Hélène Soldini

Hélène Soldini is currently Associate Professor in Italian Studies at the Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin and affiliated at the research center IHRIM (Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités – UMR 5317). She earned her postgraduate degree in Italian Studies at the Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. In 2014 she received her PhD in History at the European Univerity Institute (Fiesole, Firenze) with a dissertation on « Donato Giannotti. Une biographie d’un républicain florentin du XVIe siècle ». After being recruited at the Université Lyon 3 in 2017, she has been working as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Languages from 2020 to 2024. For the academic year 2024-2025, she benefits from a « delegation CNRS » for her research project entitled « Rome dans la pensée républicaine florentine en exil ». Her research focuses on the history of florentine political thought, with a special interest in the republican fuorusciti who were forced to flee to Venice, Rome or Lyon after 1530. She aims at sudying the development of republican thought after the collapse of republican government, by studying the material history of political and historical books (be they manuscript or printed books). Her current research project focuses on the Roman period of Donato Giannotti in order to highlight the reading of the newly discovered treatise « Della Republica ecclesiastica » (a cura di W.J. Connell, Einaudi, 2023).