Marco Barducci is a Senior Research Fellow at St Hild & St Bede College, Durham University. After a few years spent teaching and researching at the University of Florence, Marco Barducci has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Luigi Firpo Centre for Research on Political Thought. His research focuses on the exchange and reception of political ideas between England, the Netherlands, and Italy in the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. In 2015, he published a monograph, Order and Conflict: Anthony Ascham and English Political Thought, 1648-50.

"[a] rich book ... [that] adds substantially to the conbversation about Grotius' reception and suggest exciting new directions for scholarship." -- Christopher N. Warren, The Seventeenth Century

"Barducci has delivered a worthy and helpful contribution to the study of Grotius." -- Grotiana 39

"a valuable addition to the evergrowing literature on this important thinker... Barducci discusses his subject with great scholarship and erudition, and he is to be commended for his innovative transnational approach that requires a high level of linguistic skill as well as the command of multiple historiographies." --Grotiana