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First Name
Serena
Last Name
Di nepi
Country
Italy
State
Affiliation
Sapienza University of Rome
Website URL
https://uniroma1.academia.edu/serenadinepi
Keywords
Renaissance history; Jewish History; Italian history; Early Modernity; ghettoes; slavery; conversion; Mediterranean
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Associate Professor of Early Modern History
PhD
PhD

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Serena Di Nepi, PhD, is Associate professor of Early Modern History at the Department of History, Culture and Religion at La Sapienza – University of Rome. On March 19, 2018 she has been positively evaluated as associate professor. She is an expert on the history of societies and culture in Modern Era, with a special focus on the history of Jews in Early Modern Italy, and the social dynamics of the Roman ghetto. Moving from this, she is now stressing the history of Muslim slavery and conversion in the Papal States. She is a member of the history doctoral program committee at La Sapienza (2017). In 2016, together with Prof. Marina Caffiero, she designed the first Italian advanced specialization course in Jewish history; since fall 2017 she is the director of the course.
In 2015-2016 she has She has been visiting researcher at Hebrew University as a participant to a ERC project directed by prof. Yosef. Kaplan and she is now part of two granted Italian National Project on the history of Anti-Semitism. In fall 2017 she has been resident visiting scholar at the Center for Jewish History – Primo Levi Center in New York within the program “The Rome lab” (that she co-curated: http://primolevicenter.org/printed-matter/rome-lab-calendar/). The project has been supported by Yeshiva University Museum, Yeshiva University, NYU and Casa Italia Zerilli Marimò. In 2014 Her book Surviving the ghetto. Toward a social history of the Jewish Community ni 16th century Rome (Rome: Viella, 2013) won the Cherasco Prize dedicated to young researchers.
She has been member of the Scientific Committee of MEIS between 2011 and 2015. In 2015 she was nominated member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan and of Jewish Museum of Rome. Since 2016 she is also a member of the board of the National Italian Jewish Heritage Foundation.
She represents the Jewish Community of Rome in the international research group on the Jewish library looted by the Nazis in 1943. The project is supported by a partnership with the World Jewish Congress and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic.

Recent Publications

Produzione scientifica

11573/1587968 – 2021 – 1682. L’abolizione del prestito ebraico a Roma: la società del ghetto e le sue reti
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Storia mondiale degli ebrei – (9788858143377)
11573/1595806 – 2021 – Jews, Italy, Renaissance. Parole antiche e nuovi paradigmi per una storiografia internazionale in movimento
Di Nepi, Serena – 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: STUDI E MATERIALI DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2009- L’Aquila: Japadre) pp. 737-745 – issn: 0393-8417 – wos: (0) – scopus: (0)
11573/1602141 – 2021 – Massimo Firpo e Germano Maifreda, L’eretico che salvò la Chiesa. Il cardinale Giovanni Morone e le origini della Controriforma, Torino, Einaudi, 2019, 1160 pp. di Lucio Biasiori, Serena Di Nepi, Andrea Del Col e Federico Zuliani
Di Nepi, Serena – 01d Recensione
rivista: STORIA IN LOMBARDIA (Franco Angeli Riviste SRL:viale Monza 106, I 20127 Milan Italy:011 39 02 2895762, 011 39 02 289562, EMAIL: riviste@francoangeli.it, INTERNET: http://www.francoangeli.it, Fax: 011 39 02 2891515) pp. 116-120 – issn: 1828-2008 – wos: (0) – scopus: (0)
11573/1398062 – 2020 – Alla (ri)scoperta dei tesori dimenticati. Note a margine e percorsi di ricerca su storia e società ebraica a partire dalla Relazione di Isaia Sonne
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Il patrimonio bibliografico e archivistico delle Comunità israelitiche italiane Ovvero, la Relazione di Isaia Sonne. Note a margine – (9788894097436)
11573/1417727 – 2020 – Trading beyond the Ghetto: New Perspectives on Jews in 18th-Century Rome
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Non contrarii, ma diversi .The Question of the Jewish Minority in Early Modern Italy – (978-88-3313-068-2)
11573/1427986 – 2020 – Il posto delle minoranze: spazi, norme e rappresentazioni (Europa e Mediterraneo, sec. XIII-XIX)
Di Nepi, Serena – 06a Curatela
rivista: DIMENSIONI E PROBLEMI DELLA RICERCA STORICA (Carocci Editore:via Sardegna 50, I 00187 Rome Italy:011 39 06 42014260, EMAIL: riviste@carocci.it, Fax: 011 39 06 42747931) pp. 7-131 – issn: 1125-517X – wos: (0) – scopus: (0)
11573/1428024 – 2020 – Il posto delle minoranze: spazi, norme e rappresentazioni (Europa e Mediterraneo, sec. XIII-XIX)
Di Nepi, Serena – 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: DIMENSIONI E PROBLEMI DELLA RICERCA STORICA (Carocci Editore:via Sardegna 50, I 00187 Rome Italy:011 39 06 42014260, EMAIL: riviste@carocci.it, Fax: 011 39 06 42747931) pp. 7-17 – issn: 1125-517X – wos: (0) – scopus: (0)
11573/1432214 – 2020 – Rileggere il ghetto. Una nuova fonte per la storia degli ebrei di Roma
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Sub anulo piscatoris Un registro e una comunità ebraica nella Roma dei papi (secoli XVI-XVIII) – (978-88-3384-072-7)
11573/1437753 – 2020 – 1682. L’abolition du prête juif à Rome: la société des ghettos et ses réseaux
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Histoire des Juifs. Un voyage en 80 dates de l’Antiquité à nos jours – (9782130820710)
11573/1465357 – 2020 – Surviving the Ghetto. Toward a Social History of the Jewish Community in 16th-Century Rome
Di Nepi, Serena – 03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico
11573/1469635 – 2020 – Pamela M. Jones/Barbara Wisch/Simon Ditchfield (Eds.), A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492–1692, Leiden-Boston (Brill) 2019 (Brill’s Companions to European History 17), XXIII, 629 pp., ill., ISBN 978-90-04-39195-6, € 17
Di Nepi, Serena – 01d Recensione
rivista: QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN AUS ITALIENISCHEN ARCHIVEN UND BIBLIOTHEKEN (Boston, Mass. ; Berlin : de Gruyter Tuebingen Germany: Max Niemeyer Verlag Gmbh) pp. 745-747 – issn: 0079-9068 – wos: (0) – scopus: (0)
11573/1473657 – 2020 – Saving Souls, Forgiving Bodies. A New Source and a Working Hypothesis on Slavery, Conversion and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome (16th–19th Centuries)
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome – (978-90-04-39378-3)
11573/1473661 – 2020 – Attraverso le mura. Tre secoli e mezzo di storia italiana
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Oltre il ghetto. Dentro & fuori – (9788836645954)
11573/1473665 – 2020 – Within the Walls and Beyond. Three and a Half Centuries of Italian History
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Beyond the Ghetto. Inside & Out – (9788836645961)
11573/1230700 – 2019 – Jews in the Papal States between Western Sephardic Diasporas and ghettoization. A trial in Ancona as a case study (1555-1563)
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities – (978-90-04-36753-1)
11573/1275845 – 2019 – I “turchi”, la guerra e le conversioni. Per una riflessione su schiavitù e battesimo negli anni della Riforma
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Riforma/riforme: continuità o discontinuità? Sacramenti, pratiche spirituali e liturgia fra il 1450 e il 1600 – (978-88-372-3309-9)
11573/1298135 – 2019 – Legami familiari e rapporti commerciali con i paesi del Mediterraneo
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Tutti i colori dell’Italia ebraica. Tessuti preziosi dal Tempio di Gerusalemme a prêt-à-porter – (9788809883529)
11573/1298444 – 2019 – I tessuti e le bolle infami
Di Nepi, Serena – 02a Capitolo o Articolo
libro: Tutti i colori dell’Italia ebraica. Tessuti preziosi dal Tempio di Gerusalemme a prêt-à-porter – (9788809883529)
11573/1144781 – 2018 – Autobiografie di minoranza. Prospettive individuali tra scritture personali e racconti di vita di ebrei e musulmani a Roma in età moderna
Di Nepi, Serena – 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: SOCIETÀ E STORIA (Franco Angeli Riviste SRL:viale Monza 106, I 20127 Milan Italy:011 39 02 2895762, 011 39 02 289562, EMAIL: riviste@francoangeli.it, INTERNET: http://www.francoangeli.it, Fax: 011 39 02 2891515) pp. 289-313 – issn: 0391-6987 – wos: (0) – scopus: 2-s2.0-85050159000 (1)
11573/1144785 – 2018 – Fede e scrittura. Libri e testimonianze personali nei processi di autodefinizione religiosa (XVI-XVII secolo)
Di Nepi, Serena – 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: SOCIETÀ E STORIA (Franco Angeli Riviste SRL:viale Monza 106, I 20127 Milan Italy:011 39 02 2895762, 011 39 02 289562, EMAIL: riviste@francoangeli.it, INTERNET: http://www.francoangeli.it, Fax: 011 39 02 2891515) pp. 241-248 – issn: 0391-6987 – wos: (0) – scopus: 2-s2.0-85050116241 (0)
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Italy
Expertise by Geography
Mediterranean
Expertise by Chronology
Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
Economic History, Human Rights, Libraries & Archives, Material Culture, Migration & Immigration, Race, Religion, Slavery, Urban History