Name COSTANZO
First Name GIORGIA
Date and Place of Birth 29.08.1973 - CATANIA
- ITALY
Nationality Italian
University Address DAPPSI, University of
Catania
Via V. Emanuele, 49 – 95131 Catania - Italy
Telephone +39 095 7347260
Mobile phone: +39 340 2758778
E-mail [email protected]
Current Position
Assistant Professor of History of Political Thought, University of Catania.
Education
1998, Degree cum laude in Political Science - University of Catania.
Dissertation: “Un’analisi moderna del pensiero politico di Hobbes in chiave
contestualista”
2000 Scholarship “Progetto Giovani Ricercatori” – University of Catania.
2002 PhD in "Economia Società e Istituzioni nell'Europa del Mediterraneo"
University of Messina.
2002 Teaching Assistant in History of Political Thought (SPS/02) at the Faculty
of Political Science – University of Catania
2002 Teaching Assistant in Contemporary History (M-STO/04) at the Faculty of
Political Science – University of Messina.
2003 Post-doc fellow in "Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea" – University of
Messina
2005 – 2008, Research fellow in History of Political Thought with the project:
“The libertine roots of Europe”
Since march 2008, Researcher in History of Political Thought
at the University of Catania - Faculty of Political Science
Languages
Italian, English, French, German (in descending order of proficiency)
Membership
- She is member of AISDP (Associazione Italiana Storici delle Dottrine Politiche)
- She is member of Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento italiano
- She is member of the Scientific Committee "Piero Guicciardini Association"
Teaching and lastest international conferences
- Since 2006 She has been teaching History of Political Thought at the Faculty of
Political Science - Caltanissetta -.
- Since 2009/10 She has been teaching History of Political Thought in the degree
course of Sociological Sciences, Faculty of Political Science of Catania.
Since 2010/11 She has been teaching Political theory and Political Thought in the
master degree course in "Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations.
- Among the recent conferences, She was speaker at the international conference
“Machiavellismo e Antimachiavellismo in Europa nel pensiero cristiano del XIX e XX
secolo" Erice at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific culture
(december 2-3 2010)
- She presented a paper at the 69th international conference of MPSA, ChicagoIllinois in the session "Machiavelli in context" (March 31 - April 3 2011)
Publications/Papers
Q. Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes, in «Il Pensiero
Politico», 1999, n.1.
Considérations politiques sur les coups d’Etat: contraddizioni, limiti e problemi
interpretativi, in «Il Pensiero Politico», 2002, n.2, pp. 293 – 301.
Gabriel Naudé tra Francia e Italia : un perfetto trait d’union? in «Trimestre», 2004,
nn. 1 – 2, pp. 201 – 222.
L’esperienza dei circoli eruditi secenteschi: Gabriel Naudé e l’Accademia degli
Umoristi, in «Historica», 2004, f.4, pp. 213 – 239.
Per una nuova organizzazione del sapere: Gabriel Naudé e la biblioteca Mazzarina, in
«Quaderni del Dipartimento di Studi Politici», Milano, Giuffré, 2006, pp. 243 – 260.
Il libertinismo di Gabriel Naudé – Politica Religione Cultura – Catania, Giuseppe
Maimone editore, 2007.
Sovranità e coup d’Etat in Gabriel Naudé in Studi in memoria di Enzo Sciacca, vol I
Sovranità, democrazia, costituzionalismo, a cura di F. Biondi Nalis, Milano, Giuffrè,
2008, pp. 141 - 147.
Tra stabilità e mutamento: il machiavellismo ambiguo di Gabriel Naudé, atti del
convegno internazionale di Napoli, 16 - 17 ottobre 2008, a cura di A. E. Baldini, G.
Carillo, F. Russo (forthcoming).
J.Soll, The information Master Jean Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system
in «Storia e Politica», 2010, vol. 2, pp. 456 – 458.
Echi machiavelliani e spirito evangelico nell’opera di Giorgio Spini, in «Storia e
Politica» 2011, n. 1, pp. 219 – 237.
Machiavellism and Libertine Culture in the works of Gabriel Naudé. Paper presented at
69th Annual National Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 2011 (March 31 – April 3)