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Giovanni Merola (MA)
Contact
Tel.: +43 512 507-43251
E-Mail: giovanni.merola@uibk.ac.at
Room: 40719, 7. Stock
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Born in 1961 in Capua (Italy). Completed an MA in History at the University of Innsbruck with a dissertation entitled ‘Il Regno di Napoli e Sicila nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo: Le riforme nelle riflessioni inedite della regina Maria Carolina d’Asburgo-Lorena’ [The Kingdom of Naples-Sicily in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: The Reforms in the Unpublished Reflections of Queen Maria Carolina of Habsburg-Lorraine].
Project Researcher in the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project ‘Changing Social Representations of Political Order ca. 1800. Concepts of Ideal Governance in the Correspondence of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples-Sicily’ since 2018.
Research Interests
- Italian States
- The Enlightenment
- Eighteenth-century Reforms
- Cultural Approaches to Political History
Publications
- Le riflessioni della regina Maria Carolina sulle riforme nel Regno di Napoli e Sicilia 1781-1785, in: Römische Historische Mitteilungen 60 (2018), 219-240.
- Verbrannte Visionen? Erinnerungsorte der Täufer in Tirol, Innsbruck 2007 (ed. with Astrid von Schlachta and Ellinor Forster).
Presentations
- "Changing Social Representations of Political Order ca. 1800 – Governmental Concepts in the Correspondence of Maria Carolina of Naples Sicily" at Digi-Day: Digital Humanities des 18. Jahrhunderts (University of Innsbruck), Innsbruck, 16.05.2019 (with Ellinor Forster, Jonathan Singerton, Anne-Sophie Dénoue).
- Le riflessioni della regina Maria Carolina sulle riforme nel Regno di Napoli e Sicilia 1781-1785. Presentation at the conference 'Maria Carolina. Regina di Napoli tra rivoluzione, restaurazione ed esilio Istituto storico austriaco', Istituto Austriaco di Studi Storici Roma, 30.03.2017.