Curriculum Vitae - Università di Cagliari

FILIPPO DE VIVO
Department of History, Classics, and Archaeology,
School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy
Birkbeck, University of London, WC1E 7HX, London, UK
[email protected] http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/archives/
EMPLOYMENT
Birkbeck, University of London
Reader in Early Modern History, 2003-present (Lecturer 2003-2008; Senior Lecturer 2008-13)
Director of the History BA 2006-2009; Director of Research/REF Lead, 2015-present
Trinity College, Cambridge
Research Fellow (2001-2003, 2005-6)
University of Cambridge
Assistant University Lecturer in Early Modern History (2001-2002)
EDUCATION
1998-2003 PhD in History, University of Cambridge.
1997-98
D.E.A. (Master’s degree), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
1994-97
BA (Hons.) in History, University of Cambridge
1992-94
Università degli Studi di Milano, Faculty of Lettere e Filosofia, 8 exams taken, 30/30 aver.
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AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS (latest first)
Visiting Scientist, University of Cagliari
Kratter Visiting Professor, University of Stanford
Bloomsbury PhD funding for joint supervision with SOAS, School of Oriental and African
Studies on ‘Archival Practices in the Medieval Arabic Lands’ (c. 1250-1500)
Harvard/I Tatti Wallace Special Project grant for Conference on Cultural Encounters and
Shared Spaces in the Italian Renaissance City, 1350-1650.
Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Principal Investigator, European Research Council, Starting Grant, “ARCHIves: A
comparative history of archives in late medieval and early modern Italy”, 2012-2016.
Premio Antico Pignolo for best book in Venetian history, culture and literature, for Patrizi,
informatori, barbieri (Milan: 2012).
Harvard/I Tatti Lila Wallace grant for two lectures at the University of Tokyo, Japan
Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow, Villa I Tatti/Harvard University Center for Italian
Renaissance Studies, 2011-2012
Principal Investigator, AHRC Workshop Programme on ‘Scribal Culture in Italy, 14501650’ http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/about/conferences/scribalculture
Philip Leverhulme Prize in History
British Academy Small Research Grant for conference and workshop on ‘Scribal Culture
and Political Information in Italy, 1450-1650’
Proxime accessit Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize
British Academy Conference Grant for conference on ‘Exploring Cultural History: A
Conference in Honour of Peter Burke’, held at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Chercheur invité (visiting fellowship), Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine/Ecole
Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
1998-2001 British Academy/Arts and Humanities Research Board Graduate Studentship
1997-8
Pensionnaire étranger (foreign research student) Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
PUBLICATIONS (oldest first)
BOOKS AND EDITED BOOKS
Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press
2007), Proxime accessit Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize.
Exploring Cultural History: Essays in honour of Peter Burke (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), ed. with Melissa
Calaresu and Joan-Pau Rubiés.
Patrizi, informatori, barbieri. Politica e comunicazione a Venezia tra Cinque e Seicento (Milan: Giangiacomo
Feltrinelli Editore, 2012), Premio Antico Pignolo, Venice.
Archivi e archivisti in Italia tra Medioevo e età moderna (Roma: Viella, 2015), ed. with Andrea Guidi and
Alessandro Silvestri.
Fonti per la storia degli archivi degli antichi Stati italiani (Roma: Direzione Generale per gli Archivi,
forthcoming), ed. with Andrea Guidi and Alessandro Silvestri.
Thomas Hobbes, Translation of Fulgenzio Micanzio’s Letters to William Cavendish and Other Early Writings,
The Complete Works of Hobbes (Oxford: Clarendon, under contract), ed. with Noel Malcolm.
EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS
With Brian Richardson, Scribal Culture in Italy, 1450-1700, Italian Studies, v. 66 (2011).
With Maria Pia Donato, Scholarly Practices in the Archive (16th-18th centuries), Storia della Storiografia, 68 (2015).
With Roisin Cossar and Christina Neilson, Shared Spaces and Knowledge Transactions in the Italian Renaissance
City, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, 19 (2016).
With Andrea Guidi and Alessandro Silvestri, Archival Transformations in Early Modern Europe, European
History Quarterly, 46 (forthcoming July 2016).
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
“Dall’imposizione del silenzio alla ‘guerra delle scritture’. Le pubblicazioni ufficiali durante l’interdetto
del 1606-1607”, Studi veneziani, 41 (2001): 179-213.
“Quand le passé résiste à ses historiographies : Venise et le XVIIe siècle”, Cahiers du Centre de Recherches
Historiques, 28-29 (2002): 223-34.
“Historical Justifications of Venetian Power in the Adriatic”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 64 (2003): 15976.
“The diversity of Venice and her myths in recent historiography”, The Historical Journal, 47 (2004): 16977.
“Paolo Sarpi and the Uses of Information in 17th c. Venice”, Media History, 11 (2005): 37-51, also
published in News and Networks in 17th c. Britain and Europe ed. J. Raymond (Routledge, 2006).
With Jonathan Walker and James E. Shaw, “A Dialogue on Spying in 17th-Century Venice”, Rethinking
History, 10 (2006): 323-344.
“Pharmacies as centres of communication in early-modern Venice”, Renaissance Studies, 21 (2007): 50521.
“Rhetoric and government in 16th c. Venice: some paradoxes”, The Italianist, v. 27, special issue “Caro
Vitto: Essays in Memory of Vittore Branca”, ed. Jill Kraye and Laura Lepschy (2007): 188-205.
“Prospect or Refuge? Microhistory, History on the Large Scale: A Response”, Cultural and Social History
7 (2010): 387-97.
“Ordering the archive in early modern Venice (1400-1650)”, Archival Science, 10 (2010): 231-248.
- Translated into French as “Technologies du réemploi: mise en ordre/mise en œuvre des archives à
Venise (XVe-XVIIe siècle)”, in Caroline Callard, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, and Alain Tallon (eds.),
La Politique de l'histoire en Italie: Arts et pratiques du réemploi (XIVe-XVIIe siècle) (Paris: Presses de
l'université Paris-Sorbonne, 2104): 307-25.
“How to read Venetian relazioni”, Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 34, special issue on
Relations, rélations, relazioni, ed. by Tom Cohen and Germaine Warkentin, with a foreword by Natalie
Zemon Davis (2011): 25-59.
“Coeur de l'Etat, lieu de tension. Le tournant archivistique vu de Venise (XVe-XVIIe siècle)”, Annales.
Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 68 (2013), pp. 699-728.
- Translated into Italian as “Cuore dello Stato o luogo di tensione? Archivi, società e politica a
Venezia tra Quattro e Seicento”, in Archivi e archivisti in Italia tra Medioevo e età moderna (Roma: Viella,
2015), see above: 173-198.
“Walking in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Mobilizing the Early Modern City”, I Tatti Studies in the Italian
Renaissance, 19 (2016): xwx.
“Archives of Speech: Recording Diplomatic Negotiation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy”,
European History Quarterly, 46 (forthcoming July 2016).
“Archival intelligence: diplomatic correspondence and information management in Italy, 1450-1650”,
The Proceedings of the British Academy (forthcoming).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Le armi dell’ambasciatore. Voci e manoscritti a Parigi durante l’Interdetto di Venezia”, in I luoghi della
produzione della cultura e dell’immaginario barocco in Italia, ed. L. Strappini and G. Ragone (Naples: Liguori,
2001): 187-200.
“La publication comme enjeu polémique. Le cas de Venise au XVIIe siècle”, in De la publication. Entre
Renaissance et Lumières, ed. Christian Jouhaud and Alain Viala (Paris: Fayard, 2002): 161-75.
“’Il vero termine di reggere il suddito’: Paolo Sarpi e la gestione dell'informazione”, in Ripensando Paolo
Sarpi, ed. Corrado Pin (Venice: Ateneo Veneto, 2006): 237-70.
“Introduzione”, in Edward P. Thompson, L’economia morale (Milan: Et-al. Edizioni, 2009), pp. 1-11.
“La guerra delle scritture: Stampa e potere durante l’Interdetto”, in L’Interdetto di Venezia e lo Stato
Marciano, ed. G. Benzoni (Rovigo: Minelliana, 2007): 105-22.
- Translated into French as “Libelles en guerre. Pouvoirs et imprimé pendant l'interdit de Venise
(1606-1607)”, in Ricardo Saez (ed.), L'imprimé et ses pouvoirs dans les langues romanes (Rennes: Presses
Universitaires de Rennes, 2010): 149-72.
“El Paternoster degli Spagnoli. La comunicación política en la Venecia del Cinquecento”, in Antonio
Castillo Gómez, James S. Amelang and Carmen Serrano Sánchez (eds.), Opinión pública y espacio urbano
en la Edad Moderna (Gijón: Trea, 2010): 357-72.
“I luoghi della cultura a Venezia nel primo Cinquecento”, in Sergio Luzzatto and Gabriele Pedullà
(eds.), Atlante della Letteratura Italiana, v. 1 Dalle origini al Rinascimento (Torino: Einaudi, 2010): 708-18.
“Francia e Inghilterra di fronte all'Interdetto di Venezia”, in Marie Viallon (ed.), Paolo Sarpi. Politique et
religion en Europe (Paris: Editions Classiques Garnier, 2010): 163-88.
“Public Sphere or Communication Triangle? Information and Politics in Early Modern Europe”, in
Massimo Rospocher (ed.), Beyond the Public Sphere. Opinions, Publics, Spaces in Early Modern Europe,
Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento (Bologna and Berlin: Il Mulino and Duncker &
Humblot, 2012): 115-36.
- Italian translation: “Sfera pubblica o triangolo della comunicazione? Informazione e politica nella
prima età moderna”, in Massimo Rospocher, ed., Oltre la sfera pubblica. Lo spazio della politica nell’Europa
moderna (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013): 31-54.
- Polish translation: “Sfera publiczna czy trójkat komunikacyjny? Informacja i polityka we
wczesnonowozytnej Europie”, in Michał Wendland, ed., Historia idei komunikacji (Poznan: Adam
Mickiewicz University Press, 2015): 229-255.
“La farmacia come luogo di cultura: le spezierie di medicina in Italia”, in Maria Conforti, Andrea
Carlino and Antonio Clericuzio, eds., Interpretare e curare. Medicina e salute nel Rinascimento (Roma, 2013),
pp. 129-42.
“Crossroads Region: The Mediterranean”, in Jerry H. Bentley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Merry
Wiesner-Hanks, eds., The Cambridge History of the World (Cambridge, 2015), v. 6 The Early Modern World,
pp. 415-44.
OTHER
With Luca Einaudi, Manuela Magliocchetti, and Carlo Ratti, Le strutture collegiali in Italia, Inghilterra,
Francia e Stati Uniti. Analisi comparativa e basi progettuali (Torino: Compagnia di San Paolo, 1999).
CONFERENCES, SEMINAR PAPERS, LECTURES (latest first)
2016: The Experience of the Archive (Royal Historical Society/Institute of Historical Research Gerald
Aylmer Seminar); Modern Language and Humanities Association, Annual conference keynote lecture;
Social History Society conference, chair and discussant; Micro-Global history workshop, Universities of
Oxford and Warwick; The Matter of the Archive, CHASE Consortium, Universities of the South-East
of England (London); two papers as Visiting Scientist at Università di Cagliari; three papers at Stanford
University as Kratter Visiting Professor.
2015: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge, Collège de France, Paris; Renaissance Society of
America annual conference (discussant at two panels and participant in panel series in honour of
Robert Davis), Berlin; ICARUS seminar, UCL, London; University of Amsterdam, People Politics and
Protests conference; EUI conference in honour of Roger Chartier; Prato Monash Centre, conference in
honour of Alison Brown; Paris 3-Paris 8 conference on Ambassades et ambassadeurs en Europe, XVXVII s.; ARCHIves conference on Pratiques savantes des archives (17-19th c.), Ecole Normale
Supérieure, Paris; Sheffield University, History Seminar.
2014: Archives and record-keeping conference, British Academy, London; Renaissance Society of
America annual conference, New York; European Association of Urban History, bi-annual conference,
Lisbon; Shared spaces and cultural encounters conference, University of Manitoba; Annual Assiniboia
lecture, University of Manitoba; Rome ARCHIves conference.
2013: Italian Cultural Institute, London; University of California at Berkeley; invited lecture, Diplomacy
and Culture Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley; University of Essex, History seminar;
Michael Clanchy colloquium, King’s College, London; conference ‘Censura e circolazione dei libri’,
University of Naples L’Orientale; Orality and writing conference, University of Leeds.
2012: Dottorato di Storia Moderna, History Department, University of Florence; Villa I
Tatti/European University Institute study day; International conference on history of archives, New
University, Lisbon; University of Tokyo, Japan; Early modern seminar, University of Oxford;
Communities of knowledge conference, Oxford.
2011: Ecole française, Rome; University of Freiburg; Venetian Seminar, Warwick
2010: Early Modern History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London; Society of
Apothecaries, London; International conference ‘Beyond the Public Sphere’, Fondazione Bruno
Kessler, Trento; European Social Sciences History Conference, Ghent; Departmental seminar,
University of Verona; ‘Political communication in history’ one-day workshop, University of Trento;
Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Venice.
2009: Early Modern History seminar, University of Warwick; ‘Relations/Relazioni/Rélations’ one-day
workshop, plenary lecture, University of Toronto and Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies;
‘In and Out of the Archive’ international conference, UCLA Centre for Seventeenth- and EighteenthCentury Studies and Huntington Library, Los Angeles; ‘Nationalisms and Medieval History’
conference, University of Manchester; Colloque ‘Usages Usages de l’histoire et pratiques politiques en
Italie, du Moyen Age aux temps modernes : autour de la notion de réemploi’, Université de Paris IV
Sorbonne.
2008: “Reception” seminar, European University Institute, Florence; Intellectual History Seminar,
‘Early Modern Polemic’ series, All Souls College, Oxford; International conference on ‘Paolo Sarpi,
Politique et religion en Europe’, Université de Lyon; ‘La Ciudad de las palabras’ international
conference, Universidad de Alcalà de Henares; Departmental research seminars, University of
Sheffield; Conference on ‘Informer, commander, persuader, débattre : la communication comme
action’, CNRS, GRIHL and ISCC, Paris.
2007: International conference on ‘Imprimé et pouvoir dans les langues romanes’, Université de
Rennes; Four-hundred year anniversary of the Interdict conference, Ateneo Veneto, Venice; Convegno
internazionale ‘Lo stato marciano durante l’Interdetto del 1606-7’, Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo.
2006: Early Modern history seminar, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris; Seminar of the Groupe de
Recherches sur l’Histoire du Littéraire, EHESS, Paris; Renaissance Society of America annual
conference, San Francisco; Uses of the Past Conference, East Anglia University, Norwich.
2005: Conference in Memory of Vittore Branca, Warburg Institute, London; Medieal and Renaissance
Italy Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London; Renaissance Society of America Annual
Conference, Cambridge; Social and Cultural History Seminar, University of Cambridge; ‘What are
Senates for?’, 10 year anniversary conference, School of Advanced Studies, Senate House, London.
2004: Symposium ‘Early Modern Medicine: Italy, Changing Medical History - Activities, Identities,
Spaces and Objects’, Wellcome Institute, London; Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference,
New York City.
2003: Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Toronto; Early Modern European History
Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London.
2002: Convegno internazionale di studi per il 450° anniversario della nascita di Paolo Sarpi, Venice,
organised by: Ateneo Veneto, University of Venice and Regione Veneto; Interdisciplinary two-day
workshop GRIHL (Paris) and Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice.
2001: Conference on L’invention du XVIIème siècle organised by the Groupe de Recherches
Interdisciplinaires Histoire et Littérature, Collège de France, Paris; Annual conference of the
International Society for Intellectual History, on “Quarrels, Polemics, and Controversies”, Cambridge;
Seminar of the Groupe de Recherches sur l’Histoire du Littéraire (GRIHL), Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
2000: Department Seminar in the History Department, Università Cà Foscari, Venice; Convegno di studi
sul Seicento. I luoghi della produzione della cultura e dell’immaginario barocco in Italia, Siena, Università per
Stranieri.
SERVICE
I have examined PhD theses at: European University Institute, Universities of Genoa, Venice,
Warwick, at the Sorbonne (Paris) and the Warburg Institute (School of Advanced Studies, U. of
London), Cambridge.
I sit on the editorial board of Rivista Storica Italiana.
I sit on the advisory boards: of Italian Academies, 1525-1700 (2010-14), of the ERC Advanced Grant
project Italian Voices (2012-15); VOCES, Vocabulaire pour l’étude des scripturalités médiévales (ongoing);
Venice Tiem Machine Project (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Archivio di Stato, Venice,
ongoing); I have regularly reviewed publications for the VQR, for promotion panels in the USA, for
University Presses in the UK and the USA; I convene the annual Venetian Seminar in the UK and I am
one of the convenors of the Early Modern European History research seminar at the Institute of
Historical Research in London.