Don Giovanni Muto
Winner of the V Edition of the Spanish Orders History Award
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Professor Giovanni Muto, is a Neapolitan historian with a long and fruitful teaching and research career. As a professor he has developed his activity mainly at the Universities of Milan and at the Federico II of Naples, of which he was professor since 2001. He has also been a visiting professor and developed numerous specialization courses in a number of Italian, Spanish, French and North American universities
Trained in Economic History, he has not limited himself to the study of this, but has also worked on multiple themes of the Modern Age, having as preferred geographical centers: Naples, Spanish Italy and Spain itself of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
He has thus been interested in the management of the Treasury in Naples, Milan and Sicily; the study of various economic activities in the Italian Mezzogiorno during the Spanish period; social stratification in the Italian regional states of the Modern Age, cultural relations between Naples and Spain; political and military organization in the Kingdom of Naples during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or the categories of Italian political language in the Modern Age.
Among her many awards are the Gran Cruz de Alfonso X el Sabio (1995), Premio Nacional de Historia (2000), and recently the Sophia Award for Excellence, promoted by the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute of New York. Likewise, in 2014 she received the title of Countess of Gisbert, granted by King Juan Carlos I, as “a token of His Royal appreciation for the brilliant and intense academic and teaching work at the service of Spain and the Crown”.He has published 3 books as sole author, and 9 as co-author or scientific editor; 106 chapters in Italian books. Spanish, English, French and German; as well as 20 scientific articles in Italian, Spanish, French or English journals. In addition to many positions and recognitions, he has been president of the prestigious Societá Italiana per lo Studio dell’Etá Moderna (SISEM) (2008-2012), or member of the scientific committee and board of the Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “Francesco Datini” of Prato.
