History of the Early Modern Italian States
A.Y. 2020/2021
Learning objectives
The course aims to outline the geography of power and territories, as well as the political, economic and social dynamics that interested Italian states during the ancien régime. The aim of this course has two objectives: a) to ensure knowledge of the institutions, economy, society, and culture of the Italian peninsula during the ancien régime; b) the reach the ability to deal with historical problems in a critical way, acquired through the examination of texts, sources and historiographical debates within the lesson. The course consists of face-to-face lectures and seminar activities including the reading sources and reports in the students' classrooms on texts proposed by the instructor.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge: mastery of themes and problems related to the history of the Italian states of the ancien régime, to be achieved by attending lectures, and the study of the monographs and documents examined in the classroom.
Skills: knowing how to read texts critically and acquire their contents; knowing how to focus on the sources of history and the main historiographical currents; knowing how to expose present arguments in an orderly fashion and with appropriate language.
Students opting not to attend lessons will be able to deepen their knowledge into the main topics through special readings and compare ideas with the instructor both by email and during office hours.
Skills: knowing how to read texts critically and acquire their contents; knowing how to focus on the sources of history and the main historiographical currents; knowing how to expose present arguments in an orderly fashion and with appropriate language.
Students opting not to attend lessons will be able to deepen their knowledge into the main topics through special readings and compare ideas with the instructor both by email and during office hours.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Lessons will be held remotely, using the Microsoft Teams program. Lessons will take place according to the following schedule: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 12.30 to 14.30. Any changes will be communicated in class and published by the teacher on the Ariel website. On the Ariel website students will also find any informations regarding the access to the lessons (links, etc.), reference material (bibliography, etc.) and changes to the program.
Course syllabus
Title of the course: Politics and Culture in the XVIIIth Century Italy
Part 1: The Early Modern Italian States
Part 2: The Italian States: Sources and Historiography
Part 3: Debates and Reformations during the XVIIIth Century
Part 1: The Early Modern Italian States
Part 2: The Italian States: Sources and Historiography
Part 3: Debates and Reformations during the XVIIIth Century
Prerequisites for admission
There are no specific requirements different from those requested for the admission to the MA degree in historical science
Teaching methods
Attendance to classes is strongly recommended although not compulsory. The teaching is delivered through frontal lectures aimed primarily at the acquisition of knowledge, competence, sources and specific language of the subject. Discussion with the teacher in the classroom is integrant part of the didactic method and aims at promoting a critical attitude and the capacity to apply the acquired competence and knowledge.
The teaching is also based on didactic material provided on Ariel.
In addition to frontal lectures individual presentations are envisaged.
The teaching is also based on didactic material provided on Ariel.
In addition to frontal lectures individual presentations are envisaged.
Teaching Resources
Attending students:
- Programme for 6 cfu:
-Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (modules 1 and 2)
-Knowledge of the following Textbook:
V. Criscuolo, Storia Moderna, Milano, Pearson, 2019, chapters 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30
-Knowledge of one of the following volumes:
M.L. Betri - E. Brambilla (a cura di), Salotti e ruolo femminile in Italia tra fine Seicento e primo Novecento, Venezia, Marsilio, 2004, solo fino a p.249
R. Bizzocchi, I cognomi degli italiani. Una storia lunga 1000 anni, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014;
C. Capra, La felicità per tutti. Figure e temi dell'Illuminismo lombardo, Milano, Aracne, 2017
P. Delpiano, Il governo della lettura. Chiesa e libri nell'Italia del Settecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007;
F. Gilbert, Machiavelli e Guicciardini. Pensiero politico e storiografia a Firenze nel Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2012;
O. Niccoli, La vita religiosa nell'Italia moderna. Secoli XV-XVIII, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
- Programme for 9 cfu:
-Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (modules 1, 2 and 3)
-Knowledge of the following Textbook:
V. Criscuolo, Storia Moderna, Milano, Pearson, 2019, chapters 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30
-Knowledge of two of the following volumes:
R. Bizzocchi, I cognomi degli italiani. Una storia lunga 1000 anni, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014;
P. Delpiano, Il governo della lettura. Chiesa e libri nell'Italia del Settecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007;
F. De Vivo, Patrizi, informatori, barbieri. Politica e comunicazione a Venezia nella prima età moderna, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2012;
F. Gilbert, Machiavelli e Guicciardini. Pensiero politico e storiografia a Firenze nel Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2012;
O. Niccoli, La vita religiosa nell'Italia moderna. Secoli XV-XVIII, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
Non-attending students:
- Programme for 6 cfu:
-Knowledge of the following Textbook:
V. Criscuolo, Storia Moderna, Milano, Pearson, 2019, chapters 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30
-Knowledge of the volume G. Greco - M. Rosa (a cura di), Storia degli antichi stati italiani, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2020 (or different issues)
-Knowledge of one of the following volumes:
M.L. Betri - E. Brambilla (a cura di), Salotti e ruolo femminile in Italia tra fine Seicento e primo Novecento, Venezia, Marsilio, 2004, solo fino a p.249
R. Bizzocchi, I cognomi degli italiani. Una storia lunga 1000 anni, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014;
C. Capra, La felicità per tutti. Figure e temi dell'Illuminismo lombardo, Milano, Aracne, 2017
P. Delpiano, Il governo della lettura. Chiesa e libri nell'Italia del Settecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007;
F. Gilbert, Machiavelli e Guicciardini. Pensiero politico e storiografia a Firenze nel Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2012;
O. Niccoli, La vita religiosa nell'Italia moderna. Secoli XV-XVIII, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
- Programme for 9 cfu:
-Knowledge of the following Textbook:
V. Criscuolo, Storia Moderna, Milano, Pearson, 2019, chapters 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30
-Knowledge of the volume G. Greco - M. Rosa (a cura di), Storia degli antichi stati italiani, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2020 (or different issues)
-Knowledge of two of the following volumes:
M.L. Betri - E. Brambilla (a cura di), Salotti e ruolo femminile in Italia tra fine Seicento e primo Novecento, Venezia, Marsilio, 2004, solo fino a p.249
R. Bizzocchi, I cognomi degli italiani. Una storia lunga 1000 anni, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014;
C. Capra, La felicità per tutti. Figure e temi dell'Illuminismo lombardo, Milano, Aracne, 2017
P. Delpiano, Il governo della lettura. Chiesa e libri nell'Italia del Settecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007;
F. Gilbert, Machiavelli e Guicciardini. Pensiero politico e storiografia a Firenze nel Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2012;
O. Niccoli, La vita religiosa nell'Italia moderna. Secoli XV-XVIII, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
International and Erasmus students are invited to promptly get in touch with the professor in order to arrange a reading plan for exam preparation.
- Programme for 6 cfu:
-Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (modules 1 and 2)
-Knowledge of the following Textbook:
V. Criscuolo, Storia Moderna, Milano, Pearson, 2019, chapters 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30
-Knowledge of one of the following volumes:
M.L. Betri - E. Brambilla (a cura di), Salotti e ruolo femminile in Italia tra fine Seicento e primo Novecento, Venezia, Marsilio, 2004, solo fino a p.249
R. Bizzocchi, I cognomi degli italiani. Una storia lunga 1000 anni, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014;
C. Capra, La felicità per tutti. Figure e temi dell'Illuminismo lombardo, Milano, Aracne, 2017
P. Delpiano, Il governo della lettura. Chiesa e libri nell'Italia del Settecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007;
F. Gilbert, Machiavelli e Guicciardini. Pensiero politico e storiografia a Firenze nel Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2012;
O. Niccoli, La vita religiosa nell'Italia moderna. Secoli XV-XVIII, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
- Programme for 9 cfu:
-Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (modules 1, 2 and 3)
-Knowledge of the following Textbook:
V. Criscuolo, Storia Moderna, Milano, Pearson, 2019, chapters 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30
-Knowledge of two of the following volumes:
R. Bizzocchi, I cognomi degli italiani. Una storia lunga 1000 anni, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014;
P. Delpiano, Il governo della lettura. Chiesa e libri nell'Italia del Settecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007;
F. De Vivo, Patrizi, informatori, barbieri. Politica e comunicazione a Venezia nella prima età moderna, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2012;
F. Gilbert, Machiavelli e Guicciardini. Pensiero politico e storiografia a Firenze nel Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2012;
O. Niccoli, La vita religiosa nell'Italia moderna. Secoli XV-XVIII, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
Non-attending students:
- Programme for 6 cfu:
-Knowledge of the following Textbook:
V. Criscuolo, Storia Moderna, Milano, Pearson, 2019, chapters 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30
-Knowledge of the volume G. Greco - M. Rosa (a cura di), Storia degli antichi stati italiani, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2020 (or different issues)
-Knowledge of one of the following volumes:
M.L. Betri - E. Brambilla (a cura di), Salotti e ruolo femminile in Italia tra fine Seicento e primo Novecento, Venezia, Marsilio, 2004, solo fino a p.249
R. Bizzocchi, I cognomi degli italiani. Una storia lunga 1000 anni, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014;
C. Capra, La felicità per tutti. Figure e temi dell'Illuminismo lombardo, Milano, Aracne, 2017
P. Delpiano, Il governo della lettura. Chiesa e libri nell'Italia del Settecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007;
F. Gilbert, Machiavelli e Guicciardini. Pensiero politico e storiografia a Firenze nel Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2012;
O. Niccoli, La vita religiosa nell'Italia moderna. Secoli XV-XVIII, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
- Programme for 9 cfu:
-Knowledge of the following Textbook:
V. Criscuolo, Storia Moderna, Milano, Pearson, 2019, chapters 12, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30
-Knowledge of the volume G. Greco - M. Rosa (a cura di), Storia degli antichi stati italiani, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2020 (or different issues)
-Knowledge of two of the following volumes:
M.L. Betri - E. Brambilla (a cura di), Salotti e ruolo femminile in Italia tra fine Seicento e primo Novecento, Venezia, Marsilio, 2004, solo fino a p.249
R. Bizzocchi, I cognomi degli italiani. Una storia lunga 1000 anni, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014;
C. Capra, La felicità per tutti. Figure e temi dell'Illuminismo lombardo, Milano, Aracne, 2017
P. Delpiano, Il governo della lettura. Chiesa e libri nell'Italia del Settecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007;
F. Gilbert, Machiavelli e Guicciardini. Pensiero politico e storiografia a Firenze nel Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2012;
O. Niccoli, La vita religiosa nell'Italia moderna. Secoli XV-XVIII, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
International and Erasmus students are invited to promptly get in touch with the professor in order to arrange a reading plan for exam preparation.
Assessment methods and Criteria
- Method: oral exam
- Type of examination: oral interrogation
- Evaluation criteria: capacity to demonstrate and elaborate knowledge; capacity for critical reflection on the completed work; quality of exposition, competence in the use of specialised lexicon, efficacy, clarity.
- Type of evaluation method: mark in 30s
The format of the exam for students with disabilities should be arranged in advance with the professor, as well as the relevant office.
- Type of examination: oral interrogation
- Evaluation criteria: capacity to demonstrate and elaborate knowledge; capacity for critical reflection on the completed work; quality of exposition, competence in the use of specialised lexicon, efficacy, clarity.
- Type of evaluation method: mark in 30s
The format of the exam for students with disabilities should be arranged in advance with the professor, as well as the relevant office.
Unita' didattica A
M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)