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Anne Maltempi, PhD

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Historian of early modern Sicily focused on cultural and intellectual history/Mediterranean identity/ early modern concepts of race. Editor of H-Sicily. Assistant Professor of History.

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Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Feb 2

Hi everyone! I’m new here. I’m an early modern historian, who focuses on identity formation in multicultural spaces specifically Sicily. If you’re interested in early modern Mediterranean history let me know 😊!!

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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 6d

Crash #oilpainting #art

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 21d

#ReliefWednesday takes us to the town of #Gabii, 18 km east of #Rome, where this splendid #antefix was found. This is #Typhon, vengeful son of Mother Earth and enemy of the #Olympian gods, done in a #Latial style identical to work found from the same period in Rome. #AncientBluesky 🏺

ANTEFIX OF TYPHON, C6 CE. BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN

This spectacular painted terracotta antefix comes from an archaic temple in Gabii, a site 18 km east along the via Prenestina which had been an independent Latial town until it was conquered by the Romans under the last legendary king, Tarquinius Superbus. This antefix was found in a destruction level more or less contemporary with the foundation of the Roman Republic in 509 BCE, so it may be slightly older than the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. It represents the ur-monster Typhon, child of Gaia and Tartarus, utterly terrifying, born to punish the gods for the destruction of the Giants. His numerous progeny included the Sphinx and Cerberus. Here he looks very humanoid, with a black-bearded face, huge bat ears, a hairy torso, and wings.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · Aug 23

For #SarcophagusSaturday, let's have a look at one of the terrific examples of #sarcophagus decoration lining the ground floor of the elaborate palazzo #Mattei di #Giove, reused as #spolia and enclosed in splendid #stucco #frames. #AncientBluesky 🏺

CHILD'S SARCOPHAGUS A LENOS WITH TRIUMPH OF DIONYSUS, C. 200 CE. PALAZZO MATTEI DI GIOVE

This a sarcophagus front, one of many decorating the two entrance passages (androni) from the street to the courtyard of palazzo Mattei di Giove. They were in place by 1606 when their stucco frames, enriched with garlands and the eagle emblem of Asdrubale Mattei's mother, the Habsburg-related Costanza Gonzaga, were made by the master stuccoist Donato Mazzi. This is a small sarcophagus meant for a child, but nonetheless lavishly carved. The setting is a lenos or tub, with curved ends and rather stylised lion heads with rings on their mouths at both ends, implying a tub for crushing grapes to make wine. The scene is one of triumph. At left, Dionysus, having conquered the Indians, is on his way back west, in his chariot pulled by panthers. In the background are two Maenads, one blowing a horn, the other listening ecstatically. At centre is a nude boy, possibly the deceased, on whom a drunken Silenus is leaning as his rides a donkey, aided by another male figure on the side. At right an Eros is talking to a satyr who is holding something and has a comic mask at his feet.

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Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Apr 10

You’re welcome!!

Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Apr 10

Check out my latest podcast interview with @authorgabegarcia.bsky.social

Dr Anne Maltempi: Sicilian & Southern Italian Historian

YouTube video by Gabriel Garcia-The Wandering Scribe

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Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thanks for the great interview Gabriel!!

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Author Gabriel Garcia @authorgabegarcia.bsky.social · Apr 9

My interviews with @timfacciola.bsky.social and @dramaltempi.bsky.social are up on YouTube

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Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Apr 8

Check out my podcast interview from a few weeks ago on Sicilian History #sicily

History Speaks with Anne Maltempi on the Sicilian Renaissance

YouTube video by History Roadshow

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Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Mar 23

Had a wonderful RSA 2025 #Boston #phdlife #confrencing

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Feb 13

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We're celebrating @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social's Humans: A Monstrous History, with comment & insight from @leahredmondchang.bsky.social @carolinepennock.bsky.social @tamaraw.bsky.social @fatricky.bsky.social

19 Feb, 5:30 (UK): www.crowdcast.io/c/monsters-h... #SkyStorians

Book launch: Humans a monstrous history
with Leah Redmond Chang, Surekha Davies, Ricardo Padron, Caroline Dodds Pennock, and Tamara J. Walker

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Feb 10

Police report, Rome, May 1605: Caravaggio arrested for carrying a sword and dagger without a permit on Via del Corso, Rome 🗃️ #earlymodern #arthistory

Detail of an archival document indicating the painter Caravaggio was arrested, including a drawing of a sword and a dagger in the margins

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Feb 9

Em dashes are my go-to writing crutch, thank you very much.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Feb 9

Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · Feb 9

For #SpoliaSunday, a possible relic of the siege of the #mausoleum of #Hadrian in #Rome by the #Goths in 537, a good-sized chunk of #marble crudely shaped into a projectile, and probably in origin part of a piece of the mausoleum's lavish exterior decoration. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

PROJECTILE MADE OF ANCIENT MARBLE, C5-C16. CASTEL S. ANGELO

This medium-sized chunk of Luni marble has notable chisel marks shaping it into a spherical projectile, a crude and unfinished sphere that was found in in late C19 excavations around the Mausoleum of Hadrian, which had already become a fortified bridgehead protecting the pons Aelius during the invasions of the C5. In the Gothic war of 537, Procopius tells us that the statues atop the Mausoleum were broken up and thrown down on the Goth invaders, who used the porticoed street leading from today's piazza Pia westward to Old St Peter's as a cover. This projectile is too rough and irregular to be usable in a cannon, but would work in a ballista or catapult. All sorts of magnificent statuary were found in the C17 when the moat was expanded, including the monumental head of Hadrian now in the Round Hall of the Vatican Museums and the famous Barberini Faun now in Munich.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · Feb 8

Teaching history divorced from the concerns of the present is actually doing a bad job at teaching history.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Feb 7

New issue of the Journal of Semitic Studies Vol. 70, No. 1 (2025) academic.oup.com/jss/issue/70/1 @herbert-haberl.bsky.social

Volume 70 Issue 1 | Journal of Semitic Studies | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the University of Manchester. Publishes items of interest to specialists in the main Semitic languages and in both Biblical and Islamic Studies. Extensive reviews of selected b...

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · Feb 6

So, uh, this is my face. Apparently one should mark one’s calendar.

If you were coming to this, what would you want to hear about my book? (I’ll be writing the talk this weekend).

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Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Feb 6

Congratulations 👏🏼

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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · Feb 5

I'm pleased to announce that Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970, edited by Karène Sanchez-Summerer, @rachelmairs.bsky.social, Lucia Admiraal and me, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, is now available open access from www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Colonial Vocabularies

Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior...

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Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Feb 6

Looking back at my first academic publication…I think this is still one of the pieces I had the most fun writing. I can’t believe it has already been four years #Sicily #writing #mediterranean #academicwriting

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Feb 6

2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text

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Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Feb 5

È l’unica soluzione 😅

Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Feb 5

I completely relate!

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Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Feb 5

This looks fascinating!!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Feb 5

“In centuries past the very rich were tolerated with suspicion, because their wealth could be deployed – during a plague, a war or a financial crisis – to stabilise society. The modern super-rich are different…”

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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West by Guido Alfani

Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social · Feb 5

With all the insanity happening in the world, how have I become this engrossed in the Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni drama? #distractions #drama #shouldbewriting