Bradley T. Blankemeyer
was awarded a Ph.D. from Oxford University in 2020. He is a historian of early modern Europe and South Asia, specializing in religious and cultural history of the Portuguese Empire and the Society of Jesus during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After a year of adjunct instruction at Belmont Abbey College he is currently teaching secondary-level Ancient World History and World History at Charlotte Catholic High School, whilst continuing his research as an independent scholar.
Laura Madella
is an assistant professor in the History of Education at the University of Parma. She holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Italian Literature from the same university and was awarded a Ph.D. in the History of Education from the University of Rome iii in 2018. In 2019 she was awarded a fellowship at the Boston College Institute of Advanced Jesuit Studies where she worked on the Jesuits’ triennial catalogs, which recorded information about every Jesuit since the sixteenth century. Her research concerns texts, documents, narratives of formative contexts and court cultures between sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italy, and eighteenth and nineteenth-century Germany and Europe. Among her recent publications Sull’Alphabeto christiano di Juan de Valdés (2018).
Jessica Ottelli
is a Ph.D. candidate attending a joint doctoral program at the Universities of Padua, Verona, and Venice. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage Sciences and a master’s degree in history, both obtained at the University of Milan. Her bachelor dissertation dealt with the musical chapel of the Duke of Milan, while the master’s dissertation was a comparative study on music as a political language in the musical chapels of the dukes of Burgundy and Milan in the second half of the fifteenth century. Her current project focuses on the social mobility of medieval church musicians during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Her research fields embrace cultural history and music history.
Federico Piseri
is an assistant professor in the History of Education at the University of Sassari, and holds a Ph.D. in Medieval History from the University of Milan. His main
David Salomoni
is an assistant professor in the History of Education at the University for Foreigners of Siena. For three years (2020–2023) he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon in the framework of the erc project rutter: Making the Earth Global, with which he still collaborates. In 2022 he was awarded a Bernard Berenson Fellowship at the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti. His research interests include, but are not limited to, the history of religious teaching orders, geographical literacy in early modern Europe, the impact of exploration on European cultures, and the history of women’s education. In the Brill Series History of Early Modern Educational Thought, he published Educating the Catholic People: Religious Orders and Their Schools in Early Modern Italy (2021).
Carolina Vaz de Carvalho
is a Ph.D. candidate in Social History at the University of São Paulo-usp, Brazil, investigating Early Modern collecting practices, the global circulation of objects, and the formation and uses of the Jesuit Roman College Museum curated by Fr. Athanasius Kircher, 1651–1680. She received bas in Museum Studies (2017) and Social Sciences (2011) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – ufmg, Brazil, and is a member of rariorum – Research Group on the History of Collections and Museums, ufmg, and gehim – Study group in Iberian Modern History, usp. Since 2019 she has collaborated with the Gregorian Archives Texts Editing Project – gate, developed by the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy.