Glauco Schettini
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Hall 212
gschettini [at] haverford.edu
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Academic Employment

2024- Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Haverford College
2022-24 Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Humanities Program, Yale University

Education

2022 Ph.D., History, Fordham University
2016 M.A., History, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)
2016 M.A., History, Università di Pisa (Italy)
2014 B.A., History, Università di Pisa (Italy)

Research

I am a historian of early modern and modern Europe, and my work sits at the intersection of intellectual and religious history. My first book, The Invention of Catholicism: A Global Intellectual History of the Catholic Counterrevolution, 1780-1849, is forthcoming in 2025 with Oxford University Press. The Invention of Catholicism draws on sources from more than ten European and Latin American countries to offer an intellectual history of Catholicism in the Age of Revolutions. It studies the transoceanic networks of counterrevolutionary Catholics who, as revolutions wreaked havoc on both shores of the Atlantic, transformed Catholicism into something fundamentally new—so new that writers began to use a word hardly ever heard before, "Catholicism," to indicate what had traditionally been called "the Catholic religion." The Invention of Catholicism maps the movement I term "the Catholic Counterrevolution" and analyzes how this movement reshaped political thought in modern Europe and Latin America. It intervenes in current debates about religion, modernity, and secularization, contributes to the burgeoning field of global intellectual history, and offers a reevaluation of the historical role of counterrevolutionary ideologies and movements. The dissertation on which my book is based received the John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award of the American Catholic Historical Association and the Farrar Memorial Award of the Society for French Historical Studies.

Publications

Books

  • The Invention of Catholicism: A Global Intellectual History of the Catholic Counterrevolution, 1780-1849 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2025).

Articles

  • “Experimental Politics: The Middle Ages, Counterrevolutionary Catholics, and the Politics of History,” Studi storici, forthcoming.
  • “Una rivoluzione italiana: Costruire il popolo nella Repubblica cisalpina, 1797-99,” Rivista storica italiana 134, no. 2 (2022): 595-626.
  • “Confessional Modernity: Nicola Spedalieri, the Catholic Church, and the French Revolution, c.1775-1800,” Modern Intellectual History 17, no. 3 (2020): 677-705. Honorable Mention, Article Prize for Modern Italian History, Society for Italian Historical Studies (2021).
  • “Building the Third Rome: Italy, the Vatican, and the New District in Prati di Castello, 1870-1895,” Modern Italy 24, no. 1 (2019): 63-79.
  • “Venti lettere inedite dal carteggio Scipione de’ Ricci – Henri Grégoire,” Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa 52, no. 2 (2016): 259-314.
  • “La fucina dello spirito pubblico: L’organizzazione dei circoli costituzionali nella prima Cisalpina, 1797-1799,” Società e storia 38, no. 150 (2015): 689-719.
  • “Un rito rivoluzionario: I banchetti per i poveri in Emilia e Romagna, 1797-1798,” Contemporanea 18, no. 2 (2015): 197-220.
  • “‘Niente di più bello ha prodotto la rivoluzione’: la teofilantropia nell’Italia del triennio, 1796-1799,” Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa 50, no. 2 (2014): 379-433.

Book Chapters

  • “The Age of Concordats: Catholicism and the Legacy of Revolution in France and Italy, 1799-1820s,” in Jeffrey Burson and Dzavid Dzanic, eds., Religion, Enlightenment, Revolution, and Empire in the Mediterranean, 1650-1850 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming).
  • “Socioeconomic Rights,” in Dan Edelstein and Jennifer Pitts, eds., The Cambridge History of Rights, Vol. 4: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024), 71-92 [with Charles Walton].
  • “The Abbé Grégoire Eulogizes Port-Royal,” in Shaun Blanchard and Rick Yoder, eds., Jansenism: An International Anthology (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2024), 352-361.
  • “Eighteenth-Century Crusaders: The War against France and the Catholic Counterrevolution, 1789-99,” in Matthijs Lok, Friedemann Pestel, and Juliette Reboul, eds., Cosmopolitan Conservatisms: Countering Revolution in Transnational Networks, Ideas, and Movements, c.1700-1930 (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 152-171.
  • “A Female Mystic of the Catholic Enlightenment: Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799),” in Shaun Blanchard and Ulrich Lehner, eds., The Catholic Enlightenment: A Global Anthology (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2021), 37-74.
  • “L’Europa vista dal Mediterraneo: Idee per un nuovo ordine continentale nell’Italia di fine Settecento,” in Franco A. Cappelletti and Luisa Simonutti, eds., L’idea di Unione Europea: Dal Rinascimento al Manifesto di Ventotene (Rome: Castelvecchi, 2021), 122-152.
  • “Una virtù per il popolo: Repubblica, propaganda popolare e carattere nazionale nel triennio repubblicano italiano, 1796-1799,” in Anna Maria Rao, ed., Popolo e cultura popolare nel Settecento (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2020), 281-290.
  • “La religione dei repubblicani: Rivoluzione e riforma religiosa nella Milano cisalpina,” in Patrizia Delpiano, Marina Formica, and Anna Maria Rao, eds., Il Settecento e la religione (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2018), 343-354.
  • “Una politica delle emozioni: L’immagine del nemico nei circoli costituzionali cisalpini, 1797-1799,” in Marco Manfredi and Emanuela Minuto, eds., La politica dei sentimenti: Luoghi, spazi e canali della politicizzazione nell’Italia del lungo Ottocento (Rome: Viella, 2018), 19-37.