Giuseppe Tarantino
Biographic Data
| ID | 1144186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giuseppe Tarantino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giuseppe |
| FAMILY NAME | Tarantino |
| SIGNATURE | TARANTINO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7007-0168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1901 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Traduttori e mercanti
Between Cure and Control
Review of Benedetta Chizzolini, Between Cure and Control: Doctors, Convicts, and Slaves in Tuscan and Papal Galleys (16th–18th Centuries) (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025), reviewed by Giovanni Tarantino
Afterword
This afterword reflects on the growing centrality of emotions in historical inquiry amid contemporary instability. It argues for an understanding of emotions as relational, mobile and shaped by asymmetries of power, translation and circulation. Drawing on themes such as entanglement, exclusion and resentment, it highlights how emotional configurations emerge across cultural and spatial boundaries, particularly in contexts of displacement and ineq…
The Fabric of the World
This article analyses Giulia Calvi’s Vestire il mondo as a major contribution to the visual history of early modern globalisation. Focusing on costume books from sixteenth–century Europe to Edo–period Japan, it explores how clothing functioned as a key medium for representing human difference and organising hierarchies of gender, religion, and civilisation. By tracing the transnational circulation of images, the essay highlights costume books as …
The Sky in Place of The Nile
This article investigates how extremely adverse climatic and weather conditions in early modern southern Italy played a part in disrupting social coexistence among groups and individuals of different confessions and beliefs in what until then had been top-down sanctioned or tolerated multi-confessional communities. It focuses on the dramatic fate of the Waldensian colonies in Calabria and Apulia, and the little-studied case of witchcraft panic th…
PIMo-Cromohs Podcast Series Contagion
Feeling Exclusion
Exile and Religious Identity, 1500-1800
Spohnholz, Jesse and Gary K. Waite, eds. Exile and Religious Identity, 1500–1800. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, Number 1, Winter 2015, pp. 5-213), on Érudit
Carlo Ginzburg and the Historian’s Craft
Selected paper from the first edition of IinteR-La+b (the International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and the Balzan Foundation) held in Rome, at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 12–13 November 2012. Published in Giovanni Tarantino (ed.), “Our words, and theirs:” A conversation with Carlo Ginzburg on the historian’s craft, Cromohs 18 (2013)
The Library of Gerard Nicholas Heerkens (1726–1801), Dutch physician, traveller, and Latin poet
The very extensive library collection of Gerard Nicholas Heerkens (1726–1801), the cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet, was sold at auction between 23 and 28 September and between 14 and 21 October 1805 at the University of Groningen. The auction was organized by the antiquarian and book dealer Jan Hendrik Bolt (active 1779–1845), who prepared the catalogue. The article presents for the first time a description of Heerkens’ book collectio…
Mapping Religion (and Emotions) in the Protestant Valleys of Piedmont
Tarantino Giovanni. Mapping Religion (and Emotions) in the Protestant Valleys of Piedmont. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°9, 2014. pp. 91-105
Britain 1660-1714
Writing about history is by its very nature a revisionist process. Nevertheless, in relation to Stuart and Hanoverian Britain the term came to be applied to specific historiographic paths of enquiry pursued in British, Canadian and American universities during the 1970s
Libertà di coscienza, 'aritmetica politica' e interesse nazionale
Saggio sulle idee Morali e Politiche di Tommaso Hobbes
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Saggio sulle idee Morali e Politiche di Tommaso Hobbes
Libertà di coscienza, 'aritmetica politica' e interesse nazionale
Britain 1660-1714
Writing about history is by its very nature a revisionist process. Nevertheless, in relation to Stuart and Hanoverian Britain the term came to be applied to specific historiographic paths of enquiry pursued in British, Canadian and American universities during the 1970s
Carlo Ginzburg and the Historian’s Craft
Selected paper from the first edition of IinteR-La+b (the International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and the Balzan Foundation) held in Rome, at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 12–13 November 2012. Published in Giovanni Tarantino (ed.), “Our words, and theirs:” A conversation with Carlo Ginzburg on the historian’s craft, Cromohs 18 (2013)
The Library of Gerard Nicholas Heerkens (1726–1801), Dutch physician, traveller, and Latin poet
The very extensive library collection of Gerard Nicholas Heerkens (1726–1801), the cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet, was sold at auction between 23 and 28 September and between 14 and 21 October 1805 at the University of Groningen. The auction was organized by the antiquarian and book dealer Jan Hendrik Bolt (active 1779–1845), who prepared the catalogue. The article presents for the first time a description of Heerkens’ book collectio…
Mapping Religion (and Emotions) in the Protestant Valleys of Piedmont
Tarantino Giovanni. Mapping Religion (and Emotions) in the Protestant Valleys of Piedmont. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°9, 2014. pp. 91-105
Exile and Religious Identity, 1500-1800
Spohnholz, Jesse and Gary K. Waite, eds. Exile and Religious Identity, 1500–1800. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, Number 1, Winter 2015, pp. 5-213), on Érudit
Feeling Exclusion
PIMo-Cromohs Podcast Series Contagion
The Sky in Place of The Nile
This article investigates how extremely adverse climatic and weather conditions in early modern southern Italy played a part in disrupting social coexistence among groups and individuals of different confessions and beliefs in what until then had been top-down sanctioned or tolerated multi-confessional communities. It focuses on the dramatic fate of the Waldensian colonies in Calabria and Apulia, and the little-studied case of witchcraft panic th…
The Fabric of the World
This article analyses Giulia Calvi’s Vestire il mondo as a major contribution to the visual history of early modern globalisation. Focusing on costume books from sixteenth–century Europe to Edo–period Japan, it explores how clothing functioned as a key medium for representing human difference and organising hierarchies of gender, religion, and civilisation. By tracing the transnational circulation of images, the essay highlights costume books as …
Traduttori e mercanti
Between Cure and Control
Review of Benedetta Chizzolini, Between Cure and Control: Doctors, Convicts, and Slaves in Tuscan and Papal Galleys (16th–18th Centuries) (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025), reviewed by Giovanni Tarantino
Afterword
This afterword reflects on the growing centrality of emotions in historical inquiry amid contemporary instability. It argues for an understanding of emotions as relational, mobile and shaped by asymmetries of power, translation and circulation. Drawing on themes such as entanglement, exclusion and resentment, it highlights how emotional configurations emerge across cultural and spatial boundaries, particularly in contexts of displacement and ineq…
History (6 works) · Art (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (2 works)