Professor at the University of Bologna. From October 2015 he has filled the position of Associate Professor in History of Christianity (Storia del Cristianesimo) at the Dipartement of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna, seat of Ravenna.
I graduated in Arts and Humanities, Modern branch, at the
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (1989).I benefited
from three scholarships di Perfezionamento e Ricerca distributed by
the “Fondazione Flaminia per lo Sviluppo dell'Università, la
Ricerca Scientifica e l'Istruzione superiore in Romagna” at the
Scuola Diretta a Fini Speciali per Archivisti Ravenna, University
of Bologna (1990/1993).
I was the technical assistant for the Deanship of the Faculty of
Arts and Humanities of Bologna and the General Services of Scuola
Diretta a fini speciali in Ravenna, and then for the Faculty of
Preservation of the Cultural Heritage.
I achieved my Ph.D. in Religious History (1995-1999 at the
University of Turin, associate centres Universities of Bologna,
Milan, Florence and Padova). I got my PhD in 2000 with a
dissertation thesis called Gli scritti e le prime traduzioni
italiane delle opere di Teresa di Gesù, nel quadro dell'impegno
papale post-tridentino, under the supervision of Professors
Gabriella Zarri and Carlo Ossola. It was published in 2001.
From the 1st of October 2002, after having won the competition,
I have been working as a Researcher at the Faculty of Preservation
of the Cultural Heritage – area M-STO/07 History of Christianity
and Churches – in particular at the Departement of Histories and
Methods for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage University of
Bologna (Ravenna). Member of the PhD called “Società, regalità e
sacerdozio dal tardo antico al XV” (since 2005-2006 called
“Bisanzio ed Eurasia”). From 2006 to 2007 I was member of the Panel
of Department of History and Method of Cultural Heritage; in
November 2008, I was appointed representative of the Board of
Faculty.
The main subject of my researches is: the History of Church and
of Religious Orders in connection with the civil society and its
evolution, particularly I investigate in the relationship between
the politics of the Pope and Spanish monarchy towards the Reformed
Carmel and the Oratorio of Filippo Neri. Further researches
concern: the politics of Inquisition (XVI th - XVII th century);
Preaching and Mission (XVIII th century).
At the moment the theme of preaching is leading me to deep two
main area: the secular preaching in Milano diocese during Borromeo
period as well as Bartolomeo Maria del Monte's opus, whose work I
am editing in the Library and Archive. Particularly, I am studying
the value of iconographic and scenic apparatus used by Bartolomeo
Dal Monte and his fellows during the missions.
Studies about Congregazione dell'Oratorio have led me to
research about the Roman arci-brotherhood of San Girolamo of
Carità. Now such an interest is focussing on the brotherhoods born
in the Romagna area during the Modern Age. Regarding Papal State I
am also studying the theme of of male and female education between
1700 and 1800.
Since January 2010, I joined the working group coordinated by
Professors Enrique Giménez López, and Inmaculada Fernández
Arrillaga (Dpto. Hist. Medieval, Hist. Moderna y Tecnicas y
Sciencias Historiograficas, University of Alicante). This team - in
collaboration with the section coordinated by Prof. Miguel Correa
Monteiro, University of Lisbon - as part of a larger research
project on "El Siglo XVIII Español. Monarquia y Iglesia"focuses its
research on “Expulsion y esilio de los Jesuitas de los dominios de
Carlos III”.
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_tematica/jesuitas/investigacion/investigacion.shtml
The expulsion and suppression of Jesuits had an obvious and
significant impact on the Papal States that accomodated several
thousand Jesuits expelled from the territories of the Iberian
monarchy. Legation of Bologna and the Romagna became the center of
the collection of Ignatian from the territories of the New World
and, specifically, from Mexican lands. At the end of an exhaustive
study on the presence and impact of these groups of Jesuits in our
territory, I was involved, as representative of the University of
Bologna, in the research on these topics sponsored by the
University of Alicante. From 2012 is member of International
Project : "Promoción y Formación de la mujer en los ámbitos
espirituales de la modernidad (siglos XVI-XVIII)",Ministerio de
Ciencia y Innovación (España). Investigación Fundamental no
Orientada HAR2011-26338.
She is currently carrying out research on: a) the Santa Faz conserved at the Monastery of Santa Faz in Alicante having entered the Scientific Committee of the International Conference The European Fortune of the Roman Veronica in the Middle Ages in 2015 Magdalene College, University of Cambridge 4-5 April 2016. b) Paths, religious journeys and pilgrimages analyzed from the point of view of Public History.
She is responsible for the Cultural Heritage Department of the "Gender and Religions" Research Group which operates in the context of the homonymous Framework Convention on "Gender and Religions" promoted by the University of Milan - Bicocca of which the University of Bologna is a party together with many other Italian universities and research centres
Take part in international projects: 1) Mulier fortis, mulier docta. Hibridismo literario y resistencia en las comunidades carmelitas posteresiana (siglos XVI-XVII) (CARMEL-LIT) 2021/2024 «Proyectos de I+D+i» (España); 2) For the Interpretation of the textual legacy of the 17th-19th Centuries European Religious Missions. Georgia from the Perspective of Early Global History and Modernity,2021-2024, Georgian Cultural and Material Heritage Research (Ilia State University, Georgia). Since 1 January 2023 she has been a member of the editorial board of the Biblioteca 'Pedro Sainz Rodríguez de Literatura y Espiritualidad (editorial de la Fundación Universitaria Española)
