Notes on Contributors

Alberto Clerici

is Professor of History of Political Thought at the Faculty of Political Science of the University Niccolò Cusano in Rome. His main research fields include the history of early modern theories of sovereignty, resistance and the law of nations. He has published Monarcomachi e giusnaturalisti nella Utrecht del Seicento. Willem van der Muelen e la legittimazione olandese della ‘Glorious Revolution’ (Milano: Franco Angeli, 2007).

Vittor Ivo Comparato

is editor of the journal Il Pensiero politico. Professor emeritus, he has long taught History of Political Thought and Modern History at the Universities of Florence and Perugia. His research has mainly focused on the history of seventeenth-century French and Italian political thought, erudite libertinism and republicanism. His monographs include: Giuseppe Valletta. Un intellettuale napoletano della fine del Seicento (Napoli: Istituto Italiano di Studi Storici, 1970), Uffici e società a Napoli (1600–1647): dell’ideologia del magistrato (Firenze: Olschki, 1974); Cyrano de Bergerac Politique (Napoli: ESI, 1997) and Utopia (Bologna: il Mulino, 2005).

Giuseppina De Giudici

is Associate Professor of Medieval and Modern Legal History at the Department of Law, University of Cagliari. Her main research fields include the history of jus gentium, with a focus on the legal status of ambassadors in the modern age, and the history of the University of Cagliari and the teaching also of international law. Her books include Sanctitas legatorum: Sul ˈfondamentoˈ dell’indipendenza giurisdizionale in età moderna (Napoli: ESI, 2020). She is editor, together with Dante Fedele and Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, of the collection of essays entitled Soggettività contestate e diritto internazionale in età moderna (Historia et ius, 2023, open access).

Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina

is Assistant Professor of Legal History at the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich. Her main research fields include the history of international law, circulation and diffusion of theories of natural law and law of nations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the history of land ownership and land registration systems (in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries). She has published L’eterno ritorno del Droit des gens di Emer de Vattel (secc. XVIII–XIX) (Frankfurt: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, 2017).

Frédéric Ieva

is Research Fellow in Modern History at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature and Modern Cultures, University of Turin. His main research fields include the history of the Duchy of Savoy and the Kingdom of France in the seventeenth century, and the figure of Ercole Ricotti, the first professor of modern history at the University of Turin. His publications include: ‘“A poor imitation of Grotius and Pufendorf?” Biographical Uncertainties and the Laborious Genesis of Vattel’s Droit des gens’, in The Legacy of Vattel’s Droit des gens, ed. Koen Stapelbroek and Antonio Trampus (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 53–76; (as editor) Ercole Ricotti, Scritti sull’istruzione militare, prefazione di Pierpaolo Merlin (Torino: Centro Studi di storia dell’Università di Torino, 2022); and Illusioni di Potenza. La diplomazia sabauda e la Francia nel cuore del Seicento (1630–1648) (Roma: Carocci, 2022).

Girolamo Imbruglia

now retired, has lectured in modern history at the University ‘l’Orientale’ of Naples. His main trends of research are the history of European Enlightenment, the history of historiography and the history of Christianity in early modern Europe, especially the history of the Society of Jesus and of heretical movements. His publications include: Naples in the Eighteenth Century: The Birth and Death of a Nation State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000); The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568–1789) (Brill: Leiden, 2017); Utopia. Una storia politica da Savonarola a Babeuf (Carocci: Roma, 2021); ‘La religione sociniana. Culto e comunità’, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 102 (2022): 69–85; ‘The Idea of Religion and Sacrifice from Grotius to Diderot’s Encyclopedia’, History of European Ideas 47(5) (2021): 1–18; ‘Civilisation and Colonisation: Enlightenment Theories in the Debate between Diderot and Raynal’, History of European Ideas 41(7) (2015): 2–25; ‘Tribunal de la foi et tribunal de l’opinion publique au siècle des lumières. Giannone, Montesquieu, Beccaria’, in Censure et critique, ed. Laurence Macé, Claudine Poulouin and Yvan Leclerc (Paris: Garnier, 2015), 333–352.

Francesca Iurlaro

holds a Ph.D. in law from the European University Institute (Florence, 2018). She was a Global Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University (2019–2020) and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, 2020–2022). In her book The Invention of Custom: Natural Law and The Law of Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), she explores how topoi from classical antiquity shaped customary international law. In 2012 she received the Alberico Gentili Prize for her translation of Alberico Gentili’s Lectionis Virgilianae Variae Liber (1603), a legal commentary on Virgil’s Eclogues.

Serena Luzzi

is Associate Professor of Modern History at the Department of Humanities, University of Trento. Her research fields include the Enlightenment, the circulation of natural law and Italian secularitazion. She is editor of Carlantonio Pilati’s Di una riforma d’Italia ossia dei mezzi di riformare i più cattivi costumi, e le più perniciose leggi d’Italia (1767) (Roma: Storia e Letteratura, 2018).

Emanuele Salerno

is Senior Research Fellow and member of the Heisenberg project team on the Grotius Census Bibliography, generously funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SO 1807/2), at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. His research focuses on theoretical and practical tools for supporting international peace and security in a historical comparative framework. In addition to the early modern history and the history of political and legal international thought, his broader academic interests are the history of universities, book circulation, libraries and archives. He has published on the legal-political culture of the ruling class and cases of pragmatization of the law of nature and nations in eighteenth-century Tuscany.

Gabriella Silvestrini

is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at the Department of Humanities, University of Eastern Piedmont. Her main research fields include the history of early modern natural law theories, republicanism, theories of punishment, the Enlightenment and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. She has published Diritto naturale e volontà generale. Il contrattualismo repubblicano di Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Torino: Claudiana, 2010).

Antonio Trampus

is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. His research focuses on cultural history, history of political ideas and constitutionalism. His books include the critical edition of Benjamin Constant’s commentary on Filangieri (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012), the edited volume with K. Stapelbroek of The Legacy of Vattel’s Droit des gens (Cham: Palgrave, 2019) and Emer de Vattel and the Politics of Good Government: Constitutionalism, Small States and the International System (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).