CALONACI STEFANO

Stefano Calonaci currently holds the position of Researcher B for the disciplinary scientific area Modern History at DSSBC. He graduated in Literature and Philosophy in February 1995 from the University of Florence, discussing a thesis in History of the Age of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, with a grade of 110 cum laude out of 110. In February 2002, he obtained a PhD degree from the University of Verona in Economic and Social History. In his post-doctoral career, he partecipated among others in the ERC research project TACITROOTS (The Accademia del Cimento in Florence: tracing the roots of the European Scientific Enterprise), at the Univerisity of Milan and in the strategic project EVERE ("European an Venetian Renessaince") at the Univeristy of Padua. He has taken part in numerous PRINs and taught as adjunct professor History of the Historiography of the Modern Age, Modern History, Family History, Education and Culture in the Modern Age at the Universities of Milan, Siena, Salerno and Bologna. His areas of interest and research include social history, history of justice, history of feelings, and history of landscape. He currently (2023-2024) teaches a course in History of Emotions and History of Landscape at the Arezzo Campus. He wrote among the others things the book Lo spirito del dominio. Giustizia e giurisdizioni feudali nell’Italia moderna (secc. XVI-XVIII), 2017, and the recent essay "A case that for many circumstances deserves some memory of it." Fame and tale, love and death in the high society of a European city (Florence 1652), in V. Caputo, L. Gianfrancesco, P. Palmieri (eds), Tales of Two Cities. Media Events in Early Modern Naples and Florence (2023).