Lorenza Gianfrancesco

Lorenza Gianfrancesco is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. She has been a post-doctoral Research Fellow on The Italian Academies Project (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/ItalianAcademies/) hosted at The British Library. She has published on academies, printing, propaganda, dissent, science, and disasters in early modern Naples. Her recent publications include Napoli e il Gigante. Il Vesuvio tra Immagine, Scrittura e Memoria (edited with Rosa Casapullo, 2014); Alchemy and Religious Orders in Early Modern Europe (edited with Andrew Campbell and Neil Tarrant, 2018). She is also completing a forthcoming monograph titled Academies and the Urban Sphere in Early Seventeenth-century Naples (2019)