Andrea Guidi (Ph.D, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence) is Ricercatore (Lecturer) in Storia delle dottrine politiche at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. He was Ricercatore (Lecturer) in Early-Modern History at Sapienza, University of Rome (in 2022), Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter of the Research Center Otium at the University of Freiburg, (2019-2021), held a scholarship of the Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel (2018), and a Fellowship at the Collaborative Research Center Heroes – Heroizations – Heroisms, University of Freiburg (2018). He was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2017), Post-Doc at Birkbeck - University of London (2012-2016), and I Tatti Fellow (2011-2012).
His personal research on Machiavelli and the history of archives is based on extensive archival research and long-overlooked documents as well as on editorial work. He is the author of Un Segretario militante (il Mulino, 2009), a monograph which investigates Machiavelli’s work in the Florentine chancery, and Books, People and Military Thought (Brill, 2020) that is dedicated to the relationship between the circulation of Machiavelli’s Art of War, changing conceptions of militia, and the formation of new cultures of warfare in sixteenth century Europe. He has co-edited two books (Archivi e archivisti in Italia tra medioevo ed età moderna, Viella, 2015, and Fonti per la storia degli archivi degli antichi stati italiani, Direzione generale degli archivi, 2016), and a special issue of European History Quarterly on the history of the archives.
He has been a member of the team publishing the Italian National Edition of the Works of Niccolò Machiavelli for more than a decade. In this context, he has co-edited two volumes of the series
Legazioni. Commissarie. Scritti di governo, which present autograph documentation of Machiavelli’s activities in the Florentine chancery. Moreover, within an interdisciplinary cooperation of philologists and historians, he has worked at the edition and comment of a section of the volumes of Machiavelli’s
Lettere.
