Federico Carlo Simonelli is a postdoctoral fellow in Contemporary History at the University of Milan. He has conducted research and teaching activities within several research groups in Italy and abroad. His research interests focus on Italian nationalist paramilitarism between the two World Wars—with particular attention to its ritual dimension—and on photographic sources related to the Italian Civil War (1943–1945). Among his publications on visual sources and languages:
- D’Annunzio e il mito di Fiume. Riti, simboli, narrazioni (Pacini, 2021).