Vincenzo Lavenia

Former student at the Scuola Normale Normale of Pisa, Vincenzo Lavenia is Full Professor at the Department of History of the University of Bologna (Italy), where he currently teaches Early Modern History. He was visiting scholar in Coimbra (Instituto de História e Teoria das Ideias), École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, University of Cambridge and University of Bielefeld. With A. Prosperi and J. Tedeschi he edited the Dizionario storico dell'Inquisizione, 4 vols., Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2010. His recent publications include: Dio in uniforme, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017; (ed., with C. Zwierlein), Fruits of Migration, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2018; (with F. Benigno), Peccato o crimine. La Chiesa di fronte alla pedofilia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2021; (with C. Petrolini and S. Pavone), Sacre metamorfosi. Racconti di conversione tra Roma e il mondo, Roma, Viella, 2022.
e-mail: vincenzo.lavenia@unibo.it