Historian @umdhistory.bsky.social | #EarlyModern Britain and Italy #EMReligion #QuakerHistory #BCP #Anglicanism https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4902-1382https://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3meyiaolbqs2pGLIRN – Research Initiative on Global Italian Religious Networks invites news and notices for the Spring 2026 issue of The GLIRN Review. Share books, conferences, CFPs, fellowships, grants, and opportunities on Italian religious history and its global connections. https://as.nyu.edu/departments/italian/Initiatives/glirn.html16 Feb 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3meyiaolbqs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3meyc6karwc2pThrilled to chair and co-organize three EMoDiR panels at RSA San Francisco 2026 on The Devil and Dissent: from demonology and Reformation polemic to political demonization and gendered stage representations #RenTwitter #earlymodern #RenTwitter #earlymodern16 Feb 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3meyc6karwc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3mdih7sq2p22cStefano Villani, «Un abisso di guerre et confusione». Rapporti diplomatici, informazione e doni tra l’Inghilterra della guerra civile e dell’Interregno e la Toscana di Ferdinando II. This chapter examines how Amerigo Salvetti interpreted the English Civil Wars and the Interregnum. go.umd.edu/26k528 Jan 2026 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdih7sq2p22chttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3mdd4fm62cc2gMy review of Madigan’s The Popes against the Protestants. An interesting book undermined by editorial errors and misprints. If this is becoming the standard, what are we paying for when we buy outrageously expensive books from top university presses? Full Review: go.umd.edu/26ib or go.umd.edu/26hk26 Jan 2026 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdd4fm62cc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3mag6bbyyas2eA nice surprise: an unexpected review of Making Italy Anglican (2022) has just appeared in Cromohs. Many thanks to Marco Fratini for the careful and generous reading. https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/cromohs/article/view/16935 #BCP #BCP #ChurchOfEngland #Anglican #TranslationStudies20 Dec 2025 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mag6bbyyas2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3m54u6wcljs25Call for papers for a special issue of the 'Journal of Early Modern Studies' edited by Brendan Dooley and Stefano Villani: Diplomacy and the Circulation of Political Information in Early Modern Europe. Deadline: 31 January 2026. 🔗 go.umd.edu/24lh08 Nov 2025 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m54u6wcljs25https://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3m2kehmmg7k2nNYU–Roma Tre Permanent Global Seminar on Religious Diversity in Italian Urban History 🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025 📄 Details: https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/glirn/documents/2025%20CFP%20NYU%20-%20Roma%20Tre%20Seminar.pdf06 Oct 2025 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2kehmmg7k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3m2ke7n54tk2nThe second issue of the year of The GLIRN Review (Fall 2025) has just been published on the website of the Research Initiative on Global Italian Religious Networks (GLIRN) and can be found here: https://as.nyu.edu/departments/italian/Initiatives/glirn/review.html06 Oct 2025 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ke7n54tk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3ltzqj3jam22gTunis, July 14, 202515 Jul 2025 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltzqj3jam22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3lr5vmpzf4s2jToday (June 9) in Florence: the 2025 Annual Conference of the Global Italian Religious Networks (GLIRN), hosted by NYU09 Jun 2025 07:54 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr5vmpzf4s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3lnnc5trzt22qBuon 25 aprile! Viva la Resistenza!25 Apr 2025 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnnc5trzt22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3llwlcqqdjc2iHappy to see in print my article on “Alessandro Amidei e «La Liturgia Inglese overo il libro delle Publiche Preghiere»” in the volume on Italian language and the Reformation edited by Cordibella and Tomasin @lorenzotomasin.bsky.social. See the first pages on Academia: go.umd.edu/1y2g03 Apr 2025 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3llwlcqqdjc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3llm6wuphn22tEid Mubarak to all my Muslim friends. May this celebration be a sign of hope, justice, and peace for you, your families, and the world. As it is written both in the Talmud and in the Qur'an, whoever kills a person, it is as if he had killed all of humanity (Qur'an 5:32)30 Mar 2025 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3llm6wuphn22thttps://bsky.app/profile/stefanovil.bsky.social/post/3llm5qmomcs2nOn April 7, 2025, 5:00–6:30 PM, @umdhistory.bsky.social will host 'Making Sense of Mass Atrocities: The Meanings of Genocide in Historical and Contemporary Contexts', with Omer Bartov and Shibley Telhami. RSVP: bit.ly/Bartov30 Mar 2025 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:52o7mun3ud4bfwtzgea77lj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3llm5qmomcs2n