Unit History of culture and institutions in the Modern age
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- A002066
- Curriculum
- Filosofia e storia
- Teacher
- Filippo Maria Troiani
- Teachers
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- Filippo Maria Troiani
- Hours
- 36 ore - Filippo Maria Troiani
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Sector
- M-STO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- In the first part of the course we will analyze the birth and the subsequent development of modern diplomacy as a tool determined in the relations between the ancient Italian states and the nascent European powers between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. The study of the various crucial junctions crossed by the old continent, from geographical discoveries, to the rupture of religious unity, up to the long conflict of the seventeenth century, will allow the reconstruction of the political context, economic and cultural in which the dialectic between the political realities of the Italian peninsula and the great monarchies that guide the European states takes shape. The second part of the course will be devoted to the analysis of diplomatic relations between the papal court and the Spanish crown in the second half of the 17th century
- Reference texts
- For the first part of the course on the General Frameworks of Modern History, students will use the slides published on the Unistudium platform (for further information please consult the text A. Musi, Le vie della modernità, Sansoni, 2003, capitoli: 1-2-3-4-5-7-9). On the birth and subsequent development of modern diplomacy the essay:Paola Volpini, Ambasciatori nella prima età moderna tra corti italiane ed europee, University Press, Sapienza Università Editrice, Studi e Ricerche, 2022. For the second part of the course dedicated to the analysis of diplomatic relations between the papal court and the Spanish crown in the second half of the 17th century, the volume: Filippo Maria Troiani, “La Strategia delle concessioni”. Dalla “Concordia Facchinetti” all’accordo Aldrovandi-Alberoni Monarquía ibérica y Iglesia católica entre los siglos XVII y XVIII, Pacini Storia, Pisa, 2026. Students with disabilities and/or with learning disabilities who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to university services, can apply for the compensatory tools provided by the legislation (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, exercises, provided if necessary in advance of lessons), for which see page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
- Educational objectives
- To analyse the multiplicity of political, cultural, religious and societal models operating in European history. To reconstruct the processes that led to the present situation, identifying European expansion, the emergence of a world economy, the connection of contents through mass emigration, the planetary enlargement of international relations, in the formation of a cosmopolitan culture, the roots of modernity.
- Prerequisites
- With the purpose to understand and to face the course the student must possess the general notions concerning the chronological arc taken in examination by the course (1492 -1820), to know how to connect facts and events in the time, to reorganize data and concepts to know the principals conceptual and terminological tools of the discipline. Frontal lessons with projections of slide and breves filmed that they reassume the treated contained principals. Visit to a public institution (Library/ Archive) for a direct approach with the type of documentary sources presented in class.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons with projections of slide and breves filmed that they reassume the treated contained principals. Visit to a public institution (Library/ Archive) for a direct approach with the type of documentary sources presented in class. Lectures with slide projections and short films summarizing the main content covered. Visit to a public institution (Library/Archive) for a direct approach with the type of documentary sources presented in class. Students with disabilities and/or DSA, after consulting with the teacher, can request any teaching materials in accessible formats, presentations, handouts, exercises), provided if necessary in advance of the lessons, as well as the use of other technological facilitation tools in the study phase. For general information, see University Services on the https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa page
- Other information
- During the carrying out of the course you/they will have made of the students on the base UNISTUDIUM the materials used in the frontal lessons available.For urgent communications and appointments to write mail to the address filippo.troiani@unipg.it.
Students with disabilities and/or DSA: for any information on the University's services, see the https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa page - Learning verification modality
- The final oral exam consists of a 30-minute interview max that wants to verify the mastery of the language, the ability to use the acquired knowledge and to connect them in the argumentation and to discuss and deepen in various respects the different topics covered during the lessons and in the individual study of the students. The final oral exam consists of a 30-minute interview that aims to assess language proficiency, the ability to use and connect acquired knowledge in argumentation, and to discuss and explore in various ways the various topics covered during lessons and in individual student study. Furthermore, the final test aims to verify the following knowledge and skills: · Knowledge and understanding – Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Synthesis · Knowledge and understanding – Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Detail · Autonomy of judgment, understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgments, reaching coherent reflections on social, scientific, or ethical issues; · Communication skills, conceived as the ability to convey information, ideas, problems, and solutions to other interlocutors; · Learning ability, understood as a skill necessary to advance in studies with a high degree of autonomy. Students with disabilities and/or learning disabilities who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to university services can benefit from the compensatory tools, dispensatory measures, and inclusive technologies required by law to request and agree with the teacher well in advance of the tests. For information see the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
- Extended program
- The course is divided into two parts. In the first part of the course (24 hours) will be addressed the changes and breaks that have deeply marked the history of Europe in the modern age and will analyze the birth and subsequent development of modern diplomacy as a tool determined in the relations between the ancient Italian states and the nascent powers between the 15th and 17th centuries. This will be achieved through the knowledge and study of the following topics: -The breaking of geographical barriers -Italy and Europe in the sixteenth century -The development of the Italian Renaissance -The wars of Italy -The Protestant Reformation -The Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent -The diplomacy of the ancient Italian States: problems and methodological paths. -The "stately" matrix of the ambassador -The origin of diplomacy resident in the peninsula -The birth of dynastic diplomacy -The figure of the ambassador -The legal instruments -War and diplomacy between the Five and Seventeenth Centuries -Diplomacy and the Thirty Years' War -The foreign policy of the papacy during the conflict In the second part (12 hours) The diplomatic structure of the Papal States will be presented as it develops in the context of the Europe of national monarchies by analysing in particular the diplomatic relations between the Papal Court and the Spanish Crown in the second half of the 17th century.
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Among the objectives of the 2030 agenda that the course intends to pursue are issues related to respect and equality among peoples, equal dignity, and the result of achieving, in a historical key, an effective reduction of inequalities.