I studied at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale of Pisa, and I earned a PhD in History from the European University Institute in 2020. I later obtained post-doctoral fellowships from the Italian Institute of Historical Studies in Naples and the University of Trier in Germany, and I spent research periods at the University of Leiden and at the German Historical Institute in Rome. In January 2024 I joined the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Pavia, in order to work within the project “Arms, Beads, and Cloth”. My main field of research is the Early Modern global trade, even though I also studied other topics such as Italian colonial religious policies. I am now applying that experience to the study of the commercial exchanges in Eastern Africa in the late nineteenth century.

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I have a book contract with Brill, for a manuscript titled Pursuing overseas trade: Tuscan and Genoese attempts to enter trans-oceanic trade in the seventeenth century. My main publications include “Written Reports and the Promotion of Trans-Oceanic Trade in Tuscany and Genoa in the Seventeenth Century”, in Aske Brock, Guido van Meersbergen, and Edmond Smith (eds.), Trading Companies and Travel Writing, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 71-91 (2021), and “Al crocevia fra Chiesa, Fascismo e colonialismo: il congresso eucaristico di Tripoli (1937)”, Archivio Italiano per la storia della pietà, n. 30, pp. 283 – 314 (2017).