Publications

Books (Monographs)

• Anti-democracy in England 1570-1642 (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/anti-democracy-in-england-1570-1642-9780192866097?facet_narrowbypubdate_facet=Next%203%20months&lang=en&cc=gb

• Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the Patriotic Monarch : Patriarchalism in Seventeenth-Century Political Thought (Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012). In Paperback August 2015. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719099182/ 

Books (Edited Volumes)

• Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought, co-edited with Laszlo Kontler and Clara Maier (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2021). https://brill.com/view/title/60415 

• Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603-1689, co-edited with Markku Peltonen (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2019). https://brill.com/abstract/title/39376 

• Patriarchal Moments : Reading Patriarchal Texts, co-edited with Gaby Mahlberg (London : Bloomsbury, 2016). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/patriarchal-moments-9781472589156/ 

• Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe, co-edited with Glenn Burgess (London : Pickering & Chatto/Routledge, 2012). https://www.routledge.com/Monarchism-and-Absolutism-in-Early-Modern-Europe-1st-Edition/Cuttica/p/book/9781138664531 

Peer-Reviewed Articles 

• ‘"The History of Political Thought Above All" : A Portrait of Johann P. Sommerville (1953-)’, Hobbes Studies, 35:1 (2022), pp. 7-22.

• ‘Archaeologist, Coroner, Detective, Lawyer, Translator or What ? The (Intellectual) Historian, Cultural Criticism, Audiences and the Painterly Eye’, Global Intellectual History, 6:5 (2021), pp. 573-591.

• ‘Popularity in Early Modern England (ca. 1580-1642) : Looking Again at Thing and Concept’, Journal of British Studies, 58:1 (2019), pp. 1-27.

• ‘The Intellectual Historian as Critic : Reflections on the Work of Stefan Collini’, Modern Intellectual History, 16:1 (2019), pp. 251-280.

• ‘Eavesdropper on the Past : John W. Burrow (1935-2009), Intellectual History and its Future’, History of European Ideas, 40:7(2014), pp. 905-924.

• ‘Anti-Methodology Par Excellence : Richard Cobb (1917-1996) and History Writing’, European Review of History, 21:1 (2014), pp. 91-110.

• ‘The English Regicide and Patriarchalism : Representing Commonwealth Ideology and Practice in the Early 1650s’, Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, 36:2 (2013), pp. 127-160.

• ‘To Use or Not to Use... The Intellectual Historian and the Isms : A Survey and a Proposal’, Etudes Epistémè, 13 (2013), Varia, http://episteme.revues.org/268 

• ‘A Thing or Two about Absolutism and its Historiography’, History of European Ideas, 39:2 (2013), pp. 287-300.

• ‘What Type of Historian ? Conceptual History and the History of Concepts : a Complex Legacy and a Recent Contribution’, History and Theory, 51:3 (2012), pp. 411-422.

• ‘Reputation Versus Context in the Interpretation of Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha’, History of Political Thought, 33:2 (2012), pp. 231-257.

• ‘Concepts in Life : Reflections on Writing History’, Books and Ideas, January (2012). ISSN : 2114-074X. URL : http://www.booksandideas.net/Concepts-in-Life-Reflections-on.html 

• ‘Anti-Jesuit Patriotic Absolutism : Robert Filmer and French Ideas (ca.1580-1630)’, Renaissance Studies, 25:4 (2011), pp. 559-579.

• ‘Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the Condescension of Posterity : Historiographical Interpretations’, Intellectual History Review, 21:2 (2011), pp. 195-208.

• ‘A Complex Journey through the British Isles’, History of European Ideas, 35:4 (2009), pp. 495-502.

• ‘Thomas Scott of Canterbury (1566-1635) : Patriot, Civic Radical, Puritan’, History of European Ideas, 34:4 (2008), pp. 475-489.

• ‘Kentish Cousins at Odds : Filmer’s Patriarcha and Thomas Scott’s Defence of Freeborn Englishmen’, History of Political Thought, 28:4 (2007), pp. 599-616.

• ‘Sir Francis Kynaston : The Importance of the “Nation” for a Seventeenth-Century English Royalist’, History of European Ideas, 32:2 (2006), pp. 139-161.

• ‘L’Idea di Europa. La Difficile Definizione di un Concetto Sfuggente’, Il Politico, 206:2 (2004), pp. 375-390.

• ‘Un Intellettuale Moderno : John Selden’, Il Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana, 23:2 (2003), pp. 298-314.

• ‘Riflessioni Inaspettate. Robert Filmer, Vertuous Wife e Caccia alle Streghe’, Annali della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, 35:1 (2001), pp. 101-145.

Book Chapters and Essays

• ‘Anti-Democracy in Early Modern Europe’, in Markku Peltonen and Sophie Smith (eds), The Cambridge History of Democracy, Volume 2 : The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026), pp. tba

• ‘Divine Right in Early Modern Political Thought’, in Andrew Fitzmaurice and Rachel Hammersley (eds), The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 3 : The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025), pp. 164-187. 

• ‘Algernon Sidney and the Complex Issue of Democracy. Republican Citizens Versus Democratic Multitudes in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Thomas Ashby and Christopher Hamel (eds), Le Républicanisme d’Algernon Sidney (Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2025), pp. 151-173.

• ‘Intellectual Historians and Their Sources: Many Questions and Some Answers’, in Juliette Bourdin and Brigitte Félix (eds), Retour aux sources: quels matériaux et quelles pistes pour la recherche?, Les Cahiers de TransCrit, 1:1 (2025), pp. tba, HAL

• ‘Introduction’, in Cesare Cuttica and Laszlo Kontler, with Clara Maier (eds), Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2021), pp. 1-22.

• ‘Democracy and Crisis in the 1640s in England : The Ochlocratic Moment’, in Cesare Cuttica and Laszlo Kontler, with Clara Maier (eds), Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2021), pp. 106-126.

• ‘Democrazia e oclocrazia in Inghilterra alla Metà del Seicento’ [orig. : ’Democracy and Ochlocracy in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England’], in Giuseppe Cospito and Emilio Mazza (eds), Nell’Officina dei Lumi. Studi in onore di Gianni Francioni [In the Enlightenment’s Workshop. Essays in Honour of Gianni Francioni] (Como-Pavia : Ibis, 2021), pp. 23-41.

• ‘Introduction. "Gone Missing" : Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Seventeenth-Century England’ (co-authored with Markku Peltonen), in Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen (eds), Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603-1689 (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2019), pp. 1-17.

• ‘The Spectre Haunting Early Seventeenth-Century England (ca. 1603-1649) : Democracy at its Worst’, in Cesare Cuttica and Markku Peltonen (eds), Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603-1689 (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2019), pp. 132-151.

• ‘"No Trust, No Happiness" ! Going Beyond Locke in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Laszlo Kontler and Mark Somos (eds), Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2018), pp. 320-344.

• ‘Análise da "Pior Forma de Governo" no Início da Inglaterra Moderna : A Democracia Entre a Popularidade, o Radicalismo Religioso e o Inculto Homo Democraticus’ [orig. : ’Analysing "the Worst Form of Government" in Early Modern England : Democracy between Popularity, Religious Radicalism and Uncouth Homo Democraticus’], in E. Becker, M. de. St. A. A. Primo and Saulo H. S. Silva (eds), Moral, Ciência e História no Pensamento Moderno [Ethics, Science and History in Modern Thought] (São Cristóvão (Brazil) : Editora UFS, 2018), pp. 11-54.

• ‘Tyrannicide and Political Authority in the Long Sixteenth Century’, in Henrik Lagerlund and Benjamin Hill (eds), Routledge Companion to Sixteenth-Century Philosophy (New York and London : Routledge, 2017), pp. 265-292.

• ‘Filmer, Sir Robert’, in Marco Sgarbi (ed.), Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy (Dordrecht : Springer, 2021) (published online in February 2017 : http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_487-1, pp. 1-3).

• ‘Introduction’ (co-authored with Gaby Mahlberg), in Cesare Cuttica and Gaby Mahlberg (eds), Patriarchal Moments : Reading Patriarchal Texts (London : Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 1-8.

• ‘Filmer’s Patriarcha (1680) : Absolute Power, Political Patriarchalism and Patriotic Language’, in Cesare Cuttica and Gaby Mahlberg (eds), Patriarchal Moments : Reading Patriarchal Texts (London : Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 65-72.

• ‘Intellectual History in the Modern University’, in Richard Whatmore and Brian Young (eds), A Companion to Intellectual History (Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), pp. 36-47.

• ‘Absolutism, History of’, in James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, vol. 1 (Oxford : Elsevier, 2015), pp. 6-11.

• ‘Intellectual History’, in James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2^nd edition, vol. 12 (Oxford : Elsevier, 2015), pp. 255-261.

• ‘Isms and History’, in James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2^nd edition, vol. 12 (Oxford : Elsevier, 2015), pp. 759-764.

• ‘Anti-republican cries under Cromwell : the vehement attacks of Robert Filmer against republican practice and republican theory in the early 1650s’, in Dirk Wiemann and Gaby Mahlberg (eds), Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism (Farnham : Ashgate, 2014), pp. 35-51.

• ‘Introduction’ (co-authored with Glenn Burgess), in Cesare Cuttica and Glenn Burgess (eds), Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe (London : Pickering & Chatto/Routledge, 2012), pp. 1-17.

• ‘An Absolutist Trio in the Early 1630s : Sir Robert Filmer, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Cardin Le Bret and their models of monarchical power’, in Cesare Cuttica and Glenn Burgess (eds), Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe (London : Pickering & Chatto/Routledge, 2012), pp. 131-145.

• ‘Il Primato della Politica : Algernon Sidney Commonwealthman’, in Fiorella De Michelis Pintacuda and Gianni Francioni (eds), Ideali Repubblicani in Età Moderna (Pisa : ETS, 2002), pp. 145-160.

Non-Peer-Reviewed Articles

• ’A Strong Antidote Against the Jesuitical Disease : Le Tocsin’, Omslag. Bulletin van de Universiteitbibliotheek Leiden en het Instituut, 1 (2007), pp. 10-11.

Book Reviews (Selected)

• Hobbes Studies, 36:2 (2023), pp. 244-251, review of Christopher Holman, Hobbes and the Democratic Imaginary (Albany : SUNY Press, 2022 ; 319 pp.).

• The American Historical Review, 120:3 (2015), pp. 1119-1120, review of Ronald G. Asch, Sacral Kingship between Disenchantment and Re-Enchantment : The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688 (New York : Berghahn Books, Studies in British and Imperial History, 2014 ; 278 pp).

• Renaissance Quarterly, 64:2 (2011), pp. 642-644, review of Stefania Tutino, Empire of Souls : Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth (Oxford : OUP, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, 2010 ; 404 pp).

• History of European Ideas, 32:1 (2006), pp. 120-127, review of Belinda Roberts Peters, Marriage in Seventeenth-Century English Political Thought (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 ; 243 pp).

Translations and Editorial Work

• Translation from English into Italian of and full editorial work for Eleonora Montuschi, Oggettività e Scienze Sociali (Rome : Carocci Editore, 2006 ; 160 pp).