Alessandro Metlica

Principal Investigator

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>“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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<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)

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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)

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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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<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>“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

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Università degli Studi di Padova

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Contending Representation I. The Dutch Republic and the Lure of Monarchy

Presentation of the RISK edited volume

Friday June 16th, 2023 at 14:30

I romanzi del Seicento tra Genova e Venezia

Riflessione politica e rappresentazione del potere

8th - 9th June, 2023 Starts Thursday June 8th at 14:30

Feste e teatro (VI)

Forme intermedie tra arte e vita

Thursday June 1st, 2023 at 11:00

La fantascienza italiana nell'Antropocene

30th - 31st May, 2023 Starts Tuesday May 30th at 10:00

Les femmes aussi vont au théâtre

Les spectatrices dans l'Europe de la première modernité

Tuesday May 23rd, 2023 at 14:30

Venezia da Terra 2023 - Festival della storia

6th - 28th May, 2023 Starts Saturday May 6th at 17:00

Lunga vita al doge!

Inizia il tuo viaggio nella Serenissima

Thursday April 6th, 2023 at 14:30

La "splendida" Venezia di Francesco Morosini (1619-1694)

Cerimoniali, arti, cultura

Thursday March 30th, 2023 at 14:30

Siamo autori o cortigiani?

Endecasillabi e altre arti applicate nel Seicento

24th - 26th November, 2022 Starts Thursday November 24th at 9:30

Much in Little Revisited

The Dutch Revolution of 1795 and the History of Republicanism

Tuesday October 25th, 2022 at 15:00

Lunga vita al doge!

Un percorso videoludico nella Venezia di fine Seicento

Friday September 30th, 2022 at 22:15

Staging Republicanism: Festivals And Festival Books In Seventeenth-Century Venice

Wednesday June 29th, 2022 at 12:00

Tacito alla lettera

Strategie della citazione del Tacito politico nel Seicento italiano

15th - 16th June, 2022 Starts Wednesday June 15th at 14:00

Festival book (X)

The Republican Language of Representation

Tuesday June 14th, 2022 at 16:00

Republican Offices and Monarchical Rule

Core-Periphery Relations in Early Modern Venice, the Dutch Republic, and the Spanish Empire

5th - 6th May, 2022 Starts Thursday May 5th at 15:00

Feste e teatro (III)

Forme intermedie tra arte e vita

Thursday April 14th, 2022 at 10:00

The Sick Body Politic and How to Treat It in Early Modern Italy and England

RSA Panel

Saturday April 2nd, 2022 at 11:00

Navigating Interdisciplinarity in the Italian Renaissance

RSA Roundtable

Thursday March 31st, 2022 at 16:30

The Queen’s Two and More Bodies: Maria de’ Medici in Literature, Arts, and Theatre

RSA Paper

Wednesday March 30th, 2022 at 9:00

Giornate barocche

Presentazione e discussione sul libro di Alessandro Metlica, Le seduzioni della pace. Giovanni Battista Marino, le feste di corte e la Francia barocca (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020)

Wednesday March 23rd, 2022 at 15:30

Governare, mediare, rappresentare (II)

L'immagine del rettore nei domini veneti da Terra e da Mar

10th - 11th February, 2022 Starts Thursday February 10th at 14:15

Cultural Exchange in Venice and Beyond

Books, Reading and Transnational Networks

Monday December 20th, 2021 at 11:00

Racconti del Risorgimento

Presentazione del libro a cura di Gabriele Pedullà, Milano, Garzanti, 2021

Wednesday December 15th, 2021 at 16:30

Republics before Republicanism. Debating Liberty and the Roman Tradition in the Seventeenth Century

Europa, el mundo mediterráneo y su difusión atlántica, ciclo de conferencias 2021

Friday December 3rd, 2021 at 16:00

Venezia da Terra 2021 - Festival della Storia

Starts Friday September 10th, 2021 at 18:00 Ends Sunday October 3rd, 2021 at 18:00

Immagini e retoriche della libertà repubblicana

La rappresentazione del potere nella Repubblica di Lucca

Tuesday June 22nd, 2021 at 9:00

8th - 9th June, 2023
Starts Thursday June 8th at 14:30

30th - 31st May, 2023
Starts Tuesday May 30th at 10:00

6th - 28th May, 2023
Starts Saturday May 6th at 17:00

24th - 26th November, 2022
Starts Thursday November 24th at 9:30

15th - 16th June, 2022
Starts Wednesday June 15th at 14:00

5th - 6th May, 2022
Starts Thursday May 5th at 15:00

10th - 11th February, 2022
Starts Thursday February 10th at 14:15

Starts Friday September 10th, 2021 at 18:00
Ends Sunday October 3rd, 2021 at 18:00

5th - 6th May, 2021
Starts Wednesday May 5th at 14:30

2nd - 4th December, 2020
Starts Wednesday December 2nd at 9:00

15th - 17th September, 2020
Starts Tuesday September 15th at 14:30

11th - 13th December, 2019
Starts Wednesday December 11th at 15:30

19th - 20th November, 2019
Starts Tuesday November 19th at 10:00

27th - 29th September, 2019
Starts Friday September 27th at 20:30

3rd - 5th May, 2019
Starts Friday May 3rd at 15:15

Funded under: H2020-EU.1.1.
Grant agreement ID: 758450
Overall budget: € 1 452 210

Start date: 1 April 2018
End date: 31 March 2024