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Accademie e luoghi del sapere tra Italia e Spagna nel lungo Settecento / Academias y lugares del saber en el largo siglo XVIII entre Italia y España

Scienze, arti, letteratura, politica e sociabilità / Ciencias, artes, literatura, política y sociabilidad
  • Edited by:
  • Niccolò Guasti,
  • Cinzia Recca,
  • Mónica Bolufer Peruga,
  • Fernando Durán López,

The volume analyzes the mediating role played by academies and intellectual centres (including informal ones) between Italian and Spanish culture during the "long" 18th century. In the field of current critical and historiographical literature, this is the first systematic attempt to establish, with an interdisciplinary perspective, which academic contexts most consistently performed this function of cultural mediation and, therefore, which models of intellectual sociability represented a reference model both in Italy and in the Iberian world. In addition, the volume offers a general examination of the concrete functioning of intellectual sociability, both in the Spanish monarchy and in the ancient Italian states, through a large number of significant case studies.

  • Keywords:
  • Academies,
  • 18th century,
  • Italy,
  • Spain,
  • Enlightenment,
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Niccolò Guasti

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3586-0505

Cinzia Recca

University of Catania, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-7849-8502

Mónica Bolufer Peruga

European University Institute, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6532-4191

Fernando Durán López

University of Cadiz, Spain - ORCID: 0000-0003-2840-7462

Niccolò Guasti is professor of Early Modern History at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His research interests include 18th-century Spanish reformism, the Neapolitan Enlightenment, and the Italian exile of expelled Spanish Jesuits, topics to which he has devoted numerous essays.

Cinzia Recca is associate professor of Early Modern History at the University of Catania, Department of Education. Her research focuses on the European Enlightenment, with particular attention to court studies as well as to women’s roles in education and travel within the context of Sicilian history. She has published widely in national and international journals and edited volumes.

Mónica Bolufer Peruga is Professor of Early Modern History at the European University Institute and a specialist in cultural and gender history of the Spanish world. Her last books are Arte y artificio de la vida en común (2019) and Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century (2024).

Fernando Durán López is Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Cádiz. He is an expert in autobiography, journalism, literary astrological almanacs, and book censorship. He presides over the Spanish Society for the Study of the 18th century and co-directs Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo.
I.Dibattiti, Media e prodotti culturali tra Italia e Spagna / Debates, medios de comunicación y productos culturales entre Italia y España
I.1. La circolazione di idee, informazioni e prodotti culturali nello spazio italo-spagnolo / La circulación de ideas, informaciones y productos culturales en el espacio hispanoitaliano

Irene Andreu Candela, Cayetano Mas Galvañ

El Vesubio en la correspondencia de Carlos de Borbón
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pp.35-48


I.2. Dibattiti culturali, economici e politici tra Italia e Spagna / Debates culturales, económicos y políticos entre Italia y España
I.3. Culture, comunicazione e luoghi del sapere in Spagna / Culturas, comunicación y lugares de conocimiento en España
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pp.181-192


II. I protagonisti e gli agenti sociali del mondo accademico italo-spagnolo / Los protagonistas y agentes sociales del mundo académico hispanoitaliano
II.1. Ambasciatori, funzionari ed élites politiche nella socialità italiana / Embajadores, funcionarios y élites políticas en la sociabilidad italiana

Massimo Galtarossa

Accademie e luoghi del sapere fra Padova e Venezia
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pp.287-299


II.2. Il ruolo dei religiosi nel mondo accademico italo-spagnolo / El papel de los religiosos en el mundo académico hispanoitaliano
III.3. Donne e sociabilità intellettuale tra Italia e Spagna /Mujeres y sociabilidad intelectual entre Italia y España
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Book Title

Accademie e luoghi del sapere tra Italia e Spagna nel lungo Settecento / Academias y lugares del saber en el largo siglo XVIII entre Italia y España

Book Subtitle

Scienze, arti, letteratura, politica e sociabilità / Ciencias, artes, literatura, política y sociabilidad

Editors

Niccolò Guasti, Cinzia Recca, Mónica Bolufer Peruga, Fernando Durán López

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Number of Pages

464

Publication Year

2026

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© 2026 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/979-12-215-0989-2

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979-12-215-0988-5

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Biblioteca di storia

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2464-9007

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2704-5986

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