Depuis 2018, Paolo Sachet est chargé du cours d’histoire de la Suisse à l’époque moderne à l’Université de Milan. En 2015, il a obtenu son doctorat au Warburg Institut de Londres, avec une thèse intitulée Publishing for the Popes: The Cultural Policy of the Catholic Church Towards Printing in Sixteenth-Century Rome. En 2017, il a remporté la bourse d’excellence FNS pour chercheurs étrangers à l’Institut d’études italiennes de l’Université de Lugano. M. Sachet a également bénéficié de bourses et de prix de recherche pour des brefs séjours dans plusieurs institutions internationales, dont l’IHR et la Firestone Library de Princeton.

Paolo Sachet rejoint l’IHR en tant que post-doctorant Ambizione et il gère le projet The Greek Imprint on Europe: Patristics and Publishing in the Early Swiss Reformation.

 

Domaines de recherche

Époque moderne: histoire intellectuelle et religieuse, en particulier aux XVe-XVIe siècles; histoire du livre et du collectionnisme; histoire de l’Église; histoire de la transmission et de la réception des textes de l’Antiquité (y compris ceux patristiques).

 

Travaux en cours

Projet Ambizione The Greek Imprint on Europe: Patristics and Publishing in the Early Swiss Reformation

Une monographie sur l’utilisation de l’imprimerie par la papauté entre 1555 et 1587 pour Brill Publishers

L'édition de Giovanni Botero, De l'Uffitio del cardinale, pour l’éditeur Viella

 

Dernières publications

Ouvrages

Venice in Blue: The Use of carta azzurra in the Artist’s Studio and in the Printer’s Workshop, ca. 1500–50, ed. by A. McCarthy, L. Moretti, and P. Sachet, Florence 2024.

Alpha Beta: Apprendere il greco in Italia (1360-1860)/Learning Greek in Italy (1360-1860), ed. by G. Della Rocca de Candal, P. Sachet, and M. Zetti, Milan 2023.

Printing and Misprinting: A Companion to Mistakes and In-House Corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450-1650), ed. by G. Della Rocca de Candal, A. Grafton and P. Sachet, Oxford, 2023.

A Press for Rome: The Catholic Church and the Use of Printing in the Sixteenth Century (1527-1555), Leiden and Boston 2020.

The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade, ed. by J. Kraye and P. Sachet, London 2018.

Numéros spéciaux de revues

Context and Paratext: New Insights into the Early Modern Reception of the Greek Fathers, ed. by P. Sachet, Cluster in The Journal of the History of Ideas, LXXXVI/2 [forthcoming]

Bases de données

AGAPE: A Database of Greek Patristic Editions (1460-1600)

Contributions (sélection)

‘The Papacy and Printing (1464-1633)’, in The Cambridge History of the Papacy, III: Civil Society, ed. J. Rollo-Koster, R. A. Ventresca, M. H. Eichbauer, and M. Pattenden, Cambridge 2025, pp. 656-680 [forthcoming].

‘In Between Aldus and Giolito: Venetian Imprints on Blue Paper (1514–1543)’, in Venice in Blue: The Use of carta azzurra in the Artist’s Studio and in the Printer’s Workshop, ca. 1500–50, ed. by A. McCarthy, L. Moretti, and P. Sachet, Florence 2024, pp. 129-151.

‘Towards the Typographia Vaticana: Gregory XIII’s Promotion of Printing’, in Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book: Agents, Networks, Responses, ed. by J. Kiliánczyk-Zięba and M. Komorowska, Leiden and Boston 2024, pp. 17-36.

‘Aldus as Proofreader: The Case of Thesaurus Cornu copiae (1496)’, in Printing and Misprinting: A Companion to Mistakes and In-House Corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450-1650), ed. by G. Della Rocca de Candal, A. Grafton and P. Sachet, Oxford, 2023, pp. 165-197.

‘Le Relazioni universali in tipografia: le prime edizioni romane’, in Un mondo di Relazioni: Giovanni Botero e i saperi nella Roma del Cinquecento, ed. by E. Andretta, R. Descendre and A. Romano, Rome 2021, pp. 219-233.

‘Il lungo Cinquecento europeo: torchi, fedi e grammatiche’, in Competizione e condivisione: la lingua araba e l’editoria come luogo d’incontro dal XVI al XVIII secolo, ed. Aldo Coletto and Marina Zetti, Milan 2021, pp. 23-27 and 61-71.

‘The Rise of the stampatore camerale: Printers and Power in the Early Sixteenth-Century Rome’, in Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800), ed. by J. Cumbie, N. Lamal and H. Helmers, Leiden and Boston 2021, pp. 181-201.

‘Proofreaders’, in Information: A Historical Companion, ed. by A. Blair, P. Duguid, A. Goeing and A. Grafton, Princeton 2021, pp. 709-712.

‘Exploiting Antiquarian Sale Catalogues: A Blueprint for the Study of Sixteenth-Century Books on Blue Paper’, La Bibliofilia, CXXII, 2020, pp. 465-480.

‘In aedibus Populi Romani apud Paulum Manutium: la prima tipografia papale tra limiti attuativi e conflitti istituzionali’, Rivista storica italiana, CXXXII, 1, 2020 (cluster Le lingue nella Roma della prima età moderna. Luoghi e risorse, ed. by E. Andretta, A. Romano and M. A. Visceglia), pp. 181-205.

‘La Chiesa davanti ai Padri: Erasmo, gli umanisti riformati e la patristica cattolica romana tra Rinascimento e Controriforma’, Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa, LIV, 2, 2018, pp. 389-419.

‘Privilege of Rome: The Catholic Church’s Attempt to Control the Printed Legacy of the Council of Trent’, in The Council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond (1545-1700), ed. by V. Soen and W. François, 3 vols,Göttingen 2018, I, pp. 341-369.

‘Selling Aldus in the UK (c. 1630-2015): Towards a Checklist of British Sale Catalogues of Books Published by the Manuzio Family’, in The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade, ed. by J. Kraye and P. Sachet, London 2018, pp. 145-156.

‘“Vivre, pour ainsi dire, au milieu de ces livres”: la collezione aldina di Antoine-Augustin Renouard’, in Aldo Manuzio e la costruzione del mito/Aldus Manutius and the Making of the Myth, ed. by M. Infelise, Venice 2016, pp. 300-310.

‘A Humanist Printer Moves from Venice to Rome: The Curial Patronage of Paolo Manuzio’, in La stampa romana nella Città dei Papi e in Europa, ed. by C. Dondi, A. Rita, A. Roth e M. Venier, Rome 2016, pp. 217-233.

‘Il contratto tra Paolo Manuzio e la Camera apostolica (2 maggio 1561): la creazione della prima stamperia vaticana privilegiata’, La Bibliofilía, CXIV, 2, 2013, pp. 245-261.

‘Gli antichi e i moderni nelle Epistole del 1548 curate da Lodovico Dolce’, Quaderni di ACME, LXIV, 2011, 1, pp. 151-178.