1. A New Addition to the Bibliography on Muratori #
In November 2025, a new companion to Muratori, Lodovico Antonio Muratori. An Intellectual in the Republic of Letters, edited by Matteo Al Kalak, Marco Capriotti and Gianvittorio Signorotto, was published by Routledge as part of the ‘Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture’ series.
The purpose of this publication is to provide researchers with an English-language resource containing an introduction to Muratori’s life and works, as well as an examination of the nature of his interactions with his contemporaries in the European Republic of Letters.
In the chapter entitled «Muratori and the Republic of Letters», I conduct a comprehensive study of Muratori’s relations with the Republic of Letters as a whole in order to give a measure of the author’s intellectual, religious and political influence on a European scale. The chapter provide an overview of the way in which Muratori’s network of collaborations with the scholarly community took shape, and, more specifically, it focuses on Muratori’s connections with France. Far from the enlightened cosmopolitanism embodied in the extensive academic network built up by Voltaire from the 1740s onwards, Muratori clearly asserted his desire to create a privileged space with a strong Italian identity that would turn its back on the French academies. Finally, the chapter looks at the fortune of Muratori’s texts in the English- and French-speaking areas and examines his own reception of the ideas stemming from Newtonian and Lockean philosophy, which were to find widespread resonance in the second half of the century, in connection with the development of materialist thought and atheism.
2. Presentation at the Fondazione Caetani #
On 14 May 2026, the book was presented at the Fondazione Caetani in Rome, in the presence of the editors (Matteo Al Kalak, Marco Capriotti and Gianvittorio Signorotto), with interventions by Marcello Verga and Massimiliano Malavasi. The session was recorded and can be viewed at the following address:
3. Book Content #
History / “Antichità”
- Muratori and History | GIANVITTORIO SIGNOROTTO
- Muratori and Epigraphy: The Novus thesaurus veterum inscriptionum | LORENZO CALVELLI AND TATIANA TOMMASI
Religion / “Divozione”
3. The Essence of Christianity: Muratori and the Role of Charity in Religious Reform | MATTEO AL KALAK
4. Immoderate Devotions and Ideal Christianity: Muratori and the Jesuits | MARCO ROCHINI
5. In Defence of the Mass: Muratori, Protestants, and the Catholic Liturgy | LUCA SANDONI
Society / “Governo”
6. Administering Justice: Muratori and the Defects of Jurisprudence | ELIO TAVILLA
7. The World as a Fair of Benefit and Love | LUIGINO BRUNI
8. Ruling the Plague, Ruling Society | FRANCO ARATO
Philosophy / “Morale”
9. The Limits of Reason, the Power of Imagination: Muratori and Philosophy | ANDREA LAMBERTI
10. The Prince, the Citizen and the Man: The Virtues in Muratori’s Thought | ALVIERA BUSSOTTI
Aesthetics / “Buon gusto”
11. Tradition and Innovation in Muratori’s Literary Canon | CORRADO VIOLA
12. Emotions and Virtues for the Public Benefit: Muratori and Music | RICCARDO CASTAGNETTI
Network / “Repubblica letteraria”
13. Muratori and the Republic of Letters | PIERRE MUSITELLI
14. A Long Relationship: Muratori and the German World | MARIA LIEBER AND RALF CHRISTOPH
Heritage / “Memoria”
15. Shaping Memory: Muratori and His Archive | MARCO CAPRIOTTI
16. Muratori in the Digital Sphere: A Computational Approach to the Correspondence | ALEXANDER MEYER AND THOMAS WALLNIG