John Marino is a professor and the History Department Chair at the University of California, San Diego. He specializes in Early Modern European History, Renaissance and Reformation Europe, the early modern Mediterranean world, Spanish Italy, the city and kingdom of Naples, and the Italian South.

A presentation of the MEMS Lecture Series, co-sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Mediterranean Topographies Interdisciplinary Workship, Center for European Studies, and the Department of the History of Art.