The American Catholic Historical Association is excited to announce that Margaret Meserve has received the 2022 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History for her book Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome. Meserve is the Glynn Family Honors College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Her book examines the publication of news, information, propaganda, and disinformation in Rome in the first decades after the arrival of print (ca 1470-1527).
The Marraro Prize is awarded annually to recognize the most distinguished work dealing with Italian history or Italo-American history It is named in memory of Howard R. Marraro (1879-1972), a Columbia University professor and the author of more than a dozen books on Italian literature, history, and culture.