Guido Alfani

GUIDO ALFANI

CV

GUIDO ALFANI

last updated: February 2023

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: 07 February 1976
Nationality: Italian
Office Address: SPS – Università “L. Bocconi”, Via Roentgen 1, 20136 Milan (Italy)
Contact: [email protected]
EDUCATION
2001-2003: Ph.D. in Economic and Social History (awarded April 2004), Bocconi University, Milan (Italy)
2002-2003: Visiting Ph.D Student to EHESS – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France)
1995-2000: Degree in Economic and Social Sciences (DES), Bocconi University, Milan (Italy), 110/110 cum
laude
1990-1995: High School: Liceo Classico ‘C. Botta’ (Ivrea, Italy), 60/60

ACADEMIC CAREER AND AFFILIATIONS
2018-today: Full Professor, Bocconi University (Milan, Italy)
2019-today: Affiliated Scholar, Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality (New York, U.S.)
2020-today: Research Associate, Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE,
Warwick)
2019-today: Research Fellow, Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR, London)
2006-today: Fellow, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (Milan, Italy)
2008-today: Fellow, Centre for Research on Spanish Lombardy (Pavia, Italy)
2009-today: Affiliate, IGIER – Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (Milan, Italy)
2022: Visiting Researcher, Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland.)
2013-2019: Director, Master of Science in Economic and Social Sciences (ESS/DES), Bocconi
University
2012-2018: Associate Professor, Bocconi University (Milan, Italy)
2019: Visiting Researcher, The London School of Economics and Political Science (London, U.K.)
2017: Nominated Fellow, IASH – Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh
(U.K.)
2015: Visiting Researcher, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
2012-2014: Managing Director, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi
University
2013: Visiting Researcher, Oxford University – Nuffield College (Oxford, U.K.)
2012-2013: Vice-Director, Master of Science in Economic and Social Sciences (ESS/DES), Bocconi
University
2012: Visiting professor, EHESS – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France)
2010-2011 : Visiting Researcher, Centre Roland Mousnier / Sorbonne-Paris 4 (Paris, France)
2010: Visiting Researcher, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure /
Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK)
2008: Visiting Professor, Université de Bordeaux-3 (Bordeaux, France)
2008: Visiting Researcher, Umeå University (Umeå, Sweden)
2007-2012: Assistant Professor, Bocconi University (Milan, Italy)
2006-2011: Honorary Research Fellow, Glasgow University (Glasgow, U.K.)
2006: European Visiting Research Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, U.K.)
2004-2007: Post-doc grant, Bocconi University (Milan, Italy)

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Economic inequality and social mobility in the past; historical demography (especially history of plague and
history of famines); Italian and European economy during the Medieval and Early Modern period; social
alliance systems and social networks; practices of godparenthood and name-giving; geography of customs;
history of careers.

GRANTS
2017-2022: Principal investigator, European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant, SMITE – Social
Mobility and Inequality across Italy and Europe, 1300-1800 (2015 call; awarded December
2016; amount awarded: €1,499,375).
2012-2016: Principal investigator, European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant, EINITE – Economic
Inequality across Italy and Europe, 1300-1800 (2010 call; awarded July 2011; amount awarded:
€995,400).
2021-today: Unit Coordinator, PRIN 2020 Grant, Regional and national economic developments in Italy
from the Middle Ages to today
2021-2022: Team Member, CIVICA Grant, The Long Shadow of Educational, Skills, and Professional
Inequities in Time and in Space: Implications for Polarization and Support for Populism in
Europe
2015: Principal Investigator, Dondena Centre Seed Grant, Occupational mobility and openness of
elites in the early modern period: the case of Piedmont
2010: Principal Investigator, IGIER research project, Economic inequality and concentration of
wealth in the Early Modern period: the case of Lombardy.
2007-2009: Principal Investigator, project funded by Cassa di Risparmio di Imola (Italy), Distribution and
concentration of wealth in Imola and its countryside during the Early Modern Period.
2006-2008: Principal Investigator, Bocconi RDB (‘basic research’) project, Concentration and Distribution
of Wealth in Historical Perspective.
2005-2008: Principal Investigator, project funded by the Municipality of Nonantola (Italy), Nonantola and
its Commons. Demography and social networks, 1500-1800.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Associate editor of Genus
Member of the editorial board of Explorations in Economic History
Member of the editorial board of the European Review of Economic History
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic History (2015-2019)
Member of the editorial board of Nep-His Blog
Chief editor of Popolazione e Storia (2009-2015)
Referee for journals: Economic History Review, Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic
History, European Review of Economic History, PNAS, Demography, Population Studies, Journal of
Economic Literature, American Economic Review Insights, Economic Journal, Journal of Development
Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Nature Sustainability, Communications Earth & Environment,
Global Change Biology, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of the European Economic Association,
Social Science History, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Continuity and Change,
Population, Social Science & Medicine, The History of the Family, American Journal of Physical
Anthropology, Social History, History Compass, Journal of Anthropological Research, Cliometrica,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Journal of Institutional Economics, European Journal of
Population, Social Science History, The Seventeenth Century, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of
Politics, Scandinavian Economic History Review, Speculum, Forum for Social Economics, Popolazione e
Storia, Genus, Histoire Economie et Société, Historia Agraria, Annales de Démographie Historique, Città e
Storia, Storia delle Alpi, E-Review, Ricerche di Storia Economica e Sociale, Mediterranea
Book Reviewer for: Journal of Economic History; Economic History Review; Review of Income and Wealth;
Continuity and Change; Business History Review; EH.Net; Annales de Démographie Historique; Mountain
Research and Development; Società e Storia; Popolazione e Storia; Polis; Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia
MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES AND SOCIETIES
Member of the scientific committee of the “F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History
Member of the board of Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics
Member of the Foresight Thinktank on the History of Pandemics of WHO (World Health Organization)
Member of the international advisory board of the Posthumus Institute – Research School for Economic and
Social History
Member of the board of trustees of EHES (European Historical Economics Society)
Member of the Program Committee of EHA (Economic History Association) for 2018
Member of the scientific committee of SIDES, the Italian society of historical demographers (2009-2015)

Member of EHS (Economic History Society); EHA (Economic History Association); EHES (European
Historical Economics Society); ESHD (European Society of Historical Demography); ARiSE (Associazione
Italiana per la RIcerca in Storia Economica); ASE (Associazione per la Storia Economica); SIDES (Società
Italiana di Demografia Storica); EAPS (European Association for Population Studies); ENIUGH (European
Network in Universal and Global History); IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Study of
Population)
Referee for Grant Applications of ERC (European Research Council), NWO (Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research), FWO (Research Foundation – Flanders), FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and
Technology), SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), Czech Science
Foundation, Austria Science Fund, National Science Centre Poland, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
Organizer and founder of the scientific network EI-Net Economic Inequality Network
(http://www.dondena.unibocconi.it/EI-Net)
Co-organizer and founder, with Vincent Gourdon, of the scientific network Patrinus-European network for a
social and cultural history of baptism and godparenthood (www.dondena.unibocconi.it/patrinus)
Member of ENCHOS, European Network for the Comparative History of Population Geography and
Occupational Structure
Member of the international research project Institutional Family Demography (IFAMID)
Member of CORN – Comparative Rural History Network
Member of the network ESTER – European graduate School for Training in Economic and social historical
Research
Fellow of the international research project Historical Household Budgets
Member of the international research project Mobilités, Populations et Familles dans la France du Nord de
la fin du XVIIe siècle à la fin du XIXe siècle (MPF)
Member of the research project La scarsità delle risorse: una sfida di lungo periodo
Member of the international advisory board of the Corsican Population History Project

HONORS AND AWARDS
2022: Excellence in Refereeing Award, granted by journal Explorations in Economic History
2018-2024: award of Research Profile at Bocconi University (Italy)
2017: Prize for Innovation in Teaching at Bocconi University (Italy)
2016: Consolidator Research Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project SMITE
2013-2016: award of Research Profile at Bocconi University (Italy)
2012: Prize for Excellence in Research at Bocconi University (Italy)
2011: Starting Research Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project EINITE
2010: Prize for Excellence in Research at Bocconi University (Italy)
2010: Research Travel Grant by the Wellcome Trust (U.K.), to work at the Group for the History of
Population and Social Structure, Cambridge (U.K.)
2007: winner of the 1st “short time scholarship” of Centre for Population Studies, University of Umeå, Umeå
(Sweden) (to stay in Umeå during May 2008)
2006: Prize for Excellence in Research at Bocconi University (Italy)
2006: Honorary Research Fellowship awarded by University of Glasgow, Glasgow (U.K.)
2006: European Visiting Research Fellowship granted by The Royal Society of Edinburgh (U.K.)
2003: Istituto Datini grant for participating at “XXV Corso di Specializzazione «F.Melis»” and at “XXXV
Settimana di Studi «F.Datini»”
LANGUAGES
Italian (native language); English (excellent); French (excellent); Spanish (very good); German (good); Latin
and ancient Greek
CURRENT TEACHING
Course of Economic History
Course of Globalization, Divergence and Inequality in Historical Perspective
Course of History of Institutions: Civic, Economic and Political

Course of History of Pandemics
ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND OF CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Conferences
2022: main organizer, Social Mobility in preindustrial Europe, Milan (Italy)
2022: main organizer with Mattia Fochesato, Crises, Inequality and Political Change in Eastern and
Western European History, Milan (Italy)
2021: main organizer, Studying Social Mobility in Past Societies, Milan (Italy)
2019: main organizer with Mattia Fochesato, Political change, social mobility, and inequality in historical
perspective, Milan (Italy)
2018: main organizer with Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Occupational Structures in European History, Milan (Italy)
2018: member of the Program Committee, Economic History Association Annual Conference, Montreal
(Canada)
2016: main organizer, Economic inequality in preindustrial Europe, Milan (Italy)
2016: main organizer with Arnstein Aasve and Marco Bonetti, Dondena 10th Anniversary Conference, Milan
(Italy)
2016: main organizer with Paolo Pinotti, Immigration, Refugees and Asylum Policies (Milan, Italy)
2015: main organizer, Long-Term Trends in Economic Inequality in Europe and Beyond, Milan (Italy)
2015: main organizer, Economic inequality in southern Europe, Milan (Italy)
2014: main organizer, Economic inequality and cultural change: lessons from history, Milan (Italy)
2014: main organizer with Carlo Devillanova and Ross Macmillan, Social Mobility Conference, Milan (Italy)
2014: main organizer with Cormac O’Grada, Famines in Europe, Milan (Italy)
2013: main organizer, Measuring inequality in the past: methods and perspectives, Milan (Italy)
2013: main organizer with A. Carbone, B. Del Bo and R. Rao, La popolazione italiana del Quattrocento e
Cinquecento, Milan (Italy)
2010: main organizer with A. Ferrarese, Storia economica e ambiente italiano. 1400-1850, Milan (Italy)
2009: main organizer with R. Rao, La gestione delle risorse collettive nell’Italia settentrionale (secoli XIIXVIII), Nonantola (Italy)
2008: main organizer with M. Barbot, Ricchezza, valore, proprietà in Età Moderna (1450-1800), Milan
(Italy)
2006: main organizer, Il ruolo economico della famiglia (‘The economic role of the family’), Milan (Italy)
2023 co-organizer, Food Crises: Challenges, Innovations and Sustainable Change, Tours (France)
(planned)
2012: co-organizer, Population, environment, health: shadows and discontinuities, Alghero (Italy)
2012: co-organizer, Le parrainage en Europe et en Amérique. Pratiques de longue durée, XVIe-XXIe siècle
2012: co-organizer, Le conseguenze socio-economiche e demografiche della scarsità acuta in età
preindustriale (Verona, Italy)
2011: co-organizer, Histoire de la parentalité à l’époque moderne et contemporaine, Paris (France)
2011: co-organizer, Origini e cause della scarsità delle risorse alimentari in età moderna e contemporanea
(Perugia, Italy)
2010: co-organizer, La scarsità delle risorse: una sfida di lungo periodo – Demografia, economia, scienze
della terra e storia economica a confronto, Rome (Italy)
2009: co-organizer, Giornate di studio sulla popolazione 2009, Milan (Italy)
2007: co-organizer, Le Baptême, entre usages sociaux et enjeux idéologiques (XVIe-XXe siècle) (‘Baptism
between social customs and ideology. 16th-20th century’), St. Etienne (France)
Conference sessions:
2022: 19th World Economic History Congress, Paris (France)
2022: Economic History Society Annual Conference (Cambridge, U.K.)
2021: 13th European Social Science History Conference, Leiden (The Netherlands)
2019: Economic History Society Annual Conference, Belfast (U.K.)
2018: 18th World Economic History Congress, Boston (U.S.)
2018: 12th European Social Science History Conference, Belfast (U.K.)
2017: Economic History Society Annual Conference (London, U.K.)
2017: Rural History Society Conference (Leuven, Belgium)

2016: 11th European Social Science History Conference, Valencia (Spain)
2015: 17th World Economic History Congress, Kyoto (Japan)
2015: Economic History Society Annual Conference (Wolverhampton, U.K.)
2014: 10th European Social Science History Conference, Vienna (Austria)
2014: 1st European Society of Historical Demography Conference, Alghero (Italy)
2013: Rural History Conference (Bern, Switzerland)
2013: Economic History Society Annual Conference, York (U.K.)
2012: 16th World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch (South Africa)
2012: 9th European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow (U.K.)
2011: 3rd European Conference of Global History, London (U.K.)
2011: V Congresso di Storia Urbana, Rome (Italy)
2010: 8th European Social Science History Conference, Ghent (Belgium)
2010: The History of Families and Households: Comparative European Dimensions, London (U.K.)
2010: IX Congreso de la Asociación de Demografía Histórica, Azores (Spain)
2009: 78th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, London (U.K.)
2009: Demografia e diversità: convergenze e divergenze nell’esperienza storica italiana, Naples (Italy)
2008: 7th European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon (Portugal)

PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES
2024: LV Settimana di Studi “F. Datini”, Prato (Italy) (planned)
2023: Socio-Economic Inequalities during the crisis of the 14th century: reality and perceptions
(Italy and Europe, 1270-1330), Ghent University (Belgium) (planned)
2022: OWL Workshop 2022, Warwick (U.K.) (keynote speech)
2022: 19th World Economic History Congress, Paris (France)
2022: Centre for Economic History Workshop, Belfast (U.K) (keynote speech)
2022: Economic History Society Annual Conference, Cambridge (U.K.)
2022: European Society of Historical Demography Conference, Madrid (Spain) (plenary session)
2022: El trote de los jinetes del Apocalipsis: epidemias, hambrunas y guerras en la modernidad, Corella
(Spain) (inaugural session)
2022: Festival della Statistica di Treviso, Treviso (Italy)
2022: Épidémies et crises de mortalité dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne, École Française de Rome (Italy)
2022: Alp-Pop Conference, La Thuile (Italy)
2021: 3rd Macrohistory Conference, Bonn (Germany) (keynote speech)
2021: New data for the new challenges of population and society, Padua (Italy (keynote speech)
2021: Condizioni di vita e disuguaglianze. Una prospettiva storico-demografica, Milan (Italy)
2021: Epidemie nella Storia – Numeri: Modelli e Pandemie, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento (Italy)
2021: Challenging the Concept of Europe in Global History, Vienna (Austria)
2021: 2nd International Conference on Indian Business & Economic History, Ahmedabad (India)
2021: Cape Colony Project Workshop, Lund (Sweden) (keynote speech)
2021: Pandemia sanitaria e pandemia economica: La nuova organizzazione del lavoro, Roma (Italy)
2021: 13th European Social Science History Conference, Leiden (The Netherlands)
2020: Covid-19: Economic Consequences and Reconstruction. Lessons from History and Recent Experience,
History and Policy Forum(U.K.)
2020: Annual conference of SIDES – Italian Society for Historical Demography (Italy)
2020: XLIV Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Epidemiologia, Roma (Italy)
2020: 11th Festival dell’Educazione, Rovereto (Italy) (planned)
2020: Dalla Spagnola al Covid 19: gli effetti sociali e sulle comunità, Milan (Italy)
2020: XVI Festival Internationale della Storia, Udine (Italy)
2019: Understanding State Capacity, Manchester (U.K)
2019: 34th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (invited presentation), Manchester(U.K.)
2019: European Society of Historical Demography Conference, Pecs (Hungary)
2019: Accounting for the Wealth of Nations: History and Theory, Odense (Denmark)
2019: L Settimana di Studi “F. Datini”, Prato (Italy)
2019: Economic History Society Annual Conference, Belfast (U.K.)

2019: XVII Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione, Milan (Italy)
2018: 18th World Economic History Congress, Boston (U.S.)
2018: 12th European Social Science History Conference, Belfast (U.K.)
2018: La famiglia tra mutamenti demografici e sociali, Bologna (Italy)
2018: Occupational Structures in European History, Milan (Italy)
2018: Sguardi scientifici sulle migrazioni, Lugano (Switzerland)
2018: El Empobrecimiento. Economías de la Pobreza en la Edad Media, Madrid (Spain)
2017: Economic History Society Annual Conference, London (U.K.)
2017: Rural History Society (Leuven, Belgium)
2017: XLVIII Settimana di Studi “F. Datini”, Prato (Italy)
2017: La storia delle campagne in Italia e il contributo di Renato Zangheri, Bologna (Italy)
2016: Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network, Brighton (U.K.)
2016: Economía, Poder, Materialidad y Desigualdad Social en la Península Ibérica (1400-1550), Vitoria
(Spain) (keynote speech)
2016: Le disuguaglianze economiche nella storia, Brescia (Italy)
2016: European Society of Historical Demography Conference, Leuven (Belgium)
2016: CORN workshop, Ghent (Belgium)
2016: 11th European Social Science History Conference, Valencia (Spain)
2016: Insights in Quantitative Italian and European Business and Economic History (Pisa, Italy)
2015: The short and long-term responses of European societies to environmental shocks and hazards in the
pre-industrial period, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
2015: VIII Seminario de Historia Moderna, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
2015: Per una storia della popolazione italiana nel Novecento (Udine, Italy)
2015: Economic History Association Annual Conference, Nashville (U.S.A.)
2015: European Historical Economics Society Conference, Pisa (Italy)
2015: 17th World Economic History Congress, Kyoto (Japan)
2015: European Society for Environmental History Conference, Versailles (France)
2015: Passaggi di memoria. La trasmissione generazionale del trauma, Trieste (Italy)
2015: Economic History Society Annual Conference, Wolverhampton (U.K.)
2015: Famines during the “Little Ice Age” (1300-1800), Bielefeld (Germany)
2015: Economic History Workshop, Pisa (Italy)
2014: Economic inequality and cultural change: lessons from history, Milan (Italy)
2014: Famines in Europe, Milan (Italy)
2014: 1st European Society of Historical Demography Conference, Alghero (Italy)
2014: 10th European Social Science History Conference, Vienna (Germany)
2014: Innovare nella Storia Economica: temi, metodi, fonti, Rome (Italy)
2014: The Sacred Social: Investigations of Spiritual Kinship, Charlottesville (U.S.A.)
2013: Measuring inequality in the past: methods and perspectives, Milan (Italy)
2013: La popolazione italiana del Quattrocento e Cinquecento, Milan (Italy)
2013: 10th Swedish Economic History Meeting, Lund (Sweden) (planned)
2013: Economic History Association Annual Conference, Washington (U.S.A.)
2013: Société de Démographie Historique – Colloque du Cinquantenaire, Paris (France)
2013: Rural History Conference, Bern (Switzerland)
2013: X Congreso de la Asociación de Demografía Histórica, Albacete (Spain)
2013: The Economics of Disease, Darmstadt (Germany) (keynote speech)
2013: Economic History Society Annual Conference, York (U.K.)
2012: Le parrainage en Europe et en Amérique. Pratiques de longue durée, XVIe-XXIe siècle (Paris, France)
2012: Rendez-vous de l’histoire, Blois (France)
2012: Population, environment, health: shadows and discontinuities, Alghero (Italy)
2012: Peste, variolle: microbiologie et modélisations, Nice (France)
2012: XVIth World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch (South Africa)
2012: European Population Conference, Stockholm (Sweden)
2012: Cittadinanza e disuguaglianze economiche: le origini storiche di un problema europeo (XIII-XVI
secolo), Trieste (Italy)
2012: 9th European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow (U.K.)

2012: Le conseguenze socio-economiche e demografiche della scarsità acuta in età preindustriale, Verona
(Italy)
2011: V Congresso di Storia Urbana, Rome (Italy)
2011: Produzioni e commerci nelle province dello Stato pontificio. Imprenditori, mercanti, reti nei secoli
XIV-XVI, Camerino (Italy)
2011: Workshop on Maladies endémiques et épidémies – aspects médicaux et politiques publiques, Nice
(France)
2011: XLIII Settimana di Studi “F. Datini”, Prato (Italy)
2011: 3rd European Conference of Global History, London (U.K.)
2011: Economic History Society Annual Conference, Cambridge (U.K.)
2011: IX Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione, Ancona (Italy)
2010: Charleville: une ville neuve et sa population, Charleville (France)
2010: La ciudad y la construcción de la modernidad, Madrid (Spain)
2010: I cognomi italiani nell’ambito dell’antroponimia dell’Europa mediterranea, Pisa (Italy)
2010: The History of Families and Households: Comparative European Dimensions, London (U.K.)
2010: IX Congreso de la Asociación de Demografía Histórica, Azores (Portugal)
2010: Workshop on L’infanzia abbandonata dal Medioevo ai giorni nostri. Due Paesi a confronto: Italia e
Ucraina, Vicenza (Italy)
2010: La scarsità delle risorse: una sfida di lungo periodo, Florence (Italy)
2010: 8th European Social Science History Conference, Ghent (Belgium)
2010: Economic History Society Annual Conference, Durham (U.K.)
2010: Storia economica e ambiente italiano. Ca. 1400-1850, Milan (Italy)
2009: Workshop on La parenté spirituelle en Italie au XVIe siècle, Aix-en-Provence (France)
2009: La gestione delle risorse collettive nell’Italia settentrionale (secoli XII-XVIII), Nonantola (Italy)
2009: Demografia e diversità: convergenze e divergenze nell’esperienza storica italiana, Naples (Italy)
2009: Il posto dei bambini. Infanzia e mondo degli adulti tra Medioevo ed Età contemporanea, Rome (Italy)
2009: International Population Conference, Marrakech (Morocco)
2009: World Economic History Congress, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
2009: 78th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, London (U.K.)
2009: Workshop on I cognomi italiani tra onomastica e storia, Pisa (Italy)
2009: A critical re-examination of demographic and economic crisis in Western Europe from the Middle
Ages to the Early Twentieth Century, Treviso (Italy)
2009: Padri nostri. Archetipi e modelli delle relazioni tra «padri» e «figlie», Padua (Italy)
2009: Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Geneva (Switzerland)
2009: XLI Settimana di Studi “F. Datini”, Prato (Italy)
2009: Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione 2009, Milan (Italy)
2008: Imprenditoria e sviluppo economico: il caso italiano (sec. XIII-XX), Milan (Italy)
2008: IXth International Conference on Urban History, Lyon (France)
2008: European Population Conference 2008, Barcelona (Spain)
2008: 77th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, London (U.K.)
2008: Workshop on: Lien social, solidarités, conflits, Toulouse (France)
2008: Economic History Society Annual Conference, Nottingham (U.K.)
2008: 7th Social Science History Conference, Lisbon (Portugal)
2008: Où sont les femmes? Femmes, parenté, réseaux sociaux dans les sociétés rurales, Martigny
(Switzerland)
2008: Gli estimi: uno sguardo sul mondo. Ricchezza, valore, proprietà in Età Moderna (1450-1800), Milan
(Italy)
2007: Familia y organización social en Europa y América, siglos XV-XX, Albacete (Spain)
2007: Le Baptême, entre usages sociaux et enjeux idéologiques (XVIe-XXe siècle), St. Etienne (France)
2007: VII Congreso de la Asociación de Demografía Histórica, Menorca (Spain)
2007: Social networks and institutional change: pathways and limits of state intervention in rural societies,
Münster (Germany)
2006: Dalla Sila alle Alpi: l’itinerario storiografico di Raul Merzario, Milan (Italy)
2006: Le grandi transizioni tra ’800 e ’900. Popolazione, società, economia, Pavia (Italy)
2006: European Population Conference 2006, Liverpool (U.K.),
2006: Il ruolo economico della famiglia, Milan (Italy)

2006: 6th European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam (The Netherlands),
2005: Dénomination et destin des enfants trouvés (XVII-XX siècles), Paris (France)
2005: Itinéraires Féminins, Paris (France)
2004: La Partecipanza agraria di Nonantola: le radici del futuro, Nonantola (Italy)
2004: Lo spazio politico locale in età medievale, moderna e contemporanea, Alessandria (Italy)
2003: Matrimonio e famiglia in Italia, Florence (Italy)
2002: Kinship in Europe: the Long Run, Ascona (Switzerland)
2001: Prezzi, redditi, popolazioni in Italia: 500 anni (dal secolo XV al XX), Udine (Italy)
INVITED SEMINARS
2023: University of Cambridge (U.K.) (planned)
2023: University of Oxford (U.K.) (planned)
2023: BBVA Foundation, Madrid (Spain) (planned)
2023: The Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva (Switzerland) (planned)
2023: University of Antwerp (Belgium) (planned)
2022: George Washington University (U.S.)
2022: Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany)
2022: Lleida University, Lleida (Spain)
2022: SISEC – Società Italiana di Sociologia Economica
2022: CIVICA Open Science Training Programme
2022: University of Milan (Italy)
2022: Ordine dei Giornalisti della Lombardia, Milan (Italy)
2021: Joint Vienna Institute, Vienna (Austria)
2021: Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway)
2021: Tax Policy Colloquium, Loyola Law School (U.S.)
2021: Universities of Padua and Venice – lectio magistralis for the opening of the academic year of the PhD
Program in History, Geography and Anthropology
2021: University of Padua – Spring School on Crisis Management and Crisis Impact (Italy)
2021: Yale University (U.S.)
2021: HM Treasury – Treasury History Network (U.K.)
2021: San Andrés University, Bueons Aires (Argentina)
2021: Politecnico University of Turin (Italy)
2020: Joint Vienna Institute, Vienna (Austria)
2020: University of Bristol (U.K.)
2020: University of Virginia, Charlottesville (U.S.)
2020: University of Rome Tor Vergata
2020: Warwick University (U.K.)
2020: University of Vienna (U.K.)
2020: University of Koper (Slovenia)
2019: University of Cambridge (U.K.)
2019: University of Oxford (U.K.)
2019: University of Barcelona (Spain)
2019: University of Valencia (Spain)
2019: Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin (Italy)
2018: Yale University (U.S.)
2018: Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, New York (U.S.)
2018: Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (Spain)
2018: London School of Economics (U.K.)
2018: Wellcome Library London (U.K.)
2017: Geneva University (Switzerland)
2017: Warwick University (U.K.)
2017: Lund University (Sweden)
2017: Luxemburg University and European Investment Bank (Luxemburg)
2017: Firpo Foundation, Turin (Italy)
2017: Bank of Italy, Rome (Italy)
2017: Queen’s University Belfast (U.K)

2017 : European Universitary Institute, Florence (Italy)
2017: Trento University, Trento (Italy)
2017: Vienna University, Vienna (Austria)
2017: Casa della Cultura, Milan (Italy)
2016: Paris School of Economic, Paris (France)
2015: Utrecht University, Utrecht (Netherlands)
2015: Pavia University, Pavia (Italy)
2014: OECD – Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris (France)
2014: Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (Italy)
2013: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock (Germany)
2012: Utrecht University, Utrecht (Netherlands)
2012: Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (Italy)
2011: Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (Spain)
2011: Université Paris 4-Sorbonne, Paris (France)
2011: EHESS – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France)
2011: INED – Institut National Etudes Démographiques, Paris (France)
2010: University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy)
2010: Centre Roland Mousnier – Sorbonne, Paris (France)
2009 : Casa de Velázquez, Madrid (Spain)
2008 : Umeå University, Umeå (Sweden)
2008 : Istituto Datini, Prato (Italy)
2007: University of Losanne, Losanne (Switzerland)
2007: University of Genova, Genova (Italy)
2007: Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge (U.K.)
2006: University of Glasgow, Glasgow (U.K.)
2002: EHESS – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France)

PUBLICATIONS
Books:

  • As Gods among Men. A history of the rich in the West, Princeton University Press, 2023,
    forthcoming
  • The Lion’s Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe, Cambridge
    University Press, 2019 (with Matteo Di Tullio)
  • Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy. The Grand Tour of the Horsemen of the
    Apocalypse, Palgrave, London 2013 (first Italian ed. Il Grand Tour dei Cavalieri dell’Apocalisse.
    L’Italia del ‘lungo Cinquecento’ (1494-1629), Marsilio, Venice 2010)
  • Pandemie d’Italia. Dalla peste nera all’influenza suina: l’impatto sulla società, Egea, Milan 2010
    (with Alessia Melegaro) (transl. Italian pandemics. From the Black Death to the Swine Flu: the
    impact on the society)
  • Fathers and godfathers. Spiritual kinship in Early Modern Italy, Ashgate, Aldershot 2009 (first
    Italian ed. Padri, padrini, patroni. La parentela spirituale nella storia, Marsilio, Venice 2006)

Edited books:

  • Inequality in rural Europe, ed. with Erik Thoen, Corn, Brepols, Turnhout 2020
  • Famine in European History, ed. with Cormac Ó Gráda, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
    2017
  • Le retour de la peste. Nouvelles recherches sur les épidémies en Europe et en Méditerranée, XVIeXIXe siècles, special number of Annales de Démographie Historique, 2/2017, ed. with Isabelle
    Séguy
  • La popolazione italiana del Quattrocento e del Cinquecento, ed. with. Angela Carbone, Beatrice Del
    Bo and Riccardo Rao, Forum, Udine 2016
  • Le parrainage en Europe et en Amérique, ed. with Vincent Gourdon and Isabelle Robin, Peter Lang,
    Bern 2015
  • La peste in Europa: nuove ricerche, special number of Popolazione e Storia, n. 2/2015, ed. with
    Renato Sansa
  • Nella morsa della guerra. Assedi, occupazioni militari e saccheggi in età preindustriale, ed. with
    Mario Rizzo, Franco Angeli, Milan 2013
  • Spiritual Kinship in Europe, 1500-1900, ed. with Vincent Gourdon, Palgrave, London 2012
  • Storia economica e ambiente italiano (ca. 1400-1850), ed. with Matteo Di Tullio and Luca
    Mocarelli, Franco Angeli, Milan 2012
  • La gestione delle risorse collettive. Italia settentrionale, secoli XII-XVIII, ed. with Riccardo Rao,
    Franco Angeli, Milan 2011
  • Ricchezza, valore, proprietà in Età preindustriale. 1400-1850, ed. with Michela Barbot, Marsilio,
    Venice 2009
  • Baptiser: pratique sacramentelle, pratique sociale, ed. with Philippe Castagnetti and Vincent
    Gourdon, PUSE, St Etienne 2009
  • La popolazione all’alba dell’Età Moderna, special number of Popolazione e Storia, n. 1/2009, ed.
    with Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna and Alessandro Rosina
  • Il ruolo economico della famiglia, special number of Cheiron, nn. 45-46, 2006

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

  •  “Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in northern Italy”, Population Studies, 2023, forthcoming
  • “Wealth inequality in pre-industrial England: A long-term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth
    centuries)”, Economic History Review, 2022, 75(4), 2022, pp. 1314 – 1348 (article written with
    Hector García Montero)
  • “Epidemics, inequality and poverty in preindustrial and early industrial times”, Journal of Economic
    Literature, 60(1), 2022, pp. 3-40.
  • “Economic inequality in preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300-1850”, Journal of Economic History,
    82(1), 2022, pp. 87-125 (article written with Felix Schaff and Victoria Gierok).
  • “Economic inequality in preindustrial times: Europe and beyond”, Journal of Economic Literature,
    59(1), 2021, pp. 3-44
  • “Epidemics and Trust: The Case of the Spanish Flu”, Health Economics, 30 (4), 2021, pp. 840-857
    (with Marco Le Moglie, Arnstein Aassve and Francesco Gandolfi)
  • “Pandemics and asymmetric shocks: evidence from the history of plague in Europe and the
    Mediterranean”, Journal for the History of Environment and Society, 5, 2020, pp. 197–209
  • “Plague and Long-Term Development: the Lasting Effects of the 1629-30 Epidemic on the Italian
    Cities.”, Economic History Review, 72(4), 2019, pp. 1175–1201 (article written with Marco
    Percoco).
  • “A survival analysis of the last great European plagues: The case of Nonantola (Northern Italy) in
    1630”, Population Studies, 73(1), 2019, pp. 101-118 (article written with Marco Bonetti)
  • “La disuguaglianza economica nell’Europa preindustriale: uno sguardo d’insieme”, Annali
    dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, 45(1), 2019, pp. 26-47
  • “Parrainage et compérage: de nouveaux outils au service d’une histoire sociale des espaces
    européens et coloniaux”, Histoire, Economie et Société, n. 4/2018, pp. 4-17 (written with Vincent
    Gourdon, Cristina Munno and Isabelle Robin)
  • “giniinc: A Stata package for measuring inequality from incomplete income and survival data”, Stata
    Journal, 18(3), 2018, pp. 692-715 (written with Long Hong, Marco Bonetti and Chiara Gigliarano)
  • “The timing and causes of famines in Europe”, Nature Sustainability, 1, 2018, pp. 283-288 (article
    written with Cormac Ó Gráda)
  • “La peste: bref état des connaissances actuelles”, Annales de Démographie historique, 2/2017, pp.
    15-38 (article written with Isabelle Séguy)
  • “Long-term trends in economic inequality: the case of the Florentine State, ca. 1300-1800”,
    Economic History Review, 70 (4), 2017, pp. 1072-1102 (article written with Francesco Ammannati)
  • “Plague and Lethal Epidemics in the Pre-Industrial World”, Journal of Economic History, 77(1),
    2017, pp. 314-343 (article written with Tommy Murphy)
  • “The rich in historical perspective. Evidence for preindustrial Europe (ca. 1300-1800)”, Cliometrica,
    11(3), 2017, pp. 321-348
  • “First signs of transition. The parallel decline of early baptism and early mortality in the province of
    Padua (North East Italy) 1816-1870”, Demographic Research, 2017, 36, 2017, pp. 759-802 (article
    written with Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna and Alessandra Minello)
  • “Growing apart in early modern Europe? A comparison of inequality trends in Italy and
    the Low Countries, 1500–1800”, Explorations in Economic History, 62, 2016, pp. 143-153 (article
    written with Wouter Ryckbosch)
  • “Inequality (Un)perceived: The Emergence of a Discourse on Economic Inequality from the Middle
    Ages to the Age of Revolution”, Journal of European Economic History, 45(1), 2016, pp. 21-66
    (article written with Roberta Frigeni)
  • “Economic inequality in northwestern Italy: A long-term view (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries)”,
    Journal of Economic History, 2015, 75 (4), pp. 1058-1096
  • “Estimating sampling selection bias in human genetics: a phenomenological approach”, PLos ONE,
    2015, 10(10), pp. 1-13 (article written with Davide S. Risso, Luca Taglioli, Sergio De Iasio, Paola
    Gueresi, Sergio Nelli, Paolo Rossi, Giorgio Paoli and Sergio Tofanelli)
  • “La mesure du lien familial: développement et diversification d’un champ de recherches”, Annales
    de Démographie Historique, n. 1/2015, pp. 277-320 (article written with V. Gourdon, C. Grange, M.
    Trevisi).
  • “Consequences of a universal European demographic transition on regional and global population
    distributions”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2015, 98, pp. 271–289 (written with
    Vegard Skirbekk and Marcin Stonawski)
  • “Consequences of a universal European demographic transition on regional and global population
    distributions”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2015, 98, pp. 271–289 (written with
    Vegard Skirbekk and Marcin Stonawski)
  • “Back to the peasants: new insights into the economic, social, and demographic history of northern
    Italian rural populations during the Early Modern period”, History Compass, 2014, 12/1, pp. 62–71
  • “Le stime della mortalità per colera in Italia: una nota comparativa”, Popolazione e Storia, 2/2014,
    pp. 77-85
  • “Plague in Seventeenth Century Europe and the Decline of Italy: an Epidemiological Hypothesis”,
    European Review of Economic History, 2013, 17, 408-430, doi: 10.1093/ereh/het013
  • “Cittadinanza, immigrazione e integrazione sociale nella prima età moderna: il caso di Ivrea”,
    Mélanges de l’École française de Rome – Moyen Âge, 2013, 125-2, pp. 2-15
  • “Entrepreneurs, formalization of social ties, and trustbuilding in Europe (fourteenth to twentieth
    centuries)”, The Economic History Review, 65, 3, 2012, pp. 1005–1028 (written with Vincent
    Gourdon)
  • “Social Customs and Demographic Change: the Case of Godparenthood in Catholic Europe”,
    Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51, 3, 2012, pp. 483–505 (written with Agnese Vitali and
    Vincent Gourdon)
  • “The famine of the 1590s in Northern Italy. An analysis of the greatest «system shock» of sixteenth
    century”, Histoire & Mesure, XXVI, 1, 2011, pp. 17-49
  • “Population dynamics, Malthusian crises and Boserupian innovation in pre-industrial societies: the
    case study of Northern Italy (ca. 1450-1800) in the light of Lee’s «dynamic synthesis»”, Rivista di
    Politica Economica, April-June 2010-2011, pp. 23-59
  • “L’attribuzione dei padrini di battesimo secondo il genere e l’ordine di nascita: una gerarchia del
    privilegio (secoli XVI-XVII)”, Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome, 123, 2, 2011, pp. 337-346
  • “The effects of plague on the distribution of property: Ivrea, Northern Italy 1630”, Population
    Studies, 64, 1, 2010, pp. 61-75
  • “Wealth Inequalities and Population Dynamics in Early Modern Northern Italy”, Journal of
    Interdisciplinary History, XL, 4, 2010, pp. 513-549
  • “Climate, population and famine in Northern Italy: general tendencies and Malthusian crisis, ca.
    1450-1800”, Annales de Démographie Historique, n. 2/2010, pp. 23-53
  • “Crisi demografiche, politiche di popolazione e mortalità differenziale (ca. 1400-1630)”,
    Popolazione e Storia, n. 1/2009, pp. 57-75
  • “Fêtes du baptême et publicité des réseaux sociaux. Grandes tendances de la fin du Moyen-âge au
    XXe siècle”, Annales de Démographie Historique, n. 1/2009, pp. 153-189 (written with Vincent
    Gourdon)
  • “Godparenthood and the Council of Trent: crisis and transformation of a social institution (Italy,
    XV-XVIIth Centuries)”, Obradoiro de Historia Moderna, 18, 2009, pp. 293-316
  • “La Iglesia y el padrinazgo. ¿Una institución social rebelde?”, Revista de Demografía Histórica,
    XXVI, I, 2008, pp. 87-124
  • “Nonantola 1630. Anatomia di una pestilenza e meccanismi del contagio (con riflessioni a partire
    dalle epidemie milanesi della prima Età Moderna)”, Popolazione e Storia, n. 2/2007, pp. 99-138
    (written with Samuel K. Cohn)
  • “Population and Environment in Northern Italy during the XVIth Century”, Population, n. 4/2007,
    pp. 559-595
  • “Households and Plague in Early Modern Italy”, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, n. 38, Autumn
    2007, pp. 177-205 (written with Samuel K. Cohn)
  • “Spiritual Kinship and the others. Ivrea, XVIth-XVIIth Centuries”, Popolazione e Storia, n. 1/2006,
    pp. 57-81
  • “Mobilità «matrimoniale» e mobilità «spirituale». L’integrazione territoriale per affinità e parentela
    spirituale nel basso Canavese tra Cinquecento e Seicento”, Popolazione e Storia, n. 2/2005, pp. 33-
    46
  • “Les réseaux de marrainage en Italie du Nord du XVe au XVIIe siècle: coutumes, évolution,
    parcours individuels”, Histoire, Economie et Société, n. 4/2006, pp. 17-44
  • “Dalle pratiche alla norma: il Concilio di Trento e la riforma del padrinato in una prospettiva di
    lungo periodo”, Società e Storia, n. 108, 2005, pp. 31-62
  • “Padrinato e parentela spirituale in una prospettiva di lungo periodo: una questione storiografica a
    lungo trascurata”, Storica, n. 30, 2004, pp. 61-93
  • “La famille spirituelle des prêtres en Italie septentrionale avant et après le Concile de Trente:
    caractéristiques et transformations d’un instrument d’intégration sociale”, Annales de Démographie
    Historique, n. 1/2004, pp. 137-161
  • “Il secolo dimenticato. Primi contributi per una riscoperta demografica del Cinquecento nell’alta
    Italia”, Popolazione e Storia, n. 2/2003, pp. 9-30
  • “E Pluribus Unum. La varietà delle forme di padrinaggio nell’Italia moderna e l’intervento
    «normalizzatore» del Concilio di Trento”, Quaderni Storici, n. 114, December 2003, pp. 823-847

Other articles:

  • “Crisi demografiche e crisi economiche nell’Italia preindustriale (ca. 1300-1800)”, in Storia
    Economica, 20 (2), 2017, pp. 377-394
  • “Tra due culture: alcune riflessioni sulla storia economica quantitativa in Europa”, Contemporanea,
    n. 20 (3), 2017, pp. 478-484
  • “Las familias y la elección de padrinos y madrinas de bautizo en la Europa católica en la Edad
    Moderna. Balance y perspectivas de investigación”, Revista de Historia Moderna, n. 24, 2016,
    pp.23-42 (article written with Vincent Gourdon)
  • “Spazi, tempi, culture: alcune riflessioni sulla perdurante influenza di Fernand Braudel”, Cheiron, n.
    60, 2013, pp. 207-216
  • “Reti sociali, reti mercantili: strategie di formalizzazione dei contatti e trustbuilding nell’Italia
    centro-settentrionale tra medioevo ed età moderna”, in E. Di Stefano (ed.), Produzioni e commerci
    nelle province dello Stato Pontificio, Quaderni monografici di “Proposte e Ricerche” n. 38, 2013, pp.
    60-74
  • “La selezione dei nomi e dei padrini degli esposti in Italia settentrionale nei secoli XV-XVII: ‘pari
    opportunità’ o discriminazione?”, Annali di Storia moderna e contemporanea, XIII, 2007, pp. 193-
    222
  • “Court history, prosopographic approach and careers’ analysis”, The Court Historian, vol. 12, 1,
    June 2007, pp. 1-34 (written with Guido Guerzoni)
  • “Economia e famiglia: vecchi temi, nuovi problemi”, Cheiron, n. 45-46, 2006, pp. 7-30
  • “Il ruolo economico del padrinato: un fenomeno osservabile?”, Cheiron, n. 45-46, 2006, pp. 129-177
    (written with Vincent Gourdon)
  • “L’applicazione del Concilio di Trento sotto la guida di Carlo Borromeo. Un case study: la riforma
    del padrinato”, Ricerche Storiche sulla Chiesa Ambrosiana, n. XXIV, 2006, pp. 53-76
  • “Storia delle corti, tecniche prosopografiche e analisi delle carriere. Una messa a fuoco delle
    reciproche possibilità di contaminazione”, Cheiron, n. 42, 2004, pp. 169-203 (written with Guido
    Guerzoni)
  • “La dinamica della popolazione dell’Italia settentrionale nel Cinquecento. Dal generale al particolare
    e viceversa: casi, comparazioni, questioni”, Cheiron, n. 42, 2004, pp. 95-131

Book chapters:

  • “Epidemics and pandemics: from the Justinianic Plague to the Spanish Flu”, in C. Diebolt and M.
    Hupert, Handbook of Cliometrics, Springer, 2023, forthcoming
  • “Spagnola e Covid, due sfide epocali a cento anni di distanza”, in G. Piluso (ed.), La sfida della
    Ricostruzione, 2022, pp. 33-44.
  • “Essere e diventare poveri”, in I. Barbiera, G. Dalla Zuanna and A. Zannini, Popolazioni e società
    delle Venezie, Viella, Roma, 2021, pp. 323-343
  • “Wealth inequality in the long run”, in J.L. Van Zanden et al. (ed.), How Was Life? Volume II,
    OECD, 2021, pp. 103-23 (written with Sonia Schifano)
  • “Economic inequality in preindustrial Europe, 1300-1800: methods and results from the EINITE
    project”, in G. Nigro (ed.), Disuguaglianza economica nelle società preindustriali: cause ed effetti /
    Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies: causes and effect, Florence University Press,
    Florence 2020, pp. 21-36
  • “The economic history of poverty, 1450-1800”, D. Hitchcock and J. McClure (eds.), The Routledge
    History of Poverty in Europe, c.1450-1800, Routledge, 2020, pp. 21-38.
  • “Disuguaglianza”, in Enciclopedia Italiana, Decima Appendice: Parole del XXI° secolo, vol. I,
    Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma, 2020, pp. 455-459
  • “Mobilità sociale”, in Enciclopedia Italiana, Decima Appendice: Parole del XXI° secolo, vol. II,
    Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma, 2020, pp. 127-131
  • “Inequality, growth and taxation in the countryside of the Republic of Venice, ca. 1450-1750”, in G.
    Alfani and E. Thoen (eds.), Inequality in rural Europe, ed. with Erik Thoen, Corn, Brepols,
    Turnhout 2020, pp. 65-79 (with M. Di Tullio)
  • “Business and social ordering”, in F. Guidi-Bruscoli and F. Franceschi (eds.), A Cultural History of
    Business in the Age of Reformation and Renaissance, Bloomsbury, forthcoming
  • “Wealth and Income Inequality in the long run of history”, in C. Diebolt and M. Hupert, Handbook
    of Cliometrics, Springer, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40458-0_29-1
  • “Famine and Disease”, in M. Blum and C.L. Colvin (eds.), An Economist’s Guide to Economic
    History, Palgrave, 2019, pp. 133-142 (written with Cormac Ó Gráda)
  • “Institutions and geography as causes of biological discontinuity. The case of seventeenth-century
    plague pandemics in Italy: first results”, in I. Séguy, M. Ginnaio, L. Buchet (eds.), Les conditions
    sanitaires des populations du passé, Éditions APDCA, Antibes 2018, pp. 195-206
  • “Baptism and godparenthood in Catholic Europe”, in B.J. Grimm, T.M. Johnson, V. Skirbekk, G.A.
    Zurlo, Yearbook of International Religious Demography 2018, Brill, pp. 132-142
  • “Crises démographiques”, in C. Charles and D. Roche (eds.), L’Europe. Encyclopédie historique,
    SUD, 2018, pp. 899-901 (written with Vincent Gourdon
  • “The impact of floods and extreme rain events in northern Italy, ca. 1300-1800”, in F. Ammannati
    (ed.), Water Management in Europe (12th-18th centuries), Florence University Press, Florence 2018,
    pp. 355-367
  • “Floods, Rainstorms, and Famine in Europe: Some Final Reflections, in F. Ammannati (ed.), Water
    Management in Europe (12th-18th centuries), Florence University Press, Florence 2018, pp. 493-498
  • “La disuguaglianza economica nell’Italia preindustriale: dinamiche di lunghissimo periodo”, in G.
    Gregorini (ed.), Le disuguaglianze economiche nella storia, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2018, pp. 26-40
  • “Famines in Europe: an overview”, in G. Alfani and C. Ó Gráda (eds.), Famine in European
    History, Cambridge University Press 2017, pp. 1-24 (with C. Ó Gráda)
  • “Italy”, in G. Alfani and C. Ó Gráda (eds.), Famine in European History, Cambridge University
    Press 2017, pp. 25-47 (with L. Mocarelli and D. Strangio)
  • “Famines in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Test for an Advanced Economy”, in D. Collet
    and M. Schuh (eds.), Famines During the ʻLittle Ice Ageʼ (1300-1800), Springer 2017, pp. 149-169
  • “Spiritual Kinship Between Formal Norms and Actual Practice: A Comparative Analysis in the Long
    Run (from the Early Middle Ages Until Today”, in T. Thomas, A. Malik and R. Wellman (eds.),
    New Directions in Spiritual Kinship, Palgrave, Cham 2017, pp. 29-49.
  • “Early Baptism & Early Mortality”, in G. Dalla Zuanna, A. Minello, L. Piccione, Sweet child of
    mine. Child mortality in Veneto at the dawn of the demographic transition, CLEUP, Padova 2017,
    pp. 149-183 (with G. Dalla Zuanna and A. Minello)
  • “Il lungo periodo”, in F. Amatori e A. Colli (eds.), Il mondo globale. Una storia economica,
    Giappichelli, Torino 2017, pp. 1-12
  • “La «grande divergenza»”, in F. Amatori e A. Colli (eds.), Il mondo globale. Una storia economica,
    Giappichelli, Torino 2017, pp. 13-28
  • “La popolazione dell’Italia settentrionale nel XV e XVI secolo: scenari regionali e macroregionali”, in G. Alfani, A. Carbone, B. Del Bo and R. Rao (eds.), La popolazione italiana del
    Quattrocento e del Cinquecento, Forum, Udine 2016, pp. 19-40
  • “Historical demography and the social history of godparenthood”, in K. Matthijs, S. Hin, H. Matsuo,
    J. Kok, J. (eds.), The future of historical demography. Upside down and inside out. Acco Publishers,
    Leuven/Den Haag, 2016 (article written with Vincent Gourdon)
  • “Dinamiche di lungo periodo della disuguaglianza in Italia settentrionale: prime comparazioni”, in
    SISE, Innovare nella storia economica: temi, metodi, fonti, Fondazione Datini 2016, pp. 369-396
    (written with Matteo Di Tullio)
  • “The Reformation, the Council of Trent and the divergence of spiritual kinship and godparenthood
    across Europe: a long-run analysis”, S. Sovic, P. Thane and P. Viazzo (eds.), The History of Families
    and Households. Comparative European Dimensions, Brill 2015, pp. 142-167
  • “Closing a network: A tale of not-so-common lands (Nonantola, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)”,
    in G. Fertig (ed.), Social networks, political institutions, and rural societies. Rural History in Europe
    n. 11, Brepols, Turnhout 2015, pp. 153-181
  • “Le pandemie, passate e presenti: effetti demografici, sociali ed economici”, in T. Pievani (ed.),
    Ambiente e Società, update to Grande Dizionario enciclopedico Utet, UTET, Torino 2015, pp. 250-
    273
  • “L’economia di Biella nella prima Età moderna: tratti distintivi e dinamiche evolutive”, in B. A.
    Raviola (ed.), Mosaico. Asti, Biella e Vercelli tra Quattro e Cinquecento, Cassa di Risparmio di Asti,
    Asti 2014, pp. 133-140
  • “Fiscality and territory. Ivrea and Piedmont between the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”, in
    M. Vester (ed.), Sabaudian Studies. Political Culture, Dynasty, & Territory 1400-1700, Truman
    State University Press, Kirksville 2013, pp. 213-239
  • “Family rituals in Northern Italy (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)”, in S.K. Cohn, M. Fantoni, F.
    Franceschi, F. Ricciardelli (eds.), Late Medieval and Early Modern Ritual. Studies in Italian Urban
    Culture, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2013, pp. 139-160
  • “Introduzione: La guerra e il militare fra eventi e strutture, «ordinario» e «straordinario»”, in G.
    Alfani and M. Rizzo (ed.), Nella morsa della guerra. Assedi, occupazioni militari e saccheggi in età
    preindustriale, Franco Angeli, Milan 2013, pp. 7-14 (article written with Mario Rizzo)
  • “Politiche annonarie, provvedimenti demografici e capitale umano nelle città assediate dell’Europa
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