Modern Intellectual History is delighted to announce that the Society for Italian Historical Studies has named Glauco Schettini (Fordham University) as the Honorable Mention for this year's SIHS Article Prize in Modern Italian History for his article "Confessional Modernity: Nicola Spedalieri, the Catholic Church and the French Revolution, c.1775–1800." The article appeared in Modern Intellectual History, volume 17, issue 3 in September 2020. The article can be accessed here.

Here is the award committee's citation for Schettini's Honorable Mention:

“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.”

You can read more about the award on the Society for Italian Historical Studies’ website.

You can also learn more about Glauco Schettini’s scholarship in this interview conducted by the Society for Italian Historical Studies.