Filippo de Vivo

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Filippo de Vivo is an Italian historian . He is Professor of Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London . His area of ​​expertise is the history of modern Italy, in particular the Republic of Veneto. His research interests are historiography and the exchange of information. He works with micro-historical approaches.

Work and reception

The study for the book Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics was originally written as de Vivos PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge under the direction of Peter Burke . With its multi-faceted compilation of primary sources (council debates, inquisition documents, court minutes, handwritten and printed pamphlets) de Vivo's study overtakes previous contributions by placing Venice's position on the interdict in the largest possible context.

According to James Shaw of the University of Sheffield , de Vivo thereby gains a new understanding of political information by viewing it as a communicative act in a social context. De Vivo divides this communication into three levels: 1. Communication within the government, 2. Communication within a "political arena" with certain political actors, 3. Communication within a broad "public sphere". He draws a detailed picture of the official processes and reveals the involvement of steering committees within the Venetian government and their influence on public discourse.

AR.CHIves

From 2012 to 2016, de Vivo carried out a large-scale, collaborative study of the history of archives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of modern Italy. Together with the post-docs Andrea Guidi and Giacomo Giudici, he investigated the structure, management and use of archives between the 13th and 18th centuries. In the publications that followed, they show the manifold importance of the archives as centers, not only for preservation, but also for the organization and production of knowledge. The project was financed by the European Research Council, among others .

Fonts

  • Information and Communication in Venice. Rethinking Early Modern Politics. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009, ISBN 9780199568338 .
  • Patrizi, informatori, barbieri. Politica e comunicazione a Venezia nella prima età moderna. Feltrinelli, Milano 2012, ISBN 9788807104794 .
  • Archivi e archivisti in Italia tra medioevo ed età moderna. Viella, Roma 2015, ISBN 9788867284573 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin G. Kohl: Review of Information and Communication in Venice. Rethinking Early Modern Politics . In: Renaissance Quarterly . tape 61 , no. 3 , 2008, p. 867-867 , JSTOR : 10.1353 / ren.0.0196 .
  2. ↑ James Shaw: Review of Information and Communication in Venice. Rethinking Early Modern Politics . In: The English Historical Review . tape 124 , no. 511 , 2009, p. 1487-1488 , JSTOR : 5639879 .
  3. ↑ project page AR.CHIves on the side of the Birkbeck University of London
personal data
SURNAME Vivo, Filippo de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century