Salvatore Roberto TUFANO

Associate Professor of MODERN HISTORY [HIST-02/A ]

Latest update, 02/05/2019

Roberto Tufano is a Modern History scholar specialised in the European Enlightenment. He accomplished his Ph.D. in Modern History at the University of Catania. Then he continued his studies in Bologna (Higher School of Public Administration), Naples (Department of State Sciences of the Facoltà di Giurisprudenza of Università Federico II) and Paris (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme). Since 2002 he has been Associate Professor of Modern History at University of Catania, initially at the Faculty of Letters, where he also taught History of the Enlightenment, whilst today he teaches Modern History and History of the Mediterranean in the modern age at Department of Educational Science and the International Doctorate of Human Sciences.

Among his most recent works, there are the books: Michele Torcia. Cultura e politica nel secondo Settecento napoletano, Napoli, Jovene 2000; La Francia e le Sicilie. Stato e disgregazione sociale da Luigi XIV alla Rivoluzione , Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli 2009; Verso la giustizia produttiva. Un’esperienza di riforma nelle due Sicilie (1738-1746), Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli 2013 (spanish: Albatros, Valencia 2017); Illuminismo e governamentalità. Riformismo e dispotismo nelle Sicilie da Filippo V e Ferdinando IV, Aracne, Roma 2018. He also wrote the following essays, all published in the magazine "Frontiera d’Europa”: Illuminismo e metodi di governo. Centro e periferia nelle riforme di Giuseppe Palmieri, 2000; «Le renversersement des alliances» europee  e l’espulsione di Bernardo Tanucci dal governo delle Sicilie (1774-1776), 2003; Giovanni Brancaccio in Sicilia. Dalla memoria del giurista all’esperienza di governo (1673-1725), 2006.

Currently he is involved in the philological edition of the epistles of Bernardo Tanucci and Ferdinando Galiani.

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