MAIFREDA GERMANO

Germano Maifreda (last update March 2026)

Postal address:
Università degli Studi di Milano
Dipartimento di Studi Storici
Via Festa del Perdono, 7 - I 20122 Milan (Italy)
Phone: +39 (2) 50312438
germano.maifreda@unimi.it

CURRICULUM VITAE


Tenured academic positions
(April 2016-present) Professor, Economic History, University of Milan
(Oct. 2011-March 2016) Associate Professor, Economic History, University of Milan
(Jan. 2004-Sept. 2011) Assistant Professor, Economic History, University of Milan


Non-Tenured positions
2023-2026 Associated Researcher, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Mediterranean Europe History (ISEM)
2008-2011 Adjunct Professor, University of Rome3, Italy
2001-2003 Adjunct Professor, University of Milan
1998-2006 Adjunct Professor, IULM University, Milan
1996-1998 Instructor, Franco Momigliano Institute for Business History and Culture, Terni, Italy

Education
Ph.D., Economic History, Department of Economics, University of Verona, Italy (1999)
B.A. (Hons), History & Literature, 110/110 cum laude, University of Milan (1994)

Scholarships
Postdoctoral research fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Verona, Italy (1999-2001)

Academic teaching at universities of Milan, Rome3, and IULM (undergraduate and graduate)
‘Economic History’, ‘Early Modern Economic and Social History’, ‘Political Economy’, ‘History of Economic Thought’, ‘Business History and Archives’, ‘Business History and Organization’, ‘Industrial History’. ‘History Didactics’ in Teacher Profession Development programs.

Non-Academic teaching
2025 Leadership learning program for Michelin’s CEO and Executive committee
2000-2007 Executive education at ENI Corporate University, Rome, Italy
2000-2001 Executive education at Ferrovie dello Stato [Italian State Railways], Italy

Short Visiting Appointments
Sept.-Oct. 2017 New York University, Department of Italian Studies
Sept.-Dec. 2016 University of Cambridge, Faculty of History

Languages Ottima conoscenza della lingua inglese, sia parlata sia scritta.




List of publications

Books


(with Massimo Firpo) At the Origins of the Counter-Reformation: Giovanni Morone. Politics, Heresy, and the Church in Sixteenth Century Italy, 2 vols. (Brill, Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700 Series, forthcoming). Revisited edition of L’eretico che salvò la Chiesa: Il cardinale Giovanni Morone e le origini della Controriforma (Turin: Einaudi, 2019).
Reviews: Avvenire, June 21, 2019; Corriere della Sera, Aug. 5, 2019; La Voce di Parma, Oct. 1, 2019; Sixteenth Century Journal 52. 4 (2020); Annali dell’Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico/RecensioniOnLine III.2, 2020; L’Indice dei libri del mese 1.2020; Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 100 (2020); La Provincia di Como, Jan 16, 2020; book discussion by four scholars in Riforma e Movimenti Religiosi 7 (2020); Società e Storia 170 (2020); Storicamente 15-16 (2019-20); book discussion by four scholars in Storia in Lombardia 1 (2020); Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, 83 (2021).

La memoria restituita: Storie di imprenditori e dirigenti ebrei nell’Italia delle leggi razziali (Milan: IlSole24Ore, 2026).
Reviews: IlSole24Ore, Jan 23, 2026; TheSocialPost.it, Jan 25, 2026.

Sono una strega: Confessioni del sabba nel passato europeo (Turin: Einaudi, 2025); a Russian edition of the book is uder contract with AST Publishing.
Reviews: Avvenire, Nov. 15, 2025; Il Manifesto, Nov. 16, 2025; L’Indice dei libri del mese, Jan. 2026; Query, Dec. 2025; La Provincia di Como, Feb. 4, 2026.

The Trial of Giordano Bruno (New York-London, Routledge-Routledge Research in Early Modern History 2022, open access 2025). English revised edition of Io dirò la verità: Il processo a Giordano Bruno (Rome: Laterza, 2018).
Reviews: La Repubblica, Oct. 28, 2018; Il Mattino, Nov. 11, 2018; Corriere della Sera, Oct. 5, 2020; Renaissance Quarterly, 1 (2024).

Immagini contese: Storia politica delle figure dal Rinascimento alla cancel culture (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2022).
Reviews: Corriere della Sera, Jan. 18 and April 4, 2022; La Stampa, Jan. 22, 2022; Huffingtonpost.it, Jan 22, 2022; L’Essenziale, Jan. 29, 2022; Il Giornale, Feb. 6, 2022; Domani, Feb. 16, 2022; Il Foglio, Feb. 16 and 19, 2022; Moked, Feb. 22 and March 1st, 2022; Avvenire, April 5, 2022; Repubblica, April 8, 2022; Alessandria Oggi, April 12, 2022; La provincia di Como, May 7, 2022; Doppiozero May 9, 2022; Prometeo, June 2022.

L'organizzazione del lavoro: Dalla rivoluzione industriale allo smart working (Milan: Pearson, 2022).

Italya: Storie di ebrei, storia italiana (Rome-Bari: Laterza, 2021).
Reviews: Moked, May 11, 2021; Avvenire, May 21, 2021; Il Gazzettino, June 10, 2021; Shalom, June 16, 2021; IlSole24Ore, Aug. 22, 2021; La Provincia di Como, Sept. 17, 2021; Journal of Jewish Identities 15.2 (2022); Studi storici 3 (2022); Storia urbana 172 (2023).

Un capitalismo per tutti: La Montedison di Mario Schimberni e il sogno di una Public company (Milan: Guerini, 2018).
Reviews: Repubblica, May 8, 2018; Corriere della Sera, June 9, 2018; MilanoFinanza, Oct. 10, 2018; Il Sussidiario.net, Oct. 10, 2018; Il Giorno, Il Piccolo e Il Giornale di Sicilia, Oct. 14, 2018; IlSole24Ore, Oct. 28, 2018.

The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era London-New York, Routledge: 2017; pbk ed. 2019; Routledge Research in Early Modern History Series. Revisited edition of I denari dell’inquisitore. Affari e giustizia di fede nell’Italia moderna (Turin: Einaudi, 2014).
Reviews: Corriere della Sera, Feb. 18, 2014; Il Mattino, March 14, 2014; Il Venerdì di Repubblica, March 14, 2014; L’Unione Sarda, April 2, 2014; La Sicilia, April 8, 2014; Libero, May 22, 2014; Giornale di Brescia, Oct. 22, 2014; L’Indice dei libri del mese, 19(2014); Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, 37.3 (2014); Storicamente, 10 (2014); Journal of European Economic History, 1-2(2014); Quaderni eretici/Cahiers hérétiques, 2(2014); Historia magistra. Rivista di storia critica, 15 (2014); Bollettino della Società di studi valdesi 215 (2014); Studi storici Luigi Simeoni, 65 (2015); Revue dhistoire ecclésiastique, 1-2 (2015).

Giordano Bruno e Celestino da Verona: un incontro fatale (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2016).
Reviews: La Stampa, Jan. 9, 2017; IlSole24Ore, May 7, 2017; L’Avvenire, May 21, 2017; Bruniana & Campanelliana 1(2018).

From Oikonomia to Political Economy: Constructing Economic Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution. Farnham Uk-Burlington Vt: Ashgate, 2012. Expanded and revisited edition of L’economia e la scienza: Il rinnovamento della cultura economica tra Cinque e Seicento (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 2010).
Reviews: IlSole24Ore, Oct. 5, 2010; Il pensiero economico italiano, XIX 1 (2011); EconomicHistory.net, July 25, 2013; Itinerario. International Journal of the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, 37(2013); Sixteenth Century Journal 44.3 (2013); Intellectual History Review 23.4 (2013); British Journal for the History of Science 1 (2014); Renaissance Quarterly 67.1 (2014); Economic History Review 67.2 (2014); Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 4 (2014); The Historian, 2 (2015).

La disciplina del lavoro: Operai, macchine e fabbriche nella storia italiana (Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2007; pbk ed. 2010) (a reprint was distributed in 2008 by the daily newspaper Il Giornale as a gift to readers).

(with G. Pizzorni, F. Ricciardi), Lavoro e società nella Milano del Novecento (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2006).

Rappresentanze rurali e proprietà contadina: il caso veronese tra Sei e Settecento (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2002).

Governo e rappresentanza degli interessi: Angelo Villa Pernice (1827-1892) (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2001).

Gli ebrei e l’economia milanese: l’Ottocento. Milan (FrancoAngeli, 2000; 2nd edn 2001).


Edited/Co-edited volumes and Special issues of Academic Journals

Cultures of Exchange: Mercantile Mentalities between Italy and the World (XII-XVI c.), co-ed. with S. Barsella, W. Caferro (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Toronto Italian Studies) forthcoming. Publication date: May 2026.
Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond, co-ed. with B. Dov Cooperman and S. Di Nepi (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2025), Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series.
Am Ha-sefer - Il popolo del libro. Lettori e bibliofili nell’Italia ebraica tra il XVII e il XX secolo, co-ed. with D. Disegni (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 2025).
(with S. Di Nepi) special issue Storia degli ebrei e storia d’Italia in età moderna, Rivista storica italiana, 1 (2024).
Storia del lavoro in Italia, editorship of the 5th volume (L’Ottocento. Tradizione e modernità) (Rome: Castelvecchi, 2018).
Politica, società e cultura in Italia tra Risorgimento ed età liberale. Studi in onore di Maria Luisa Betri, special issue of Storia in Lombardia 1-2 (2017) (with E. Scarpellini).
“Mercanti, eresia, Inquisizione,” special issue of Storia economica, 1 (2014).
L’Italia del Piaggio (Milan: Nexo, 2012) (with M. Canella).
Comunità di destino. Parole per Giulio Sapelli (Milan: Guerini e associati, 2012) (with P. Alferj).
Mario Morasso, Il nuovo aspetto meccanico del mondo [1907], reprint (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2010).
Il Clubino nella Casa degli Omenoni (Milan: Lucini, 2008) (with M. Canella).
Narrare la formazione. Grande impresa e sindacato (Milan: Guerini, 2005) (with S. Roncaglia).
Giannino Bassetti. L’imprenditore raccontato (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2004) (with R. Garruccio).
“Minoranze imprenditoriali in Italia tra Sette e Ottocento,” special issue of Archivi e imprese 16 (1997) (with R. Garruccio and C. Martignone).


Articles/Book Chapters

“Beyond Poor Relief: Workhouses in Early Modern Catholic Europe, and the Case of Italy.” In Early Modern Christianity, Economic Entrepreneurship, and Social Welfare, eds. W. Decock, W. François (Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht - Refo500 Academic Studies Series), accepted.
(with D. Preite, G. Brunazzi, F. Castelli and E. Borgonovic) “Resilience Through Legitimacy: Prudent Accounting and Governance Continuity of an Italian bank in the Long Run (1891–1972),” Accounting History Review, accepted.
“Collective Trauma and the Destruction of Antisemitic Painting in Early Modern Italy.” In Nonextant Art and the Early Modern World, eds. D.E. Katz, D. Odell, Penn State University Press, under peer review.
““Get out and mind your own business.” Evidence and Nonevidence on Jewish Women’s Agency in an (Infamous) Inquisitorial Trial (Trent, 1475-76).” In Cultures of Exchange: Mercantile Mentalities between Italy and the World (XII-XVI c.), eds. S. Barsella, W. Caferro, G. Maifreda (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2026), pp. 324-345.
(with S. Barsella, W. Caferro) “Introduction.” In Cultures of Exchange: Mercantile Mentalities between Italy and the World (XII-XVI c.), eds. S. Barsella, W. Caferro, G. Maifreda (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2026), pp. xi-xx.
“The Neophyte as Informant: Inquisitors, Money, and Christian Interpretations of Hebrew Texts in Counter-Reformation Italy.” In Inquisitions and Money (13th-19th century), eds. I. Bueno, V. Lavenia, R. Parmeggiani (Rome: Viella 2025), pp. 227-46.
“Jewish and Catholic Marriages in Early Modern Italy: Affinities, Differences, Interactions”, Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento/Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient, special number Jewish and Christian Marriages in Early Modern Europe. Rituals, Rights, and Interrelations, eds. F. Alfieri, S. Di Nepi, 51 (2025): 115-33.
“Building the Italian Nation-State: Jewish Bankers, Politicians, and the Use of the Past in the Age of Emancipation.” In Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond, eds. B. Dov Cooperman, S. Di Nepi, G. Maifreda (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2025), pp. 250-73.
(with B. Dov Cooperman, S. Di Nepi), “Introduction.” In Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond, eds. B. Dov Cooperman, S. Di Nepi, G. Maifreda (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2025), pp. 1-10.
“Jews, ‘Economy’, and the Law in the Works of Vittore Colorni.” In V. Colorni, Jewish Law and Italian Local Laws: From the Roman Age to the 19th Century (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2025), pp. XXV-XXXVII.
“Spatialising (and Visualising) Social Diversities. Ghettoes, Synagogues and Fraternal Societies in Early Modern Jewish-Christian Relations: the Case of Papal States,” Il capitale culturale. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 19 (2025): 55-77.
“«Senza dire cos’alcuna, li lasciai fare il loro interesse». Relazioni sessuali tra uomini nel ghetto di Ancona (XVIII secolo),” Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, 2 (2025): 235-60.
(with M. Firpo), “Una vita all’ombra del Sant’Ufficio.” In Il pontificato di Pio V. Visione e azione per la riforma della Chiesa, ed. S. Tessaglia (Rome: Viella, 2025), pp. 31-48.
“Gli ebrei d’Italia: storie e luoghi di una presenza millenaria.” In Viaggio in Italia. Alla scoperta del patrimonio culturale ebraico, eds. V. Rainoldi, S. Reichel (Milan: Cimorelli, 2025), pp. 20-35.
(with D. Disegni), “Introduzione.” In Am Ha-sefer - Il popolo del libro. Lettori e bibliofili nell’Italia ebraica tra il XVII e il XX secolo, eds. D. Disegni, G. Maifreda (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 2025), pp. VII-XXIII.
“Un antidoto ‘all’individualismo dell’oggi’. A centoquarant’anni dalla nascita della Lega nazionale delle cooperative e mutue (Milano, 1886),” Archivio storico lombardo 151 (2025): 287-316.
“Un innovatore della storia dell’ebraismo: Vittore Colorni tra diritto, politica ed economia,” Archivio storico lombardo 151 (2025): 381-95.
“Cercare la misura in epoca di morte.” In Le finzioni alla prova, eds. Martino Ruggero Dondi, Ginevra Salvaggio (Milan: Mimesis, 2025), pp. 59-72.
“Why do Jews Resort to Christians? Two Cases of Intra-Jewish “Ethnic” Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Italy.” In The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry: Religious, Cultural, and Social Identities, eds. M. Borýsek, D. Liberatoscioli (Boston-Berlin: de Gruyter, European-Jewish Studies Series, 2024), pp. 221-37.
“Beyond the Ghetto: Marina Caffiero on Italian Jewry,” Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 205 (2024), pp. 151-64.
“Chi è principale, chi è agente? Informazione e reputazione in una controversia mercantile ebraico-cristiana (Stato pontificio, XVIII secolo)”, Rivista di Storia del cristianesimo, 21.2 (2024): 325-46.
(with D. Preite, F. De Matteis, F. Striani, B.M. Crivelli, G. Brunazzi) “Le politiche a sostegno dell’impresa in prospettiva storica e il caso di Monza-Brianza (2011-2019)”, Storia in Lombardia, 2 (2024): 60-84.
(with D. Preite, F. De Matteis, F. Striani, B.M. Crivelli, G. Brunazzi) “L’ecosistema imprenditoriale di Monza e Brianza all’inizio del XXI secolo: una Ratio Analysis del territorio”, Storia in Lombardia, 1 (2024): 1-35.
“La storia degli ebrei è storia italiana”, Studi veneziani, 89-90 (2024): 575-84.
“Prima del ghetto. Nuove prospettive sugli ebrei a Venezia” (with A. Barzazi), Studi veneziani, 89-90 (2024): 573-74.
“Introduzione” (with S. Di Nepi), special issue Storia degli ebrei e storia d’Italia in età moderna, Rivista storica italiana, 1 (2024): 177-87.
“Immagini non esistenti. Un caso di elaborazione sociale del trauma nella Mantova del Seicento”, Visual History 10 (2024): 49-64.
“La preferenza per il primitivo. Cosa sospinge la civiltà occidentale a inseguire spesso il mito iconografico dell’arcaico e dell’ingenuo?” Prometeo. Rivistra trimestrale di scienze e storia, 163 (2023): 128-30.
“Religious Freedom and Institutions in Pre-Modern Markets: is Italy’s Case a Guide?” In Merchant Cultures: A Global Approach to Exchange, Trade and Business, eds. C. Antunes and F. Bethencourt (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2022), pp. 301-44.
Book review, Alessia Fontanella, L’espulsione e il ritorno degli ebrei a Mantova nel 1630 (Giuntina, 2023), Materia giudaica, 28 (2022): 434-36.
“Il ritorno di Martin Guerre.” Prometeo. Rivistra trimestrale di scienze e storia 157 (2021): 113-15.
“Los familiares ‘formales’ e ‘informales’ del Santo Oficio italiano: aspectos económicos (siglos XVI-XVIII).” Estudis. Revista de Historia Moderna, 47 (2021): 343-62.
Book review, Peter Garnsey, Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria (Princeton UP, 2020), Eighteenth-Century Studies, 55.1 (2021): 116-18.
Book discussion, Francesca Trivellato, The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society (Princeton UP, 2019), Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 18 (2020), https://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/discussion-by-germano-maifreda/
Book discussion, Tamar Herzog, A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millennia (Harvard UP, 2018) (in Italian), Studia Historica. Historia Moderna, 43.1 (2021): 431-35.
“Explorations on Infra-Economy: Transgressing Bureaucratic Order in Premodern Popular Cultures.” In Wissensoikonomien. Ordnung und Transgression vormoderner Kulturen, eds. N. Pissis, N. Schmidt, G. Uhlmann (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021), pp. 259-74.
“Roman Inquisition and Christian Representations of Jewish Economic Activity.” In L’Inquisizione e gli ebrei. Nuove ricerche, ed. M. Caffiero (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 2021), pp. 33-48.
“Vicenza: le inquietudini religiose.” In La fabbrica del Rinascimento. Processi creative, mercato e produzione a Vicenza, eds. G. Beltramini, D. Gasparotto, M. Vinco (Venice: Marsilio, 2021), pp. 95-105.
“Mercati, istituzioni, cosmopolitismo tra età moderna e prima contemporaneità: qualche lezione dalla storia degli ebrei.” In Borghesie nazionali, borghesie cosmopolite. Banca privata, finanza, reti (Italia, secoli XVIII-XX), eds. G. Gregorini, M. Romani, Milano, FrancoAngli, 2021, pp. 112-19.
“Diversi tra i diversi”, Prometeo. Rivistra trimestrale di scienze e storia 156 (2021): 92-7.
“Nascita di una scienza sociale: dalla fisiologia all’«economia»”. In La lunga ombra del Settecento. Nuove prospettive sul secolo dei lumi, ed. M. Maione (Aprilia: Aracne, 2020), pp. 207-35.
“Il commercio, ‘base potentissima dell’heresia’: libertà religiosa, inquisizione e provincializzazione dell’economia italiana in epoca moderna.” In La Riforma protestante a Vicenza e nel dominio veneto, eds. E. Franzina, M. Nardello (Vicenza: Accademia Olimpica, 2019), pp. 81-107.
“Lo strano caso delle lapidi abrase nel cimitero ebraico del Cardeto: Inquisitori, vescovi, neofiti ad Ancona del primo Seicento.” L’Inquisizione romana e i suoi archivi. A vent'anni dall’apertura dell’ACDF, ed. A. Cifres, (Rome: Gangemi, 2019), pp. 167–76.
“La panificazione e i prezzi del pane a Milano tra Otto e Novecento.” In Le vie del cibo: Italia settentrionale (secc. XV-XX), eds. M. Cavallera, S. Conca Messina and A.B. Raviola (Rome: Carocci, 2019), pp. 191-221.
“Reading Il Caffè: Scientific Method and Economic Knowledge in the ‘School of Milan’,” Mediterranea, 43 (2018): 275-300.
“L’organizzazione del lavoro industriale.” In Storia del lavoro in Italia, vol. 5, L’Ottocento. Tradizione e modernità, ed. G. Maifreda (Rome: Castelvecchi, 2018), pp. 35-68.
“Introduzione.” In Storia del lavoro in Italia, vol. 5, L’Ottocento. Tradizione e modernità, ed. G. Maifreda (Rome: Castelvecchi, 2018), pp. 7-11.
“Immigrants: Asset or Threat? Foreigners, Property and the Right of Escheat in Enlightenment Milan,” Eighteenth-Century Life, 41.2 (2017): 122-38.
(with B. Crivelli) “Seeking ‘Forbidden Books’: Religious Courts and International Trade in the 17th Century Port of Lisbon.” In Homo est minor mundus. Construção de Saberes e Relações Diplomáticas. Itália e Portugal (sécs. XVI-XVIII), eds. N. Alessandrini, M. Russo, G. Sabatini (Lisbon: Fábrica da Igreja Italiana de Nossa Senhora do Loreto), 2017, pp. 85-103.
“The ‘Economic’ Thought of the Renaissance.” In The Routledge History of the Renaissance, ed. W. Caferro (London-New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 13-29.
“Storia degli ebrei, storia economica, storia generale. Alcune riflessioni sulle ‘minoranze in affari’.” In Storia economica e storia degli ebrei. Istituzioni, capitale sociale e stereotipi (secc.XV-XVIII), ed. M. Romani (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2017), pp. 117-23.
Symposium “Dove va la storia economica?” with essays by G. Alfani, G. Béaur, L. Bértola, G. Federico, G. Maifreda, J. Rodríguez Weber, and G. Sabatini, Contemporanea 3 (2017): 457-90.
“Religione, istituzioni, cambiamento economico.” Storia economica, 20.2 (2017): 453-467.
“Settecento globalizzatore? Culture economiche versus politiche della cittadinanza nella Lombardia delle riforme,” Cheiron, special issue L’economia come cultura. Dinamiche e contaminazioni tra Castiglia e Lombardia asburgica, eds. G. De Luca and G. Sabatini, 1 (2016): 119-54.
(with Massimo Firpo), “Vivere (e morire) da cardinale. L’‘Inventario’ dell’eredità e la sepoltura del cardinale Giovanni Morone (1580-81),” Rivista storica italiana 1 (2016): 5-54.
“L’economia del perdono.” In Giubilei. Spiritualità, storia, cultura, ed. L. Massidda (Turin: Utet, 2016), pp. 173-85.
“Storia degli ebrei e storia d’Italia,” Società e storia 161 (2016): 137-44.
“The Jews: Institutions, Economy, and Society.” In A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Milan. The Distinctive Features of an Italian State, ed. A. Gamberini (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015), pp. 376-401.
“Prima e dopo la peste. Caduta demografica e piccola proprietà fondiaria nelle campagne veronesi del XVII secolo.” In “Moia la carestia”. La scarsità alimentare in epoca preindustriale, eds. M.L. Ferrari and M. Vaquero Piñeiro (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2015), pp. 283-322.
“Struttura economica e risorse finanziarie della Congregazione del Sant’Officio e dei tribunali periferici dell’Inquisizione romana (Cinque-Settecento).” In Ad ultimos usque terrarum terminos in fide propaganda. Roma fra promozione e difesa della fede in età moderna, eds. M. Ghilardi, G. Sabatini, M. Sanfilippo, D. Strangio (Rome: Sette città, 2014), pp. 21-49.
“Prefazione” and “Sant’Officio e mercatura nell’Italia moderna: questioni generali e problemi aperti,” Storia economica, 1 (2014): 7-13, 15-41.
“Giuseppe Toniolo e l’Associazione internazionale per la protezione legale dei lavoratori.” In Giuseppe Toniolo. L’uomo come fine, ed. A. Carera (Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2014), pp. 371-90.
“La costruzione del sapere economico in età preindustriale,” Studi storici Luigi Simeoni, 64 (2014): 41-45.
“La feudalità lombarda in età spagnola: recenti studi di storia economica,” Studi storici Luigi Simeoni, 63 (2013): 75-86.
“Oltre ‘gli agenti multicolori del passato’. L’Eca e la cooperazione agricola tra Otto e Novecento.” In Il paese dell’acqua. Il Luoghi Pii Elemosinieri di Milano e le loro terre: un itinerario nel paesaggio dal Medioevo ai nostri giorni, eds. L. Aiello, M. Bascapé, S. Rebora (Milan: Nodo libri, 2013), pp. 404-17.
“Non solo pneumatici. Prime ricerche sulla produzione cavi Pirelli (1879-1979).” In Studi in memoria di Tommaso Fanfani, eds. A. Bianchi, G. Conti, D. Manetti, V. Pinchera, vol. 2 (Pisa: Fondazione Piaggio-Pacini, 2013), pp. 513-28.
“Tre lettere inedite del duca Marzio Carafa al Sant’Officio (1572-1578).” In I Carafa di Maddaloni e la feudalità napoletana nel Mezzogiorno spagnolo, eds. F. Dandolo and G. Sabatini (Caserta: Edizioni Saletta dell’Uva, 2013), pp. 187-95.
“Vespucci, Columbus, Galileo: Discussing Values between Geographic Exploration and Scientific Revolution.” In Growing in the Shadow of an Empire. How Spanish Colonialism Affected Economic Development in Europe and in the World (XVIth-XVIIIth cc.), eds. G. De Luca and G. Sabatini (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2012), pp. 95-113.
“L’arte assente. Gli inventari di Scipione Balsamo (1578).” In Squarci d’interni. Inventari per il Rinascimento milanese, ed. E. Rossetti (Milan: Scalpendi, 2012), pp. 155-64.
“Crescita e diversificazione del gruppo Piaggio.” In L”Italia del Piaggio, eds. G. Maifreda and M. Canella (Milan: Nexo, 2012), pp. 187-235.
“‘L’armonia delle infinite funzioni governanti la vita’. Epistemologia e pratiche alla nascita della medicina del lavoro italiana.” In La città scientifica, ed. P. Redondi (Milan: Guerini, 2012), pp. 235-57.
“Per una genealogia dello spazio di fabbrica: Milano negli anni dell’Unità.” In Architettura a Milano negli anni dell’Unità. La trasformazione della città, il restauro dei monumenti, ed. M. Grandi (Milan: Libraccio editore, 2012), pp. 21-35.
“Società e strutture organizzative: un caso di Antico regime.” In Comunità di destino. Parole per Giulio Sapelli, eds. G. Maifreda and P. Alferj (Milan: Guerini, 2012), pp. 83-8.
“I filmati AEM: l’autorappresentazione di una grande impresa municipale.” In Cinema elettrico. I film dell’archivio AEM (1928-1962), eds. G. Canova and G. Bursi (Milan: Rizzoli, 2011), pp. 43-53.
“Intermediari bancari e società civile (1861-1913).” In Le banche e l’Italia. Crescita economica e società civile 1861-2011, ed. L. Conte (Rome: Bancaria editrice, 2011), pp. 27-61.
“Libertà e controllo. La disciplina ottocentesca dello spazio di fabbrica tra costruzioni giuridiche e regolamenti interni.” In La polizia del lavoro: il definirsi di un ambito di controllo, ed. L. Antonielli (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2011), pp. 117-36.
“Un’Inquisizione diffusa. Sant’Uffizio, confische e stime nel Cinquecento Milanese,” Quaderni storici, special issue “Questioni di stima,” eds. Michela Barbot, Jean-François Chauvard, Luca Mocarelli, 45.135 (2010): 779-824.
“I beni dello straniero. Albinaggio, cittadinanza e diritti di proprietà nel Ducato di Milano (1535-1796),” Società e storia, 129 (2010): 489-530.
“Prefazione.” In Mario Morasso, Il nuovo aspetto meccanico del mondo, 1907 (Milan: Lampi di stampa, 2010), pp. VII-XXVIII.
“Estimi, fiscalità e istituzioni in Terraferma veneta tra Cinque e Seicento. Considerazioni a partire dal caso Veronese.” In Ricchezza, valore, proprietà in età preindustriale (1400-1850), eds. G. Alfani and M. Barbot (Venice: Marsilio, 2009), pp. 77-100.
“Un ‘diritto non meno strano che barbaro’. Aspetti e temi del dibattito sull'albinaggio nell'Italia dell'Ottocento,” Storia economica, 1-2 (2009): 215-30.
“Espressione orale e sacralità. Giannino Bassetti tra cultura imprenditoriale e azione sociale.” In Opere sociali e responsabilità d’impresa. Casi e temi nel Novecento, ed. A. Carera, (Milan: Vita e pensiero, 2009), pp. 129-70.
“Gli imprenditori al Clubino.” In Il Clubino nella Casa degli Omenoni, eds. G. Maifreda and M. Canella (Milan: Lucini libri, 2008), pp. 197-230.
(with M. Canella) “Un caso di sociabilità d'élite nella Milano del Novecento: il Clubino,” Storia in Lombardia, 3 (2008): 121-43.
“Lavoro e fabbrica nella Milano del XX secolo.” In G. Maifreda, G. Pizzorni, F. Ricciardi, Lavoro e società nella Milano del Novecento (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2006), pp. 23-166.
“Progettare la formazione tra industria e sindacato.” In Narrare la formazione. Grande impresa e sindacato, eds. G. Maifreda and S. Roncaglia (Milan: Guerini, 2005), pp. 15-33.
“La proprietà ecclesiastica nella Repubblica di Venezia.” In Confische e sviluppo capitalistico. I grandi patrimoni del clero regolare in età moderna in Europa e nel continente americano, ed. F. Landi (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2004), pp. 55-72.
“L’imprenditore raccontato.” In Giannino Bassetti. L’imprenditore raccontato, eds. R. Garruccio and G. Maifreda (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2004), pp. 33-142.
“Aspetti economici della legislazione antiebraica italiana nel quadro delle legislazioni europee.” In Antisemitismo in Europa negli anni Trenta. Legislazioni a confronto, eds. A. Capelli and R. Broggini (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2001), pp. 261-88.
“Negozianti e banchieri nella Milano della Restaurazione: una fonte classificatoria,” Storia in Lombardia, 1 (2001): 131-43.
“Fiscalità diretta e rappresentanza territoriale nel Veronese tra Seicento e metà Settecento,” Studi storici Luigi Simeoni, 50 (2000): 125-99.
“Storia del lavoro e storia dell’impresa: una bibliografia di Duccio Bigazzi,” Imprese e storia, 22 (2000): 367-72.
“Banchieri e Risorgimento. I carteggi come fonte per la storia della banca.” In «Dolce dono graditissimo». La lettera privata dal Settecento al Novecento, eds. M.L. Betri and D. Maldini Chiarito (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2000), pp. 369-95.
“Sombart, Kuznets, Mosse. La storiografia dei comportamenti economici ebraici in età novecentesca.” In Minoranze e culture imprenditoriali. Cile e Italia (secoli XIX e XX), eds. F. Bonelli and M.R. Stabili (Rome: Carocci, 2000), pp. 167-94.
“‘Far tesori per ignote vie’. Credito privato e proprietà fondiarie degli ebrei milanesi nell’Ottocento,” Storia economica, 2 (1999): 239-307.
“Comportamenti economici degli ebrei a Milano tra la fine del Ducato e l’età napoleonica,” Studi storici Luigi Simeoni, XLIX (1999): 127-69.
“La riaggregazione della Comunità israelitica di Milano 1945-1953,” Storia in Lombardia, 2-3 (1998): 619-42.
“Networks and Economic Behaviour of the Milanese Jews in the Nineteenth Century,” European Yearbook of Business History, 1 (1998): 93-118.
“Enrico Guastalla candidato liberale. Codici retorici e idealità in una campagna elettorale di fine Ottocento,” in Almanacco. Rassegna di studi storici e di ricerche sulla società contemporanea, 28 (1997): 55-76.
“La formazione di un rapporto fiduciario: Francesco Crispi e la Banca Weill-Schott,” Archivi e imprese, 16 (1997): 283-331.
“Credito e agricoltura. La Banca agricola milanese e la cultura agraria tra Otto e Novecento.” In La Banca agricola milanese (1874-1997), ed. G. Piluso (Milan: Banca agricola milanese, 1997), pp. 75-104.
“Banchieri ebrei e patrimoni ebraici nella Milano ottocentesca.” In Storie di imprenditori, ed. D. Bigazzi (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1996), pp. 95-156.
“La Rubrica degli Israeliti dell’Archivio storico civico del Comune di Milano,” Rassegna mensile di Israel, LX, 3 (1993): 24-66.


History schoolbooks and Teaching resources

World History textbook for High school (grades 10/12) Discutere la storia, 3 vols (Feltrinelli: 2026), (with History teacher’s handbook).
World History textbook for Middle school (grades 6/8) Siamo storia, 3 vols (Feltrinelli: 2026) (with History teacher’s handbook).
World History textbook for High school (grades 8/10) Alexandros (with I. Tamponi) 2 vols (Feltrinelli: 2024) (with History teacher’s handbook).
World History textbook for Middle school (grades 6/8) La storia in discussione, 3 vols (Feltrinelli: 2024) (with History teacher’s handbook).
World History textbook for High school (grades 10/12) Liberastoria, 3 vols (Feltrinelli: 2023) (with History teacher’s handbook).
World History textbook for High school (grades 10/12) La storia contesa, 3 vols (Feltrinelli: 2022) (with History teacher’s handbook).
World History textbook for Middle school (grades 6/8) Gli anni della nostra storia, 3 vols (Feltrinelli: 2022) (with History teacher’s handbook).
World History textbook for High school (grades 10/12) Tempi moderni: Storia, cultura, immaginario, 3 vols (Pearson Education: 2012) (with History teacher’s handbook).


Encyclopaedia entries, Occasional pieces, Newspaper articles, and Short commentaries

“Il capitalismo degli influencer, dalla lotta di classe alla class action,” liminarivista.it, Febr. 2, 2024.
“La censura sulle opere d’arte non colpisce la creazione quanto chi la esprime”, Domani, Febr. 16, 2022.
Entry “Economics, Renaissance,” in M. Sgarbi, ed., Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy (Cham: Springer, 2021).
Entry “Villa Pernice, Angelo,” in Dizionario biografico degli italiani vol. 99 (Rome: Istituto per l’Encliclopedia italiana, 2020).
Entries “Giulio Belinzaghi,” “Borghi, famiglia,” in Dizionario biografico degli imprenditori italiani (Rome: Istituto per l'Enciclopedia Italiana, forthcoming).
“The Economic Dividend and Cost of Being a Religious Minority,” www.religiousfreedomandbusiness.org, May 14, 2015: https://religiousfreedomandbusiness.org/2/post/2015/05/the-economic-dividend-and-cost-of-being-a-religious-minority.html
Τραγωδία. Viaggio nella Grecia del miracolo, ebook, goware editions: 2012.
“Merito e meritocrazia,” Impresa e Stato, 90 (2010-11): 110-14.
“Il lavoro.” In T. Fanfani (ed.), Storia economica (Milan: McGraw-Hill, 2010), pp. 289-334.
“Senza limiti. On Joyce Appleby’s The Relentless Revolution. A History of Capitalism,” Equilibri, 2 (2010): 376-82.
“Risorse comuni: un percorso di lettura,” Dialoghi internazionali, 14 (2010): 109-15.
“La Milano liberale e le reti della scienza,” Dialoghi internazionali, 12 (2009): 53-7.
“Dualismi e identità nella storia del mare italiano,” Società e storia, 126 (2009): 676-78.
“Milano. Imprenditori e sociabilità,” Dialoghi internazionali, 8 (2008): 76-85.
“Autodisciplina mercantile e cultura occidentale,” Impresa e Stato, 85 (2008): 5-8.
“Argento e oro,” Equilibri, special issue Diversità culturale, ed. Giulio Sapelli, 3 (2007): 379-92.
“Un tono familiare,” symposium “Quando le Business Schools smarriscono la strada,” Itinerari d’impresa. Management, diritto, formazione, 11 (2006-2007): 119-23.
“Consumi, impresa, società,” Itinerari d’impresa. Management, diritto, formazione, 10 (2006): 15-23.
“Le culture del vedere. Idee di antropologia visuale,” Itinerari d'impresa. Management, diritto, formazione, 6 (2005): 91-100.
“Il lavoro tra impresa e storia: rassegna di studi recenti,” Itinerari d'impresa. Management, diritto, formazione, 3 (2004): 303-12.
“Le risorse umane: recenti studi italiani,” Itinerari d’impresa. Management, diritto, formazione, 1 (2003): 281-2.
“Studiare le culture: nuovi libri,” Itinerari d’impresa. Management, diritto, formazione, 1 (2003): 227-37.
Entries “Ettore Conti,” “Bassetti,” “Bernocchi,” “Crespi,” “Falck,” “Feltrinelli,” “Frua De Angeli,” “Hintermann,” “Marelli,” “Mondadori,” “Moratti,” “Pirelli,” “Rizzoli,” “Zucchi.” In La città borghese. Milano 1880-1968, eds. M. Negri and S. Rebora (Milan: Skira, 2002), pp. 159-181.
Entries “Ermenegildo Castiglioni,” “Aron Vita Finzi,” “Pietro Gonzales,” “Rosa Susani Carpi.” In Il tesoro dei poveri. Il patrimonio artistico delle Istituzioni pubbliche di assistenza e beneficenza (ex Eca) di Milano, eds. M.C. Bascapè, P.M. Galimberti, S. Rebora (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2001), pp. 228-229, 232-234, 345-346, 361-362.
“Prestito senza usura. Il caso della famiglia Vitali,” Magazine Bipielle, 4 (2002): 81–3.
“L’Archivio dell’Atisa,” Archivi e imprese, 13 (1996): 196-202.

Leadership and participation in research projects, track-record of securing research funding, grants, and exhibitions

2023-25 Principal investigator, project Spatializing Jews and the Economy. Towards A Digital and Dynamic Atlas: People, Business, Artifacts in Global Italy (14th-20th centuries) funded by the competitive funding PRIN-National Public Interest Research Programmes, Italian Ministry of the University and Scientific Research; Prot. 2022EHLWYE. Euros 223,822.
2023-26 Associated Researcher, project History of the Mediterranean and its extra-European Projections: Politics, Culture, Society, Identity, and Borders (DUS.AD011.009), conducted at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Mediterranean Europe History.
2025 Consultant, project Between Rich and Poor: A Financial Incursion into the Prisoners of the Inquisition of Évora (Portugal, 16th-19th centuries), submitted to the Portuguese National Agency for Science, P.I. Bruno Alexandre Mareca Lopes, Universidade de Évora.
2023- Member of the research and consultancy group (“Gruppo di lavoro in tema di ebraismo”) of the Ministry of Education for the development of educational programs and textbooks concerning Judaism and religious diversity.
2021-22 Local partner, 4EU+ Educational project Jewish Identities in Changing Europe: Challenges, Problems and the Burden of the Past, Universities of Copenhagen, Heidelberg, Milan, and Warsaw. Total amount Euros 42,363; local amount Euros 12,462.
2020-23 Attraction of an endowed three-year post-doctoral fellowship in Economic history named for Pier Franco Bertazzini, funded by Centro studi Liberi nell’Agorà, Monza (Italy). Euros 79,000.
2017-20 Principal investigator, project The Long History of Anti-Semitism. Jews in Europe and the Mediterranean (X-XXI centuries): Socio-Economic Practices and Cultural Processes of Coexistence between Discrimination and Integration, Persecution and Conversion, funded by the competitive funding PRIN-National Public Interest Research Programmes, Italian Ministry of the University and Scientific Research; Prot. 2015NA5XLZ. Euros 216,200.
2019-21 Member of advisory committee, exhibition Behind the Scenes of the Renaissance. Making Art in the Venetian Terraferma (1550-1616), The Frick Collection New York/J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles/Palladio Museum Vicenza, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza (Italy), Dec. 2021-April 2022.
2014-15 External collaborator, research group Intermediate Groups in the Portuguese Dominions: the ‘Familiares’ of the Holy Office (c. 1570 -1773) of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal). P.I. Fernanda Olival, Universidad de Évora, Portugal.
2013-16 Associated investigator, project Maritime Borders in the Mediterranean: What Permeability? Exchanges, Control, Rejections (XVIth-XXIst century), funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and University (FIRB 2012, project code RBFR12GBQZ), P.I. Valentina Favarò.
2012-13 External collaborator, research group ECORA-History of Economic Rationality, funded by the Velux Foundation, University of Aarhus (Denmark).
2012-13 Associated investigator, project The Land of Water: Landscapes and the Real Estate Possessions of Poverty Relief Charities in Lombardy from the Middle Ages, funded by the Azienda di Servizi alla Persona Golgi-Redaelli, Milan, Italy.
2010-11 Co-head (with M. Canella) and investigator, project Transporting Italian Diaspora: Piaggio Corp. from Shipbuilding to Product Differentiation (1875-1975), funded by Maria Piaggio Casarsa Foundation-Carlo and Giuseppe Piaggio Foundation.
2010-11 Associated investigator, project Electric Cinema: Industrial Videos and the Self-Representation of a Municipal Electric Corporation (1910-2010), funded by AEM (Milan Municipal Electric Corporation).
2008-10 Associated investigator, project Birth of a Scientific Community: Institutions, Individuals, and Ideals in Milan 1863-1963, P.I. Pietro Redondi, funded by Cariplo Fondation.
2007-09 Associated investigator, project Professions and Power in Early Modern and Modern Italy, P.I. Maria Malatesta, funded by the competitive funding PRIN-National Public Interest Research Programmes, Italian Ministry of the University and Scientific Research.
2008-09 Head and Principal investigator, research program Cultural Diversities funded by ENI Enrico Mattei Foundation.
2007-08 Associated investigator, project Labour Management and Organization in the Italian Food Industry: Barilla, P.I. Giulio Sapelli, funded by Barilla Food Corp.
2007-08 Associated investigator, project Cooperative Housing in Twentieth Century Italy: the Cooperativa Muratori e Braccianti of Carpi 1904-2004, P.I. Giulio Sapelli, funded by CMB.
2006-07 Co-head (with M. Canella) and investigator, project Bourgeois Sociability, Entrepreneurs, and Distinction in Twentieth-Century Milan: the Clubino (1901-2010), funded by Il Clubino.
2004 Co-head (with S. Roncaglia) and principal investigator, project Corporate Education and Big Business in Post-War Italy, funded by Ferrovie dello Stato [Italian State Railways].
1996 Principal investigator, project Heating and Air Conditioning in Post-War Italy: History of Atisa Corp., funded by the Milan Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

These projects’ outputs (many of which have gathered, exploited and/or reorganized unpublished corporate archives, and oral history interviews) have been published or disseminated in Italian books, edited volumes, articles, book chapters, occasional pieces or unpublished technical reports.


Direction of scientific institutions
2021-today Member, Scientific committee of the Biblioteca nazionale dell’ebraismo italiano “Tullia Zevi”, Rome, Italy.
2016-today Member, Scientific committee of the International Institute of Economic History «Francesco Datini», Prato, Italy
2016-19 President, Board of directors of the Biblioteca Raffaele Mattioli per la storia del pensiero economico [Raffaele Mattioli Library for the History of Economic Thought], Milan, Italy
2015-2023 Member, Scientific commettee of the Fondazione Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea [Foundation Center for Contemporary Jewish History], Milan, Italy
2015-today Member, Scientific commettee of the Biblioteca dell’Associazione bancaria italiana «Stefano Siglienti» [Library of the Italian Banking Association «Stefano Siglienti»], Rome, Italy
2014-16 Vice director of the Department of History, University of Milan, Italy
2013-today Member, Scientific commettee of the Fondazione Ugo Spirito e Renzo De Felice, Rome, Italy
2013-2016 Member, Board of directors of the Biblioteca Raffaele Mattioli per la storia del pensiero economico, Milan, Italy
2013-today Member, Scientific commettee of the Fondazione Mansutti per la storia delle assicurazioni [Mansutti Foundation for the History of Insurance], Milan, Italy

Creation and direction of open-acces digital tools
2022-26 Principal investigator for the historical atlas IN-ITALJA (Interrelations in Italian Jewry Atlas). Around 30,000 records available (also in Linked Open Data form) by March 2026: https://in-italja.org/
University and department service at University of Milan (selection)
2017-19 President of the Commission for Student Involvement (Department of History)
2018-19 Member, Search committee, Associate professor position in Economic History
2017-19 Member, Board of guarantors and Fellowship committees in eight post-doctoral research fellowships, departments of Philosophy, History and International Studies
2016 Member, Internal promotion committee
2014-17 Member, Executive committee, Department of History
2013-14 Responsible for the local implementation of the national assessment of university system (Department of History)
2013 Teaching to foreign students at the International School of Italian Language and Culture.
2012-15 Member, Admission boards and Final examination committee for Teacher Profession Development programs
2011-12 Member, Admission boards
2008-12 Member, Executive committee, Department of History

Ph.D. and Post-doc advising
2024-today Member of Steering committee, Ph.D. program “of national interest” in Religious Studies, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
2014-today Member of Steering committee, Ph.D. program in History, University of Milan.

- Primary advisor of Erico Saad Campos (History) The Terra brasilis between private property, public good and collective resource: an ethnographic reading of jurisdictional sources (17th-19th century) (In Italian; co-tutor Prof. Claudia Damasceno Fonseca, École del hautes études in sciences sociales, Paris, in progress).

- Primary advisor of Saverio Colacicco (History), The Enforcement of the Italian Racial Laws by National Interest Banks (1938-1945) (In Italian; co-tutor Prof. Gianluca Podestà, University of Parma, in progress).

- Primary advisor of Federico Castelli (History), Trade Financing, and Sanctions: A Multy-Layered Analysis of Banca Commerciale Italiana’s Branches in London and New York 1912-1941 (co-tutor Prof. Stefano Ugolini, Université Toulouse1 Capitole, 2021-25). I was also member of the Ph.D. Dissertation committee.
- Primary advisor of Gianmaria Brunazzi (History), The Rise of Atlantic Markets and the Development of Modern Capitalism: a Study of the Economic and Social Effects of Long-Distance Trade on XVIII Century European Manufacturing (in Italian; co-tutors Prof.s Jean-Yves Grenier and Jérôme Bourdieu, EHESS-CRH, Paris; 2018-21).

2025 Pre-examiner, Pd.D. thesis discussed at the Università Roma Tre, Program Storia, territorio e patrimonio culturale.
2021-2024 Tutor, three-year post-doctoral fellowship, Gianmaria Brunazzi (Economic History), The Monza-Brianza Local Production System: a Historical Perspective, University of Milan, Department of Historical Studies.
2021 Pre-examiner and Member of the Ph.D. Dissertation committee, University of Bologna/École pratique des haute études, Paris, doctoral program in Jewish Studies.
2016-22 Directeur and member of the jury the thèse of a Ph.D dissertation conducted at the Université de Genève, Doctorat en Sciences de la société, mention Histoire écononomique et sociale (Lorenzo Avellino, “Sous le vocable mal compris de la Liberté”: travail, qualité et vols dans les soieries lombardes, 1780-1860, co-directeur Prof. Mary O’ Sullivan).
2016 Member of Ph.D. Dissertation committee, New York University, Department of Italian Studies (Nicola Lucchi, Assembling Modernity: Modern Italy and the Fiat Lingotto Factory, advisor Ara H. Merjian).
2014-18 Tutor, four-year post-doctoral fellowship, Roberto Cea (History), Policies of Public Health and Production Sites in XIXth and XXth Centuries Italy.
2014-15 Pre-examiner and Member of the Ph.D. Dissertation committee, Aalto Universiy (Helsinki, Finland), School of Business, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (Jürgen Poesche, Legitimization of Science and Technology From the French Pragmatic Sociology and the Annales School to Complex and Recursive Recombination, advisor Timo Myllyntaus).
2014-15 Referring professor, fellowship (History Didactics) for high-school teachers The Great Transformation 1914-1918 funded by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, Milan, Italy.
2011-13 Member of Steering committee, Ph.D. School Humanae Litterae, University of Milan, Italy.
2008-11 Primary Ph.D advisor, program in Business History and Management, University of Milan:
- Veronica Ronchi, Integral Cooperation: History Of 'El Hogar Obrero', Avant-Garde of the Argentina Social Economy (1905-2005) (in Italian);
- Roberto Garberi, A History of Costruzioni Aeronautiche Giovanni Agusta. Firm, Technologies and Organization in the Italian Helicopter Production (1908-1975) (in Italian).

Search and promotion committees (2008-today)
Member in Search and Internal tenured promotion committees:
- Full professor position in Economic History, University of Parma;
- Associate professor positions in Economic History, Universities “Gabriele d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara; Università per Stranieri di Perugia; Università degli Studi di Milano (two positions).
- Assistant professor position in Economic History, University of Pisa.

Service to the profession
2026 External evaluator, Scientific Label awarded by the Franco-Italian University
2026 External evaluator, UK government's Metascience Unit and the University of Sussex
2023-today Member of editorial board, Annali Queriniani
2022 External evaluator, Fondazione Cariplo
2021 External evaluator, European Reasearch Council
2019-today Member of scientific committee, Rivista Storica Italiana
2019 External evaluator, Czech Science Foundation
2016-today Member of editorial board, Journal of European Economic History
2016-today Member of editorial Advisory Board, Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History
2016-today Member of editorial board, The «Francesto Datini» International Institute of Economic History book series, Firenze University Press
2016-today Member of editorial board, Giornale di Storia
2012-today Member of editorial board, Studi Storici Luigi Simeoni
2010-today Member of editorial board, Storia Economica
2009-today Member of editorial board, Società e Storia
2008-today Member of editorial board, Storia in Lombardia
2003-2007 Member of editorial board, Itinerari d’impresa. Management, diritto, formazione
1996-2001 Member of editorial board, Archivi e Imprese (later Imprese e Storia)
I have refereed manuscripts and papers for academic journals (among which Annales HSS, Business History, Journal of Early Modern History, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Contemporary Jewry) and publishers (among which Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Bloomsbury Publishing, Brill, Einaudi).
Press mentions and interviews
TV, Radio, social media: Rai3 Quante storie: Febr. 8, 2022; RaiStoria Scritto, detto, letto: Feb. 21, 2026; Rai Radio1, Babele: Dec. 12, 2021; Rai Radio1, Zapping: Jan. 21, 2022; Rai Radio3, Fahrenheit: April 22, 2021, Feb. 14, 2022, Nov. 13, 2025; Rai Radio3, Pagina3: Nov. 18, 2025; La7 Faccia a Faccia May 27, 2018; Radio Raheem Triennale: Jan. 27, 2022; Radio Popolare: Febr. 2, 2022; RSI Radio Svizzera 2, Geronimo Storia: Febr. 7, 2022; Quattrocolonne radio, Jan 26, 2026; YouTube Collegio Ghislieri (Pavia): Il Papa che fondò il Ghislieri - Pio V e la storia, rel. Dec. 2, 2022; France 3 documentary Méditerranée: Mer en péril? directed by Julien Meynet, rel. Jan. 18, 2023; docufilm La buona crescita. 200 anni di Cariplo, rel. March 16, 2024; podcast Internazionale - Il mondo, rel. Nov 8, 2025; podcast IlSole24Ore - La memoria restituita, rel. Jan 27, 2026; podcast Intervista a Germano Maifreda, Shalom-Radio radicale, March 27, 2026.
Newspapers and Magazines: Corriere della Sera: Jan. 18, 2026; June 3, 2024; May 25, 2023; June 9, 2018; Feb. 20, 2017; Oct. 21, 2016; Nov. 22, 2013; May 18, 2009; La Repubblica: May 28, 2021; May 7, 2018; Aug. 26, 2015; Nov. 2, 2013; Avvenire: Jan 30, 2026, June 28, 2014; Il Sole24Ore: Jan 25, 2026; May 26, 2019; May 7, 2016; Messaggero veneto: Nov. 23, 2018; Nov. 26, 2018; L’Eco di Bergamo, Feb. 14, 2025; Oct. 24, 2019; La Voce di Parma, Oct. 1, 2019; La Voce di New York, March 20, 2025; Ytali.com: Jan. 9, 2022; Moked. Pagine ebraiche, Jan. 20, 2026, April 6, 2025, March 3, and Feb. 12, 2025; Il Piave, March 2025; Shalom, March 5 and April 4, 2025; Il Corriere di Saluzzo, Oct. 30, 2025.

Membership in societies
2022-today Associazione italiana per la ricerca in storia economica (Arise)
2019-today Ateneo di Brescia-Accademia di scienze, lettere e arti fondata nel 1802
2017-today Early Modern Religious Dissents & Radicalism network (EMoDiR)
2013-2017,
2023-today Renaissance Society of America
2012-today Società storica lombarda
2012-2016 Italian Association for the Study of Judaism (AISG)
2010-2012 Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano
2008-today Inter-University Consortium on the Financial History of Italy (CIRSFI)
2006-today Red Columnaria (Rede temática de estudo sobre as fronteiras das monarquias iberica)
1999-2022 Italian Economic History Society (SISE)

Conference organization and papers, lectures, seminars, panel discussions (selection)

2026 (planned) Paper Visualising “Jewish Monuments” in Italy and the Mediterranean: A Case of Photographic Mapping as Resistance (1924–1938), conference Jews and the Worlds of the Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology, Scholarship, and Networks of Collecting (c.1840–1940), University of Oxford-Courtauld Institute, Palermo, July 7-8.
2026 (with F. Brambilla), Paper Mapping Economic Persecution: Spatial Approaches to Jewish Property Confiscations in Italy (1939–1945), workshop Rethinking Holocaust History through Geospatial Approaches, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Consortium/Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, May 18-19.
2026 Peper Economia, conference Un lessico per la storia politica degli ebrei nel lungo Rinascimento, École française de Rome-Universität Hamburg-Université Gustave Eiffel-Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, May 4-6.
2025 Paper Teaching History at the University of Milan, in 4EU+ Warsaw Seminar, University of Warsaw, October 16.
2025 Paper La communauté des émotions. Banquiers juifs et État national dans l’Italie de l’Émancipation, colloque international Juifs d’Italie, deux mille ans d’histoire, Paris, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme-Université Gustave Eiffel, April 2-3.
2025 Seminar Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond, College Park, University of Maryland, March 24.
2025 Paper Jewish and Catholic Marriages in Counter-Reformation Italy: Affinities, Differences, Interactions, The 71th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, March 20.
2025 Round table organizer and chair, Spatializing Jewish History: Towards the Interrelations in Italian Jewry Atlas, The 71th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, March 21.
2025 Seminar Jews and State Building: Early Modern Italy, and Beyond, New York, Centro Primo Levi, March 18.
2025 Paper International Trade Constraints in the “Great Fragmentation” of post-Reformation Europe: The Case of the Italian Colony in Nuremberg, conference Social, Commercial, and Cultural Interaction. The Italian Colony in Nuremberg during the Early Modern Period, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg-University of Florence, Florence, Febr. 17-19.
2024 Paper Who is Principal, Who is Agent? Information and Reputation in a Jewish-Christian Merchant Dispute (Mediterranean, 18th century), seminar Early Modern Trade, Freie Universität Berlin, July 17-18.
2024 Member of the Organizing commitee and round table discussant, 21st STOREP [Italian Association for the History of Political Economy] Conference, Why Inequalities Grow: Value and Distribution in the History of Economic Thought, University of Milan, June 27-29.
2024 Paper “Get out and mind your own business.” Evidence and nonevidence on Jewish women’s agency in an (infamous) inquisitorial trial (Trent, 1475-76), webinar Gendered Early Modern Jewish World, The Medici Archive Project, April 16.
2024 Round table discussant Spatializing Jewish History in Italy: Towards a Digital and Dynamic Atlas of Culture and Society and paper I am a Witch: Unforced Confessions of the Witches’ Sabbath in Fifteenth Century Europe, The 70th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, March 21-24.
2024 Keynote speech In un angolino buio. Immagini controverse nello spazio domestico: una questione privata?, international conference Immagini controverse. Un framework per un approccio inclusivo e interdisciplinare al patrimonio transculturale, University of Macerata, June 17-18.
2024 Paper Alle origini di un trauma collettivo. Sulla distruzione di due dipinti antiebraici nella Mantova del Seicento, international conference Tempo dell’immagine. La storia visuale: bilanci e prospettive, University of Milan-University of Cassino, Milan, May 2-3.
2023-24 Keynote speech Church/State, Canon/Civil Law, Sin/Crime: Three Comfortable Juxtapositions Economic Historians Should Discard?
- Twelfth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, KU Leuven (Belgium), May 11-13, 2023.
- Seventh International Winter School in Jewish Studies, Borders, Boundaries and Transgressions: The Italian Jewish Case, The Open University of Israel-Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne- University of Amsterdam-University of Pisa, Pisa, Jan. 26-Feb. 2, 2024.
2022 Paper International Trade Under the Inquisitorial Control: the case of Portuguese Ports in 17th and 18th Century (with B. Crivelli), conference Culturas d’Água: Património, Ambiente e Sociedade, Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal), November 16-19.
2022 Paper Enticing the outside, self-governing the inside: papers on “ethnic” conflicts mediated by Christians as sources on Jewish agency, conference Uncommon sources and where to find them: Jews in Politics in Long Renaissance Italy (13th-17th century), École française de Rome, Rome, September 12-13.
2022 Double session co-organizer Religious Freedom, Legal Pluralism, and Long-Distance Trade, XIX World Economic History Conference, Paris, July 25-30, 2022. Paper Religious freedom and institutions in pre-modern markets (if Italy's case is any guide).
2022 Member of scientific committee and session chair, Final conference of the European Research Council project Reshaping the Early Modern Book World: Competition, Protection, Consumption, Milan, ERC-University of Milan, May 30-June 1st.
2022 Master Class The Mercantile Society in the ‘400: Oikonomia and Economics, New York, Fordham University-Center for Medieval Studies, Comparative Literature, Modern Languages and Literature, April 25.
2022 Paper Religious Freedom and Institutions in Pre-Modern Markets: Is Italy’s case a Guide?, Conference Cultures of Exchange: Mercantile Mentalities between Italy and the World, New York, Fordham University, March 26-27.
2021 Seminar Italya: Storie di ebrei, storia italiana (with Francesco Benigno), Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Nov. 29.
2021 Paper Papal Finances and the Roman Inquisition, on-line conference A Inquisição Portuguesa: 200 anos depois; Federal Universities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Viçosa; Universities of Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 14-16.
2021 Paper The Christian as Intermediary: Two Cases of intra-Jewish Conflict in Eighteenth Century Italy, conference The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry; University of Potsdam, Germany, Oct. 4–7.
2021 Paper Jews and Princes in the Early Modern Age: Jewish Merchants between Eastern Europe and the Gonzaga Court of Mantua (16-17th centuries), conference Jewish Crossroads: Between Italy and Eastern Europe, Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy, July 22.
2020 Conference co-organizer and member of scientific committee, conference Imagining the Renaissance/Defining the Jews, Jerusalem, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities-Bar-Ilan University-The National Library of Israel, Jan. 12-15. Paper: The Neophyte as Informant: Emic/Etic Descriptions, and the Strange Case of the Abraded Tombstones in the Jewish Cemetery of Ancona (17th century).
2019 Conference co-organizer and member of scientific committee, conference Jews and State Building in Early Modern Italy, Washington College Park-Baltimore, University of Maryland-Johns Hopkins University, May 5-7. Paper Out of the Ghetto: Marina Caffiero on Italian Jewry.
2019 Presentation of the book ed. by Carlo Ginzburg with Lucio Biasiori A Historical Approach to Casuistry: Norms and Exceptions in a Comparative Perspective, University of Milan, April 4.
2019 Conference co-organizer and member of scientific committee, conference Sabbateanism in Italy and its Mediterranean Context, Rome, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’-Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Jan. 20-22.
2018-19 Paper Using the Past, Building Trust: Ethnicity, the Risorgimento, and the Relationship Lending between the Weill-Schott Bankers and Prime Minister Francesco Crispi in Nineteenth-Century Italy:
- University of Geneva, Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History, April 26, 2018.
- Paris School of Economics/École d’economie del Paris, Feb. 6, 2019.
2018 Co-organizer, member of Scientific committee and session chair, seminar and Exhibition Il codice Maimonide e i Norsa. Una famiglia ebraica nella Mantova dei Gonzaga: banche, libri e quadri, Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage-Jewish Museum of Rome-State Archive of Rome, Oct. 23.
2018 Paper Constructing Mercantile Culture in XVIth Century Italy: Visuality, Machiavelli and the Florentine merchant Bernardo Davanzati on Marketplace and Money
- Symposium Early Modern Mercantile Culture, King’s College London-Department of History, June 22-23.
- Conference Economies of Knowledge. Order and Transgression in Premodern Cultures, Freie Universität Berlin, June 28-30.
2018 Paper Lo strano caso delle lapidi abrase nel cimitero ebraico del Cardeto. Inquisitori, vescovi e neofiti ad Ancona nel primo Seicento, Conference MEMORIA FIDEI IV. L’Inquisizione Romana e i suoi archivi. A vent’anni dall’apertura dell’Archivio della Congregazione per la dottrina della fede (Vatican City, Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), May 15-17.
2017-18 Paper Commerce: «A Most Powerful Basis of Heresy». Religious Tribunals, Merchants, and the Marginalization of the Italian Economy (1550-1750)
- World Economic History Conference, Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 29-Aug. 3, 2018.
- Vicenza, Accademia Olimpica, Oct. 23-24, 2017.
2017 Paper Negotiating Coexistence and Exclusion: Papal Inquisition and the Shaping of a ‘Jewish Economic Identity’ in Early Modern Italy:
- New York University, Department of Italian Studies, Oct. 2nd.
- University of Maryland, Department of History-Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies-Miller Center for Historical Studies, Oct. 10.
2017 Paper The Confiscation by the Roman Inquisition as «Artificial Failure» of Familial Reproduction Strategies (XVIth-XVIIIth Century), workshop When the Household Fails: Abeyance and Vacant Successions from Institutional Guardianship to Local Belonging, Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 20 January.
2016 Paper Business and Heresy: Papal Finances and the Roman Inquisition, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity-History of Christianity Seminar, Nov. 17.
2016 Public lecture in video-conference The Business of the Papal Inquisition, University of Ottawa (Canada), 20 Oct.
2016 Paper Renaissance Neoplatonism and the Construction of Western Economic Science, ‘SCIENTIAE 2016. Disciplines of Knowing in Early Modern World’, University of Oxford, 5-7 July.
2016 Conference Alla ricerca dei libri proibiti. Inquisizione, mercanti e porti tra Portogallo e Italia (XVI-XVII secolo) Italian Cultural Institute of Lisbon (Portugal), June 21.
2016 Session organizer Power in Economic History, The XIV Annual Conference of the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE) Economics and Power: An Historical Perspective, University of Lecce, Italy, 28-30 April.
2016 Session co-organizer Early Modern Depictions of Economic Activity I-II The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, Usa, 31 March-2 April (paper Marketplace as a ‘True Mirror’: Bernardo Davanzati’s Lesson on Money (1588)).
2015 Discussant, seminar Doter pour transmettre? Une histoire économique et sociale de la famille juive (XVe-XIXe s.), Rome, École française de Rome, 11 Dec.
2015 Video-conference The Economy of Papal Inquisition in the Early Modern Period, Department of Historical Studies, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, 2 Oct.
2015 Member of the scientific committee, Seminar Mercaderes, juristas y otros ‘grupos intermedios’ en el sur de Europa y en el espacio atlántico. Siglos XVI-XVIII, Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología, Rome Sept. 16-17 (paper I familiari del Sant’Officio: aspetti economici e sociali (XVI-XVIII secolo)).
2015 Co-organizer, seminar Istituzioni, capitale sociale e stereotipi: storia economica e storia degli ebrei (secc. XV-XVIII). Un incontro possibile, University of Genoa, June 26-27.
2015 Paper The Jews: Institutions, Economy, and Society, The 61st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, Germany, Humboldt University, March 26-28.
2014 Paper “Flowing” rather than “Digging”: Scientific Knowledge and Political Economy in the Lombard Enlightenment, conference Ideas And Enlightenment: The Long Eighteenth Century, University of Sydney-David Nichol Smith XV Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dec. 10-12.
2014 Lecture I denari dell’inquisitore. Affari e giustizia di fede nell’Italia moderna, Università Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Nov. 3.
2014 Panel co-organizer, Economic Humanism and the Scientific Revolution, ‘SCIENTIAE 2014. Emergent Knowledge Practices of the Early Modern Period (ca. 1450-1750)’, University of Vienna, April 23-25 (paper: From Bacon to Petty: Towards a New Science of Praxis).
2014 Paper The Roman Inquisition and the Shaping of Jewish Economic Identity (XVIth-XVIIth centuries), The 60th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York, March 27-29.
2014 Paper Struttura economica e risorse finanziarie della Congregazione del Sant’Officio, conference Ad ultimos usque terrarum terminos in fide propaganda. Roma fra promozione e difesa della fede in età moderna, Rome, Universities «La Sapienza», Rome3, and Tuscia-Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani, March12.
2014 Paper Theology, Physiology, Biology, and Bibliography: the Conceptual Model of Oikonomia in Early Modern Europe, conference Economic Rationalities, Aarhus University, Denmark, Jan. 24-25.
2013 Round table discussant, First annual meeting of the Italian Society for the History of Labor, University of Bologna, Dec. 12-14.
2013 Co-organizer, Annual meeting of the Italian Economic History Society (Sise), University of Milan, Nov 22-23.
2013 Paper Theology, Physiology, Biology, and Bibliography: the Conceptual Model of Oikonomia in Early Modern Europe, conference Oikonomia and Chrematistike. Knowledge and Structures of “Economy” in Ancient and Early Modern Europe, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin-Institut für Romanistik, Berlin, Nov. 7-8.
2013 Lecture From Oikonomia to Political Economy: Constructing Economic Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution, University of Aarhus-Institute of Culture and Society, Aarhus, Denmark, 12 September.
2013 Paper Jewish Migrations and Entrepreneurship in an Industrializing Region: Milan and Lombardy (Italy) in the XIXth Century, conference Economic History of the Jews throughout the Ages: Sources, Methodologies, Narratives, Bar-Ilan University-Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 5-6.
2013 Seminar Ebrei e Sant’Ufficio: relazioni economiche in età moderna, Seminar serie L’Inquisizione e gli ebrei: nuove ricerche, Vatican City, Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrin of Faith, Jan. 15.
2012 Discussant of three papers at the seminar Denaro, strumenti di credito e società nell’Europa dell’Età moderna, Rome, Istituto nazionale di Studi romani.
2012 Paper L’altra Italia spagnola: aspetti economici della feudalità lombarda, conference I Carafa di Maddaloni. La feudalità napoletana nel Mezzogiorno spagnolo, University of Naples «Federico II»-University of Rome3- Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología in Rome, Maddaloni, Italy.
2012 Three-papers discussant and paper Prima e dopo la peste. Crollo demografico e piccola proprietà fondiaria nelle campagne veronesi del XVII secolo, conference Le conseguenze socio-economiche e demografiche della scarsità in età preindustriale, University of Verona, Italy.
2011 Paper Sapere economico e metodo scientifico nell’Illuminismo lombardo, conference L’illuminismo delle riforme civili: il contributo degli economisti lombardi, Milan, University of Milan-Istituto lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.
2011 Discussant, panel Tempo, prezzo, forme del lavoro, conference Per Simonetta Ortaggi. Studi e temi di storia del lavoro, University of Trieste, Italy.
2011 Paper Intermediari bancari e società civile (1861-1913), Second seminar Le banche e l’Italia, University of Rome3-Associazione bancaria italiana, Rome.
2011 Lecture Angelo Villa Pernice, primo sindaco di Concorezzo (1860-1869). Il borghese, l’intellettuale, il politico, Comitato per il Centocinquantenario dell’Unità d’Italia, Concorezzo, Italy.
2011 Paper Le case di lavoro, laboratorio per una moderna organizzazione produttiva, conference Ricerca scientifica, innovazione tecnica e nuove professionalità a Milano tra XIX e XXI secolo, University of Milan-Istituto dei ciechi, Milan.
2011 Paper Moisè Formiggini tra commercio e proprietà fondiaria, conference Cultura, economia e società in Italia e a Modena dal Settecento al Novecento: il contributo degli ebrei, Modena, Accademia nazionale di scienze, lettere e arti.
2010 Lecture Produzione e consumi alimentari nella Milano del Rinascimento, Seminar serie Storia e cultura dell’alimentazione, Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei-Associazione Nocetum, Milan.
2010 Paper Intermediari bancari e società civile (1861-1913), First seminar Le banche e l’Italia, Universiy of Rome3-Associazione bancaria italiana, Rome.
2010 Discussant of the paper of Leonor Freire Costa, Main Themes in Portuguese Early Modern Economic History: a Critical Survey, seminar Seminario di storiografia economica comparata: Italia, Portogallo e Spagna’, Università di Roma3-ISEG Lisbona-Red Columnaria, Rome.
2010 Lecture Il fattore lavoro in prospettiva storico-economica, University of Rome «La Sapienza», Rome.
2010 Paper Galileo, Cigoli e Bernardo Davanzati: la prospettiva come metodo per lo studio del mercato, conference L’economia come cultura, la politica come pratica nell’Europa moderna: dinamiche e contaminazioni, University of Milan, Italy.
2009 Lecture Il lavoro e le scienze sociali, Giuseppe Lazzati Foundation, Milan, Italy.
2008 Paper Medicina del lavoro tra fabbrica ed epistemologia, seminar La città scientifica, Università degli Studi «Bicocca», Milan.
2008 Paper Estimi, territori, evoluzione economica in età moderna. Riflessioni sul caso della Terraferma veneta, conference Ricchezza, valore, proprietà in età preindustriale 1450-1800, Università Luigi Bocconi, Milan.
2007 Paper Tra libertà e controllo. La costruzione dello spazio di fabbrica dalla crisi delle corporazioni a fine Ottocento, conference La polizia del lavoro. Il definirsi di un ambito di controllo, University of Messina, Italy.
2007 Paper Il viaggio della moneta alla ricerca del suo valore, conference Economic Growth Genealogies in the Shadow of the Spanish Empire: Comparing Countries, Regions, Domains, and Boundaries 16th-20th Centuries, University of Milan, Italy.
2005 Paper Gli imprenditori, conference La cultura del ricordo. Memoria, lasciti e sepolture nella tradizione e nel futuro di Milano, University of Milan, Italy.
2005 Paper Il caso Bassetti: impresa, fabbrica e società, conference Politiche e servizi sociali nella storia dell’Italia repubblicana: imprese, associazioni dei lavoratori, città (1945-1968), University of Milan.
2005 Lecture Gli ebrei italiani e l’identità nazionale dal Risorgimento a oggi within the professional development program for high-school History teachers Essere ebrei in Italia. Presenza storica, vita quotidiana, arte e cultura, Istituto per la cultura ebraica, Trieste, Italy.
2004 Paper Rappresentanze rurali e proprietà contadina. Il caso veronese tra Sei e Settecento, seminar La fiscalità nell'Italia spagnola la prassi e il dibattito teorico. Secondo incontro del seminario permanente istituito dalla Società italiana degli storici dell'economia, University of Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy.
2003 Paper Comportamenti economici degli ebrei milanesi nell’Ottocento, conference I giovani e la storia economica, Italian Economic History Society, Rome, Italy.
2001 Paper Ipotesi e problemi per una storia economico-sociale dell’ebraismo italiano dopo l’emancipazione, conference Cantieri di Storia. Primo incontro della Società italiana per lo studio della storia contemporanea sulla storiografia contemporaneistica in Italia’, Italian Society fot the Study of Contemporary History, Urbino, Italy.
2001 Paper Comportamenti economici della minoranza ebraica milanese, conference Istituzioni formative e agenti di sviluppo nell’Italia settentrionale (secoli XIX–XX), University of Padua, Italy.
1998 Paper Finanza pubblica e affari privati nel carteggio fra Francesco Crispi e i banchieri Weill-Schott, conference “Dolce dono graditissimo”. La lettera privata dal Settecento al Novecento, University of Milan, Italy.
1998 Paper Aspetti economici della legislazione antiebraica italiana nel quadro delle legislazioni europee, conference Antisemitismo in Europa negli anni Trenta: legislazioni a confronto, University of Milan-Museum of Contemporary History, Milan, Italy.
1997 Paper Networks and Trust. The Milanese Jewish Minority, seminar Networks in Modern Business, Franco Momigliano Institute for Business History and Culture, Terni, Italy.
1997 Co-organizer, The XXIX Joint Conference of the Association of Labour History Institutions and the International Council of Archives-Business and Labour Section, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, Milan, Italy.
1996 Paper La riaggregazione della comunità israelitica di Milano, conference Conoscere la Resistenza, Istituto lombardo per la storia della Resistenza e dell’età contemporanea, Milan.
1996 Co-organizer (and paper La costruzione di un rapporto fiduciario: Francesco Crispi e la banca Weill-Schott), seminar Minoranze in Italia fra Sette e Ottocento. Comportamento economico e sociabilità, Fondazione Assi-University of Milan-Museum of Contemporary History, Milan.
1994 Paper Banchieri ebrei e patrimoni ebraici nella Milano ottocentesca, seminar Storie di imprenditori, University of Bologna, Italy.




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