Claudio Povolo

Personal information
Family name: Povolo
First name: Claudio
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3542-7103
Date of birth: 03/02/1948
Nationality: Italian

URL for web site: www.unive.it/persone/povolo     http://unive.academia.edu/CLAUDIOPovolo

Education
After his degree in Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 1974, he got a fellowship (Assegno Ministeriale, equivalent to the PhD) by Ministry for Education, University and Scientific Research from 1st June 1976 to 31st May 1980 in the same University.

Previous positions, current position and teaching activities
From 1980 to 1988, Professor Povolo collaborated with Professor Gaetano Cozzi, as Research Fellow in Modern History, teaching Modern History and then History of Political Institutions at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. From 1989 to 1992 he taught Modern History of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region as Associate Professor at Trieste University (Faculty of Humanities). Since 1992 he’s been teaching History of Political Institutions at the Faculty of Humanities first, then at the Department of Humanities; at present Povolo is teaching in three courses: History of the Republic of Venice, History of Veneto and History of the Mediterranean. Povolo became Full Professor of History of Political Institutions in 2001.

Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

  • 2013-2015 – One Postdoc, Department of Humanities, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy
  • 2004-2009 – Two PhD Students, Faculty of Political Science-University of Messina (Italy)/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)/Universidad de Córdoba (Spain).
  • 2004 – One Master Student, Faculty of Political Science-University of Messina (Italy)/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)/Universidad de Córdoba (Spain).

Institutional responsibilities and organization of international scientific meetings

  • Povolo is the representative of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice within the Region of Veneto Scientific Commission for the valorization of the Venetian Heritage in Istria and Dalmatia.
  • In 2012 he was elected President of the Interuniversity Centre for the Veneto Heritage (founded in Koper, Slovenia).
  • He is currently managing scientific relationships between the Department of Humanities of Venice and the Croatian Academy of History of Zagreb (Croatia). Besides, he is Person in Charge of scientific aspects and research team leader in quality of supervisor of a project Marie Curie (2013) dedicated to Feud and Vendetta between customs and legal procedure in the Northern-Adriatic area.
  • 2010-2013 Within the Shared Culture Italy-Slovenia Interreg Project, Povolo has coordinated a research team, based at the Venice State Archive and aimed at researching, cataloguing and digitizing ancient petitions (named Suppliche). These requests were usually made by Venetian Istria and Quarnaro people to the government of the Republic of Venice.
  • Povolo has managed the scientific organization of modern history conferences that have been held in Koper since 1991. He has also organized historic conferences on the territory of Buje (Acta Bullearum) and Momjan.
  • He is currently leading a research team aimed at working on history and customs of the community of Perast in Montenegro.

Povolo has organized in Koper (Slovenia) many international conferences with different Italian, Slovenian, Croatian and American universities and academic organizations on juridical and anthropological issues aimed at improving historic knowledge on Northern-Adriatic area:

  • L’Istria e la Repubblica di Venezia: istituzioni, diritto, amministrazione/Istria and the Republic of Venice: institutions, law, administration, 10-12 June 1993
  • Aspetti dell’amministrazione della giustizia in Istria (secoli XIV-XVIII)/Perspectives of Law in Istria (14.th-18.th Century), 11-12 November 1994
  • Sistemi di potere e poteri delle istituzioni, teorie e pratiche dello Stato nell’Europa mediterranea con speciale riferimento all’area adriatica in età moderna/The Systems of Power and the Power of Institutions: theories and practices in Mediterranean Europe in Modern Age with special emphasis on Adriatic, 9-11 October 1997
  • Onore: identità e ambiguità di un codice informale (area mediterranea – secc. XII-XX)/The History of Honour: identity in informal legal practice (The Mediterranean, 12.th-20.th Cent.), 11-13 November 1999
  • Il linguaggio della violenza/The Language of Violence, 11-13 October 2001
  • Crimini senza vittime. La vittima nello scenario del processo penale/Victimless Crimes. The Victim in the Scene of the Criminal Trial, 23-25 October 2003
  • Retoriche della devianza: criminali, fuorilegge e devianti nella storia/The Rhetoric of Deviance: criminals, outlaws and deviants in history, 6-8 October 2005
  • Interpreti di culture: culture dominanti e culture subordinate a confronto/Interpreters of Cultures: dominant and subordinate cultures in contact, 27–29 September 2007
  • Testimoni e testimonianze del passato/Witnesses and Testimonies of the Past, 24-26 September 2009
  • Terza parte. Tra liturgie di violenza e liturgie di pace: mediatori, arbitri, pacieri, giudici (Repubblica di Venezia e Alto Adriatico in età medievale e moderna)/The Third Party. Liturgies of Violence and Liturgies of Peace: mediators, arbitrators, peacemakers, judges (Republic of Venice and the Upper-Adriatic in the Middle and Modern Ages), 14-16 April 2011
  • Contaminazioni. Discorsi, pratiche e rappresentazioni: l’Alto Adriatico tra età medievale e contemporanea/Contaminations. Discourses, Practices and Representations: the Upper-Adriatic between the Middle Ages and Modernity, 23-25 May 2013

Organization of other international scientific meetings:

  • Istrian Economy Yesterday and Tomorrow, Pazin-Pula (Croatia), 21-23 November 2013.
  • La società e il territorio: il controllo attraverso fiduciari/Society and Territory: enhancing control by trustees, Gargnano (Brescia, Italy), 20-21 November 2015.

Commissions of trust

  • 1995-2017 Scientific member of the Editorial Board of the international journal “Annales – Annals for Istrian and Mediterranean Studies. Series Historia et Sociologia” (Koper, Slovenia);
  • 1993-2017 Scientific member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Acta Histriae” (Koper, Slovenia);
  • 1997-2011 Scientific member of the Editorial Board of the national journal “Terra d’Este” (Este, Padua, Italy);
  • 2001-2009 Scientific member of the Editorial Board of the international journal “Crime, Society and History” (Geneve, Switzerland);
  • 2009-2011 Collaborator of the journal “Il diritto della Regione” (Venice, Italy).

Memberships of scientific societies

  • 2001-2017 Member of “Società per gli Studi di Storia delle Istituzioni” (Rome, Italy)
  • 2014-2017 President of “Associazione Amici dell’Archivio di Stato di Venezia” (Venice, Italy)

Major collaborations:

  • Darko Darovec, Venice Cultural Heritage in North Adriatic Area, Marie-Curie Fellow, Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
  • Lucien Faggion, Legal Professions in the Republic of Venice, Maître de Conferénces, UMR Telemme, Aix-Marseille-Université, France
  • Stuart Carrol, History of Violence, Department of History, University of York, UK
  • Edward Muir, History of Vengeance and Ritual, Department of History, Northwestern University, USA
  • Angel Casals Martinez, History of Banditry, Faculty of Geography and History, University of Barcelona, Spain
  • John Jeffries Martin, History of Torture, Department of History, Duke University, USA

Claudio Povolo: Ten years track-record 

Publications in major international peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary scientific journals and/or in the leading international peer-reviewed journals, peer-reviewed conferences proceedings:

  1. POVOLO C. La pietra del bando. Vendetta e banditismo in Europa tra Cinque e Seicento, in ACTA HISTRIAE, vol. 25, 2017, 1, pp. 21-56 (ISSN 1318-0185)
  2. POVOLO C. Feud and Vendetta: customs and trial rites in Medieval and Modern Europe. A legal-anthropological approach, in ACTA HISTRIAE, vol. 23, 2015, 2, pp. 195-244 (ISSN 1318-0185) WoS: 4 citations Scopus: 4 citations
  3. POVOLO C. Profondo d’Istria. Configurazioni conflittuali ed istituzionali tra Cinque e Seicento, in Istrian Economy Yesterday and Tomorrow, Pazin (Croatia), State Archives in Pazin, 2015, pp. 233-245 (ISBN 97895376402933).
  4. POVOLO C. Contaminazioni. Discorsi, pratiche, rappresentazioni, in ACTA HISTRIAE, vol. 22, 2014, 4, pp. 821-836 (ISSN 1318-0185) WoS: 2 citations Scopus: 2 citations
  5. POVOLO C. La terza parte. Tra liturgie di violenza e liturgie di pace: mediatori, arbitri, pacieri, giudici, in ACTA HISTRIAE, vol. 22, 2014, 1, pp. 1-16 (ISSN 1318-0185) WoS: 1 citation
  6. POVOLO C. Un eroe locale. L’effrazione della tomba di Francesco Petrarca (1630), in STUDI PETRARCHESCHI, XXVII, 2014, pp. 287-318 (ISSN 1128-2045)
  7. POVOLO C. ‘En plein air’: Sur les traces de Giovan Andrea Bertanza (été 1618, dans les environs de Tignale, province de Brescia), in Recit et Justice (France, Italie, Espagne, XIVe-XIXe siecles), L. Faggion & C. Regina (eds), Aix-en-Provence, Presses Universitaires de Provence (Aix-en-Provence) 2014, pp. 161-175 (ISBN 9782853999571)
  8. POVOLO C. Faida e vendetta tra consuetudini e riti processuali, in STORICA, vol. 56-57, 2013, pp. 53-104 (ISSN 1125-0194)
  9. POVOLO C. Liturgies of Violence: social control and power relationships in the Republic of Venice between the 16.th and 18.th Centuries, in A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2013, pp. 513-542 (ISBN 9789004252516)
  10. POVOLO C. Le rite inquisitoire du Conseil des Dix, in Rite, justice et pouvoirs. France-Italie, XIVe-XIXe siècle, Aix-en-Provence, Presses Universitaires de Provence (Aix-en-Provence), 2012, pp. 115-129 (ISBN 9782853998383)

Research monographs and any translations thereof

  • POVOLO C. L’emergere della tradizione. Saggi di antropologia giuridica (secoli XVI-XVIII), Venezia, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2015, pp. 1-255 (ISBN 9788875433789)
  • POVOLO C. The Emergence of Tradition. Essays on Legal Anthropology (16.th-18.th Centuries), Venezia, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2015, pp. 1-248 (ISBN 9788875433796) (translation of L’emergere della tradizione. Saggi di antropologia giuridica (secoli XVI-XVIII))
  • POVOLO C. Tradicija pride na dan. Razprave iz antropologije prava (16.-18. stoletje), Venezia, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2015, pp. 1-239 (ISBN 9788875433802) (translation of L’emergere della tradizione. Saggi di antropologia giuridica (secoli XVI-XVIII))
  • POVOLO C. Il romanziere e l’archivista. Da un processo veneziano del Seicento all’anonimo manoscritto dei Promessi Sposi, Verona, Cierre edizioni, 2004, pp. 1-140, (ISBN 8883142616)
  • POVOLO C. The Novelist and the Archivist. Fiction and History in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed, London, Palgrave Macmillan Pivot, 2014, pp. 1-140 (ISBN 9781137395986) (re-edition translated of Il romanziere e l’archivista. Da un processo veneziano del ’600 all’anonimo manoscritto dei “Promessi Sposi”)

Invited presentations to internationally established conferences

  • Presentation: Suoi amorevoli. Relazioni di amicizia e politica nella Venezia del Cinquecento. International conference: Mediterranean cities and towns. The space and the territories (Institut d’Estudis Catalans – The European Institute for Mediterranean Studies), Barcelona (Spain), 22-25 november 2016
  • Presentation: The Public Rock of Cut Heads. Violence and Banditry in the Mediterranean: Republic of Venice in the 16.th Century. International conference: Management and Resolution of Conflicts and Rivalries (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – University of Warwick),Venice (Italy), 21-22 May 2015
  • Presentation: Profondo d’Istria. Configurazioni conflittuali ed istituzionali tra Cinque e Seicento.   International conference: Istrian Economy Yesterday and Tomorrow (University of Pula, State Archives in Pazin), Pazin (Croatia), 24-26 November 2016
  • Presentation: Cacciatori di taglie e dead men walking nella Repubblica di Venezia alla fine del Cinquecento. International conference: Per una ricognizione degli “stati d’eccezione”. Emergenze, ordine pubblico e apparati di polizia in Europa: le esperienze nazionali (secc. XVII-XX)/States of Emergency. Emergency, Law and Order, Police in Europe: national experiences (17.th-20.th Centuries) (Dipartimento di Studi Giuridici dell’Università di Messina), Messina (Italy), 15-17 July 2013
  • Presentation: L’Istria tra consuetudine e legge in età moderna / Istra između običaja i zakona u moderno doba. International conference: Momiano e l’Istria: una comunità e una regione dell’Alto Adriatico (storia, arte, diritto, antropologia) / Mednarodna znanstvena konferenca: Momjan in Istra: lokalna skupnost in regija severnega Jadrana (zgodovina, umetnost, pravo, antropologija)/ Momiano and Istria: a community and a region of the Upper-Adriatic (history, art, law, anthropology) (Pučkog otvorenog učilišta Buje- Università popolare aperta di Buie), Momjan (Croatia), 14-16 June 2013
  • Presentation: Zanzanú un bandolero de leyenda en el Véneto del siglo XVII. International conference: III Jornades Internacionals sobre Bàndols, Violència i Territori/III International Conference about Bandits, Violence and Territories (Department of Modern History of the University of Barcelona), Viladrau (Spain), 27-28 April 2013
  • Presentation: Identità frammentate. Il fascino controverso della Serenissima nell’Ottocento, tra grandi e piccole patrie. International conference: Tra nazione e nazioni. Le identità politiche in Italia tra Sette e Ottocento/ Between Nation and Nations. Political Identities in Italy between 18.th and 19.th Centuries (Italian Society for the History of Early Modern Period and Italian Society for the Study of Political Institutions History), Naples (Italy), 13-14 November 2009

 Prizes/ Awards/ Academy memberships

Leadership of projects

European projects:

  • 2015-2017 Supervisor of project FAIDA – Feud and Blood Feud between Customary Law and Legal Process in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The Case of the Upper-Adriatic Area. 7th FP EU – Marie Curie Actions (MCA- IEF) for advanced researchers at the Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy
  • 2009-2013 Research Unit Coordinator of strategic international project SHARED CULTURE – Strategic Project for the Knowledge and Availability of Shared Cultural Heritage. The Program for transnational cooperation Slovenia-Italy 2007–2013, (396,000 €)
  • National Research Projects (financed by MIUR/Italian Ministry for Education, University and Scientific Research (PRIN):
  • 2011-2013 Research Unit Coordinator, Il processo inquisitorio nel Regno Lombardo-Veneto (1815-1848)/The Inquisitorial Trial in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (1815-1848), (29,900 euros)
  • 2008-2010 Research Unit Coordinator, Codice austriaco del 1803 e discrezionalità del giudice/The Austrian Penal Code of 1803 and the Discretion of the Judge, (21,428 euros)
  • University projects (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice):
  • 2012-2014, Project Coordinator, Il Kanun di Perasto. Una comunità montenegrina tra consuetudini locali e relazioni politiche con Venezia nei secoli XVII-XIX/The Kanun of Perast: a community of Montenegro between local customs and politic relationships with Venice (17.th-19.th Centuries), (20,000 euros)