Curriculum Vitae

First Name:   Rafaella      

Last Name:   Pilo

Place and date of birth:   Sassari, 22. VIII. 1976

Job Address: Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09121 Cagliari

E-Mail:   rafaellapilo@unica.it

Current accademic position: associate professor

Scientific Profile

I got my Phd in «Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea dall’Antichità all’Età Contemporanea» in march 2006 at the Università degli Studi della Basilicata (Potenza, Italy). I collaborated with Córdoba (Spain, a.y. 2004-2005), Teramo (Italy, a.y. 2005-2006), Catania (Italy, a.y. 2006-2007), and Sassari (Italy, a.y. 2007-2009) Universities.  I also was visiting professor at Saõ Paulo (Brasil) University in autumn 2013.

From July 2012 I am researcher professor in Early Modern History at Cagliari University (Italy). In April 2016 I achieved confirmation as researcher professor.

From July 2016 I had collaborated with the review Estudis (Univesity of Valencia) as anonymous reviewer.

From 2020 I had collaborated with the review Manuscrits (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) as anonymous reviewer.

I get the qualification as associate professor in june 2021.

From September 2021 i am the chief of the Erasmus commission for the course of Philosophy of University of Cagliari.

In March 2022 i become member of PhD commission of the University of Valencia and the thesis was discussed on 8th april 2022 in a commission formed by me, Antonio Alvarez-Ossorio Alvarinho y Jorge Català.

From April 2022 i am member of the Consejo Asesor of the review “Vínculos de Historia” of University of Castilla-La Mancha.

From 2022 i am member of the scientific commitee of the review «Quaderni del Corso di laurea in Filosofia» of Cagliari University;

From 2023 I am member of the commitee “Emanuela Loi”;

In march 2023 I participated at  “Giornate dell’Orientamento”;

Octuber the 2nd 2023 took up service as associate professor at Cagliari University.

From January 2024 I collaborate with Rivista di Studi Storici del Meditterraneo (RSSM) as a referee and i participated to the activities of EDUC project directed by Potsdam University.

In Octuber 2024 I presented as PI a COST project  entitled  “Powerful Women in Europe” that involved 9 European partners.

In November 2024 I won a Fulbright Specialist Fellowship able to bring prof. Luna Nájera from Yale University and to let her take few lessons in my Early Modern History Course.

In January 2025 I read the lesson “1668: un anno di crisi per la monarchia spagnola” at the Penitenciary  Institution of Uta.

In January 2025 I won a financing to realize a Summer School(May-June 2025) on the theme: 

 “Persisitng in power. Historical, political, socio-anthropological narrations about elite during the Early Modern Age”.

In March 2025 I became scientific member of the book series Mediterranea, directed by prof. Fernando García Quiles (Universidad Pablo de Olavide of  Seville) and edited by ENREDARS.

From April to September 2025 I participate to the Summer school directed by prof. Carlà-Uhink (Univeristy of Potsdam - project EDUC) with the title “Polycentrism and empire: citizenships, forms of participation and identities in imperial formations from Antiquity to the 20th century”.

From May 2025 I collaborate with the review “Magallánica: revista de historia moderna” of National University of Mar del Plata.

Current Research Fields

My main research interest is studying international relationship and, above all, reconstructing the role played in European politics by single personalities during the XVII and XVIII centuries. Foreign policy made by ministers (men and women who, in many ways, actuated for the foreign policy during modern age) who played a role in the main European courts during the complicated period from Thirty Years War to Succession’s Wars represents the object of my current research. Recently my investigations focuses on dynastic legitimacy, especially with reference with women’s regency.

Papers, poster, visiting 2014-2026:

Cagliari University, Seminar “Viaggi Utopie Distopie”, 7 May 2014: “Il Mundus alter et idem di Joseph Hall. Una distopia di antico regime?”

Barcelona, International congress organized by Universidad de Barcelona-University of Cambridge-The University of York, “Neapolitan Network Conference - Naples and Spain: Cultural and intellectual networks (1500-1800)”, 24 of October 2014: “José García de Salcedo Coronel and the 'Fábula de Mirra' (Naples, 1631): A case study of literary patronage during the government of the 3rd Duke of Alcalá”;

London, Internationl congress organized by Saint Mary’s University (Twickenham, London), “Renaissance Cardinals: Diplomats and Patrons in the Early-Modern World”, 13-14 March 2015: A conspiracy in Madrid during the regengy of the Queen Mariana Hapsburg (1665-1675): Cardinals, nuncios and ambassadors against the jesuit Nithard;

Barcelona, Seminar at Universitat de Barcelona: “Los Moncada de Sicilia. Una dinastía en el vértice de la monarquía española en el siglo XVII, 26 of April 2017;

Madrid, International congress organized by Universidad de Educación a Distancia (UNED), “Kings and Queens: at the Shadow of the Throne”, September 12-15, 2017: “Ladies' political attitude during viceroy Camarasa's Cortes in the Kingdom of Sardinia (1666-1668)”;

Roma-Napoli, XX Congress of Aragon’s Crown History. Aragonese Crown and Italy, October 4-8 2017: “Il duca di Montalto e il regno di Napoli (1614-1674)”;

Madrid, 23-24 of November 2017, International congress Cambios y resistencias en la monarquía hispana. Debates sobre la sociedad moderna “Incapacidad política de un virrey o crisis de la tradicción pacticia? El caso del marqués de Camarasa en el reino de Cerdeña durante la regencia de Mariana de Austria”;

Palermo, 27-29 of September 2018, XIV Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de las Monarquías Ibéricas, Capitali senza re nella Monarchia spagnola. Identità, relazionim immagini (secc. XVI-XVIII) “Conflitti istituzionali e municipali nell’età barocca.

Cagliari al tempo della crisi Camarasa (1666-1668)”;

Valenza, 21-27 of Octuber 2018, Congreso Académico con motivo del 600 Aniversario de la Generalitat Valenciana 1418-2018. Estado, finanzas y representación política 600 años de la Generalitat Valenciana: “Linguaggio e pratiche politiche d'età barocca. Il caso del Regno di Sardegna nella seconda metà del XVII secolo”;

Madrid, 26-27 of February 2019, International Conference  “Bifronte Imperio de Dos Mundos. Europa y América durante el reinado de Carlos II”: “El reino de Cerdeña en la época de Carlos II”;

Madrid, 26-26 febbraio 2020, International Congress “Gobierno de Palabras. Las lenguas de la Monarquía de España, 1556-1725” con una relazione dal titolo: “El plurilingüismo como identidad política: el reino de Cerdeña en la Edad Moderna”;

Cagliari, 7 January 2021, Seminar Cycle “Antigiudaismo e antisemitismo dall’età antica all’età

contemporanea: un percorso di riflessione fra filosofia e storia” reading a speech about “Profili immaginari, profili immaginati da Shylock a Mr. Burns”;

Valencia, 30 September-1 Octuber 2021, International Congress of  Social History “Política, familias e instituciones en la Monarquía Hispánica” I present a paèer with Nicoletta Bazzano intitled “Los Vico y sus clientelas. Cambios y resistencias en la práctica política en el reyno de Cerdeña en la edad barroca”;

Cagliari, 9-10 December 2021, University of Cagliari, I coordinate the seminar cycle “Dimenticare Napoleone?”

Madrid, 14-16 December 2021, participate to the international congress “El reinado de Carlos II: La antesala de la Modernidad" coordinate by Alain Bègue, José Martínez Millán, Manuel Rivero Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, reading a speech about “El gobierno de la Monarquía española en las manos del jesuita Nithard. Lucha política y relaciones internacionales en la segunda mitad del siglo XVII;

Cagliari, 16 May 2022, University of Cagliari, I coordinate the seminar “Ripensare la crisi?” Francesco Benigno, Pietro Adamo and Giovanni Ruocco partecipate;

Cagliari, 16 May 2022 coordino la presentazione del volume “Rivoluzioni. Tra storia e storiografia” di Francesco Benigno;

Cagliari, 23 May 2022 presento il libro “La liberté ou la mort. Il progetto politico di Olympe de Gouges” di Annamaria Loche;

Paris – Colegio de España, 13-15 October 2022, took part of the international congress “Privados españoles y europeos a través de sátiras, libelos, cartas y discursos (siglos XVI-XVIII)” with a speech “El jesuita Nithard. ¿Representación deformada de una «valido en la Junta»?”

Madrid – Universidad Autónoma, 7-8 March 2023, took part of XII Seminario Internacional-Historia Comparada-Red Sucesión “¿Una monarquía mestiza? Mezclas de naciones y sociedad política en la monarquía de España, 1556-1748” with a speech “¿Sardos o no sardos? Cuestiones de identidad en el reino de Cerdeña en la Edad Moderna (1556-1748);

Athens – Athens Institute for Education and Research, took part of 16th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, 3-6 April 2023 with a speech: “1668: An Annus Horribilis for the Spanish Monarchy. The lost European Hegemony, the International Situation, the Internal Crisis”;

Cagliari, 12 April 2023 took part of a seminar orginazed by students of Association “Reset” with a speech “1668: un anno chiave per il Regno di Sardegna nel contesto europeo”;

Aranjuez, URJC, 24-26 of may 2023 took part to the International congress Female Succession in Late Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy. Contestation, Conflict and Compromise organized by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, The Society for Court Studies, Purdue University and Manchester Metropolitan University with the speech Wills and Laws of Succession: A case study of the relationship between female succession and female regency: the will of Philip IV of Spain;

Cagliari, 30 of may 2023 took part to the seminar organized by students of with the speech: “Femminismo tra storia e filosofia”con una relazione dal titolo: “L’insostenibile mitezza della Rivoluzione: il caso di Olympe de Gouges”;

Roma, Università La Sapienza, 3-7 of july 2023 took part of  16th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies organized by ISECS – International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in the session “Women and Revolution” with the speech "The Unbearable Mildness of Revolution: the case of Olympe de Gouges";

Pardubice, Univerzita Pardubice – Fakulta Filozoficka, 11 of september 2023 took a lesson, for PhD students as didactic Erasmus program, wich title was: “War and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe”;

Lisbona, 8-12 July 2024 took part  at 53° International congress of ASPHS: From Lisbon to the World, in the session: “Consequences of Early Modem Commerce” with the relation: “American Silver and the Artistic Production in the Kingdom of Sardinia During the Baroque Age”;

Valencia 27 September 2024 took part to the research group “Ganar y perder en las sociedades hispánicas de la Edad Moderna. Dialécticas de éxito y fracaso en los procesos de cambio histórico”, coordinated by Juan Francisco Pardo Molero and Daniel Muñoz with the relation: “Como una familia. Los nuevos grupos de poder del capo di sopra en la época barroca: los casos de las familias Vico/Manca y Zonca/Cedrelles”.

Valencia (26 Novembre 2024) took part to the Colloqui internacional: Entre la integraciói la diversitat. El regne de Sardenya en época moderna with the relation: La élite del capo di sopra: un grupo emergente en el Parlamento Camarasa? El caso de Gerónimo Zonza y Vico;

Valencia (20-21 January 2026) took part to the social history congress “¿Éxitos planeados, fracasos imprevistos? Estrategias, adaptación e improvisación en las sociedades hispánicas de la edad moderna”, with the relation élite cortesana a la hora de la sucesión dinástica entre los Austrias y los Borbones. Algunos casos de estudio;

Madrid (3-4 march 2026) took part at the XV International seminar Historia comparada-Red-Sucesión “La Monarquía de los agentes. Comunicación política y agencia de los reinos en la corte de Madrid” with the relation Los agentes de la Monarquía española entre mediación y neutralidad. Dos casos de estudio procedentes del reino de Cerdeña en el siglo XVII

Prague (2-4 September 2026), took part at the international conference “Kings & Queens 15: Kings, Queens and Dynasties in Peril” with the relation News concerning the King of Spain’s Health Conditions: the construction of the Hechizado legend (1665-1675);

Cagliari (3-4 December 2026) organize the International Seminar 250 years of Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1789) with the relation Gibbon’s Narration of the Decline as a narrative Model of crisis

Selected Publications (2014-2027)

 “El negro, el rojo y …el gris. Nota biográfico-política sobre el Duque de Montalto-Cardenal Moncada (1614-1672)” in La doble lealtad: entre el servicio al rey y la obligación a la iglesia, Instituto Universitario “La Corte en Europa” (IULCE-UAM), Madrid, revistalibrosdelacorte.es, monográfico 1, año 6 (2014), pp. 214-227;

“Continuidad, ruptura y fidelidad necesara en el Mediterráneo: la “toma de posesión” en Cerdeña de Felipe V y el virrey duque de San Juan (1699-1703)”, in R. Franch Benavent, F. Andrés Robres, R. Benítez Sanchez-Blanco (ed.s), Cambios y resistencias sociales en la Edad Moderna. Un análisis comparativo entre el centro y la periferia mediterránea de la Monarquía Hispánica, Sílex, Madrid, 2014, pp. 487-494;

“Valencia-Cagliari-Madrid: interferenze private alla ricerca di un equilibrio istituzionale (1652-1665)”, in M.G. Mele, L. Guia Marín, G. Tore (ed.s), Identità e frontiere. Politica, economia e società nel mediterraneo (secoli XIV-XVIII), Franco Angeli, Milano, 2015, pp. 345-357;

R. Pilo-G. Scroccu, “Persistenze, transizioni e problematiche storiografiche tra Spagna e Italia (secc. XVI-XXI). Una relazione che dura un'eternità?”, in «Società, mutamento, politica», vol. VI, n. 11, 2015, pp. 117-142;

Pipino, Maurizio in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Istituto Enciclopedia Treccani, Roma, vol. 84, 2015 in http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/maurizio-pipino_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ del 12/05/2016;

Porzio, Lucantonio in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Istituto Enciclopedia Treccani, Roma, vol. 85, 2016, in http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lucantonio-porzio_(Dizionario-Biografico) del 16/10/2018;

 “The Spanish Monarchy and the French hegemony at the age of the dynastic change in Madrid (1690-1700). A case study: the Kingdom of Valenza” in A. Pasolini, R. Pilo (ed.s), Cagliari and Valenza in the Baroque Age, Albatros, Valencia, 2016, pp. 73-93;

“Un nobile siciliano alla corte di Carlo II: il duca di San Giovanni da menino a ministro nella Spagna del cambio dinastico”, in RiMe, num. 18, giugno 2017, pp. 107-124;

The political role of noblewomen in the Kingdom of Sardinia at the time of  the Camarasa Parliament (1666-1668): a preliminary study, in Sardinia from the Middle Ages to Contemporaneity, Luciano Gallinari (ed.), Peter Lang, Bern, 2018, pp. 117-129;

Incapacità politica di un viceré o crisi della tradizione pattizia? Il caso del marchese di Camarasa nel Regno di Sardegna negli anni della reggenza di Mariana d’Austria, in Palacios, plazas, patíbulos. La sociedad española moderna entre el cambio y las resistencias, James S. Amelang, Fernando Andrés Robres, Rafael Benítez Sánchez-Blanco, Ricardo Franch Benavent, Mirian Galante Becerril (eds.), Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2018, pp. 553-561;

 “Estudio para el retrato de una dama: Catalina Moncada de Castro desde el monasterio de Pedralbes hasta la corte de Madrid”, in «Estudis. Revista de Historia Moderna», 44 (2018), pp. 159-172;

R. Pilo-C. Storrs, “Los últimos consejeros de Estado antes del cambio dinástico (1699)”, numero monografico curato da Rafaella Pilo e Christipher Storrs, in «Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Serie IV, Historia Moderna», Nº 31 (2018);

R. Pilo, “The Imperial ambassador, the nuncio and the favourite: The Count of Pötting, Vitaliano Visconti Borromeo and Juan Everardo Nithard at the time of the Spanish crisis (1668-1669)” in «Theatrum historiae», The House of Habsburg and the Papacy 23, 2018, pp. 133-146;

Il duca di Montalto e il regno di Napoli (1614-1647), in La Corona d’Aragona e l’Italia, Atti del XX Congresso della Corona d’Aragona, Roma-Napoli 4-8 ottobre 2017, a cura di G. D’Agostino, S. Fodale, A.M. Oliva, D. Passerini, F. Senatore, Roma, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, 2020, 3 tomi, vol. I/1, pp. 921-934;

Pasquinate violente e dibattito assembleare nella stagione della crisi (XVII sec.), in Oralità e scrittura. Il parlamento di Sardegna (secc. XIV-XVIII), a cura di N. Bazzano e M. Fuertes Broseta, Quaderni di Mediterranea, 35, 2020, pp. 49-69;

Il Regno di Sardegna nell’età Barocca. Crisi politica e istituzionale al tempo del viceré Camarasa (1665-1668), New Digital Press, Palermo, 2020;

Profili immaginari, profili immaginati da Shylock a Mr. Burns. Stereotipi e pregiudizi a confronto tra Europa, America e mondo orientale (secc. XVI-XX), in Antigiudaismo e antisemitismo dall’età antica all’età contemporanea. Un percorso di riflessione fra filosofia e storia, a cura di Gianluca Scroccu, UnicaPress, Cagliari, 2022, pp. 99-116;

Pedro de Vico y su clientela (1650-1670). Cambios y resistencias en el Reino de Cerdeña en la época barroca, in «¿Al servicio de quién? Poder, instituciones y familias en la Monarquía de España», a cura di Juan Francisco Pardo Molero, Nuria Verdet Martínez, Fernando Andrés Robres, Comares, Granada, 2022, pp. 163-182;

Pilo legge Annamaria Loche, La liberté ou la mort. Il progetto politico e giuridico di Olympe de Gouges, postfazione di Thomas Casadei, Modena, Mucchi editore, 2021 in Archivio Storico Italiano, 2022/4 ~ (Clxxx) N. 674, pp. 816-817;

Introduzione a Dimenticare Napoleone? Storia, letteratura, arti intorno alla figura dell’imperatore francese, a cura di Rafaella Pilo,UnicaPress, Cagliari, 2023, pp. 7-14;

1668: An Annus Horribilis for the Spanish Monarchy – The Lost European Hegemony, the International Situation, the Internal Crisis in «Athens Journal of History», 2023, 10: 1-13 (Available online 4 October 2023);

Linguaggio e pratiche politiche d’età barocca. Il caso del Regno di Sardegna nella seconda metà del XVII secolo, in La veu del Regne: 600 anys de la Generalitat Valenciana, vol. IV Pactisme, pensament polític i doctrina jurídica Antoni Furió i Juan Vicente García Marsilla (eds.), Universitat de València i Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, 2023, pp. 267-275 (ISBN 978-84-9134-596-1)

"Nobleza y élite en el reino de Cerdeña (1516-1720)", en ÁLVAREZ-OSSORIO ALVARIÑO, Antonio y QUIRÓS ROSADO, Roberto (eds.), Las noblezas de la monarquía de España (1556-1725), Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia, 2024, pp. 215-236;

El reino de Cerdeña en La época de Carlos II en Bifronte imperio de dos mundos. La monarquía de Carlos II en Europa y América, Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño, Cristina Bravo LozanoRoberto Quirós Rosado (eds.), Vervuert, Madrid, 2025, pp. 371-394;

Id., El jesuita Nithard. ¿Representación deformada de un “valido en la Junta”?, in Privados españoles y europeos, Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté (PUFC), 2025, pp. 93-102;

Id., Committenza artistica nella Sardegna barocca. Il caso dell’arcivescovo Pedro de Vico, in Da pater familias a buon pastore. Amministrare il patrimonio ecclesiastico nei Regni mediterranei della Corona spagnola, a cura di R. Pilo, Viella, Roma, 2026, pp. 97-120;

Id., La élite del capo di sopra: un grupo emergente en el Parlamento Camarasa? El caso de Gerónimo Zonza y Vico, in al Colloqui internacional: Entre la integració i la diversitat. El regne de Sardenya en época moderna, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, in corso di stampa 2027

Id. La élite cortesana a la hora de la sucesión dinástica entre los Austrias y los Borbones. Algunos casos de estudio, in “¿Éxitos planeados, fracasos imprevistos? Estrategias, adaptación e improvisación en las sociedades hispánicas de la edad moderna”, Universitat de Valencia, in corso di stampa 2027;

Id., Los agentes de la Monarquía española entre mediación y neutralidad. Dos casos de estudio procedentes del reino de Cerdeña en el siglo XVII en  “La Monarquía de los agentes. Comunicación política y agencia de los reinos en la corte de Madrid”,  in corso di stampa 2027;

Cagliari, 29/09/2026