Università degli Studi di Ferrara

Faculty Member, Department of Historical Sciences

Professor

About

I was born and raised in Genova and graduated from Università di Genova (1975). After some years in free-lance journalism and publishing I was archivist at Archivio di Stato di Genova, 1984-1989, attached to Istituto Storico Italiano per l'Età Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (1989-1994), Director, Archivio di Stato di Genova, 1995-2000, Professor of Modern History, University of Ferrara, since 2000.
My chief research topics are; early modern Genoese history and historiography; Pasquale Paoli and Corsican revolution.