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EVENTS Conferences and Seminars February 2026 Institute for the History of Venice

Venezia e il suo Stato da mar. Guerra e pace nello Stato da mar

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini hosts the fourteenth International Conference Venezia e il suo Stato da Mar | Venice and Its Maritime State, organised by the Società Dalmata di Storia Patria in Rome with the contribution of the Veneto Regional Council and in collaboration with the Institute for the History of Venice.

The conference brings together scholars from Greece, Croatia, Italy and the United States, experts in the history of Venice’s maritime domains, who this year will discuss the theme of war and peace in Venice’s maritime territories.

During the conference, on 27 February, the latest volume of Studi Veneziani – the series published by the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society will be presented by Marco Pellegrini (University of Bergamo).

This activity is realised with the contribution of the Veneto Region.

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26th February | Fondazione Giorgio Cini
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13:40 | Institutional greetings

Egidio Ivetic, Rita Tolomeo

Presiede Rita Tolomeo, Società Dalmata di Storia Patria.

 

14:00 | Opening Speech

Anastasia Stouraiti, Goldsmiths, University of London

War and Peace in the Stato da Mar: Tolstoy’s Infinitesimal Method and the Microhistories of Empire

 

14:30 Angeliki Tzavara, UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, CNRS,  France

In faucibus inimicorum nostrorum. The Lords of the Steppes and the Venetian District of Tana, 14th-15th Centuries.

 

14:50 Marina Koumanoudi, Μαρίνα Κουμανούδη / Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών / National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens

The People Who Crossed Lines: The Osimo Affair Reconsidered.

 

15:10 Katerina B. Korrè, Κατερίνα Β. Κορρέ Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο / Ionian University Corfu

Zonchio between Reality and Imagination: Claims, Espionage and Venetian Politics in the 15th Century

 

15:30 | Discussion

15:40 | Coffee break

 

 

Presiede Egidio Ivetic, Fondazione Giorgio Cini

 

16:00 | Presentation of the Posters

Dimitrios Chrysovalantis Mouzakitis, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

From Venetian Repositories to the Digital Environment: Editing and Encoding Michele Steno’s 1408 Ducal Commission.

Paola Pizzamano, Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati

The Iconography of the Battle of Lepanto: Subjects, Considerations and Research Perspectives.

Damiano Pellizzaro, IC Asiago

Ordinary Present: An Example of History Didactics, Starting from the statodamar.it Website.

Despina Michalaga, Δέσποινα Μιχάλαγα, / Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Orthodox Saints as Protectors in the Venetian-Ottoman Wars.

 

Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi, Società Dalmata di Storia Patria

The Austro-Ottoman War of 1788-1791 and the Posta di Venezia.

 

16:30 Jelica VujovićIstorijski Institut Beograd / History Institut, Belgrade

The Importance of the Flow of Information during Wartime: Relations between Venice and the Ottomans in the Light of the Accident in Ragusa/ Dubrovnik in 1537

 

16:50 Chrysovalantis Papadamou, University of Cyprus

From the Battles of Nicosia to Venetian Society: The Evolution of Cypriot Refugees in Venice after the War of Cyprus (1570-71).

 

17:10 Alessia Ceccarelli, “Sapienza” Università di Roma

Marcantonio Bragadin and his ‘Relic’, between the War of Cyprus and the Renewed Peace with the Turk (1571-96).

 

17:30 | Discussion

27th February | Fondazione Giorgio Cini
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Presiede Carlo Cetteo Cipriani, Società Dalmata di Storia Patria

 

9:30 Nora Lafi, Universität Bayreuth

Echoes of war. Conditions of Peace from Venice to Constantinople in the Writings of Marc’Antonio Barbaro (and in the Ottoman Chronicles of the Time of Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha).

 

9:50 Christodoulos Hadjichristodoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Illustrating the War of Cyprus.

 

10:10 Marianna Kolyvà, Μαριάννα Κολυβά, / Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο / prof. emerita Università dello Ionio, Corfù

Naval Βattle of Lepanto (1570-1571). The participation of Zante- Zakynthos.

 

10:30 Claudia Pingaro, Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

Para llegar a la Paz. Cyprus Contested between Venice and Constantinople in the Reports of the Spanish Ambassador in Venice.

 

10:50 | Discussion

11:00 | Coffee break

 

Presiede Ante GverićDržavni Arhiv u Zadru / Zadar State Archives

 

11:20 Snežana Pejović, Kotor City Museums

Hajduks in the Bay of Kotor in the Light of the Military and Political Activity of the Republic of Venice between the mid- 17th and Early 18th Centuries.

 

11:40 Domagoj MadunićCentral European University, Budapest

Securing the Adriatic? Piracy, Discipline, and Governance in Venetian Wartime Practice during the War of Crete (1645-1669).

 

12:00 Tina Ugrinić – Marija Knežević, Kotor State Archives

The Looting of Perast in 1624 from Unpublished Documents in the Historical Archives of Kotor, the Archives of the Perast City Museum and the Parish Archives of Perast.

 

12:20 Nikola MarkulinHrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti / Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

he Causes of Morlachs Defection from the Ottomans to the Venetians (1645-1718).

 

12:40 | Discussion

13:00 | Lunch

 

Presiede Despina Vlassi, Società Dalmata di Storia Patria

 

14:40 Anna Falcioni, Università di Urbino, Deputazione di storia patria per le Marche

A Military Report by Giacomo Malatesti, Mercenary Captain of the Republic of Venice, against the Turks.

 

15:00 Ioannis Hatzakis, Ιωάννης Χατζάκης, Academy of Athens / Ακαδημία Αθηνών –  Katerina Konstantinidou, Κατερίνα Κωνσταντινίδου, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens / Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών

Intervals of Venetian rule in the Cyclades during the War of Candia.

 

15:20 Rocco Borgognoni, Deputazione di storia patria per le Marche

In the wave of Otranto. The Surge of the Turkish Threat from Lazzaro Bernabei’s Croniche anconitane (Anconitan Chronicles).

 

15:40 Gogo Varzelioti, Γωγώ Βαρζελιώτη, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens/ Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών /

War and Peace in the Greek-Venetian Mediterranean. Theatre as a historic and cultural source.

 

16:00 | Discussion

16:10 | Coffee break

 

Presiede Roberto Dapit, Università di Udine

 

16:30 Michele Santoro, University of Padua

The ‘buccaneers’ of the Stato da mar: a post-Braudelian approach to piracy between the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea (1573-1624).

 

16:50 Ante GverićDržavni Arhiv u Zadru / Zadar State Archives

Sources for the Study of Venetian-Ottoman Wars and Reconciliations in the State Archives of Zadar.

 

17:10 Mirella Vera Mafrici, Università di Salerno

The War of Candia and Spanish Diplomatic Relations in Venice.

 

17:30 Lena SadovskiÖsterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Austrian Academy of Sciences

Presentation of the book Split. Sozialgeschichte einer Stadt im venezianischen Dalmatien.  (Südosteuropäische Arbeiten 171, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025).

 

17:50 | Discussion

28th February | Istituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica
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Presiede Anna Falcioni, Università di Urbino, Deputazione di storia patria per le Marche

 

9:30 Roberto Dapit, University of Udine

Words and Actions Aimed at Peace in Relations with the Ottoman Empire Between the 17th and 18th Centuries in Dalmatia.

 

9:50 Despina Vlassi, Società Dalmata di Storia Patria

The Prophecy of the ‘Blonde Race’ setting the Ionian Islands Afire. The Orlov Revolt (1770).

 

10:10 Filip Novosel, Hrvatski Institut za povijest / Croatian Institute of History

How to Keep Peace in a War Zone? Venetian Monitoring of Austrian Commander Josip Filip Vukasović’s Military Mission in Montenegro in 1788.

 

10:30 Nikos KapodistriasΤεχνολογικό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου / Cyprus University of Technology

Between Individual Experience and Historical Memory: An Unpublished Venetian Source on the Siege of Patras (1770).

 

10:50 | Discussion

11:10 | Coffee Break

 

Presiede Cristian Luca, Istituto romeno di cultura e ricerca umanistica

 

11:30 Cristina Papakosta – Spyridon Flogaitis, European Public Law Organisation

Social Development and Military Elite on the Island of Santa Maura in the 18th Century.

 

11:50 Jelena Čečur, Perast City Museum

Service, Merit and Distinction: Francesco Conte Viscovich and the Republic of Venice through Perast’s Archival Sources.

 

12:10 Dimitra Papageorgiou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens / Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών /

Parga 1790: Managing a Border Crisis.

 

12:30 Lucia Nadin, Università Statale di Tirana, f.r.

Scanderbeg in Venice: A Long-lasting Myth, from the 16th to the 19th Centuries.

 

12:50 Bruno Crevato-SelvaggiLia De LucaRaffaella GerolaLaura Mangiavacchi, Società Dalmata di Storia Patria

Presentation of the Society’s recent publications and the website www.statodamar.it.

 

13:00 | Discussion

 

Rita Tolomeo, Società Dalmata di Storia Patria

Closing of the Conference.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society

DIRECTOR
Egidio Ivetic