Mario Rosa (8 May 1932 – 24 December 2022) was an Italian historian.

Life and career

Rosa was born on 8 May 1932. He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Rosa had taught early modern history at the Universities of Lecce, Bari, Pisa, La Sapienza of Rome and finally at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, where he served also as deputy-director and where he was actually ''emeritus''. Rosa also taught as ''professeur invité'' at the

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (, EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The school awards Master and PhD degrees alone and conj ...

in Paris. He was of the

Accademia nazionale dei Lincei The (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed"), anglicised as the Lincean Academy, is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy. Founded in ...

. His research concerned the religious history of the 18th century, the ecclesiastical, cultural and religious history between 16th and 17th centuries, the history of science, academia and libraries. Rosa died on 24 December 2022, at the age of 90.Addio a Mario Rosa, storico ed emerito della Scuola Normale Superiore

Bibliography (selected)

*''Riformatori e ribelli nel '700 religioso italiano'' (Dedalo, 1969). *''Politica e religione nel '700 europeo'' (Sansoni, 1974). *''Religione e società nel Mezzogiorno tra Cinque e Seicento'' (De Donato, 1976). *(a cura di) ''Cattolicesimo e lumi nel Settecento italiano'' (Herder, 1981). *''La Chiesa e gli Stati italiani nell'età dell'assolutismo'', in ''Letteratura Italiana'', I (Einaudi, 1982). *''La Chiesa meridionale nell'età della Controriforma'', in ''Storia d'Italia, Annali'', 9 (Einaudi, 1986). *''La religiosa'', in ''L'uomo barocco'', a cura di R. Villari (Laterza, 1991). *''Settecento religioso. Politica della Ragione e religione del cuore'' (Marsilio, 1999). *''Clero cattolico e società europea nell'età moderna'' (Laterza, 2006). * ''La contrastata ragione. Riforme e religione nell'Italia del Settecento'' (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2009). * ''La curia romana nell'età moderna. Istituzioni, cultura, carriere'' (Viella, 2013). * ''Il giansenismo nell'Italia del Settecento. Dalla riforma della Chiesa alla democrazia rivoluzionaria'' (Carocci, 2014).

References

External links

Mario Rosa webpage on the site of the Scuola Normale Superiore
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosa, Mario 1932 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Italian historians 21st-century Italian historians Italian historians of religion Historians of science Members of the Lincean Academy Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa alumni Academic staff of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Academic staff of the University of Pisa Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome Academic staff of the University of Bari