Gianvittorio Signorotto Editor

Matteo Al Kalak is Full Professor of Modern History at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies and Director of the Interdepartmental Research Center on Digital Humanities (DHMoRe) at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His research is primarily focused on religious history, encompassing institutional aspects as well as manifestations related to dissent, reformism, and protest. A significant portion of his research has also addressed the erudite tradition of the eighteenth century and its connections with religious reformism and jurisdictionalism. In this context, he has conducted extensive research on the figure and work of Lodovico Antonio Muratori and the Este political-cultural tradition. He is responsible for the media library project Lodovico (www.lodovico.medialibrary.it), dedicated to the digitization of cultural heritage from various institutions, in a federative and innovative key.

Marco Capriotti is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His research mainly focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian literature and culture, including Giacomo Leopardi, Pietro Metastasio, Paolo Rolli and Arcadian poetry. In 2022, he published a study on the phenomenon of erudite poetic improvisation in eighteenth-century Italy (L’improvvisazione poetica nell’Italia del Settecento, 2 vols., Rome 2022). He is an editorial board member of the journal per Leggere.

Gianvittorio Signorotto held the position of Full Professor of Modern History in the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia from 2002 until 2016. His research focuses on the relationship between political power and religious authority in early modern Europe (particularly from sixteenth to eighteenth century). His work has addressed the historiographical tradition related to the so-called “age of decline”, considering the construction of Italian identity from the end of the Ancien régime to the crisis of modernity. He has also explored the relationship between foreign policy and constitutional and social dynamics in Italian and European states of the early modern period.