Research Team
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Andrea Caracausi
Andrea Caracausi is a socio-economic historian of the pre-industrial period, with a focus on Italy and the Mediterranean. He has extensively researched on guilds, women’s work, child labour, and legal proceedings. Follow me on X (Twitter): @AndreaCaracausi
LOCAL UNITS COORDINATORS
Raffaella Sarti
(Urbino, Deputy Principal Investigator)
Raffaella Sarti is a social and gender historian. Her research focuses, with a long-term approach, on the history of work, especially domestic and care work, slavery, family, masculinity, material culture, graffiti and wall writing, the construction of heroes and heroines, South Tyrol.
Marina Garbelotti
(Verona)
Marina Garbellotti is a historian of the early modern period and her fields of research are the history of charity, family history, and gender history in Italy (16th-19th centuries). Personal web-page: https://www.dcuci.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=3844
LOCAL UNITS
Padova Team
Verónica Gallego Manzanares
Verónica Gallego Manzanares is a social historian specializing in gender relations with a particular interest in Italy and the Mediterranean in early modern period. Her research focuses on the study of women’s mobility and labor, social networks, welfare institutions, and urban organization.
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Mattia Viale
Mattia Viale is an economic and social historian. His research concentrates on material living standards, social mobility, and labour dynamics in the Republic of Venice between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. X (Twitter): @viale_m
Francesco Vianello
Francesco Vianello is an economic and social historian of Renaissance Venice. He has published numerous essays on merchants, entrepreneurs, and manufacturing in modern and contemporary Veneto. Currently, he is engaged in research on textile consumption in early modern Veneto through the study of dowry inventories.
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto is an economic and social historian. Her works focuses on women and gender history, labour history, migration history and welfare systems in early modern and modern Europe.
Urbino Team
Cora Benetti
Cora Benetti investigates women and gender history in contemporary age, with a focus on XIX century in Italy. She has researched on women’s Risorgimento, early feminism, ego-documents and women’s archives.
Verona Team
Edoardo Demo
Edoardo Demo is an economic historian, specialising in the economic and social history of the Venetian mainland between the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, with a particular focus on the merchant world.
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Francesca Ferrando
Francesca Ferrando Is a social historian of the pre-industrial period, with a focus on early-modern Italy. She has researched on poverty, welfare programs, charity and poor women’s strategy to survive.
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Novella Forner
Novella Forner is an archivist engaged in the study and organization of historical archives for public and private institutions, the preparation of inventories, and the arrangement of proper preservation to safeguard valuable historical sources for future generations.
Cinzia Lorandini
Cinzia Lorandini is an economic and business historian with a special interest in the Alpine area. In particular, her research has focused on forms of business organization in the pre-industrial period, the role of merchant families, and women’s work up to the phase of early industrialization.