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Teacher
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BOCCOLINI Alessandro
(syllabus)
Course Title: Diplomacy and politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Rome, Warsaw, Vienna, and the Turkish problem during the Modern Age.
For much of the Modern Age, the advance of the Turkish army has been a major concern for European countries.
After the defeat suffered at Lepanto on the Mediterranean (1571), the Ottoman power reorganized its forces concentrating in Central-Eastern Europe, coming to besiege Vienna in 1683 with the aim of entering the heart of Europe.
Faced with the Turkish threat, Pope Innocent XI Odescalchi attempted to create a single Christian front capable of repelling Turkish assaults on Europe. Rome activated its diplomatic channels throughout Europe: only Poland and the Empire responded to the Pope's appeal, succeeding in defeating the Turks.
The liberation of Vienna by the joint Polish-imperial army led by Jan III Sobieski, under the careful direction of Pope Innocent XI Odescalchi, was an essential step in the history of the old continent.
The course aims to retrace the most important events of the gripping European continental and eastern history of the seventeenth century through a constant comparison between the policies pursued by the major European powers and the diplomatic network activated between Rome, Warsaw and Vienna in the face of the Ottoman advance in Europe.
(reference books)
1. General Part:
Cenni Storico-geografici sull'Est d'Europa, Viterbo 2015 (collana "Quaderni del CESPoM/3) - Pdf scaricabile da Materiale Didattico
2. Monographic Part:
2.1 G. Platania, Rzeczpospolita, Europa e Santa Sede tra intese e ostilità, Viterbo 2017.
2.2 A. Boccolini, Un lucchese al servizio della Santa Sede. Francesco Buonvisi nunzio a Colonia, Varsavia e Vienna, Viterbo 2018.
2.3 a) A. Boccolini, Roma e Vienna. Alfonso Litta nunzio straordinario tra diplomazia e cerimoniale (1678), Viterbo 2019; b) Viaggio politico, viaggio materiale. Monsignor Galeazzo Marescotti nunzio a Varsavia (a cura di Alessandro Boccolini), Viterbo, Sette Città editore, 2015.
3. n. 3 articles to choose and download in "Materiali didattici".
Recommended readings:
AA.VV., Roma e Cristina di Svezia, a cura di Gaetano Platania, Viterbo 2016
I Giubilei Straordinari in Età Moderna (XVII-XVII), a cura di F. De Caprio, Viterbo 2016.
G. Platania, Viaggi, mercatura e politica: due lucchesi nel regno dei Sarmati europei nel XVII secolo : Pietro e Tommaso Talenti, Viterbo 2003.
For Erasmus students who wish to follow the course:
1. can take the Italian exam with the Italian program.
2. Opt for an English program (with an exam in Italian or English).
The texts will be provided by the teacher:
a) The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, c.1500–1795, Edited by Richard Butterwick, Palgrave 2001.
b) Wojciech Tygielski, Italians in early modern Poland: The lost opportunity for modernization ?, Lang Ed. Frankfurt am Main 2015.
Or other choice texts agreed with the teacher.
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