Lina SCALISI
Full Professor of Modern history [M-STO/02]
Email: l.scalisi@unict.it
Phone: 0957102320
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Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 to 12:00



National coordinator of area 11a (Historical, philosophical and pedagogical sciences). Full Professor of Early Modern History at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania, Académica Correspondiente de la Real Academia de la Historia, member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD in History at the Scuola Normale of Pisa and member of the scientific board of various national and international journals.
National coordinator of area 11a (Historical, philosophical and pedagogical sciences)
Full Professor of Early Modern History at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania, Coordinator of Humanities & Social Sciences at the Scuola Superiore of Catania, Académica Correspondiente de la Real Academia de la Historia, member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD in History at the Scuola Normale of Pisa and member of the scientific board of various national and international journals.
Her research interests focus on political and cultural history of European aristocracy in Early Modern history, urban history and socio-religious history.
Among her most recent publications: Le catene della gloria. L’uso politico della genealogia di Luigi Guglielmo Moncada (1643-1667), «Magallánica. Revista de Historia moderna», vol. 3, n. 6 (2017), pp. 63-85; “Que pueda llegar a corte”. Il duca di Terranova tra Lepanto e il futuro, in J.A. G. Berrendero, J. Hernandez Franco, E. Alegra Carvajal (edited by) Ruy Gómez de Silva, principe de Eboli. Su tiempo y su contexto, Madrid, Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2018, pp. 285-303; curatorship and introduction to the Volume I by G. Giarrizzo, La Storiografia della Nuova Italia: Introduzione alla storia della storiografia italiana, Rome, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2018; Carlo d’Aragona e Antonio del Nobile. Difese militari, imprese economiche, vocazioni territoriali, in A. Camara Munoz – M. A. Vasquez, «Ser hechura de»: ingeniería, fidelidades y redes de poder en los siglos XVI y XVII, Madrid, Fundación Juanelo Turriano, 2019, pp. 135-146; L. Scalisi-C. Hernando Sánchez, Fra le mura della modernità. Le rappresentazioni del limite dal Cinquecento ad oggi, Roma, Viella, 2019; Da Palermo a Colonia”. Carlo Aragona Tagliavia e la questione delle Fiandre (1577-1580), Rome, Viella, 2019; Il Secolo di Fuoco. L’Etna nel Compendio Di Natale di Pace, Catania, Domenico Sanfilippo Editore, 2019.
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1° Year
HISTORY AND IMAGES IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Letters - 3° Year
MODERN HISTORY M - Z - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy - 3° Year
MODERN HISTORY M - Z
ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1° Year
HISTORY AND IMAGES IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Letters - 3° Year
MODERN HISTORY M - Z - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy - 3° Year
MODERN HISTORY M - Z
ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1° Year
HISTORY AND IMAGES IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Letters - 3° Year
MODERN HISTORY
ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Communication of culture and entertainment - 1° Year
STORIA E IMMAGINI IN ETA' MODERNA - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Letters - 3° Year
MODERN HISTORY
ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Communication of culture and entertainment - 1° Year
MODERN HISTORY - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1° Year
HISTORY AND IMAGES IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY
ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Communication of culture and entertainment - 1° Year
MODERN HISTORY - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in History of Art and Cultural Heritage - 1° Year
HISTORY AND IMAGES IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Modern Philology - 1° Year
METODOLOGIA DELLA RICERCA STORICA
ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Communication of culture and entertainment - 1° Year
MODERN HISTORY - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Cultural Heritage - 3° Year
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY - DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Modern Philology - 1° Year
METODOLOGIA DELLA RICERCA STORICA
Her research interests focus on political and cultural history of European aristocracy in Early Modern history, urban history and socio-religious history.