Konstantina Zanou, Assistant Professor of Italian, Columbia University
'This book breaks new ground between transnational intellectual history, biography and cultural history and even suggests — rather unassumingly — a different way of writing history; it is bound to travel well and will accompany many who delve into the history of the Adriatic Sea'. * Sakis Gekas, H-Soz-u-Kult * ‘To say that this book makes significant contributions to a number of historiographical themes is probably an understatement ... a book that has transgressed a number of scholarly boundaries and that has already become a reference book for the history of the region. This work is useful not just for specialists in the field (and for relevant university courses), but also for all those who want to enhance their knowledge of modern Europe, and of the processes through which the modern world emerged. * Michalis Sotiropoulos, Reviews in History * 'A pioneering contribution to our general understanding of early Mediterranean and European liberalism, patriotism and nation-building; it is also a refreshing methodological renovation of the way to approach history.' * Rolf Petri, History: The Journal of the Historical Association *