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