Luca ROSSETTO

LUCA ROSSETTO

CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor of the History of Political Institutions at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

NATIONAL ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION AND EDUCATION
• Ministry of Education, Universities and Research: awarded National Academic Qualification for the post of full professor in competition sector 14/B01, specifically for the scientific disciplinary sector SPS/03 History of Political Institutions, 17 May 2021–17 May 2032
• Ministry of Education, Universities and Research: awarded the National Academic Qualification for the post of associate professor in competition sector 14/B01, specifically for the scientific discipline SPS/03 History of Political Institutions, 4 December 2014–4 December 2023
• University of Padua: PhD in History (grade: excellent) with the distinction of ‘Doctor Europaeus’ (joint Austrian-English-Italian examination board), 2012
• University of Messina, University of Milan, Autonomous University of Madrid, University of Córdoba: Second-level Master’s degree in ‘History and Comparison of the Political and Legal Institutions of the Countries of Mediterranean Europe’ (grade: 110 cum laude), 2004
• Ca’ Foscari University of Venice: Degree in History (under the old system, mark: 110 cum laude), academic year 2001/2002
• ‘Giorgione’ Classical High School, Castelfranco Veneto: Classical school-leaving certificate (mark: 60/60), 1993

PREVIOUS UNIVERSITY POSITIONS
• Fixed-term University Research Fellow under Law 240/10, Article 24, paragraph 3, letter b) in the History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2020–2023
• Fixed-term university researcher under Law 240/10, Article 24, paragraph 3, letter a) in the History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2017–2020
• Subject Specialist in the History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2015–2017
• Research Fellow in the History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2013–2015
• Subject Specialist in the History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2012–2013
• Research Assistant in the History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2012
• Postgraduate student at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford (United Kingdom), 2010
• Research fellow in the History of Political Institutions at the Department of Historical Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2008–2009
• Research Assistant in the History of Political Institutions at the Department of Historical Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2005–2006

TEACHING
• Lecturer in the History of the Republic of Venice, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2025–2026
• Lecturer in Mediterranean History (specialist), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2025–2026
• Lecturer in Venetian History (specialist), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2025–2026
• Lecturer in the History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Academic Year 2025–2026
• Lecturer in the History of the Republic of Venice, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2024–2025
• Lecturer in the History of the Mediterranean (specialist), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2024–2025
• Lecturer in Venetian History, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2024–2025
• Lecturer in the History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Academic Year 2024–2025
• Lecturer in the History of the Republic of Venice, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2023–2024
• Lecturer in the History of the Mediterranean (specialist), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2023–2024
• Lecturer in Venetian History (specialist), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2023–2024
• Lecturer in the History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Academic Year 2023–2024
• Lecturer in the History of the Republic of Venice, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2022–2023
• Lecturer in Mediterranean History (specialist), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2022–2023
• Lecturer in the History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2022–2023
• Lecturer in the History of the Republic of Venice, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2021–2022
• Lecturer in Specialised Mediterranean History, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2021–2022
• Lecturer in the History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2021–2022
• Since 1 October 2019, member of the Academic Board of the Inter-university PhD Programme in Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Studies at the University of Padua and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Participation and lecture at the winter teaching week ‘Justice, Judges, the State’ organised by the inter-university PhD programme of the Universities of Trieste and Udine in ‘History of Societies, Institutions and Thought from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era’. Udine, 28 January 2018 – 1 February 2019. Lecture title: Justice, Judges and Judgement in the Lombardy-Veneto region under the ‘Metternich system’ (1815–1848)
• Lecturer in the History of the Republic of Venice, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2020–2021
• Lecturer in the History of the Mediterranean (specialist), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2020–2021
• Lecturer in the History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Academic Year 2020–2021
• Lecturer in the History of the Mediterranean (specialist), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2019–2020
• Lecturer in the History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2019–2020
• Lecturer in the History of the Mediterranean (specialist course), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2018–2019
• Lecturer in the History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2018–2019
• Lecturer in Source Criticism for Modern History (specialist course), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2017–2018
• Lecturer in the History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2017–2018
• Teaching assistant for the course on the History of the Republic of Venice (institutional aspects through interdisciplinary analysis) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, taught by Prof. Claudio Povolo, academic year 2016–2017
• Teaching assistant for the course on History of Political Institutions (comparison between Anglo-Saxon countries and continental European countries) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, taught by Prof. Claudio Povolo, academic year 2016–2017
• Teaching assistant for the course on Advanced History of the Mediterranean (legal anthropology and comparison with non-European contexts) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, taught by Prof. Claudio Povolo, academic year 2015–2016
• Examination invigilator at the Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, under Prof. Claudio Povolo; courses: History of Political Institutions, History of the Republic of Venice, Advanced Venetian History, Advanced Mediterranean History, from 2012 to 2017
• Lecturer on the Level II Master’s programme in ‘History Teaching’, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, November 2008
• Contributed to the blended learning initiative on the website ‘Zanzanù: alle origini del mito. The Story of a Man Who Became an Outlaw (1603–1617)’ (www.websideofhistory.it) as part of the course on the History of Law and Institutions from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era taught by Prof. Claudio Povolo of the Department of Historical Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, April 2008 – June 2008
• Contribution, through the drafting of several teaching resources, to the blended learning initiative on the website ‘The trial for the murder of Giovanni Rama (1831–1833)’ (www.websideofhistory.it) as part of the course on the History of Law and Institutions from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era taught by Prof. Claudio Povolo of the Department of Historical Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, December 2007 – March 2008

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND AFFILIATIONS
• Internal corresponding member of the Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie, from 2019 to present
• Member of the Society for the Study of the History of Institutions, from 2019 to present
• Member of the AISIP (Italian Association for the History of Political Institutions), from 2018 to present
• Associate Researcher at the Joint Research Unit ‘Time, Spaces, Languages, Southern Europe, Mediterranean’ (UMR TELEMME), a research centre of the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (MMSH) and the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I), as well as a unit of the CNRS’s National Institute for the Humanities, from 2012 to present (https://telemme.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/membres/Luca_Rossetto)
• Scientific coordinator of the seminar series ‘Impronte. History of the city and its territory through the research of young scholars’, organised by the City of Venice (Municipality of Marghera) and the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, April–October 2016
• Discussant at the seminar ‘Violence: genesis, control and monopoly’, organised by students on the Master’s programme in History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era at the Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, April 2016
• Member of the Venetian research unit (coordinated by Prof. Stefano Petrungaro) in the project ‘Myths of Legitimation and Government of Difference in the European Imperial Regimes during the Modern and Contemporary Age’ (national coordinator Prof. Teodoro Tagliaferri, University of Naples Federico II; other universities involved: University of Florence, University of Trento, University of Trieste) funded by the Ministry
• Member of the scientific committee for the international conference ‘Witnesses and Testimonies of the Past’, organised by the Centre for Scientific Research at the University of the Littoral in Koper (Slovenia) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2008–2009
• Member of the Venetian research unit (coordinated by Prof. Claudio Povolo) in the project ‘The Administration of Criminal Justice in Lombardy-Veneto’ (national coordinator: Prof. Gigliola di Renzo Villata, University of Milan), funded by the Ministry of Universities, 2005–2007
• Member of the Venetian research unit (coordinated by Prof. Claudio Povolo) on the project ‘Lawyers and criminal proceedings in the Republic of Venice between the 17th and 18th centuries’ (national coordinator: Prof. Antonio Padoa Schioppa, University of Milan), funded by the Ministry of Universities, 2005–2007

MEMBERSHIP OF JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARDS
• From 2020 to 2025, member of the editorial board of the journal ACTA HISTRIAE (national academic journal, ANVUR Area 14, and international journal)
• Since 2020, member of the editorial board of the journal TERRA D’ESTE (national academic journal, ANVUR Area 14)

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
• Winner of the 35th Brunacci/Sigillum Monsilicis Prize for Venetian history, organised by the Municipality of Monselice, the Veneto Region and the University of Padua, for the book *Power and Justice in Radetzky’s Veneto: The Military Commission in Este (1850–1854)*, 2020 (award ceremony November 2021)
• Honourable mention for the book *The District Commissioner in Habsburg Veneto. An Imperial Official between Political Mediation and Social Control (1819–1848) by the jury of the 30th edition of the Brunacci/Sigillum Monsilicis Prize for Venetian History, organised by the Municipality of Monselice, the Province of Padua, the Veneto Region and the University of Padua, 2014
• PhD scholarship at the University of Padua, 2009–2011
• European Union scholarship at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), 2010
• Scholarship for the Study Week ‘Empires after the Empire in 19th-century Europe’, organised by the Trentino Institute of Culture, Centre for Italian-German Historical Studies, Trento, 2005
• Scholarship for the Level II Master’s Degree in ‘History and Comparison of the Political and Legal Institutions of the Countries of Mediterranean Europe’, Messina, Milan, Madrid, Córdoba, 2004

RESEARCH AREAS
• History of political and social institutions
• History of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia and the Habsburg Empire
• History of the Republic of Venice
• History of the Mediterranean

SPEAKER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
• Naples, 7–8 May 2026, ‘The Europe of Empires’, closing event organised with funding from the Project of National Interest (PRIN) ‘Myths of Legitimation and Government of Difference in the European Imperial Regimes during the Modern and Contemporary Age’. Presentation: ‘An Omnipresent Viceroy. Archduke Ranieri in Habsburg Veneto (1818–1848)’

• Venice, September 2024: lectures on the history of the Republic of Venice commissioned by the Ca’ Foscari Challenge School for a delegation from Fudan University (Shanghai) visiting Ca’ Foscari and the city

• Venice, 17 April 2024, ‘Perceptions of Venice. Perspectives, practices and narratives in the modern and contemporary eras’, an event organised with funding from the Project of National Interest (PRIN) ‘Myths of Legitimation and Government of Difference in the European Imperial Regimes during the Modern and Contemporary Age’. Presentation: ‘Historiography and historiographical analysis of the Serenissima’

• Bologna, 16 April 2021, ‘Criminal justice (16th–19th centuries). Procedures and third parties’. Webinar organised by the Society for the Study of the History of Institutions and the journal ‘Le Carte e la Storia’

• Gargnano (Lake Garda, Brescia, Italy), 11–12 October 2019, ‘Territorial Control and Environmental Disasters: From Good Governance to Civil Protection’. International conference organised by the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan and the Inter-university Centre for Studies on ‘Policing and Territorial Control’. Paper: The ‘Asian disease’ in Austrian Veneto between institutional paralysis and emergency measures: the case of the countryside (1835–1837)

• Rome, 20 November 2018, Presentation of the volume ‘Time and Institutions: Essays in Honour of Maria Sofia Corciulo’. International conference organised by the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions. Participation as the author of the essay ‘The Prince’s Justice in a Major Court of the Venetian Mainland: the Praetorian Court of Padua (16th–18th centuries). Historical and Documentary Aspects’

• Gargnano/Tignale (Lake Garda, Brescia, Italy), 26–28 October 2017, ‘Guards and Thieves. Proclamations’

• Venice, 9–10–11 June 2016, International Conference organised by the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, ‘FAIDA. Feud and Blood Feud between Customary Law and Legal Process in Medieval and Early Modern Europe’. Paper: Vendetta and banditry in the second decade of the 17th century: the case of Zuanne Dalle Tavole

• Rome, 18 December 2015, International Seminar organised by the Society for the Study of the History of Institutions, ‘New Horizons in the History of Institutions’. Paper: The Military Commission in Este. Preludes, origins and functioning of a Habsburg judicial institution in post-1648 rural Venetian society

• Pula (Istria, Croatia), 21–22–23 November 2013, International Conference organised by the State Archives of Pula, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, ‘The Istrian Economy: Yesterday and Tomorrow’. Paper: ‘May God preserve the Austrians’ forests’. Two comparative cases from 1849: Montello and Motovun

• Messina, 15–16–17 July 2013, International Seminar organised by the Department of Legal Sciences and History of Institutions at the University of Messina, ‘Towards a survey of “states of exception”’. Emergencies, public order and police forces in Europe: national experiences (17th–20th centuries)’. Paper: Emergencies on the periphery of the Empire: the case of the Military Commission in Este in the Habsburg Veneto after 1848. A research journey

• Koper (Slovenia), 14–15–16 April 2011, International Conference organised by the Centre for Scientific Research at the University of Koper (Slovenia) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice as part of the Italy–Slovenia Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2007–2013, ‘Part Three. Between liturgies of violence and liturgies of peace: mediators, arbitrators, peacemakers and judges’. Paper: The district commissioner: an official of the Empire in the Venetian Provinces (1819–1848)

• Koper (Slovenia), 27–28–29 September 2007, International Conference organised by the Centre for Scientific Research at the University of Koper (Slovenia) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, ‘Interpreters of Cultures’. Paper: ‘One of the Last Evenings of Carnival’ and Habsburg Criminal Justice in the Venetian Territory (1832)

• Alleghe (Belluno, Italy), 20 July 2007, Conference organised by the Veneto Region’s Cross-Border Cooperation Project Unit, ‘The Interreg IV Italy–Austria Operational Programme’. Presentation: ‘Rete’ Italy–Austria Project/Projekt ‘Netz’ Italien–Österreich

• Koper (Slovenia), 23–25 October 2003, International conference organised by the Centre for Scientific Research at the University of Koper (Slovenia) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, ‘Crimes without victims. The victim in the context of criminal proceedings’. Paper: The role of the victim in the context of international criminal justice: some political, social and legal aspects

SPEAKER AT NATIONAL CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
• Webinar, 29 December 2025: ‘The Italian Society for the History of Institutions in conversation with Prof. Ernesto Galli Della Loggia on Italian identity, statehood and/or freedom, religiosity and democracy, education for democracy, schools and universities in Italy’
• Monselice (Padua), 14 November 2021, ‘Power and Justice in Radetzky’s Veneto. The Military Commission in Este (1850–1854)’, presentation of the winning entry of the 35th edition of the Brunacci/Sigillum Monsilicis Prize for Venetian History, organised by the City of Monselice as part of the 35th edition of the ‘Brunacci Prizes’ award ceremony.
• University of Teramo, 12 February 2021, ‘Friday with the Author’, a seminar organised by the PhD programme in Historical Studies from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era at the University of Teramo. Discussion on Luca Rossetto’s book *Power and Justice in Radetzky’s Veneto. The Military Commission in Este (1850–1854)*
• Rome, 18 June 2020, ‘Epidemics, Political Institutions and Emergency Governance’. Webinar organised by AISIP (Italian Association for the History of Political Institutions). Presentation: Cholera in Habsburg Veneto: between institutional deadlock and emergency measures (1835–1837)
• Venice, 27 September 2019, ‘The Austrian Veneto during the Restoration (1815–1848)’. Visit/lecture organised by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice as part of the ‘Venetonight. European Researchers’ Night 2019’ event
• Bologna, 21 June 2019, ‘The Complex Art of Governing States. Reflections on Government’. Debate organised by the Society for the Study of the History of Institutions in collaboration with the publishing house Il Mulino
• Treviso, ‘Duca degli Abruzzi’ High School, 15 February 2019. Lecture as part of the refresher course for teachers of ‘Venetian History’, recognised by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) and organised by the Ferruccio Parri National Institute and the Institute for History
• Venice, 18 October 2018, ‘The Military Commission in Este (1850–1854)’. Conference organised by the Venice State Archives, the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Gabinetto di Lettura in Este. Presentation: The Military Commission in Este: an institutional profile
• Venice, 28 September 2018, ‘Austrian Veneto from the Congress of Vienna to Franz Joseph’. Tour/lecture organised by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice as part of the ‘Venetonight. European Researchers’ Night 2018’ event
• Este, 12 May 2018, ‘Beyond the Border’. Conference organised by the Gabinetto di Lettura in Este, the City of Este and the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Presentation: The Military Commission in Este (1850–1854): aspects and issues
• Venice, 29 September 2017, ‘Austrian Veneto in the judicial documents of the State Archives on the Giudecca’. Visit/lecture organised by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice as part of the ‘Venetonight. European Researchers’ Night 2017’ event
• Bologna, 7 July 2017, ‘Cross-fertilisation, influences, intersections. History of institutions and other sciences’. Debate organised by the Society for the Study of the History of Institutions in collaboration with the publishing house Il Mulino
• Naples–Salerno, 8–9 November 2016, ‘The Risorgimento at War. Armies, armed conflicts and political violence in nineteenth-century Italy’. Research seminar organised by the Department of Humanities at the University of Naples Federico II and the Department of Humanities at the University of Salerno, under the patronage of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History and the Society for the Study of the History of Institutions. Paper: An ‘internal enemy’. Social control and deviance in Habsburg Veneto after 1848: the case of the Military Commission in Este. Aspects and issues
• Padua, 21 October 2016, ‘Initiatives to mark the 150th anniversary of the annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy (1866–2016)’. Study seminar organised by the Department of Political, Legal and International Studies at the University of Padua, the Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie and the Veneto Section of the National Italian Archival Association, ‘Archival and bibliographic sources for a history of the Veneto in the nineteenth century’. Presentation: The historian and judicial sources from Austrian Veneto, Venice,
• 14 October 2016, Seminar series organised by the City of Venice (Municipality of Marghera) and the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, ‘Impronte. History of the city and its territory through the research of young scholars’. Presentation: Feuds, banditry and justice in 17th-century Veneto
• Venice, 2 December 2014, Meeting organised by the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the State Archives of Venice, ‘Towards a history of Habsburg Veneto’. Presentation: From the status quo to the state of exception. Habsburg Veneto from Rainer to Radetzky
• Vicenza, 22 October 2011, Conference organised by the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the State Archives of Vicenza and the Galleries of Palazzo Leoni Montanari (Banca Intesa-San Paolo), ‘Awaiting the Tricolour. Historians recount events, episodes and figures from our history between 1820 and 1866’. Paper: The Imperial Venetian Provinces: a neglected perspective
• Bergamo, 28–29 January 2010, Study Days organised by the Department of Literature, Arts and Multimedia at the University of Bergamo, ‘Forms and experiences of local policing in the pre-unification nineteenth century’. Paper: The district commissioner in the Venetian Provinces: a profile (1819–1848)
• Malo (Vicenza), 10 May 2008, Conference and documentary exhibition organised by the Municipality of Malo, the State Archives of Venice and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, ‘Justice and public order in Lombardy-Venetia (1815–1866)’. Paper: On the periphery of the Empire: an overview of the role of the district commissioner in Lombardy-Venetia (1819–1848)
• Riese Pio X (Treviso), 12 May 2007, Study Day sponsored by the Veneto Region, the Province of Treviso and the Municipality of Riese Pio X, ‘Venice and the State of Terraferma: between history and myth’. Paper: The delegated criminal trials of the Council of Ten. Between the administration of justice and control of the Venetian territory (16th–18th centuries)
• Venice, 28 April 2006, Documentary exhibition organised by the Venice State Archives, ‘Venetian Criminal Justice’. Presentation: Delegated criminal justice in Padua (16th–18th centuries). Historical and documentary aspects


ON SICK LEAVE (right thalamic cerebral haemorrhage) FROM 28 APRIL 2021 TO 3 DECEMBER 2021 (Management Decision No. 2330/2021, Ref. No. 0120755 of 08/11/2021) AND FROM 4 DECEMBER 2021 TO 5 FEBRUARY 2022 (Executive Decision No. 356/2022, Ref. No. 0013160 of 11 February 2022).
Naturally, I have and will continue to have permanent physical impairments (particularly motor impairments).