Honorable Mention for SIHS Article Prize for Modern Italian History: Glauco Schettini (2021)
Congratulations to Glauco Schettini for winning the honorable mention for the 2021 SIHS Article Prize for Modern Italian History for his article “Confessional Modernity: Nicola Spedalieri, the Catholic Church and the French Revolution, c. 1775–1800,” published in Modern Intellectual History in September 2020. The following is the award committee’s official citation for Schettini’s award, along with an interview between Dr. Amanda Madden and Schettini on the research behind “Confessional Modernity,” among other topics.
Award Committee Citation
The committee unanimously and enthusiastically awards an Honorable Mention to Glauco Schettini for his article ‘Confessional Modernity: Nicola Spedalieri, the Catholic Church and the French Revolution, c.1775–1800’ (Modern Intellectual History, 2020). By providing an in-depth reading of Spedalieri’s 1791 work On the Rights of Man and by historically contextualizing it within the debates it sparked in Italy and beyond, Schettini’s essay offers an excellent example of the state of the art in intellectual history. Taking up new directions and conceptualizations of the Enlightenment, Schettini rethinks the old dichotomies between religion and secularization, and revolution and reaction, through which we are used to reading the history of long nineteenth-century Italy. In doing so, he uncovers the lost history of ‘confessional modernity’ and evidences the multiple paths to modernity possible at the time.
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