About

I am Associate Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where I am a team member of the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities in the Department of Humanities.

I am a political and religious historian of early modern Italy. My interests include Public History, Digital Humanities, and archival studies. I have held fellowships at Villa I Tatti-the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, the Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation of Geneva, the Newberry Library of Chicago, the USTC Project at the University of St Andrews, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2006 to 2010 I was a Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena Fellow at the Medici Archive Project (MAP) and from 2011 to 2015 I was a Research Fellow in the ERC project ‘Italian Voices’ at the University of Leeds.

I have published several books and articles on political and religious dissent in Renaissance Florence and Italy, with a specific focus on Girolamo Savonarola and sixteenth-century Savonarolism and political opposition to the Medici. My interests include public history and digital humanities.

My monograph ‘The Duke’s Assassin. Exile and Death of Lorenzino de’ Medici’ (Yale University Press, 2015) won the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize awarded by the American Historical Association. My article ‘Voices under Trial. Inquisition, Abjuration, and Preachers’ Orality in Sixteenth-Century Italy’ (Renaissance Studies, 2017) was awarded a honorable mention by the Society for Renaissance Studies. I am currently working in collaboration with the Medici Archive Project on a newly discovered corpus of letters written by the prince and cardinal Leopoldo de’ Medici to his agent in Rome Ottavio Falconieri, producing both an online database and a scholarly monograph.