure e pensiero di un italiano europeo (Cinisello Balsamo (MI): Silvana Editoriale,
2012), pp. 207-23.
SHARON STROCCHIA:
“Caring for the ‘Incurable’ in Renaissance Pox Hospitals,” in Hospital Life: Theory and
Practice from the Medieval to the Modern, ed. Laurinda Abreu and Sally Sheard (Oxford,
2013), 67-92
Review of James Shaw and Evelyn Welch, Making and Marketing Medicine in
Renaissance Florence, in Medical History 56 (2012): 406-08
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Review of Jutta Gisela Sperling and Shona Kelly Wray, eds., Across the Religious
Divide: Women, Property, and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800), in
Sixteenth Century Journal 43 (2012): 599-600
Review of Elaine Leong and Alisha Rankin, eds., Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine
and Science, 1500-1800, in Early Science and Medicine 17 (2012): 366-68.
SUSAN M. STUARD:
“Renaissance Dress” Oxford Bibliographies online “Dowry Brideprice and Other Marital
Assigns,” in Medieval Handbook on Women, ed Judith Bennette Ruth Mazo Karris, Ny:
Oxford University Press – available online 2013 hardbook to appear in 2014.
JOHN TEDESCHI:
Intellettuali in esilio. Dall'Inquisizione romana al Fascismo. A cura di Giorgio Caravale
e Stefania Pastore. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2012. (partial collection of my
previously published essays).
NICHOLAS TERPSTRA:
Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013)
Bologna: Cultural Crossroads from the Medieval to the Baroque: Recent Anglo
American Scholarship. Gian Mario Anselmi & Angela De Benedictis (co-editors).
(Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2013).
Faith’s Boundaries: Laity and Clergy in Early Modern Confraternities. Main editor, in
collaboration with Adriano Prosperi & Stefania Pastore (Turnout: Brepols, 2013).
The Material Culture of Debt. Special issue of Renaissance and

Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme co-edited with Mauro Carboni vol 35/3 (2012).
“Renaissance Studies in Canada — Teaching and Research” Co-authored with Steven

Teasdale. in Teaching the Renaissance III, Angela Dressen and Suzanne Gramatzki (eds.),
kunsttexte.de, vol. 4 (2012). http://www.kunsttexte.de/index.php?id=897
"DECIMA: The Digitally Encoded Census Information Mapping Archive and the Project
for a Geo-Spatial and Sensory Digital Map of Renaissance Florence," with Colin Rose.
Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 13:4 (2013): 156-60.
"Real and Virtual Families: Forms and Dynamics of Fostering and Adoption in
Bologna’s Early Modern Hospitals." Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Italie e
Méditerranée 124-1 (2012): 223-34.
“The Burdens of Maternity: Devising a Demographic Policy for late-Renaissance

Bologna.” Jewish History 26 (2012): 113-124.
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“The Stripping of the Tables: Sociability in Florentine Confraternities after Trent.” in M.
Israels & L. Waldman (eds), Towards a Festscrift: Renaissance Studies in Honor of
Joseph Connors. (Florence: Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2013):
144-49.
"Confraternities, Social Capital, and Civil Society: Comparisons, Contexts, and

Questions." in C. Lennon (ed), Confraternities and Sodalities in Ireland: Charity,
Devotion and Sociability. (Dublin: Columba Press, 2012): 186-208.
STEFANO VILLANI:
George Frederick Nott (1768-1841). Un ecclesiastico anglicano tra teologia, letteratura,
arte, archeologia, bibliofilia e collezionismo (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei,
2012)
Alison Yaderton, Julia Kelly, Stefano Villani (eds), Travels and Translations.
Proceedings of the conference ‘In Medias Res: British-Italian Cultural Transactions -
British Academy Colloquium 3, Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und
Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft (Amsterdam/New York, NY, Rodopi, 2013)
Stefano Villani and Carminati Clizia (eds), Storie inglesi. L’Inghilterra vista dall’Italia
tra storia e romanzo (XVII secolo) (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2011)
“Britain and the Papacy: Diplomacy and Conflict in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Century,” in M.A. Visceglia (ed.), Papato e politica internazionale nella prima età
moderna (Rome:Viella,2013),pp.301-322.
“A ‘Republican’ Englishman In Leghorn: Charles Longland,” in Gaby Mahlberg, Dirk

Wiemann (eds), European Contexts for English Republicanism (Farnham: Ashgate,
2013), pp. 163-177.
“The Italian Protestant Church of London in the Seventeenth Century,” in Barbara Schaff
(ed.), Exiles, Emigrés and Intermediaries Anglo-Italian Cultural
Transactions(Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2010) (Internationale Forschungen zur
Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 139), pp. 217-236
DONALD WEINSTEIN:
Savonarola The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet (Yale U.P. 2011), has appeared in
Italian translation (Il Mulino Bologna 2013).
T. C. PRICE ZIMMERMANN:
Paolo Giovio. Uno storico e la crisi del XVI secolo. Edizione tradotta, riveduta, e
aggiornata da Franco Minonzio. Milan: Polyhistor and Lampi di Stampa, 2012.
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AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
MARK I. CHOATE:
Brigham Young University Class of 1949 Young Faculty Award for meritorious
teaching, 20102011.
Newberry Library ShortTerm Fellowship, July 2013.
WILLIAM J. CONNELL:
Listener Choice Award from Public Radio’s “Academic Minute.” For the most popular
Academic Minute of 201112: “Machiavelli Faces Unemployment.”
Fellowship from the Italian Academy for Advanced Study in America, Columbia
University, declined.
Grant from UNICO National toward publication of the Routledge History of the Italian
Americans, William J. Connell and Stanislao Pugliese (coeditors.)
MARY GIBSON:
Senior Fellow, International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna, Oct. 2012-Jan.
2013.
KENNETH GOUWENS:
Short-term fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, for 2013.
PAUL F. GRENDLER:
Named a Correspondent to the Pontifical Committee of Historical Science in 2012.
Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Fall, 2013
Lester K. Little Scholar in Residence, American Academy in Rome, Sp. 2014
SARAH BLAKE McHAM:

Rutgers University Research Council Grant, 201213.
NELSON MINNICH:
Sabbatical leave academic year 20112012
Reappointment to the Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche for another fiveyear term
on April 17, 2012
Visiting fellow, Istituto per le scienze religiose, Bologna, Italy (May, 2012)
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Faculty GrantinAid of Research, The Catholic University of America (MayJune, 2012)
JOHN POLLARD:
Balsdon Fellowship of the British School at Rome, 201314.
STANISLAO PUGLIESE:
Named Hofstra University Cultural Center Fellow
Editorial Director, Hofstra University/Palgrave series
VALERIE RAMSEYER:
American Philosophical Society (APS) Fellowship, spring 2012
ALAN J. REINERMAN:
Received, as a retirement tribute, an authentic map of Italy in 1823, illustrating the postal
controversy of that period covered in Vol. I of my Austria and the Papacy in the Age of
Metternich. It’s now framed and going on the wall of my new house.
SHARON STROCCHIA:
2011 Essay Prize, Society for Renaissance Studies (Best Article published in Renaissance
Studies), for “The Nun Apothecaries of Renaissance Florence: Marketing Medicines in
the Convent” Renaissance Studies 25 (2011): 627-47.
Senior Fellow, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, 2013-14.
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES IN SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES
PAUL ARPAIA:
Member, Council of Fellows, American Academy in Rome.
JOSHUA ARTHURS serves as webmaster for SIHS.
DANIEL BORNSTEIN:
Member of the editorial board of Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo (2003 present) and
of Medievalia et Humanistica (2006 present), and of the comitato scientifico of the book
series Toscana Sacra directed by Anna Benvenuti.
He was elected vice president of the American Catholic Historical Association for 2013,
and will assume the presidency in January 2014.
Discipline Representative, Renaissance Society of America.
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WILLIAM J. CONNELL:
Secretary, Journal of the History of Ideas.
Elected to the Editorial Board of the SouthEast European Journal of Political Science.
Continuing on the boards of Annali di Storia di Firenze, Archivio storico italiano, Reti
medievali, and Storia e politica.
ROY DOMENICO:
ExecutiveTreasurer of SIHS, January, 2013.
MARY GIBSON:
Society for Italian Historical Studies, Vice President, 2013-2015.
PAUL F. GRENDLER:
Member of the Editorial Board for the new journal: Journal of Jesuit Studies. Editor
Robert A. Maryks. Leiden: Brill. First issue to appear January 2014
Member of the Editorial Board for Jesuit Studies: Modernity Through the Prism of Jesuit
History. Series Editor Robert A. Maryks. Leiden: Brill. A series of monographs on
Jesuit history. Volume 1: John W. O’Malley, Saints or Devils Incarnate? Studies in
Jesuit History. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
ANNE LEADER:
Webmaster, Italian Art Society (www.italianartsociety.org) She adds: “I encourage our
members to join the Italian Art Society!”
SARAH BLAKE McHAM:

Program Committee, Renaissance Society of America, 201314
Porter Prize Committee, 201314
MAUREEN C. MILLER:
Councilor, Medieval Academy of America.
NELSON MINNICH:
Member of the Executive Council of the Society for Italian Historical Studies.
“Editor’s Report: The Catholic Historical Review,” Business Meeting, American
Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 6 January 2012; gave the
Editor’s report at the ACHA’s Executive Council (1/3/13) and Business (1/4/13)
meetings; held meetings of the Advisory Editorial Board of the Catholic Historical
Review (1/5/13) at the ACHA meeting in New Orleans
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Member of the Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche: attended meetings in Vatican
City on May 1314, 2011, November 1819, 2011, May 2526, 2012, November 2324,
2012, April 2627, 2013.
Advisory editor for Reformation and Renaissance Review: Journal of the Society for
Reformation Studies.
LAURIE NUSSDORFER:
President, SIHS.
JOHN POLLARD:
Member of the Comitato Scientifico of the Fondazione Giovanni XXIII per le Scienze
Religiose, Bologna.
VALERIE RAMSEYER:
Council Member, Society for Italian Historical Studies
Member, Medieval Academy’s Program Committee for the American Historical

Association
ALAN J. REINERMAN:
Retired as ExecutiveTreasurer of SIHS, January, 2013
SHARON STROCCHIA:
Academic Advisory Board, The Medici Archive Project (Florence).
NICHOLAS TERPSTRA:
Articles Editor, Renaissance Quarterly.
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS
Mark Aloisio was appointed Lecturer, Department of History, University of Malta: 2012
– present.
Elizabeth S. Cohen was promoted to Professor of History at York University in Canada
2012
Roy Domenico chairs the University of Scranton History Department.
Maura Hametz was promoted to Professor (from Associate Professor) in April 2013.
Steven Hughes chairs the History Department at Loyola University Maryland.
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Katherine L. Jansen was appointed Ordinary Professor at The Catholic University of
America, 2012.
Sarah Blake McHam was promoted to Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University.
Valerie Ramseyer was appointed Resident Director, ECCO Program in Bologna, Italy

(201213).
Nicholas Terpstra became the History Department Chair at the University of Toronto on
July 1, 2013.
NEW COURSES
JOSHUA ARTHURS:
Soccer in the Modern World.
TOMMASO ASTARITA:
In Spring 2013 I taught a new undergraduate seminar: HIST 346: Eternal City: A History
of Rome.
ELIZABETH S. COHEN:
An all new version of advanced undergraduate seminar: "Mediterranean Societies in the
Early Modern Period" focusing on cultural encounters among Christians, Muslims and
Jews in the early modern Mediterranean.
GREGORY HANLON:
“The Dead Babies Project: Routine infanticide in the West in the early modern era” at
Dalhousie University.
NELSON MINNICH:
The Renaissance Papacy, graduate course at Catholic University of America, spring 2011
STANISLAO PUGLIESE:
Modern Italy: Soccer, Sex and Sedition at Hofstra University.
SHARON STROCCHIA:
“Epidemics in History: Plague to AIDS,” undergraduate lecture course at Emory
University that integrates significant materials on disease experiences and public health
measures in Italy (Spring 2013).
DISSERTATIONS
JOSHUA ARTHURS:
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Fabio Capano, West Virginia University, “Populist Nationalism in Italian Postwar Public
Opinion” (in progress).
DANIEL BORNSTEIN:
Bianca Lopez, The Virgin’s Homeland: Pilgrimage Shrines and Regional Identity in the
Late Medieval Marche, Washington University in St. Louis (in progress)
James Palmer, Sacred Bonds: Piety and Community in Late Medieval Rome, Washington
University in St. Louis (in progress).
THOMAS V. COHEN:
Bradley Meredith, York University, food and food culture at Parma.
Aaron Miedema: York University, duelling and interpersonal violence in Bologna.
MARY GIBSON:
Ellen Zitani, “Love’s Ethics: Sibilla Aleramo and Queer Feminism in Fin de Siècle Italy,”
Graduate Center (History), City University of New York, 2012.
Victoria Calabrese, “Land of Women: Basilicata, Emigration and the Women who
Remained Behind, 18801914” Graduate Center (History), City University of
New York, in progress.
Francesca Vassalle, “Bitter Sex: The Politics of Contraception in PostFascist Italy, 1945
1978,” Graduate Center (History), City University of New York, in progress.
Sultana Banulescu, “Mining the Mind: Political, Religious and Cultural Dynamics of
Italian Pschoanalysis (1908-1949),” Graduate Center (History), City University of
New York, in progress.3.
KENNETH GOUWENS:
Lauren Madak, women writers and martial imagery in sixteenthcentury England and
Spain; University of Connecticut (in progress).
GREGORY HANLON:
Dr. Cheryl Bradbee completed her dissertation for Dalhousie University, “Water
Infrastructure in Piacenza during the Farnese era, XVIthXVIIIth centuries”.
Sarah Spalding, “ Elisabeth of Schönau: Visions and Female Intellectual Culture of the
High Middle Ages” (CUA – completed 2013).
Robert Hand, “The Use of Military Astrology in Late Medieval Italy: the Textual
Evidence” (CUA -- completed 2013).
Marie Ito, “Orsanmichele – The Florentine Grain Market: Trade and Worship in the Later
Middle Ages” (CUA-- completed 2013).
SARAH BLAKE McHAM:

Francis Fletcher, “Mantegna’s Fictive Reliefs for Isabella d’Este: Painting as Moral
Philosophy and the Humanist Language of Historical Inquiry in the Renaissance”
Mary Shay Millea, “Objects of Desire: The Many Faces of Petrarch’s Laura”
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Eveline Baseggio (coadviser with Benjamin Paul), “Humanism and Faith: The Altar
Reliquary by Riccio in Venice at S. Maria dei Servi”
Hilary Haakenson (coadviser with Benjamin Paul), “Old Testament Imagery and the
Maritime Cities of Italy”
Catherine Kupiec, “The Materiality of Luca della Robbia’s Early Terracotta Reliefs”
Benjamin Eldredge (coadvisor with Benjamin Paul) “Andrea Doria, San Matteo, and the Art
of Patronage in 16thCentury Italy”
Brenna Graham (coadvisor with Benjamin Paul) “The Most Bitter and Untimely of
Events: Women, Death and the Monumental Tomb in Quattrocento Italy”
Sarah Wilkins, "She Loved More Ardently Than the Rest: The Magdalen Cycles of Late
Duecento and Trecento Italy," October 2012.
NELSON MINNICH:
Dennis diMauro, “Gallican Vision, Anglican Perspectives: The Reception of the Works of
Louis-Ellies Du Pin into England.” CUA
Albert Edward Doskey, “Tradition in Melchior Cano, O.P.” CUA
James F. Growdon, “The Pillars Toppled: Richard Smith’s Argumentation from Scripture
Alone in His Defense of Catholic Doctrine” CUA
Katya Mouris, “From Reform to Reformation: Caritas Pirckheimer and the Convent of St.
Klara, Nuremberg, c.1497-1532” CUA.
JOHN POLLARD:
Florence Largillieres, Fascist Jews in Italy’, Mphil thesis, University of Cambridge.
Meredith Carew, ‘Fascism and VD’, DPhil thesis, Oxford University.
NICHOLAS TERPSTRA:
Sarah M. Loose, “Charity and the Economy of Power: The Ospedale di Santa Maria
della Scala and Siena’s Network of Charity in the Sixteenth Century”
RESEARCH AND WRITING PROJECTS
MARK ALOISIO:
Articlelength project: “Regulation, Manipulation and AntiJewish Rhetoric in the Meat
Markets of Medieval Sicily.”
PAUL ARPAIA:
Working on finishing up a biography of Luigi Federzoni.
JOSHUA ARTHURS:
My latest research explores the fall of Mussolini and the aftermath of the Fascist regime,
from July 1943 until the liberation of Rome in June 1944. In looking at this moment of
upheaval and transition, I seek to understand three overlapping problems: first, what the
regime's collapse revealed about the internal functioning and daily realities of life under a
dictatorship; second, what conflicts and challenges confronted a society emerging from
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two decades of authoritarian rule; and third, how the dynamics of regime change have
shaped subsequent memories and legacies. To this end, I am exploring a number of
themes including revolutionary iconoclasm, damnatio memoriae and the de
Fascistization of public life; retributive violence and counterrevolutionary insurgency;
the purging of cultural and educational institutions; and the impact of Allied occupation.
DANIEL BORNSTEIN:
Editing (with Laura Gaffuri, Università degli studi di Torino) Languages of Power in
Italy, 1300-1600, a collection of 18 essays, by scholars from Italy, Great Britain,
Australia, Canada, and the United States, to be published by Brepols.
He continues to work on a book on religion, culture, and society in medieval Cortona.
He is also editing and translating the texts for In Praise of Women: Five Fifteenth-
Century Italian “Defenses of Women.”
H. JAMES BURGWYN:
Co-editor with Nicola Labanca on a collection of essays: Italian preparations and
military performance during World War II, to be published by Global War Studies.
A book on the Italian Foreign Ministry under Mussolini.
THOMAS V. COHEN:
1. The eternal book project on rebellion in Rocca Sinibalda (1556), a microhistory
on the political anthropology of one village in one year. Have actually written some
of it, finally, and hope to write some more, soon.
2. Joint editing with Lesley Twomey (U of Northumbria, UK) a collection on
orality in early modern Europe. Only a little there is about Italy. But my own work,
in that volume, and in general, is very interested in spoken language, narrative,
mnemonics, play, language as action.
3. I have promised some microhistories on storytelling in the courtroom, on
murder seen up close (filiacide), on images of the self as heightened by affliction,
and, with a longer view, on "the political great shout."
4. I have become interested in "giftgiving" in the widest sense, across the Jewish
Christian and JewishMuslim divides."Gift" encompasses actions as well as things.
I hope to find other scholars with the same questions in mind.
5. I translate from Italian scholarship into English.
In general, what I plan to do and what I end up doing only partly match. I have hit a
career stage where, wisely or not, folk invite me to wade in to some project of their
devising and, wisely or not, cheerfully I say yes, and then interesting things start to
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happen. So I work by "random walk", but the general themes: culture, expression,
action, close reading, good stories in good prose they seem to be more or less
eternal.
MS in progress: Mutual Conquests: Medici and Jesuit Construction of a
Confessionalized Granduchy of Tuscany, 15321621.
ROY DOMENICO:
“’An Embassy to a Golf Course?’ Conundrums on the Road to the United States’
Diplomatic Representation to the Holy See, 1784-1984” in The Columbia History of
Roman Catholicism in America edited by James T. Fisher and Margaret McGuinness
(Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
“Gedda, il laicato e la cultura cattolica negli anni Cinquanta” in Luigi Gedda nella storia
della chiesa e del paese edited by Ernesto Preziosi, sponsored by the Ministero dei Beni
culturali and published by A.V.E. (Forthcoming).
MARY GIBSON:
History of Italian Prisons (book mss)
KENNETH GOUWENS:
“Human Exceptionalism in the Renaissance” – a study of the human/simian boundary as
conceived in the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries
translation, Paolo Giovio’s Elogia virorum illustrium.
PAUL F. GRENDLER:
“The Jesuits and Italian Universities, 15481773" (book)
“Jesuit Schools in Italy, 15481773" (book)
Five articles in press
MAURA HAMETZ:
Works on Adriatic tourism, Habsburg citizenship in Trieste, Habsburg nostalgia in
Trieste
Special Issue of Journal of Modern Italian Studies – Italy in World War I
GREGORY HANLON:
In completion, “Italy 1636: the Tomb of Armies”. No publisher yet
STEVEN HUGHES:
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will be on sabbatical in Rome next year working on a new project regarding the "delitto
d'onore" in Italy and how it changed in definition, legislation, and consequences from the
early modern period up through its eventual abolition as a special crime in 1981.
The Practice of Peace in Late Medieval Italy (book MS in progress)
RICHARD B. JENSEN:
The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism, 1878-1934: An International History, c.
Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming in 2014
“Anarchist Terrorism in Europe and the World, 1878-1934.” In The Routledge History of
Terrorism. Ed. Randall D. Law
“The Pre1914 Anarchist ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist and Governmental Responses.”
ANNE LEADER:
Burial Practices in Renaissance Florence (developing database of Florentine tombs
installed ca. 12501530)
Catalogue Entries for Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan
Orders in Renaissance Italy, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 201415.
KATHERINE McGINNIS:
I’m exploring the professional lives and the social and the civic world of 16th and early
17th century Italian dancing masters. At the moment, I’m trying to find the common
circles of dancing master Cesare Negri and Giovan Pablo Lomazzo, he painter and poet.
SARAH BLAKE McHAM:

“’GAUDE FELIX PADUA/ QUAE THESAURUM POSSIDES’: A Cultural History of
Padua from the Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries.”
NELSON MINNICH:
Book on the History of Reformation Era Theology, 14751675, coeditor with Kenneth
Appold (Cambridge University Press)
Book on the Renaissance Papacy (Brill)
Dictionary entitled Lessico di Storia della Chiesa, editorial committee: Bernard Ardura,
Onorato Bucci, Emilia Hrabovec, Philippe Levillain, Nelson Minnich, and Carlos Salinas
Araneda (Univeristà Lateranense, forthcoming), and author of articles on “Great Western
Schism,” “Renaissance,” and “Reformation.”
Encyclopedia entitled Lexikon der Konzilien, editorial committee: Peter Bruns, Ansgar
Frenken, Johannes Grohe, and Nelson H. Minnich (Ferdinand Schönigh Verlag of
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Paderborn), and author of articles on “Council of PisaMilanAstiLyons (151013)” and
“Lateran V (151217)”
Centennial issue of The Catholic Historical Review, editor, to be published in 2015.
“The Closing of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17),” article accepted for publication
“Leo X’s Response to the ‘Report on the Errors of the Ruthenians’,” article accepted for a
Festschrift.
WILLIAM L. MYERS:
The Republic of Salò
LAURIE NUSSDORFER:
“Priestly Rulers, Male Subjects: Swords and Courts in Papal Rome” in Violent Masculinities:
Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Culture, eds. J. Feather and C. Thomas
(forthcoming Palgrave MacMillan)
“Men at Home in Baroque Rome” I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, special issue, ed. J.
Hairston
“Histories of Early Modern Masculinities,” special issue of European Review of History, co-
editing with Kenneth J. Gouwens and Brendan Kane
“The Male City: Men and Masculinities in Baroque Rome” (book, in progress)
JOHN POLLARD:
Religion and the Fascist Right in Contemporary Italy.
STANISLAO PUGLIESE:
Co-editing "Delirious Naples," a volume of collected essays by various people (mostly
from a conference by that name at Hofstra) publisher to be determined.
“Dancing on a Volcano: A Cultural History of Naples”, contracted with Farrar, Straus &
Giroux.
VALERIE RAMSEYER:
“Questions of Monastic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily (c. 550-1250),” in
New Cambridge History of Medieval Western Monasticism, ed. Alison Beach and Isabelle
Cochelin (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
“Sharing Religious Space: Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Communities in Early

Medieval Sicily and Southern Italy,” a proposed article that would examine both the
differences between the three religions and the diversity within the religious traditions, as
well as the shared religious culture that developed and united practitioners across
religious divides.
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Lombards and Greeks, Arabs and Normans: Southern Italy in the Early Middle Ages,
proposed book project that would examine southern Italy and Sicily as a whole from c.
600-1100. It would be the first time that a book places all the various regions into a
single, comprehensive volume, highlighting common themes and trends in spite of the
political fragmentation and ethnic diversity of the area that have led scholars to create
highly localized histories.
ALAN J. REINERMAN:
Vol 3 of Austria and the Papacy in the Age of Metternich
DAVID D. ROBERTS:
"Fascism, Para-fascism, and the Framework for Interactive Political Innovation during
the Era of the Two World Wars," in António Costa Pinto and Aristotle Kallis (eds.), A
World of Dictatorships. European Fascism and Political Hybridism in Interwar
Dictatorships, forthcoming 2013.
"Rethinking Hayden White's Treatment of Croce," Rethinking History 17, no. 4

(December 2013), forthcoming.
SHARON STROCCHIA:
Booklength study titled Agents of Health: Women, Knowledge and Healing in Late
Renaissance Italy
Editor, special issue on Women and Healthcare in Early Modern Europe, for
Renaissance Studies (forthcoming Sept. 2014)
Contributor, Florentia Illustrata (Florence Illuminated): Constructing a Geo-Spatial

Archive of the Pre-Modern City. Participant in international collaborative research project
(US, UK, Canada, Australia, Italy) to construct a digital geo-spatial archive of sixteenth-
century Florence, using GIS and other technologies to spatialize and visualize a wealth of
historical data about the city.
SUSAN M. STUARD:
In press: “Independent women scholars write (women’s) Medieval History” Florilegium,
2014.
Cambridge History of the World, gen-ed. Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Vol. 5, ed. Benjamin
Kedar, Chapter 3, vol. 5, “Women, Gender, Family and Sexuality,” to be published in
2014.
JOHN TEDESCHI:
Nearing completion of a monograph on Mussolini's anti-Semitic laws of 1938 and their
consequences for Italian Jews.
NICHOLAS TERPSTRA:
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Exiles, Expulsion, and Religious Refugees: A New Interpretation of the Reformation
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, under contract & in preparation)
DECIMA: The Digitally Encoded Census Information Mapping Archive and the Project
for a Geo-Spatial and Sensory Digital Map of Renaissance Florence.
STEFANO VILLANI:
working on a book on the Italian translations of the Book of Common Prayer.
PATRON MEMBERS
The Society would like to express its deep appreciation to those members who have
volunteered to help our financial situation by becoming Patrons with a contribution of
$25:
Baxendale, Susanna
Camp, Richard
Comerford, Kathleen
Grab, Alexander
Grew, Raymond F.
Hillard, Caroline
Jensen, Richard
Marino, John A.
Miller, Marion
Miller, Maureen
Edward Muir
North, William
Nussdorfer, Laurie
Ogilvie, Brian
Painter, Borden W.
Reinerman, Alan
Rosengarten, Frank
Sarti, Roland
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E-MAIL ADDRESSES
Nicholas Adams: niadams@vassar.edu
Walter L. Adamson: wadamso@emory.edu
Sara Adler: sadler@scrippscol.edu
John A. Agnew: jagnew@geog.ucla.edu
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John Alcorn: john.alcorn@trincoll.edu
Fred Albrecht, Jr.: featheringedge@cs.com
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Alan Cassels: cassels@sympatico.ca
Caroline F. Castiglione: caroline_castiglione@brown.edu
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Thomas V. Cohen: tcohen@yorku.ca
Kathleen M. Comerford: kcomerfo@georgiasouthern.edu
Eleanor A. Congdon: eacongdon@ysu.edu
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Frank J.Coppa: coppaf@stjohns.edu
Alan Cottrell: cottrella@mail.montclair.edu
Ann M. Crabb: crabbam@jmu.edu
Kathleen G. Cushing: k.g.cushing@keele.ac.uk
Sue Cuthbertson: sec5e@virginia.edu
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SIHS Newsletter No.

Report of the Executive Secretary-Treasurer, January 5, 2013

Well, enough of that. Time to stop.

So—carry on, keep up the good work, make me proud of you

Meeting, American Academy for Advanced Study in the Renaissance

News on the Rialto is an annual publication designed to provide an informational point of

Ricerca sull’Inchiesta della Congregazione dell’Indice (RICI) is a collaborative project

Stanislao Pugliese is organizing a three-day international conference devoted to soccer

Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program

For information, please contact:

TUSCANY (Valdarno) 30-45 min. to Florence/Arezzo/Siena

Jewish Society and Culture in Italy during the Enlightenment and

Friday, January 4, 2013: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Sociability and National Separation:Jewish Coffeehouses and Gambling Houses in Eighteenth-

Comment: Federica Francesconi, University of Oregon

Moving across Frontiers: Italian Stories in a Global Frame

Saturday, January 5, 2013: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Chair: Silvana Patriarca, Fordham University

Comment: Dominique K. Reill, University of Miami

Italy on the 150th Centenary of National Unification: Issues of Unity and

Saturday, January 5, 2013: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Chair: Roland Sarti, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The Celebrations between History and Politics

Comment: Roland Sarti, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Schedule for the Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, 2012-2013

October 12--Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University, “After Neorealism. Screening the

November 9--Umberto Gentiloni, Università di Terramo, “The Pending Republic. Italy

December 7--Frank Rosengarten, Professor Emeritus, City University of New York,

On October 21, Christopher Duggan delivered a talk on “Fascist Voices: An Intimate

(with Elizabeth S. Cohen", "Cacaphony on the Page: Making Written Words

"Confrontation in Italian courts: was it a real conversation?", Gossip, Gospel,

"The Historian as Ventroquist," for Graduate Colloquium, Department of History,

Organizer of five sessions, Renaissance Society of America Conference, San Diego, CA

Chair and Commentator, “International Psalms,” Renaissance Society of America

Chair, “Brill’s Companion to Ignatius of Loyola I” and “Brill’s Companion to Ignatius of

“All Politics is Local: The Medici-Habsburg Axis, 1532–88,” paper presented at

Round Table Discussion of Miguel Saralegui, Maquiavelo y la contradicción, XI

“L’éternité du monde,” at the conference Le temps et les temporalités dans la

“Giannozzo Manetti fra Bruni, Sozomeno e Machiavelli,” presentation panel, Pistoia,

“Who’s Afraid of Columbus?” Italian American Studies Association, Hofstra University,

Panel organizer and presenter, “Peacemaking, Performance & Power in Thirteenth-

Comment, “Preaching to Place: Prague Sermons from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth

Invited Speaker, “The Spiritual Geography of Charles II of Anjou” in “Geographies of

SARAH BLAKE McHAM:

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At the American Historical Association /American Catholic Historical Association annual

“A Shared Religious Culture: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Communities in Early

Empire on the Adriatic: Mussolini’s Conquest of Yugoslavia 1941-1943 (New York:

"Women on the Margins" in The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and

special journal issue (with Germaine Warkentin, University of Toronto, guest

“Ruminations on Reflections on a Distant Crime," Cultural History vol. 1, no. 2

(with E. S. Cohen), “Charismatic things and social transaction in Renaissance

"Bartolomeo Camerario—Legist, Polemicist, Chief of the Annona, Collector of

Renato Ago,"Rank and Display," for a forthcoming book edited by Gail

Francesca Cappelletti, "Cardinals, Cardinal Nephews, and Aristocratic

“РЕНЕССАНСНАЯ ИСТОРИЧЕСКАЯ МЫСЛЬ И ПРОБЛЕМА ВЕЧНОСТИ

“Gli storici americani e il Risorgimento italiano,” Nuova Storia Contemporanea, July-

“Modern Italy Seen by Americans: A Survey of General Histories,” Mondo

Ialongo, Ernest. “Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Futurist as Fascist, 1929-

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