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Renato Pasta
CURRICULUM SCIENTIFICO
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I received my first degree (laurea) at the University of Milan (1976, Advisor: Prof. C. Capra) and a D.E.A. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, under the turorship of Prof. A. Tenenti (1978). The History Department, Princeton University, awarded me a Ph.D. in 1985 (Adv.: Prof. R. Darnton). Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (Fall 1990), I also received Research Fellowships from the Fondazione L. Einaudi (Turin, 1981, 1983), the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, New York (1982), the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel (1989), the Max-Planck-Institut-fuer-Geschichte, Goettingen (1999, 2001) and the British Academy (2003). I spent the academic year 1996-'97 in Berlin as a Fellow of the Wissenschaftsklolleg. Sideney Sussex College at Cambridge University (UK) has invited me as a Visiting Professor during the Fall Term 2009. I served as Chairman of the Board of the Biblioteca Umanistica of the University of Florence (2010-2011). In May 1992 I taught at the EHESS following an invitation from Prof. R. Chartier. Following an invitation by Prof. D. Roche in 2000 I also delivered four lectures at the Collège de France, Paris, about 'Communication sociale et librairie des lumières au XVIIIème siècle en Italie'. I was promoted to a full professorship in Early-Modern History in 2000 and have been teaching in this capacity at Florence since 2002 (Chair: Early-Modern History, History of the Italian States before 1861). Since 1983 the whole of my professional career has developed at the University of Florence where I worked first in the History Department (DSSG) and am now active in the newly-established History and the Arts Department, SAGAS.
My research revolves around the social and political history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, spanning from the 'Glorious Revolution' and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) to the democratic revolutions of the nineteenth century. My work concentrates on the nexus between the Enlightenment and the reform movement in Italy as well as on the history of knowledge and the learned institutions in the field of natural philosophy and the humanities. I have explored some aspects of the roles of the academies in France and Italy and the cultural function of the Royal Museum of Physics (1775-) in Florence. Other enquiries analyze the ideologies of the Enlightenment and their diffusion (following F. Venturi's notion of the 'circulation of ideas' in eighteenth-century Europe), and the historical works by L.A. Muratori and P.Verri. Publishing, the book trades and cultural consumption in Italy also provide a field of research which includes the history of the periodical press: these topics have been discussed in my book 'Editoria e cultura nel Settecento' (1997). At present I I plan to write a short volume about the book trades and their role as brokers of ideas during the Age of reform in Italy, which should also account for the international book market (in France primarily and Switzerland), its institutional constraints and the enduring functions of patronage.