Guido Giulio Beduschi

My doctoral research aims to identify an early eighteenth-century contact point between the dissemination of news and the writing of modern history in Europe, by focusing in particular on the Italian peninsula. In the period 1680-1730, a new, methodologically-accurate way of writing the history of the recent past emerged, which was strictly related to the critical works of contemporary scholars (such as Le Clerc, Mabillon and Muratori), and stimulated by parallel wider dissemination of printed news. Histories dedicated to the recent past – an increasingly branched idea of period of no more than two generations – had of course appeared before; only from this period, did historians start to pen their works with the primary intention of publishing, and adequately informing the varied readership of European newspapers.

My research interests include the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), Voltaire historian, and the dissemination of information in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe.

I have experience supervising students and teaching seminar groups in the following papers:

• Part I: Paper 16 - European History, 1450-1760
• Part I: Paper 17 - European History, 1715-1890
• Part II: Historical Argument and Practice (HAP)

• 'Representation and Federalism in the Political Thinking of Scipione Maffei (1675-1755)', at Jour fixe Kulturwissenschaften, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW ), Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History, 25 February 2021.
• 'The News and its Public in Late Seventeenth-Century Italy: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli’s Satirical Prints', at Early Modern World History Workshop, University of Cambridge, 27 February 2020.
• 'Retrospective and Modern History in Europe, 1715–1750', at Migration, Movement, Waiting: On Dynamics between Stagnation and Progression, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 16-17 September 2019.
• 'Collecting Sources: Antonio Francesco Ghiselli (1634-1730) and his Memorie Manuscritte', at Collecting Histories Forum - New Research Projects from Emerging Scholars, Institute of Historical Research (IHR), London, 11 December 2018.
• 'Method and Modern History in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy', at The Desire for Method: A Graduate Student Conference on Early Modern Thought and Practice, Princeton University and New York University, 25-26 October 2018.
• 'The Istoria by Francesco Maria Ottieri, and the Writing of Modern History in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy', at The Querelle that wasn't? 'Old' and 'New' in the Intellectual Culture of Habsburg Europe, 1700‒1750, University of Vienna, 10-13 October 2018.
• 'Time Acceleration and Historical Writing in the Early Eighteenth Century', at The McLuhan Symposium: 'Acceleration', Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, 28 April 2018.