Alessandro Metlica

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Università degli Studi di Padova

Alessandro Metlica (1985) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies (DISLL). He completed his Master’s degree in Modern Literature and Philology (2009) and his PhD in Italian Literature (2013) at the University of Padova, and his diploma in Humanities (2010) at the Scuola Galileiana of Higher Education. He has been a Marie Curie CO-FUND Fellow (2013-2015) and FNRS chargé de recherche (2015-2018) at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He also received a Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Padova (2016-2018).

His research focuses on the representation of power in early modern Europe, in terms of both subversion (libertinism, free thinking) and containment (eulogy, propaganda). On the one hand, he has published two critical editions with in-depth commentary on key texts by Italian libertine authors, such as Ferrante Pallavicino (1615-1644) and Giovan Battista Casti (1724-1803). On the other hand, he has edited two volumes of essays dealing with the staging of absolutism through lyric poetry in Vienna and in Paris. His studies on the political ritualization of power during the Ancien Régime are thus significant on a European scale (Papal Rome, Tsarist Russia, the Hapsburg Empire, and Bourbon France).

In 2020 he has published the research monograph Le seduzioni della pace. Giovan Battista Marino, le feste di corte e la Francia barocca (here). The book investigates the role played by poetry, and namely by Marino’s poem Adone, in the staging of Louis XIII of France’s and Maria de Medici’s power.

He is responsible for managing and coordinating RISK and SIRE projects and supervising the team’s work. Moreover, he focuses on civic ritual in seventeenth-century Venice. He analyzes the celebrations (entries, elections, processions) held in the Most Serene Republic in the period 1645-1715 and, in particular, the texts printed on such occasions (poems, ragguagli, and festival books). The goal is to better understand this very peculiar phase in the history of Venetian pageantry and encomiastic production, in which tensions between republicanism and imperialism arise, following the wars against the Turks in the East Mediterranean.

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<p><i>Regni di carta. Modelli politici e rappresentazione del potere nel romanzo veneto e ligure del Seicento</i>, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura</p>

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Regni di carta. Modelli politici e rappresentazione del potere nel romanzo veneto e ligure del Seicento, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura

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Alessandro Metlica , Marianna Liguori

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“Repubbliche di scrittori, imperi di inchiostro. Politica e letteratura nel barocco italiano”, in Marianna Liguori, Alessandro Metlica (eds.), Regni di carta. Modelli politici e rappresentazione del potere nel romanzo veneto e ligure del Seicento, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura

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Alessandro Metlica

<p>“Reshaping the Republican Ritual. The Procurators of St Mark in Early Modern Venice”, in Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes and Arthur Weststeijn (eds.), <i>Discourses of Decline. Essays on Republicanism in Honor of Wyger R.E. Velema, </i>Leiden, Brill, 168-181</p>

“Reshaping the Republican Ritual. The Procurators of St Mark in Early Modern Venice”, in Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes and Arthur Weststeijn (eds.), Discourses of Decline. Essays on Republicanism in Honor of Wyger R.E. Velema, Leiden, Brill, 168-181

(2022)

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<p><i>Lessico della propaganda barocca</i>, Venezia, Marsilio</p>

Lessico della propaganda barocca, Venezia, Marsilio

(2022)

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Representing Republics: Ideas, Books, Visual Culture (1550-1700), “Essays & Studies”, Toronto, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies

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Alessandro Metlica , Marianna Liguori

<p><i>Contending Representations III: Questioning Republicanism in Early Modern Genoa</i>, Turnhout, Brepols</p>

Contending Representations III: Questioning Republicanism in Early Modern Genoa, Turnhout, Brepols

(2024)

Alessandro Metlica , Enrico Zucchi

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<p><i>Contending Representations II: Entangled Republican Spaces in Early Modern Venice</i>, Turnhout, Brepols</p>

Contending Representations II: Entangled Republican Spaces in Early Modern Venice, Turnhout, Brepols

(2024)

Alessandro Metlica , Giovanni Florio

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<p>"Magnificence and Atticism in Seventeenth-Century Venice", in Gijs Versteegen, Stijn Bussels and Walter Melion (eds.), <i>Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century. Performing Splendour in Catholic and Protestant Contexts</i>, "Intersections" 72, Leiden, Brill, 261-275</p>

"Magnificence and Atticism in Seventeenth-Century Venice", in Gijs Versteegen, Stijn Bussels and Walter Melion (eds.), Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century. Performing Splendour in Catholic and Protestant Contexts, "Intersections" 72, Leiden, Brill, 261-275

(2020)

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<p>“La macchina mitologica della venezianità. Retorica barocca e imperialismo fascista”, <i>Sigma</i>, 5, 343-370</p>

“La macchina mitologica della venezianità. Retorica barocca e imperialismo fascista”, Sigma, 5, 343-370

(2021)

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"Piecing the Puzzle: Liberty, Identity, and Crisis in the Republic of Genoa", in Enrico Zucchi and Alessandro Metlica (eds.), Contending Representations III. Questioning Republicanism in Early Modern Genoa, Turnhout, Brepols

(2024)

Alessandro Metlica , Enrico Zucchi

<p><i>Contending Representations I: The Dutch Republic and the Lure of Monarchy</i>, Turnhout, Brepols</p>

Contending Representations I: The Dutch Republic and the Lure of Monarchy, Turnhout, Brepols

(2023)

Alessandro Metlica , Joris Oddens , Gloria Moorman

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<p>“Civic Ritual and Popular Politics in the Republic of Venice”, in Giovanni Florio, Alessandro Metlica (eds.), <i>Contending Representations II. Entangled Republican Spaces in Early Modern Venice</i>,  Turnhout, Brepols, 6-43</p>

“Civic Ritual and Popular Politics in the Republic of Venice”, in Giovanni Florio, Alessandro Metlica (eds.), Contending Representations II. Entangled Republican Spaces in Early Modern Venice, Turnhout, Brepols, 6-43

(2024)

Alessandro Metlica , Giovanni Florio

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<p>“La gioiosa entrata di Francesco Morosini. La festa veneziana in tipografia”, in Matteo Casini, Simone Guerriero, Vincenzo Mancini (eds.), <i>La "splendida" Venezia di Francesco Morosini (1619-1694): cerimoniali, arti, cultura </i>(Venezia: Fondazione Cini), 159-167</p>

“La gioiosa entrata di Francesco Morosini. La festa veneziana in tipografia”, in Matteo Casini, Simone Guerriero, Vincenzo Mancini (eds.), La "splendida" Venezia di Francesco Morosini (1619-1694): cerimoniali, arti, cultura (Venezia: Fondazione Cini), 159-167

(2022)

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<p><i>La</i> Res publica<i> di Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato. Storiografia, notizie, letteratura,</i> “Quaderni veneti”, Edizioni Ca' Foscari</p>

La Res publica di Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato. Storiografia, notizie, letteratura, “Quaderni veneti”, Edizioni Ca' Foscari

(2022)

Alessandro Metlica , Enrico Zucchi

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<p>"Lo scrittore presente e prolifico. La modernità di Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato", in Enrico Zucchi, Alessandro Metlica (eds.), <i>La Res publica di Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato. Storiografia, notizie, letteratura,</i> “Quaderni veneti”, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 3-26</p>

"Lo scrittore presente e prolifico. La modernità di Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato", in Enrico Zucchi, Alessandro Metlica (eds.), La Res publica di Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato. Storiografia, notizie, letteratura, “Quaderni veneti”, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 3-26

(2022)

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“Representing Power in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic", in Alessandro Metlica, Joris Oddens, Gloria Moorman (eds.), The Dutch Republic and the Lure of Monarchy, Turnhout, Brepols, 6-35

(2023)

Alessandro Metlica , Joris Oddens , Gloria Moorman

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