The study of the human past

The specific research lines are:

  • Neapolitan political culture between Ancient Regime and Restoration
  • politicization of late-enlightened culture in the kingdom of Naples
  • provincial dimension of the associative phenomenon of the late eighteenth century
  • 19th-century national unification processes and continental re-aggregation of the second-twentieth century
  • political culture of Italian and European élites
  • institutional and social issues of contemporary European history
  • contemporary society in the perspective of a global history
  • ideologies underpinning the Welfare State and the British Empire (XIX-XXth Century)
  • relations between Italy and the countries of the Adriatic-Balkan area during the Cold War years
  • economic history, lay and ecclesiastical heritage in Europe in modern and contemporary ages, theories and issues of development in republican Italy