Bringing together experts on Roman history, the history of classical scholarship, and the history of international law, this book analyzes the context, making, and impact of the great Italian Renaissance scholar Carlo Sigonio (1522/3-84) and his reconstruction of the Roman colonial model.

Jeremia Pelgrom is an assistant professor at Groningen University. His research focuses on Roman Republican colonialism and Italian landscape archaeology. He has co-directed two research projects funded by the Dutch research council (NWO): Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization (with Tesse D. Stek) and Mapping the via Appia (with Stephan Mols and Eric Moormann), and he is co-editor of Roman Republican Colonization. New perspectives from Archaeology and Ancient History (2014).
Arthur Weststeijn is a research fellow at the University of Padua. He specializes in intellectual history and the history of political thought, with a particular focus on early-modern republicanism and imperialism. He is the author of Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age (2012) and co-editor of Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination (2017) and The Dutch Empire between Ideas and Practice, 1600-2000 (2019).

• 1: Jeremia Pelgrom and Arthur Weststeijn: Introduction: Settler Colonies Between Roman Colonial Utopia and Modern Colonial Practice


• 2: William Stenhouse: Roman Colonies and the Distribution of Land before Sigonio


• 3: John Rich: The Mommsen of the Renaissance: Sigonio, the De antiquo iure populi Romani, and Roman Republican Colonization


• 4: Mark Somos: Sigonio in Anglo-American Projects to Reform the Imperial Constitution, 1751-1777


• 5: Mattia Balbo: Roman Colonization and Land Division between Enlightenment and Romanticism: Beaufort and Niebuhr


• 6: Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi: Roman Colonization in Twentieth-Century Historiography


• 7: Christopher Smith: Epilogue: Reflections on the Past and Future of the Roman Colonial Discourse